Exciting news for Riot users today as New Vector (the company set up by the team behind Matrix & Riot to keep development going) has raised an additional $8.5M of funding in order to make Riot even better! 🎉 The main areas of focus are going to be: Simplifying the UX, aiming for user happiness Finishing encryption cross-signing Shipping end-to-end encryption by default for DMs Much better support for grouping rooms into Communities

Riot Web 1.4.0 is out today (with Android and iOS to follow shortly), landing a range of enhancements and powerful new features to make sure you’re always informed and in control of how, when, where and why your data is processed. Riot and Ancillary Services As you probably already know, Riot runs atop Matrix…

Our development team identified a security issue affecting all previous versions of the Matrix Android SDK and, by extension, any Android clients which use the Matrix Android SDK. This includes Riot Android (Google Play and F-Droid) and mini Vector. The issue has been fixed in version 0.9.27 of the Matrix…

The wait is over, they’re finally here! Message editing and reactions are live on Riot Web (1.3), Riot iOS (0.9.1) and RiotX (0.1.0) on Android! Message Editing To err is human; to fix your errors before anyone notices, divine. Message editing in Riot lets you edit your messages after sending:

Attention Matrix fans! Modular has just announced public availabilty of their personal hosted homeservers! Starting at $10/month for a 5-user server, they’re speedy, they’re reliable, and just like their larger cousins come with a custom-branded Riot Web instance and can be used with your existing domain name. And did I…

Hi all, We’re incredibly excited to introduce the first ever public beta of RiotX on Android today! RiotX is the codename for an entirely new Matrix Client built by the Riot/Android team, intended to replace Riot/Android in the relatively near future. RiotX is written in Kotlin rather than Java, and…

Riot Web 1.2 has landed today, featuring all new emoji as we switch from emojione to twemoji. Why the switch? Some time ago, emojione made a change to their licensing that meant we couldn’t keep merging their updated emoji sets into Riot — as a result, our emoji support became pretty stale, with…

Riot Web 1.1 is here! The Riot Web devs have been hard at their craft, landing functional and aesthetic upgrades to timeline scrolling, registration, room preview, receiving invitations and image upload. Frustration-free registration Regular readers of this blog mightn’t have experienced Riot’s registration UX recently, but 1.1 …

Hi all, After the security incident at Matrix.org, we have decided to publish a new Riot.im Android app on the Google Play Store out of an abundance of caution. The fresh app is still called Riot.im but internally it has a different application identifier (im.vector.app). Because of this new id…