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At The Matrix Conference 2025, I had the pleasure of presenting alongside the Element Call team on how we’re evolving real time communication on Matrix. I gave an introduction to Matrix, the missing primitives needed for real time communication (RTC) on top of Matrix, an overview of Element Call, and an outlook on adapting calling across the Matrix ecosystem. Watch the whole presentation.

At The Matrix Conference 2025, David Langley (Engineering Manager), Gaëlle Hunt (Product Designer) and I (Danielle Kirkwood) presented on how Element Web is evolving, bringing the web and desktop version of the Element app in line with the sleek design and usability of Element X on mobile. Watch the whole presentation.

At The Matrix Conference 2025, I shared the latest updates on Element Server Suite (ESS) - our distribution for Matrix-based deployments. ESS includes both the Classic stack and the new Helm-based ESS stack (organised into three editions: Community, Pro and TI-Messenger). Let’s break down their capabilities, and take a look at what’s ahead on the roadmap. Watch the whole presentation.

Act now: continue sending & receiving encrypted messages In April 2026, we will be rolling out a significant update to strengthen the security of your conversations: unverified devices will no longer be able to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages via Element.

We’re happy to announce that new Long Term Support (LTS) releases for Element Server Suite (ESS) are now available for ESS Classic, ESS Pro and ESS TI-M. We encourage our customers to upgrade accordingly. Long Term Support versions, of course, are of particular importance for workplace deployments that need to prioritise stability over new features. Please visit ESS Classic 25.10 LTS release notes or ESS Pro 25.10 LTS release notes for full details.

At The Matrix Conference 2025, I had the opportunity to present how we’re building large-scale, multi-tenancy hosting for TI-Messenger - the standard for secure communications across the German healthcare system.

Yesterday hundreds of thousands of organisations around the globe lost important services because of a fault in a datacentre in Northern Virginia, US. It’s yet another reminder of just how vulnerable centralised technology solutions are to global outages. Signal, Slack and Zoom were all among the many services to go down as a part of the AWS outage.

Element is focused on providing sovereign, secure and interoperable communications for the workplace; especially governments and public sector organisations. To date, this has centred on providing an enterprise-grade backend; Element Server Suite Pro. It gives end-user organisations (and the hosters that support them) everything they need to safely administrate end-to-end encrypted real time communications in line with corporate norms and compliance requirements.

There couldn’t be a more appropriate place for us to formally unveil our new Helm-based Element Server Suite (ESS) family of products than The Matrix Conference! Our new Helm-based deployments simplify setup and modification, enable automation and support configuration versioning. They also match our customers’ GitOps-centric operations.

The brand new updates of the Element Web and Desktop apps include a major rework of room listings. It brings the ‘laptop versions’ of the Element apps in line with the Element X design on mobile devices to give a far sleeker experience. This update marks the first step in a broader evolution of Element Web and Desktop — one that brings consistency across platforms, improves accessibility, and lays the groundwork for a more resilient technical foundation.