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Secure Matrix-based team messaging and collaboration client

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Element Web widens its module API while overhauling the room list and dropping older Linux platforms.

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◆Current state
Element Web is actively refactoring two things simultaneously: a MVVM-based timeline architecture and a rebuilt room list with persistent sections, drag behavior, and a dedicated Invites area. The Module API has expanded notably across recent releases — URL preview override, user verification CAs, storage helpers, widget toggles — signaling a push toward enterprise deployability rather than just feature shipping. Custom user status and call-presence indicators are now live, adding contextual presence signals the client lacked before.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern across these releases is dual-track: steady internal architecture cleanup (MVVM timeline phases, room list polish) running in parallel with a deliberate extensibility buildout (growing Module API, Docker module image). Element is positioning itself as a customizable, operator-deployed platform — the module surface expansion points at enterprise and white-label deployers, not consumer users. The glibc 2.35 floor drop in the upcoming v1.12.28 is a platform cut that trades breadth for maintainability.
◆Prediction
Stable v1.12.28 ships with the glibc 2.35 requirement enforced; the Module API surface continues to grow as the team onboards enterprise deployers who need custom integrations beyond what the default build offers.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    v2.0.0 banner

    A styling tweak to the Banner module bumps it to v2.0.0 — housekeeping with no user-visible functional change.

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  2. 6d ago

    Element v1.12.28-rc.1: glibc floor raised, Module API and room list expanded

    This release candidate raises the glibc floor to 2.35, cutting off Debian bullseye and Ubuntu <22.04 permanently. It also adds a Module API for URL preview overrides and rounds out the room list with an Invites section and collapsible drag behavior — continuing the room list refinement thread running across the last several releases.

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  3. 7d ago

    v1.12.28-rc.0

    First release candidate for v1.12.28, carrying the same feature set as rc.1; the subsequent rc.1 supersedes it with minor fixes.

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  4. 14d ago

    v1.12.27

    Stable v1.12.27 ships Timeline MVVM Phase 2 (RoomTimelineViewModel), reworked URL preview handling aligned with MSC4095, and a new Module API for setting user verification CAs — broadening both the client architecture and the security control surface available to enterprise deployers.

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  5. 19d ago

    v1.12.27-rc.1

    Release candidate superseded by stable v1.12.27; the only addition over rc.0 is a fix for manually-set user status occasionally being lost.

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  6. 21d ago

    v1.12.27-rc.0

    First release candidate for v1.12.27, carrying the MVVM timeline and URL preview work that shipped in the stable release; no functional additions beyond the stable drop.

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