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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.

Gematik recently announced its intention to rebase its TI-Messenger specification on Matrix v1.15, which brings important improvements to TI-Messenger. The suggested changes are substantial and will have material impact on all TI-M implementations. Currently the changes to the specification are in the commenting phase and all vendors are being asked to understand what it means for their implementations.

Over the past few years, we've been working hard to identify and deliver accessibility improvements for all of our users across our platforms. Each tweak might seem subtle on its own, but together they create a continuous movement in the right direction towards a more accessible communication platform. For users who rely on screen readers, keyboard navigation, or other assistive technologies, the difference between “usable” and “comfortable” often comes down to the details.

The UK government’s push to force Apple to backdoor its end-to-end encryption always looked like a miscalculation; both as a policy and politically. The Financial Times’ front page reports that, facing heavy pressure from Washington, the UK government is scrambling for a diplomatic exit from its flawed stance on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and using its Investigatory Powers Act to allegedly* issue a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) on Apple.