Tulir Asokan / Blog

This month's bridge releases mostly include bugfixes. On the non-bridge side, gomuks web is progressing quickly. Read more...

As expected, WhatsApp has been upgraded to a megabridge. Other bridges have received minor bugfixes, but nothing too exciting. In non-bridge news, hicli has finally progressed again. Read more...

As mentioned in last month's release post, the Google Messages and Meta bridges have been upgraded to megabridges. As a bonus surprise, there's now a Google Voice bridge as well. Read more...

This month's releases don't include as many bridges as last time, but the first megabridge releases are here! Signal and Slack are now fully ported over to the bridgev2 framework with the v0.7.0 and v0.1.0 releases respectively. Read more...

All mautrix bridges are primarily meant for puppeting, which means users need to log into the bridges with their credentials. The difficulty of doing that varies by network: some just require scanning a QR code, while others require logging into the official website and grabbing cookies using browser devtools. Read more...

As always, this month's releases happened on the 16th. Highly unusually, this month's releases included most of the bridges, including the Python ones that don't follow release schedules. This is because all bridges needed to be updated to gain support for authenticated media added in Matrix v1.11 (more specifically MSC3916). Read more...

In this post, I'll go over all the steps necessary to build a Twilio bridge using the new bridgev2 module in mautrix-go. The whole bridge can be found at github.com/mautrix/twilio. Read more...

I haven't been posting on TWIM for a long time and too many things have piled up to post everything in TWIM. This post recaps the potentially interesting things that I've worked on in the past ~half a year. Read more...