May 2026 releases // Stickers everywhere

Bridges

This month's focus was better support for stickers and emojis. Telegram already got emoji pack import with the rewrite released last month, and this month it was extended to work properly with stickers (including sending animated stickers back to Telegram). Signal and WhatsApp support importing sticker packs (both static and animated) and Slack supports importing the workspace emojis.

To import packs, simply use import-image-pack <url> in your management room and it'll put it in your personal filtering space. For Slack, the pack URL is your workspace URL, and if you have multiple logins, you can use import-image-pack <login ID> <url> with the IDs from list-logins.

Coincidentally, MSC2545 was also accepted this month. To encourage adoption of stable identifiers, the bridges will only send the stable m.room.image_pack event type. Complain to your local client developer if you can't see imported packs.

Unrelated to stickers, mautrix-manager got a fix for Google logins, which will hopefully help with logging into Google Messages now that QR login is no longer possible. The latest macOS release binary is also signed, which should allow installing it without workarounds to allow unsigned apps. Windows is probably too niche and too expensive to bother with, so those binaries remain unsigned.

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Support for reading the stable MSC2545 event types was naturally already added. Image packs will be deduplicated by state key with the stable event type taking priority if it exists.

Using packs imported with bridges is still a bit tricky as space image packs aren't propagated to child rooms automatically. However, you can subscribe to packs in the space by using the override view -> timeline button in settings, then using the sticker picker in that room to subscribe to packs.

In non-sticker news, notification sounds can now be customized in settings by providing the mxc:// URI to any sound file. You can also disable notification sounds by clearing the sound field.