ESS Community Helm Chart 25.10.3 (2025-10-31)

Changed

• Update example-default-enabled-components-values.yaml to include MatrixRTC as it is enabled by default. (#516)

• Upgrade Element Web to v1.12.2.

  Highlights:

  • Improve handling of animated images.
  • Fix duration of voice message in timeline.
  • Improve keyboard navigation on invite dialog.

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.12.2

  (#809)

• Update Element Admin to v0.1.8.

  Highlights:

  • Allow admins to generate personal access tokens for users
  • Fix the ESS version not loading after a refresh

  Full Changelogs:

  • v0.1.5
  • v0.1.6
  • v0.1.7
  • v0.1.8

  (#816, #843, #844)

• Update Chart metadata to enhance tooling like renovate and artifacthub.io. (#818)

• Update Synapse to v1.141.0.

  Highlights:

  • Update docker image to use Debian trixie as the base and thus Python 3.13
  • Allow using MSC4190 behaviour without the opt-in registration flag
  • Stabilize support for MSC4326: Device masquerading for appservices

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.141.0

  (#826)

• Ensure there's at least 2 newlines at the end of the haproxy.cfg file. (#829)

• Upgrade Matrix Authentication Service to v1.5.0.

  Highlights:

  • Initial support for admins managing Personal Access Tokens for users using the Admin APIs.

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.5.0

  (#830)

• Add 'Element Creations Ltd' copyright to every file. (#835)

Fixed

• Postgres: Fix the ess-updater container do not have access to the local data directory. (#817)

• Prioritize wellKnownDelegation.baseDomainRedirect.url over elementWeb.ingress.host.

  Previously, whenever elementWeb was enabled, the url property was silently ignored instead of, as expected, taking precedence. (#819)

• Fix a Matrix compatible JSON response not being correctly sent when a Synapse backend is down. (#829)

Documentation

• Values Fragments: Make serverName unique to 1 fragment. (#806)
• Matrix RTC: Document the SFU CrashLoopBackOff issue. (#825)

Internal

• CI: New implementation of the configuration consistency checks. (#817, #831, #832, #833)
• CI: check that matrix-tools containers only ever set args and not command. (#820)
• CI: check that all changed files have copyright notices for the new Element legal entity. (#822)
• Update SPDX check script to handle multiple Copyright headers. (#822, #835)
• Allow cloning of the source repository on Windows. (#827)
• Rename Removed changelog sections to Removed / Breaking Changes and make more prominent. (#828)
• CI: test that all multi-line config files end up in cluster with a trailing newline. (#829)
• CI: adapt integration test cluster creation for latest pytest-kubernetes. (#841)