ESS Community Helm Chart 26.7.1 (2026-07-24)

Added

• Add support for configuring affinity (nodeAffinity, podAffinity and podAntiAffinity) on component workloads, along with a global affinity applied to all components. Each affinity type is resolved independently: a component that sets one type overrides only that type, inheriting the others from the global affinity, and a type can be blanked out per-component by setting it to {}. (#1442)
• Allow customising the response headers of the /.well-known/matrix/* endpoints via wellKnownDelegation.headers. The well-known responses now return Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600 by default. (#1452)
• Add matrixRTC.sfu.nodeIPSource to select which Kubernetes downward API field populates the SFU public IP (NODE_IP) when useStunToDiscoverPublicIP is false and no manualIP is provided. Valid values: hostIP (default, previous behaviour) and podIP. (#1460)
• Add support for configuring schedulerName and runtimeClassName on component workloads, along with global schedulerName and runtimeClassName values applied to all components (a per-component value overrides the global one). (#1461)
• Add support for setting portType in matrixRTC.sfu.exposedServices to ClusterIP. (#1465)

Changed

• Upgrade Hookshot to v7.4.3.

  Highlights:

  • Fix GitHub messages being inlined incorrectly in some cases
  • Fix requests to GET /oauth endpoints (Jira, GitHub, OpenProject) throwing an error when required query parameters are missing

  Full Changelogs:

  • v7.4.3

  (#1451)

• Upgrade Element Web to v1.12.24.

  Element Call is now the default calling solution in upstream Element Web.
  It was already the default calling solution in ESS Community.
  The setting in the Element Web configuration to disable Element Call has changed.
  It was features.feature_group_calls: false.
  It is now element_call.disable: true.
  element_call.use_exclusively still controls whether legacy voice and video is enabled or not.

  Highlights:

  • Remove legacy room list
  • Adapt OAuth2 implementation to Matrix Spec v1.18
  • Allow disabling legacy calls and make Voice & Video settings Legacy Voice & Video

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.12.24

  (#1453)

• Upgrade Synapse to v1.157.1.

  Highlights

  • Support MSC4446 for moving fully read markers backwards
  • Add before and after time filters to the 'Redact events of a user' Admin API
  • Add an exclude_rooms_from_presence configuration option to stop presence being routed between users solely because they share one of the listed rooms

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.157.0
  • v1.157.1

  (#1454, #1466)

• Upgrade Matrix Authentication Service to v1.21.0.

  Highlights:

  • Don't show client URI on consent screen for Device Authorization Grant
  • Translations updates

  Full Changelogs:

  • v1.21.0

  (#1455)

• Configure Matrix Authentication Service to communicate with any Synapse worker, not only the main process. (#1456)

Fixed

• Load balance createRoom API around available workers instead of a single-one. (#1467)
• Fix an issue where HAProxy could not route to more than 20 instances of a worker. (#1468)

Internal

• CI: consistently fetch the Pod template for workload kinds. (#1462, #1463)