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Draupnir users on version 2.5.0 and below MUST NOT upgrade to Matrix room version 12.
Gnuxie & Draupnir: March 2025. Safety on Matrix, new features for homeserver admins, and gradual access to Matrix rooms.
Gnuxie & Draupnir: The start of 2025 and reviewing 2024. Reviewing the wake of the Draupnir 2.0 release.

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Gnuxie & Draupnir: Late Autumn 2024. A small update on draupnir 2.0.0
Capability based extension in Draupnir. An excitement fuelled and rushed out explanation for Draupnir's use of capabilities as an extension mechanism.
Gnuxie & Draupnir: early Autumn 2024. Updates to the road-map and the target date for releasing v2.0.0. Proactive measures and new MSCs for dealing with abuse. Introduction of the behemoth safe mode feature and recoverable failure modes.
What is meant by prioritising Trust and Safety? Clear questions and recommendations for the Matrix governing board concerning the prioritisation of Trust and Safety.
Gnuxie & Draupnir: late summer 2024. Discuss and provide context for the command system rework.
Draupnir is being supported with a grant from NLnet. Draupnir's application to NLnet succeeds. Announcing the goals and creating a status page for the work.
This previous bit of time for Gnuxie & Draupnir, March-April 2024. Announcing the Draupnir v2.0.0-beta programme, contributing, core-as-protections, event parsing, Matrix specification process, and governance.
This previous month for Gnuxie & Draupnir, February 2024. The plan for merging the matrix-protection-suite rework into Draupnir's main branch and planning the v2.0.0-beta beta test. Testing commands, introducing protection capabilities, coming up against the politics of commercial open source.
This previous month for Gnuxie & Draupnir, January 2024. Introducing the Draupnir update blog series. This update discusses issue triaging, planning, room state revisions and tracking.

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