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Over the course of the year, many projects and communities stood up their own Matrix bridges. This has proven to be a far more stable and sustainable arrangement, and we sincerely appreciate their work and cooperation.</p> <p>In July we were looped into a coordinated security response, involving various networks and IRC software maintainers, to mitigate a <a href="https://libera.chat/news/zncpsa">potentially nasty exploit</a>. We appreciated the collaboration of our peers on other networks in ensuring that the word got out, and hope to use this incident as guidance for responding to similar incidents in the future.</p> <p>Sable development is also continuing, albeit slowly. We are of course interested in welcoming new contributors to the project, so if you’re curious, check out <a href="https://github.com/Libera-Chat/sable">the repository</a> and drop into <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">#libera-dev</code>.</p> <p>We also managed to deliver some long-awaited improvements to our current stack for our users:</p> <ul> <li>Account auto-cloaking. On a rather infamous day at the start of April, we finally delivered auto-cloaking upon registration verification.</li> <li>Deprecated certificate expiry verification. As of early July, <a href="https://libera.chat/news/retiring-certfp-expiries">we no longer check the expiration of certificates</a> used for logging in. Now you won’t get locked out if you forget to make a new certificate in time.</li> </ul> <p>To celebrate the arrival of the auto-cloaking feature, we also had some fun with a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240401000834/https://libera.cat/">temporary rebranding</a> of the network. If you missed out on the limited-time novelty cloak, you can still get a meowmento of the prank with <a href="https://www.freewear.org/Libera.Chat">our freewear.org merch</a>! Every purchase of merch from that freewear.org page generates a donation to help the network remain sustainable. We also have a <a href="https://liberapay.com/liberachat/donate">liberapay</a> if you want to help us without buying gear.</p> <p>While most of our resources are donated, some are not. This includes costs that ensure we will remain an independent and non-commercial platform. In this current social media climate, we think that is very important and likewise encourage the use and support of other community-run social protocols. Like numerous other projects, we have retired our use of Twitter/X and Facebook, now posting only to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@liberachat">the Fediverse</a> and <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/libera.chat">Bluesky</a>.</p> </article> <nav class="article-nav"> <div> <a href="/news/llm-etiquette">Previous</a> </div> <div> <a href="/news">Archive</a> </div> <div> </div> </nav> </main><footer> <div> <span class="copyright">© Libera Chat's contributors 2021</span> (<a rel="license noopener noreferrer" href="/LICENSE-content.txt">Content CC BY-NC-SA</a>, <a rel="license noopener noreferrer" href="/LICENSE-code.txt">Code MIT</a>) <span class="mobile-hide">/</span> <a href="/atom.xml">Feed (atom)</a> <span class="mobile-hide">/</span> <a href="/privacy">Privacy</a> </div> <div> <a rel="me noopener noreferrer" href="https://fosstodon.org/@liberachat">Mastodon</a> <span class="mobile-hide">/</span> <a href="https://github.com/Libera-Chat/libera-chat.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a> <span class="mobile-hide">/</span> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/libera.chat" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bluesky</a> </div> </footer>