Robrix's first beta release is here! This version has some great new features, but it mostly focuses on making Robrix more complete, clear, and correct. There are a lot of small improvements and fixes in order to tie up loose ends and close out some long-pending to-do items.
Highlights from this release
- Every message you send now shows its live status: upload in progress 🔄, fully sent ✅, queued while offline ✈️, or failed ⚠️
- You can compose messages while offline and they'll be auto-sent when you reconnect
- Easily retry or cancel anything that didn't send, including attachments that you upload
- Complete overhaul of read receipts: your read marker is tracked more precisely, and updated consistently and efficiently
- More settings for read receipts: send them privately or publicly, mark rooms as read manually or automatically upon scroll, or just hide all read receipts entirely
- Unread badges are now shown in all room list categories, and are more accurately synced
- You can now jump to a user's read receipt (in the user profile pane) to find their latest seen message
- Invites: always clearly show who invited you, and make invites to spaces very obvious (in the spaces bar and the rooms list)
- Added more slash commands:
/me,/notice,/spoiler,/shrug,/rainbow,/invite,/dm,/whois,/ignore,/nick,/leave, and more - Improvements to the settings page:
- Support uploading your own avatar via the "Upload Avatar" button
- Clearer explanations of what is happening during device verification
- Support opening your homeserver's account management page via the "Manage Account" button
- Robrix gracefully and efficiently handles some strange situations:
- Rooms and threads getting removed or re-added during sync, or their background timeline sync tasks getting destroyed and re-created
- Getting rate-limited by the homeserver when scrolling backwards or searching through room history
- Membership events in rooms being duplicate but legit
- Added new troubleshooting tools: "Clear Cache and Reload", "Copy Room Diagnostics", etc
- Sending your location to a room works on Linux now, thanks to the improved
robius-locationcrate - Arch Linux packages are available for both x86_64 and aarch64
- Android release builds are now smaller and faster
- Lots of fixes on Windows OS (within Makepad): handle suspend/restart on laptops, the GPU driver getting reset, bad window size or location after attached displays change, missing resources (font/icons), etc
[!IMPORTANT] Android users: the
v1.0.0-alpha.2APK from our last release had the wrong name and package ID (org.makepad.robrix) due to some changes in the makepad packaging action that slipped through. This release fixes that to bers.robius.robrix, so it will install alongside the oldv1.0.0-alpha.2. You can safely uninstall the old one.
Fixes to the Matrix SDK
We also made several fixes and improvements to the Matrix Rust SDK:
- #6976 Make media uploads faster and smaller
- #6934 avoid panics/underflow due to subtraction in space member calculations
- #6935 fix issues with latest event handling/updating (merged 2026-08-31)
- #6956 Don't assume a known room is joined just because it has no invite state
- #6967 Add cheap, efficient functions to query the parent/ancestor spaces of a space or room
Downloading and Installing Robrix
macOS
Download and open the .dmg, then drag Robrix to your Applications folder as normal.
- Apple Silicon (M1 and later):
Robrix_1.0.0-beta.1_aarch64.dmg(github.com) - Intel (x86_64):
Robrix_1.0.0-beta.1_x64.dmg(github.com)
iOS and iPadOS
Join the TestFlight beta at https://testflight.apple.com/join/cQPRgdVY.
Android
Download and then sideload Robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-android-aarch64.apk (github.com). You'll need to allow installing from unknown sources.
Windows 10 and 11
Download and run the installer robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-windows-x86_64.exe (github.com).
Linux
Ubuntu or Debian (and similar) distros.
Pick the proper version for your distro and CPU architecture:
| Your system | File |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu 24.04+, x86_64 (Intel/AMD) | robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-ubuntu-24.04-x86_64.deb (github.com) |
| Ubuntu 24.04+, aarch64 (ARM) | robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-ubuntu-24.04-arm-aarch64.deb (github.com) |
| Ubuntu 22.04, x86_64 (Intel/AMD) | robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-ubuntu-22.04-x86_64.deb (github.com) |
| Ubuntu 22.04, aarch64 (ARM) | robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-ubuntu-22.04-arm-aarch64.deb (github.com) |
Download and open that file in the Software Center (or App Center), or run this in your terminal:
:::sh
sudo apt install ./robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-ubuntu-24.04-x86_64.deb ## the ./ part is required
Arch Linux.
Download robrix-1.0.0beta.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst (github.com) on x86_64 or robrix-1.0.0beta.1-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst (github.com) on ARM, then run:
:::sh
sudo pacman -U robrix-1.0.0beta.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst ## x86_64
sudo pacman -U robrix-1.0.0beta.1-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst ## Arch Linux ARM and Asahi
Note that the robrix_1.0.0-beta.1_x86_64.tar.gz and robrix_1.0.0-beta.1_aarch64.tar.gz files are just published for use with community-maintained AUR packages (see robrix-bin and robrix-git in that package manager). We can't guarantee they are correct or up-to-date.
AppImage (for any Linux).
Download robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-x86_64.AppImage (github.com) on x86_64 or robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-aarch64.AppImage (github.com) on ARM, and then run:
:::sh
chmod +x robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-x86_64.AppImage
./robrix-1.0.0-beta.1-x86_64.AppImage
What changed in Robrix since the last release
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* (ci)release: fix android app identifier and other misc release improvements by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1001 * ci(release): enable LTO and 1 compilation unit for android release builds by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1002 * track the latest makepad `dev` branch by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1003 * Overhaul read receipt functionality by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1004 * Tolerate missing licenses when generating the third-party license notice by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1006 * Add location support on Linux by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1007 * RoomInputBar: further improve/refactor the multi-mode/view handling by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1008 * fix verification modal confusing msg. Allow only one verification at a time by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1009 * ImageViewer + RoomScreen: redesign input handling by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1010 * implement avatar upload, reuse/abstract File Upload modal for that too by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1011 * properly handle cancellation at any point in the verification flow by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1012 * Add an official AUR package for Arch Linux / Omarchy, plus aarch64 release by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1013 * clearly show errors/warnings on verification problems/cancellation by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1014 * implement the manage account button by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1016 * Ensure that all room/space names are always updated upon change by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1017 * Implement "Jump to Read Receipt" button; improve searching for events by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1018 * invites: always show who sent the invite, and remember its state by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1019 * subscribe to all rooms we care about, not just one at a time by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1021 * show latest events in all cases. fetch thread summaries just once by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1022 * fix other sdk behaviors: deal with `HttpError::Cached` by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1024 * Misc robustness fixes, esp for mobile and invite acceptance by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1026 * Stop a space's room list task(s) when the space is left by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1027 * provide a single source of ground truth for the active AdaptiveView variant by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1028 * reconnect timeline endpoints if it gets recreated in the backend by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1029 * an even better fix for the main AdaptiveView variant selector by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1030 * invalidated/drop a left or banned room's main *and* thread timelines' states by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1033 * don't panic in the timeline subscriber handler when we can't send a UI update by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1034 * Add "clear cache & reload", plus troubleshooting actions for a stuck room by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1035 * LoadingPane: refactor to move state out of room screen by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1036 * another minor loading pane enhancement by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1037 * Comment out matrix/robrix URLs since we don't actually handle them yet by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1038 * Implement more slash commands by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1039 * Fix reply-preview shader, update to latest makepad for windows fixes by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1040 * Misc fixes related to a review of recent changes by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1041 * RoomInputBar: restore the send button (and other) state after script reapply by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1042 * cleanup from [#1042] by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1043 * ok another stupid review, still fixing issues by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1044 * Fix filtered room updates and slash command edge cases by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1045 * Don't endlessly auto back-paginate if we get no new items by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1049 * Show and fully handle invites to spaces by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1051 * Show a space's topic in the space lobby header by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1052 * Fix space lobby tree lines not appearing by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1053 * Update makepad to latest dev, fix add room textinput alignment by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1054 * Add full send queue support for sending messages/attachments by @kevinaboos in https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/pull/1055Changes we made to Makepad since the last release
As always, a significant amount of our effort is spent upstreaming improvements & fixes into Makepad, such that Robrix and everyone else benefits from them.
Click here to expand the full list of Makepad changes that are relevant to Robrix
* Read receipts follow what you've actually read, so scrolling up to hunt for an older message no longer marks the newer ones as seen. The timeline's PortalList widget now tracks how far you scrolled and in which direction, separately from any movement it makes on its own, so auto-scrolling and newly-arrived messages can't fake it. ([makepad#1185](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1185)) * Pinch-to-zoom on a fullscreen image no longer leaks your second finger's touch to whatever's behind it, so the timeline underneath stops scrolling out from under you and you don't hit buttons back there when you lift off. ([makepad#1187](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1187)) * On mobile, a room's title lands in the header as soon as the name loads, even while the screen is still sliding in, since the navigation stack now reports the screen it's moving to rather than the one it's leaving. Unrelated but in the same batch: scripts can show and hide any widget now, not just container views. ([makepad#1191](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1191), [makepad#1194](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1194)) * Windows: a GPU driver reset or a hybrid-GPU handoff across sleep no longer takes Robrix down with it, since the D3D11 backend now spots the lost device and rebuilds it along with every texture and shader, and text can no longer disappear for good because a glyph upload got skipped on one frame. Two copies starting at once can't hand each other a half-written shader out of the shared cache anymore, and a window drag that gets interrupted no longer leaves the app repainting flat out instead of back on vsync. ([makepad#1198](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1198), [makepad#1200](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1200)) * Windows: launching an app from a shortcut or launcher that doesn't set a working directory no longer gives you a window with no text and no icons. Resources are now looked for next to the executable as well, not just in whatever directory the process happened to start in. ([makepad#1196](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1196)) * The saved size and position of an app window is now checked against the displays that are actually attached, so quitting on a monitor you've since unplugged no longer brings the app back off-screen. On Windows, quitting while minimized no longer saves that minimized geometry and restores the window as an unusable sliver, and a drag that only moved the window is now remembered too. ([makepad#1197](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1197)) * Linux: on Wayland, the app's UI zoom no longer breaks clicking. Clicks used to miss by the zoom factor, drifting further off the further you got from the window's top-left corner, and text and icons on HiDPI Wayland screens were rasterized at 1x, so they looked soft. ([makepad#1188](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1188)) * Linux: two failures that used to take the whole app down are handled now. An X11 protocol error is logged instead of exiting the process, and on Wayland a saved window size the graphics driver can't back opens at the default size instead of panicking on startup. ([makepad#1201](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1201)) * Android: apps now run on devices that use 16 KB memory pages, which Google Play requires for anything targeting Android 15 and up, and it's smaller too, roughly a megabyte off the download and six off the installed size. Release builds link Rust's standard library into the app instead of shipping it as a separate library that was never aligned for those pages. ([makepad#1177](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1177)) * iOS: a bug while handling a touch, key press or redraw no longer kills the whole app, since that one event gets dropped instead. The message, source location and backtrace now land in the device log too, where before you got a bare crash with nothing in it. ([makepad#1178](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1178)) * Borders on reaction pills, the message input, and just about every rounded box in the app kept drawing through this makepad upgrade. A shader compiler change had started silently dropping the last statement inside an `if` block, which is exactly how a guarded border gets drawn, so we tracked it down and fixed it upstream before this release picked it up. ([makepad#1182](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1182)) * F10, F12 and Shift+F12 still belong to the app. Upstream Makepad had started wiring three developer overlays to those bare keys in every app it builds, where a stray F10 tilts the whole UI into 3D and Escape stops closing anything, so we put all three behind an opt-in flag before they could reach a shipped build. ([makepad#1209](https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/1209))Full Changelog: https://github.com/project-robius/robrix/compare/v1.0.0-alpha.2...v1.0.0-beta.1
