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For a full changelog, see
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https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst
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Table of Contents
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.. contents:: Table of Contents
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.. sectnum::
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Introduction
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Matrix is a set of open APIs for open-federated Instant Messaging (IM), Voice
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over IP (VoIP) and Internet of Things (IoT) communication, designed to create
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and support a new global real-time communication ecosystem. The intention is to
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provide an open decentralised pubsub layer for the internet for securely
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persisting and publishing/subscribing JSON objects.
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This specification is the ongoing result of standardising the APIs used by the
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various components of the Matrix ecosystem to communicate with one another.
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.. WARNING::
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The Matrix specification is still evolving: the APIs are not yet frozen
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and this document is in places a work in progress or stale. We have made every
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goal is to mirror WHATWG's `Living Standard
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<http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_does_.22Living_Standard.22_mean.3F>`_.
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Matrix is a set of open APIs for open-federated Instant Messaging (IM), Voice
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and support a new global real-time communication ecosystem. The intention is to
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provide an open decentralised pubsub layer for the internet for securely
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persisting and publishing/subscribing JSON objects.
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This specification is the ongoing result of standardising the APIs used by the
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various components of the Matrix ecosystem to communicate with one another.
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The principles that Matrix attempts to follow are:
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- Pragmatic Web-friendly APIs (i.e. JSON over REST)
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