Matrix E2EE room encryption detection gap
Cluster 71067 · gateway. Data as of
1 open item. Fix merged in #77336 on 3 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #77336. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
unresolved. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- 1 issue and 0 PRs.
Next step: read #77336, then check whether your report is the one still open.
Read #77336Pick up a Lab taskThese items concern a bug where the Matrix bot fails to detect encrypted rooms by relying solely on a local crypto state store without querying the homeserver as a fallback, plus a related fix for crypto state recovery across device ID changes and restarts.
Open issues1
- Issue#71067Matrix bot silently drops ALL inbound messages in encrypted rooms it already joined (fresh crypto store): `_CryptoStateStore.get_encryption_info` never consults the homeserver
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#77336 fix(matrix): E2EE crypto state recovery across device ID changes and restarts
files:
plugins/platforms/matrix/adapter.py,tests/gateway/test_matrix.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: merged via another change 1
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#71073 fix(matrix): fallback to homeserver query for room encryption detection (#71067) · merged via another change →
#77336
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Open the LabAt a glance
- Subsystem
- gateway
- Merged PRs
- #77336
- Closed issues
- 0
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 3 Aug 2026