Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).
I wish the whole project was a little bit more clever with its names. Matrix and Element are not unique enough names and can cause a lot of confusion.
I like the project though and still hope it continues to succeed.
see it this way: shite names that are just an actual thing that’s symbolically related in some way is a sign that the project is primarily run by programmers and not PR people.
Yes, the generic names make it a nightmare to search for things relating to them.