Question: Where are the room versions and their changelogs?

[Mikaela]

I have a script for manually updating rooms where I advice people to check what is the current room version before using it. However the list on the website is missing room version 7 entirely while recent Synapse is already on version 8.

• https://matrix.org/docs/spec/#complete-list-of-room-versions

Where can I find room version 7, what changed with it and where will version 8 and future room versions be explained?

Finnish Matrix user group tells me that the docs/spec is no longer updated and the replacement isn't released yet (is this correct?), but can be previewed from /unstable/ which again doesn't have an equivalent page.

• https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/rooms/

In addition to not telling me what has changed at a glance or whether the room version is stable, I am not sure if I should link production users to somewhere saying /unstable/ and

[MadLittleMods]

https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/#complete-list-of-room-versions seems to be what you're looking for. It has room version 7 listed as "Stable" and I assume room version 8 will come "soon" now that the MSC has merged.

[Mikaela]

Thank you, will the first link automatically point there or will all links need to be updated when the new spec is released? Is there a timeline for that somewhere?

[MadLittleMods]

@Mikaela I am not sure what the final URL of the new spec redesign will be or how the redirects will be setup from the old spec. I think the new canonical spec home will be spec.matrix.org but with a proper version instead of unstable.

For a plan/timeline of the new spec redesign release, see matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3095

[MTRNord]

@Mikaela is this issue still relevant or can it be closed? :)

[Mikaela]

Yes, I think this has became clearer since then, thank you.