Lightning is a desktop messenger for Matrix, the open network for secure, decentralised communication. Sign in to any homeserver, or to several accounts at once, and reach people wherever their account lives.
Conversations are organised into Spaces, rooms and threads. Send rich text, pictures, files, voice messages, polls, reactions and custom emoji, and find something you sent months ago without scrolling back to it.
Private rooms are end-to-end encrypted throughout: verify your other devices by comparing emoji, restore your keys from backup, and search even your encrypted rooms with an index that never leaves this computer.
Group voice calls and screen sharing run in the room itself.
A release about calls that hold up, a sign-in that says what it wants, and Spaces you can actually run. Most of it came from reports: a voice call that went quiet after every join and leave, a crash on hang-up that only slower machines could reach, a server address that had to be typed in full, and pictures that stayed blank until the first scroll.
