Dendrite

Dendrite is a second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go. It is not recommended to use Dendrite as a production homeserver at this time as there is no stable release. An overview of the design can be found in DESIGN.md.

Quick start

Requires Go 1.13+ and SQLite3 (Postgres is also supported):

$ git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
$ cd dendrite

# generate self-signed certificate and an event signing key for federation
$ go build -o bin/generate-keys ./cmd/generate-keys
$ ./generate-keys --private-key matrix_key.pem --tls-cert server.crt --tls-key server.key

# Copy and modify the config file:
# you'll need to set a server name and paths to the keys at the very least, along with setting
# up the database filenames
$ cp dendrite-config.yaml dendrite.yaml

# build and run the server
$ go build ./cmd/dendrite-monolith-server
$ ./dendrite-monolith-server --tls-cert server.crt --tls-key server.key --config dendrite.yaml

For full installation information, see INSTALL.md.

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to help out and contribute! See CONTRIBUTING.md to get started!

Please note that, as of February 2020, Dendrite now only targets Go 1.13 or later. Please ensure that you are using at least Go 1.13 when developing for Dendrite.

Discussion

For questions about Dendrite we have a dedicated room on Matrix #dendrite:matrix.org. Development discussion should happen in #dendrite-dev:matrix.org.

Progress

We use a script called Are We Synapse Yet which checks Sytest compliance rates. Sytest is a black-box homeserver test rig with around 900 tests. The script works out how many of these tests are passing on Dendrite and it updates with CI. As of July 2020 we're at around 46% CS API coverage and 50% Federation coverage, though check CI for the latest numbers.