Tuwunel

Tuwunel is an Apache-2.0-licensed chat server for the Matrix protocol. It focuses on high performance while providing a broad set of chat server features. The project is the successor to conduwuit, which was itself created as a fork of Conduit, so Tuwunel continues the development lineage that began with Conduit and continued through conduwuit. Tuwunel is intended for people and organizations looking for a Matrix-based messaging server, including those considering an open source alternative to Slack. The main difference is that Tuwunel is specifically a server for Matrix rather than Slack itself. It should therefore not be treated as a direct, Slack-compatible substitute: adopting it means using the Matrix ecosystem and its approach to chat rather than the paid Slack product.

# Tuwunel 1.9.4 October 10, 2026 ### New Features & Enhancements - **Google Cloud Storage is now a supported media provider**, graciously contributed by @asafarian in (#644). On GCE or GKE, metadata-server credentials replace the exported key the S3 interoperability route needed. Set `bucket` (prefix in `base_path`, not a `gs://` URL) under `[global.storage_provider..gcs]` and list that ID in `media_storage_providers…

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