Element Web redesigned its welcome page into a built-in component
(element-hq/element-web#33211, first released in spring 2026) and no
longer falls back to loading welcome.html. The custom page the playbook
installed had therefore silently stopped having any effect, and it was a
fork of an upstream file that upstream has deleted (its button icon
assets are already missing from current Element Web builds).
Remove the welcome.html shipping and the variables that only applied to
it (matrix_client_element_welcome_headline, _welcome_text,
_welcome_logo_link, _page_template_welcome_path), rejecting them in
validate_config.yml with pointers to the alternatives. Logo and
background customization keep working through Element Web's branding
options, which the new welcome page still honors. A fully custom page
can be self-hosted and wired via embedded_pages.welcome_url.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The playbook-shipped welcome.html hardcoded #2e2f32 for the headline and
welcome text, which is nearly invisible on the dark background Element
renders when the dark theme is active. Element Web's default
use_system_theme behavior keys the theme off the system color scheme, so
switch the text to Element's dark-theme text color (#ebeef2) under a
prefers-color-scheme: dark media query.
Fixes#4838
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Element Desktop (Electron) loads the location-sharing map style from a
`vector://vector` origin, so fetching map_style.json from the Element
domain is a cross-origin request. Without an Access-Control-Allow-Origin
header, the request is blocked and maps fail to load with "This homeserver
is not configured correctly to display maps".
Add a dedicated Traefik router for map_style.json that attaches an
Access-Control-Allow-Origin header (configurable via
matrix_client_element_location_sharing_map_style_access_control_allow_origin,
defaulting to `*`). It is only defined when location sharing is enabled.
Fixes#2291
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Updated `welcome_background_url` to upstream default *lake.jpg* for the official Matrix Client Element.
- Provoked by: [Convert welcome.html to React component](4b4289e211)
* feat: support container_network=host across all roles + systemd templates
Mirror the pattern Slavi introduced for matrix-coturn (aafa8f0) across the
fork: every 'Ensure X container network is created' task gets a
'when: <var> not in ["", "host"]' guard so MDAD does not try to
docker_network create a network literally named 'host' (returns 403,
since host is a pre-defined Docker network).
Mirror the same guard in every systemd unit template that does
'ExecStartPre=docker network connect <addnet> <container>' loops over
matrix_<role>_container_additional_networks: skip the connects when the
container is on host networking (where additional --network attaches
are invalid).
Unblocks DiD setups where MDAD-managed containers share their host's
network namespace (matrix-mdad outer compose service joined to central
postgres/openldap networks) to reach external services on the outer
Docker daemon.
* Simplify container network guards (!= 'host') and fix duplicate when
Guarding on the empty string ('') as well was misleading: systemd unit
templates still render an unconditional --network= flag, so an empty
network value produces a broken docker create command. Only 'host' is
actually supported, so only guard on that. This also matches the
existing convention in the Traefik role
(when: traefik_container_network != 'host').
Also fix a duplicate when key in the meshtastic-relay role, where the
network-creation task already had a when condition - the two are now
combined into a list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces `community.docker.docker_image` with the modern
`docker_image_pull` module. Drops the `ansible_version` compatibility
ladder and the now-redundant `_container_image_force_pull` variable
(the new pull module handles registry refresh natively via `pull: always`).
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/5191.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When no identity server is configured, `matrix_client_element_default_is_url`
defaults to `~` (YAML null). The `| string | to_json` filter chain converts
this to the literal string `"None"`, causing Element Web to log errors:
- TypeError: URL constructor: None is not a valid URL
- Invalid base_url for m.identity_server
The well-known template (`.well-known/matrix/client.j2`) already handles
this correctly with a conditional guard (see PR #314). This applies the
same pattern to the Element Web `config.json.j2` template.
For each of the 34 roles (3 clients, 9 bots, 22 bridges), this commit:
- Adds `_restart_necessary: false` default variable
- Adds `register:` directives to config/image/systemd tasks
- Computes `_restart_necessary` via set_fact (OR of all .changed results)
- Wires `(_restart_necessary | bool)` in group_vars/matrix_servers
This allows the systemd service manager to skip unnecessary restarts
when running install-* tags and nothing actually changed.
Service roles and complex multi-service roles will follow separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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