ESS Pro 25.04 LTS: A renewed commitment to security, stability, and scalability

Steve Loynes -

We're excited to announce the ESS Pro 25.04 LTS release, bringing a renewed focus on long-term reliability, scalability, and security for enterprise-grade Matrix deployments.

🔒 One-year LTS commitment

ESS Pro 25.04 renews our commitment to providing one year of long-term support for all components included in this release—ensuring stability and peace of mind for production environments.

🛡️ Distroless images for Synapse Pro and more

Security is a top priority. With this release, Synapse Pro and other core components now use distroless images, significantly reducing the attack surface by eliminating unnecessary packages and dependencies.

🔧 Improvements across the board

  • Element Call (EC): Enhanced stability, security, and usability.
  • MAS: Numerous scalability upgrades and device manager UI enhancements improve manageability and performance at scale.
  • Element Web (EW): A round of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements rounds out this release.

ESS Pro 25.04 LTS is a solid foundation for secure and scalable communications infrastructure. For upgrade details, see your downloads page or reach out to your Element representative.