Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc1 (2017-05-08) =========================================== Features: * Add username availability checker API (PR #2183) * Add read marker API (PR #2120) Changes: * Enable guest access for the 3pl/3pid APIs (PR #1986) * Add setting to support TURN for guests (PR #2011) * Various performance improvements (PR #2075, #2076, #2080, #2083, #2108, #2158, #2176, #2185) * Make synctl a bit more user friendly (PR #2078, #2127) Thanks @APwhitehat! * Replace HTTP replication with TCP replication (PR #2082, #2097, #2098, #2099, #2103, #2014, #2016, #2115, #2116, #2117) * Support authenticated SMTP (PR #2102) Thanks @DanielDent! * Add a counter metric for successfully-sent transactions (PR #2121) * Propagate errors sensibly from proxied IS requests (PR #2147) * Add more granular event send metrics (PR #2178) Bug fixes: * Fix nuke-room script to work with current schema (PR #1927) Thanks @zuckschwerdt! * Fix db port script to not assume postgres tables are in the public schema (PR #2024) Thanks @jerrykan! * Fix getting latest device IP for user with no devices (PR #2118) * Fix rejection of invites to unreachable servers (PR #2145) * Fix code for reporting old verify keys in synapse (PR #2156) * Fix invite state to always include all events (PR #2163) * Fix bug where synapse would always fetch state for any missing event (PR #2170) * Fix a leak with timed out HTTP connections (PR #2180) * Fix bug where we didn't time out HTTP requests to ASes (PR #2192) Docs: * Clarify doc for SQLite to PostgreSQL port (PR #1961) Thanks @benhylau! * Fix typo in synctl help (PR #2107) Thanks @HarHarLinks! * ``web_client_location`` documentation fix (PR #2131) Thanks @matthewjwolff! * Update README.rst with FreeBSD changes (PR #2132) Thanks @feld! * Clarify setting up metrics (PR #2149) Thanks @encks!