Synapse 1.47.0rc1 (2021-11-09) ============================== Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - The `user_may_create_room_with_invites` module callback is now deprecated. Please refer to the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/upgrade#upgrading-to-v1470) for more information. ([\#11206](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11206)) - Remove deprecated admin API to delete rooms (`POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/delete`). ([\#11213](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11213)) Features -------- - Advertise support for Client-Server API r0.6.1. ([\#11097](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11097)) - Add search by room ID and room alias to the List Room admin API. ([\#11099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11099)) - Add an `on_new_event` third-party rules callback to allow Synapse modules to act after an event has been sent into a room. ([\#11126](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11126)) - Add a module API method to update a user's membership in a room. ([\#11147](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11147)) - Add metrics for thread pool usage. ([\#11178](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11178)) - Support the stable room type field for [MSC3288](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3288). ([\#11187](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11187)) - Add a module API method to retrieve the current state of a room. ([\#11204](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11204)) - Calculate a default value for `public_baseurl` based on `server_name`. ([\#11210](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11210)) - Add support for serving `/.well-known/matrix/server` files, to redirect federation traffic to port 443. ([\#11211](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11211)) - Add admin APIs to pause, start and check the status of background updates. ([\#11263](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11263)) Bugfixes -------- - Fix a long-standing bug which allowed hidden devices to receive to-device messages, resulting in unnecessary database bloat. ([\#10097](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10097)) - Fix a long-standing bug where messages in the `device_inbox` table for deleted devices would persist indefinitely. Contributed by @dklimpel and @JohannesKleine. ([\#10969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10969), [\#11212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11212)) - Do not accept events if a third-party rule `check_event_allowed` callback raises an exception. ([\#11033](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11033)) - Fix long-standing bug where verification requests could fail in certain cases if a federation whitelist was in place but did not include your own homeserver. ([\#11129](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11129)) - Allow an empty list of `state_events_at_start` to be sent when using the [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` endpoint and the author of the historical messages is already part of the current room state at the given `?prev_event_id`. ([\#11188](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11188)) - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.45.0 which prevented the `synapse_review_recent_signups` script from running. Contributed by @samuel-p. ([\#11191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11191)) - Delete `to_device` messages for hidden devices that will never be read, reducing database size. ([\#11199](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11199)) - Fix a long-standing bug wherein a missing `Content-Type` header when downloading remote media would cause Synapse to throw an error. ([\#11200](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11200)) - Fix a long-standing bug which could result in serialization errors and potentially duplicate transaction data when sending ephemeral events to application services. Contributed by @Fizzadar at Beeper. ([\#11207](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11207)) - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.35.0 which made it impossible to join rooms that return a `send_join` response containing floats. ([\#11217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11217)) - Fix long-standing bug where cross signing keys were not included in the response to `/r0/keys/query` the first time a remote user was queried. ([\#11234](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11234)) - Fix a long-standing bug where all requests that read events from the database could get stuck as a result of losing the database connection. ([\#11240](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11240)) - Fix a bug preventing Synapse from being rolled back to an earlier version when using workers. ([\#11255](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11255), [\#11276](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11276)) - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.37.1 which caused a remote event being processed by a worker to not get processed on restart if the worker was killed. ([\#11262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11262)) - Only allow old Element/Riot Android clients to send read receipts without a request body. All other clients must include a request body as required by the specification. Contributed by @rogersheu. ([\#11157](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11157)) Updates to the Docker image --------------------------- - Avoid changing user ID when started as a non-root user, and no explicit `UID` is set. ([\#11209](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11209)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Improve example HAProxy config in the docs to properly handle HTTP `Host` headers with port information. This is required for federation over port 443 to work correctly. ([\#11128](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11128)) - Add documentation for using Authentik as an OpenID Connect Identity Provider. Contributed by @samip5. ([\#11151](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11151)) - Clarify lack of support for Windows. ([\#11198](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11198)) - Improve code formatting and fix a few typos in docs. Contributed by @sumnerevans at Beeper. ([\#11221](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11221)) - Add documentation for using LemonLDAP as an OpenID Connect Identity Provider. Contributed by @l00ptr. ([\#11257](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11257)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Add type annotations for the `log_function` decorator. ([\#10943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10943)) - Add type hints to `synapse.events`. ([\#11098](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11098)) - Remove and document unnecessary `RoomStreamToken` checks in application service ephemeral event code. ([\#11137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11137)) - Add type hints so that `synapse.http` passes `mypy` checks. ([\#11164](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11164)) - Update scripts to pass Shellcheck lints. ([\#11166](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11166)) - Add knock information in admin export. Contributed by Rafael Gonçalves. ([\#11171](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11171)) - Add tests to check that `ClientIpStore.get_last_client_ip_by_device` and `get_user_ip_and_agents` combine database and in-memory data correctly. ([\#11179](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11179)) - Refactor `Filter` to check different fields depending on the data type. ([\#11194](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11194)) - Improve type hints for the relations datastore. ([\#11205](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11205)) - Replace outdated links in the pull request checklist with links to the rendered documentation. ([\#11225](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11225)) - Fix a bug in unit test `test_block_room_and_not_purge`. ([\#11226](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11226)) - In `ObservableDeferred`, run observers in the order they were registered. ([\#11229](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11229)) - Minor speed up to start up times and getting updates for groups by adding missing index to `local_group_updates.stream_id`. ([\#11231](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11231)) - Add `twine` and `towncrier` as dev dependencies, as they're used by the release script. ([\#11233](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11233)) - Allow `stream_writers.typing` config to be a list of one worker. ([\#11237](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11237)) - Remove debugging statement in tests. ([\#11239](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11239)) - Fix [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) historical messages backfilling in random order on remote homeservers. ([\#11244](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11244)) - Add an additional test for the `cachedList` method decorator. ([\#11246](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11246)) - Make minor correction to the type of `auth_checkers` callbacks. ([\#11253](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11253)) - Clean up trivial aspects of the Debian package build tooling. ([\#11269](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11269), [\#11273](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11273)) - Blacklist new SyTest that checks that key uploads are valid pending the validation being implemented in Synapse. ([\#11270](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11270))