Synapse 1.5.0rc1 (2019-10-24)
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This release includes a database migration step **which may take a long time to complete**:
- Allow devices to be marked as hidden, for use by features such as cross-signing.
This adds a new field with a default value to the devices field in the database,
and so the database upgrade may take a long time depending on how many devices
are in the database. ([\#5759](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5759))
Features
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- Improve quality of thumbnails for 1-bit/8-bit color palette images. ([\#2142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2142))
- Add ability to upload cross-signing signatures. ([\#5726](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5726))
- Allow uploading of cross-signing keys. ([\#5769](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5769))
- CAS login now provides a default display name for users if a `displayname_attribute` is set in the configuration file. ([\#6114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6114))
- Reject all pending invites for a user during deactivation. ([\#6125](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6125))
- Add config option to suppress client side resource limit alerting. ([\#6173](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6173))
Bugfixes
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- Return an HTTP 404 instead of 400 when requesting a filter by ID that is unknown to the server. Thanks to @krombel for contributing this! ([\#2380](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2380))
- Fix a bug where users could be invited twice to the same group. ([\#3436](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3436))
- Fix `/createRoom` failing with badly-formatted MXIDs in the invitee list. Thanks to @wener291! ([\#4088](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4088))
- Make the `synapse_port_db` script create the right indexes on a new PostgreSQL database. ([\#6102](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6102), [\#6178](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6178), [\#6243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6243))
- Fix bug when uploading a large file: Synapse responds with `M_UNKNOWN` while it should be `M_TOO_LARGE` according to spec. Contributed by Anshul Angaria. ([\#6109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6109))
- Fix user push rules being deleted from a room when it is upgraded. ([\#6144](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6144))
- Don't 500 when trying to exchange a revoked 3PID invite. ([\#6147](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6147))
- Fix transferring notifications and tags when joining an upgraded room that is new to your server. ([\#6155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6155))
- Fix bug where guest account registration can wedge after restart. ([\#6161](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6161))
- Fix monthly active user reaping when reserved users are specified. ([\#6168](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6168))
- Fix `/federation/v1/state` endpoint not supporting newer room versions. ([\#6170](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6170))
- Fix bug where we were updating censored events as bytes rather than text, occaisonally causing invalid JSON being inserted breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
- Fix occasional missed updates in the room and user directories. ([\#6187](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6187))
- Fix tracing of non-JSON APIs, `/media`, `/key` etc. ([\#6195](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6195))
- Fix bug where presence would not get timed out correctly if a synchrotron worker is used and restarted. ([\#6212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6212))
- synapse_port_db: Add 2 additional BOOLEAN_COLUMNS to be able to convert from database schema v56. ([\#6216](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6216))
- Fix a bug where the Synapse demo script blacklisted `::1` (ipv6 localhost) from receiving federation traffic. ([\#6229](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6229))
Updates to the Docker image
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- Fix logging getting lost for the docker image. ([\#6197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6197))
Internal Changes
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- Update `user_filters` table to have a unique index, and non-null columns. Thanks to @pik for contributing this. ([\#1172](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1172), [\#6175](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6175), [\#6184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6184))
- Move lookup-related functions from RoomMemberHandler to IdentityHandler. ([\#5978](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5978))
- Improve performance of the public room list directory. ([\#6019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6019), [\#6152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6152), [\#6153](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6153), [\#6154](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6154))
- Edit header dicts docstrings in `SimpleHttpClient` to note that `str` or `bytes` can be passed as header keys. ([\#6077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6077))
- Add snapcraft packaging information. Contributed by @devec0. ([\#6084](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6084), [\#6191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6191))
- Kill off half-implemented password-reset via sms. ([\#6101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6101))
- Remove `get_user_by_req` opentracing span and add some tags. ([\#6108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6108))
- Drop some unused database tables. ([\#6115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6115))
- Add env var to turn on tracking of log context changes. ([\#6127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6127))
- Refactor configuration loading to allow better typechecking. ([\#6137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6137))
- Log responder when responding to media request. ([\#6139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6139))
- Improve performance of `find_next_generated_user_id` DB query. ([\#6148](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6148))
- Expand type-checking on modules imported by `synapse.config`. ([\#6150](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6150))
- Use Postgres ANY for selecting many values. ([\#6156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6156))
- Add more caching to `_get_joined_users_from_context` DB query. ([\#6159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6159))
- Add some metrics on the federation sender. ([\#6160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6160))
- Add some logging to the rooms stats updates, to try to track down a flaky test. ([\#6167](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6167))
- Remove unused `timeout` parameter from `_get_public_room_list`. ([\#6179](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6179))
- Reject (accidental) attempts to insert bytes into postgres tables. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
- Make `version` optional in body of `PUT /room_keys/version/{version}`, since it's redundant. ([\#6189](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6189))
- Make storage layer responsible for adding device names to key, rather than the handler. ([\#6193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6193))
- Port `synapse.rest.admin` module to use async/await. ([\#6196](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6196))
- Enforce that all boolean configuration values are lowercase in CI. ([\#6203](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6203))
- Remove some unused event-auth code. ([\#6214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6214))
- Remove `Auth.check` method. ([\#6217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6217))
- Remove `format_tap.py` script in favour of a perl reimplementation in Sytest's repo. ([\#6219](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6219))
- Refactor storage layer in preparation to support having multiple databases. ([\#6231](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6231))
- Remove some extra quotation marks across the codebase. ([\#6236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6236))