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Changes in synapse v0.12.1-rc1 (2016-01-29)
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Features:

* Add unread notification counts in ``/sync`` (PR #456)
* Add support for inviting 3pids in ``/createRoom`` (PR #460)
* Add ability for guest accounts to upgrade (PR #462)
* Add ``/versions`` API (PR #468)
* Add ``event`` to ``/context`` API (PR #492)
* Add specific error code for invalid user names in ``/register`` (PR #499)
* Add support for push badge counts (PR #507)
* Add support for non-guest users to peek in rooms using ``/events`` (PR #510)

Changes:

* Change ``/sync`` so that guest users only get rooms they've joined (PR #469)
* Change to require unbanning before other membership changes (PR #501)
* Change default push rules to notify for all messages (PR #486)
* Change default push rules to not notify on membership changes (PR #514)
* Change default push rules in one to one rooms to only notify for events that
  are messages (PR #529)
* Change ``/sync`` to reject requests with a ``from`` query param (PR #512)
* Change server manhole to use SSH rather than telnet (PR #473)
* Change server to require AS users to be registered before use (PR #487)
* Change server not to start when ASes are invalidly configured (PR #494)
* Change server to require ID and ``as_token`` to be unique for AS's (PR #496)
* Change maximum pagination limit to 1000 (PR #497)

Bug fixes:

* Fix bug where ``/sync`` didn't return when something under the leave key
  changed (PR #461)
* Fix bug where we returned smaller rather than larger than requested
  thumbnails when ``method=crop`` (PR #464)
* Fix thumbnails API to only return cropped thumbnails when asking for a
  cropped thumbnail (PR #475)
* Fix bug where we occasionally still logged access tokens (PR #477)
* Fix bug where ``/events`` would always return immediately for guest users
  (PR #480)
* Fix bug where ``/sync`` unexpectedly returned old left rooms (PR #481)
* Fix enabling and disabling push rules (PR #498)
* Fix bug where ``/register`` returned 500 when given unicode username
  (PR #513)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0 (2016-01-04)
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* Expose ``/login`` under ``r0`` (PR #459)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc3 (2015-12-23)
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* Allow guest accounts access to ``/sync`` (PR #455)
* Allow filters to include/exclude rooms at the room level
  rather than just from the components of the sync for each
  room. (PR #454)
* Include urls for room avatars in the response to ``/publicRooms`` (PR #453)
* Don't set a identicon as the avatar for a user when they register (PR #450)
* Add a ``display_name`` to third-party invites (PR #449)
* Send more information to the identity server for third-party invites so that
  it can send richer messages to the invitee (PR #446)

* Cache the responses to ``/intialSync`` for 5 minutes. If a client
  retries a request to ``/initialSync`` before the a response was computed
  to the first request then the same response is used for both requests
  (PR #457)

* Fix a bug where synapse would always request the signing keys of
  remote servers even when the key was cached locally (PR #452)
* Fix 500 when pagination search results (PR #447)
* Fix a bug where synapse was leaking raw email address in third-party invites
   (PR #448)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc2 (2015-12-14)
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* Add caches for whether rooms have been forgotten by a user (PR #434)
* Remove instructions to use ``--process-dependency-link`` since all of the
  dependencies of synapse are on PyPI (PR #436)
* Parallelise the processing of ``/sync`` requests (PR #437)
* Fix race updating presence in ``/events`` (PR #444)
* Fix bug back-populating search results (PR #441)
* Fix bug calculating state in ``/sync`` requests (PR #442)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc1 (2015-12-10)
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* Host the client APIs released as r0 by
  https://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.0/client_server.html
  on paths prefixed by ``/_matrix/client/r0``. (PR #430, PR #415, PR #400)
* Updates the client APIs to match r0 of the matrix specification.

  * All APIs return events in the new event format, old APIs also include
    the fields needed to parse the event using the old format for
    compatibility. (PR #402)
  * Search results are now given as a JSON array rather than
    a JSON object (PR #405)
  * Miscellaneous changes to search (PR #403, PR #406, PR #412)
  * Filter JSON objects may now be passed as query parameters to ``/sync``
    (PR #431)
  * Fix implementation of ``/admin/whois`` (PR #418)
  * Only include the rooms that user has left in ``/sync`` if the client
    requests them in the filter (PR #423)
  * Don't push for ``m.room.message`` by default (PR #411)
  * Add API for setting per account user data (PR #392)
  * Allow users to forget rooms (PR #385)

* Performance improvements and monitoring:

  * Add per-request counters for CPU time spent on the main python thread.
    (PR #421, PR #420)
  * Add per-request counters for time spent in the database (PR #429)
  * Make state updates in the C+S API idempotent (PR #416)
  * Only fire ``user_joined_room`` if the user has actually joined. (PR #410)
  * Reuse a single http client, rather than creating new ones (PR #413)

* Fixed a bug upgrading from older versions of synapse on postgresql (PR #417)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc3 (2015-12-23)
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* Allow guest accounts access to ``/sync`` (PR #455)
* Allow filters to include/exclude rooms at the room level
  rather than just from the components of the sync for each
  room. (PR #454)
* Include urls for room avatars in the response to ``/publicRooms`` (PR #453)
* Don't set a identicon as the avatar for a user when they register (PR #450)
* Add a ``display_name`` to third-party invites (PR #449)
* Send more information to the identity server for third-party invites so that
  it can send richer messages to the invitee (PR #446)

* Cache the responses to ``/intialSync`` for 5 minutes. If a client
  retries a request to ``/initialSync`` before the a response was computed
  to the first request then the same response is used for both requests
  (PR #457)

* Fix a bug where synapse would always request the signing keys of
  remote servers even when the key was cached locally (PR #452)
* Fix 500 when pagination search results (PR #447)
* Fix a bug where synapse was leaking raw email address in third-party invites
   (PR #448)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc2 (2015-12-14)
===========================================

* Add caches for whether rooms have been forgotten by a user (PR #434)
* Remove instructions to use ``--process-dependency-link`` since all of the
  dependencies of synapse are on PyPI (PR #436)
* Parallelise the processing of ``/sync`` requests (PR #437)
* Fix race updating presence in ``/events`` (PR #444)
* Fix bug back-populating search results (PR #441)
* Fix bug calculating state in ``/sync`` requests (PR #442)

Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc1 (2015-12-10)
===========================================

* Host the client APIs released as r0 by
  https://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.0/client_server.html
  on paths prefixed by ``/_matrix/client/r0``. (PR #430, PR #415, PR #400)
* Updates the client APIs to match r0 of the matrix specification.

  * All APIs return events in the new event format, old APIs also include
    the fields needed to parse the event using the old format for
    compatibility. (PR #402)
  * Search results are now given as a JSON array rather than
    a JSON object (PR #405)
  * Miscellaneous changes to search (PR #403, PR #406, PR #412)
  * Filter JSON objects may now be passed as query parameters to ``/sync``
    (PR #431)
  * Fix implementation of ``/admin/whois`` (PR #418)
  * Only include the rooms that user has left in ``/sync`` if the client
    requests them in the filter (PR #423)
  * Don't push for ``m.room.message`` by default (PR #411)
  * Add API for setting per account user data (PR #392)
  * Allow users to forget rooms (PR #385)

* Performance improvements and monitoring:

  * Add per-request counters for CPU time spent on the main python thread.
    (PR #421, PR #420)
  * Add per-request counters for time spent in the database (PR #429)
  * Make state updates in the C+S API idempotent (PR #416)
  * Only fire ``user_joined_room`` if the user has actually joined. (PR #410)
  * Reuse a single http client, rather than creating new ones (PR #413)

Changes in synapse v0.11.1 (2015-11-20)
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* Add extra options to search API (PR #394)
* Fix bug where we did not correctly cap federation retry timers. This meant it
  could take several hours for servers to start talking to ressurected servers,
  even when they were receiving traffic from them (PR #393)
* Don't advertise login token flow unless CAS is enabled. This caused issues
  where some clients would always use the fallback API if they did not
  recognize all login flows (PR #391)
* Change /v2 sync API to rename ``private_user_data`` to ``account_data``
  (PR #386)
* Change /v2 sync API to remove the ``event_map`` and rename keys in ``rooms``
  object (PR #389)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-r2 (2015-11-19)
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* Fix bug in database port script (PR #387)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-r1 (2015-11-18)
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* Retry and fail federation requests more aggressively for requests that block
  client side requests (PR #384)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0 (2015-11-17)
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* Change CAS login API (PR #349)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc2 (2015-11-13)
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* Various changes to /sync API response format (PR #373)
* Fix regression when setting display name in newly joined room over
  federation (PR #368)
* Fix problem where /search was slow when using SQLite (PR #366)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc1 (2015-11-11)
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* Add Search API (PR #307, #324, #327, #336, #350, #359)
* Add 'archived' state to v2 /sync API (PR #316)
* Add ability to reject invites (PR #317)
* Add config option to disable password login (PR #322)
* Add the login fallback API (PR #330)
* Add room context API (PR #334)
* Add room tagging support (PR #335)
* Update v2 /sync API to match spec (PR #305, #316, #321, #332, #337, #341)
* Change retry schedule for application services (PR #320)
* Change retry schedule for remote servers (PR #340)
* Fix bug where we hosted static content in the incorrect place (PR #329)
* Fix bug where we didn't increment retry interval for remote servers (PR #343)

Changes in synapse v0.10.1-rc1 (2015-10-15)
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* Add support for CAS, thanks to Steven Hammerton (PR #295, #296)
* Add support for using macaroons for ``access_token`` (PR #256, #229)
* Add support for ``m.room.canonical_alias`` (PR #287)
* Add support for viewing the history of rooms that they have left. (PR #276,
  #294)
* Add support for refresh tokens (PR #240)
* Add flag on creation which disables federation of the room (PR #279)
* Add some room state to invites. (PR #275)
* Atomically persist events when joining a room over federation (PR #283)
* Change default history visibility for private rooms (PR #271)
* Allow users to redact their own sent events (PR #262)
* Use tox for tests (PR #247)
* Split up syutil into separate libraries (PR #243)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc2 (2015-11-13)
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* Various changes to /sync API response format (PR #373)
* Fix regression when setting display name in newly joined room over
  federation (PR #368)
* Fix problem where /search was slow when using SQLite (PR #366)

Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc1 (2015-11-11)
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* Add Search API (PR #307, #324, #327, #336, #350, #359)
* Add 'archived' state to v2 /sync API (PR #316)
* Add ability to reject invites (PR #317)
* Add config option to disable password login (PR #322)
* Add the login fallback API (PR #330)
* Add room context API (PR #334)
* Add room tagging support (PR #335)
* Update v2 /sync API to match spec (PR #305, #316, #321, #332, #337, #341)
* Change retry schedule for application services (PR #320)
* Change retry schedule for remote servers (PR #340)
* Fix bug where we hosted static content in the incorrect place (PR #329)
* Fix bug where we didn't increment retry interval for remote servers (PR #343)

Changes in synapse v0.10.1-rc1 (2015-10-15)
===========================================

* Add support for CAS, thanks to Steven Hammerton (PR #295, #296)
* Add support for using macaroons for ``access_token`` (PR #256, #229)
* Add support for ``m.room.canonical_alias`` (PR #287)
* Add support for viewing the history of rooms that they have left. (PR #276,
  #294)
* Add support for refresh tokens (PR #240)
* Add flag on creation which disables federation of the room (PR #279)
* Add some room state to invites. (PR #275)
* Atomically persist events when joining a room over federation (PR #283)
* Change default history visibility for private rooms (PR #271)
* Allow users to redact their own sent events (PR #262)
* Use tox for tests (PR #247)
* Split up syutil into separate libraries (PR #243)

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-r2 (2015-09-16)
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* Fix bug where we always fetched remote server signing keys instead of using
  ones in our cache.
* Fix adding threepids to an existing account.
* Fix bug with invinting over federation where remote server was already in
  the room. (PR #281, SYN-392)

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-r1 (2015-09-08)
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* Fix bug with python packaging

Changes in synapse v0.10.0 (2015-09-03)
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No change from release candidate.

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc6 (2015-09-02)
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* Remove some of the old database upgrade scripts.
* Fix database port script to work with newly created sqlite databases.

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc5 (2015-08-27)
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* Fix bug that broke downloading files with ascii filenames across federation.

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc4 (2015-08-27)
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* Allow UTF-8 filenames for upload. (PR #259)

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc3 (2015-08-25)
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* Add ``--keys-directory`` config option to specify where files such as
  certs and signing keys should be stored in, when using ``--generate-config``
  or ``--generate-keys``.
* Allow ``--config-path`` to specify a directory, causing synapse to use all
  \*.yaml files in the directory as config files.
* Add ``web_client_location`` config option to specify static files to be
  hosted by synapse under ``/_matrix/client``.
* Add helper utility to synapse to read and parse the config files and extract
  the value of a given key. For example::

    $ python -m synapse.config read server_name -c homeserver.yaml
    localhost

Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc2 (2015-08-24)
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* Fix bug where we incorrectly populated the ``event_forward_extremities``
  table, resulting in problems joining large remote rooms (e.g.
  ``#matrix:matrix.org``)
* Reduce the number of times we wake up pushers by not listening for presence
  or typing events, reducing the CPU cost of each pusher.