Synapse 1.21.0rc1 (2020-10-01) ============================== Features -------- - Require the user to confirm that their password should be reset after clicking the email confirmation link. ([\#8004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8004)) - Add an admin API `GET /_synapse/admin/v1/event_reports` to read entries of table `event_reports`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8217)) - Consolidate the SSO error template across all configuration. ([\#8248](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8248), [\#8405](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8405)) - Add a configuration option to specify a whitelist of domains that a user can be redirected to after validating their email or phone number. ([\#8275](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8275), [\#8417](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8417)) - Add experimental support for sharding event persister. ([\#8294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8294), [\#8387](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8387), [\#8396](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8396), [\#8419](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8419)) - Add the room topic and avatar to the room details admin API. ([\#8305](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8305)) - Add an admin API for querying rooms where a user is a member. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8306](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8306)) - Add `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` login type to allow appservices to login. ([\#8320](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8320)) - Add a configuration option that allows existing users to log in with OpenID Connect. Contributed by @BBBSnowball and @OmmyZhang. ([\#8345](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8345)) - Add prometheus metrics for replication requests. ([\#8406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8406)) - Support passing additional single sign-on parameters to the client. ([\#8413](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8413)) - Add experimental reporting of metrics on expensive rooms for state-resolution. ([\#8420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8420)) - Add experimental prometheus metric to track numbers of "large" rooms for state resolutiom. ([\#8425](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8425)) - Add prometheus metrics to track federation delays. ([\#8430](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8430)) Bugfixes -------- - Fix a bug in the media repository where remote thumbnails with the same size but different crop methods would overwrite each other. Contributed by @deepbluev7. ([\#7124](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7124)) - Fix inconsistent handling of non-existent push rules, and stop tracking the `enabled` state of removed push rules. ([\#7796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7796)) - Fix a longstanding bug when storing a media file with an empty `upload_name`. ([\#7905](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7905)) - Fix messages not being sent over federation until an event is sent into the same room. ([\#8230](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8230), [\#8247](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8247), [\#8258](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8258), [\#8272](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8272), [\#8322](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8322)) - Fix a longstanding bug where files that could not be thumbnailed would result in an Internal Server Error. ([\#8236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8236), [\#8435](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8435)) - Upgrade minimum version of `canonicaljson` to version 1.4.0, to fix an unicode encoding issue. ([\#8262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8262)) - Fix longstanding bug which could lead to incomplete database upgrades on SQLite. ([\#8265](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8265)) - Fix stack overflow when stderr is redirected to the logging system, and the logging system encounters an error. ([\#8268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8268)) - Fix a bug which cause the logging system to report errors, if `DEBUG` was enabled and no `context` filter was applied. ([\#8278](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8278)) - Fix edge case where push could get delayed for a user until a later event was pushed. ([\#8287](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8287)) - Fix fetching malformed events from remote servers. ([\#8324](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8324)) - Fix `UnboundLocalError` from occuring when appservices send a malformed register request. ([\#8329](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8329)) - Don't send push notifications to expired user accounts. ([\#8353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8353)) - Fix a regression in v1.19.0 with reactivating users through the admin API. ([\#8362](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8362)) - Fix a bug where during device registration the length of the device name wasn't limited. ([\#8364](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8364)) - Include `guest_access` in the fields that are checked for null bytes when updating `room_stats_state`. Broke in v1.7.2. ([\#8373](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8373)) - Fix theoretical race condition where events are not sent down `/sync` if the synchrotron worker is restarted without restarting other workers. ([\#8374](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8374)) - Fix a bug which could cause errors in rooms with malformed membership events, on servers using sqlite. ([\#8385](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8385)) - Fix "Re-starting finished log context" warning when receiving an event we already had over federation. ([\#8398](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8398)) - Fix incorrect handling of timeouts on outgoing HTTP requests. ([\#8400](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8400)) - Fix a regression in v1.20.0 in the `synapse_port_db` script regarding the `ui_auth_sessions_ips` table. ([\#8410](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8410)) - Remove unnecessary 3PID registration check when resetting password via an email address. Bug introduced in v0.34.0rc2. ([\#8414](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8414)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Add `/_synapse/client` to the reverse proxy documentation. ([\#8227](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8227)) - Add note to the reverse proxy settings documentation about disabling Apache's mod_security2. Contributed by Julian Fietkau (@jfietkau). ([\#8375](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8375)) - Improve description of `server_name` config option in `homserver.yaml`. ([\#8415](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8415)) Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Drop support for `prometheus_client` older than 0.4.0. ([\#8426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8426)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Fix tests on distros which disable TLSv1.0. Contributed by @danc86. ([\#8208](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8208)) - Simplify the distributor code to avoid unnecessary work. ([\#8216](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8216)) - Remove the `populate_stats_process_rooms_2` background job and restore functionality to `populate_stats_process_rooms`. ([\#8243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8243)) - Clean up type hints for `PaginationConfig`. ([\#8250](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8250), [\#8282](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8282)) - Track the latest event for every destination and room for catch-up after federation outage. ([\#8256](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8256)) - Fix non-user visible bug in implementation of `MultiWriterIdGenerator.get_current_token_for_writer`. ([\#8257](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8257)) - Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library. ([\#8259](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8259)) - Add type hints to `synapse.util.async_helpers`. ([\#8260](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8260)) - Simplify tests that mock asynchronous functions. ([\#8261](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8261)) - Add type hints to `StreamToken` and `RoomStreamToken` classes. ([\#8279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8279)) - Change `StreamToken.room_key` to be a `RoomStreamToken` instance. ([\#8281](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8281)) - Refactor notifier code to correctly use the max event stream position. ([\#8288](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8288)) - Use slotted classes where possible. ([\#8296](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8296)) - Support testing the local Synapse checkout against the [Complement homeserver test suite](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/). ([\#8317](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8317)) - Update outdated usages of `metaclass` to python 3 syntax. ([\#8326](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8326)) - Move lint-related dependencies to package-extra field, update CONTRIBUTING.md to utilise this. ([\#8330](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8330), [\#8377](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8377)) - Use the `admin_patterns` helper in additional locations. ([\#8331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8331)) - Fix test logging to allow braces in log output. ([\#8335](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8335)) - Remove `__future__` imports related to Python 2 compatibility. ([\#8337](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8337)) - Simplify `super()` calls to Python 3 syntax. ([\#8344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8344)) - Fix bad merge from `release-v1.20.0` branch to `develop`. ([\#8354](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8354)) - Factor out a `_send_dummy_event_for_room` method. ([\#8370](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8370)) - Improve logging of state resolution. ([\#8371](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8371)) - Add type annotations to `SimpleHttpClient`. ([\#8372](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8372)) - Refactor ID generators to use `async with` syntax. ([\#8383](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8383)) - Add `EventStreamPosition` type. ([\#8388](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8388)) - Create a mechanism for marking tests "logcontext clean". ([\#8399](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8399)) - A pair of tiny cleanups in the federation request code. ([\#8401](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8401)) - Add checks on startup that PostgreSQL sequences are consistent with their associated tables. ([\#8402](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8402)) - Do not include appservice users when calculating the total MAU for a server. ([\#8404](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8404)) - Typing fixes for `synapse.handlers.federation`. ([\#8422](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8422)) - Various refactors to simplify stream token handling. ([\#8423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8423)) - Make stream token serializing/deserializing async. ([\#8427](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8427))