CHANGES.md

Synapse 0.33.0 (2018-07-19)

Bugfixes

• Disable a noisy warning about logcontexts. (#3561)

Synapse 0.33.0rc1 (2018-07-18)

Features

• Enforce the specified API for report_event. (#3316)
• Include CPU time from database threads in request/block metrics. (#3496, #3501)
• Add CPU metrics for _fetch_event_list. (#3497)
• Optimisation to make handling incoming federation requests more efficient. (#3541)

Bugfixes

• Fix a significant performance regression in /sync. (#3505, #3521, #3530, #3544)
• Use more portable syntax in our use of the attrs package, widening the supported versions. (#3498)
• Fix queued federation requests being processed in the wrong order. (#3533)
• Ensure that erasure requests are correctly honoured for publicly accessible rooms when accessed over federation. (#3546)

Misc

• Refactoring to improve testability. (#3351, #3499)
• Use isort to sort imports. (#3463, #3464, #3540)
• Use parse and asserts from http.servlet. (#3534, #3535).

Synapse 0.32.2 (2018-07-07)

Bugfixes

• Amend the Python dependencies to depend on attrs from PyPI, not attr (#3492)

Synapse 0.32.1 (2018-07-06)

Bugfixes

• Add explicit dependency on netaddr (#3488)

Changes in synapse v0.32.0 (2018-07-06)

No changes since 0.32.0rc1

Synapse 0.32.0rc1 (2018-07-05)

Features

• Add blacklist & whitelist of servers allowed to send events to a room via m.room.server_acl event.
• Cache factor override system for specific caches (#3334)
• Add metrics to track appservice transactions (#3344)
• Try to log more helpful info when a sig verification fails (#3372)
• Synapse now uses the best performing JSON encoder/decoder according to your runtime (simplejson on CPython, stdlib json on PyPy). (#3462)
• Add optional ip_range_whitelist param to AS registration files to lock AS IP access (#3465)
• Reject invalid server names in federation requests (#3480)
• Reject invalid server names in homeserver.yaml (#3483)

Bugfixes

• Strip access_token from outgoing requests (#3327)
• Redact AS tokens in logs (#3349)
• Fix federation backfill from SQLite servers (#3355)
• Fix event-purge-by-ts admin API (#3363)
• Fix event filtering in get_missing_events handler (#3371)
• Synapse is now stricter regarding accepting events which it cannot retrieve the prev_events for. (#3456)
• Fix bug where synapse would explode when receiving unicode in HTTP User-Agent header (#3470)
• Invalidate cache on correct thread to avoid race (#3473)

Improved Documentation

• doc/postgres.rst: fix display of the last command block. Thanks to @ArchangeGabriel! (#3340)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove was_forgotten_at (#3324)

Misc

• #3332, #3341, #3347, #3348, #3356, #3385, #3446, #3447, #3467, #3474

Changes in synapse v0.31.2 (2018-06-14)

SECURITY UPDATE: Prevent unauthorised users from setting state events in a room when there is no m.room.power_levels event in force in the room. (PR #3397)

Discussion around the Matrix Spec change proposal for this change can be followed at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1304.

Changes in synapse v0.31.1 (2018-06-08)

v0.31.1 fixes a security bug in the get_missing_events federation API where event visibility rules were not applied correctly.

We are not aware of it being actively exploited but please upgrade asap.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix event filtering in get_missing_events handler (PR #3371)

Changes in synapse v0.31.0 (2018-06-06)

Most notable change from v0.30.0 is to switch to the python prometheus library to improve system stats reporting. WARNING: this changes a number of prometheus metrics in a backwards-incompatible manner. For more details, see docs/metrics-howto.rst.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix metric documentation tables (PR #3341)
• Fix LaterGauge error handling (694968fa)
• Fix replication metrics (b7e7fd2d)

Changes in synapse v0.31.0-rc1 (2018-06-04)

Features:

• Switch to the Python Prometheus library (PR #3256, #3274)
• Let users leave the server notice room after joining (PR #3287)

Changes:

• daily user type phone home stats (PR #3264)
• Use iter* methods for _filter_events_for_server (PR #3267)
• Docs on consent bits (PR #3268)
• Remove users from user directory on deactivate (PR #3277)
• Avoid sending consent notice to guest users (PR #3288)
• disable CPUMetrics if no /proc/self/stat (PR #3299)
• Consistently use six's iteritems and wrap lazy keys/values in list() if they're not meant to be lazy (PR #3307)
• Add private IPv6 addresses to example config for url preview blacklist (PR #3317) Thanks to @thegcat!
• Reduce stuck read-receipts: ignore depth when updating (PR #3318)
• Put python's logs into Trial when running unit tests (PR #3319)

Changes, python 3 migration:

• Replace some more comparisons with six (PR #3243) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• replace some iteritems with six (PR #3244) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Add batch_iter to utils (PR #3245) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• use repr, not str (PR #3246) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Misc Python3 fixes (PR #3247) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Py3 storage/_base.py (PR #3278) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• more six iteritems (PR #3279) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• More Misc. py3 fixes (PR #3280) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• remaining isintance fixes (PR #3281) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• py3-ize state.py (PR #3283) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• extend tox testing for py3 to avoid regressions (PR #3302) Thanks to @krombel!
• use memoryview in py3 (PR #3303) Thanks to @NotAFile!

Bugs:

• Fix federation backfill bugs (PR #3261)
• federation: fix LaterGauge usage (PR #3328) Thanks to @intelfx!

Changes in synapse v0.30.0 (2018-05-24)

'Server Notices' are a new feature introduced in Synapse 0.30. They provide a channel whereby server administrators can send messages to users on the server.

They are used as part of communication of the server policies (see docs/consent_tracking.md), however the intention is that they may also find a use for features such as "Message of the day".

This feature is specific to Synapse, but uses standard Matrix communication mechanisms, so should work with any Matrix client. For more details see docs/server_notices.md

Further Server Notices/Consent Tracking Support:

• Allow overriding the server_notices user's avatar (PR #3273)
• Use the localpart in the consent uri (PR #3272)
• Support for putting %(consent_uri)s in messages (PR #3271)
• Block attempts to send server notices to remote users (PR #3270)
• Docs on consent bits (PR #3268)

Changes in synapse v0.30.0-rc1 (2018-05-23)

Server Notices/Consent Tracking Support:

• ConsentResource to gather policy consent from users (PR #3213)
• Move RoomCreationHandler out of synapse.handlers.Handlers (PR #3225)
• Infrastructure for a server notices room (PR #3232)
• Send users a server notice about consent (PR #3236)
• Reject attempts to send event before privacy consent is given (PR #3257)
• Add a 'has_consented' template var to consent forms (PR #3262)
• Fix dependency on jinja2 (PR #3263)

Features:

• Cohort analytics (PR #3163, #3241, #3251)
• Add lxml to docker image for web previews (PR #3239) Thanks to @ptman!
• Add in flight request metrics (PR #3252)

Changes:

• Remove unused update_external_syncs (PR #3233)
• Use stream rather depth ordering for push actions (PR #3212)
• Make purge_history operate on tokens (PR #3221)
• Don't support limitless pagination (PR #3265)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix logcontext resource usage tracking (PR #3258)
• Fix error in handling receipts (PR #3235)
• Stop the transaction cache caching failures (PR #3255)

Changes in synapse v0.29.1 (2018-05-17)

Changes:

• Update docker documentation (PR #3222)

Changes in synapse v0.29.0 (2018-05-16)

Not changes since v0.29.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.29.0-rc1 (2018-05-14)

Notable changes, a docker file for running Synapse (Thanks to @kaiyou!) and a closed spec bug in the Client Server API. Additionally further prep for Python 3 migration.

Potentially breaking change:

• Make Client-Server API return 401 for invalid token (PR #3161).

  This changes the Client-server spec to return a 401 error code instead of 403 when the access token is unrecognised. This is the behaviour required by the specification, but some clients may be relying on the old, incorrect behaviour.

  Thanks to @NotAFile for fixing this.

Features:

• Add a Dockerfile for synapse (PR #2846) Thanks to @kaiyou!

Changes - General:

• nuke-room-from-db.sh: added postgresql option and help (PR #2337) Thanks to @rubo77!
• Part user from rooms on account deactivate (PR #3201)
• Make 'unexpected logging context' into warnings (PR #3007)
• Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
• remove duplicates from groups tables (PR #3129)
• Improve exception handling for background processes (PR #3138)
• Add missing consumeErrors to improve exception handling (PR #3139)
• reraise exceptions more carefully (PR #3142)
• Remove redundant call to preserve_fn (PR #3143)
• Trap exceptions thrown within run_in_background (PR #3144)

Changes - Refactors:

• Refactor /context to reuse pagination storage functions (PR #3193)
• Refactor recent events func to use pagination func (PR #3195)
• Refactor pagination DB API to return concrete type (PR #3196)
• Refactor get_recent_events_for_room return type (PR #3198)
• Refactor sync APIs to reuse pagination API (PR #3199)
• Remove unused code path from member change DB func (PR #3200)
• Refactor request handling wrappers (PR #3203)
• transaction_id, destination defined twice (PR #3209) Thanks to @damir-manapov!
• Refactor event storage to prepare for changes in state calculations (PR #3141)
• Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
• Use deferred.addTimeout instead of time_bound_deferred (PR #3127, #3178)
• Use run_in_background in preference to preserve_fn (PR #3140)

Changes - Python 3 migration:

• Construct HMAC as bytes on py3 (PR #3156) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• run config tests on py3 (PR #3159) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Open certificate files as bytes (PR #3084) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Open config file in non-bytes mode (PR #3085) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Make event properties raise AttributeError instead (PR #3102) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Use six.moves.urlparse (PR #3108) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Add py3 tests to tox with folders that work (PR #3145) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Don't yield in list comprehensions (PR #3150) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Move more xrange to six (PR #3151) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• make imports local (PR #3152) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• move httplib import to six (PR #3153) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Replace stringIO imports with six (PR #3154, #3168) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• more bytes strings (PR #3155) Thanks to @NotAFile!

Bug Fixes:

• synapse fails to start under Twisted >= 18.4 (PR #3157)
• Fix a class of logcontext leaks (PR #3170)
• Fix a couple of logcontext leaks in unit tests (PR #3172)
• Fix logcontext leak in media repo (PR #3174)
• Escape label values in prometheus metrics (PR #3175, #3186)
• Fix 'Unhandled Error' logs with Twisted 18.4 (PR #3182) Thanks to @Half-Shot!
• Fix logcontext leaks in rate limiter (PR #3183)
• notifications: Convert next_token to string according to the spec (PR #3190) Thanks to @mujx!
• nuke-room-from-db.sh: fix deletion from search table (PR #3194) Thanks to @rubo77!
• add guard for None on purge_history api (PR #3160) Thanks to @krombel!

Changes in synapse v0.28.1 (2018-05-01)

SECURITY UPDATE

• Clamp the allowed values of event depth received over federation to be [0, 2^63 - 1]. This mitigates an attack where malicious events injected with depth = 2^63 - 1 render rooms unusable. Depth is used to determine the cosmetic ordering of events within a room, and so the ordering of events in such a room will default to using stream_ordering rather than depth (topological_ordering).

  This is a temporary solution to mitigate abuse in the wild, whilst a long term solution is being implemented to improve how the depth parameter is used.

  Full details at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3fi2S-XnpO45qrpCsowZv8P8dHcNZ4fsBsbOW7KABI

• Pin Twisted to <18.4 until we stop using the private _OpenSSLECCurve API.

Changes in synapse v0.28.0 (2018-04-26)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix quarantine media admin API and search reindex (PR #3130)
• Fix media admin APIs (PR #3134)

Changes in synapse v0.28.0-rc1 (2018-04-24)

Minor performance improvement to federation sending and bug fixes.

(Note: This release does not include the delta state resolution implementation discussed in matrix live)

Features:

• Add metrics for event processing lag (PR #3090)
• Add metrics for ResponseCache (PR #3092)

Changes:

• Synapse on PyPy (PR #2760) Thanks to @Valodim!
• move handling of auto_join_rooms to RegisterHandler (PR #2996) Thanks to @krombel!
• Improve handling of SRV records for federation connections (PR #3016) Thanks to @silkeh!
• Document the behaviour of ResponseCache (PR #3059)
• Preparation for py3 (PR #3061, #3073, #3074, #3075, #3103, #3104, #3106, #3107, #3109, #3110) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• update prometheus dashboard to use new metric names (PR #3069) Thanks to @krombel!
• use python3-compatible prints (PR #3074) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Send federation events concurrently (PR #3078)
• Limit concurrent event sends for a room (PR #3079)
• Improve R30 stat definition (PR #3086)
• Send events to ASes concurrently (PR #3088)
• Refactor ResponseCache usage (PR #3093)
• Clarify that SRV may not point to a CNAME (PR #3100) Thanks to @silkeh!
• Use str(e) instead of e.message (PR #3103) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Use six.itervalues in some places (PR #3106) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Refactor store.have_events (PR #3117)

Bug Fixes:

• Return 401 for invalid access_token on logout (PR #2938) Thanks to @dklug!
• Return a 404 rather than a 500 on rejoining empty rooms (PR #3080)
• fix federation_domain_whitelist (PR #3099)
• Avoid creating events with huge numbers of prev_events (PR #3113)
• Reject events which have lots of prev_events (PR #3118)

Changes in synapse v0.27.4 (2018-04-13)

Changes:

• Update canonicaljson dependency (#3095)

Changes in synapse v0.27.3 (2018-04-11)

Bug fixes:

• URL quote path segments over federation (#3082)

Changes in synapse v0.27.3-rc2 (2018-04-09)

v0.27.3-rc1 used a stale version of the develop branch so the changelog overstates the functionality. v0.27.3-rc2 is up to date, rc1 should be ignored.

Changes in synapse v0.27.3-rc1 (2018-04-09)

Notable changes include API support for joinability of groups. Also new metrics and phone home stats. Phone home stats include better visibility of system usage so we can tweak synpase to work better for all users rather than our own experience with matrix.org. Also, recording 'r30' stat which is the measure we use to track overal growth of the Matrix ecosystem. It is defined as:-

Counts the number of native 30 day retained users, defined as:- * Users who have created their accounts more than 30 days

• Where last seen at most 30 days ago
• Where account creation and last_seen are > 30 days"

Features:

• Add joinability for groups (PR #3045)
• Implement group join API (PR #3046)
• Add counter metrics for calculating state delta (PR #3033)
• R30 stats (PR #3041)
• Measure time it takes to calculate state group ID (PR #3043)
• Add basic performance statistics to phone home (PR #3044)
• Add response size metrics (PR #3071)
• phone home cache size configurations (PR #3063)

Changes:

• Add a blurb explaining the main synapse worker (PR #2886) Thanks to @turt2live!
• Replace old style error catching with 'as' keyword (PR #3000) Thanks to @NotAFile!
• Use .iter* to avoid copies in StateHandler (PR #3006)
• Linearize calls to _generate_user_id (PR #3029)
• Remove last usage of ujson (PR #3030)
• Use simplejson throughout (PR #3048)
• Use static JSONEncoders (PR #3049)
• Remove uses of events.content (PR #3060)
• Improve database cache performance (PR #3068)

Bug fixes:

• Add room_id to the response of rooms/{roomId}/join (PR #2986) Thanks to @jplatte!
• Fix replication after switch to simplejson (PR #3015)
• 404 correctly on missing paths via NoResource (PR #3022)
• Fix error when claiming e2e keys from offline servers (PR #3034)
• fix tests/storage/test_user_directory.py (PR #3042)
• use PUT instead of POST for federating groups/m.join_policy (PR #3070) Thanks to @krombel!
• postgres port script: fix state_groups_pkey error (PR #3072)

Changes in synapse v0.27.2 (2018-03-26)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug which broke TCP replication between workers (PR #3015)

Changes in synapse v0.27.1 (2018-03-26)

Meta release as v0.27.0 temporarily pointed to the wrong commit

Changes in synapse v0.27.0 (2018-03-26)

No changes since v0.27.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.27.0-rc2 (2018-03-19)

Pulls in v0.26.1

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug introduced in v0.27.0-rc1 that causes much increased memory usage in state cache (PR #3005)

Changes in synapse v0.26.1 (2018-03-15)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where an invalid event caused server to stop functioning correctly, due to parsing and serializing bugs in ujson library (PR #3008)

Changes in synapse v0.27.0-rc1 (2018-03-14)

The common case for running Synapse is not to run separate workers, but for those that do, be aware that synctl no longer starts the main synapse when using -a option with workers. A new worker file should be added with worker_app: synapse.app.homeserver.

This release also begins the process of renaming a number of the metrics reported to prometheus. See docs/metrics-howto.rst. Note that the v0.28.0 release will remove the deprecated metric names.

Features:

• Add ability for ASes to override message send time (PR #2754)
• Add support for custom storage providers for media repository (PR #2867, #2777, #2783, #2789, #2791, #2804, #2812, #2814, #2857, #2868, #2767)
• Add purge API features, see docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst for full details (PR #2858, #2867, #2882, #2946, #2962, #2943)
• Add support for whitelisting 3PIDs that users can register. (PR #2813)
• Add /room/{id}/event/{id} API (PR #2766)
• Add an admin API to get all the media in a room (PR #2818) Thanks to @turt2live!
• Add federation_domain_whitelist option (PR #2820, #2821)

Changes:

• Continue to factor out processing from main process and into worker processes. See updated docs/workers.rst (PR #2892 - #2904, #2913, #2920 - #2926, #2947, #2847, #2854, #2872, #2873, #2874, #2928, #2929, #2934, #2856, #2976 - #2984, #2987 - #2989, #2991 - #2993, #2995, #2784)
• Ensure state cache is used when persisting events (PR #2864, #2871, #2802, #2835, #2836, #2841, #2842, #2849)
• Change the default config to bind on both IPv4 and IPv6 on all platforms (PR #2435) Thanks to @silkeh!
• No longer require a specific version of saml2 (PR #2695) Thanks to @okurz!
• Remove verbosity/log_file from generated config (PR #2755)
• Add and improve metrics and logging (PR #2770, #2778, #2785, #2786, #2787, #2793, #2794, #2795, #2809, #2810, #2833, #2834, #2844, #2965, #2927, #2975, #2790, #2796, #2838)
• When using synctl with workers, don't start the main synapse automatically (PR #2774)
• Minor performance improvements (PR #2773, #2792)
• Use a connection pool for non-federation outbound connections (PR #2817)
• Make it possible to run unit tests against postgres (PR #2829)
• Update pynacl dependency to 1.2.1 or higher (PR #2888) Thanks to @bachp!
• Remove ability for AS users to call /events and /sync (PR #2948)
• Use bcrypt.checkpw (PR #2949) Thanks to @krombel!

Bug fixes:

• Fix broken ldap_config config option (PR #2683) Thanks to @seckrv!
• Fix error message when user is not allowed to unban (PR #2761) Thanks to @turt2live!
• Fix publicised groups GET API (singular) over federation (PR #2772)
• Fix user directory when using user_directory_search_all_users config option (PR #2803, #2831)
• Fix error on /publicRooms when no rooms exist (PR #2827)
• Fix bug in quarantine_media (PR #2837)
• Fix url_previews when no Content-Type is returned from URL (PR #2845)
• Fix rare race in sync API when joining room (PR #2944)
• Fix slow event search, switch back from GIST to GIN indexes (PR #2769, #2848)

Changes in synapse v0.26.0 (2018-01-05)

No changes since v0.26.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.26.0-rc1 (2017-12-13)

Features:

• Add ability for ASes to publicise groups for their users (PR #2686)
• Add all local users to the user_directory and optionally search them (PR #2723)
• Add support for custom login types for validating users (PR #2729)

Changes:

• Update example Prometheus config to new format (PR #2648) Thanks to @krombel!
• Rename redact_content option to include_content in Push API (PR #2650)
• Declare support for r0.3.0 (PR #2677)
• Improve upserts (PR #2684, #2688, #2689, #2713)
• Improve documentation of workers (PR #2700)
• Improve tracebacks on exceptions (PR #2705)
• Allow guest access to group APIs for reading (PR #2715)
• Support for posting content in federation_client script (PR #2716)
• Delete devices and pushers on logouts etc (PR #2722)

Bug fixes:

• Fix database port script (PR #2673)
• Fix internal server error on login with ldap_auth_provider (PR #2678) Thanks to @jkolo!
• Fix error on sqlite 3.7 (PR #2697)
• Fix OPTIONS on preview_url (PR #2707)
• Fix error handling on dns lookup (PR #2711)
• Fix wrong avatars when inviting multiple users when creating room (PR #2717)
• Fix 500 when joining matrix-dev (PR #2719)

Changes in synapse v0.25.1 (2017-11-17)

Bug fixes:

• Fix login with LDAP and other password provider modules (PR #2678). Thanks to @jkolo!

Changes in synapse v0.25.0 (2017-11-15)

Bug fixes:

• Fix port script (PR #2673)

Changes in synapse v0.25.0-rc1 (2017-11-14)

Features:

• Add is_public to groups table to allow for private groups (PR #2582)
• Add a route for determining who you are (PR #2668) Thanks to @turt2live!
• Add more features to the password providers (PR #2608, #2610, #2620, #2622, #2623, #2624, #2626, #2628, #2629)
• Add a hook for custom rest endpoints (PR #2627)
• Add API to update group room visibility (PR #2651)

Changes:

• Ignore <noscript> tags when generating URL preview descriptions (PR #2576) Thanks to @maximevaillancourt!
• Register some /unstable endpoints in /r0 as well (PR #2579) Thanks to @krombel!
• Support /keys/upload on /r0 as well as /unstable (PR #2585)
• Front-end proxy: pass through auth header (PR #2586)
• Allow ASes to deactivate their own users (PR #2589)
• Remove refresh tokens (PR #2613)
• Automatically set default displayname on register (PR #2617)
• Log login requests (PR #2618)
• Always return is_public in the /groups/:group_id/rooms API (PR #2630)
• Avoid no-op media deletes (PR #2637) Thanks to @spantaleev!
• Fix various embarrassing typos around user_directory and add some doc. (PR #2643)
• Return whether a user is an admin within a group (PR #2647)
• Namespace visibility options for groups (PR #2657)
• Downcase UserIDs on registration (PR #2662)
• Cache failures when fetching URL previews (PR #2669)

Bug fixes:

• Fix port script (PR #2577)
• Fix error when running synapse with no logfile (PR #2581)
• Fix UI auth when deleting devices (PR #2591)
• Fix typo when checking if user is invited to group (PR #2599)
• Fix the port script to drop NUL values in all tables (PR #2611)
• Fix appservices being backlogged and not receiving new events due to a bug in notify_interested_services (PR #2631) Thanks to @xyzz!
• Fix updating rooms avatar/display name when modified by admin (PR #2636) Thanks to @farialima!
• Fix bug in state group storage (PR #2649)
• Fix 500 on invalid utf-8 in request (PR #2663)

Changes in synapse v0.24.1 (2017-10-24)

Bug fixes:

• Fix updating group profiles over federation (PR #2567)

Changes in synapse v0.24.0 (2017-10-23)

No changes since v0.24.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.24.0-rc1 (2017-10-19)

Features:

• Add Group Server (PR #2352, #2363, #2374, #2377, #2378, #2382, #2410, #2426, #2430, #2454, #2471, #2472, #2544)
• Add support for channel notifications (PR #2501)
• Add basic implementation of backup media store (PR #2538)
• Add config option to auto-join new users to rooms (PR #2545)

Changes:

• Make the spam checker a module (PR #2474)
• Delete expired url cache data (PR #2478)
• Ignore incoming events for rooms that we have left (PR #2490)
• Allow spam checker to reject invites too (PR #2492)
• Add room creation checks to spam checker (PR #2495)
• Spam checking: add the invitee to user_may_invite (PR #2502)
• Process events from federation for different rooms in parallel (PR #2520)
• Allow error strings from spam checker (PR #2531)
• Improve error handling for missing files in config (PR #2551)

Bug fixes:

• Fix handling SERVFAILs when doing AAAA lookups for federation (PR #2477)
• Fix incompatibility with newer versions of ujson (PR #2483) Thanks to @jeremycline!
• Fix notification keywords that start/end with non-word chars (PR #2500)
• Fix stack overflow and logcontexts from linearizer (PR #2532)
• Fix 500 error when fields missing from power_levels event (PR #2552)
• Fix 500 error when we get an error handling a PDU (PR #2553)

Changes in synapse v0.23.1 (2017-10-02)

Changes:

• Make 'affinity' package optional, as it is not supported on some platforms

Changes in synapse v0.23.0 (2017-10-02)

No changes since v0.23.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.23.0-rc2 (2017-09-26)

Bug fixes:

• Fix regression in performance of syncs (PR #2470)

Changes in synapse v0.23.0-rc1 (2017-09-25)

Features:

• Add a frontend proxy worker (PR #2344)
• Add support for event_id_only push format (PR #2450)
• Add a PoC for filtering spammy events (PR #2456)
• Add a config option to block all room invites (PR #2457)

Changes:

• Use bcrypt module instead of py-bcrypt (PR #2288) Thanks to @kyrias!
• Improve performance of generating push notifications (PR #2343, #2357, #2365, #2366, #2371)
• Improve DB performance for device list handling in sync (PR #2362)
• Include a sample prometheus config (PR #2416)
• Document known to work postgres version (PR #2433) Thanks to @ptman!

Bug fixes:

• Fix caching error in the push evaluator (PR #2332)
• Fix bug where pusherpool didn't start and broke some rooms (PR #2342)
• Fix port script for user directory tables (PR #2375)
• Fix device lists notifications when user rejoins a room (PR #2443, #2449)
• Fix sync to always send down current state events in timeline (PR #2451)
• Fix bug where guest users were incorrectly kicked (PR #2453)
• Fix bug talking to IPv6 only servers using SRV records (PR #2462)

Changes in synapse v0.22.1 (2017-07-06)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where pusher pool didn't start and caused issues when interacting with some rooms (PR #2342)

Changes in synapse v0.22.0 (2017-07-06)

No changes since v0.22.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc2 (2017-07-04)

Changes:

• Improve performance of storing user IPs (PR #2307, #2308)
• Slightly improve performance of verifying access tokens (PR #2320)
• Slightly improve performance of event persistence (PR #2321)
• Increase default cache factor size from 0.1 to 0.5 (PR #2330)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug with storing registration sessions that caused frequent CPU churn (PR #2319)

Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc1 (2017-06-26)

Features:

• Add a user directory API (PR #2252, and many more)
• Add shutdown room API to remove room from local server (PR #2291)
• Add API to quarantine media (PR #2292)
• Add new config option to not send event contents to push servers (PR #2301) Thanks to @cjdelisle!

Changes:

• Various performance fixes (PR #2177, #2233, #2230, #2238, #2248, #2256, #2274)
• Deduplicate sync filters (PR #2219) Thanks to @krombel!
• Correct a typo in UPGRADE.rst (PR #2231) Thanks to @aaronraimist!
• Add count of one time keys to sync stream (PR #2237)
• Only store event_auth for state events (PR #2247)
• Store URL cache preview downloads separately (PR #2299)

Bug fixes:

• Fix users not getting notifications when AS listened to that user_id (PR #2216) Thanks to @slipeer!
• Fix users without push set up not getting notifications after joining rooms (PR #2236)
• Fix preview url API to trim long descriptions (PR #2243)
• Fix bug where we used cached but unpersisted state group as prev group, resulting in broken state of restart (PR #2263)
• Fix removing of pushers when using workers (PR #2267)
• Fix CORS headers to allow Authorization header (PR #2285) Thanks to @krombel!

Changes in synapse v0.21.1 (2017-06-15)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in anonymous usage statistic reporting (PR #2281)

Changes in synapse v0.21.0 (2017-05-18)

No changes since v0.21.0-rc3

Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc3 (2017-05-17)

Features:

• Add per user rate-limiting overrides (PR #2208)
• Add config option to limit maximum number of events requested by /sync and /messages (PR #2221) Thanks to @psaavedra!

Changes:

• Various small performance fixes (PR #2201, #2202, #2224, #2226, #2227, #2228, #2229)
• Update username availability checker API (PR #2209, #2213)
• When purging, don't de-delta state groups we're about to delete (PR #2214)
• Documentation to check synapse version (PR #2215) Thanks to @hamber-dick!
• Add an index to event_search to speed up purge history API (PR #2218)

Bug fixes:

• Fix API to allow clients to upload one-time-keys with new sigs (PR #2206)

Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc2 (2017-05-08)

Changes:

• Always mark remotes as up if we receive a signed request from them (PR #2190)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where users got pushed for rooms they had muted (PR #2200)

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!

Changes in synapse v0.20.0 (2017-04-11)

Bug fixes:

• Fix joining rooms over federation where not all servers in the room saw the new server had joined (PR #2094)

Changes in synapse v0.20.0-rc1 (2017-03-30)

Features:

• Add delete_devices API (PR #1993)
• Add phone number registration/login support (PR #1994, #2055)

Changes:

• Use JSONSchema for validation of filters. Thanks @pik! (PR #1783)
• Reread log config on SIGHUP (PR #1982)
• Speed up public room list (PR #1989)
• Add helpful texts to logger config options (PR #1990)
• Minor /sync performance improvements. (PR #2002, #2013, #2022)
• Add some debug to help diagnose weird federation issue (PR #2035)
• Correctly limit retries for all federation requests (PR #2050, #2061)
• Don't lock table when persisting new one time keys (PR #2053)
• Reduce some CPU work on DB threads (PR #2054)
• Cache hosts in room (PR #2060)
• Batch sending of device list pokes (PR #2063)
• Speed up persist event path in certain edge cases (PR #2070)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where current_state_events renamed to current_state_ids (PR #1849)
• Fix routing loop when fetching remote media (PR #1992)
• Fix current_state_events table to not lie (PR #1996)
• Fix CAS login to handle PartialDownloadError (PR #1997)
• Fix assertion to stop transaction queue getting wedged (PR #2010)
• Fix presence to fallback to last_active_ts if it beats the last sync time. Thanks @Half-Shot! (PR #2014)
• Fix bug when federation received a PDU while a room join is in progress (PR #2016)
• Fix resetting state on rejected events (PR #2025)
• Fix installation issues in readme. Thanks @ricco386 (PR #2037)
• Fix caching of remote servers' signature keys (PR #2042)
• Fix some leaking log context (PR #2048, #2049, #2057, #2058)
• Fix rejection of invites not reaching sync (PR #2056)

Changes in synapse v0.19.3 (2017-03-20)

No changes since v0.19.3-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.19.3-rc2 (2017-03-13)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in handling of incoming device list updates over federation.

Changes in synapse v0.19.3-rc1 (2017-03-08)

Features:

• Add some administration functionalities. Thanks to morteza-araby! (PR #1784)

Changes:

• Reduce database table sizes (PR #1873, #1916, #1923, #1963)
• Update contrib/ to not use syutil. Thanks to andrewshadura! (PR #1907)
• Don't fetch current state when sending an event in common case (PR #1955)

Bug fixes:

• Fix synapse_port_db failure. Thanks to Pneumaticat! (PR #1904)
• Fix caching to not cache error responses (PR #1913)
• Fix APIs to make kick & ban reasons work (PR #1917)
• Fix bugs in the /keys/changes api (PR #1921)
• Fix bug where users couldn't forget rooms they were banned from (PR #1922)
• Fix issue with long language values in pushers API (PR #1925)
• Fix a race in transaction queue (PR #1930)
• Fix dynamic thumbnailing to preserve aspect ratio. Thanks to jkolo! (PR #1945)
• Fix device list update to not constantly resync (PR #1964)
• Fix potential for huge memory usage when getting device that have changed (PR #1969)

Changes in synapse v0.19.2 (2017-02-20)

• Fix bug with event visibility check in /context/ API. Thanks to Tokodomo for pointing it out! (PR #1929)

Changes in synapse v0.19.1 (2017-02-09)

• Fix bug where state was incorrectly reset in a room when synapse received an event over federation that did not pass auth checks (PR #1892)

Changes in synapse v0.19.0 (2017-02-04)

No changes since RC 4.

Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc4 (2017-02-02)

• Bump cache sizes for common membership queries (PR #1879)

Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc3 (2017-02-02)

• Fix email push in pusher worker (PR #1875)
• Make presence.get_new_events a bit faster (PR #1876)
• Make /keys/changes a bit more performant (PR #1877)

Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc2 (2017-02-02)

• Include newly joined users in /keys/changes API (PR #1872)

Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc1 (2017-02-02)

Features:

• Add support for specifying multiple bind addresses (PR #1709, #1712, #1795, #1835). Thanks to @kyrias!
• Add /account/3pid/delete endpoint (PR #1714)
• Add config option to configure the Riot URL used in notification emails (PR #1811). Thanks to @aperezdc!
• Add username and password config options for turn server (PR #1832). Thanks to @xsteadfastx!
• Implement device lists updates over federation (PR #1857, #1861, #1864)
• Implement /keys/changes (PR #1869, #1872)

Changes:

• Improve IPv6 support (PR #1696). Thanks to @kyrias and @glyph!
• Log which files we saved attachments to in the media_repository (PR #1791)
• Linearize updates to membership via PUT /state/ to better handle multiple joins (PR #1787)
• Limit number of entries to prefill from cache on startup (PR #1792)
• Remove full_twisted_stacktraces option (PR #1802)
• Measure size of some caches by sum of the size of cached values (PR #1815)
• Measure metrics of string_cache (PR #1821)
• Reduce logging verbosity (PR #1822, #1823, #1824)
• Don't clobber a displayname or avatar_url if provided by an m.room.member event (PR #1852)
• Better handle 401/404 response for federation /send/ (PR #1866, #1871)

Fixes:

• Fix ability to change password to a non-ascii one (PR #1711)
• Fix push getting stuck due to looking at the wrong view of state (PR #1820)
• Fix email address comparison to be case insensitive (PR #1827)
• Fix occasional inconsistencies of room membership (PR #1836, #1840)

Performance:

• Don't block messages sending on bumping presence (PR #1789)
• Change device_inbox stream index to include user (PR #1793)
• Optimise state resolution (PR #1818)
• Use DB cache of joined users for presence (PR #1862)
• Add an index to make membership queries faster (PR #1867)

Changes in synapse v0.18.7 (2017-01-09)

No changes from v0.18.7-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.18.7-rc2 (2017-01-07)

Bug fixes:

• Fix error in rc1's discarding invalid inbound traffic logic that was incorrectly discarding missing events

Changes in synapse v0.18.7-rc1 (2017-01-06)

Bug fixes:

• Fix error in #PR 1764 to actually fix the nightmare #1753 bug.
• Improve deadlock logging further
• Discard inbound federation traffic from invalid domains, to immunise against #1753

Changes in synapse v0.18.6 (2017-01-06)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug when checking if a guest user is allowed to join a room (PR #1772) Thanks to Patrik Oldsberg for diagnosing and the fix!

Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc3 (2017-01-05)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where we failed to send ban events to the banned server (PR #1758)
• Fix bug where we sent event that didn't originate on this server to other servers (PR #1764)
• Fix bug where processing an event from a remote server took a long time because we were making long HTTP requests (PR #1765, PR #1744)

Changes:

• Improve logging for debugging deadlocks (PR #1766, PR #1767)

Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc2 (2016-12-30)

Bug fixes:

• Fix memory leak in twisted by initialising logging correctly (PR #1731)
• Fix bug where fetching missing events took an unacceptable amount of time in large rooms (PR #1734)

Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc1 (2016-12-29)

Bug fixes:

• Make sure that outbound connections are closed (PR #1725)

Changes in synapse v0.18.5 (2016-12-16)

Bug fixes:

• Fix federation /backfill returning events it shouldn't (PR #1700)
• Fix crash in url preview (PR #1701)

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc3 (2016-12-13)

Features:

• Add support for E2E for guests (PR #1653)
• Add new API appservice specific public room list (PR #1676)
• Add new room membership APIs (PR #1680)

Changes:

• Enable guest access for private rooms by default (PR #653)
• Limit the number of events that can be created on a given room concurrently (PR #1620)
• Log the args that we have on UI auth completion (PR #1649)
• Stop generating refresh_tokens (PR #1654)
• Stop putting a time caveat on access tokens (PR #1656)
• Remove unspecced GET endpoints for e2e keys (PR #1694)

Bug fixes:

• Fix handling of 500 and 429's over federation (PR #1650)
• Fix Content-Type header parsing (PR #1660)
• Fix error when previewing sites that include unicode, thanks to kyrias (PR #1664)
• Fix some cases where we drop read receipts (PR #1678)
• Fix bug where calls to /sync didn't correctly timeout (PR #1683)
• Fix bug where E2E key query would fail if a single remote host failed (PR #1686)

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc2 (2016-11-24)

Bug fixes:

• Don't send old events over federation, fixes bug in -rc1.

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc1 (2016-11-24)

Features:

• Implement "event_fields" in filters (PR #1638)

Changes:

• Use external ldap auth pacakge (PR #1628)
• Split out federation transaction sending to a worker (PR #1635)
• Fail with a coherent error message if /sync?filter= is invalid (PR #1636)
• More efficient notif count queries (PR #1644)

Changes in synapse v0.18.4 (2016-11-22)

Bug fixes:

• Add workaround for buggy clients that the fail to register (PR #1632)

Changes in synapse v0.18.4-rc1 (2016-11-14)

Changes:

• Various database efficiency improvements (PR #1188, #1192)
• Update default config to blacklist more internal IPs, thanks to Euan Kemp (PR #1198)
• Allow specifying duration in minutes in config, thanks to Daniel Dent (PR #1625)

Bug fixes:

• Fix media repo to set CORs headers on responses (PR #1190)
• Fix registration to not error on non-ascii passwords (PR #1191)
• Fix create event code to limit the number of prev_events (PR #1615)
• Fix bug in transaction ID deduplication (PR #1624)

Changes in synapse v0.18.3 (2016-11-08)

SECURITY UPDATE

Explicitly require authentication when using LDAP3. This is the default on versions of ldap3 above 1.0, but some distributions will package an older version.

If you are using LDAP3 login and have a version of ldap3 older than 1.0 it is CRITICAL to updgrade.

Changes in synapse v0.18.2 (2016-11-01)

No changes since v0.18.2-rc5

Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc5 (2016-10-28)

Bug fixes:

• Fix prometheus process metrics in worker processes (PR #1184)

Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc4 (2016-10-27)

Bug fixes:

• Fix user_threepids schema delta, which in some instances prevented startup after upgrade (PR #1183)

Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc3 (2016-10-27)

Changes:

• Allow clients to supply access tokens as headers (PR #1098)
• Clarify error codes for GET /filter/, thanks to Alexander Maznev (PR #1164)
• Make password reset email field case insensitive (PR #1170)
• Reduce redundant database work in email pusher (PR #1174)
• Allow configurable rate limiting per AS (PR #1175)
• Check whether to ratelimit sooner to avoid work (PR #1176)
• Standardise prometheus metrics (PR #1177)

Bug fixes:

• Fix incredibly slow back pagination query (PR #1178)
• Fix infinite typing bug (PR #1179)

Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc2 (2016-10-25)

(This release did not include the changes advertised and was identical to RC1)

Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc1 (2016-10-17)

Changes:

• Remove redundant event_auth index (PR #1113)
• Reduce DB hits for replication (PR #1141)
• Implement pluggable password auth (PR #1155)
• Remove rate limiting from app service senders and fix get_or_create_user requester, thanks to Patrik Oldsberg (PR #1157)
• window.postmessage for Interactive Auth fallback (PR #1159)
• Use sys.executable instead of hardcoded python, thanks to Pedro Larroy (PR #1162)
• Add config option for adding additional TLS fingerprints (PR #1167)
• User-interactive auth on delete device (PR #1168)

Bug fixes:

• Fix not being allowed to set your own state_key, thanks to Patrik Oldsberg (PR #1150)
• Fix interactive auth to return 401 from for incorrect password (PR #1160, #1166)
• Fix email push notifs being dropped (PR #1169)

Changes in synapse v0.18.1 (2016-10-05)

No changes since v0.18.1-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.18.1-rc1 (2016-09-30)

Features:

• Add total_room_count_estimate to /publicRooms (PR #1133)

Changes:

• Time out typing over federation (PR #1140)
• Restructure LDAP authentication (PR #1153)

Bug fixes:

• Fix 3pid invites when server is already in the room (PR #1136)
• Fix upgrading with SQLite taking lots of CPU for a few days after upgrade (PR #1144)
• Fix upgrading from very old database versions (PR #1145)
• Fix port script to work with recently added tables (PR #1146)

Changes in synapse v0.18.0 (2016-09-19)

The release includes major changes to the state storage database schemas, which significantly reduce database size. Synapse will attempt to upgrade the current data in the background. Servers with large SQLite database may experience degradation of performance while this upgrade is in progress, therefore you may want to consider migrating to using Postgres before upgrading very large SQLite databases

Changes:

• Make public room search case insensitive (PR #1127)

Bug fixes:

• Fix and clean up publicRooms pagination (PR #1129)

Changes in synapse v0.18.0-rc1 (2016-09-16)

Features:

• Add only=highlight on /notifications (PR #1081)
• Add server param to /publicRooms (PR #1082)
• Allow clients to ask for the whole of a single state event (PR #1094)
• Add is_direct param to /createRoom (PR #1108)
• Add pagination support to publicRooms (PR #1121)
• Add very basic filter API to /publicRooms (PR #1126)
• Add basic direct to device messaging support for E2E (PR #1074, #1084, #1104, #1111)

Changes:

• Move to storing state_groups_state as deltas, greatly reducing DB size (PR #1065)
• Reduce amount of state pulled out of the DB during common requests (PR #1069)
• Allow PDF to be rendered from media repo (PR #1071)
• Reindex state_groups_state after pruning (PR #1085)
• Clobber EDUs in send queue (PR #1095)
• Conform better to the CAS protocol specification (PR #1100)
• Limit how often we ask for keys from dead servers (PR #1114)

Bug fixes:

• Fix /notifications API when used with from param (PR #1080)
• Fix backfill when cannot find an event. (PR #1107)

Changes in synapse v0.17.3 (2016-09-09)

This release fixes a major bug that stopped servers from handling rooms with over 1000 members.

Changes in synapse v0.17.2 (2016-09-08)

This release contains security bug fixes. Please upgrade.

No changes since v0.17.2-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.17.2-rc1 (2016-09-05)

Features:

• Start adding store-and-forward direct-to-device messaging (PR #1046, #1050, #1062, #1066)

Changes:

• Avoid pulling the full state of a room out so often (PR #1047, #1049, #1063, #1068)
• Don't notify for online to online presence transitions. (PR #1054)
• Occasionally persist unpersisted presence updates (PR #1055)
• Allow application services to have an optional 'url' (PR #1056)
• Clean up old sent transactions from DB (PR #1059)

Bug fixes:

• Fix None check in backfill (PR #1043)
• Fix membership changes to be idempotent (PR #1067)
• Fix bug in get_pdu where it would sometimes return events with incorrect signature

Changes in synapse v0.17.1 (2016-08-24)

Changes:

• Delete old received_transactions rows (PR #1038)
• Pass through user-supplied content in /join/$room_id (PR #1039)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug with backfill (PR #1040)

Changes in synapse v0.17.1-rc1 (2016-08-22)

Features:

• Add notification API (PR #1028)

Changes:

• Don't print stack traces when failing to get remote keys (PR #996)
• Various federation /event/ perf improvements (PR #998)
• Only process one local membership event per room at a time (PR #1005)
• Move default display name push rule (PR #1011, #1023)
• Fix up preview URL API. Add tests. (PR #1015)
• Set Content-Security-Policy on media repo (PR #1021)
• Make notify_interested_services faster (PR #1022)
• Add usage stats to prometheus monitoring (PR #1037)

Bug fixes:

• Fix token login (PR #993)
• Fix CAS login (PR #994, #995)
• Fix /sync to not clobber status_msg (PR #997)
• Fix redacted state events to include prev_content (PR #1003)
• Fix some bugs in the auth/ldap handler (PR #1007)
• Fix backfill request to limit URI length, so that remotes don't reject the requests due to path length limits (PR #1012)
• Fix AS push code to not send duplicate events (PR #1025)

Changes in synapse v0.17.0 (2016-08-08)

This release contains significant security bug fixes regarding authenticating events received over federation. PLEASE UPGRADE.

This release changes the LDAP configuration format in a backwards incompatible way, see PR #843 for details.

Changes:

• Add federation /version API (PR #990)
• Make psutil dependency optional (PR #992)

Bug fixes:

• Fix URL preview API to exclude HTML comments in description (PR #988)
• Fix error handling of remote joins (PR #991)

Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc4 (2016-08-05)

Changes:

• Change the way we summarize URLs when previewing (PR #973)
• Add new /state_ids/ federation API (PR #979)
• Speed up processing of /state/ response (PR #986)

Bug fixes:

• Fix event persistence when event has already been partially persisted (PR #975, #983, #985)
• Fix port script to also copy across backfilled events (PR #982)

Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc3 (2016-08-02)

Changes:

• Forbid non-ASes from registering users whose names begin with '_' (PR #958)
• Add some basic admin API docs (PR #963)

Bug fixes:

• Send the correct host header when fetching keys (PR #941)
• Fix joining a room that has missing auth events (PR #964)
• Fix various push bugs (PR #966, #970)
• Fix adding emails on registration (PR #968)

Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc2 (2016-08-02)

(This release did not include the changes advertised and was identical to RC1)

Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc1 (2016-07-28)

This release changes the LDAP configuration format in a backwards incompatible way, see PR #843 for details.

Features:

• Add purge_media_cache admin API (PR #902)
• Add deactivate account admin API (PR #903)
• Add optional pepper to password hashing (PR #907, #910 by KentShikama)
• Add an admin option to shared secret registration (breaks backwards compat) (PR #909)
• Add purge local room history API (PR #911, #923, #924)
• Add requestToken endpoints (PR #915)
• Add an /account/deactivate endpoint (PR #921)
• Add filter param to /messages. Add 'contains_url' to filter. (PR #922)
• Add device_id support to /login (PR #929)
• Add device_id support to /v2/register flow. (PR #937, #942)
• Add GET /devices endpoint (PR #939, #944)
• Add GET /device/{deviceId} (PR #943)
• Add update and delete APIs for devices (PR #949)

Changes:

• Rewrite LDAP Authentication against ldap3 (PR #843 by mweinelt)
• Linearize some federation endpoints based on (origin, room_id) (PR #879)
• Remove the legacy v0 content upload API. (PR #888)
• Use similar naming we use in email notifs for push (PR #894)
• Optionally include password hash in createUser endpoint (PR #905 by KentShikama)
• Use a query that postgresql optimises better for get_events_around (PR #906)
• Fall back to 'username' if 'user' is not given for appservice registration. (PR #927 by Half-Shot)
• Add metrics for psutil derived memory usage (PR #936)
• Record device_id in client_ips (PR #938)
• Send the correct host header when fetching keys (PR #941)
• Log the hostname the reCAPTCHA was completed on (PR #946)
• Make the device id on e2e key upload optional (PR #956)
• Add r0.2.0 to the "supported versions" list (PR #960)
• Don't include name of room for invites in push (PR #961)

Bug fixes:

• Fix substitution failure in mail template (PR #887)
• Put most recent 20 messages in email notif (PR #892)
• Ensure that the guest user is in the database when upgrading accounts (PR #914)
• Fix various edge cases in auth handling (PR #919)
• Fix 500 ISE when sending alias event without a state_key (PR #925)
• Fix bug where we stored rejections in the state_group, persist all rejections (PR #948)
• Fix lack of check of if the user is banned when handling 3pid invites (PR #952)
• Fix a couple of bugs in the transaction and keyring code (PR #954, #955)

Changes in synapse v0.16.1-r1 (2016-07-08)

THIS IS A CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATE.

This fixes a bug which allowed users' accounts to be accessed by unauthorised users.

Changes in synapse v0.16.1 (2016-06-20)

Bug fixes:

• Fix assorted bugs in /preview_url (PR #872)
• Fix TypeError when setting unicode passwords (PR #873)

Performance improvements:

• Turn use_frozen_events off by default (PR #877)
• Disable responding with canonical json for federation (PR #878)

Changes in synapse v0.16.1-rc1 (2016-06-15)

Features: None

Changes:

• Log requester for /publicRoom endpoints when possible (PR #856)
• 502 on /thumbnail when can't connect to remote server (PR #862)
• Linearize fetching of gaps on incoming events (PR #871)

Bugs fixes:

• Fix bug where rooms where marked as published by default (PR #857)
• Fix bug where joining room with an event with invalid sender (PR #868)
• Fix bug where backfilled events were sent down sync streams (PR #869)
• Fix bug where outgoing connections could wedge indefinitely, causing push notifications to be unreliable (PR #870)

Performance improvements:

• Improve /publicRooms performance(PR #859)

Changes in synapse v0.16.0 (2016-06-09)

NB: As of v0.14 all AS config files must have an ID field.

Bug fixes:

• Don't make rooms published by default (PR #857)

Changes in synapse v0.16.0-rc2 (2016-06-08)