CHANGES.rst

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.