Cf #6422

since I found myself wonder how it works

The expected use case is to suppress MAU limiting on small instances

Add a linting script that enforces all boolean values in the default config be lowercase.

This has annoyed me for a while so I decided to fix it.

Added database owner authentication with `sudo` when `su` does not work

Now, the CAS server can return an attribute stating what's the desired displayname, instead of using the username directly.

Defaults to pruning everything older than 28d.

Second part of solving #6076
Fixes #6076

We return a submit_url parameter on calls to POST */msisdn/requestToken so that clients know where to submit token information to.

Uses a SimpleHttpClient instance equipped with the federation_ip_range_blacklist list for requests to identity servers provided by user input. Does not use a blacklist when contacting identity servers specified by account_threepid_delegates. The homeserver trusts the latter and we don't want to prevent homeserver admins from specifying delegates that are on internal IP addresses.

Fixes #5935

this was apparently broken by #6040.

Converting some of the rst documentation to markdown.  Attempted to
preserve whitespace and line breaks to minimize cosmetic change.

We want to assign unique mxids to saml users based on an incrementing
suffix. For that to work, we need to record the allocated mxid in a separate
table.

It' still not great, thanks to the nested dictionaries, but it's better.

This PR adds the optional `report_stats_endpoint` to configure where stats are reported to, if enabled.

Allow Synapse to send registration emails + choose Synapse or an external server to handle 3pid validation (#5987)

This is a combination of a few different PRs, finally all being merged into `develop`:

* #5875 
* #5876 
* #5868 (This one added the `/versions` flag but the flag itself was actually [backed out](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/891afb57cbdf9867f2848341b29c75d6f35eef5a#diff-e591d42d30690ffb79f63bb726200891) in #5969. What's left is just giving /versions access to the config file, which could be useful in the future)
* #5835 
* #5969 
* #5940

Clients should not actually use the new registration functionality until https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5972 is merged.

UPGRADE.rst, changelog entries and config file changes should all be reviewed closely before this PR is merged.

Previously the stats were not being correctly populated.

Template config files

* Imagine a system composed entirely of x, y, z etc and the basic operations..

Wait George, why XOR? Why not just neq?

George: Eh, I didn't think of that..

Co-Authored-By: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>

Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <olivier@librepush.net>

Admin API: Set adminship of a user