Synapse 1.72.0rc1 (2022-11-16) ============================== Please note that we now only support PostgreSQL 11+, because PostgreSQL 10 has reached end-of-life, c.f. our [Deprecation Policy](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/deprecation_policy.md). Features -------- - Add experimental support for [MSC3912](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3912): Relation-based redactions. ([\#14260](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14260)) - Build Debian packages for Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu). ([\#14396](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14396)) - Add an [Admin API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/administration/admin_api/index.html) endpoint for user lookup based on third-party ID (3PID). Contributed by @ashfame. ([\#14405](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14405)) - Faster joins: include heroes' membership events in the partial join response, for rooms without a name or canonical alias. ([\#14442](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14442)) Bugfixes -------- - Faster joins: do not block creation of or queries for room aliases during the resync. ([\#14292](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14292)) - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.64.0rc1 which could cause log spam when fetching events from other homeservers. ([\#14347](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14347)) - Fix a bug introduced in 1.66 which would not send certain pushrules to clients. Contributed by Nico. ([\#14356](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14356)) - Fix a bug introduced in v1.71.0rc1 where the power level event was incorrectly created during initial room creation. ([\#14361](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14361)) - Fix the refresh token endpoint to be under /r0 and /v3 instead of /v1. Contributed by Tulir @ Beeper. ([\#14364](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14364)) - Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would raise an error when encountering an unrecognised field in a `/sync` filter, instead of ignoring it for forward compatibility. ([\#14369](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14369)) - Fix a background database update, introduced in Synapse 1.64.0, which could cause poor database performance. ([\#14374](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14374)) - Fix PostgreSQL sometimes using table scans for queries against the `event_search` table, taking a long time and a large amount of IO. ([\#14409](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14409)) - Fix rendering of some HTML templates (including emails). Introduced in v1.71.0. ([\#14448](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14448)) - Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.70.0 where the background updates to add non-thread unique indexes on receipts could fail when upgrading from 1.67.0 or earlier. ([\#14453](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14453)) Updates to the Docker image --------------------------- - Add all Stream Writer worker types to `configure_workers_and_start.py`. ([\#14197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14197)) - Remove references to legacy worker types in the multi-worker Dockerfile. ([\#14294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14294)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Upload documentation PRs to Netlify. ([\#12947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12947), [\#14370](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14370)) - Add addtional TURN server configuration example based on [eturnal](https://github.com/processone/eturnal) and adjust general TURN server doc structure. ([\#14293](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14293)) - Add example on how to load balance /sync requests. Contributed by [aceArt](https://aceart.de). ([\#14297](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14297)) - Edit sample Nginx reverse proxy configuration to use HTTP/1.1. Contributed by Brad Jones. ([\#14414](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14414)) Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Remove support for PostgreSQL 10. ([\#14392](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14392), [\#14397](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14397)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Run unit tests against Python 3.11. ([\#13812](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13812)) - Add TLS support for generic worker endpoints. ([\#14128](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14128), [\#14455](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14455)) - Switch to a maintained action for installing Rust in CI. ([\#14313](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14313)) - Add override ability to `complement.sh` command line script to request certain types of workers. ([\#14324](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14324)) - Enabling testing of [MSC3874](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3874) (filtering of `/messages` by relation type) in complement. ([\#14339](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14339)) - Concisely log a failure to resolve state due to missing `prev_events`. ([\#14346](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14346)) - Use a maintained Github action to install Rust. ([\#14351](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14351)) - Cleanup old worker datastore classes. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@fizzadar). ([\#14375](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14375)) - Test against PostgreSQL 15 in CI. ([\#14394](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14394)) - Remove unreachable code. ([\#14410](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14410)) - Clean-up event persistence code. ([\#14411](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14411)) - Update docstring to clarify that `get_partial_state_events_batch` does not just give you completely arbitrary partial-state events. ([\#14417](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14417)) - Fix mypy errors introduced by bumping the locked version of `attrs` and `gitpython`. ([\#14433](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14433)) - Make Dependabot only bump Rust deps in the lock file. ([\#14434](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14434)) - Fix an incorrect stub return type for `PushRuleEvaluator.run`. ([\#14451](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14451)) - Improve performance of `/context` in large rooms. ([\#14461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14461))