Version 0.2.3

Changes in synapse v0.20.0 (2017-04-11)
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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)
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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 v0.20.0-rc1 (2017-03-30)
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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 v0.21.0 (2017-05-18)
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No changes since v0.21.0-rc3

Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc3 (2017-05-17)
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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)
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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)
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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 v0.21.0-rc1 (2017-05-08)
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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 v0.21.0-rc2 (2017-05-08)
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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-rc3 (2017-05-17)
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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 v0.21.1 (2017-06-15)
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Bug fixes:

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

Changes in synapse v0.22.0 (2017-07-06)
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No changes since v0.22.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc2 (2017-07-04)
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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)
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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 v0.22.0-rc1 (2017-06-26)
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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 v0.22.0-rc2 (2017-07-04)
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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 v0.22.1 (2017-07-06)
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Bug fixes:

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

Changes in synapse v0.23.0 (2017-10-02)
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No changes since v0.23.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.23.0-rc1 (2017-09-25)
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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 v0.23.0-rc2 (2017-09-26)
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Bug fixes:

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

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

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

Changes in synapse v0.24.0 (2017-10-23)
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No changes since v0.24.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.24.0-rc1 (2017-10-19)
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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 v0.24.0-rc1 (2017-10-19)
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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 v0.24.1 (2017-10-24)
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Bug fixes:

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

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

* Fix port script (PR #2673)

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