Synapse 1.42.0rc1 (2021-09-01) ============================== Server administrators are reminded to read [the upgrade notes](docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1420). Features -------- - Add support for [MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3231): Token authenticated registration. Users can be required to submit a token during registration to authenticate themselves. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10142)) - Add support for [MSC3283](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3283): Expose `enable_set_displayname` in capabilities. ([\#10452](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10452)) - Port the `PresenceRouter` module interface to the new generic interface. ([\#10524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10524)) - Add pagination to the spaces summary based on updates to [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10613), [\#10725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10725)) Bugfixes -------- - Validate new `m.room.power_levels` events. Contributed by @aaronraimist. ([\#10232](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10232)) - Display an error on User-Interactive Authentication fallback pages when authentication fails. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10561](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10561)) - Remove pushers when deleting an e-mail address from an account. Pushers for old unlinked emails will also be deleted. ([\#10581](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10581), [\#10734](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10734)) - Reject Client-Server `/keys/query` requests which provide `device_ids` incorrectly. ([\#10593](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10593)) - Rooms with unsupported room versions are no longer returned via `/sync`. ([\#10644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10644)) - Enforce the maximum length for per-room display names and avatar URLs. ([\#10654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10654)) - Fix a bug which caused the `synapse_user_logins_total` Prometheus metric not to be correctly initialised on restart. ([\#10677](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10677)) - Improve `ServerNoticeServlet` to avoid duplicate requests and add unit tests. ([\#10679](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10679)) - Fix long-standing issue which caused an error when a thumbnail is requested and there are multiple thumbnails with the same quality rating. ([\#10684](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10684)) - Fix a regression introduced in v1.41.0 which affected the performance of concurrent fetches of large sets of events, in extreme cases causing the process to hang. ([\#10703](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10703)) - Fix a regression introduced in Synapse 1.41 which broke email transmission on Systems using older versions of the Twisted library. ([\#10713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10713)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Add documentation on how to connect Django with Synapse using OpenID Connect and django-oauth-toolkit. Contributed by @HugoDelval. ([\#10192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10192)) - Advertise https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse documentation in the `README` and `CONTRIBUTING` files. ([\#10595](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10595)) - Fix some of the titles not rendering in the OpenID Connect documentation. ([\#10639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10639)) - Minor clarifications to the documentation for reverse proxies. ([\#10708](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10708)) - Remove table of contents from the top of installation and contributing documentation pages. ([\#10711](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10711)) Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Remove deprecated Shutdown Room and Purge Room Admin API. ([\#8830](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8830)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Improve type hints for the proxy agent and SRV resolver modules. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10608](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10608)) - Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10614), [\#10615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10615), [\#10624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10624), [\#10640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10640)) - Add a comment asking developers to leave a reason when bumping the database schema version. ([\#10621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10621)) - Remove not needed database updates in modify user admin API. ([\#10627](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10627)) - Convert room member storage tuples to `attrs` classes. ([\#10629](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10629), [\#10642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10642)) - Use auto-attribs for the attrs classes used in sync. ([\#10630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10630)) - Make `backfill` and `get_missing_events` use the same codepath. ([\#10645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10645)) - Improve the performance of the `/hierarchy` API (from [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946)) by caching responses received over federation. ([\#10647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10647)) - Run a nightly CI build against Twisted trunk. ([\#10651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10651), [\#10672](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10672)) - Do not print out stack traces for network errors when fetching data over federation. ([\#10662](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10662)) - Simplify tests for device admin rest API. ([\#10664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10664)) - Add missing type hints to REST servlets. ([\#10665](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10665), [\#10666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10666), [\#10674](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10674)) - Flatten the `tests.synapse.rests` package by moving the contents of `v1` and `v2_alpha` into the parent. ([\#10667](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10667)) - Update `complement.sh` to rebuild the base Docker image when run with workers. ([\#10686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10686)) - Split the event-processing methods in `FederationHandler` into a separate `FederationEventHandler`. ([\#10692](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10692)) - Remove unused `compare_digest` function. ([\#10706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10706))