Merge tag 'v1.38.0' into babolivier/dinsic_1.41.0

Synapse 1.38.0 (2021-07-13)
===========================

This release includes a database schema update which could result in elevated disk usage. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/upgrade#upgrading-to-v1380) for more information.

No significant changes since 1.38.0rc3.

Synapse 1.38.0rc3 (2021-07-13)
==============================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Build the Debian packages in CI. ([\#10247](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10247), [\#10379](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10379))

Synapse 1.38.0rc2 (2021-07-09)
==============================

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bug where inbound federation in a room could be delayed due to not correctly dropping a lock. Introduced in v1.37.1. ([\#10336](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10336))

Improved Documentation
----------------------

- Update links to documentation in the sample config. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10287](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10287))
- Fix broken links in [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md). Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10331))

Synapse 1.38.0rc1 (2021-07-06)
==============================

Features
--------

- Implement refresh tokens as specified by [MSC2918](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2918). ([\#9450](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9450))
- Add support for evicting cache entries based on last access time. ([\#10205](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10205))
- Omit empty fields from the `/sync` response. Contributed by @deepbluev7. ([\#10214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10214))
- Improve validation on federation `send_{join,leave,knock}` endpoints. ([\#10225](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10225), [\#10243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10243))
- Add SSO `external_ids` to the Query User Account admin API. ([\#10261](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10261))
- Mark events received over federation which fail a spam check as "soft-failed". ([\#10263](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10263))
- Add metrics for new inbound federation staging area. ([\#10284](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10284))
- Add script to print information about recently registered users. ([\#10290](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10290))

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix a long-standing bug which meant that invite rejections and knocks were not sent out over federation in a timely manner. ([\#10223](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10223))
- Fix a bug introduced in v1.26.0 where only users who have set profile information could be deactivated with erasure enabled. ([\#10252](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10252))
- Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would return errors after 2<sup>31</sup> events were handled by the server. ([\#10264](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10264), [\#10267](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10267), [\#10282](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10282), [\#10286](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10286), [\#10291](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10291), [\#10314](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10314), [\#10326](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10326))
- Fix the prometheus `synapse_federation_server_pdu_process_time` metric. Broke in v1.37.1. ([\#10279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10279))
- Ensure that inbound events from federation that were being processed when Synapse was restarted get promptly processed on start up. ([\#10303](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10303))

Improved Documentation
----------------------

- Move the upgrade notes to [docs/upgrade.md](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/upgrade.md) and convert them to markdown. ([\#10166](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10166))
- Choose Welcome & Overview as the default page for synapse documentation website. ([\#10242](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10242))
- Adjust the URL in the README.rst file to point to irc.libera.chat. ([\#10258](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10258))
- Fix homeserver config option name in presence router documentation. ([\#10288](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10288))
- Fix link pointing at the wrong section in the modules documentation page. ([\#10302](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10302))

Internal Changes
----------------

- Drop `Origin` and `Accept` from the value of the `Access-Control-Allow-Headers` response header. ([\#10114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10114))
- Add type hints to the federation servlets. ([\#10213](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10213))
- Improve the reliability of auto-joining remote rooms. ([\#10237](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10237))
- Update the release script to use the semver terminology and determine the release branch based on the next version. ([\#10239](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10239))
- Fix type hints for computing auth events. ([\#10253](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10253))
- Improve the performance of the spaces summary endpoint by only recursing into spaces (and not rooms in general). ([\#10256](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10256))
- Move event authentication methods from `Auth` to `EventAuthHandler`. ([\#10268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10268))
- Re-enable a SyTest after it has been fixed. ([\#10292](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10292))

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/debian/synctl.1 b/debian/synctl.1

index af58c8d224..2fdd770f09 100644
--- a/debian/synctl.1
+++ b/debian/synctl.1
@@ -1,63 +1,41 @@
-.\" generated with Ronn/v0.7.3
-.\" http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/tree/0.7.3
-.
-.TH "SYNCTL" "1" "February 2017" "" ""
-.
+.\" generated with Ronn-NG/v0.8.0
+.\" http://github.com/apjanke/ronn-ng/tree/0.8.0
+.TH "SYNCTL" "1" "July 2021" "" ""
 .SH "NAME"
 \fBsynctl\fR \- Synapse server control interface
-.
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 Start, stop or restart synapse server\.
-.
 .P
 \fBsynctl\fR {start|stop|restart} [configfile] [\-w|\-\-worker=\fIWORKERCONFIG\fR] [\-a|\-\-all\-processes=\fIWORKERCONFIGDIR\fR]
-.
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 \fBsynctl\fR can be used to start, stop or restart Synapse server\. The control operation can be done on all processes or a single worker process\.
-.
 .SH "OPTIONS"
-.
 .TP
 \fBaction\fR
 The value of action should be one of \fBstart\fR, \fBstop\fR or \fBrestart\fR\.
-.
 .TP
 \fBconfigfile\fR
 Optional path of the configuration file to use\. Default value is \fBhomeserver\.yaml\fR\. The configuration file must exist for the operation to succeed\.
-.
 .TP
 \fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-worker\fR:
-.
-.IP
-Perform start, stop or restart operations on a single worker\. Incompatible with \fB\-a\fR|\fB\-\-all\-processes\fR\. Value passed must be a valid worker\'s configuration file\.
-.
+
 .TP
 \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\-processes\fR:
-.
-.IP
-Perform start, stop or restart operations on all the workers in the given directory and the main synapse process\. Incompatible with \fB\-w\fR|\fB\-\-worker\fR\. Value passed must be a directory containing valid work configuration files\. All files ending with \fB\.yaml\fR extension shall be considered as configuration files and all other files in the directory are ignored\.
-.
+
 .SH "CONFIGURATION FILE"
 Configuration file may be generated as follows:
-.
 .IP "" 4
-.
 .nf
-
 $ python \-m synapse\.app\.homeserver \-c config\.yaml \-\-generate\-config \-\-server\-name=<server name>
-.
 .fi
-.
 .IP "" 0
-.
 .SH "ENVIRONMENT"
-.
 .TP
 \fBSYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR\fR
-Synapse\'s architecture is quite RAM hungry currently \- a lot of recent room data and metadata is deliberately cached in RAM in order to speed up common requests\. This will be improved in future, but for now the easiest way to either reduce the RAM usage (at the risk of slowing things down) is to set the SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR environment variable\. Roughly speaking, a SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR of 1\.0 will max out at around 3\-4GB of resident memory \- this is what we currently run the matrix\.org on\. The default setting is currently 0\.1, which is probably around a ~700MB footprint\. You can dial it down further to 0\.02 if desired, which targets roughly ~512MB\. Conversely you can dial it up if you need performance for lots of users and have a box with a lot of RAM\.
-.
+Synapse\'s architecture is quite RAM hungry currently \- we deliberately cache a lot of recent room data and metadata in RAM in order to speed up common requests\. We\'ll improve this in the future, but for now the easiest way to either reduce the RAM usage (at the risk of slowing things down) is to set the almost\-undocumented \fBSYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR\fR environment variable\. The default is 0\.5, which can be decreased to reduce RAM usage in memory constrained enviroments, or increased if performance starts to degrade\.
+.IP
+However, degraded performance due to a low cache factor, common on machines with slow disks, often leads to explosions in memory use due backlogged requests\. In this case, reducing the cache factor will make things worse\. Instead, try increasing it drastically\. 2\.0 is a good starting value\.
 .SH "COPYRIGHT"
-This man page was written by Sunil Mohan Adapa <\fIsunil@medhas\.org\fR> for Debian GNU/Linux distribution\.
-.
+This man page was written by Sunil Mohan Adapa <\fI\%mailto:sunil@medhas\.org\fR> for Debian GNU/Linux distribution\.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-synapse_port_db(1), hash_password(1), register_new_matrix_user(1)
+synapse_port_db(1), hash_password(1), register_new_matrix_user(1), synapse_review_recent_signups(1)