Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/databases/main/room.py b/synapse/storage/databases/main/room.py

index dc0c4b5499..6b89db15c9 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/databases/main/room.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/databases/main/room.py
@@ -1240,13 +1240,15 @@ class RoomStore(RoomBackgroundUpdateStore, RoomWorkerStore, SearchStore):
             logger.error("store_room with room_id=%s failed: %s", room_id, e)
             raise StoreError(500, "Problem creating room.")
 
-    async def maybe_store_room_on_invite(self, room_id: str, room_version: RoomVersion):
+    async def maybe_store_room_on_outlier_membership(
+        self, room_id: str, room_version: RoomVersion
+    ):
         """
-        When we receive an invite over federation, store the version of the room if we
-        don't already know the room version.
+        When we receive an invite or any other event over federation that may relate to a room
+        we are not in, store the version of the room if we don't already know the room version.
         """
         await self.db_pool.simple_upsert(
-            desc="maybe_store_room_on_invite",
+            desc="maybe_store_room_on_outlier_membership",
             table="rooms",
             keyvalues={"room_id": room_id},
             values={},