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+Synapse 1.79.0rc1 (2023-03-07)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add two new Third Party Rules module API callbacks: [`on_add_user_third_party_identifier`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.79/modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.html#on_add_user_third_party_identifier) and [`on_remove_user_third_party_identifier`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.79/modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.html#on_remove_user_third_party_identifier). ([\#15044](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15044))
+- Experimental support for [MSC3967](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3967) to not require UIA for setting up cross-signing on first use. ([\#15077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15077))
+- Add media information to the command line [user data export tool](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.79/usage/administration/admin_faq.html#how-can-i-export-user-data). ([\#15107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15107))
+- Add an [admin API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/administration/admin_api/index.html) to delete a [specific event report](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.6/client-server-api/#reporting-content). ([\#15116](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15116))
+- Add support for knocking to workers. ([\#15133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15133))
+- Allow use of the `/filter` Client-Server APIs on workers. ([\#15134](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15134))
+- Update support for [MSC2677](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2677): remove support for server-side aggregation of reactions. ([\#15172](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15172))
+- Stabilise support for [MSC3758](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3758): `event_property_is` push condition. ([\#15185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15185))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.75 that caused experimental support for deleting account data to raise an internal server error while using an account data writer worker. ([\#14869](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14869))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse handled an unspecced field on push rules. ([\#15088](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15088))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where a URL preview would break if the discovered oEmbed failed to download. ([\#15092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15092))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where an initial sync would not respond to changes to the list of ignored users if there was an initial sync cached. ([\#15163](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15163))
+- Add the `transaction_id` in the events included in many endpoints' responses. ([\#15174](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15174))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.78.0 where requests to claim dehydrated devices would fail with a `405` error. ([\#15180](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15180))
+- Stop applying edits when bundling aggregations, per [MSC3925](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3925). ([\#15193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15193))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where the user directory search was not case-insensitive for accented characters. ([\#15143](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15143))
+
+
+Updates to the Docker image
+---------------------------
+
+- Improve startup logging in the with-workers Docker image. ([\#15186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15186))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Document how to use caches in a module. ([\#14026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14026))
+- Clarify which worker processes the ThirdPartyRules' [`on_new_event`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.78/modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.html#on_new_event) module API callback runs on. ([\#15071](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15071))
+- Document using [Shibboleth](https://www.shibboleth.net/) as an OpenID Provider. ([\#15112](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15112))
+- Correct reference to `federation_verify_certificates` in configuration documentation. ([\#15139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15139))
+- Correct small documentation errors in some `MatrixFederationHttpClient` methods. ([\#15148](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15148))
+- Correct the description of the behavior of `registration_shared_secret_path` on startup. ([\#15168](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15168))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Deprecate the `on_threepid_bind` module callback, to be replaced by [`on_add_user_third_party_identifier`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.79/modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.html#on_add_user_third_party_identifier). See [upgrade notes](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.79/docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1790). ([\#15044]
+- Remove the unspecced `room_alias` field from the [`/createRoom`](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.6/client-server-api/#post_matrixclientv3createroom) response. ([\#15093](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15093))
+- Remove the unspecced `PUT` on the `/knock/{roomIdOrAlias}` endpoint. ([\#15189](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15189))
+- Remove the undocumented and unspecced `type` parameter to the `/thumbnail` endpoint. ([\#15137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15137))
+- Remove unspecced and buggy `PUT` method on the unstable `/rooms/<room_id>/batch_send` endpoint. ([\#15199](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15199))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Run the integration test suites with the asyncio reactor enabled in CI. ([\#14101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14101))
+- Batch up storing state groups when creating a new room. ([\#14918](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14918))
+- Update [MSC3952](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3952) support based on changes to the MSC. ([\#15051](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15051))
+- Refactor writing json data in `FileExfiltrationWriter`. ([\#15095](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15095))
+- Tighten the login ratelimit defaults. ([\#15135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15135))
+- Fix a typo in an experimental config setting. ([\#15138](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15138))
+- Refactor the media modules. ([\#15146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15146), [\#15175](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15175))
+- Improve type hints. ([\#15164](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15164))
+- Move `get_event_report` and `get_event_reports_paginate` from `RoomStore` to `RoomWorkerStore`. ([\#15165](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15165))
+- Remove dangling reference to being a reference implementation in docstring. ([\#15167](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15167))
+- Add an option to force a rebuild of the "editable" complement image. ([\#15184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15184))
+- Use nightly rustfmt in CI. ([\#15188](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15188))
+- Add a `get_next_txn` method to `StreamIdGenerator` to match `MultiWriterIdGenerator`. ([\#15191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15191))
+- Combine `AbstractStreamIdTracker` and `AbstractStreamIdGenerator`. ([\#15192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15192))
+- Automatically fix errors with `ruff`. ([\#15194](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15194))
+- Refactor database transaction for query users' devices to reduce database pool contention. ([\#15215](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15215))
+- Correct `test_icu_word_boundary_punctuation` so that it passes with the ICU versions available in Alpine and macOS. ([\#15177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15177))
+
+<details><summary>Locked dependency updates</summary>
+
+ - Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3. ([\#15155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15155))
+ - Bump black from 22.12.0 to 23.1.0. ([\#15103](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15103))
+ - Bump dawidd6/action-download-artifact from 2.25.0 to 2.26.0. ([\#15152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15152))
+ - Bump docker/login-action from 1 to 2. ([\#15154](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15154))
+ - Bump matrix-org/backend-meta from 1 to 2. ([\#15156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15156))
+ - Bump ruff from 0.0.237 to 0.0.252. ([\#15159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15159))
+ - Bump serde_json from 1.0.93 to 1.0.94. ([\#15214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15214))
+ - Bump types-commonmark from 0.9.2.1 to 0.9.2.2. ([\#15209](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15209))
+ - Bump types-opentracing from 2.4.10.1 to 2.4.10.3. ([\#15158](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15158))
+ - Bump types-pillow from 9.4.0.13 to 9.4.0.17. ([\#15211](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15211))
+ - Bump types-psycopg2 from 2.9.21.4 to 2.9.21.8. ([\#15210](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15210))
+ - Bump types-pyopenssl from 22.1.0.2 to 23.0.0.4. ([\#15213](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15213))
+ - Bump types-setuptools from 67.3.0.1 to 67.4.0.3. ([\#15160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15160))
+ - Bump types-setuptools from 67.4.0.3 to 67.5.0.0. ([\#15212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15212))
+ - Bump typing-extensions from 4.4.0 to 4.5.0. ([\#15157](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15157))
+</details>
+
+
+Synapse 1.78.0 (2023-02-28)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.76 where 5s delays would occasionally occur in deployments using workers. ([\#15150](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15150))
+
+
+Synapse 1.78.0rc1 (2023-02-21)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Implement the experimental `exact_event_match` push rule condition from [MSC3758](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3758). ([\#14964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14964))
+- Add account data to the command line [user data export tool](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.78/usage/administration/admin_faq.html#how-can-i-export-user-data). ([\#14969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14969))
+- Implement [MSC3873](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3873) to disambiguate push rule keys with dots in them. ([\#15004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15004))
+- Allow Synapse to use a specific Redis [logical database](https://redis.io/commands/select/) in worker-mode deployments. ([\#15034](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15034))
+- Tag opentracing spans for federation requests with the name of the worker serving the request. ([\#15042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15042))
+- Implement the experimental `exact_event_property_contains` push rule condition from [MSC3966](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3966). ([\#15045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15045))
+- Remove spurious `dont_notify` action from the defaults for the `.m.rule.reaction` pushrule. ([\#15073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15073))
+- Update the error code returned when user sends a duplicate annotation. ([\#15075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15075))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Prevent clients from reporting nonexistent events. ([\#13779](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13779))
+- Return spec-compliant JSON errors when unknown endpoints are requested. ([\#14605](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14605))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where the room aliases returned could be corrupted. ([\#15038](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15038))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.76.0 where partially-joined rooms could not be deleted using the [purge room API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/rooms.html#delete-room-api). ([\#15068](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15068))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where federated joins would fail if the first server in the list of servers to try is not in the room. ([\#15074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15074))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.74.0 where searching with colons when using ICU for search term tokenisation would fail with an error. ([\#15079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15079))
+- Reduce the likelihood of a rare race condition where rejoining a restricted room over federation would fail. ([\#15080](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15080))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.76 where workers would fail to start if the `health` listener was configured. ([\#15096](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15096))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.75 where the [portdb script](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/release-v1.78/postgres.html#porting-from-sqlite) would fail to run after a room had been faster-joined. ([\#15108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15108))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Document how to start Synapse with Poetry. Contributed by @thezaidbintariq. ([\#14892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14892), [\#15022](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15022))
+- Update delegation documentation to clarify that SRV DNS delegation does not eliminate all needs to serve files from .well-known locations. Contributed by @williamkray. ([\#14959](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14959))
+- Fix a mistake in registration_shared_secret_path docs. ([\#15078](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15078))
+- Refer to a more recent blog post on the [Database Maintenance Tools](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/administration/database_maintenance_tools.html) page. Contributed by @jahway603. ([\#15083](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15083))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Re-type hint some collections as read-only. ([\#13755](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13755))
+- Faster joins: don't stall when another user joins during a partial-state room resync. ([\#14606](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14606))
+- Add a class `UnpersistedEventContext` to allow for the batching up of storing state groups. ([\#14675](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14675))
+- Add a check to ensure that locked dependencies have source distributions available. ([\#14742](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14742))
+- Tweak comment on `_is_local_room_accessible` as part of room visibility in `/hierarchy` to clarify the condition for a room being visible. ([\#14834](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14834))
+- Prevent `WARNING: there is already a transaction in progress` lines appearing in PostgreSQL's logs on some occasions. ([\#14840](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14840))
+- Use `StrCollection` to avoid potential bugs with `Collection[str]`. ([\#14929](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14929))
+- Improve performance of `/sync` in a few situations. ([\#14973](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14973))
+- Limit concurrent event creation for a room to avoid state resolution when sending bursts of events to a local room. ([\#14977](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14977))
+- Skip calculating unread push actions in /sync when enable_push is false. ([\#14980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14980))
+- Add a schema dump symlinks inside `contrib`, to make it easier for IDEs to interrogate Synapse's database schema. ([\#14982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14982))
+- Improve type hints. ([\#15008](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15008), [\#15026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15026), [\#15027](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15027), [\#15028](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15028), [\#15031](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15031), [\#15035](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15035), [\#15052](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15052), [\#15072](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15072), [\#15084](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15084))
+- Update [MSC3952](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3952) support based on changes to the MSC. ([\#15037](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15037))
+- Avoid mutating a cached value in `get_user_devices_from_cache`. ([\#15040](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15040))
+- Fix a rare exception in logs on start up. ([\#15041](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15041))
+- Update pyo3-log to v0.8.1. ([\#15043](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15043))
+- Avoid mutating cached values in `_generate_sync_entry_for_account_data`. ([\#15047](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15047))
+- Refactor arguments of `try_unbind_threepid` and `_try_unbind_threepid_with_id_server` to not use dictionaries. ([\#15053](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15053))
+- Merge debug logging from the hotfixes branch. ([\#15054](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15054))
+- Faster joins: omit device list updates originating from partial state rooms in /sync responses without lazy loading of members enabled. ([\#15069](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15069))
+- Fix clashing database transaction name. ([\#15070](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15070))
+- Upper-bound frozendict dependency. This works around us being unable to test installing our wheels against Python 3.11 in CI. ([\#15114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15114))
+- Tweak logging for when a worker waits for its view of a replication stream to catch up. ([\#15120](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15120))
+
+<details><summary>Locked dependency updates</summary>
+
+- Bump bleach from 5.0.1 to 6.0.0. ([\#15059](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15059))
+- Bump cryptography from 38.0.4 to 39.0.1. ([\#15020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15020))
+- Bump ruff version from 0.0.230 to 0.0.237. ([\#15033](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15033))
+- Bump dtolnay/rust-toolchain from 9cd00a88a73addc8617065438eff914dd08d0955 to 25dc93b901a87e864900a8aec6c12e9aa794c0c3. ([\#15060](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15060))
+- Bump systemd-python from 234 to 235. ([\#15061](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15061))
+- Bump serde_json from 1.0.92 to 1.0.93. ([\#15062](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15062))
+- Bump types-requests from 2.28.11.8 to 2.28.11.12. ([\#15063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15063))
+- Bump types-pillow from 9.4.0.5 to 9.4.0.10. ([\#15064](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15064))
+- Bump sentry-sdk from 1.13.0 to 1.15.0. ([\#15065](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15065))
+- Bump types-jsonschema from 4.17.0.3 to 4.17.0.5. ([\#15099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15099))
+- Bump types-bleach from 5.0.3.1 to 6.0.0.0. ([\#15100](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15100))
+- Bump dtolnay/rust-toolchain from 25dc93b901a87e864900a8aec6c12e9aa794c0c3 to e12eda571dc9a5ee5d58eecf4738ec291c66f295. ([\#15101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15101))
+- Bump dawidd6/action-download-artifact from 2.24.3 to 2.25.0. ([\#15102](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15102))
+- Bump types-pillow from 9.4.0.10 to 9.4.0.13. ([\#15104](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15104))
+- Bump types-setuptools from 67.1.0.0 to 67.3.0.1. ([\#15105](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15105))
+
+
+</details>
+
+
+Synapse 1.77.0 (2023-02-14)
+===========================
+
+No significant changes since 1.77.0rc2.
+
+
+Synapse 1.77.0rc2 (2023-02-10)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug where retried replication requests would return a failure. Introduced in v1.76.0. ([\#15024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15024))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Prepare for future database schema changes. ([\#15036](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15036))
+
+
+Synapse 1.77.0rc1 (2023-02-07)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Experimental support for [MSC3952](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3952): intentional mentions. ([\#14823](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14823), [\#14943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14943), [\#14957](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14957), [\#14958](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14958))
+- Experimental support to suppress notifications from message edits ([MSC3958](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3958)). ([\#14960](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14960), [\#15016](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15016))
+- Add profile information, devices and connections to the command line [user data export tool](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.77/usage/administration/admin_faq.html#how-can-i-export-user-data). ([\#14894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14894))
+- Improve performance when joining or sending an event in large rooms. ([\#14962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14962))
+- Improve performance of joining and leaving large rooms with many local users. ([\#14971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14971))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.53.0 where `next_batch` tokens from `/sync` could not be used with the `/relations` endpoint. ([\#14866](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14866))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.35.0 where the module API's `send_local_online_presence_to` would fail to send presence updates over federation. ([\#14880](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14880))
+- 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. ([\#14915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14915))
+- Fix a regression introduced in Synapse 1.69.0 which can result in database corruption when database migrations are interrupted on sqlite. ([\#14926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14926))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.68.0 where we were unable to service remote joins in rooms with `@room` notification levels set to `null` in their (malformed) power levels. ([\#14942](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14942))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.64.0 where boolean power levels were erroneously permitted in [v10 rooms](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.5/rooms/v10/). ([\#14944](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14944))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where sending messages on servers with presence enabled would spam "Re-starting finished log context" log lines. ([\#14947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14947))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.68.0 where logging from the Rust module was not properly logged. ([\#14976](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14976))
+- Fix various long-standing bugs in Synapse's config, event and request handling where booleans were unintentionally accepted where an integer was expected. ([\#14945](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14945))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Add missing type hints. ([\#14879](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14879), [\#14886](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14886), [\#14887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14887), [\#14904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14904), [\#14927](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14927), [\#14956](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14956), [\#14983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14983), [\#14984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14984), [\#14985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14985), [\#14987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14987), [\#14988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14988), [\#14990](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14990), [\#14991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14991), [\#14992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14992), [\#15007](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15007))
+- Use `StrCollection` to avoid potential bugs with `Collection[str]`. ([\#14922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14922))
+- Allow running the complement tests suites with the asyncio reactor enabled. ([\#14858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14858))
+- Improve performance of `/sync` in a few situations. ([\#14908](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14908), [\#14970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14970))
+- Document how to handle Dependabot pull requests. ([\#14916](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14916))
+- Fix typo in release script. ([\#14920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14920))
+- Update build system requirements to allow building with poetry-core 1.5.0. ([\#14949](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14949), [\#15019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15019))
+- Add an [lnav](https://lnav.org) config file for Synapse logs to `/contrib/lnav`. ([\#14953](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14953))
+- Faster joins: Refactor internal handling of servers in room to never store an empty list. ([\#14954](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14954))
+- Faster joins: tag `v2/send_join/` requests to indicate if they served a partial join response. ([\#14950](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14950))
+- Allow running `cargo` without the `extension-module` option. ([\#14965](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14965))
+- Preparatory work for adding a denormalised event stream ordering column in the future. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@fizzadar). ([\#14979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14979), [9cd7610](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/9cd7610f86ab5051c9365dd38d1eec405a5f8ca6), [f10caa7](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/f10caa73eee0caa91cf373966104d1ededae2aee); see [\#15014](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15014))
+- Add tests for `_flatten_dict`. ([\#14981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14981), [\#15002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15002))
+
+<details><summary>Locked dependency updates</summary>
+
+- Bump dtolnay/rust-toolchain from e645b0cf01249a964ec099494d38d2da0f0b349f to 9cd00a88a73addc8617065438eff914dd08d0955. ([\#14968](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14968))
+- Bump docker/build-push-action from 3 to 4. ([\#14952](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14952))
+- Bump ijson from 3.1.4 to 3.2.0.post0. ([\#14935](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14935))
+- Bump types-pyyaml from 6.0.12.2 to 6.0.12.3. ([\#14936](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14936))
+- Bump types-jsonschema from 4.17.0.2 to 4.17.0.3. ([\#14937](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14937))
+- Bump types-pillow from 9.4.0.3 to 9.4.0.5. ([\#14938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14938))
+- Bump hiredis from 2.0.0 to 2.1.1. ([\#14939](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14939))
+- Bump hiredis from 2.1.1 to 2.2.1. ([\#14993](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14993))
+- Bump types-setuptools from 65.6.0.3 to 67.1.0.0. ([\#14994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14994))
+- Bump prometheus-client from 0.15.0 to 0.16.0. ([\#14995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14995))
+- Bump anyhow from 1.0.68 to 1.0.69. ([\#14996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14996))
+- Bump serde_json from 1.0.91 to 1.0.92. ([\#14997](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14997))
+- Bump isort from 5.11.4 to 5.11.5. ([\#14998](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14998))
+- Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.4 to 8.13.5. ([\#14999](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14999))
+</details>
+
Synapse 1.76.0 (2023-01-31)
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