From b2a187f49b390b9c5afa56cca03b629fe0f169c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:06:16 +0100 Subject: Disable room list publication by default (#18175) This is in line with our general policy of ensuring that the default config is reasonably locked down. SyTest PR to fix tests: https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/pull/1396 --- docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md') diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index facf60a043..8d9a71fb5f 100644 --- a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md +++ b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md @@ -4245,8 +4245,8 @@ unwanted entries from being published in the public room list. The format of this option is the same as that for [`alias_creation_rules`](#alias_creation_rules): an optional list of 0 or more -rules. By default, no list is provided, meaning that all rooms may be -published to the room list. +rules. By default, no list is provided, meaning that no one may publish to the +room list (except server admins). Otherwise, requests to publish a room are matched against each rule in order. The first rule that matches decides if the request is allowed or denied. If no @@ -4272,6 +4272,10 @@ Note that the patterns match against fully qualified IDs, e.g. against of `alice`, `room` and `abcedgghijk`. +_Changed in Synapse 1.126.0: The default was changed to deny publishing to the +room list by default_ + + Example configuration: ```yaml -- cgit 1.5.1