1.15.0rc1 v1.15.0rc1

45 files changed, 67 insertions, 44 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index dbb21d4c76..b45eccf024 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,69 @@
+Synapse 1.15.0rc1 (2020-06-09)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Advertise support for Client-Server API r0.6.0 and remove related unstable feature flags. ([\#6585](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6585))
+- Add an option to disable autojoining rooms for guest accounts. ([\#6637](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6637))
+- For SAML authentication, add the ability to pass email addresses to be added to new users' accounts via SAML attributes. Contributed by Christopher Cooper. ([\#7385](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7385))
+- Add admin APIs to allow server admins to manage users' devices. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#7481](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7481))
+- Add support for generating thumbnails for WebP images. Previously, users would see an empty box instead of preview image. ([\#7586](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7586))
+- Support the standardized `m.login.sso` user-interactive authentication flow. ([\#7630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7630))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Allow new users to be registered via the admin API even if the monthly active user limit has been reached. Contributed by @dkimpel. ([\#7263](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7263))
+- Fix email notifications not being enabled for new users when created via the Admin API. ([\#7267](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7267))
+- Fix str placeholders in an instance of `PrepareDatabaseException`. Introduced in Synapse v1.8.0. ([\#7575](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7575))
+- Fix a bug in automatic user creation during first time login with `m.login.jwt`. Regression in v1.6.0. Contributed by @olof. ([\#7585](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7585))
+- Fix a bug causing the cross-signing keys to be ignored when resyncing a device list. ([\#7594](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7594))
+- Fix metrics failing when there is a large number of active background processes. ([\#7597](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7597))
+- Fix bug where returning rooms for a group would fail if it included a room that the server was not in. ([\#7599](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7599))
+- Fix duplicate key violation when persisting read markers. ([\#7607](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7607))
+- Prevent an entire iteration of the device list resync loop from failing if one server responds with a malformed result. ([\#7609](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7609))
+- Fix exceptions when fetching events from a remote host fails. ([\#7622](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7622))
+- Make `synctl restart` start synapse if it wasn't running. ([\#7624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7624))
+- Pass device information through to the login endpoint when using the login fallback. ([\#7629](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7629))
+- Advertise the `m.login.token` login flow when OpenID Connect is enabled. ([\#7631](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7631))
+- Fix bug in account data replication stream. ([\#7656](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7656))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Update the OpenBSD installation instructions. ([\#7587](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7587))
+- Advertise Python 3.8 support in `setup.py`. ([\#7602](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7602))
+- Add a link to `#synapse:matrix.org` in the troubleshooting section of the README. ([\#7603](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7603))
+- Clarifications to the admin api documentation. ([\#7647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7647))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Convert the identity handler to async/await. ([\#7561](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7561))
+- Improve query performance for fetching state from a PostgreSQL database. ([\#7567](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7567))
+- Speed up processing of federation stream RDATA rows. ([\#7584](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7584))
+- Add comment to systemd example to show postgresql dependency. ([\#7591](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7591))
+- Refactor `Ratelimiter` to limit the amount of expensive config value accesses. ([\#7595](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7595))
+- Convert groups handlers to async/await. ([\#7600](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7600))
+- Clean up exception handling in `SAML2ResponseResource`. ([\#7614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7614))
+- Check that all asynchronous tasks succeed and general cleanup of `MonthlyActiveUsersTestCase` and `TestMauLimit`. ([\#7619](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7619))
+- Convert `get_user_id_by_threepid` to async/await. ([\#7620](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7620))
+- Switch to upstream `dh-virtualenv` rather than our fork for Debian package builds. ([\#7621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7621))
+- Update CI scripts to check the number in the newsfile fragment. ([\#7623](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7623))
+- Check if the localpart of a Matrix ID is reserved for guest users earlier in the registration flow, as well as when responding to requests to `/register/available`. ([\#7625](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7625))
+- Minor cleanups to OpenID Connect integration. ([\#7628](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7628))
+- Attempt to fix flaky test: `PhoneHomeStatsTestCase.test_performance_100`. ([\#7634](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7634))
+- Fix typos of `m.olm.curve25519-aes-sha2` and `m.megolm.v1.aes-sha2` in comments, test files. ([\#7637](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7637))
+- Convert user directory, state deltas, and stats handlers to async/await. ([\#7640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7640))
+- Remove some unused constants. ([\#7644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7644))
+- Fix type information on `assert_*_is_admin` methods. ([\#7645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7645))
+- Convert registration handler to async/await. ([\#7649](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7649))
+
+
 Synapse 1.14.0 (2020-05-28)
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/6585.feature b/changelog.d/6585.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index ab2a85374e..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/6585.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Advertise support for Client-Server API r0.6.0 and remove related unstable feature flags.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.d/6637.feature b/changelog.d/6637.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index 5228ebc1e5..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/6637.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add an option to disable autojoining rooms for guest accounts.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7263.bugfix b/changelog.d/7263.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b4739261c..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7263.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Allow new users to be registered via the admin API even if the monthly active user limit has been reached. Contributed by @dkimpel.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7267.bugfix b/changelog.d/7267.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0af316c1a2..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7267.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix email notifications not being enabled for new users when created via the Admin API.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7385.feature b/changelog.d/7385.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d8fb2311a..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7385.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-For SAML authentication, add the ability to pass email addresses to be added to new users' accounts via SAML attributes. Contributed by Christopher Cooper.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7481.feature b/changelog.d/7481.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index f167f3632c..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7481.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add admin APIs to allow server admins to manage users' devices. Contributed by @dklimpel.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7561.misc b/changelog.d/7561.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 448dbd5699..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7561.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert the identity handler to async/await.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7567.misc b/changelog.d/7567.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index b086d5d026..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7567.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve query performance for fetching state from a PostgreSQL database.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7575.bugfix b/changelog.d/7575.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ab5516eb3..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7575.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix str placeholders in an instance of `PrepareDatabaseException`. Introduced in Synapse v1.8.0.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7584.misc b/changelog.d/7584.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 55d1689f77..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7584.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Speed up processing of federation stream RDATA rows.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7585.bugfix b/changelog.d/7585.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 263295599d..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7585.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug in automatic user creation during first time login with `m.login.jwt`. Regression in v1.6.0. Contributed by @olof.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7586.feature b/changelog.d/7586.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index ef0231d823..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7586.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add support for generating thumbnails for WebP images. Previously, users would see an empty box instead of preview image.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7587.doc b/changelog.d/7587.doc
deleted file mode 100644
index ec4a430436..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7587.doc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update the OpenBSD installation instructions.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.d/7591.misc b/changelog.d/7591.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 17785b1f21..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7591.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add comment to systemd example to show postgresql dependency.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7594.bugfix b/changelog.d/7594.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index f0c067e184..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7594.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug causing the cross-signing keys to be ignored when resyncing a device list.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7595.misc b/changelog.d/7595.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a0646b1a3..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7595.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Refactor `Ratelimiter` to limit the amount of expensive config value accesses.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7597.bugfix b/changelog.d/7597.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index e2ff951915..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7597.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix metrics failing when there is a large number of active background processes.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7599.bugfix b/changelog.d/7599.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index deefe5680f..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7599.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug where returning rooms for a group would fail if it included a room that the server was not in.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7600.misc b/changelog.d/7600.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c2affbe6f..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7600.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert groups handlers to async/await.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7602.doc b/changelog.d/7602.doc
deleted file mode 100644
index 09039353db..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7602.doc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Advertise Python 3.8 support in `setup.py`.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7603.doc b/changelog.d/7603.doc
deleted file mode 100644
index e450888d4b..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7603.doc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add a link to `#synapse:matrix.org` in the troubleshooting section of the README.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7607.bugfix b/changelog.d/7607.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 04b22e5ffe..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7607.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix duplicate key violation when persisting read markers.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7609.bugfix b/changelog.d/7609.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index e2eceeef0c..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7609.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Prevent an entire iteration of the device list resync loop from failing if one server responds with a malformed result.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7614.misc b/changelog.d/7614.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index f0e24f9f61..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7614.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clean up exception handling in `SAML2ResponseResource`.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7619.misc b/changelog.d/7619.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 23a8b30b19..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7619.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Check that all asynchronous tasks succeed and general cleanup of `MonthlyActiveUsersTestCase` and `TestMauLimit`.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7620.misc b/changelog.d/7620.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index f8357ee3b6..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7620.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert `get_user_id_by_threepid` to async/await.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.d/7621.misc b/changelog.d/7621.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 032a7de6e6..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7621.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Switch to upstream `dh-virtualenv` rather than our fork for Debian package builds.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7622.bugfix b/changelog.d/7622.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index bcb82f7b0b..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7622.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix exceptions when fetching events from a remote host fails.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7623.misc b/changelog.d/7623.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 34a6f6a6a2..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7623.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update CI scripts to check the number in the newsfile fragment.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7624.bugfix b/changelog.d/7624.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index ce55b2cc3d..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7624.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make `synctl restart` start synapse if it wasn't running.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7625.misc b/changelog.d/7625.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c61d8d99f..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7625.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Check if the localpart of a Matrix ID is reserved for guest users earlier in the registration flow, as well as when responding to requests to `/register/available`.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7628.misc b/changelog.d/7628.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 74007450fb..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7628.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Minor cleanups to OpenID Connect integration.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7629.bugfix b/changelog.d/7629.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0debd580c5..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7629.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Pass device information through to the login endpoint when using the login fallback.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7630.feature b/changelog.d/7630.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index cce31fc881..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7630.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Support the standardized `m.login.sso` user-interactive authentication flow.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7631.bugfix b/changelog.d/7631.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d74266d9a..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7631.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Advertise the `m.login.token` login flow when OpenID Connect is enabled.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7634.misc b/changelog.d/7634.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 50dc6df02e..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7634.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Attempt to fix flaky test: `PhoneHomeStatsTestCase.test_performance_100`.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7637.misc b/changelog.d/7637.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 90d41fa775..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7637.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix typos of `m.olm.curve25519-aes-sha2` and `m.megolm.v1.aes-sha2` in comments, test files.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.d/7640.misc b/changelog.d/7640.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 55edc1c781..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7640.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert user directory, state deltas, and stats handlers to async/await.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7644.misc b/changelog.d/7644.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f45141bcc..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7644.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove some unused constants.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7645.misc b/changelog.d/7645.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index e7f0dc89c9..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7645.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix type information on `assert_*_is_admin` methods.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7647.doc b/changelog.d/7647.doc
deleted file mode 100644
index ae4a60f0af..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7647.doc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clarifications to the admin api documentation.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7649.misc b/changelog.d/7649.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a26c8b3b7..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7649.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert registration handler to async/await.
diff --git a/changelog.d/7656.bugfix b/changelog.d/7656.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1aeddb5fb9..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7656.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug in account data replication stream.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index f0105d3e2f..39c3a3ba4d 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.14.0"
+__version__ = "1.15.0rc1"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when