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-Users will stop receiving message updates via email for addresses that were previously linked to their account
+Synapse 1.42.0rc1 (2021-09-01)
+==============================
+
+As of this release, users will stop receiving message updates via email for addresses that were previously linked to their account (but are not linked anymore).
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add support for [MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3231): Token authenticated registration. Users can be required to submit a token during registration to authenticate themselves. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10142))
+- Add support for [MSC3283](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3283): Expose enable_set_displayname in capabilities. ([\#10452](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10452))
+- Port the PresenceRouter module interface to the new generic interface. ([\#10524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10524))
+- Add pagination to the spaces summary based on updates to [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10613), [\#10725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10725))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Validate new `m.room.power_levels` events. Contributed by @aaronraimist. ([\#10232](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10232))
+- Display an error on User-Interactive Authentication fallback pages when authentication fails. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10561](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10561))
+- Remove pushers when deleting a 3pid from an account. Pushers for old unlinked emails will also be deleted. ([\#10581](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10581), [\#10734](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10734))
+- Reject Client-Server `/keys/query` requests which provide `device_ids` incorrectly. ([\#10593](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10593))
+- Rooms with unsupported room versions are no longer returned via `/sync`. ([\#10644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10644))
+- Enforce the maximum length for per-room display names and avatar URLs. ([\#10654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10654))
+- Fix a bug which caused the `synapse_user_logins_total` Prometheus metric not to be correctly initialised on restart. ([\#10677](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10677))
+- Improve ServerNoticeServlet to avoid duplicate requests and add unit tests. ([\#10679](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10679))
+- Fix long-standing issue which caused an error when a thumbnail is requested and there are multiple thumbnails with the same quality rating. ([\#10684](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10684))
+- Fix a regression introduced in v1.41.0 which affected the performance of concurrent fetches of large sets of events, in extreme cases causing the process to hang. ([\#10703](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10703))
+- Fix a regression introduced in Synapse 1.41 which broke email transmission on Systems using older versions of the Twisted library. ([\#10713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10713))
+- Fix unauthorised exposure of room metadata to communities. ([\#10723](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10723))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Add documentation on how to connect Django with synapse using oidc and django-oauth-toolkit. Contributed by @HugoDelval. ([\#10192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10192))
+- Advertise https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse docs in README and CONTRIBUTING files. ([\#10595](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10595))
+- Fix some of the titles not rendering in the OIDC documentation. ([\#10639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10639))
+- Minor clarifications to the documentation for reverse proxies. ([\#10708](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10708))
+- Removed table of contents from the top of installation and contributing documentation pages. ([\#10711](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10711))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated Shutdown Room and Purge Room Admin API. ([\#8830](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8830))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Improve type hints for the proxy agent and SRV resolver modules. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10608](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10608))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10614), [\#10615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10615), [\#10624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10624), [\#10640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10640))
+- Add a comment asking developers to leave a reason when bumping the database schema version. ([\#10621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10621))
+- Remove not needed database updates in modify user admin API. ([\#10627](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10627))
+- Convert room member storage tuples to `attrs` classes. ([\#10629](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10629), [\#10642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10642))
+- Use auto-attribs for the attrs classes used in sync. ([\#10630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10630))
+- Make `backfill` and `get_missing_events` use the same codepath. ([\#10645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10645))
+- Improve the performance of the `/hierarchy` API (from [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946)) by caching responses received over federation. ([\#10647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10647))
+- Run a nightly CI build against Twisted trunk. ([\#10651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10651), [\#10672](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10672))
+- Do not print out stack traces for network errors when fetching data over federation. ([\#10662](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10662))
+- Simplify tests for device admin rest API. ([\#10664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10664))
+- Add missing type hints to REST servlets. ([\#10665](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10665), [\#10666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10666), [\#10674](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10674))
+- Flatten the `tests.synapse.rests` package by moving the contents of `v1` and `v2_alpha` into the parent. ([\#10667](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10667))
+- Update `complement.sh` to rebuild the base Docker image when run with workers. ([\#10686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10686))
+- Split the event-processing methods in `FederationHandler` into a separate `FederationEventHandler`. ([\#10692](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10692))
+- Remove unused `compare_digest` function. ([\#10706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10706))
+
 
 Synapse 1.41.1 (2021-08-31)
 ===========================