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+# Synapse 1.99.0rc1 (2024-01-09)
+
+### Features
+
+- Add config options to set the avatar and the topic of the server notices room. ([\#16679](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16679))
+- Add a setting to be able to tweak the delay without interaction before an email is sent following a notification. ([\#16696](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16696))
+- Add new Sentry configuration option `environment` for improved system monitoring. Contributed by @zeeshanrafiqrana. ([\#16738](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16738))
+- Filter out rooms from the room directory being served to other homeservers when those rooms block that homeserver by their Access Control Lists. ([\#16759](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16759))
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- Fix a long-standing bug where the signing keys generated by Synapse were world-readable. Contributed by Fabian Klemp. ([\#16740](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16740))
+- Fix email verification redirection. Contributed by Fadhlan Ridhwanallah. ([\#16761](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16761))
+- Fixed a bug that prevented users from being queried by display name if it contains non-ASCII characters. ([\#16767](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16767))
+- Allow reactivate user without password with Admin API in some edge cases. ([\#16770](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16770))
+- Adds the recursion_depth parameter to the response of the /relations endpoint if MSC3981 recursion is being performed. ([\#16775](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16775))
+
+### Improved Documentation
+
+- Added version picker for Synapse documentation. Contributed by @Dmytro27Ind. ([\#16533](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16533))
+- Clarify that `password_config.enabled: "only_for_reauth"` does not allow new logins to be created using password auth. ([\#16737](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16737))
+- Remove value from header in configuration documentation for `refresh_token_lifetime`. ([\#16763](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16763))
+- Add another custom statistics collection server to the documentation. Contributed by @loelkes. ([\#16769](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16769))
+
+### Internal Changes
+
+- Remove run-once workflow after adding the version picker to the documentation. ([\#9453](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/9453))
+- Update the implementation of [MSC2965](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2965) (OIDC Provider discovery). ([\#16726](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16726))
+- Move the rust stubs inline for better IDE integration. ([\#16757](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16757))
+- Fix sample config doc CI. ([\#16758](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16758))
+- Simplify event internal metadata class. ([\#16762](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16762), [\#16780](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16780))
+- Sign the published docker image using [cosign](https://docs.sigstore.dev/). ([\#16774](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16774))
+- Port `EventInternalMetadata` class to Rust. ([\#16782](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16782))
+
+
+
+### Updates to locked dependencies
+
+* Bump actions/setup-go from 4 to 5. ([\#16749](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16749))
+* Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5. ([\#16748](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16748))
+* Bump immutabledict from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0. ([\#16743](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16743))
+* Bump isort from 5.12.0 to 5.13.0. ([\#16745](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16745))
+* Bump isort from 5.13.0 to 5.13.1. ([\#16752](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16752))
+* Bump pydantic from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2. ([\#16747](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16747))
+* Bump ruff from 0.1.6 to 0.1.7. ([\#16746](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16746))
+* Bump types-setuptools from 68.2.0.2 to 69.0.0.0. ([\#16744](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16744))
+
 # Synapse 1.98.0 (2023-12-12)
 
 Synapse 1.98.0 will be the last Synapse release in 2023; the regular release cadence will resume in January 2024.