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+Synapse 1.7.0rc1 (2019-12-09)
+=============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Implement per-room message retention policies. ([\#5815](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5815))
+- Add etag and count fields to key backup endpoints to help clients guess if there are new keys. ([\#5858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5858))
+- Add admin/v2/users endpoint with pagination. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5925))
+- Require User-Interactive Authentication for `/account/3pid/add`, meaning the user's password will be required to add a third-party ID to their account. ([\#6119](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6119))
+- Implement the `/_matrix/federation/unstable/net.atleastfornow/state/<context>` API as drafted in MSC2314. ([\#6176](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6176))
+- Configure privacy preserving settings by default for the room directory. ([\#6354](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6354))
+- Add ephemeral messages support by partially implementing [MSC2228](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2228). ([\#6409](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6409))
+- Add support for MSC 2367, which allows specifying a reason on all membership events. ([\#6434](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6434))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Transfer non-standard power levels on room upgrade. ([\#6237](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6237))
+- Fix error from the Pillow library when uploading RGBA images. ([\#6241](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6241))
+- Correctly apply the event filter to the `state`, `events_before` and `events_after` fields in the response to `/context` requests. ([\#6329](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6329))
+- Fix caching devices for remote users when using workers, so that we don't attempt to refetch (and potentially fail) each time a user requests devices. ([\#6332](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6332))
+- Prevent account data syncs getting lost across TCP replication. ([\#6333](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6333))
+- Fix bug: TypeError in `register_user()` while using LDAP auth module. ([\#6406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6406))
+- Fix an intermittent exception when handling read-receipts. ([\#6408](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6408))
+- Fix broken guest registration when there are existing blocks of numeric user IDs. ([\#6420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6420))
+- Fix startup error when http proxy is defined. ([\#6421](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6421))
+- Clean up local threepids from user on account deactivation. ([\#6426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6426))
+- Fix a bug where a room could become unusable with a low retention policy and a low activity. ([\#6436](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6436))
+- Fix error when using synapse_port_db on a vanilla synapse db. ([\#6449](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6449))
+- Fix uploading multiple cross signing signatures for the same user. ([\#6451](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6451))
+- Fix bug which lead to exceptions being thrown in a loop when a cross-signed device is deleted. ([\#6462](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6462))
+- Fix `synapse_port_db` not exiting with a 0 code if something went wrong during the port process. ([\#6470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6470))
+- Improve sanity-checking when receiving events over federation. ([\#6472](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6472))
+- Fix inaccurate per-block Prometheus metrics. ([\#6491](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6491))
+- Fix small performance regression for sending invites. ([\#6493](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6493))
+- Back out cross-signing code added in Synapse 1.5.0, which caused a performance regression. ([\#6494](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6494))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Update documentation and variables in user contributed systemd reference file. ([\#6369](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6369), [\#6490](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6490))
+- Fix link in the user directory documentation. ([\#6388](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6388))
+- Add build instructions to the docker readme. ([\#6390](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6390))
+- Switch Ubuntu package install recommendation to use python3 packages in INSTALL.md. ([\#6443](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6443))
+- Write some docs for the quarantine_media api. ([\#6458](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6458))
+- Convert CONTRIBUTING.rst to markdown (among other small fixes). ([\#6461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6461))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove admin/v1/users_paginate endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5925))
+- Remove fallback for federation with old servers which lack the /federation/v1/state_ids API. ([\#6488](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6488))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Add benchmarks for structured logging and improve output performance. ([\#6266](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6266))
+- Improve the performance of outputting structured logging. ([\#6322](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6322))
+- Refactor some code in the event authentication path for clarity. ([\#6343](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6343), [\#6468](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6468), [\#6480](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6480))
+- Clean up some unnecessary quotation marks around the codebase. ([\#6362](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6362))
+- Complain on startup instead of 500'ing during runtime when `public_baseurl` isn't set when necessary. ([\#6379](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6379))
+- Add a test scenario to make sure room history purges don't break `/messages` in the future. ([\#6392](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6392))
+- Clarifications for the email configuration settings. ([\#6423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6423))
+- Add more tests to the blacklist when running in worker mode. ([\#6429](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6429))
+- Move data store specific code out of `SQLBaseStore`. ([\#6454](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6454))
+- Prepare SQLBaseStore functions being moved out of the stores. ([\#6464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6464))
+- Move per database functionality out of the data stores and into a dedicated `Database` class. ([\#6469](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6469))
+- Port synapse.rest.client.v1 to async/await. ([\#6482](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6482))
+- Port synapse.rest.client.v2_alpha to async/await. ([\#6483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6483))
+- Port SyncHandler to async/await. ([\#6484](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6484))
+- Pass in `Database` object to data stores. ([\#6487](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6487))
+
+
 Synapse 1.6.1 (2019-11-28)
 ==========================