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+Synapse 1.21.0 (2020-10-01)
+===========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Require the user to confirm that their password should be reset after clicking the email confirmation link. ([\#8004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8004))
+- Add an admin API `GET /_synapse/admin/v1/event_reports` to read entries of table `event_reports`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8217))
+- Consolidate the SSO error template across all configuration. ([\#8248](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8248), [\#8405](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8405))
+- Add a configuration option to specify a whitelist of domains that a user can be redirected to after validating their email or phone number. ([\#8275](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8275), [\#8417](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8417))
+- Add experimental support for sharding event persister. ([\#8294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8294), [\#8387](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8387), [\#8396](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8396), [\#8419](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8419))
+- Add the room topic and avatar to the room details admin API. ([\#8305](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8305))
+- Add an admin API for querying rooms where a user is a member. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8306](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8306))
+- Add `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` login type to allow appservices to login. ([\#8320](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8320))
+- Add a configuration option that allows existing users to log in with OpenID Connect. Contributed by @BBBSnowball and @OmmyZhang. ([\#8345](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8345))
+- Add prometheus metrics for replication requests. ([\#8406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8406))
+- Support passing additional single sign-on parameters to the client. ([\#8413](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8413))
+- Add experimental reporting of metrics on expensive rooms for state-resolution. ([\#8420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8420))
+- Add experimental prometheus metric to track numbers of "large" rooms for state resolutiom. ([\#8425](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8425))
+- Add prometheus metrics to track federation delays. ([\#8430](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8430))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug in the media repository where remote thumbnails with the same size but different crop methods would overwrite each other. Contributed by @deepbluev7. ([\#7124](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7124))
+- Fix inconsistent handling of non-existent push rules, and stop tracking the `enabled` state of removed push rules. ([\#7796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7796))
+- Fix a longstanding bug when storing a media file with an empty `upload_name`. ([\#7905](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7905))
+- Fix messages not being sent over federation until an event is sent into the same room. ([\#8230](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8230), [\#8247](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8247), [\#8258](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8258), [\#8272](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8272), [\#8322](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8322))
+- Fix a longstanding bug where files that could not be thumbnailed would result in an Internal Server Error. ([\#8236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8236))
+- Upgrade minimum version of `canonicaljson` to version 1.4.0, to fix an unicode encoding issue. ([\#8262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8262))
+- Fix logstanding bug which could lead to incomplete database upgrades on SQLite. ([\#8265](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8265))
+- Fix stack overflow when stderr is redirected to the logging system, and the logging system encounters an error. ([\#8268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8268))
+- Fix a bug which cause the logging system to report errors, if `DEBUG` was enabled and no `context` filter was applied. ([\#8278](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8278))
+- Fix edge case where push could get delayed for a user until a later event was pushed. ([\#8287](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8287))
+- Fix fetching malformed events from remote servers. ([\#8324](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8324))
+- Fix `UnboundLocalError` from occuring when appservices send a malformed register request. ([\#8329](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8329))
+- Don't send push notifications to expired user accounts. ([\#8353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8353))
+- Fix a regression in v1.19.0 with reactivating users through the admin API. ([\#8362](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8362))
+- Fix a bug where during device registration the length of the device name wasn't limited. ([\#8364](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8364))
+- Include `guest_access` in the fields that are checked for null bytes when updating `room_stats_state`. Broke in v1.7.2. ([\#8373](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8373))
+- Fix theoretical race condition where events are not sent down `/sync` if the synchrotron worker is restarted without restarting other workers. ([\#8374](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8374))
+- Fix a bug which could cause errors in rooms with malformed membership events, on servers using sqlite. ([\#8385](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8385))
+- Fix a bug introduced in v1.20.0 which caused the `synapse_port_db` script to fail. ([\#8386](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8386))
+- Fix "Re-starting finished log context" warning when receiving an event we already had over federation. ([\#8398](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8398))
+- Fix incorrect handling of timeouts on outgoing HTTP requests. ([\#8400](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8400))
+- Fix a regression in v1.20.0 in the `synapse_port_db` script regarding the `ui_auth_sessions_ips` table. ([\#8410](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8410))
+- Remove unnecessary 3PID registration check when resetting password via an email address. Bug introduced in v0.34.0rc2. ([\#8414](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8414))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Add `/_synapse/client` to the reverse proxy documentation. ([\#8227](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8227))
+- Add note to the reverse proxy settings documentation about disabling Apache's mod_security2. Contributed by Julian Fietkau (@jfietkau). ([\#8375](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8375))
+- Improve description of `server_name` config option in `homserver.yaml`. ([\#8415](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8415))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Drop support for `prometheus_client` older than 0.4.0. ([\#8426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8426))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix tests on distros which disable TLSv1.0. Contributed by @danc86. ([\#8208](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8208))
+- Simplify the distributor code to avoid unnecessary work. ([\#8216](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8216))
+- Remove the `populate_stats_process_rooms_2` background job and restore functionality to `populate_stats_process_rooms`. ([\#8243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8243))
+- Clean up type hints for `PaginationConfig`. ([\#8250](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8250), [\#8282](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8282))
+- Track the latest event for every destination and room for catch-up after federation outage. ([\#8256](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8256))
+- Fix non-user visible bug in implementation of `MultiWriterIdGenerator.get_current_token_for_writer`. ([\#8257](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8257))
+- Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library. ([\#8259](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8259))
+- Add type hints to `synapse.util.async_helpers`. ([\#8260](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8260))
+- Simplify tests that mock asynchronous functions. ([\#8261](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8261))
+- Add type hints to `StreamToken` and `RoomStreamToken` classes. ([\#8279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8279))
+- Change `StreamToken.room_key` to be a `RoomStreamToken` instance. ([\#8281](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8281))
+- Refactor notifier code to correctly use the max event stream position. ([\#8288](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8288))
+- Use slotted classes where possible. ([\#8296](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8296))
+- Support testing the local Synapse checkout against the [Complement homeserver test suite](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/). ([\#8317](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8317))
+- Update outdated usages of `metaclass` to python 3 syntax. ([\#8326](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8326))
+- Move lint-related dependencies to package-extra field, update CONTRIBUTING.md to utilise this. ([\#8330](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8330), [\#8377](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8377))
+- Use the `admin_patterns` helper in additional locations. ([\#8331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8331))
+- Fix test logging to allow braces in log output. ([\#8335](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8335))
+- Remove `__future__` imports related to Python 2 compatibility. ([\#8337](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8337))
+- Simplify `super()` calls to Python 3 syntax. ([\#8344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8344))
+- Fix bad merge from `release-v1.20.0` branch to `develop`. ([\#8354](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8354))
+- Factor out a `_send_dummy_event_for_room` method. ([\#8370](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8370))
+- Improve logging of state resolution. ([\#8371](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8371))
+- Add type annotations to `SimpleHttpClient`. ([\#8372](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8372))
+- Refactor ID generators to use `async with` syntax. ([\#8383](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8383))
+- Add `EventStreamPosition` type. ([\#8388](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8388))
+- Create a mechanism for marking tests "logcontext clean". ([\#8399](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8399))
+- A pair of tiny cleanups in the federation request code. ([\#8401](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8401))
+- Add checks on startup that PostgreSQL sequences are consistent with their associated tables. ([\#8402](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8402))
+- Do not include appservice users when calculating the total MAU for a server. ([\#8404](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8404))
+- Typing fixes for `synapse.handlers.federation`. ([\#8422](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8422))
+- Various refactors to simplify stream token handling. ([\#8423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8423))
+- Make stream token serializing/deserializing async. ([\#8427](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8427))
+
+
 Synapse 1.20.1 (2020-09-24)
 ===========================