Merge tag 'v0.31.0'

Changes in synapse v0.31.0 (2018-06-06)
======================================

Most notable change from v0.30.0 is to switch to python prometheus library to improve system
stats reporting. WARNING this changes a number of prometheus metrics in a
backwards-incompatible manner. For more details, see
`docs/metrics-howto.rst <docs/metrics-howto.rst#removal-of-deprecated-metrics--time-based-counters-becoming-histograms-in-0310>`_.

Bug Fixes:

* Fix metric documentation tables (PR #3341)
* Fix LaterGuage error handling (694968f)
* Fix replication metrics (b7e7fd2)

Changes in synapse v0.31.0-rc1 (2018-06-04)
==========================================

Features:

* Switch to the Python Prometheus library (PR #3256, #3274)
* Let users leave the server notice room after joining (PR #3287)

Changes:

* daily user type phone home stats (PR #3264)
* Use iter* methods for _filter_events_for_server (PR #3267)
* Docs on consent bits (PR #3268)
* Remove users from user directory on deactivate (PR #3277)
* Avoid sending consent notice to guest users (PR #3288)
* disable CPUMetrics if no /proc/self/stat (PR #3299)
* Add local and loopback IPv6 addresses to url_preview_ip_range_blacklist (PR #3312) Thanks to @thegcat!
* Consistently use six's iteritems and wrap lazy keys/values in list() if they're not meant to be lazy (PR #3307)
* Add private IPv6 addresses to example config for url preview blacklist (PR #3317) Thanks to @thegcat!
* Reduce stuck read-receipts: ignore depth when updating (PR #3318)
* Put python's logs into Trial when running unit tests (PR #3319)

Changes, python 3 migration:

* Replace some more comparisons with six (PR #3243) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* replace some iteritems with six (PR #3244) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Add batch_iter to utils (PR #3245) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* use repr, not str (PR #3246) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Misc Python3 fixes (PR #3247) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Py3 storage/_base.py (PR #3278) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* more six iteritems (PR #3279) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* More Misc. py3 fixes (PR #3280) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* remaining isintance fixes (PR #3281) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* py3-ize state.py (PR #3283) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* extend tox testing for py3 to avoid regressions (PR #3302) Thanks to @krombel!
* use memoryview in py3 (PR #3303) Thanks to @NotAFile!

Bugs:

* Fix federation backfill bugs (PR #3261)
* federation: fix LaterGauge usage (PR #3328) Thanks to @intelfx!

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/server_notices.md b/docs/server_notices.md
index 221553b24d..58f8776319 100644
--- a/docs/server_notices.md
+++ b/docs/server_notices.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Server Notices
 channel whereby server administrators can send messages to users on the server.
 
 They are used as part of communication of the server polices(see
-[consent_tracking.md](consent_tracking.md)), however the intention is that 
+[consent_tracking.md](consent_tracking.md)), however the intention is that
 they may also find a use for features such as "Message of the day".
 
 This is a feature specific to Synapse, but it uses standard Matrix
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ history; it will appear to have come from the 'server notices user' (see
 below).
 
 The user is prevented from sending any messages in this room by the power
-levels. They also cannot leave it.
+levels.
+
+Having joined the room, the user can leave the room if they want. Subsequent
+server notices will then cause a new room to be created.
 
 Synapse configuration
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