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, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/events/utils.py b/synapse/events/utils.py
index 824f4a42e3..29ae086786 100644
--- a/synapse/events/utils.py
+++ b/synapse/events/utils.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ from frozendict import frozendict
 
 import re
 
+from six import string_types
+
 # Split strings on "." but not "\." This uses a negative lookbehind assertion for '\'
 # (?<!stuff) matches if the current position in the string is not preceded
 # by a match for 'stuff'.
@@ -277,7 +279,7 @@ def serialize_event(e, time_now_ms, as_client_event=True,
 
     if only_event_fields:
         if (not isinstance(only_event_fields, list) or
-                not all(isinstance(f, basestring) for f in only_event_fields)):
+                not all(isinstance(f, string_types) for f in only_event_fields)):
             raise TypeError("only_event_fields must be a list of strings")
         d = only_fields(d, only_event_fields)