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, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/transactions.py b/synapse/storage/transactions.py
index f825264ea9..e485d19b84 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/transactions.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/transactions.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from ._base import SQLBaseStore
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import cached
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
+import six
 
 from canonicaljson import encode_canonical_json
 
@@ -25,6 +26,13 @@ from collections import namedtuple
 import logging
 import simplejson as json
 
+# py2 sqlite has buffer hardcoded as only binary type, so we must use it,
+# despite being deprecated and removed in favor of memoryview
+if six.PY2:
+    db_binary_type = buffer
+else:
+    db_binary_type = memoryview
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -110,7 +118,7 @@ class TransactionStore(SQLBaseStore):
                 "transaction_id": transaction_id,
                 "origin": origin,
                 "response_code": code,
-                "response_json": buffer(encode_canonical_json(response_dict)),
+                "response_json": db_binary_type(encode_canonical_json(response_dict)),
                 "ts": self._clock.time_msec(),
             },
             or_ignore=True,