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diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index d6fa92d81c..2aebe92cac 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Synapse 1.25.0 (2020-xx-xx) -=========================== +Synapse 1.25.0rc1 (2021-01-06) +============================== Removal warning --------------- @@ -12,6 +12,92 @@ are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. They will be replaced by `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/delete` replaces `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/purge_room` and `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/shutdown_room/<room_id>`. +Features +-------- + +- Add an admin API that lets server admins get power in rooms in which local users have power. ([\#8756](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8756)) +- Add optional HTTP authentication to replication endpoints. ([\#8853](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8853)) +- Improve the error messages printed as a result of configuration problems for extension modules. ([\#8874](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8874)) +- Add the number of local devices to Room Details Admin API. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8886](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8886)) +- Add `X-Robots-Tag` header to stop web crawlers from indexing media. Contributed by Aaron Raimist. ([\#8887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8887)) +- Spam-checkers may now define their methods as `async`. ([\#8890](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8890)) +- Add support for allowing users to pick their own user ID during a single-sign-on login. ([\#8897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8897), [\#8900](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8900), [\#8911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8911), [\#8938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8938), [\#8941](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8941), [\#8942](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8942), [\#8951](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8951)) +- Add an `email.invite_client_location` configuration option to send a web client location to the invite endpoint on the identity server which allows customisation of the email template. ([\#8930](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8930)) +- The search term in the list room and list user Admin APIs is now treated as case-insensitive. ([\#8931](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8931)) +- Apply an IP range blacklist to push and key revocation requests. ([\#8821](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8821), [\#8870](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8870), [\#8954](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8954)) +- Add an option to allow re-use of user-interactive authentication sessions for a period of time. ([\#8970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8970)) +- Allow running the redact endpoint on workers. ([\#8994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8994)) + + +Bugfixes +-------- + +- Fix bug where we might not correctly calculate the current state for rooms with multiple extremities. ([\#8827](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8827)) +- Fix a long-standing bug in the register admin endpoint (`/_synapse/admin/v1/register`) when the `mac` field was not provided. The endpoint now properly returns a 400 error. Contributed by @edwargix. ([\#8837](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8837)) +- Fix a long-standing bug on Synapse instances supporting Single-Sign-On, where users would be prompted to enter their password to confirm certain actions, even though they have not set a password. ([\#8858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8858)) +- Fix a longstanding bug where a 500 error would be returned if the `Content-Length` header was not provided to the upload media resource. ([\#8862](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8862)) +- Add additional validation to pusher URLs to be compliant with the specification. ([\#8865](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8865)) +- Fix the error code that is returned when a user tries to register on a homeserver on which new-user registration has been disabled. ([\#8867](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8867)) +- Fix a bug where `PUT /_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>` failed to create a new user when `avatar_url` is specified. Bug introduced in Synapse v1.9.0. ([\#8872](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8872)) +- Fix a 500 error when attempting to preview an empty HTML file. ([\#8883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8883)) +- Fix occasional deadlock when handling SIGHUP. ([\#8918](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8918)) +- Fix login API to not ratelimit application services that have ratelimiting disabled. ([\#8920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8920)) +- Fix bug where we ratelimited auto joining of rooms on registration (using `auto_join_rooms` config). ([\#8921](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8921)) +- Fix a bug where deactivated users appeared in the user directory when their profile information was updated. ([\#8933](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8933), [\#8964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8964)) +- Fix bug introduced in Synapse v1.24.0 which would cause an exception on startup if both `enabled` and `localdb_enabled` were set to `False` in the `password_config` setting of the configuration file. ([\#8937](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8937)) +- Fix a bug where 500 errors would be returned if the `m.room_history_visibility` event had invalid content. ([\#8945](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8945)) +- Fix a bug causing common English words to not be considered for a user directory search. ([\#8959](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8959)) +- Fix bug where application services couldn't register new ghost users if the server had reached its MAU limit. ([\#8962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8962)) +- Fix a long-standing bug where a `m.image` event without a `url` would cause errors on push. ([\#8965](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8965)) +- Fix a small bug in v2 state resolution algorithm, which could also cause performance issues for rooms with large numbers of power levels. ([\#8971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8971)) +- Add validation to the `sendToDevice` API to raise a missing parameters error instead of a 500 error. ([\#8975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8975)) +- Add validation of group IDs to raise a 400 error instead of a 500 eror. ([\#8977](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8977)) + + +Improved Documentation +---------------------- + +- Fix the "Event persist rate" section of the included grafana dashboard by adding missing prometheus rules. ([\#8802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8802)) +- Combine related media admin API docs. ([\#8839](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8839)) +- Fix an error in the documentation for the SAML username mapping provider. ([\#8873](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8873)) +- Clarify comments around template directories in `sample_config.yaml`. ([\#8891](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8891)) +- Moved instructions for database setup, adjusted heading levels and improved syntax highlighting in [INSTALL.md](../INSTALL.md). Contributed by fossterer. ([\#8987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8987)) +- Update the example value of `group_creation_prefix` in the sample configuration. ([\#8992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8992)) +- Link the Synapse developer room to the development section in the docs. ([\#9002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9002)) + + +Deprecations and Removals +------------------------- + +- Deprecate Shutdown Room and Purge Room Admin APIs. ([\#8829](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8829)) + + +Internal Changes +---------------- + +- Properly store the mapping of external ID to Matrix ID for CAS users. ([\#8856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8856), [\#8958](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8958)) +- Remove some unnecessary stubbing from unit tests. ([\#8861](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8861)) +- Remove unused `FakeResponse` class from unit tests. ([\#8864](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8864)) +- Pass `room_id` to `get_auth_chain_difference`. ([\#8879](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8879)) +- Add type hints to push module. ([\#8880](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8880), [\#8882](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8882), [\#8901](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8901), [\#8940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8940), [\#8943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8943), [\#9020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9020)) +- Simplify logic for handling user-interactive-auth via single-sign-on servers. ([\#8881](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8881)) +- Skip the SAML tests if the requirements (`pysaml2` and `xmlsec1`) aren't available. ([\#8905](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8905)) +- Fix multiarch docker image builds. ([\#8906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8906)) +- Don't publish `latest` docker image until all archs are built. ([\#8909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8909)) +- Various clean-ups to the structured logging and logging context code. ([\#8916](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8916), [\#8935](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8935)) +- Automatically drop stale forward-extremities under some specific conditions. ([\#8929](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8929)) +- Refactor test utilities for injecting HTTP requests. ([\#8946](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8946)) +- Add a maximum size of 50 kilobytes to .well-known lookups. ([\#8950](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8950)) +- Fix bug in `generate_log_config` script which made it write empty files. ([\#8952](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8952)) +- Clean up tox.ini file; disable coverage checking for non-test runs. ([\#8963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8963)) +- Add type hints to the admin and room list handlers. ([\#8973](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8973)) +- Add type hints to the receipts and user directory handlers. ([\#8976](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8976)) +- Drop the unused `local_invites` table. ([\#8979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8979)) +- Add type hints to the base storage code. ([\#8980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8980)) +- Support using PyJWT v2.0.0 in the test suite. ([\#8986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8986)) +- Fix `tests.federation.transport.RoomDirectoryFederationTests` and ensure it runs in CI. ([\#8998](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8998)) +- Add type hints to the crypto module. ([\#8999](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8999)) + Synapse 1.24.0 (2020-12-09) =========================== |