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+Synapse 1.5.1 (2019-11-06)
+==========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Limit the length of data returned by url previews, to prevent DoS attacks. ([\#6331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6331), [\#6334](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6334))
+
+
+Synapse 1.5.0 (2019-10-29)
+==========================
+
+Security updates
+----------------
+
+This release includes a security fix ([\#6262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6262), below). Administrators are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug where room directory search was case sensitive. ([\#6268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6268))
+
+
+Synapse 1.5.0rc2 (2019-10-28)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Update list of boolean columns in `synapse_port_db`. ([\#6247](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6247))
+- Fix /keys/query API on workers. ([\#6256](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6256))
+- Improve signature checking on some federation APIs. ([\#6262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6262))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Move schema delta files to the correct data store. ([\#6248](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6248))
+- Small performance improvement by removing repeated config lookups in room stats calculation. ([\#6255](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6255))
+
+
+Synapse 1.5.0rc1 (2019-10-24)
+==========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Improve quality of thumbnails for 1-bit/8-bit color palette images. ([\#2142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2142))
+- Add ability to upload cross-signing signatures. ([\#5726](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5726))
+- Allow uploading of cross-signing keys. ([\#5769](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5769))
+- CAS login now provides a default display name for users if a `displayname_attribute` is set in the configuration file. ([\#6114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6114))
+- Reject all pending invites for a user during deactivation. ([\#6125](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6125))
+- Add config option to suppress client side resource limit alerting. ([\#6173](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6173))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Return an HTTP 404 instead of 400 when requesting a filter by ID that is unknown to the server. Thanks to @krombel for contributing this! ([\#2380](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2380))
+- Fix a bug where users could be invited twice to the same group. ([\#3436](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3436))
+- Fix `/createRoom` failing with badly-formatted MXIDs in the invitee list. Thanks to @wener291! ([\#4088](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4088))
+- Make the `synapse_port_db` script create the right indexes on a new PostgreSQL database. ([\#6102](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6102), [\#6178](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6178), [\#6243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6243))
+- Fix bug when uploading a large file: Synapse responds with `M_UNKNOWN` while it should be `M_TOO_LARGE` according to spec. Contributed by Anshul Angaria. ([\#6109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6109))
+- Fix user push rules being deleted from a room when it is upgraded. ([\#6144](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6144))
+- Don't 500 when trying to exchange a revoked 3PID invite. ([\#6147](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6147))
+- Fix transferring notifications and tags when joining an upgraded room that is new to your server. ([\#6155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6155))
+- Fix bug where guest account registration can wedge after restart. ([\#6161](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6161))
+- Fix monthly active user reaping when reserved users are specified. ([\#6168](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6168))
+- Fix `/federation/v1/state` endpoint not supporting newer room versions. ([\#6170](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6170))
+- Fix bug where we were updating censored events as bytes rather than text, occaisonally causing invalid JSON being inserted breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
+- Fix occasional missed updates in the room and user directories. ([\#6187](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6187))
+- Fix tracing of non-JSON APIs, `/media`, `/key` etc. ([\#6195](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6195))
+- Fix bug where presence would not get timed out correctly if a synchrotron worker is used and restarted. ([\#6212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6212))
+- synapse_port_db: Add 2 additional BOOLEAN_COLUMNS to be able to convert from database schema v56. ([\#6216](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6216))
+- Fix a bug where the Synapse demo script blacklisted `::1` (ipv6 localhost) from receiving federation traffic. ([\#6229](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6229))
+
+
+Updates to the Docker image
+---------------------------
+
+- Fix logging getting lost for the docker image. ([\#6197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6197))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Update `user_filters` table to have a unique index, and non-null columns. Thanks to @pik for contributing this. ([\#1172](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1172), [\#6175](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6175), [\#6184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6184))
+- Allow devices to be marked as hidden, for use by features such as cross-signing.
+  This adds a new field with a default value to the devices field in the database,
+  and so the database upgrade may take a long time depending on how many devices
+  are in the database. ([\#5759](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5759))
+- Move lookup-related functions from RoomMemberHandler to IdentityHandler. ([\#5978](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5978))
+- Improve performance of the public room list directory. ([\#6019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6019), [\#6152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6152), [\#6153](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6153), [\#6154](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6154))
+- Edit header dicts docstrings in `SimpleHttpClient` to note that `str` or `bytes` can be passed as header keys. ([\#6077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6077))
+- Add snapcraft packaging information. Contributed by @devec0. ([\#6084](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6084), [\#6191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6191))
+- Kill off half-implemented password-reset via sms. ([\#6101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6101))
+- Remove `get_user_by_req` opentracing span and add some tags. ([\#6108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6108))
+- Drop some unused database tables. ([\#6115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6115))
+- Add env var to turn on tracking of log context changes. ([\#6127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6127))
+- Refactor configuration loading to allow better typechecking. ([\#6137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6137))
+- Log responder when responding to media request. ([\#6139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6139))
+- Improve performance of `find_next_generated_user_id` DB query. ([\#6148](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6148))
+- Expand type-checking on modules imported by `synapse.config`. ([\#6150](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6150))
+- Use Postgres ANY for selecting many values. ([\#6156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6156))
+- Add more caching to `_get_joined_users_from_context` DB query. ([\#6159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6159))
+- Add some metrics on the federation sender. ([\#6160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6160))
+- Add some logging to the rooms stats updates, to try to track down a flaky test. ([\#6167](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6167))
+- Remove unused `timeout` parameter from `_get_public_room_list`. ([\#6179](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6179))
+- Reject (accidental) attempts to insert bytes into postgres tables. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
+- Make `version` optional in body of `PUT /room_keys/version/{version}`, since it's redundant. ([\#6189](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6189))
+- Make storage layer responsible for adding device names to key, rather than the handler. ([\#6193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6193))
+- Port `synapse.rest.admin` module to use async/await. ([\#6196](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6196))
+- Enforce that all boolean configuration values are lowercase in CI. ([\#6203](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6203))
+- Remove some unused event-auth code. ([\#6214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6214))
+- Remove `Auth.check` method. ([\#6217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6217))
+- Remove `format_tap.py` script in favour of a perl reimplementation in Sytest's repo. ([\#6219](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6219))
+- Refactor storage layer in preparation to support having multiple databases. ([\#6231](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6231))
+- Remove some extra quotation marks across the codebase. ([\#6236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6236))
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.1 (2019-10-18)
+==========================
+
+No changes since 1.4.1rc1.
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.1rc1 (2019-10-17)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug where redacted events were sometimes incorrectly censored in the database, breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6185), [5b0e9948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/5b0e9948eaae801643e594b5abc8ee4b10bd194e))
+
+Synapse 1.4.0 (2019-10-03)
+==========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Redact `client_secret` in server logs. ([\#6158](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6158))
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.0rc2 (2019-10-02)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug in background update that adds last seen information to the `devices` table, and improve its performance on Postgres. ([\#6135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6135))
+- Fix bad performance of censoring redactions background task. ([\#6141](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6141))
+- Fix fetching censored redactions from DB, which caused APIs like initial sync to fail if it tried to include the censored redaction. ([\#6145](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6145))
+- Fix exceptions when storing large retry intervals for down remote servers. ([\#6146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6146))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix up sample config entry for `redaction_retention_period` option. ([\#6117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6117))
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.0rc1 (2019-09-26)
+=============================
+
+Note that this release includes significant changes around 3pid
+verification. Administrators are reminded to review the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v140).
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Changes to 3pid verification:
+  - Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server. ([\#5835](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5835), [\#5940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5940), [\#5993](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5993), [\#5994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5994), [\#5868](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5868))
+  - Replace `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` config option with `account_threepid_delegates`, and make the `id_server` parameteter optional on `*/requestToken` endpoints, as per [MSC2263](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2263). ([\#5876](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5876), [\#5969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5969), [\#6028](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6028))
+  - Switch to using the v2 Identity Service `/lookup` API where available, with fallback to v1. (Implements [MSC2134](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2134) plus `id_access_token authentication` for v2 Identity Service APIs from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140)). ([\#5897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5897))
+  - Remove `bind_email` and `bind_msisdn` parameters from `/register` ala [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140). ([\#5964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5964))
+  - Add `m.id_access_token` to `unstable_features` in `/versions` as per [MSC2264](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2264). ([\#5974](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5974))
+  - Use the v2 Identity Service API for 3PID invites. ([\#5979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5979))
+  - Add `POST /_matrix/client/unstable/account/3pid/unbind` endpoint from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140) for unbinding a 3PID from an identity server without removing it from the homeserver user account. ([\#5980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5980), [\#6062](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6062))
+  - Use `account_threepid_delegate.email` and `account_threepid_delegate.msisdn` for validating threepid sessions. ([\#6011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6011))
+  - Allow homeserver to handle or delegate email validation when adding an email to a user's account. ([\#6042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6042))
+  - Implement new Client Server API endpoints `/account/3pid/add` and `/account/3pid/bind` as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290). ([\#6043](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6043))
+  - Add an unstable feature flag for separate add/bind 3pid APIs. ([\#6044](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6044))
+  - Remove `bind` parameter from Client Server POST `/account` endpoint as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290/). ([\#6067](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6067))
+  - Add `POST /add_threepid/msisdn/submit_token` endpoint for proxying submitToken on an `account_threepid_handler`. ([\#6078](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6078))
+  - Add `submit_url` response parameter to `*/msisdn/requestToken` endpoints. ([\#6079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6079))
+  - Add `m.require_identity_server` flag to /version's unstable_features. ([\#5972](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5972))
+- Enhancements to OpenTracing support:
+  - Make OpenTracing work in worker mode. ([\#5771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5771))
+  - Pass OpenTracing contexts between servers when transmitting EDUs. ([\#5852](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5852))
+  - OpenTracing for device list updates. ([\#5853](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5853))
+  - Add a tag recording a request's authenticated entity and corresponding servlet in OpenTracing. ([\#5856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5856))
+  - Add minimum OpenTracing for client servlets. ([\#5983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5983))
+  - Check at setup that OpenTracing is installed if it's enabled in the config. ([\#5985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5985))
+  - Trace replication send times. ([\#5986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5986))
+  - Include missing OpenTracing contexts in outbout replication requests. ([\#5982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5982))
+  - Fix sending of EDUs when OpenTracing is enabled with an empty whitelist. ([\#5984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5984))
+  - Fix invalid references to None while OpenTracing if the log context slips. ([\#5988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5988), [\#5991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5991))
+  - OpenTracing for room and e2e keys. ([\#5855](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5855))
+  - Add OpenTracing span over HTTP push processing. ([\#6003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6003))
+- Add an admin API to purge old rooms from the database. ([\#5845](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5845))
+- Retry well-known lookups if we have recently seen a valid well-known record for the server. ([\#5850](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5850))
+- Add support for filtered room-directory search requests over federation ([MSC2197](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2197), in order to allow upcoming room directory query performance improvements. ([\#5859](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5859))
+- Correctly retry all hosts returned from SRV when we fail to connect. ([\#5864](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5864))
+- Add admin API endpoint for setting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5878](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5878))
+- Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to prevent undue build up of forward extremities. ([\#5884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5884))
+- Add config option to sign remote key query responses with a separate key. ([\#5895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5895))
+- Add support for config templating. ([\#5900](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5900))
+- Users with the type of "support" or "bot" are no longer required to consent. ([\#5902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5902))
+- Let synctl accept a directory of config files. ([\#5904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5904))
+- Increase max display name size to 256. ([\#5906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5906))
+- Add admin API endpoint for getting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5914](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5914))
+- Redact events in the database that have been redacted for a week. ([\#5934](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5934))
+- New prometheus metrics:
+  - `synapse_federation_known_servers`: represents the total number of servers your server knows about (i.e. is in rooms with), including itself. Enable by setting `metrics_flags.known_servers` to True in the configuration.([\#5981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5981))
+  - `synapse_build_info`: exposes the Python version, OS version, and Synapse version of the running server. ([\#6005](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6005))
+- Give appropriate exit codes when synctl fails. ([\#5992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5992))
+- Apply the federation blacklist to requests to identity servers. ([\#6000](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6000))
+- Add `report_stats_endpoint` option to configure where stats are reported to, if enabled. Contributed by @Sorunome. ([\#6012](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6012))
+- Add config option to increase ratelimits for room admins redacting messages. ([\#6015](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6015))
+- Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time. ([\#6026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6026))
+- Make the process for mapping SAML2 users to matrix IDs more flexible. ([\#6037](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6037))
+- Return a clearer error message when a timeout occurs when attempting to contact an identity server. ([\#6073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6073))
+- Prevent password reset's submit_token endpoint from accepting trailing slashes. ([\#6074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6074))
+- Return 403 on `/register/available` if registration has been disabled. ([\#6082](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6082))
+- Explicitly log when a homeserver does not have the `trusted_key_servers` config field configured. ([\#6090](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6090))
+- Add support for pruning old rows in `user_ips` table. ([\#6098](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6098))
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Don't create broken room when `power_level_content_override.users` does not contain `creator_id`. ([\#5633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5633))
+- Fix database index so that different backup versions can have the same sessions. ([\#5857](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5857))
+- Fix Synapse looking for config options `password_reset_failure_template` and `password_reset_success_template`, when they are actually `password_reset_template_failure_html`, `password_reset_template_success_html`. ([\#5863](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5863))
+- Fix stack overflow when recovering an appservice which had an outage. ([\#5885](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5885))
+- Fix error message which referred to `public_base_url` instead of `public_baseurl`. Thanks to @aaronraimist for the fix! ([\#5909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5909))
+- Fix 404 for thumbnail download when `dynamic_thumbnails` is `false` and the thumbnail was dynamically generated. Fix reported by rkfg. ([\#5915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5915))
+- Fix a cache-invalidation bug for worker-based deployments. ([\#5920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5920))
+- Fix admin API for listing media in a room not being available with an external media repo. ([\#5966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5966))
+- Fix list media admin API always returning an error. ([\#5967](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5967))
+- Fix room and user stats tracking. ([\#5971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5971), [\#5998](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5998), [\#6029](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6029))
+- Return a `M_MISSING_PARAM` if `sid` is not provided to `/account/3pid`. ([\#5995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5995))
+- `federation_certificate_verification_whitelist` now will not cause `TypeErrors` to be raised (a regression in 1.3). Additionally, it now supports internationalised domain names in their non-canonical representation. ([\#5996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5996))
+- Only count real users when checking for auto-creation of auto-join room. ([\#6004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6004))
+- Ensure support users can be registered even if MAU limit is reached. ([\#6020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6020))
+- Fix bug where login error was shown incorrectly on SSO fallback login. ([\#6024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6024))
+- Fix bug in calculating the federation retry backoff period. ([\#6025](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6025))
+- Prevent exceptions being logged when extremity-cleanup events fail due to lack of user consent to the terms of service. ([\#6053](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6053))
+- Remove POST method from password-reset `submit_token` endpoint until we implement `submit_url` functionality. ([\#6056](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6056))
+- Fix logcontext spam on non-Linux platforms. ([\#6059](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6059))
+- Ensure query parameters in email validation links are URL-encoded. ([\#6063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6063))
+- Fix a bug which caused SAML attribute maps to be overridden by defaults. ([\#6069](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6069))
+- Fix the logged number of updated items for the `users_set_deactivated_flag` background update. ([\#6092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6092))
+- Add `sid` to `next_link` for email validation. ([\#6097](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6097))
+- Threepid validity checks on msisdns should not be dependent on `threepid_behaviour_email`. ([\#6104](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6104))
+- Ensure that servers which are not configured to support email address verification do not offer it in the registration flows. ([\#6107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6107))
+
+
+Updates to the Docker image
+---------------------------
+
+- Avoid changing `UID/GID` if they are already correct. ([\#5970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5970))
+- Provide `SYNAPSE_WORKER` envvar to specify python module. ([\#6058](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6058))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Convert documentation to markdown (from rst) ([\#5849](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5849))
+- Update `INSTALL.md` to say that Python 2 is no longer supported. ([\#5953](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5953))
+- Add developer documentation for using SAML2. ([\#6032](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6032))
+- Add some notes on rolling back to v1.3.1. ([\#6049](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6049))
+- Update the upgrade notes. ([\#6050](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6050))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove shared-secret registration from `/_matrix/client/r0/register` endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5877))
+- Deprecate the `trusted_third_party_id_servers` option. ([\#5875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5875))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Lay the groundwork for structured logging output. ([\#5680](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5680))
+- Retry well-known lookup before the cache expires, giving a grace period where the remote well-known can be down but we still use the old result. ([\#5844](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5844))
+- Remove log line for debugging issue #5407. ([\#5860](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5860))
+- Refactor the Appservice scheduler code. ([\#5886](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5886))
+- Compatibility with v2 Identity Service APIs other than /lookup. ([\#5892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5892), [\#6013](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6013))
+- Stop populating some unused tables. ([\#5893](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5893), [\#6047](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6047))
+- Add missing index on `users_in_public_rooms` to improve the performance of directory queries. ([\#5894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5894))
+- Improve the logging when we have an error when fetching signing keys. ([\#5896](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5896))
+- Add support for database engine-specific schema deltas, based on file extension. ([\#5911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5911))
+- Update Buildkite pipeline to use plugins instead of buildkite-agent commands. ([\#5922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5922))
+- Add link in sample config to the logging config schema. ([\#5926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5926))
+- Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements. ([\#5931](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5931))
+- Remove unused `jenkins/prepare_sytest.sh` file. ([\#5938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5938))
+- Move Buildkite pipeline config to the pipelines repo. ([\#5943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5943))
+- Remove unnecessary return statements in the codebase which were the result of a regex run. ([\#5962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5962))
+- Remove left-over methods from v1 registration API. ([\#5963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5963))
+- Cleanup event auth type initialisation. ([\#5975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5975))
+- Clean up dependency checking at setup. ([\#5989](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5989))
+- Update OpenTracing docs to use the unified `trace` method. ([\#5776](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5776))
+- Small refactor of function arguments and docstrings in` RoomMemberHandler`. ([\#6009](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6009))
+- Remove unused `origin` argument on `FederationHandler.add_display_name_to_third_party_invite`. ([\#6010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6010))
+- Add a `failure_ts` column to the `destinations` database table. ([\#6016](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6016), [\#6072](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6072))
+- Clean up some code in the retry logic. ([\#6017](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6017))
+- Fix the structured logging tests stomping on the global log configuration for subsequent tests. ([\#6023](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6023))
+- Clean up the sample config for SAML authentication. ([\#6064](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6064))
+- Change mailer logging to reflect Synapse doesn't just do chat notifications by email now. ([\#6075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6075))
+- Move last-seen info into devices table. ([\#6089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6089))
+- Remove unused parameter to `get_user_id_by_threepid`. ([\#6099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6099))
+- Refactor the user-interactive auth handling. ([\#6105](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6105))
+- Refactor code for calculating registration flows. ([\#6106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6106))
+
+
 Synapse 1.3.1 (2019-08-17)
 ==========================