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diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst deleted file mode 100644 index ce356a11bd..0000000000 --- a/CHANGES.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2074 +0,0 @@ -Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc1 (2017-06-26) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add a user directory API (PR #2252, and many more) -* Add shutdown room API to remove room from local server (PR #2291) -* Add API to quarantine media (PR #2292) -* Add new config option to not send event contents to push servers (PR #2301) - Thanks to @cjdelisle! - -Changes: - -* Various performance fixes (PR #2177, #2233, #2230, #2238, #2248, #2256, - #2274) -* Deduplicate sync filters (PR #2219) Thanks to @krombel! -* Correct a typo in UPGRADE.rst (PR #2231) Thanks to @aaronraimist! -* Add count of one time keys to sync stream (PR #2237) -* Only store event_auth for state events (PR #2247) -* Store URL cache preview downloads separately (PR #2299) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix users not getting notifications when AS listened to that user_id (PR - #2216) Thanks to @slipeer! -* Fix users without push set up not getting notifications after joining rooms - (PR #2236) -* Fix preview url API to trim long descriptions (PR #2243) -* Fix bug where we used cached but unpersisted state group as prev group, - resulting in broken state of restart (PR #2263) -* Fix removing of pushers when using workers (PR #2267) -* Fix CORS headers to allow Authorization header (PR #2285) Thanks to @krombel! - - -Changes in synapse v0.21.1 (2017-06-15) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug in anonymous usage statistic reporting (PR #2281) - - -Changes in synapse v0.21.0 (2017-05-18) -======================================= - -No changes since v0.21.0-rc3 - - -Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc3 (2017-05-17) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add per user rate-limiting overrides (PR #2208) -* Add config option to limit maximum number of events requested by ``/sync`` - and ``/messages`` (PR #2221) Thanks to @psaavedra! - - -Changes: - -* Various small performance fixes (PR #2201, #2202, #2224, #2226, #2227, #2228, - #2229) -* Update username availability checker API (PR #2209, #2213) -* When purging, don't de-delta state groups we're about to delete (PR #2214) -* Documentation to check synapse version (PR #2215) Thanks to @hamber-dick! -* Add an index to event_search to speed up purge history API (PR #2218) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix API to allow clients to upload one-time-keys with new sigs (PR #2206) - - -Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc2 (2017-05-08) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Always mark remotes as up if we receive a signed request from them (PR #2190) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where users got pushed for rooms they had muted (PR #2200) - - -Changes in synapse v0.21.0-rc1 (2017-05-08) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add username availability checker API (PR #2183) -* Add read marker API (PR #2120) - - -Changes: - -* Enable guest access for the 3pl/3pid APIs (PR #1986) -* Add setting to support TURN for guests (PR #2011) -* Various performance improvements (PR #2075, #2076, #2080, #2083, #2108, - #2158, #2176, #2185) -* Make synctl a bit more user friendly (PR #2078, #2127) Thanks @APwhitehat! -* Replace HTTP replication with TCP replication (PR #2082, #2097, #2098, - #2099, #2103, #2014, #2016, #2115, #2116, #2117) -* Support authenticated SMTP (PR #2102) Thanks @DanielDent! -* Add a counter metric for successfully-sent transactions (PR #2121) -* Propagate errors sensibly from proxied IS requests (PR #2147) -* Add more granular event send metrics (PR #2178) - - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix nuke-room script to work with current schema (PR #1927) Thanks - @zuckschwerdt! -* Fix db port script to not assume postgres tables are in the public schema - (PR #2024) Thanks @jerrykan! -* Fix getting latest device IP for user with no devices (PR #2118) -* Fix rejection of invites to unreachable servers (PR #2145) -* Fix code for reporting old verify keys in synapse (PR #2156) -* Fix invite state to always include all events (PR #2163) -* Fix bug where synapse would always fetch state for any missing event (PR #2170) -* Fix a leak with timed out HTTP connections (PR #2180) -* Fix bug where we didn't time out HTTP requests to ASes (PR #2192) - - -Docs: - -* Clarify doc for SQLite to PostgreSQL port (PR #1961) Thanks @benhylau! -* Fix typo in synctl help (PR #2107) Thanks @HarHarLinks! -* ``web_client_location`` documentation fix (PR #2131) Thanks @matthewjwolff! -* Update README.rst with FreeBSD changes (PR #2132) Thanks @feld! -* Clarify setting up metrics (PR #2149) Thanks @encks! - - -Changes in synapse v0.20.0 (2017-04-11) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix joining rooms over federation where not all servers in the room saw the - new server had joined (PR #2094) - - -Changes in synapse v0.20.0-rc1 (2017-03-30) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add delete_devices API (PR #1993) -* Add phone number registration/login support (PR #1994, #2055) - - -Changes: - -* Use JSONSchema for validation of filters. Thanks @pik! (PR #1783) -* Reread log config on SIGHUP (PR #1982) -* Speed up public room list (PR #1989) -* Add helpful texts to logger config options (PR #1990) -* Minor ``/sync`` performance improvements. (PR #2002, #2013, #2022) -* Add some debug to help diagnose weird federation issue (PR #2035) -* Correctly limit retries for all federation requests (PR #2050, #2061) -* Don't lock table when persisting new one time keys (PR #2053) -* Reduce some CPU work on DB threads (PR #2054) -* Cache hosts in room (PR #2060) -* Batch sending of device list pokes (PR #2063) -* Speed up persist event path in certain edge cases (PR #2070) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where current_state_events renamed to current_state_ids (PR #1849) -* Fix routing loop when fetching remote media (PR #1992) -* Fix current_state_events table to not lie (PR #1996) -* Fix CAS login to handle PartialDownloadError (PR #1997) -* Fix assertion to stop transaction queue getting wedged (PR #2010) -* Fix presence to fallback to last_active_ts if it beats the last sync time. - Thanks @Half-Shot! (PR #2014) -* Fix bug when federation received a PDU while a room join is in progress (PR - #2016) -* Fix resetting state on rejected events (PR #2025) -* Fix installation issues in readme. Thanks @ricco386 (PR #2037) -* Fix caching of remote servers' signature keys (PR #2042) -* Fix some leaking log context (PR #2048, #2049, #2057, #2058) -* Fix rejection of invites not reaching sync (PR #2056) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.3 (2017-03-20) -======================================= - -No changes since v0.19.3-rc2 - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.3-rc2 (2017-03-13) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug in handling of incoming device list updates over federation. - - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.3-rc1 (2017-03-08) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add some administration functionalities. Thanks to morteza-araby! (PR #1784) - - -Changes: - -* Reduce database table sizes (PR #1873, #1916, #1923, #1963) -* Update contrib/ to not use syutil. Thanks to andrewshadura! (PR #1907) -* Don't fetch current state when sending an event in common case (PR #1955) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix synapse_port_db failure. Thanks to Pneumaticat! (PR #1904) -* Fix caching to not cache error responses (PR #1913) -* Fix APIs to make kick & ban reasons work (PR #1917) -* Fix bugs in the /keys/changes api (PR #1921) -* Fix bug where users couldn't forget rooms they were banned from (PR #1922) -* Fix issue with long language values in pushers API (PR #1925) -* Fix a race in transaction queue (PR #1930) -* Fix dynamic thumbnailing to preserve aspect ratio. Thanks to jkolo! (PR - #1945) -* Fix device list update to not constantly resync (PR #1964) -* Fix potential for huge memory usage when getting device that have - changed (PR #1969) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.2 (2017-02-20) -======================================= - -* Fix bug with event visibility check in /context/ API. Thanks to Tokodomo for - pointing it out! (PR #1929) - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.1 (2017-02-09) -======================================= - -* Fix bug where state was incorrectly reset in a room when synapse received an - event over federation that did not pass auth checks (PR #1892) - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.0 (2017-02-04) -======================================= - -No changes since RC 4. - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc4 (2017-02-02) -=========================================== - -* Bump cache sizes for common membership queries (PR #1879) - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc3 (2017-02-02) -=========================================== - -* Fix email push in pusher worker (PR #1875) -* Make presence.get_new_events a bit faster (PR #1876) -* Make /keys/changes a bit more performant (PR #1877) - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc2 (2017-02-02) -=========================================== - -* Include newly joined users in /keys/changes API (PR #1872) - - -Changes in synapse v0.19.0-rc1 (2017-02-02) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add support for specifying multiple bind addresses (PR #1709, #1712, #1795, - #1835). Thanks to @kyrias! -* Add /account/3pid/delete endpoint (PR #1714) -* Add config option to configure the Riot URL used in notification emails (PR - #1811). Thanks to @aperezdc! -* Add username and password config options for turn server (PR #1832). Thanks - to @xsteadfastx! -* Implement device lists updates over federation (PR #1857, #1861, #1864) -* Implement /keys/changes (PR #1869, #1872) - - -Changes: - -* Improve IPv6 support (PR #1696). Thanks to @kyrias and @glyph! -* Log which files we saved attachments to in the media_repository (PR #1791) -* Linearize updates to membership via PUT /state/ to better handle multiple - joins (PR #1787) -* Limit number of entries to prefill from cache on startup (PR #1792) -* Remove full_twisted_stacktraces option (PR #1802) -* Measure size of some caches by sum of the size of cached values (PR #1815) -* Measure metrics of string_cache (PR #1821) -* Reduce logging verbosity (PR #1822, #1823, #1824) -* Don't clobber a displayname or avatar_url if provided by an m.room.member - event (PR #1852) -* Better handle 401/404 response for federation /send/ (PR #1866, #1871) - - -Fixes: - -* Fix ability to change password to a non-ascii one (PR #1711) -* Fix push getting stuck due to looking at the wrong view of state (PR #1820) -* Fix email address comparison to be case insensitive (PR #1827) -* Fix occasional inconsistencies of room membership (PR #1836, #1840) - - -Performance: - -* Don't block messages sending on bumping presence (PR #1789) -* Change device_inbox stream index to include user (PR #1793) -* Optimise state resolution (PR #1818) -* Use DB cache of joined users for presence (PR #1862) -* Add an index to make membership queries faster (PR #1867) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.7 (2017-01-09) -======================================= - -No changes from v0.18.7-rc2 - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.7-rc2 (2017-01-07) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix error in rc1's discarding invalid inbound traffic logic that was - incorrectly discarding missing events - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.7-rc1 (2017-01-06) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix error in #PR 1764 to actually fix the nightmare #1753 bug. -* Improve deadlock logging further -* Discard inbound federation traffic from invalid domains, to immunise - against #1753 - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.6 (2017-01-06) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug when checking if a guest user is allowed to join a room (PR #1772) - Thanks to Patrik Oldsberg for diagnosing and the fix! - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc3 (2017-01-05) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where we failed to send ban events to the banned server (PR #1758) -* Fix bug where we sent event that didn't originate on this server to - other servers (PR #1764) -* Fix bug where processing an event from a remote server took a long time - because we were making long HTTP requests (PR #1765, PR #1744) - -Changes: - -* Improve logging for debugging deadlocks (PR #1766, PR #1767) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc2 (2016-12-30) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix memory leak in twisted by initialising logging correctly (PR #1731) -* Fix bug where fetching missing events took an unacceptable amount of time in - large rooms (PR #1734) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.6-rc1 (2016-12-29) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Make sure that outbound connections are closed (PR #1725) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.5 (2016-12-16) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix federation /backfill returning events it shouldn't (PR #1700) -* Fix crash in url preview (PR #1701) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc3 (2016-12-13) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add support for E2E for guests (PR #1653) -* Add new API appservice specific public room list (PR #1676) -* Add new room membership APIs (PR #1680) - - -Changes: - -* Enable guest access for private rooms by default (PR #653) -* Limit the number of events that can be created on a given room concurrently - (PR #1620) -* Log the args that we have on UI auth completion (PR #1649) -* Stop generating refresh_tokens (PR #1654) -* Stop putting a time caveat on access tokens (PR #1656) -* Remove unspecced GET endpoints for e2e keys (PR #1694) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix handling of 500 and 429's over federation (PR #1650) -* Fix Content-Type header parsing (PR #1660) -* Fix error when previewing sites that include unicode, thanks to kyrias (PR - #1664) -* Fix some cases where we drop read receipts (PR #1678) -* Fix bug where calls to ``/sync`` didn't correctly timeout (PR #1683) -* Fix bug where E2E key query would fail if a single remote host failed (PR - #1686) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc2 (2016-11-24) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Don't send old events over federation, fixes bug in -rc1. - -Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc1 (2016-11-24) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Implement "event_fields" in filters (PR #1638) - -Changes: - -* Use external ldap auth pacakge (PR #1628) -* Split out federation transaction sending to a worker (PR #1635) -* Fail with a coherent error message if `/sync?filter=` is invalid (PR #1636) -* More efficient notif count queries (PR #1644) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.4 (2016-11-22) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Add workaround for buggy clients that the fail to register (PR #1632) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.4-rc1 (2016-11-14) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Various database efficiency improvements (PR #1188, #1192) -* Update default config to blacklist more internal IPs, thanks to Euan Kemp (PR - #1198) -* Allow specifying duration in minutes in config, thanks to Daniel Dent (PR - #1625) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix media repo to set CORs headers on responses (PR #1190) -* Fix registration to not error on non-ascii passwords (PR #1191) -* Fix create event code to limit the number of prev_events (PR #1615) -* Fix bug in transaction ID deduplication (PR #1624) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.3 (2016-11-08) -======================================= - -SECURITY UPDATE - -Explicitly require authentication when using LDAP3. This is the default on -versions of ``ldap3`` above 1.0, but some distributions will package an older -version. - -If you are using LDAP3 login and have a version of ``ldap3`` older than 1.0 it -is **CRITICAL to updgrade**. - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2 (2016-11-01) -======================================= - -No changes since v0.18.2-rc5 - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc5 (2016-10-28) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix prometheus process metrics in worker processes (PR #1184) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc4 (2016-10-27) -=========================================== - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix ``user_threepids`` schema delta, which in some instances prevented - startup after upgrade (PR #1183) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc3 (2016-10-27) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Allow clients to supply access tokens as headers (PR #1098) -* Clarify error codes for GET /filter/, thanks to Alexander Maznev (PR #1164) -* Make password reset email field case insensitive (PR #1170) -* Reduce redundant database work in email pusher (PR #1174) -* Allow configurable rate limiting per AS (PR #1175) -* Check whether to ratelimit sooner to avoid work (PR #1176) -* Standardise prometheus metrics (PR #1177) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix incredibly slow back pagination query (PR #1178) -* Fix infinite typing bug (PR #1179) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc2 (2016-10-25) -=========================================== - -(This release did not include the changes advertised and was identical to RC1) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.2-rc1 (2016-10-17) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Remove redundant event_auth index (PR #1113) -* Reduce DB hits for replication (PR #1141) -* Implement pluggable password auth (PR #1155) -* Remove rate limiting from app service senders and fix get_or_create_user - requester, thanks to Patrik Oldsberg (PR #1157) -* window.postmessage for Interactive Auth fallback (PR #1159) -* Use sys.executable instead of hardcoded python, thanks to Pedro Larroy - (PR #1162) -* Add config option for adding additional TLS fingerprints (PR #1167) -* User-interactive auth on delete device (PR #1168) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix not being allowed to set your own state_key, thanks to Patrik Oldsberg - (PR #1150) -* Fix interactive auth to return 401 from for incorrect password (PR #1160, - #1166) -* Fix email push notifs being dropped (PR #1169) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.1 (2016-10-05) -====================================== - -No changes since v0.18.1-rc1 - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.1-rc1 (2016-09-30) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add total_room_count_estimate to ``/publicRooms`` (PR #1133) - - -Changes: - -* Time out typing over federation (PR #1140) -* Restructure LDAP authentication (PR #1153) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix 3pid invites when server is already in the room (PR #1136) -* Fix upgrading with SQLite taking lots of CPU for a few days - after upgrade (PR #1144) -* Fix upgrading from very old database versions (PR #1145) -* Fix port script to work with recently added tables (PR #1146) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.0 (2016-09-19) -======================================= - -The release includes major changes to the state storage database schemas, which -significantly reduce database size. Synapse will attempt to upgrade the current -data in the background. Servers with large SQLite database may experience -degradation of performance while this upgrade is in progress, therefore you may -want to consider migrating to using Postgres before upgrading very large SQLite -databases - - -Changes: - -* Make public room search case insensitive (PR #1127) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix and clean up publicRooms pagination (PR #1129) - - -Changes in synapse v0.18.0-rc1 (2016-09-16) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add ``only=highlight`` on ``/notifications`` (PR #1081) -* Add server param to /publicRooms (PR #1082) -* Allow clients to ask for the whole of a single state event (PR #1094) -* Add is_direct param to /createRoom (PR #1108) -* Add pagination support to publicRooms (PR #1121) -* Add very basic filter API to /publicRooms (PR #1126) -* Add basic direct to device messaging support for E2E (PR #1074, #1084, #1104, - #1111) - - -Changes: - -* Move to storing state_groups_state as deltas, greatly reducing DB size (PR - #1065) -* Reduce amount of state pulled out of the DB during common requests (PR #1069) -* Allow PDF to be rendered from media repo (PR #1071) -* Reindex state_groups_state after pruning (PR #1085) -* Clobber EDUs in send queue (PR #1095) -* Conform better to the CAS protocol specification (PR #1100) -* Limit how often we ask for keys from dead servers (PR #1114) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix /notifications API when used with ``from`` param (PR #1080) -* Fix backfill when cannot find an event. (PR #1107) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.3 (2016-09-09) -======================================= - -This release fixes a major bug that stopped servers from handling rooms with -over 1000 members. - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.2 (2016-09-08) -======================================= - -This release contains security bug fixes. Please upgrade. - - -No changes since v0.17.2-rc1 - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.2-rc1 (2016-09-05) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Start adding store-and-forward direct-to-device messaging (PR #1046, #1050, - #1062, #1066) - - -Changes: - -* Avoid pulling the full state of a room out so often (PR #1047, #1049, #1063, - #1068) -* Don't notify for online to online presence transitions. (PR #1054) -* Occasionally persist unpersisted presence updates (PR #1055) -* Allow application services to have an optional 'url' (PR #1056) -* Clean up old sent transactions from DB (PR #1059) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix None check in backfill (PR #1043) -* Fix membership changes to be idempotent (PR #1067) -* Fix bug in get_pdu where it would sometimes return events with incorrect - signature - - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.1 (2016-08-24) -======================================= - -Changes: - -* Delete old received_transactions rows (PR #1038) -* Pass through user-supplied content in /join/$room_id (PR #1039) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug with backfill (PR #1040) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.1-rc1 (2016-08-22) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add notification API (PR #1028) - - -Changes: - -* Don't print stack traces when failing to get remote keys (PR #996) -* Various federation /event/ perf improvements (PR #998) -* Only process one local membership event per room at a time (PR #1005) -* Move default display name push rule (PR #1011, #1023) -* Fix up preview URL API. Add tests. (PR #1015) -* Set ``Content-Security-Policy`` on media repo (PR #1021) -* Make notify_interested_services faster (PR #1022) -* Add usage stats to prometheus monitoring (PR #1037) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix token login (PR #993) -* Fix CAS login (PR #994, #995) -* Fix /sync to not clobber status_msg (PR #997) -* Fix redacted state events to include prev_content (PR #1003) -* Fix some bugs in the auth/ldap handler (PR #1007) -* Fix backfill request to limit URI length, so that remotes don't reject the - requests due to path length limits (PR #1012) -* Fix AS push code to not send duplicate events (PR #1025) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.0 (2016-08-08) -======================================= - -This release contains significant security bug fixes regarding authenticating -events received over federation. PLEASE UPGRADE. - -This release changes the LDAP configuration format in a backwards incompatible -way, see PR #843 for details. - - -Changes: - -* Add federation /version API (PR #990) -* Make psutil dependency optional (PR #992) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix URL preview API to exclude HTML comments in description (PR #988) -* Fix error handling of remote joins (PR #991) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc4 (2016-08-05) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Change the way we summarize URLs when previewing (PR #973) -* Add new ``/state_ids/`` federation API (PR #979) -* Speed up processing of ``/state/`` response (PR #986) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix event persistence when event has already been partially persisted - (PR #975, #983, #985) -* Fix port script to also copy across backfilled events (PR #982) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc3 (2016-08-02) -=========================================== - -Changes: - -* Forbid non-ASes from registering users whose names begin with '_' (PR #958) -* Add some basic admin API docs (PR #963) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Send the correct host header when fetching keys (PR #941) -* Fix joining a room that has missing auth events (PR #964) -* Fix various push bugs (PR #966, #970) -* Fix adding emails on registration (PR #968) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc2 (2016-08-02) -=========================================== - -(This release did not include the changes advertised and was identical to RC1) - - -Changes in synapse v0.17.0-rc1 (2016-07-28) -=========================================== - -This release changes the LDAP configuration format in a backwards incompatible -way, see PR #843 for details. - - -Features: - -* Add purge_media_cache admin API (PR #902) -* Add deactivate account admin API (PR #903) -* Add optional pepper to password hashing (PR #907, #910 by KentShikama) -* Add an admin option to shared secret registration (breaks backwards compat) - (PR #909) -* Add purge local room history API (PR #911, #923, #924) -* Add requestToken endpoints (PR #915) -* Add an /account/deactivate endpoint (PR #921) -* Add filter param to /messages. Add 'contains_url' to filter. (PR #922) -* Add device_id support to /login (PR #929) -* Add device_id support to /v2/register flow. (PR #937, #942) -* Add GET /devices endpoint (PR #939, #944) -* Add GET /device/{deviceId} (PR #943) -* Add update and delete APIs for devices (PR #949) - - -Changes: - -* Rewrite LDAP Authentication against ldap3 (PR #843 by mweinelt) -* Linearize some federation endpoints based on (origin, room_id) (PR #879) -* Remove the legacy v0 content upload API. (PR #888) -* Use similar naming we use in email notifs for push (PR #894) -* Optionally include password hash in createUser endpoint (PR #905 by - KentShikama) -* Use a query that postgresql optimises better for get_events_around (PR #906) -* Fall back to 'username' if 'user' is not given for appservice registration. - (PR #927 by Half-Shot) -* Add metrics for psutil derived memory usage (PR #936) -* Record device_id in client_ips (PR #938) -* Send the correct host header when fetching keys (PR #941) -* Log the hostname the reCAPTCHA was completed on (PR #946) -* Make the device id on e2e key upload optional (PR #956) -* Add r0.2.0 to the "supported versions" list (PR #960) -* Don't include name of room for invites in push (PR #961) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix substitution failure in mail template (PR #887) -* Put most recent 20 messages in email notif (PR #892) -* Ensure that the guest user is in the database when upgrading accounts - (PR #914) -* Fix various edge cases in auth handling (PR #919) -* Fix 500 ISE when sending alias event without a state_key (PR #925) -* Fix bug where we stored rejections in the state_group, persist all - rejections (PR #948) -* Fix lack of check of if the user is banned when handling 3pid invites - (PR #952) -* Fix a couple of bugs in the transaction and keyring code (PR #954, #955) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.16.1-r1 (2016-07-08) -========================================== - -THIS IS A CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATE. - -This fixes a bug which allowed users' accounts to be accessed by unauthorised -users. - -Changes in synapse v0.16.1 (2016-06-20) -======================================= - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix assorted bugs in ``/preview_url`` (PR #872) -* Fix TypeError when setting unicode passwords (PR #873) - - -Performance improvements: - -* Turn ``use_frozen_events`` off by default (PR #877) -* Disable responding with canonical json for federation (PR #878) - - -Changes in synapse v0.16.1-rc1 (2016-06-15) -=========================================== - -Features: None - -Changes: - -* Log requester for ``/publicRoom`` endpoints when possible (PR #856) -* 502 on ``/thumbnail`` when can't connect to remote server (PR #862) -* Linearize fetching of gaps on incoming events (PR #871) - - -Bugs fixes: - -* Fix bug where rooms where marked as published by default (PR #857) -* Fix bug where joining room with an event with invalid sender (PR #868) -* Fix bug where backfilled events were sent down sync streams (PR #869) -* Fix bug where outgoing connections could wedge indefinitely, causing push - notifications to be unreliable (PR #870) - - -Performance improvements: - -* Improve ``/publicRooms`` performance(PR #859) - - -Changes in synapse v0.16.0 (2016-06-09) -======================================= - -NB: As of v0.14 all AS config files must have an ID field. - - -Bug fixes: - -* Don't make rooms published by default (PR #857) - -Changes in synapse v0.16.0-rc2 (2016-06-08) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add configuration option for tuning GC via ``gc.set_threshold`` (PR #849) - -Changes: - -* Record metrics about GC (PR #771, #847, #852) -* Add metric counter for number of persisted events (PR #841) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix 'From' header in email notifications (PR #843) -* Fix presence where timeouts were not being fired for the first 8h after - restarts (PR #842) -* Fix bug where synapse sent malformed transactions to AS's when retrying - transactions (Commits 310197b, 8437906) - -Performance improvements: - -* Remove event fetching from DB threads (PR #835) -* Change the way we cache events (PR #836) -* Add events to cache when we persist them (PR #840) - - -Changes in synapse v0.16.0-rc1 (2016-06-03) -=========================================== - -Version 0.15 was not released. See v0.15.0-rc1 below for additional changes. - -Features: - -* Add email notifications for missed messages (PR #759, #786, #799, #810, #815, - #821) -* Add a ``url_preview_ip_range_whitelist`` config param (PR #760) -* Add /report endpoint (PR #762) -* Add basic ignore user API (PR #763) -* Add an openidish mechanism for proving that you own a given user_id (PR #765) -* Allow clients to specify a server_name to avoid 'No known servers' (PR #794) -* Add secondary_directory_servers option to fetch room list from other servers - (PR #808, #813) - -Changes: - -* Report per request metrics for all of the things using request_handler (PR - #756) -* Correctly handle ``NULL`` password hashes from the database (PR #775) -* Allow receipts for events we haven't seen in the db (PR #784) -* Make synctl read a cache factor from config file (PR #785) -* Increment badge count per missed convo, not per msg (PR #793) -* Special case m.room.third_party_invite event auth to match invites (PR #814) - - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix typo in event_auth servlet path (PR #757) -* Fix password reset (PR #758) - - -Performance improvements: - -* Reduce database inserts when sending transactions (PR #767) -* Queue events by room for persistence (PR #768) -* Add cache to ``get_user_by_id`` (PR #772) -* Add and use ``get_domain_from_id`` (PR #773) -* Use tree cache for ``get_linearized_receipts_for_room`` (PR #779) -* Remove unused indices (PR #782) -* Add caches to ``bulk_get_push_rules*`` (PR #804) -* Cache ``get_event_reference_hashes`` (PR #806) -* Add ``get_users_with_read_receipts_in_room`` cache (PR #809) -* Use state to calculate ``get_users_in_room`` (PR #811) -* Load push rules in storage layer so that they get cached (PR #825) -* Make ``get_joined_hosts_for_room`` use get_users_in_room (PR #828) -* Poke notifier on next reactor tick (PR #829) -* Change CacheMetrics to be quicker (PR #830) - - -Changes in synapse v0.15.0-rc1 (2016-04-26) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add login support for Javascript Web Tokens, thanks to Niklas Riekenbrauck - (PR #671,#687) -* Add URL previewing support (PR #688) -* Add login support for LDAP, thanks to Christoph Witzany (PR #701) -* Add GET endpoint for pushers (PR #716) - -Changes: - -* Never notify for member events (PR #667) -* Deduplicate identical ``/sync`` requests (PR #668) -* Require user to have left room to forget room (PR #673) -* Use DNS cache if within TTL (PR #677) -* Let users see their own leave events (PR #699) -* Deduplicate membership changes (PR #700) -* Increase performance of pusher code (PR #705) -* Respond with error status 504 if failed to talk to remote server (PR #731) -* Increase search performance on postgres (PR #745) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where disabling all notifications still resulted in push (PR #678) -* Fix bug where users couldn't reject remote invites if remote refused (PR #691) -* Fix bug where synapse attempted to backfill from itself (PR #693) -* Fix bug where profile information was not correctly added when joining remote - rooms (PR #703) -* Fix bug where register API required incorrect key name for AS registration - (PR #727) - - -Changes in synapse v0.14.0 (2016-03-30) -======================================= - -No changes from v0.14.0-rc2 - -Changes in synapse v0.14.0-rc2 (2016-03-23) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add published room list API (PR #657) - -Changes: - -* Change various caches to consume less memory (PR #656, #658, #660, #662, - #663, #665) -* Allow rooms to be published without requiring an alias (PR #664) -* Intern common strings in caches to reduce memory footprint (#666) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix reject invites over federation (PR #646) -* Fix bug where registration was not idempotent (PR #649) -* Update aliases event after deleting aliases (PR #652) -* Fix unread notification count, which was sometimes wrong (PR #661) - -Changes in synapse v0.14.0-rc1 (2016-03-14) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add event_id to response to state event PUT (PR #581) -* Allow guest users access to messages in rooms they have joined (PR #587) -* Add config for what state is included in a room invite (PR #598) -* Send the inviter's member event in room invite state (PR #607) -* Add error codes for malformed/bad JSON in /login (PR #608) -* Add support for changing the actions for default rules (PR #609) -* Add environment variable SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR, default it to 0.1 (PR #612) -* Add ability for alias creators to delete aliases (PR #614) -* Add profile information to invites (PR #624) - -Changes: - -* Enforce user_id exclusivity for AS registrations (PR #572) -* Make adding push rules idempotent (PR #587) -* Improve presence performance (PR #582, #586) -* Change presence semantics for ``last_active_ago`` (PR #582, #586) -* Don't allow ``m.room.create`` to be changed (PR #596) -* Add 800x600 to default list of valid thumbnail sizes (PR #616) -* Always include kicks and bans in full /sync (PR #625) -* Send history visibility on boundary changes (PR #626) -* Register endpoint now returns a refresh_token (PR #637) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where we returned incorrect state in /sync (PR #573) -* Always return a JSON object from push rule API (PR #606) -* Fix bug where registering without a user id sometimes failed (PR #610) -* Report size of ExpiringCache in cache size metrics (PR #611) -* Fix rejection of invites to empty rooms (PR #615) -* Fix usage of ``bcrypt`` to not use ``checkpw`` (PR #619) -* Pin ``pysaml2`` dependency (PR #634) -* Fix bug in ``/sync`` where timeline order was incorrect for backfilled events - (PR #635) - -Changes in synapse v0.13.3 (2016-02-11) -======================================= - -* Fix bug where ``/sync`` would occasionally return events in the wrong room. - -Changes in synapse v0.13.2 (2016-02-11) -======================================= - -* Fix bug where ``/events`` would fail to skip some events if there had been - more events than the limit specified since the last request (PR #570) - -Changes in synapse v0.13.1 (2016-02-10) -======================================= - -* Bump matrix-angular-sdk (matrix web console) dependency to 0.6.8 to - pull in the fix for SYWEB-361 so that the default client can display - HTML messages again(!) - -Changes in synapse v0.13.0 (2016-02-10) -======================================= - -This version includes an upgrade of the schema, specifically adding an index to -the ``events`` table. This may cause synapse to pause for several minutes the -first time it is started after the upgrade. - -Changes: - -* Improve general performance (PR #540, #543. #544, #54, #549, #567) -* Change guest user ids to be incrementing integers (PR #550) -* Improve performance of public room list API (PR #552) -* Change profile API to omit keys rather than return null (PR #557) -* Add ``/media/r0`` endpoint prefix, which is equivalent to ``/media/v1/`` - (PR #595) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug with upgrading guest accounts where it would fail if you opened the - registration email on a different device (PR #547) -* Fix bug where unread count could be wrong (PR #568) - - - -Changes in synapse v0.12.1-rc1 (2016-01-29) -=========================================== - -Features: - -* Add unread notification counts in ``/sync`` (PR #456) -* Add support for inviting 3pids in ``/createRoom`` (PR #460) -* Add ability for guest accounts to upgrade (PR #462) -* Add ``/versions`` API (PR #468) -* Add ``event`` to ``/context`` API (PR #492) -* Add specific error code for invalid user names in ``/register`` (PR #499) -* Add support for push badge counts (PR #507) -* Add support for non-guest users to peek in rooms using ``/events`` (PR #510) - -Changes: - -* Change ``/sync`` so that guest users only get rooms they've joined (PR #469) -* Change to require unbanning before other membership changes (PR #501) -* Change default push rules to notify for all messages (PR #486) -* Change default push rules to not notify on membership changes (PR #514) -* Change default push rules in one to one rooms to only notify for events that - are messages (PR #529) -* Change ``/sync`` to reject requests with a ``from`` query param (PR #512) -* Change server manhole to use SSH rather than telnet (PR #473) -* Change server to require AS users to be registered before use (PR #487) -* Change server not to start when ASes are invalidly configured (PR #494) -* Change server to require ID and ``as_token`` to be unique for AS's (PR #496) -* Change maximum pagination limit to 1000 (PR #497) - -Bug fixes: - -* Fix bug where ``/sync`` didn't return when something under the leave key - changed (PR #461) -* Fix bug where we returned smaller rather than larger than requested - thumbnails when ``method=crop`` (PR #464) -* Fix thumbnails API to only return cropped thumbnails when asking for a - cropped thumbnail (PR #475) -* Fix bug where we occasionally still logged access tokens (PR #477) -* Fix bug where ``/events`` would always return immediately for guest users - (PR #480) -* Fix bug where ``/sync`` unexpectedly returned old left rooms (PR #481) -* Fix enabling and disabling push rules (PR #498) -* Fix bug where ``/register`` returned 500 when given unicode username - (PR #513) - -Changes in synapse v0.12.0 (2016-01-04) -======================================= - -* Expose ``/login`` under ``r0`` (PR #459) - -Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc3 (2015-12-23) -=========================================== - -* Allow guest accounts access to ``/sync`` (PR #455) -* Allow filters to include/exclude rooms at the room level - rather than just from the components of the sync for each - room. (PR #454) -* Include urls for room avatars in the response to ``/publicRooms`` (PR #453) -* Don't set a identicon as the avatar for a user when they register (PR #450) -* Add a ``display_name`` to third-party invites (PR #449) -* Send more information to the identity server for third-party invites so that - it can send richer messages to the invitee (PR #446) -* Cache the responses to ``/initialSync`` for 5 minutes. If a client - retries a request to ``/initialSync`` before the a response was computed - to the first request then the same response is used for both requests - (PR #457) -* Fix a bug where synapse would always request the signing keys of - remote servers even when the key was cached locally (PR #452) -* Fix 500 when pagination search results (PR #447) -* Fix a bug where synapse was leaking raw email address in third-party invites - (PR #448) - -Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc2 (2015-12-14) -=========================================== - -* Add caches for whether rooms have been forgotten by a user (PR #434) -* Remove instructions to use ``--process-dependency-link`` since all of the - dependencies of synapse are on PyPI (PR #436) -* Parallelise the processing of ``/sync`` requests (PR #437) -* Fix race updating presence in ``/events`` (PR #444) -* Fix bug back-populating search results (PR #441) -* Fix bug calculating state in ``/sync`` requests (PR #442) - -Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc1 (2015-12-10) -=========================================== - -* Host the client APIs released as r0 by - https://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.0/client_server.html - on paths prefixed by ``/_matrix/client/r0``. (PR #430, PR #415, PR #400) -* Updates the client APIs to match r0 of the matrix specification. - - * All APIs return events in the new event format, old APIs also include - the fields needed to parse the event using the old format for - compatibility. (PR #402) - * Search results are now given as a JSON array rather than - a JSON object (PR #405) - * Miscellaneous changes to search (PR #403, PR #406, PR #412) - * Filter JSON objects may now be passed as query parameters to ``/sync`` - (PR #431) - * Fix implementation of ``/admin/whois`` (PR #418) - * Only include the rooms that user has left in ``/sync`` if the client - requests them in the filter (PR #423) - * Don't push for ``m.room.message`` by default (PR #411) - * Add API for setting per account user data (PR #392) - * Allow users to forget rooms (PR #385) - -* Performance improvements and monitoring: - - * Add per-request counters for CPU time spent on the main python thread. - (PR #421, PR #420) - * Add per-request counters for time spent in the database (PR #429) - * Make state updates in the C+S API idempotent (PR #416) - * Only fire ``user_joined_room`` if the user has actually joined. (PR #410) - * Reuse a single http client, rather than creating new ones (PR #413) - -* Fixed a bug upgrading from older versions of synapse on postgresql (PR #417) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.1 (2015-11-20) -======================================= - -* Add extra options to search API (PR #394) -* Fix bug where we did not correctly cap federation retry timers. This meant it - could take several hours for servers to start talking to ressurected servers, - even when they were receiving traffic from them (PR #393) -* Don't advertise login token flow unless CAS is enabled. This caused issues - where some clients would always use the fallback API if they did not - recognize all login flows (PR #391) -* Change /v2 sync API to rename ``private_user_data`` to ``account_data`` - (PR #386) -* Change /v2 sync API to remove the ``event_map`` and rename keys in ``rooms`` - object (PR #389) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.0-r2 (2015-11-19) -========================================== - -* Fix bug in database port script (PR #387) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.0-r1 (2015-11-18) -========================================== - -* Retry and fail federation requests more aggressively for requests that block - client side requests (PR #384) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.0 (2015-11-17) -======================================= - -* Change CAS login API (PR #349) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc2 (2015-11-13) -=========================================== - -* Various changes to /sync API response format (PR #373) -* Fix regression when setting display name in newly joined room over - federation (PR #368) -* Fix problem where /search was slow when using SQLite (PR #366) - -Changes in synapse v0.11.0-rc1 (2015-11-11) -=========================================== - -* Add Search API (PR #307, #324, #327, #336, #350, #359) -* Add 'archived' state to v2 /sync API (PR #316) -* Add ability to reject invites (PR #317) -* Add config option to disable password login (PR #322) -* Add the login fallback API (PR #330) -* Add room context API (PR #334) -* Add room tagging support (PR #335) -* Update v2 /sync API to match spec (PR #305, #316, #321, #332, #337, #341) -* Change retry schedule for application services (PR #320) -* Change retry schedule for remote servers (PR #340) -* Fix bug where we hosted static content in the incorrect place (PR #329) -* Fix bug where we didn't increment retry interval for remote servers (PR #343) - -Changes in synapse v0.10.1-rc1 (2015-10-15) -=========================================== - -* Add support for CAS, thanks to Steven Hammerton (PR #295, #296) -* Add support for using macaroons for ``access_token`` (PR #256, #229) -* Add support for ``m.room.canonical_alias`` (PR #287) -* Add support for viewing the history of rooms that they have left. (PR #276, - #294) -* Add support for refresh tokens (PR #240) -* Add flag on creation which disables federation of the room (PR #279) -* Add some room state to invites. (PR #275) -* Atomically persist events when joining a room over federation (PR #283) -* Change default history visibility for private rooms (PR #271) -* Allow users to redact their own sent events (PR #262) -* Use tox for tests (PR #247) -* Split up syutil into separate libraries (PR #243) - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-r2 (2015-09-16) -========================================== - -* Fix bug where we always fetched remote server signing keys instead of using - ones in our cache. -* Fix adding threepids to an existing account. -* Fix bug with invinting over federation where remote server was already in - the room. (PR #281, SYN-392) - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-r1 (2015-09-08) -========================================== - -* Fix bug with python packaging - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0 (2015-09-03) -======================================= - -No change from release candidate. - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc6 (2015-09-02) -=========================================== - -* Remove some of the old database upgrade scripts. -* Fix database port script to work with newly created sqlite databases. - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc5 (2015-08-27) -=========================================== - -* Fix bug that broke downloading files with ascii filenames across federation. - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc4 (2015-08-27) -=========================================== - -* Allow UTF-8 filenames for upload. (PR #259) - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc3 (2015-08-25) -=========================================== - -* Add ``--keys-directory`` config option to specify where files such as - certs and signing keys should be stored in, when using ``--generate-config`` - or ``--generate-keys``. (PR #250) -* Allow ``--config-path`` to specify a directory, causing synapse to use all - \*.yaml files in the directory as config files. (PR #249) -* Add ``web_client_location`` config option to specify static files to be - hosted by synapse under ``/_matrix/client``. (PR #245) -* Add helper utility to synapse to read and parse the config files and extract - the value of a given key. For example:: - - $ python -m synapse.config read server_name -c homeserver.yaml - localhost - - (PR #246) - - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc2 (2015-08-24) -=========================================== - -* Fix bug where we incorrectly populated the ``event_forward_extremities`` - table, resulting in problems joining large remote rooms (e.g. - ``#matrix:matrix.org``) -* Reduce the number of times we wake up pushers by not listening for presence - or typing events, reducing the CPU cost of each pusher. - - -Changes in synapse v0.10.0-rc1 (2015-08-21) -=========================================== - -Also see v0.9.4-rc1 changelog, which has been amalgamated into this release. - -General: - -* Upgrade to Twisted 15 (PR #173) -* Add support for serving and fetching encryption keys over federation. - (PR #208) -* Add support for logging in with email address (PR #234) -* Add support for new ``m.room.canonical_alias`` event. (PR #233) -* Change synapse to treat user IDs case insensitively during registration and - login. (If two users already exist with case insensitive matching user ids, - synapse will continue to require them to specify their user ids exactly.) -* Error if a user tries to register with an email already in use. (PR #211) -* Add extra and improve existing caches (PR #212, #219, #226, #228) -* Batch various storage request (PR #226, #228) -* Fix bug where we didn't correctly log the entity that triggered the request - if the request came in via an application service (PR #230) -* Fix bug where we needlessly regenerated the full list of rooms an AS is - interested in. (PR #232) -* Add support for AS's to use v2_alpha registration API (PR #210) - - -Configuration: - -* Add ``--generate-keys`` that will generate any missing cert and key files in - the configuration files. This is equivalent to running ``--generate-config`` - on an existing configuration file. (PR #220) -* ``--generate-config`` now no longer requires a ``--server-name`` parameter - when used on existing configuration files. (PR #220) -* Add ``--print-pidfile`` flag that controls the printing of the pid to stdout - of the demonised process. (PR #213) - -Media Repository: - -* Fix bug where we picked a lower resolution image than requested. (PR #205) -* Add support for specifying if a the media repository should dynamically - thumbnail images or not. (PR #206) - -Metrics: - -* Add statistics from the reactor to the metrics API. (PR #224, #225) - -Demo Homeservers: - -* Fix starting the demo homeservers without rate-limiting enabled. (PR #182) -* Fix enabling registration on demo homeservers (PR #223) - - -Changes in synapse v0.9.4-rc1 (2015-07-21) -========================================== - -General: - -* Add basic implementation of receipts. (SPEC-99) -* Add support for configuration presets in room creation API. (PR #203) -* Add auth event that limits the visibility of history for new users. - (SPEC-134) -* Add SAML2 login/registration support. (PR #201. Thanks Muthu Subramanian!) -* Add client side key management APIs for end to end encryption. (PR #198) -* Change power level semantics so that you cannot kick, ban or change power - levels of users that have equal or greater power level than you. (SYN-192) -* Improve performance by bulk inserting events where possible. (PR #193) -* Improve performance by bulk verifying signatures where possible. (PR #194) - - -Configuration: - -* Add support for including TLS certificate chains. - -Media Repository: - -* Add Content-Disposition headers to content repository responses. (SYN-150) - - -Changes in synapse v0.9.3 (2015-07-01) -====================================== - -No changes from v0.9.3 Release Candidate 1. - -Changes in synapse v0.9.3-rc1 (2015-06-23) -========================================== - -General: - -* Fix a memory leak in the notifier. (SYN-412) -* Improve performance of room initial sync. (SYN-418) -* General improvements to logging. -* Remove ``access_token`` query params from ``INFO`` level logging. - -Configuration: - -* Add support for specifying and configuring multiple listeners. (SYN-389) - -Application services: - -* Fix bug where synapse failed to send user queries to application services. - -Changes in synapse v0.9.2-r2 (2015-06-15) -========================================= - -Fix packaging so that schema delta python files get included in the package. - -Changes in synapse v0.9.2 (2015-06-12) -====================================== - -General: - -* Use ultrajson for json (de)serialisation when a canonical encoding is not - required. Ultrajson is significantly faster than simplejson in certain - circumstances. -* Use connection pools for outgoing HTTP connections. -* Process thumbnails on separate threads. - -Configuration: - -* Add option, ``gzip_responses``, to disable HTTP response compression. - -Federation: - -* Improve resilience of backfill by ensuring we fetch any missing auth events. -* Improve performance of backfill and joining remote rooms by removing - unnecessary computations. This included handling events we'd previously - handled as well as attempting to compute the current state for outliers. - - -Changes in synapse v0.9.1 (2015-05-26) -====================================== - -General: - -* Add support for backfilling when a client paginates. This allows servers to - request history for a room from remote servers when a client tries to - paginate history the server does not have - SYN-36 -* Fix bug where you couldn't disable non-default pushrules - SYN-378 -* Fix ``register_new_user`` script - SYN-359 -* Improve performance of fetching events from the database, this improves both - initialSync and sending of events. -* Improve performance of event streams, allowing synapse to handle more - simultaneous connected clients. - -Federation: - -* Fix bug with existing backfill implementation where it returned the wrong - selection of events in some circumstances. -* Improve performance of joining remote rooms. - -Configuration: - -* Add support for changing the bind host of the metrics listener via the - ``metrics_bind_host`` option. - - -Changes in synapse v0.9.0-r5 (2015-05-21) -========================================= - -* Add more database caches to reduce amount of work done for each pusher. This - radically reduces CPU usage when multiple pushers are set up in the same room. - -Changes in synapse v0.9.0 (2015-05-07) -====================================== - -General: - -* Add support for using a PostgreSQL database instead of SQLite. See - `docs/postgres.rst`_ for details. -* Add password change and reset APIs. See `Registration`_ in the spec. -* Fix memory leak due to not releasing stale notifiers - SYN-339. -* Fix race in caches that occasionally caused some presence updates to be - dropped - SYN-369. -* Check server name has not changed on restart. -* Add a sample systemd unit file and a logger configuration in - contrib/systemd. Contributed Ivan Shapovalov. - -Federation: - -* Add key distribution mechanisms for fetching public keys of unavailable - remote home servers. See `Retrieving Server Keys`_ in the spec. - -Configuration: - -* Add support for multiple config files. -* Add support for dictionaries in config files. -* Remove support for specifying config options on the command line, except - for: - - * ``--daemonize`` - Daemonize the home server. - * ``--manhole`` - Turn on the twisted telnet manhole service on the given - port. - * ``--database-path`` - The path to a sqlite database to use. - * ``--verbose`` - The verbosity level. - * ``--log-file`` - File to log to. - * ``--log-config`` - Python logging config file. - * ``--enable-registration`` - Enable registration for new users. - -Application services: - -* Reliably retry sending of events from Synapse to application services, as per - `Application Services`_ spec. -* Application services can no longer register via the ``/register`` API, - instead their configuration should be saved to a file and listed in the - synapse ``app_service_config_files`` config option. The AS configuration file - has the same format as the old ``/register`` request. - See `docs/application_services.rst`_ for more information. - -.. _`docs/postgres.rst`: docs/postgres.rst -.. _`docs/application_services.rst`: docs/application_services.rst -.. _`Registration`: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/specification/10_client_server_api.rst#registration -.. _`Retrieving Server Keys`: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/6f2698/specification/30_server_server_api.rst#retrieving-server-keys -.. _`Application Services`: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/0c6bd9/specification/25_application_service_api.rst#home-server---application-service-api - -Changes in synapse v0.8.1 (2015-03-18) -====================================== - -* Disable registration by default. New users can be added using the command - ``register_new_matrix_user`` or by enabling registration in the config. -* Add metrics to synapse. To enable metrics use config options - ``enable_metrics`` and ``metrics_port``. -* Fix bug where banning only kicked the user. - -Changes in synapse v0.8.0 (2015-03-06) -====================================== - -General: - -* Add support for registration fallback. This is a page hosted on the server - which allows a user to register for an account, regardless of what client - they are using (e.g. mobile devices). - -* Added new default push rules and made them configurable by clients: - - * Suppress all notice messages. - * Notify when invited to a new room. - * Notify for messages that don't match any rule. - * Notify on incoming call. - -Federation: - -* Added per host server side rate-limiting of incoming federation requests. -* Added a ``/get_missing_events/`` API to federation to reduce number of - ``/events/`` requests. - -Configuration: - -* Added configuration option to disable registration: - ``disable_registration``. -* Added configuration option to change soft limit of number of open file - descriptors: ``soft_file_limit``. -* Make ``tls_private_key_path`` optional when running with ``no_tls``. - -Application services: - -* Application services can now poll on the CS API ``/events`` for their events, - by providing their application service ``access_token``. -* Added exclusive namespace support to application services API. - - -Changes in synapse v0.7.1 (2015-02-19) -====================================== - -* Initial alpha implementation of parts of the Application Services API. - Including: - - - AS Registration / Unregistration - - User Query API - - Room Alias Query API - - Push transport for receiving events. - - User/Alias namespace admin control - -* Add cache when fetching events from remote servers to stop repeatedly - fetching events with bad signatures. -* Respect the per remote server retry scheme when fetching both events and - server keys to reduce the number of times we send requests to dead servers. -* Inform remote servers when the local server fails to handle a received event. -* Turn off python bytecode generation due to problems experienced when - upgrading from previous versions. - -Changes in synapse v0.7.0 (2015-02-12) -====================================== - -* Add initial implementation of the query auth federation API, allowing - servers to agree on whether an event should be allowed or rejected. -* Persist events we have rejected from federation, fixing the bug where - servers would keep requesting the same events. -* Various federation performance improvements, including: - - - Add in memory caches on queries such as: - - * Computing the state of a room at a point in time, used for - authorization on federation requests. - * Fetching events from the database. - * User's room membership, used for authorizing presence updates. - - - Upgraded JSON library to improve parsing and serialisation speeds. - -* Add default avatars to new user accounts using pydenticon library. -* Correctly time out federation requests. -* Retry federation requests against different servers. -* Add support for push and push rules. -* Add alpha versions of proposed new CSv2 APIs, including ``/sync`` API. - -Changes in synapse 0.6.1 (2015-01-07) -===================================== - -* Major optimizations to improve performance of initial sync and event sending - in large rooms (by up to 10x) -* Media repository now includes a Content-Length header on media downloads. -* Improve quality of thumbnails by changing resizing algorithm. - -Changes in synapse 0.6.0 (2014-12-16) -===================================== - -* Add new API for media upload and download that supports thumbnailing. -* Replicate media uploads over multiple homeservers so media is always served - to clients from their local homeserver. This obsoletes the - --content-addr parameter and confusion over accessing content directly - from remote homeservers. -* Implement exponential backoff when retrying federation requests when - sending to remote homeservers which are offline. -* Implement typing notifications. -* Fix bugs where we sent events with invalid signatures due to bugs where - we incorrectly persisted events. -* Improve performance of database queries involving retrieving events. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.4a (2014-12-13) -====================================== - -* Fix bug while generating the error message when a file path specified in - the config doesn't exist. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.4 (2014-12-03) -===================================== - -* Fix presence bug where some rooms did not display presence updates for - remote users. -* Do not log SQL timing log lines when started with "-v" -* Fix potential memory leak. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.3c (2014-12-02) -====================================== - -* Change the default value for the `content_addr` option to use the HTTP - listener, as by default the HTTPS listener will be using a self-signed - certificate. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.3 (2014-11-27) -===================================== - -* Fix bug that caused joining a remote room to fail if a single event was not - signed correctly. -* Fix bug which caused servers to continuously try and fetch events from other - servers. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.2 (2014-11-26) -===================================== - -Fix major bug that caused rooms to disappear from peoples initial sync. - -Changes in synapse 0.5.1 (2014-11-26) -===================================== -See UPGRADES.rst for specific instructions on how to upgrade. - - * Fix bug where we served up an Event that did not match its signatures. - * Fix regression where we no longer correctly handled the case where a - homeserver receives an event for a room it doesn't recognise (but is in.) - -Changes in synapse 0.5.0 (2014-11-19) -===================================== -This release includes changes to the federation protocol and client-server API -that is not backwards compatible. - -This release also changes the internal database schemas and so requires servers to -drop their current history. See UPGRADES.rst for details. - -Homeserver: - * Add authentication and authorization to the federation protocol. Events are - now signed by their originating homeservers. - * Implement the new authorization model for rooms. - * Split out web client into a seperate repository: matrix-angular-sdk. - * Change the structure of PDUs. - * Fix bug where user could not join rooms via an alias containing 4-byte - UTF-8 characters. - * Merge concept of PDUs and Events internally. - * Improve logging by adding request ids to log lines. - * Implement a very basic room initial sync API. - * Implement the new invite/join federation APIs. - -Webclient: - * The webclient has been moved to a seperate repository. - -Changes in synapse 0.4.2 (2014-10-31) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * Fix bugs where we did not notify users of correct presence updates. - * Fix bug where we did not handle sub second event stream timeouts. - -Webclient: - * Add ability to click on messages to see JSON. - * Add ability to redact messages. - * Add ability to view and edit all room state JSON. - * Handle incoming redactions. - * Improve feedback on errors. - * Fix bugs in mobile CSS. - * Fix bugs with desktop notifications. - -Changes in synapse 0.4.1 (2014-10-17) -===================================== -Webclient: - * Fix bug with display of timestamps. - -Changes in synpase 0.4.0 (2014-10-17) -===================================== -This release includes changes to the federation protocol and client-server API -that is not backwards compatible. - -The Matrix specification has been moved to a separate git repository: -http://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc - -You will also need an updated syutil and config. See UPGRADES.rst. - -Homeserver: - * Sign federation transactions to assert strong identity over federation. - * Rename timestamp keys in PDUs and events from 'ts' and 'hsob_ts' to 'origin_server_ts'. - - -Changes in synapse 0.3.4 (2014-09-25) -===================================== -This version adds support for using a TURN server. See docs/turn-howto.rst on -how to set one up. - -Homeserver: - * Add support for redaction of messages. - * Fix bug where inviting a user on a remote home server could take up to - 20-30s. - * Implement a get current room state API. - * Add support specifying and retrieving turn server configuration. - -Webclient: - * Add button to send messages to users from the home page. - * Add support for using TURN for VoIP calls. - * Show display name change messages. - * Fix bug where the client didn't get the state of a newly joined room - until after it has been refreshed. - * Fix bugs with tab complete. - * Fix bug where holding down the down arrow caused chrome to chew 100% CPU. - * Fix bug where desktop notifications occasionally used "Undefined" as the - display name. - * Fix more places where we sometimes saw room IDs incorrectly. - * Fix bug which caused lag when entering text in the text box. - -Changes in synapse 0.3.3 (2014-09-22) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * Fix bug where you continued to get events for rooms you had left. - -Webclient: - * Add support for video calls with basic UI. - * Fix bug where one to one chats were named after your display name rather - than the other person's. - * Fix bug which caused lag when typing in the textarea. - * Refuse to run on browsers we know won't work. - * Trigger pagination when joining new rooms. - * Fix bug where we sometimes didn't display invitations in recents. - * Automatically join room when accepting a VoIP call. - * Disable outgoing and reject incoming calls on browsers we don't support - VoIP in. - * Don't display desktop notifications for messages in the room you are - non-idle and speaking in. - -Changes in synapse 0.3.2 (2014-09-18) -===================================== - -Webclient: - * Fix bug where an empty "bing words" list in old accounts didn't send - notifications when it should have done. - -Changes in synapse 0.3.1 (2014-09-18) -===================================== -This is a release to hotfix v0.3.0 to fix two regressions. - -Webclient: - * Fix a regression where we sometimes displayed duplicate events. - * Fix a regression where we didn't immediately remove rooms you were - banned in from the recents list. - -Changes in synapse 0.3.0 (2014-09-18) -===================================== -See UPGRADE for information about changes to the client server API, including -breaking backwards compatibility with VoIP calls and registration API. - -Homeserver: - * When a user changes their displayname or avatar the server will now update - all their join states to reflect this. - * The server now adds "age" key to events to indicate how old they are. This - is clock independent, so at no point does any server or webclient have to - assume their clock is in sync with everyone else. - * Fix bug where we didn't correctly pull in missing PDUs. - * Fix bug where prev_content key wasn't always returned. - * Add support for password resets. - -Webclient: - * Improve page content loading. - * Join/parts now trigger desktop notifications. - * Always show room aliases in the UI if one is present. - * No longer show user-count in the recents side panel. - * Add up & down arrow support to the text box for message sending to step - through your sent history. - * Don't display notifications for our own messages. - * Emotes are now formatted correctly in desktop notifications. - * The recents list now differentiates between public & private rooms. - * Fix bug where when switching between rooms the pagination flickered before - the view jumped to the bottom of the screen. - * Add bing word support. - -Registration API: - * The registration API has been overhauled to function like the login API. In - practice, this means registration requests must now include the following: - 'type':'m.login.password'. See UPGRADE for more information on this. - * The 'user_id' key has been renamed to 'user' to better match the login API. - * There is an additional login type: 'm.login.email.identity'. - * The command client and web client have been updated to reflect these changes. - -Changes in synapse 0.2.3 (2014-09-12) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * Fix bug where we stopped sending events to remote home servers if a - user from that home server left, even if there were some still in the - room. - * Fix bugs in the state conflict resolution where it was incorrectly - rejecting events. - -Webclient: - * Display room names and topics. - * Allow setting/editing of room names and topics. - * Display information about rooms on the main page. - * Handle ban and kick events in real time. - * VoIP UI and reliability improvements. - * Add glare support for VoIP. - * Improvements to initial startup speed. - * Don't display duplicate join events. - * Local echo of messages. - * Differentiate sending and sent of local echo. - * Various minor bug fixes. - -Changes in synapse 0.2.2 (2014-09-06) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * When the server returns state events it now also includes the previous - content. - * Add support for inviting people when creating a new room. - * Make the homeserver inform the room via `m.room.aliases` when a new alias - is added for a room. - * Validate `m.room.power_level` events. - -Webclient: - * Add support for captchas on registration. - * Handle `m.room.aliases` events. - * Asynchronously send messages and show a local echo. - * Inform the UI when a message failed to send. - * Only autoscroll on receiving a new message if the user was already at the - bottom of the screen. - * Add support for ban/kick reasons. - -Changes in synapse 0.2.1 (2014-09-03) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * Added support for signing up with a third party id. - * Add synctl scripts. - * Added rate limiting. - * Add option to change the external address the content repo uses. - * Presence bug fixes. - -Webclient: - * Added support for signing up with a third party id. - * Added support for banning and kicking users. - * Added support for displaying and setting ops. - * Added support for room names. - * Fix bugs with room membership event display. - -Changes in synapse 0.2.0 (2014-09-02) -===================================== -This update changes many configuration options, updates the -database schema and mandates SSL for server-server connections. - -Homeserver: - * Require SSL for server-server connections. - * Add SSL listener for client-server connections. - * Add ability to use config files. - * Add support for kicking/banning and power levels. - * Allow setting of room names and topics on creation. - * Change presence to include last seen time of the user. - * Change url path prefix to /_matrix/... - * Bug fixes to presence. - -Webclient: - * Reskin the CSS for registration and login. - * Various improvements to rooms CSS. - * Support changes in client-server API. - * Bug fixes to VOIP UI. - * Various bug fixes to handling of changes to room member list. - -Changes in synapse 0.1.2 (2014-08-29) -===================================== - -Webclient: - * Add basic call state UI for VoIP calls. - -Changes in synapse 0.1.1 (2014-08-29) -===================================== - -Homeserver: - * Fix bug that caused the event stream to not notify some clients about - changes. - -Changes in synapse 0.1.0 (2014-08-29) -===================================== -Presence has been reenabled in this release. - -Homeserver: - * Update client to server API, including: - - Use a more consistent url scheme. - - Provide more useful information in the initial sync api. - * Change the presence handling to be much more efficient. - * Change the presence server to server API to not require explicit polling of - all users who share a room with a user. - * Fix races in the event streaming logic. - -Webclient: - * Update to use new client to server API. - * Add basic VOIP support. - * Add idle timers that change your status to away. - * Add recent rooms column when viewing a room. - * Various network efficiency improvements. - * Add basic mobile browser support. - * Add a settings page. - -Changes in synapse 0.0.1 (2014-08-22) -===================================== -Presence has been disabled in this release due to a bug that caused the -homeserver to spam other remote homeservers. - -Homeserver: - * Completely change the database schema to support generic event types. - * Improve presence reliability. - * Improve reliability of joining remote rooms. - * Fix bug where room join events were duplicated. - * Improve initial sync API to return more information to the client. - * Stop generating fake messages for room membership events. - -Webclient: - * Add tab completion of names. - * Add ability to upload and send images. - * Add profile pages. - * Improve CSS layout of room. - * Disambiguate identical display names. - * Don't get remote users display names and avatars individually. - * Use the new initial sync API to reduce number of round trips to the homeserver. - * Change url scheme to use room aliases instead of room ids where known. - * Increase longpoll timeout. - -Changes in synapse 0.0.0 (2014-08-13) -===================================== - - * Initial alpha release |