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diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst index 19b7af606b..317846d2a2 100644 --- a/CHANGES.rst +++ b/CHANGES.rst @@ -1,3 +1,74 @@ +Changes in synapse v0.28.1 (2018-05-01) +======================================= + +SECURITY UPDATE + +* Clamp the allowed values of event depth received over federation to be + [0, 2^63 - 1]. This mitigates an attack where malicious events + injected with depth = 2^63 - 1 render rooms unusable. Depth is used to + determine the cosmetic ordering of events within a room, and so the ordering + of events in such a room will default to using stream_ordering rather than depth + (topological_ordering). + + This is a temporary solution to mitigate abuse in the wild, whilst a long term solution + is being implemented to improve how the depth parameter is used. + + Full details at + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3fi2S-XnpO45qrpCsowZv8P8dHcNZ4fsBsbOW7KABI + +* Pin Twisted to <18.4 until we stop using the private _OpenSSLECCurve API. + + +Changes in synapse v0.28.0 (2018-04-26) +======================================= + +Bug Fixes: + +* Fix quarantine media admin API and search reindex (PR #3130) +* Fix media admin APIs (PR #3134) + + +Changes in synapse v0.28.0-rc1 (2018-04-24) +=========================================== + +Minor performance improvement to federation sending and bug fixes. + +(Note: This release does not include the delta state resolution implementation discussed in matrix live) + + +Features: + +* Add metrics for event processing lag (PR #3090) +* Add metrics for ResponseCache (PR #3092) + +Changes: + +* Synapse on PyPy (PR #2760) Thanks to @Valodim! +* move handling of auto_join_rooms to RegisterHandler (PR #2996) Thanks to @krombel! +* Improve handling of SRV records for federation connections (PR #3016) Thanks to @silkeh! +* Document the behaviour of ResponseCache (PR #3059) +* Preparation for py3 (PR #3061, #3073, #3074, #3075, #3103, #3104, #3106, #3107, #3109, #3110) Thanks to @NotAFile! +* update prometheus dashboard to use new metric names (PR #3069) Thanks to @krombel! +* use python3-compatible prints (PR #3074) Thanks to @NotAFile! +* Send federation events concurrently (PR #3078) +* Limit concurrent event sends for a room (PR #3079) +* Improve R30 stat definition (PR #3086) +* Send events to ASes concurrently (PR #3088) +* Refactor ResponseCache usage (PR #3093) +* Clarify that SRV may not point to a CNAME (PR #3100) Thanks to @silkeh! +* Use str(e) instead of e.message (PR #3103) Thanks to @NotAFile! +* Use six.itervalues in some places (PR #3106) Thanks to @NotAFile! +* Refactor store.have_events (PR #3117) + +Bug Fixes: + +* Return 401 for invalid access_token on logout (PR #2938) Thanks to @dklug! +* Return a 404 rather than a 500 on rejoining empty rooms (PR #3080) +* fix federation_domain_whitelist (PR #3099) +* Avoid creating events with huge numbers of prev_events (PR #3113) +* Reject events which have lots of prev_events (PR #3118) + + Changes in synapse v0.27.4 (2018-04-13) ====================================== @@ -22,10 +93,10 @@ the functionality. v0.27.3-rc2 is up to date, rc1 should be ignored. Changes in synapse v0.27.3-rc1 (2018-04-09) ======================================= -Notable changes include API support for joinability of groups. Also new metrics +Notable changes include API support for joinability of groups. Also new metrics and phone home stats. Phone home stats include better visibility of system usage so we can tweak synpase to work better for all users rather than our own experience -with matrix.org. Also, recording 'r30' stat which is the measure we use to track +with matrix.org. Also, recording 'r30' stat which is the measure we use to track overal growth of the Matrix ecosystem. It is defined as:- Counts the number of native 30 day retained users, defined as:- @@ -61,7 +132,6 @@ Bug fixes: * Add room_id to the response of `rooms/{roomId}/join` (PR #2986) Thanks to @jplatte! * Fix replication after switch to simplejson (PR #3015) -* Fix replication after switch to simplejson (PR #3015) * 404 correctly on missing paths via NoResource (PR #3022) * Fix error when claiming e2e keys from offline servers (PR #3034) * fix tests/storage/test_user_directory.py (PR #3042) |