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diff --git a/docs/upgrade.md b/docs/upgrade.md index 78c34d0c15..f095bbc3a6 100644 --- a/docs/upgrade.md +++ b/docs/upgrade.md @@ -97,6 +97,25 @@ As announced with the release of [Synapse 1.69.0](#deprecation-of-the-generate_s Modules relying on it can instead use the `create_login_token` method. +## Changes to the events received by application services (interest) + +To align with spec (changed in +[MSC3905](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3905)), Synapse now +only considers local users to be interesting. In other words, the `users` namespace +regex is only be applied against local users of the homeserver. + +Please note, this probably doesn't affect the expected behavior of your application +service, since an interesting local user in a room still means all messages in the room +(from local or remote users) will still be considered interesting. And matching a room +with the `rooms` or `aliases` namespace regex will still consider all events sent in the +room to be interesting to the application service. + +If one of your application service's `users` regex was intending to match a remote user, +this will no longer match as you expect. The behavioral mismatch between matching all +local users and some remote users is why the spec was changed/clarified and this +caveat is no longer supported. + + # Upgrading to v1.69.0 ## Changes to the receipts replication streams |