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diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index 601fdeb09e..11d1574484 100644 --- a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md +++ b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md @@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ If this option is provided, it parses the given yaml to json and serves it on `/.well-known/matrix/client` endpoint alongside the standard properties. +*Added in Synapse 1.62.0.* + Example configuration: ```yaml extra_well_known_client_content : @@ -1155,6 +1157,9 @@ Caching can be configured through the following sub-options: with intermittent connections, at the cost of higher memory usage. A value of zero means that sync responses are not cached. Defaults to 2m. + + *Changed in Synapse 1.62.0*: The default was changed from 0 to 2m. + * `cache_autotuning` and its sub-options `max_cache_memory_usage`, `target_cache_memory_usage`, and `min_cache_ttl` work in conjunction with each other to maintain a balance between cache memory usage and cache entry availability. You must be using [jemalloc](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#help-synapse-is-slow-and-eats-all-my-ramcpu) @@ -1472,6 +1477,25 @@ rc_joins: burst_count: 12 ``` --- +### `rc_joins_per_room` + +This option allows admins to ratelimit joins to a room based on the number of recent +joins (local or remote) to that room. It is intended to mitigate mass-join spam +waves which target multiple homeservers. + +By default, one join is permitted to a room every second, with an accumulating +buffer of up to ten instantaneous joins. + +Example configuration (default values): +```yaml +rc_joins_per_room: + per_second: 1 + burst_count: 10 +``` + +_Added in Synapse 1.64.0._ + +--- ### `rc_3pid_validation` This option ratelimits how often a user or IP can attempt to validate a 3PID. @@ -2176,30 +2200,26 @@ default_identity_server: https://matrix.org --- ### `account_threepid_delegates` -Handle threepid (email/phone etc) registration and password resets through a set of -*trusted* identity servers. Note that this allows the configured identity server to -reset passwords for accounts! +Delegate verification of phone numbers to an identity server. -Be aware that if `email` is not set, and SMTP options have not been -configured in the email config block, registration and user password resets via -email will be globally disabled. +When a user wishes to add a phone number to their account, we need to verify that they +actually own that phone number, which requires sending them a text message (SMS). +Currently Synapse does not support sending those texts itself and instead delegates the +task to an identity server. The base URI for the identity server to be used is +specified by the `account_threepid_delegates.msisdn` option. -Additionally, if `msisdn` is not set, registration and password resets via msisdn -will be disabled regardless, and users will not be able to associate an msisdn -identifier to their account. This is due to Synapse currently not supporting -any method of sending SMS messages on its own. +If this is left unspecified, Synapse will not allow users to add phone numbers to +their account. -To enable using an identity server for operations regarding a particular third-party -identifier type, set the value to the URL of that identity server as shown in the -examples below. +(Servers handling the these requests must answer the `/requestToken` endpoints defined +by the Matrix Identity Service API +[specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/latest).) -Servers handling the these requests must answer the `/requestToken` endpoints defined -by the Matrix Identity Service API [specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/latest). +*Updated in Synapse 1.64.0*: No longer accepts an `email` option. Example configuration: ```yaml account_threepid_delegates: - email: https://example.com # Delegate email sending to example.com msisdn: http://localhost:8090 # Delegate SMS sending to this local process ``` --- |