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-rw-r--r--docs/.sample_config_header.yaml4
-rw-r--r--docs/sample_config.yaml17
-rw-r--r--docs/spam_checker.md3
-rw-r--r--docs/workers.md7
4 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/.sample_config_header.yaml b/docs/.sample_config_header.yaml
index e001ef5983..35a591d042 100644
--- a/docs/.sample_config_header.yaml
+++ b/docs/.sample_config_header.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# The config is maintained as an up-to-date snapshot of the default
+# This file is maintained as an up-to-date snapshot of the default
 # homeserver.yaml configuration generated by Synapse.
 #
 # It is intended to act as a reference for the default configuration,
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@
 # homeserver.yaml. Instead, if you are starting from scratch, please generate
 # a fresh config using Synapse by following the instructions in INSTALL.md.
 
+################################################################################
+
diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
index 8e8cf513b0..8a036071e1 100644
--- a/docs/sample_config.yaml
+++ b/docs/sample_config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# The config is maintained as an up-to-date snapshot of the default
+# This file is maintained as an up-to-date snapshot of the default
 # homeserver.yaml configuration generated by Synapse.
 #
 # It is intended to act as a reference for the default configuration,
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@
 # homeserver.yaml. Instead, if you are starting from scratch, please generate
 # a fresh config using Synapse by following the instructions in INSTALL.md.
 
+################################################################################
+
+# Configuration file for Synapse.
+#
+# This is a YAML file: see [1] for a quick introduction. Note in particular
+# that *indentation is important*: all the elements of a list or dictionary
+# should have the same indentation.
+#
+# [1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.html
+
 ## Server ##
 
 # The domain name of the server, with optional explicit port.
@@ -466,6 +476,11 @@ retention:
 # ACME support: This will configure Synapse to request a valid TLS certificate
 # for your configured `server_name` via Let's Encrypt.
 #
+# Note that ACME v1 is now deprecated, and Synapse currently doesn't support
+# ACME v2. This means that this feature currently won't work with installs set
+# up after November 2019. For more info, and alternative solutions, see
+# https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/ACME.md#deprecation-of-acme-v1
+#
 # Note that provisioning a certificate in this way requires port 80 to be
 # routed to Synapse so that it can complete the http-01 ACME challenge.
 # By default, if you enable ACME support, Synapse will attempt to listen on
diff --git a/docs/spam_checker.md b/docs/spam_checker.md
index 97ff17f952..5b5f5000b7 100644
--- a/docs/spam_checker.md
+++ b/docs/spam_checker.md
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ class ExampleSpamChecker:
 
     def user_may_publish_room(self, userid, room_id):
         return True  # allow publishing of all rooms
+
+    def check_username_for_spam(self, user_profile):
+        return False  # allow all usernames
 ```
 
 ## Configuration
diff --git a/docs/workers.md b/docs/workers.md
index 6f7ec58780..0d84a58958 100644
--- a/docs/workers.md
+++ b/docs/workers.md
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ following regular expressions:
     ^/_matrix/client/versions$
     ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/voip/turnServer$
     ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/joined_groups$
-    ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/get_groups_publicised$
+    ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/publicised_groups$
+    ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/publicised_groups/
 
 Additionally, the following REST endpoints can be handled for GET requests:
 
@@ -287,8 +288,8 @@ the following regular expressions:
 
     ^/_matrix/client/(api/v1|r0|unstable)/user_directory/search$
 
-When using this worker you must also set `update_user_directory: False` in the 
-shared configuration file to stop the main synapse running background 
+When using this worker you must also set `update_user_directory: False` in the
+shared configuration file to stop the main synapse running background
 jobs related to updating the user directory.
 
 ### `synapse.app.frontend_proxy`