Changes in synapse v0.12.1-rc1 (2016-01-29)

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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)
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