Changes in synapse v0.16.0 (2016-06-09)

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NB: As of v0.14 all AS config files must have an ID field.

Bug fixes:

* Don't make rooms published by default (PR #857)

Changes in synapse v0.16.0-rc2 (2016-06-08)
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Features:

* Add configuration option for tuning GC via ``gc.set_threshold`` (PR #849)

Changes:

* Record metrics about GC (PR #771, #847, #852)
* Add metric counter for number of persisted events (PR #841)

Bug fixes:

* Fix 'From' header in email notifications (PR #843)
* Fix presence where timeouts were not being fired for the first 8h after
  restarts (PR #842)
* Fix bug where synapse sent malformed transactions to AS's when retrying
  transactions (Commits 310197b, 8437906)

Performance Improvements:

* Remove event fetching from DB threads (PR #835)
* Change the way we cache events (PR #836)
* Add events to cache when we persist them (PR #840)

Changes in synapse v0.16.0-rc1 (2016-06-03)
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Version 0.15 was not released. See v0.15.0-rc1 below for additional changes.

Features:

* Add email notifications for missed messages (PR #759, #786, #799, #810, #815,
  #821)
* Add a ``url_preview_ip_range_whitelist`` config param (PR #760)
* Add /report endpoint (PR #762)
* Add basic ignore user API (PR #763)
* Add an openidish mechanism for proving that you own a given user_id (PR #765)
* Allow clients to specify a server_name to avoid 'No known servers' (PR #794)
* Add secondary_directory_servers option to fetch room list from other servers
  (PR #808, #813)

Changes:

* Report per request metrics for all of the things using request_handler (PR
  #756)
* Correctly handle ``NULL`` password hashes from the database (PR #775)
* Allow receipts for events we haven't seen in the db (PR #784)
* Make synctl read a cache factor from config file (PR #785)
* Increment badge count per missed convo, not per msg (PR #793)
* Special case m.room.third_party_invite event auth to match invites (PR #814)

Bug fixes:

* Fix typo in event_auth servlet path (PR #757)
* Fix password reset (PR #758)

Performance improvements:

* Reduce database inserts when sending transactions (PR #767)
* Queue events by room for persistence (PR #768)
* Add cache to ``get_user_by_id`` (PR #772)
* Add and use ``get_domain_from_id`` (PR #773)
* Use tree cache for ``get_linearized_receipts_for_room`` (PR #779)
* Remove unused indices (PR #782)
* Add caches to ``bulk_get_push_rules*`` (PR #804)
* Cache ``get_event_reference_hashes`` (PR #806)
* Add ``get_users_with_read_receipts_in_room`` cache (PR #809)
* Use state to calculate ``get_users_in_room`` (PR #811)
* Load push rules in storage layer so that they get cached (PR #825)
* Make ``get_joined_hosts_for_room`` use get_users_in_room (PR #828)
* Poke notifier on next reactor tick (PR #829)
* Change CacheMetrics to be quicker (PR #830)

Changes in synapse v0.15.0-rc1 (2016-04-26)
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Features:

* Add login support for Javascript Web Tokens, thanks to Niklas Riekenbrauck
  (PR #671,#687)
* Add URL previewing support (PR #688)
* Add login support for LDAP, thanks to Christoph Witzany (PR #701)
* Add GET endpoint for pushers (PR #716)

Changes:

* Never notify for member events (PR #667)
* Deduplicate identical ``/sync`` requests (PR #668)
* Require user to have left room to forget room (PR #673)
* Use DNS cache if within TTL (PR #677)
* Let users see their own leave events (PR #699)
* Deduplicate membership changes (PR #700)
* Increase performance of pusher code (PR #705)
* Respond with error status 504 if failed to talk to remote server (PR #731)
* Increase search performance on postgres (PR #745)

Bug fixes:

* Fix bug where disabling all notifications still resulted in push (PR #678)
* Fix bug where users couldn't reject remote invites if remote refused (PR #691)
* Fix bug where synapse attempted to backfill from itself (PR #693)
* Fix bug where profile information was not correctly added when joining remote
  rooms (PR #703)
* Fix bug where register API required incorrect key name for AS registration
  (PR #727)
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