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)
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