Synapse 0.99.3 (2019-04-01)

No significant changes.

Synapse 0.99.3rc1 (2019-03-27)
Features
The user directory has been rewritten to make it faster, with less chance of falling behind on a large server. (#4537, #4846, #4864, #4887, #4900, #4944)
Add configurable rate limiting to the /register endpoint. (#4735, #4804)
Move server key queries to federation reader. (#4757)
Add support for /account/3pid REST endpoint to client_reader worker. (#4759)
Add an endpoint to the admin API for querying the server version. Contributed by Joseph Weston. (#4772)
Include a default configuration file in the 'docs' directory. (#4791, #4801)
Synapse is now permissive about trailing slashes on some of its federation endpoints, allowing zero or more to be present. (#4793)
Add support for /keys/query and /keys/changes REST endpoints to client_reader worker. (#4796)
Add checks to incoming events over federation for events evading auth (aka "soft fail"). (#4814)
Add configurable rate limiting to the /login endpoint. (#4821, #4865)
Remove trailing slashes from certain outbound federation requests. Retry if receiving a 404. Context: #3622. (#4840)
Allow passing --daemonize flags to workers in the same way as with master. (#4853)
Batch up outgoing read-receipts to reduce federation traffic. (#4890, #4927)
Add option to disable searching the user directory. (#4895)
Add option to disable searching of local and remote public room lists. (#4896)
Add ability for password providers to login/register a user via 3PID (email, phone). (#4931)
Bugfixes
Fix a bug where media with spaces in the name would get a corrupted name. (#2090)
Fix attempting to paginate in rooms where server cannot see any events, to avoid unnecessarily pulling in lots of redacted events. (#4699)
'event_id' is now a required parameter in federated state requests, as per the matrix spec. (#4740)
Fix tightloop over connecting to replication server. (#4749)
Fix parsing of Content-Disposition headers on remote media requests and URL previews. (#4763)
Fix incorrect log about not persisting duplicate state event. (#4776)
Fix v4v6 option in HAProxy example config. Contributed by Flakebi. (#4790)
Handle batch updates in worker replication protocol. (#4792)
Fix bug where we didn't correctly throttle sending of USER_IP commands over replication. (#4818)
Fix potential race in handling missing updates in device list updates. (#4829)
Fix bug where synapse expected an un-specced prev_state field on state events. (#4837)
Transfer a user's notification settings (push rules) on room upgrade. (#4838)
fix test_auto_create_auto_join_where_no_consent. (#4886)
Fix a bug where hs_disabled_message was sometimes not correctly enforced. (#4888)
Fix bug in shutdown room admin API where it would fail if a user in the room hadn't consented to the privacy policy. (#4904)
Fix bug where blocked world-readable rooms were still peekable. (#4908)
Internal Changes
Add a systemd setup that supports synapse workers. Contributed by Luca Corbatto. (#4662)
Change from TravisCI to Buildkite for CI. (#4752)
When presence is disabled don't send over replication. (#4757)
Minor docstring fixes for MatrixFederationAgent. (#4765)
Optimise EDU transmission for the federation_sender worker. (#4770)
Update test_typing to use HomeserverTestCase. (#4771)
Update URLs for riot.im icons and logos in the default notification templates. (#4779)
Removed unnecessary $ from some federation endpoint path regexes. (#4794)
Remove link to deleted title in README. (#4795)
Clean up read-receipt handling. (#4797)
Add some debug about processing read receipts. (#4798)
Clean up some replication code. (#4799)
Add some docstrings. (#4815)
Add debug logger to try and track down #4422. (#4816)
Make shutdown API send explanation message to room after users have been forced joined. (#4817)
Update example_log_config.yaml. (#4820)
Document the generate option for the docker image. (#4824)
Fix check-newsfragment for debian-only changes. (#4825)
Add some debug logging for device list updates to help with #4828. (#4828)
Improve federation documentation, specifically .well-known support. Many thanks to @vaab. (#4832)
Disable captcha registration by default in unit tests. (#4839)
Add stuff back to the .gitignore. (#4843)
Clarify what registration_shared_secret allows for. (#4844)
Correctly log expected errors when fetching server keys. (#4847)
Update install docs to explicitly state a full-chain (not just the top-level) TLS certificate must be provided to Synapse. This caused some people's Synapse ports to appear correct in a browser but still (rightfully so) upset the federation tester. (#4849)
Move client read-receipt processing to federation sender worker. (#4852)
Refactor federation TransactionQueue. (#4855)
Comment out most options in the generated config. (#4863)
Fix yaml library warnings by using safe_load. (#4869)
Update Apache setup to remove location syntax. Thanks to @cwmke! (#4870)
Reinstate test case that runs unit tests against oldest supported dependencies. (#4879)
Update link to federation docs. (#4881)
fix test_auto_create_auto_join_where_no_consent. (#4886)
Use a regular HomeServerConfig object for unit tests rater than a Mock. (#4889)
Add some notes about tuning postgres for larger deployments. (#4895)
Add a config option for torture-testing worker replication. (#4902)
Log requests which are simulated by the unit tests. (#4905)
Allow newsfragments to end with exclamation marks. Exciting! (#4912)
Refactor some more tests to use HomeserverTestCase. (#4913)
Refactor out the state deltas portion of the user directory store and handler. (#4917)
Fix nginx example in ACME doc. (#4923)
Use an explicit dbname for postgres connections in the tests. (#4928)
Fix ClientReplicationStreamProtocol.__str__(). (#4929)
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