- Advertise experimental support for [MSC4028](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4028) through `/_matrix/clients/versions` if enabled. Contributed by @hanadi92. ([\#16787](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16787))

- Handle wildcard type filters properly for room messages endpoint. Contributed by Mo Balaa. ([\#14984](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/14984))

- Add a link to the "Request log format" explainer on the "Logging sample config" documentation page. ([\#16778](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16778))
- Fix broken links in issue templates and documentation. ([\#16810](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16810))
- NGINX listen http2 deprecation in documentation template for reverse proxy. ([\#16831](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16831))

- Faster partial join to room with complex auth graph. ([\#7](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/7))
- Improve DB performance of calculating badge counts for push. ([\#16756](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16756))
- Split up deleting devices into batches. ([\#16766](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16766))
- Remove CI check for sign-off as we require a CLA signature instead. ([\#16776](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16776))
- Ensure CI fails when linting fails to make sure auto-merge does the correct thing. ([\#16781](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16781))
- Faster load recents for sync by reducing amount of state pulled out. ([\#16783](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16783))
- Reduce amount of state pulled out when querying federation hierachy. ([\#16785](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16785))
- Pull less state out of the DB when we retry fetching old events during backfill. ([\#16788](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16788))
- Optimize query for fetching to-device messages in `/sync`. ([\#16805](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16805))
- Reject OIDC config when `client_secret` isn't specified, but the auth method requires one. ([\#16806](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16806))
- Allow room creation but not publishing to continue if room publication rules are violated when creating
  a new room. ([\#16811](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16811))
- Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.65.0. ([\#16818](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16818))
- Fixup copyright lines in file headers after the licensing change. ([\#16820](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16820))
- Add a `--generate-only` option to the internal configuration/launch script for Complement. ([\#16828](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16828))
- Preparatory work for tweaking performance of auth chain lookups. ([\#16833](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16833))
- Speed up e2e device keys queries for bot accounts. ([\#16841](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16841))

* Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4. ([\#16832](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16832))
* Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4. ([\#16795](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16795))
* Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4. ([\#16796](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16796))
* Bump anyhow from 1.0.75 to 1.0.79. ([\#16789](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16789))
* Bump authlib from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0. ([\#16801](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16801))
* Bump dawidd6/action-download-artifact from 2.28.0 to 3.0.0. ([\#16794](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16794))
* Bump immutabledict from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0. ([\#16812](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16812))
* Bump isort from 5.13.1 to 5.13.2. ([\#16835](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16835))
* Bump lxml from 4.9.3 to 5.1.0. ([\#16813](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16813))
* Bump pillow from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0. ([\#16802](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16802))
* Bump pydantic from 2.5.2 to 2.5.3. ([\#16836](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16836))
* Bump pyo3 from 0.20.0 to 0.20.2. ([\#16791](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16791))
* Bump regex from 1.9.6 to 1.10.3. ([\#16837](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16837))
* Bump ruff from 0.1.13 to 0.1.14. ([\#16838](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16838))
* Bump ruff from 0.1.7 to 0.1.13. ([\#16814](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16814))
* Bump sentry-sdk from 1.35.0 to 1.39.1. ([\#16799](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16799))
* Bump serde_json from 1.0.108 to 1.0.111. ([\#16792](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16792))
* Bump service-identity from 23.1.0 to 24.1.0. ([\#16816](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16816))
* Bump types-commonmark from 0.9.2.4 to 0.9.2.20240106. ([\#16797](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16797))
* Bump types-jsonschema from 4.20.0.0 to 4.20.0.20240105. ([\#16800](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16800))
* Bump types-jsonschema from 4.20.0.20240105 to 4.21.0.20240118. ([\#16834](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16834))
* Bump types-netaddr from 0.9.0.1 to 0.10.0.20240106. ([\#16839](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16839))
* Bump typing-extensions from 4.8.0 to 4.9.0. ([\#16815](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16815))
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