Synapse 1.7.1 (2019-12-18)

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This release includes several security fixes as well as a fix to a bug exposed by the security fixes. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Security updates
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- Fix a bug which could cause room events to be incorrectly authorized using events from a different room. ([\#6501](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6501), [\#6503](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6503), [\#6521](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6521), [\#6524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6524), [\#6530](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6530), [\#6531](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6531))
- Fix a bug causing responses to the `/context` client endpoint to not use the pruned version of the event. ([\#6553](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6553))
- Fix a cause of state resets in room versions 2 onwards. ([\#6556](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6556), [\#6560](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6560))

Bugfixes
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- Fix a bug which could cause the federation server to incorrectly return errors when handling certain obscure event graphs. ([\#6526](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6526), [\#6527](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6527))
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