Synapse 1.85.0rc1 (2023-05-30)

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Features
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- Improve performance of backfill requests by performing backfill of previously failed requests in the background. ([\#15585](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15585))
- Add a new [admin API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.85/usage/administration/admin_api/index.html) to [create a new device for a user](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.85/admin_api/user_admin_api.html#create-a-device). ([\#15611](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15611))
- Add Unix socket support for Redis connections. Contributed by Jason Little. ([\#15644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15644))

Bugfixes
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- Fix a long-standing bug where setting the read marker could fail when using message retention. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@fizzadar). ([\#15464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15464))
- Fix a long-standing bug where the `url_preview_url_blacklist` configuration setting was not applied to oEmbed or image URLs found while previewing a URL. ([\#15601](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15601))
- Fix a long-standing bug where filters with multiple backslashes were rejected. ([\#15607](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15607))
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.82.0 where the error message displayed when validation of the `app_service_config_files` config option fails would be incorrectly formatted. ([\#15614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15614))
- Fix a long-standing bug where deactivated users were still able to login using the custom `org.matrix.login.jwt` login type (if enabled). ([\#15624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15624))
- Fix a long-standing bug where deactivated users were able to login in uncommon situations. ([\#15634](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15634))

Improved Documentation
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- Warn users that at least 3.75GB of space is needed for the nix Synapse development environment. ([\#15613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15613))
- Remove outdated comment from the generated and sample homeserver log configs. ([\#15648](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15648))
- Improve contributor docs to make it more clear that Rust is a necessary prerequisite. Contributed by @grantm. ([\#15668](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15668))

Deprecations and Removals
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- Remove the old version of the R30 (30-day retained users) phone-home metric. ([\#10428](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10428))

Internal Changes
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- Create dependabot changelogs at release time. ([\#15481](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15481))
- Add not null constraint to column `full_user_id` of tables `profiles` and `user_filters`. ([\#15537](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15537))
- Allow connecting to HTTP Replication Endpoints by using `worker_name` when constructing the request. ([\#15578](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15578))
- Make the `thread_id` column on `event_push_actions`, `event_push_actions_staging`, and `event_push_summary` non-null. ([\#15597](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15597))
- Run mypy type checking with the minimum supported Python version to catch new usage that isn't backwards-compatible. ([\#15602](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15602))
- Fix subscriptable type usage in Python <3.9. ([\#15604](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15604))
- Update internal terminology. ([\#15606](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15606), [\#15620](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15620))
- Instrument `state` and `state_group` storage-related operations to better picture what's happening when tracing. ([\#15610](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15610), [\#15647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15647))
- Trace how many new events from the backfill response we need to process. ([\#15633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15633))
- Re-type config paths in `ConfigError`s to be `StrSequence`s instead of `Iterable[str]`s. ([\#15615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15615))
- Update Mutual Rooms ([MSC2666](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2666)) implementation to match new proposal text. ([\#15621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15621))
- Remove the unstable identifiers from faster joins ([MSC3706](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3706)). ([\#15625](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15625))
- Fix the olddeps CI. ([\#15626](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15626))
- Remove duplicate timestamp from test logs (`_trial_temp/test.log`). ([\#15636](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15636))
- Fix two memory leaks in `trial` test runs. ([\#15630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15630))
- Limit the size of the `HomeServerConfig` cache in trial test runs. ([\#15646](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15646))
- Improve type hints. ([\#15658](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15658), [\#15659](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15659))
- Add requesting user id parameter to key claim methods in `TransportLayerClient`. ([\#15663](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15663))
- Speed up rebuilding of the user directory for local users. ([\#15665](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15665))
- Implement "option 2" for [MSC3820](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3820): Room version 11. ([\#15666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15666), [\#15678](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15678))

* Bump furo from 2023.3.27 to 2023.5.20. ([\#15642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15642))
* Bump log from 0.4.17 to 0.4.18. ([\#15681](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15681))
* Bump prometheus-client from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0. ([\#15682](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15682))
* Bump pydantic from 1.10.7 to 1.10.8. ([\#15685](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15685))
* Bump pygithub from 1.58.1 to 1.58.2. ([\#15643](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15643))
* Bump requests from 2.28.2 to 2.31.0. ([\#15651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15651))
* Bump sphinx from 6.1.3 to 6.2.1. ([\#15641](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15641))
* Bump types-bleach from 6.0.0.1 to 6.0.0.3. ([\#15686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15686))
* Bump types-pillow from 9.5.0.2 to 9.5.0.4. ([\#15640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15640))
* Bump types-pyyaml from 6.0.12.9 to 6.0.12.10. ([\#15683](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15683))
* Bump types-requests from 2.30.0.0 to 2.31.0.0. ([\#15684](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15684))
* Bump types-setuptools from 67.7.0.2 to 67.8.0.0. ([\#15639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15639))
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