v1.102.0rc1

Synapse 1.102.0rc1 (2024-02-20)

Features

• A metric was added for emails sent by Synapse, broken down by type: synapse_emails_sent_total. Contributed by Remi Rampin. (#16881)

Bugfixes

• Do not send multiple concurrent requests for keys for the same server. (#16894)
• Fix performance issue when joining very large rooms that can cause the server to lock up. Introduced in v1.100.0. (#16903)
• Always prefer unthreaded receipt when >1 exist (MSC4102). (#16927)

Improved Documentation

• Fix a small typo in the Rooms section of the Admin API documentation. Contributed by @RainerZufall187. (#16857)

Internal Changes

• Don't invalidate the entire event cache when we purge history. (#16905)
• Add experimental config option to not send device list updates for specific users. (#16909)
• Fix incorrect docker hub link in release script. (#16910)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump attrs from 23.1.0 to 23.2.0. (#16899)
• Bump bcrypt from 4.0.1 to 4.1.2. (#16900)
• Bump pygithub from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0. (#16902)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 1.40.0 to 1.40.3. (#16898)

v1.101.0

Synapse 1.101.0 (2024-02-13)

Bugfixes

• Fix performance regression when fetching auth chains from the DB. Introduced in v1.100.0. (#16893)

Synapse 1.101.0rc1 (2024-02-06)

Improved Documentation

• Fix broken links in the documentation. (#16853)
• Update MacOS installation instructions to mention that libicu is optional. (#16854)
• The version picker now correctly lists versions after v1.98.0. (#16880)

Internal Changes

• Add support for stabilised MSC3981 that adds a recurse parameter on the /relations API. (#16842)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump dorny/paths-filter from 2 to 3. (#16869)
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.40 to 3.1.41. (#16850)
• Bump hiredis from 2.2.3 to 2.3.2. (#16862)
• Bump jsonschema from 4.20.0 to 4.21.1. (#16887)
• Bump lxml-stubs from 0.4.0 to 0.5.1. (#16885)
• Bump mypy-zope from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3. (#16865)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.26 to 8.13.29. (#16868)
• Bump pydantic from 2.5.3 to 2.6.0. (#16888)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 1.39.1 to 1.40.0. (#16889)
• Bump serde from 1.0.195 to 1.0.196. (#16867)
• Bump serde_json from 1.0.111 to 1.0.113. (#16866)
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0. (#16890)
• Bump types-pillow from 10.1.0.2 to 10.2.0.20240125. (#16864)
• Bump types-requests from 2.31.0.10 to 2.31.0.20240125. (#16886)
• Bump types-setuptools from 69.0.0.0 to 69.0.0.20240125. (#16863)

v1.101.0rc1

Synapse 1.101.0rc1 (2024-02-06)

Improved Documentation

• Fix broken links in the documentation. (#16853)
• Update MacOS installation instructions to mention that libicu is optional. (#16854)
• The version picker now correctly lists versions after v1.98.0. (#16880)

Internal Changes

• Add support for stabilised MSC3981 that adds a recurse parameter on the /relations API. (#16842)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump dorny/paths-filter from 2 to 3. (#16869)
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.40 to 3.1.41. (#16850)
• Bump hiredis from 2.2.3 to 2.3.2. (#16862)
• Bump jsonschema from 4.20.0 to 4.21.1. (#16887)
• Bump lxml-stubs from 0.4.0 to 0.5.1. (#16885)
• Bump mypy-zope from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3. (#16865)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.26 to 8.13.29. (#16868)
• Bump pydantic from 2.5.3 to 2.6.0. (#16888)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 1.39.1 to 1.40.0. (#16889)
• Bump serde from 1.0.195 to 1.0.196. (#16867)
• Bump serde_json from 1.0.111 to 1.0.113. (#16866)
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0. (#16890)
• Bump types-pillow from 10.1.0.2 to 10.2.0.20240125. (#16864)
• Bump types-requests from 2.31.0.10 to 2.31.0.20240125. (#16886)
• Bump types-setuptools from 69.0.0.0 to 69.0.0.20240125. (#16863)

v1.100.0

Synapse 1.100.0 (2024-01-30)

No significant changes since 1.100.0rc3.

Synapse 1.100.0rc3 (2024-01-24)

Bugfixes

• Fix database performance regression due to changing Postgres table statistics. Introduced in v1.100.0rc1. (#16849)

Synapse 1.100.0rc2 (2024-01-24)

This version is the same as 1.100.0rc1 but with fixes to the release process.

Internal Changes

• Downgrade the download-artifact and upload-artifact actions to v3 due to breaking changes. (#16847)

Synapse 1.100.0rc1 (2024-01-23)

This version was never released to PyPI or the Debian repository due to failures in the automatic part of the release process.

Features

• Advertise experimental support for MSC4028 through /_matrix/clients/versions if enabled. Contributed by @hanadi92. (#16787)

Bugfixes

• Handle wildcard type filters properly for room messages endpoint. Contributed by Mo Balaa. (#14984)

Improved Documentation

• Add a link to the "Request log format" explainer on the "Logging sample config" documentation page. (#16778)
• Fix broken links in issue templates and documentation. (#16810)
• NGINX listen http2 deprecation in documentation template for reverse proxy. (#16831)

Internal Changes

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

Updates to locked dependencies

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

v1.100.0rc3

Synapse 1.100.0rc3 (2024-01-24)

Bugfixes

• Fix database performance regression due to changing Postgres table statistics. Introduced in v1.100.0rc1. (#16849)

v1.100.0rc2

Synapse 1.100.0rc2 (2024-01-24)

This version is the same as 1.100.0rc1 but with fixes to the release process.

Internal Changes

• Downgrade the download-artifact and upload-artifact actions to v3 due to breaking changes. (#16847)

v1.100.0rc1

Synapse 1.100.0rc1 (2024-01-23)

Features

• Advertise experimental support for MSC4028 through /_matrix/clients/versions if enabled. Contributed by @hanadi92. (#16787)

Bugfixes

• Handle wildcard type filters properly for room messages endpoint. Contributed by Mo Balaa. (#14984)

Improved Documentation

• Add a link to the "Request log format" explainer on the "Logging sample config" documentation page. (#16778)
• Fix broken links in issue templates and documentation. (#16810)
• NGINX listen http2 deprecation in documentation template for reverse proxy. (#16831)

Internal Changes

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

Updates to locked dependencies

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

v1.99.0

Synapse 1.99.0 (2024-01-16)

Synapse 1.99.0 is the first Synapse release under an AGPLv3.0 licence (with CLA to enable Element to sell AGPL exceptions). You can read more about this here:

• https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
• https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/
• https://element.io/blog/synapse-now-lives-at-github-com-element-hq-synapse/

No significant changes since 1.99.0rc1.

Synapse 1.99.0rc1 (2024-01-09)

• Add config options to set the avatar and the topic of the server notices room, as well as the avatar of the server notices user. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16679)

• Add config option email.notif_delay_before_mail to tweak the delay before an email is sent following a notification. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16696)

• Add new configuration option sentry.environment for improved system monitoring. Contributed by @zeeshanrafiqrana. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16738)

• Filter out rooms from the room directory being served to other homeservers when those rooms block that homeserver by their Access Control Lists. (#16759)

• Fix a long-standing bug where the signing keys generated by Synapse were world-readable. Contributed by Fabian Klemp. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16740)

• Fix email verification redirection. Contributed by Fadhlan Ridhwanallah. (#16761)

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from being queried by display name if it contains non-ASCII characters. (#16767)

• Allow reactivate user without password with Admin API in some edge cases. (#16770)

• Adds the recursion_depth parameter to the response of the /relations endpoint if MSC3981 recursion is being performed. (#16775)

• Added version picker for Synapse documentation. Contributed by @Dmytro27Ind. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16533)

• Clarify that password_config.enabled: "only_for_reauth" does not allow new logins to be created using password auth. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16737)

• Remove value from header in configuration documentation for refresh_token_lifetime. (#16763)

• Add another custom statistics collection server to the documentation. Contributed by @loelkes. (#16769)

• Remove run-once workflow after adding the version picker to the documentation. (#9453)

• Update the implementation of [MSC2965](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2965) (OIDC Provider discovery). (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16726)

• Move the rust stubs inline for better IDE integration. (#16757)

• Fix sample config doc CI. (#16758)

• Simplify event internal metadata class. (#16762, #16780)

• Sign the published docker image using cosign. (#16774)

• Port EventInternalMetadata class to Rust. (#16782)

• Bump actions/setup-go from 4 to 5. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16749)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16748)
• Bump immutabledict from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16743)
• Bump isort from 5.12.0 to 5.13.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16745)
• Bump isort from 5.13.0 to 5.13.1. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16752)
• Bump pydantic from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16747)
• Bump ruff from 0.1.6 to 0.1.7. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16746)
• Bump types-setuptools from 68.2.0.2 to 69.0.0.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16744)

v1.99.0rc1

Synapse 1.99.0rc1 (2024-01-09)

Synapse is now released by Element under an AGPLv3.0 licence. You can read more about this here:

• https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
• https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/
• https://element.io/blog/synapse-now-lives-at-github-com-element-hq-synapse/

Features

• Add config options to set the avatar and the topic of the server notices room, as well as the avatar of the server notices user. (#16679)
• Add config option email.notif_delay_before_mail to tweak the delay before an email is sent following a notification. (#16696)
• Add new configuration option sentry.environment for improved system monitoring. Contributed by @zeeshanrafiqrana. (#16738)
• Filter out rooms from the room directory being served to other homeservers when those rooms block that homeserver by their Access Control Lists. (#16759)

Bugfixes

• Fix a long-standing bug where the signing keys generated by Synapse were world-readable. Contributed by Fabian Klemp. (#16740)
• Fix email verification redirection. Contributed by Fadhlan Ridhwanallah. (#16761)
• Fixed a bug that prevented users from being queried by display name if it contains non-ASCII characters. (#16767)
• Allow reactivate user without password with Admin API in some edge cases. (#16770)
• Adds the recursion_depth parameter to the response of the /relations endpoint if MSC3981 recursion is being performed. (#16775)

Improved Documentation

• Added version picker for Synapse documentation. Contributed by @Dmytro27Ind. (#16533)
• Clarify that password_config.enabled: "only_for_reauth" does not allow new logins to be created using password auth. (#16737)
• Remove value from header in configuration documentation for refresh_token_lifetime. (#16763)
• Add another custom statistics collection server to the documentation. Contributed by @loelkes. (#16769)

Internal Changes

• Remove run-once workflow after adding the version picker to the documentation. (#9453)
• Update the implementation of MSC2965 (OIDC Provider discovery). (#16726)
• Move the rust stubs inline for better IDE integration. (#16757)
• Fix sample config doc CI. (#16758)
• Simplify event internal metadata class. (#16762, #16780)
• Sign the published docker image using cosign. (#16774)
• Port EventInternalMetadata class to Rust. (#16782)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump actions/setup-go from 4 to 5. (#16749)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5. (#16748)
• Bump immutabledict from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0. (#16743)
• Bump isort from 5.12.0 to 5.13.0. (#16745)
• Bump isort from 5.13.0 to 5.13.1. (#16752)
• Bump pydantic from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2. (#16747)
• Bump ruff from 0.1.6 to 0.1.7. (#16746)
• Bump types-setuptools from 68.2.0.2 to 69.0.0.0. (#16744)