Synapse 1.40.0rc2 (2021-08-04)
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Bugfixes
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- Fix the `PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler` inhibiting application shutdown because of its background thread. ([\#10517](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10517))
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0rc1 that could cause Synapse to respond with an error when clients would update read receipts. ([\#10531](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10531))
Internal Changes
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- Fix release script to open the correct URL for the release. ([\#10516](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10516))
Synapse 1.38.1 (2021-07-22)
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Bugfixes
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- Always include `device_one_time_keys_count` key in `/sync` response to work around a bug in Element Android that broke encryption for new devices. ([\#10457](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10457))
In #75, bytecode was disabled (from a bit of FUD back in `python<2.4` days, according to dev chat), I think it's safe enough to enable it again.
Added in `__pycache__/` and `.pyc`/`.pyd` to `.gitignore`, to extra-insure compiled files don't get committed.
`Signed-off-by: Jonathan de Jong <jonathan@automatia.nl>`
Adds note about updating dh-virtualenv once we drop support for Xenial.
We can't update now, because it needs debhelper 12, while Xenial only
backports 10.
Signed-off-by: Dan Callahan <danc@element.io>
`distutils` is pretty much deprecated these days, and replaced with
`setuptools`. It's also annoying because it's you can't `pip install` it, and
it's hard to figure out which debian package we should depend on to make sure
it's there.
Since we only use it for a tiny function anyway, let's just vendor said
function into our codebase.
