Fix changelog

Fix inserting bytes as text in `censor_redactions`

.buildkite/docker-compose.py35.pg95.yaml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ services:
     image: postgres:9.5
     environment:
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
+    command: -c fsync=off
 
   testenv:
     image: python:3.5
@@ -16,6 +17,6 @@ services:
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
-    working_dir: /app
+    working_dir: /src
     volumes:
-      - ..:/app
+      - ..:/src

.buildkite/docker-compose.py37.pg11.yaml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ services:
     image: postgres:11
     environment:
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
+    command: -c fsync=off
 
   testenv:
     image: python:3.7
@@ -16,6 +17,6 @@ services:
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
-    working_dir: /app
+    working_dir: /src
     volumes:
-      - ..:/app
+      - ..:/src

.buildkite/docker-compose.py37.pg95.yaml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ services:
     image: postgres:9.5
     environment:
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
+    command: -c fsync=off
 
   testenv:
     image: python:3.7
@@ -16,6 +17,6 @@ services:
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER: postgres
       SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
-    working_dir: /app
+    working_dir: /src
     volumes:
-      - ..:/app
+      - ..:/src

.buildkite/format_tap.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2019 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 import sys
 from tap.parser import Parser
 from tap.line import Result, Unknown, Diagnostic

.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ git config --global user.name "A robot"
 
 # Fetch and merge. If it doesn't work, it will raise due to set -e.
 git fetch -u origin $GITBASE
-git merge --no-edit origin/$GITBASE
+git merge --no-edit --no-commit origin/$GITBASE
 
 # Show what we are after.
 git --no-pager show -s

.buildkite/pipeline.yml

@@ -1,240 +0,0 @@
-env:
-  CODECOV_TOKEN: "2dd7eb9b-0eda-45fe-a47c-9b5ac040045f"
-
-steps:
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e check_codestyle"
-    label: "\U0001F9F9 Check Style"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "python:3.6"
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e packaging"
-    label: "\U0001F9F9 packaging"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "python:3.6"
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e check_isort"
-    label: "\U0001F9F9 isort"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "python:3.6"
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "scripts-dev/check-newsfragment"
-    label: ":newspaper: Newsfile"
-    branches: "!master !develop !release-*"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "python:3.6"
-          propagate-environment: true
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e check-sampleconfig"
-    label: "\U0001F9F9 check-sample-config"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "python:3.6"
-
-  - wait
-
-
-  - command:
-      - "apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3.5 python3.5-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev"
-      - "python3.5 -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e py35-old,codecov"
-    label: ":python: 3.5 / SQLite / Old Deps"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 2"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "ubuntu:xenial"  # We use xenail to get an old sqlite and python
-          propagate-environment: true
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e py35,codecov"
-    label: ":python: 3.5 / SQLite"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 2"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
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-    retry:
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-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e py36,codecov"
-    label: ":python: 3.6 / SQLite"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 2"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
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-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - command:
-      - "python -m pip install tox"
-      - "tox -e py37,codecov"
-    label: ":python: 3.7 / SQLite"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 2"
-    plugins:
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-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - label: ":python: 3.5 / :postgres: 9.5"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 8"
-    command:
-      - "bash -c 'python -m pip install tox && python -m tox -e py35-postgres,codecov'"
-    plugins:
-      - docker-compose#v2.1.0:
-          run: testenv
-          config:
-            - .buildkite/docker-compose.py35.pg95.yaml
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - label: ":python: 3.7 / :postgres: 9.5"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 8"
-    command:
-      - "bash -c 'python -m pip install tox && python -m tox -e py37-postgres,codecov'"
-    plugins:
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-          run: testenv
-          config:
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-    retry:
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-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - label: ":python: 3.7 / :postgres: 11"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      TRIAL_FLAGS: "-j 8"
-    command:
-      - "bash -c 'python -m pip install tox && python -m tox -e py37-postgres,codecov'"
-    plugins:
-      - docker-compose#v2.1.0:
-          run: testenv
-          config:
-            - .buildkite/docker-compose.py37.pg11.yaml
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-
-  - label: "SyTest - :python: 3.5 / SQLite / Monolith"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    command:
-      - "bash .buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh"
-      - "bash /synapse_sytest.sh"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:py35"
-          propagate-environment: true
-          always-pull: true
-          workdir: "/src"
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - label: "SyTest - :python: 3.5 / :postgres: 9.6 / Monolith"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      POSTGRES: "1"
-    command:
-      - "bash .buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh"
-      - "bash /synapse_sytest.sh"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:py35"
-          propagate-environment: true
-          always-pull: true
-          workdir: "/src"
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2
-
-  - label: "SyTest - :python: 3.5 / :postgres: 9.6 / Workers"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      POSTGRES: "1"
-      WORKERS: "1"
-      BLACKLIST: "synapse-blacklist-with-workers"
-    command:
-      - "bash .buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh"
-      - "bash -c 'cat /src/sytest-blacklist /src/.buildkite/worker-blacklist > /src/synapse-blacklist-with-workers'"
-      - "bash /synapse_sytest.sh"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:py35"
-          propagate-environment: true
-          always-pull: true
-          workdir: "/src"
-    retry:
-      automatic:
-        - exit_status: -1
-          limit: 2
-        - exit_status: 2
-          limit: 2

.buildkite/worker-blacklist

@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 
 Message history can be paginated
 
-m.room.history_visibility == "world_readable" allows/forbids appropriately for Guest users
-
-m.room.history_visibility == "world_readable" allows/forbids appropriately for Real users
-
 Can re-join room if re-invited
 
 /upgrade creates a new room

.coveragerc

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 [run]
 branch = True
 parallel = True
-include = synapse/*
+include=$TOP/synapse/*
+data_file = $TOP/.coverage
 
 [report]
 precision = 2

.gitignore

@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ _trial_temp*/
 /*.log
 /*.log.config
 /*.pid
+/.python-version
 /*.signing.key
 /env/
 /homeserver*.yaml
+/logs
 /media_store/
 /uploads
 
@@ -28,8 +30,9 @@ _trial_temp*/
 /.vscode/
 
 # build products
-/.coverage*
 !/.coveragerc
+/.coverage*
+/.mypy_cache/
 /.tox
 /build/
 /coverage.*
@@ -37,4 +40,3 @@ _trial_temp*/
 /docs/build/
 /htmlcov
 /pip-wheel-metadata/
-

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,298 @@
+Synapse 1.4.1 (2019-10-18)
+==========================
+
+No changes since 1.4.1rc1.
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.1rc1 (2019-10-17)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug where redacted events were sometimes incorrectly censored in the database, breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6185), [5b0e9948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/5b0e9948eaae801643e594b5abc8ee4b10bd194e))
+
+Synapse 1.4.0 (2019-10-03)
+==========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Redact `client_secret` in server logs. ([\#6158](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6158))
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.0rc2 (2019-10-02)
+=============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bug in background update that adds last seen information to the `devices` table, and improve its performance on Postgres. ([\#6135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6135))
+- Fix bad performance of censoring redactions background task. ([\#6141](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6141))
+- Fix fetching censored redactions from DB, which caused APIs like initial sync to fail if it tried to include the censored redaction. ([\#6145](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6145))
+- Fix exceptions when storing large retry intervals for down remote servers. ([\#6146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6146))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix up sample config entry for `redaction_retention_period` option. ([\#6117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6117))
+
+
+Synapse 1.4.0rc1 (2019-09-26)
+=============================
+
+Note that this release includes significant changes around 3pid
+verification. Administrators are reminded to review the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v140).
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Changes to 3pid verification:
+  - Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server. ([\#5835](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5835), [\#5940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5940), [\#5993](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5993), [\#5994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5994), [\#5868](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5868))
+  - Replace `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` config option with `account_threepid_delegates`, and make the `id_server` parameteter optional on `*/requestToken` endpoints, as per [MSC2263](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2263). ([\#5876](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5876), [\#5969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5969), [\#6028](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6028))
+  - Switch to using the v2 Identity Service `/lookup` API where available, with fallback to v1. (Implements [MSC2134](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2134) plus `id_access_token authentication` for v2 Identity Service APIs from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140)). ([\#5897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5897))
+  - Remove `bind_email` and `bind_msisdn` parameters from `/register` ala [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140). ([\#5964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5964))
+  - Add `m.id_access_token` to `unstable_features` in `/versions` as per [MSC2264](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2264). ([\#5974](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5974))
+  - Use the v2 Identity Service API for 3PID invites. ([\#5979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5979))
+  - Add `POST /_matrix/client/unstable/account/3pid/unbind` endpoint from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140) for unbinding a 3PID from an identity server without removing it from the homeserver user account. ([\#5980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5980), [\#6062](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6062))
+  - Use `account_threepid_delegate.email` and `account_threepid_delegate.msisdn` for validating threepid sessions. ([\#6011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6011))
+  - Allow homeserver to handle or delegate email validation when adding an email to a user's account. ([\#6042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6042))
+  - Implement new Client Server API endpoints `/account/3pid/add` and `/account/3pid/bind` as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290). ([\#6043](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6043))
+  - Add an unstable feature flag for separate add/bind 3pid APIs. ([\#6044](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6044))
+  - Remove `bind` parameter from Client Server POST `/account` endpoint as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290/). ([\#6067](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6067))
+  - Add `POST /add_threepid/msisdn/submit_token` endpoint for proxying submitToken on an `account_threepid_handler`. ([\#6078](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6078))
+  - Add `submit_url` response parameter to `*/msisdn/requestToken` endpoints. ([\#6079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6079))
+  - Add `m.require_identity_server` flag to /version's unstable_features. ([\#5972](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5972))
+- Enhancements to OpenTracing support:
+  - Make OpenTracing work in worker mode. ([\#5771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5771))
+  - Pass OpenTracing contexts between servers when transmitting EDUs. ([\#5852](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5852))
+  - OpenTracing for device list updates. ([\#5853](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5853))
+  - Add a tag recording a request's authenticated entity and corresponding servlet in OpenTracing. ([\#5856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5856))
+  - Add minimum OpenTracing for client servlets. ([\#5983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5983))
+  - Check at setup that OpenTracing is installed if it's enabled in the config. ([\#5985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5985))
+  - Trace replication send times. ([\#5986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5986))
+  - Include missing OpenTracing contexts in outbout replication requests. ([\#5982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5982))
+  - Fix sending of EDUs when OpenTracing is enabled with an empty whitelist. ([\#5984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5984))
+  - Fix invalid references to None while OpenTracing if the log context slips. ([\#5988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5988), [\#5991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5991))
+  - OpenTracing for room and e2e keys. ([\#5855](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5855))
+  - Add OpenTracing span over HTTP push processing. ([\#6003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6003))
+- Add an admin API to purge old rooms from the database. ([\#5845](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5845))
+- Retry well-known lookups if we have recently seen a valid well-known record for the server. ([\#5850](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5850))
+- Add support for filtered room-directory search requests over federation ([MSC2197](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2197), in order to allow upcoming room directory query performance improvements. ([\#5859](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5859))
+- Correctly retry all hosts returned from SRV when we fail to connect. ([\#5864](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5864))
+- Add admin API endpoint for setting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5878](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5878))
+- Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to prevent undue build up of forward extremities. ([\#5884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5884))
+- Add config option to sign remote key query responses with a separate key. ([\#5895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5895))
+- Add support for config templating. ([\#5900](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5900))
+- Users with the type of "support" or "bot" are no longer required to consent. ([\#5902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5902))
+- Let synctl accept a directory of config files. ([\#5904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5904))
+- Increase max display name size to 256. ([\#5906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5906))
+- Add admin API endpoint for getting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5914](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5914))
+- Redact events in the database that have been redacted for a week. ([\#5934](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5934))
+- New prometheus metrics:
+  - `synapse_federation_known_servers`: represents the total number of servers your server knows about (i.e. is in rooms with), including itself. Enable by setting `metrics_flags.known_servers` to True in the configuration.([\#5981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5981))
+  - `synapse_build_info`: exposes the Python version, OS version, and Synapse version of the running server. ([\#6005](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6005))
+- Give appropriate exit codes when synctl fails. ([\#5992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5992))
+- Apply the federation blacklist to requests to identity servers. ([\#6000](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6000))
+- Add `report_stats_endpoint` option to configure where stats are reported to, if enabled. Contributed by @Sorunome. ([\#6012](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6012))
+- Add config option to increase ratelimits for room admins redacting messages. ([\#6015](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6015))
+- Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time. ([\#6026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6026))
+- Make the process for mapping SAML2 users to matrix IDs more flexible. ([\#6037](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6037))
+- Return a clearer error message when a timeout occurs when attempting to contact an identity server. ([\#6073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6073))
+- Prevent password reset's submit_token endpoint from accepting trailing slashes. ([\#6074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6074))
+- Return 403 on `/register/available` if registration has been disabled. ([\#6082](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6082))
+- Explicitly log when a homeserver does not have the `trusted_key_servers` config field configured. ([\#6090](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6090))
+- Add support for pruning old rows in `user_ips` table. ([\#6098](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6098))
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Don't create broken room when `power_level_content_override.users` does not contain `creator_id`. ([\#5633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5633))
+- Fix database index so that different backup versions can have the same sessions. ([\#5857](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5857))
+- Fix Synapse looking for config options `password_reset_failure_template` and `password_reset_success_template`, when they are actually `password_reset_template_failure_html`, `password_reset_template_success_html`. ([\#5863](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5863))
+- Fix stack overflow when recovering an appservice which had an outage. ([\#5885](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5885))
+- Fix error message which referred to `public_base_url` instead of `public_baseurl`. Thanks to @aaronraimist for the fix! ([\#5909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5909))
+- Fix 404 for thumbnail download when `dynamic_thumbnails` is `false` and the thumbnail was dynamically generated. Fix reported by rkfg. ([\#5915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5915))
+- Fix a cache-invalidation bug for worker-based deployments. ([\#5920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5920))
+- Fix admin API for listing media in a room not being available with an external media repo. ([\#5966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5966))
+- Fix list media admin API always returning an error. ([\#5967](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5967))
+- Fix room and user stats tracking. ([\#5971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5971), [\#5998](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5998), [\#6029](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6029))
+- Return a `M_MISSING_PARAM` if `sid` is not provided to `/account/3pid`. ([\#5995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5995))
+- `federation_certificate_verification_whitelist` now will not cause `TypeErrors` to be raised (a regression in 1.3). Additionally, it now supports internationalised domain names in their non-canonical representation. ([\#5996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5996))
+- Only count real users when checking for auto-creation of auto-join room. ([\#6004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6004))
+- Ensure support users can be registered even if MAU limit is reached. ([\#6020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6020))
+- Fix bug where login error was shown incorrectly on SSO fallback login. ([\#6024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6024))
+- Fix bug in calculating the federation retry backoff period. ([\#6025](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6025))
+- Prevent exceptions being logged when extremity-cleanup events fail due to lack of user consent to the terms of service. ([\#6053](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6053))
+- Remove POST method from password-reset `submit_token` endpoint until we implement `submit_url` functionality. ([\#6056](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6056))
+- Fix logcontext spam on non-Linux platforms. ([\#6059](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6059))
+- Ensure query parameters in email validation links are URL-encoded. ([\#6063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6063))
+- Fix a bug which caused SAML attribute maps to be overridden by defaults. ([\#6069](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6069))
+- Fix the logged number of updated items for the `users_set_deactivated_flag` background update. ([\#6092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6092))
+- Add `sid` to `next_link` for email validation. ([\#6097](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6097))
+- Threepid validity checks on msisdns should not be dependent on `threepid_behaviour_email`. ([\#6104](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6104))
+- Ensure that servers which are not configured to support email address verification do not offer it in the registration flows. ([\#6107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6107))
+
+
+Updates to the Docker image
+---------------------------
+
+- Avoid changing `UID/GID` if they are already correct. ([\#5970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5970))
+- Provide `SYNAPSE_WORKER` envvar to specify python module. ([\#6058](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6058))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Convert documentation to markdown (from rst) ([\#5849](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5849))
+- Update `INSTALL.md` to say that Python 2 is no longer supported. ([\#5953](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5953))
+- Add developer documentation for using SAML2. ([\#6032](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6032))
+- Add some notes on rolling back to v1.3.1. ([\#6049](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6049))
+- Update the upgrade notes. ([\#6050](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6050))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove shared-secret registration from `/_matrix/client/r0/register` endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5877))
+- Deprecate the `trusted_third_party_id_servers` option. ([\#5875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5875))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Lay the groundwork for structured logging output. ([\#5680](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5680))
+- Retry well-known lookup before the cache expires, giving a grace period where the remote well-known can be down but we still use the old result. ([\#5844](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5844))
+- Remove log line for debugging issue #5407. ([\#5860](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5860))
+- Refactor the Appservice scheduler code. ([\#5886](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5886))
+- Compatibility with v2 Identity Service APIs other than /lookup. ([\#5892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5892), [\#6013](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6013))
+- Stop populating some unused tables. ([\#5893](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5893), [\#6047](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6047))
+- Add missing index on `users_in_public_rooms` to improve the performance of directory queries. ([\#5894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5894))
+- Improve the logging when we have an error when fetching signing keys. ([\#5896](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5896))
+- Add support for database engine-specific schema deltas, based on file extension. ([\#5911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5911))
+- Update Buildkite pipeline to use plugins instead of buildkite-agent commands. ([\#5922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5922))
+- Add link in sample config to the logging config schema. ([\#5926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5926))
+- Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements. ([\#5931](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5931))
+- Remove unused `jenkins/prepare_sytest.sh` file. ([\#5938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5938))
+- Move Buildkite pipeline config to the pipelines repo. ([\#5943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5943))
+- Remove unnecessary return statements in the codebase which were the result of a regex run. ([\#5962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5962))
+- Remove left-over methods from v1 registration API. ([\#5963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5963))
+- Cleanup event auth type initialisation. ([\#5975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5975))
+- Clean up dependency checking at setup. ([\#5989](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5989))
+- Update OpenTracing docs to use the unified `trace` method. ([\#5776](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5776))
+- Small refactor of function arguments and docstrings in` RoomMemberHandler`. ([\#6009](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6009))
+- Remove unused `origin` argument on `FederationHandler.add_display_name_to_third_party_invite`. ([\#6010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6010))
+- Add a `failure_ts` column to the `destinations` database table. ([\#6016](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6016), [\#6072](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6072))
+- Clean up some code in the retry logic. ([\#6017](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6017))
+- Fix the structured logging tests stomping on the global log configuration for subsequent tests. ([\#6023](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6023))
+- Clean up the sample config for SAML authentication. ([\#6064](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6064))
+- Change mailer logging to reflect Synapse doesn't just do chat notifications by email now. ([\#6075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6075))
+- Move last-seen info into devices table. ([\#6089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6089))
+- Remove unused parameter to `get_user_id_by_threepid`. ([\#6099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6099))
+- Refactor the user-interactive auth handling. ([\#6105](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6105))
+- Refactor code for calculating registration flows. ([\#6106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6106))
+
+
+Synapse 1.3.1 (2019-08-17)
+==========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Drop hard dependency on `sdnotify` python package. ([\#5871](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5871))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix startup issue (hang on ACME provisioning) due to ordering of Twisted reactor startup. Thanks to @chrismoos for supplying the fix. ([\#5867](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5867))
+
+
+Synapse 1.3.0 (2019-08-15)
+==========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix 500 Internal Server Error on `publicRooms` when the public room list was
+  cached. ([\#5851](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5851))
+
+
+Synapse 1.3.0rc1 (2019-08-13)
+==========================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Use `M_USER_DEACTIVATED` instead of `M_UNKNOWN` for errcode when a deactivated user attempts to login. ([\#5686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5686))
+- Add sd_notify hooks to ease systemd integration and allows usage of Type=Notify. ([\#5732](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5732))
+- Synapse will no longer serve any media repo admin endpoints when `enable_media_repo` is set to False in the configuration. If a media repo worker is used, the admin APIs relating to the media repo will be served from it instead. ([\#5754](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5754), [\#5848](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5848))
+- Synapse can now be configured to not join remote rooms of a given "complexity" (currently, state events) over federation. This option can be used to prevent adverse performance on resource-constrained homeservers. ([\#5783](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5783))
+- Allow defining HTML templates to serve the user on account renewal attempt when using the account validity feature. ([\#5807](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5807))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix UISIs during homeserver outage. ([\#5693](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5693), [\#5789](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5789))
+- Fix stack overflow in server key lookup code. ([\#5724](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5724))
+- start.sh no longer uses deprecated cli option. ([\#5725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5725))
+- Log when we receive an event receipt from an unexpected origin. ([\#5743](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5743))
+- Fix debian packaging scripts to correctly build sid packages. ([\#5775](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5775))
+- Correctly handle redactions of redactions. ([\#5788](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5788))
+- Return 404 instead of 403 when accessing /rooms/{roomId}/event/{eventId} for an event without the appropriate permissions. ([\#5798](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5798))
+- Fix check that tombstone is a state event in push rules. ([\#5804](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5804))
+- Fix error when trying to login as a deactivated user when using a worker to handle login. ([\#5806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5806))
+- Fix bug where user `/sync` stream could get wedged in rare circumstances. ([\#5825](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5825))
+- The purge_remote_media.sh script was fixed. ([\#5839](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5839))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Synapse now no longer accepts the `-v`/`--verbose`, `-f`/`--log-file`, or `--log-config` command line flags, and removes the deprecated `verbose` and `log_file` configuration file options. Users of these options should migrate their options into the dedicated log configuration. ([\#5678](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5678), [\#5729](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5729))
+- Remove non-functional 'expire_access_token' setting. ([\#5782](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5782))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Make Jaeger fully configurable. ([\#5694](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5694))
+- Add precautionary measures to prevent future abuse of `window.opener` in default welcome page. ([\#5695](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5695))
+- Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership. ([\#5706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5706), [\#5738](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5738), [\#5746](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5746), [\#5752](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5752), [\#5770](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5770), [\#5774](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5774), [\#5792](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5792), [\#5793](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5793))
+- Improve caching when fetching `get_filtered_current_state_ids`. ([\#5713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5713))
+- Don't accept opentracing data from clients. ([\#5715](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5715))
+- Speed up PostgreSQL unit tests in CI. ([\#5717](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5717))
+- Update the coding style document. ([\#5719](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5719))
+- Improve database query performance when recording retry intervals for remote hosts. ([\#5720](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5720))
+- Add a set of opentracing utils. ([\#5722](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5722))
+- Cache result of get_version_string to reduce overhead of `/version` federation requests. ([\#5730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5730))
+- Return 'user_type' in admin API user endpoints results. ([\#5731](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5731))
+- Don't package the sytest test blacklist file. ([\#5733](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5733))
+- Replace uses of returnValue with plain return, as returnValue is not needed on Python 3. ([\#5736](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5736))
+- Blacklist some flakey tests in worker mode. ([\#5740](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5740))
+- Fix some error cases in the caching layer. ([\#5749](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5749))
+- Add a prometheus metric for pending cache lookups. ([\#5750](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5750))
+- Stop trying to fetch events with event_id=None. ([\#5753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5753))
+- Convert RedactionTestCase to modern test style. ([\#5768](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5768))
+- Allow looping calls to be given arguments. ([\#5780](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5780))
+- Set the logs emitted when checking typing and presence timeouts to DEBUG level, not INFO. ([\#5785](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5785))
+- Remove DelayedCall debugging from the test suite, as it is no longer required in the vast majority of Synapse's tests. ([\#5787](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5787))
+- Remove some spurious exceptions from the logs where we failed to talk to a remote server. ([\#5790](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5790))
+- Improve performance when making `.well-known` requests by sharing the SSL options between requests. ([\#5794](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5794))
+- Disable codecov GitHub comments on PRs. ([\#5796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5796))
+- Don't allow clients to send tombstone events that reference the room it's sent in. ([\#5801](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5801))
+- Deny redactions of events sent in a different room. ([\#5802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5802))
+- Deny sending well known state types as non-state events. ([\#5805](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5805))
+- Handle incorrectly encoded query params correctly by returning a 400. ([\#5808](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5808))
+- Handle pusher being deleted during processing rather than logging an exception. ([\#5809](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5809))
+- Return 502 not 500 when failing to reach any remote server. ([\#5810](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5810))
+- Reduce global pauses in the events stream caused by expensive state resolution during persistence. ([\#5826](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5826))
+- Add a lower bound to well-known lookup cache time to avoid repeated lookups. ([\#5836](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5836))
+- Whitelist history visbility sytests in worker mode tests. ([\#5843](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5843))
+
+
 Synapse 1.2.1 (2019-07-26)
 ==========================
 

CONTRIBUTING.rst

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Code style
 
 All Matrix projects have a well-defined code-style - and sometimes we've even
 got as far as documenting it... For instance, synapse's code style doc lives
-at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/docs/code_style.rst.
+at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/docs/code_style.md.
 
 Please ensure your changes match the cosmetic style of the existing project,
 and **never** mix cosmetic and functional changes in the same commit, as it

INSTALL.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ that your email address is probably `user@example.com` rather than
 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, or 2.7
+- Python 3.5, 3.6, or 3.7
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ is suitable for local testing, but for any practical use, you will either need
 to enable a reverse proxy, or configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port.
 
 For information on using a reverse proxy, see
-[docs/reverse_proxy.rst](docs/reverse_proxy.rst).
+[docs/reverse_proxy.md](docs/reverse_proxy.md).
 
 To configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port, you will need to edit
 `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
@@ -419,12 +419,11 @@ If Synapse is not configured with an SMTP server, password reset via email will
 
 ## Registering a user
 
-You will need at least one user on your server in order to use a Matrix
-client. Users can be registered either via a Matrix client, or via a
-commandline script.
+The easiest way to create a new user is to do so from a client like [Riot](https://riot.im).
 
-To get started, it is easiest to use the command line to register new
-users. This can be done as follows:
+Alternatively you can do so from the command line if you have installed via pip.
+
+This can be done as follows:
 
 ```
 $ source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
@@ -447,7 +446,7 @@ on your server even if `enable_registration` is `false`.
 ## Setting up a TURN server
 
 For reliable VoIP calls to be routed via this homeserver, you MUST configure
-a TURN server.  See [docs/turn-howto.rst](docs/turn-howto.rst) for details.
+a TURN server.  See [docs/turn-howto.md](docs/turn-howto.md) for details.
 
 ## URL previews
 

MANIFEST.in

@@ -38,14 +38,16 @@ exclude sytest-blacklist
 include pyproject.toml
 recursive-include changelog.d *
 
+prune .buildkite
+prune .circleci
+prune .codecov.yml
+prune .coveragerc
 prune .github
+prune debian
 prune demo/etc
 prune docker
-prune .circleci
-prune .coveragerc
-prune debian
-prune .codecov.yml
-prune .buildkite
+prune mypy.ini
+prune stubs
 
 exclude jenkins*
 recursive-exclude jenkins *.sh

README.rst

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Registering a new user from a client
 
 By default, registration of new users via Matrix clients is disabled. To enable
 it, specify ``enable_registration: true`` in ``homeserver.yaml``. (It is then
-recommended to also set up CAPTCHA - see `<docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.rst>`_.)
+recommended to also set up CAPTCHA - see `<docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md>`_.)
 
 Once ``enable_registration`` is set to ``true``, it is possible to register a
 user via `riot.im <https://riot.im/app/#/register>`_ or other Matrix clients.
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Almost all installations should opt to use PostreSQL. Advantages include:
   synapse itself.
 
 For information on how to install and use PostgreSQL, please see
-`docs/postgres.rst <docs/postgres.rst>`_.
+`docs/postgres.md <docs/postgres.md>`_.
 
 .. _reverse-proxy:
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ It is recommended to put a reverse proxy such as
 doing so is that it means that you can expose the default https port (443) to
 Matrix clients without needing to run Synapse with root privileges.
 
-For information on configuring one, see `<docs/reverse_proxy.rst>`_.
+For information on configuring one, see `<docs/reverse_proxy.md>`_.
 
 Identity Servers
 ================

UPGRADE.rst

@@ -2,58 +2,268 @@ Upgrading Synapse
 =================
 
 Before upgrading check if any special steps are required to upgrade from the
-what you currently have installed to current version of synapse. The extra
+what you currently have installed to current version of Synapse. The extra
 instructions that may be required are listed later in this document.
 
-1. If synapse was installed in a virtualenv then activate that virtualenv before
-   upgrading. If synapse is installed in a virtualenv in ``~/synapse/env`` then
-   run:
+* If Synapse was installed using `prebuilt packages
+  <INSTALL.md#prebuilt-packages>`_, you will need to follow the normal process
+  for upgrading those packages.
 
-   .. code:: bash
+* If Synapse was installed from source, then:
+
+  1. Activate the virtualenv before upgrading. For example, if Synapse is
+     installed in a virtualenv in ``~/synapse/env`` then run:
+
+     .. code:: bash
 
        source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
 
-2. If synapse was installed using pip then upgrade to the latest version by
-   running:
+  2. If Synapse was installed using pip then upgrade to the latest version by
+     running:
 
-   .. code:: bash
+     .. code:: bash
 
-       pip install --upgrade matrix-synapse[all]
+       pip install --upgrade matrix-synapse
 
-       # restart synapse
-       synctl restart
+     If Synapse was installed using git then upgrade to the latest version by
+     running:
 
-
-   If synapse was installed using git then upgrade to the latest version by
-   running:
-
-   .. code:: bash
-
-       # Pull the latest version of the master branch.
+     .. code:: bash
+     
        git pull
+       pip install --upgrade .
 
-       # Update synapse and its python dependencies.
-       pip install --upgrade .[all]
+  3. Restart Synapse:
+
+     .. code:: bash
 
-       # restart synapse
        ./synctl restart
 
-
-To check whether your update was successful, you can check the Server header
-returned by the Client-Server API:
+To check whether your update was successful, you can check the running server
+version with:
 
 .. code:: bash
 
-    # replace <host.name> with the hostname of your synapse homeserver.
-    # You may need to specify a port (eg, :8448) if your server is not
-    # configured on port 443.
-    curl -kv https://<host.name>/_matrix/client/versions 2>&1 | grep "Server:"
+    # you may need to replace 'localhost:8008' if synapse is not configured
+    # to listen on port 8008.
+
+    curl http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/server_version
+
+Rolling back to older versions
+------------------------------
+
+Rolling back to previous releases can be difficult, due to database schema
+changes between releases. Where we have been able to test the rollback process,
+this will be noted below.
+
+In general, you will need to undo any changes made during the upgrade process,
+for example:
+
+* pip:
+
+  .. code:: bash
+
+     source env/bin/activate
+     # replace `1.3.0` accordingly:
+     pip install matrix-synapse==1.3.0
+
+* Debian:
+
+  .. code:: bash
+
+     # replace `1.3.0` and `stretch` accordingly:
+     wget https://packages.matrix.org/debian/pool/main/m/matrix-synapse-py3/matrix-synapse-py3_1.3.0+stretch1_amd64.deb
+     dpkg -i matrix-synapse-py3_1.3.0+stretch1_amd64.deb
+
+Upgrading to v1.4.0
+===================
+
+New custom templates
+--------------------
+
+If you have configured a custom template directory with the
+``email.template_dir`` option, be aware that there are new templates regarding
+registration and threepid management (see below) that must be included.
+
+* ``registration.html`` and ``registration.txt``
+* ``registration_success.html`` and ``registration_failure.html``
+* ``add_threepid.html`` and  ``add_threepid.txt``
+* ``add_threepid_failure.html`` and ``add_threepid_success.html``
+
+Synapse will expect these files to exist inside the configured template
+directory, and **will fail to start** if they are absent.
+To view the default templates, see `synapse/res/templates
+<https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates>`_.
+
+3pid verification changes
+-------------------------
+
+**Note: As of this release, users will be unable to add phone numbers or email
+addresses to their accounts, without changes to the Synapse configuration. This
+includes adding an email address during registration.**
+
+It is possible for a user to associate an email address or phone number
+with their account, for a number of reasons:
+
+* for use when logging in, as an alternative to the user id.
+* in the case of email, as an alternative contact to help with account recovery.
+* in the case of email, to receive notifications of missed messages.
+
+Before an email address or phone number can be added to a user's account,
+or before such an address is used to carry out a password-reset, Synapse must
+confirm the operation with the owner of the email address or phone number.
+It does this by sending an email or text giving the user a link or token to confirm
+receipt. This process is known as '3pid verification'. ('3pid', or 'threepid',
+stands for third-party identifier, and we use it to refer to external
+identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers.)
+
+Previous versions of Synapse delegated the task of 3pid verification to an
+identity server by default. In most cases this server is ``vector.im`` or
+``matrix.org``.
+
+In Synapse 1.4.0, for security and privacy reasons, the homeserver will no
+longer delegate this task to an identity server by default. Instead,
+the server administrator will need to explicitly decide how they would like the
+verification messages to be sent.
+
+In the medium term, the ``vector.im`` and ``matrix.org`` identity servers will
+disable support for delegated 3pid verification entirely. However, in order to
+ease the transition, they will retain the capability for a limited
+period. Delegated email verification will be disabled on Monday 2nd December
+2019 (giving roughly 2 months notice). Disabling delegated SMS verification
+will follow some time after that once SMS verification support lands in
+Synapse.
+
+Once delegated 3pid verification support has been disabled in the ``vector.im`` and
+``matrix.org`` identity servers, all Synapse versions that depend on those
+instances will be unable to verify email and phone numbers through them. There
+are no imminent plans to remove delegated 3pid verification from Sydent
+generally. (Sydent is the identity server project that backs the ``vector.im`` and
+``matrix.org`` instances).
+
+Email
+~~~~~
+Following upgrade, to continue verifying email (e.g. as part of the
+registration process), admins can either:-
+
+* Configure Synapse to use an email server.
+* Run or choose an identity server which allows delegated email verification
+  and delegate to it.
+
+Configure SMTP in Synapse
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+To configure an SMTP server for Synapse, modify the configuration section
+headed ``email``, and be sure to have at least the ``smtp_host, smtp_port``
+and ``notif_from`` fields filled out.
+
+You may also need to set ``smtp_user``, ``smtp_pass``, and
+``require_transport_security``.
+
+See the `sample configuration file <docs/sample_config.yaml>`_ for more details
+on these settings.
+
+Delegate email to an identity server
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Some admins will wish to continue using email verification as part of the
+registration process, but will not immediately have an appropriate SMTP server
+at hand.
+
+To this end, we will continue to support email verification delegation via the
+``vector.im`` and ``matrix.org`` identity servers for two months. Support for
+delegated email verification will be disabled on Monday 2nd December.
+
+The ``account_threepid_delegates`` dictionary defines whether the homeserver
+should delegate an external server (typically an `identity server
+<https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/r0.2.1>`_) to handle sending
+confirmation messages via email and SMS.
+
+So to delegate email verification, in ``homeserver.yaml``, set
+``account_threepid_delegates.email`` to the base URL of an identity server. For
+example:
+
+.. code:: yaml
+
+   account_threepid_delegates:
+       email: https://example.com     # Delegate email sending to example.com
+
+Note that ``account_threepid_delegates.email`` replaces the deprecated
+``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets``: if
+``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is set to ``true``, and
+``account_threepid_delegates.email`` is not set, then the first entry in
+``trusted_third_party_id_servers`` will be used as the
+``account_threepid_delegate`` for email. This is to ensure compatibility with
+existing Synapse installs that set up external server handling for these tasks
+before v1.4.0. If ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is
+``true`` and no trusted identity server domains are configured, Synapse will
+report an error and refuse to start.
+
+If ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is ``false`` or absent
+and no ``email`` delegate is configured in ``account_threepid_delegates``,
+then Synapse will send email verification messages itself, using the configured
+SMTP server (see above).
+that type.
+
+Phone numbers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Synapse does not support phone-number verification itself, so the only way to
+maintain the ability for users to add phone numbers to their accounts will be
+by continuing to delegate phone number verification to the ``matrix.org`` and
+``vector.im`` identity servers (or another identity server that supports SMS
+sending).
+
+The ``account_threepid_delegates`` dictionary defines whether the homeserver
+should delegate an external server (typically an `identity server
+<https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/r0.2.1>`_) to handle sending
+confirmation messages via email and SMS.
+
+So to delegate phone number verification, in ``homeserver.yaml``, set
+``account_threepid_delegates.msisdn`` to the base URL of an identity
+server. For example:
+
+.. code:: yaml
+
+   account_threepid_delegates:
+       msisdn: https://example.com     # Delegate sms sending to example.com
+
+The ``matrix.org`` and ``vector.im`` identity servers will continue to support
+delegated phone number verification via SMS until such time as it is possible
+for admins to configure their servers to perform phone number verification
+directly. More details will follow in a future release.
+
+Rolling back to v1.3.1
+----------------------
+
+If you encounter problems with v1.4.0, it should be possible to roll back to
+v1.3.1, subject to the following:
+
+* The 'room statistics' engine was heavily reworked in this release (see
+  `#5971 <https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5971>`_), including
+  significant changes to the database schema, which are not easily
+  reverted. This will cause the room statistics engine to stop updating when
+  you downgrade.
+
+  The room statistics are essentially unused in v1.3.1 (in future versions of
+  Synapse, they will be used to populate the room directory), so there should
+  be no loss of functionality. However, the statistics engine will write errors
+  to the logs, which can be avoided by setting the following in
+  `homeserver.yaml`:
+
+  .. code:: yaml
+
+    stats:
+      enabled: false
+
+  Don't forget to re-enable it when you upgrade again, in preparation for its
+  use in the room directory!
 
 Upgrading to v1.2.0
 ===================
 
 Some counter metrics have been renamed, with the old names deprecated. See
-`the metrics documentation <docs/metrics-howto.rst#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12>`_
+`the metrics documentation <docs/metrics-howto.md#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12>`_
 for details.
 
 Upgrading to v1.1.0
@@ -132,6 +342,19 @@ server for password resets, set ``trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` to
 See the `sample configuration file <docs/sample_config.yaml>`_
 for more details on these settings.
 
+New email templates
+---------------
+Some new templates have been added to the default template directory for the purpose of the
+homeserver sending its own password reset emails. If you have configured a custom
+``template_dir`` in your Synapse config, these files will need to be added.
+
+``password_reset.html`` and ``password_reset.txt`` are HTML and plain text templates
+respectively that contain the contents of what will be emailed to the user upon attempting to
+reset their password via email. ``password_reset_success.html`` and
+``password_reset_failure.html`` are HTML files that the content of which (assuming no redirect
+URL is set) will be shown to the user after they attempt to click the link in the email sent
+to them.
+
 Upgrading to v0.99.0
 ====================
 

changelog.d/5678.removal

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Synapse now no longer accepts the `-v`/`--verbose`, `-f`/`--log-file`, or `--log-config` command line flags, and removes the deprecated `verbose` and `log_file` configuration file options. Users of these options should migrate their options into the dedicated log configuration.

changelog.d/5693.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix UISIs during homeserver outage.

changelog.d/5694.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make Jaeger fully configurable.

changelog.d/5695.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add precautionary measures to prevent future abuse of `window.opener` in default welcome page.

changelog.d/5706.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5713.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve caching when fetching `get_filtered_current_state_ids`.

changelog.d/5715.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Don't accept opentracing data from clients.

changelog.d/5717.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Speed up PostgreSQL unit tests in CI.

changelog.d/5719.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update the coding style document.

changelog.d/5720.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve database query performance when recording retry intervals for remote hosts.

changelog.d/5722.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add a set of opentracing utils.

changelog.d/5724.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix stack overflow in server key lookup code.

changelog.d/5725.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-start.sh no longer uses deprecated cli option.

changelog.d/5729.removal

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- Synapse now no longer accepts the `-v`/`--verbose`, `-f`/`--log-file`, or `--log-config` command line flags, and removes the deprecated `verbose` and `log_file` configuration file options. Users of these options should migrate their options into the dedicated log configuration.

changelog.d/5730.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Cache result of get_version_string to reduce overhead of `/version` federation requests.

changelog.d/5731.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Return 'user_type' in admin API user endpoints results.

changelog.d/5732.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add sd_notify hooks to ease systemd integration and allows usage of Type=Notify.

changelog.d/5733.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Don't package the sytest test blacklist file.

changelog.d/5736.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Replace uses of returnValue with plain return, as returnValue is not needed on Python 3.

changelog.d/5738.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5740.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Blacklist some flakey tests in worker mode.

changelog.d/5743.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Log when we receive an event receipt from an unexpected origin.

changelog.d/5746.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5749.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix some error cases in the caching layer.

changelog.d/5750.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add a prometheus metric for pending cache lookups.

changelog.d/5752.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5753.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Stop trying to fetch events with event_id=None.

changelog.d/5768.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Convert RedactionTestCase to modern test style.

changelog.d/5770.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5774.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5775.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix debian packaging scripts to correctly build sid packages.

changelog.d/5780.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Allow looping calls to be given arguments.

changelog.d/5782.removal

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove non-functional 'expire_access_token' setting.

changelog.d/5783.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Synapse can now be configured to not join remote rooms of a given "complexity" (currently, state events) over federation. This option can be used to prevent adverse performance on resource-constrained homeservers.

changelog.d/5785.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Set the logs emitted when checking typing and presence timeouts to DEBUG level, not INFO.

changelog.d/5787.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove DelayedCall debugging from the test suite, as it is no longer required in the vast majority of Synapse's tests.

changelog.d/5789.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix UISIs during homeserver outage.

changelog.d/5792.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5793.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership.

changelog.d/5794.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve performance when making `.well-known` requests by sharing the SSL options between requests.

changelog.d/5796.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Disable codecov GitHub comments on PRs.

changelog.d/5798.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Return 404 instead of 403 when accessing /rooms/{roomId}/event/{eventId} for an event without the appropriate permissions.

contrib/cmdclient/console.py

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ from signedjson.sign import verify_signed_json, SignatureVerifyException
 
 CONFIG_JSON = "cmdclient_config.json"
 
+# TODO: The concept of trusted identity servers has been deprecated. This option and checks
+#  should be removed
 TRUSTED_ID_SERVERS = ["localhost:8001"]
 
 
@@ -268,6 +270,7 @@ class SynapseCmd(cmd.Cmd):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _do_emailrequest(self, args):
+        # TODO: Update to use v2 Identity Service API endpoint
         url = (
             self._identityServerUrl()
             + "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/validate/email/requestToken"
@@ -302,6 +305,7 @@ class SynapseCmd(cmd.Cmd):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _do_emailvalidate(self, args):
+        # TODO: Update to use v2 Identity Service API endpoint
         url = (
             self._identityServerUrl()
             + "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/validate/email/submitToken"
@@ -330,6 +334,7 @@ class SynapseCmd(cmd.Cmd):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _do_3pidbind(self, args):
+        # TODO: Update to use v2 Identity Service API endpoint
         url = self._identityServerUrl() + "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/3pid/bind"
 
         json_res = yield self.http_client.do_request(
@@ -398,6 +403,7 @@ class SynapseCmd(cmd.Cmd):
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _do_invite(self, roomid, userstring):
         if not userstring.startswith("@") and self._is_on("complete_usernames"):
+            # TODO: Update to use v2 Identity Service API endpoint
             url = self._identityServerUrl() + "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/lookup"
 
             json_res = yield self.http_client.do_request(
@@ -407,6 +413,7 @@ class SynapseCmd(cmd.Cmd):
             mxid = None
 
             if "mxid" in json_res and "signatures" in json_res:
+                # TODO: Update to use v2 Identity Service API endpoint
                 url = (
                     self._identityServerUrl()
                     + "/_matrix/identity/api/v1/pubkey/ed25519"

contrib/purge_api/purge_remote_media.sh

@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@ TOKEN=$(sql "SELECT token FROM access_tokens WHERE user_id='$ADMIN' ORDER BY id
 # finally start pruning media:
 ###############################################################################
 set -x # for debugging the generated string
-curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -v POST "$API_URL/admin/purge_media_cache/?before_ts=$UNIX_TIMESTAMP"
+curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -X POST "$API_URL/admin/purge_media_cache/?before_ts=$UNIX_TIMESTAMP"

debian/changelog

@@ -1,8 +1,30 @@
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.2.1) stable; urgency=medium
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.4.1) stable; urgency=medium
 
-  * New synapse release 1.2.1.
+  * New synapse release 1.4.1.
 
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:32:47 +0100
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:13:27 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.4.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.4.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:22:25 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.3.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:15:49 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Andrew Morgan ]
+  * Remove libsqlite3-dev from required build dependencies.
+
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.3.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:04:23 +0100
 
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.2.0) stable; urgency=medium
 

debian/control

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Build-Depends:
  python3-setuptools,
  python3-pip,
  python3-venv,
- libsqlite3-dev,
  tar,
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Homepage: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse

docker/README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ By default, the image expects a single volume, located at ``/data``, that will h
 * the appservices configuration.
 
 You are free to use separate volumes depending on storage endpoints at your
-disposal. For instance, ``/data/media`` coud be stored on a large but low
+disposal. For instance, ``/data/media`` could be stored on a large but low
 performance hdd storage while other files could be stored on high performance
 endpoints.
 
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ configuration file there. Multiple application services are supported.
 
 ## Generating a configuration file
 
-The first step is to genearte a valid config file. To do this, you can run the
-image with the `generate` commandline option.
+The first step is to generate a valid config file. To do this, you can run the
+image with the `generate` command line option.
 
 You will need to specify values for the `SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME` and
 `SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS` environment variable, and mount a docker volume to store
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The following environment variables are supported in `generate` mode:
 * `SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH`: path to the file to be generated. Defaults to
   `<SYNAPSE_CONFIG_DIR>/homeserver.yaml`.
 * `SYNAPSE_DATA_DIR`: where the generated config will put persistent data
-  such as the datatase and media store. Defaults to `/data`.
+  such as the database and media store. Defaults to `/data`.
 * `UID`, `GID`: the user id and group id to use for creating the data
   directories. Defaults to `991`, `991`.
 
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ The following environment variables are supported in run mode:
   `/data`.
 * `SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH`: path to the config file. Defaults to
   `<SYNAPSE_CONFIG_DIR>/homeserver.yaml`.
+* `SYNAPSE_WORKER`: module to execute, used when running synapse with workers.
+   Defaults to `synapse.app.homeserver`, which is suitable for non-worker mode.
 * `UID`, `GID`: the user and group id to run Synapse as. Defaults to `991`, `991`.
 * `TZ`: the [timezone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones) the container will run with. Defaults to `UTC`.
 
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ not given).
 
 To migrate from a dynamic configuration file to a static one, run the docker
 container once with the environment variables set, and `migrate_config`
-commandline option. For example:
+command line option. For example:
 
 ```
 docker run -it --rm \

docker/start.py

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ def generate_config_from_template(config_dir, config_path, environ, ownership):
         config_dir (str): where to put generated config files
         config_path (str): where to put the main config file
         environ (dict): environment dictionary
-        ownership (str): "<user>:<group>" string which will be used to set
-            ownership of the generated configs
+        ownership (str|None): "<user>:<group>" string which will be used to set
+            ownership of the generated configs. If None, ownership will not change.
     """
     for v in ("SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME", "SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS"):
         if v not in environ:
@@ -105,24 +105,24 @@ def generate_config_from_template(config_dir, config_path, environ, ownership):
     log("Generating log config file " + log_config_file)
     convert("/conf/log.config", log_config_file, environ)
 
-    subprocess.check_output(["chown", "-R", ownership, "/data"])
-
     # Hopefully we already have a signing key, but generate one if not.
-    subprocess.check_output(
-        [
-            "su-exec",
-            ownership,
-            "python",
-            "-m",
-            "synapse.app.homeserver",
-            "--config-path",
-            config_path,
-            # tell synapse to put generated keys in /data rather than /compiled
-            "--keys-directory",
-            config_dir,
-            "--generate-keys",
-        ]
-    )
+    args = [
+        "python",
+        "-m",
+        "synapse.app.homeserver",
+        "--config-path",
+        config_path,
+        # tell synapse to put generated keys in /data rather than /compiled
+        "--keys-directory",
+        config_dir,
+        "--generate-keys",
+    ]
+
+    if ownership is not None:
+        subprocess.check_output(["chown", "-R", ownership, "/data"])
+        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
+
+    subprocess.check_output(args)
 
 
 def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
 
     Args:
         environ (dict): env var dict
-        ownership (str): "userid:groupid" arg for chmod
+        ownership (str|None): "userid:groupid" arg for chmod. If None, ownership will not change.
 
     Never returns.
     """
@@ -149,9 +149,6 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
         log("Creating log config %s" % (log_config_file,))
         convert("/conf/log.config", log_config_file, environ)
 
-    # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
-    subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
-
     args = [
         "python",
         "-m",
@@ -170,12 +167,34 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
         "--open-private-ports",
     ]
     # log("running %s" % (args, ))
-    os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
+
+    if ownership is not None:
+        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
+        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
+
+        # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
+        subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
+    else:
+        os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
 
 
 def main(args, environ):
     mode = args[1] if len(args) > 1 else None
-    ownership = "{}:{}".format(environ.get("UID", 991), environ.get("GID", 991))
+    desired_uid = int(environ.get("UID", "991"))
+    desired_gid = int(environ.get("GID", "991"))
+    synapse_worker = environ.get("SYNAPSE_WORKER", "synapse.app.homeserver")
+    if (desired_uid == os.getuid()) and (desired_gid == os.getgid()):
+        ownership = None
+    else:
+        ownership = "{}:{}".format(desired_uid, desired_gid)
+
+    log(
+        "Container running as UserID %s:%s, ENV (or defaults) requests %s:%s"
+        % (os.getuid(), os.getgid(), desired_uid, desired_gid)
+    )
+
+    if ownership is None:
+        log("Will not perform chmod/su-exec as UserID already matches request")
 
     # In generate mode, generate a configuration and missing keys, then exit
     if mode == "generate":
@@ -227,16 +246,12 @@ def main(args, environ):
 
     log("Starting synapse with config file " + config_path)
 
-    args = [
-        "su-exec",
-        ownership,
-        "python",
-        "-m",
-        "synapse.app.homeserver",
-        "--config-path",
-        config_path,
-    ]
-    os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
+    args = ["python", "-m", synapse_worker, "--config-path", config_path]
+    if ownership is not None:
+        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
+        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
+    else:
+        os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md

@@ -1,30 +1,31 @@
+# Overview
 Captcha can be enabled for this home server. This file explains how to do that.
 The captcha mechanism used is Google's ReCaptcha. This requires API keys from Google.
 
-Getting keys
-------------
+## Getting keys
+
 Requires a public/private key pair from:
 
-https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/
+<https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/>
 
 Must be a reCAPTCHA v2 key using the "I'm not a robot" Checkbox option
 
-Setting ReCaptcha Keys
-----------------------
+## Setting ReCaptcha Keys
+
 The keys are a config option on the home server config. If they are not
-visible, you can generate them via --generate-config. Set the following value::
+visible, you can generate them via `--generate-config`. Set the following value:
 
-  recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY
-  recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
+    recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY
+    recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
 
-In addition, you MUST enable captchas via::
+In addition, you MUST enable captchas via:
 
-  enable_registration_captcha: true
+    enable_registration_captcha: true
+
+## Configuring IP used for auth
 
-Configuring IP used for auth
-----------------------------
 The ReCaptcha API requires that the IP address of the user who solved the
 captcha is sent. If the client is connecting through a proxy or load balancer,
-it may be required to use the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header instead of the origin
-IP address. This can be configured using the x_forwarded directive in the
+it may be required to use the `X-Forwarded-For` (XFF) header instead of the origin
+IP address. This can be configured using the `x_forwarded` directive in the
 listeners section of the homeserver.yaml configuration file.

docs/MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ your domain, you can simply route all traffic through the reverse proxy by
 updating the SRV record appropriately (or removing it, if the proxy listens on
 8448).
 
-See [reverse_proxy.rst](reverse_proxy.rst) for information on setting up a
+See [reverse_proxy.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
 reverse proxy.
 
 #### Option 3: add a .well-known file to delegate your matrix traffic
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ We no longer actively recommend against using a reverse proxy. Many admins will
 find it easier to direct federation traffic to a reverse proxy and manage their
 own TLS certificates, and this is a supported configuration.
 
-See [reverse_proxy.rst](reverse_proxy.rst) for information on setting up a
+See [reverse_proxy.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
 reverse proxy.
 
 ### Do I still need to give my TLS certificates to Synapse if I am using a reverse proxy?

docs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Synapse Documentation
+
+This directory contains documentation specific to the `synapse` homeserver.
+
+All matrix-generic documentation now lives in its own project, located at [matrix-org/matrix-doc](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc)
+
+(Note:  some items here may be moved to [matrix-org/matrix-doc](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc) at some point in the future.)

docs/README.rst

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-All matrix-generic documentation now lives in its own project at
-
-github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc.git
-
-Only Synapse implementation-specific documentation lives here now
-(together with some older stuff will be shortly migrated over to matrix-doc)

docs/admin_api/purge_room.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Purge room API
+==============
+
+This API will remove all trace of a room from your database.
+
+All local users must have left the room before it can be removed.
+
+The API is:
+
+```
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/purge_room
+
+{
+    "room_id": "!room:id"
+}
+```
+
+You must authenticate using the access token of an admin user.

docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst

@@ -84,3 +84,42 @@ with a body of:
    }
 
 including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
+
+
+Get whether a user is a server administrator or not
+===================================================
+
+
+The api is::
+
+    GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin
+
+including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
+
+A response body like the following is returned:
+
+.. code:: json
+
+    {
+        "admin": true
+    }
+
+
+Change whether a user is a server administrator or not
+======================================================
+
+Note that you cannot demote yourself.
+
+The api is::
+
+    PUT /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin
+
+with a body of:
+
+.. code:: json
+
+    {
+        "admin": true
+    }
+
+including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.

docs/ancient_architecture_notes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+> **Warning**
+>  These architecture notes are spectacularly old, and date back
+> to when Synapse was just federation code in isolation. This should be
+> merged into the main spec.
+
+# Server to Server
+
+## Server to Server Stack
+
+To use the server to server stack, home servers should only need to
+interact with the Messaging layer.
+
+The server to server side of things is designed into 4 distinct layers:
+
+1.  Messaging Layer
+2.  Pdu Layer
+3.  Transaction Layer
+4.  Transport Layer
+
+Where the bottom (the transport layer) is what talks to the internet via
+HTTP, and the top (the messaging layer) talks to the rest of the Home
+Server with a domain specific API.
+
+1. **Messaging Layer**
+
+    This is what the rest of the Home Server hits to send messages, join rooms,
+    etc. It also allows you to register callbacks for when it get's notified by
+    lower levels that e.g. a new message has been received.
+
+    It is responsible for serializing requests to send to the data
+    layer, and to parse requests received from the data layer.
+
+2. **PDU Layer**
+
+    This layer handles:
+
+		- duplicate `pdu_id`'s - i.e., it makes sure we ignore them.
+		- responding to requests for a given `pdu_id`
+		- responding to requests for all metadata for a given context (i.e. room)
+		- handling incoming backfill requests
+
+		So it has to parse incoming messages to discover which are metadata and
+    which aren't, and has to correctly clobber existing metadata where
+    appropriate.
+
+    For incoming PDUs, it has to check the PDUs it references to see
+    if we have missed any. If we have go and ask someone (another
+    home server) for it.
+
+3. **Transaction Layer**
+
+		This layer makes incoming requests idempotent. i.e., it stores
+		which transaction id's we have seen and what our response were.
+		If we have already seen a message with the given transaction id,
+		we do not notify higher levels but simply respond with the
+		previous response.
+
+		`transaction_id` is from "`GET /send/<tx_id>/`"
+
+		It's also responsible for batching PDUs into single transaction for
+		sending to remote destinations, so that we only ever have one
+		transaction in flight to a given destination at any one time.
+
+		This is also responsible for answering requests for things after a
+		given set of transactions, i.e., ask for everything after 'ver' X.
+
+4. **Transport Layer**
+
+		This is responsible for starting a HTTP server and hitting the
+		correct callbacks on the Transaction layer, as well as sending
+		both data and requests for data.
+
+## Persistence
+
+We persist things in a single sqlite3 database. All database queries get
+run on a separate, dedicated thread. This that we only ever have one
+query running at a time, making it a lot easier to do things in a safe
+manner.
+
+The queries are located in the `synapse.persistence.transactions` module,
+and the table information in the `synapse.persistence.tables` module.

docs/ancient_architecture_notes.rst

@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-.. WARNING::
-  These architecture notes are spectacularly old, and date back to when Synapse 
-  was just federation code in isolation.  This should be merged into the main
-  spec.
-  
-
-= Server to Server =
-
-== Server to Server Stack ==
-
-To use the server to server stack, home servers should only need to interact with the Messaging layer.
-
-The server to server side of things is designed into 4 distinct layers:
-
-    1. Messaging Layer
-    2. Pdu Layer
-    3. Transaction Layer
-    4. Transport Layer
-
-Where the bottom (the transport layer) is what talks to the internet via HTTP, and the top (the messaging layer) talks to the rest of the Home Server with a domain specific API.
-
-1. Messaging Layer
-    This is what the rest of the Home Server hits to send messages, join rooms, etc. It also allows you to register callbacks for when it get's notified by lower levels that e.g. a new message has been received.
-
-    It is responsible for serializing requests to send to the data layer, and to parse requests received from the data layer.
-
-
-2. PDU Layer
-    This layer handles: 
-        * duplicate pdu_id's - i.e., it makes sure we ignore them. 
-        * responding to requests for a given pdu_id
-        * responding to requests for all metadata for a given context (i.e. room)
-        * handling incoming backfill requests
-
-    So it has to parse incoming messages to discover which are metadata and which aren't, and has to correctly clobber existing metadata where appropriate.
-
-    For incoming PDUs, it has to check the PDUs it references to see if we have missed any. If we have go and ask someone (another home server) for it.    
-
-
-3. Transaction Layer
-    This layer makes incoming requests idempotent. I.e., it stores which transaction id's we have seen and what our response were. If we have already seen a message with the given transaction id, we do not notify higher levels but simply respond with the previous response.
-
-transaction_id is from "GET /send/<tx_id>/"
-
-    It's also responsible for batching PDUs into single transaction for sending to remote destinations, so that we only ever have one transaction in flight to a given destination at any one time.
-
-    This is also responsible for answering requests for things after a given set of transactions, i.e., ask for everything after 'ver' X.
-
-
-4. Transport Layer
-    This is responsible for starting a HTTP server and hitting the correct callbacks on the Transaction layer, as well as sending both data and requests for data.
-
-
-== Persistence ==
-
-We persist things in a single sqlite3 database. All database queries get run on a separate, dedicated thread. This that we only ever have one query running at a time, making it a lot easier to do things in a safe manner.
-
-The queries are located in the synapse.persistence.transactions module, and the table information in the synapse.persistence.tables module.
-

docs/application_services.md

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Registering an Application Service
+
+The registration of new application services depends on the homeserver used. 
+In synapse, you need to create a new configuration file for your AS and add it
+to the list specified under the `app_service_config_files` config
+option in your synapse config.
+
+For example:
+
+```yaml
+app_service_config_files:
+- /home/matrix/.synapse/<your-AS>.yaml
+```
+
+The format of the AS configuration file is as follows:
+
+```yaml
+url: <base url of AS>
+as_token: <token AS will add to requests to HS>
+hs_token: <token HS will add to requests to AS>
+sender_localpart: <localpart of AS user>
+namespaces:
+  users:  # List of users we're interested in
+    - exclusive: <bool>
+      regex: <regex>
+    - ...
+  aliases: []  # List of aliases we're interested in
+  rooms: [] # List of room ids we're interested in
+```
+
+See the [spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/application_service/unstable.html) for further details on how application services work.

docs/application_services.rst

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-Registering an Application Service
-==================================
-
-The registration of new application services depends on the homeserver used. 
-In synapse, you need to create a new configuration file for your AS and add it
-to the list specified under the ``app_service_config_files`` config
-option in your synapse config.
-
-For example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  app_service_config_files:
-  - /home/matrix/.synapse/<your-AS>.yaml
-
-
-The format of the AS configuration file is as follows:
-
-..  code-block:: yaml
-
-    url: <base url of AS>
-    as_token: <token AS will add to requests to HS>
-    hs_token: <token HS will add to requests to AS>
-    sender_localpart: <localpart of AS user>
-    namespaces:
-      users:  # List of users we're interested in
-        - exclusive: <bool>
-          regex: <regex>
-        - ...
-      aliases: []  # List of aliases we're interested in
-      rooms: [] # List of room ids we're interested in
-
-See the spec_ for further details on how application services work.
-
-.. _spec: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/application_service/unstable.html

docs/architecture.md

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Synapse Architecture
+
+As of the end of Oct 2014, Synapse's overall architecture looks like:
+
+        synapse
+        .-----------------------------------------------------.
+        |                          Notifier                   |
+        |                            ^  |                     |
+        |                            |  |                     |
+        |                  .------------|------.              |
+        |                  | handlers/  |      |              |
+        |                  |            v      |              |
+        |                  | Event*Handler <--------> rest/* <=> Client
+        |                  | Rooms*Handler     |              |
+    HS <=> federation/* <==> FederationHandler |              |
+        |      |           | PresenceHandler   |              |
+        |      |           | TypingHandler     |              |
+        |      |           '-------------------'              |
+        |      |                 |     |                      |
+        |      |              state/*  |                      |
+        |      |                 |     |                      |
+        |      |                 v     v                      |
+        |      `--------------> storage/*                     |
+        |                          |                          |
+        '--------------------------|--------------------------'
+                                   v
+                                .----.
+                                | DB |
+                                '----'
+
+-   Handlers: business logic of synapse itself. Follows a set contract of BaseHandler:
+    -   BaseHandler gives us onNewRoomEvent which: (TODO: flesh this out and make it less cryptic):
+        -   handle_state(event)
+        -   auth(event)
+        -   persist_event(event)
+        -   notify notifier or federation(event)
+    -   PresenceHandler: use distributor to get EDUs out of Federation.
+        Very lightweight logic built on the distributor
+    -   TypingHandler: use distributor to get EDUs out of Federation.
+        Very lightweight logic built on the distributor
+    -   EventsHandler: handles the events stream...
+    -   FederationHandler: - gets PDU from Federation Layer; turns into
+        an event; follows basehandler functionality.
+    -   RoomsHandler: does all the room logic, including members - lots
+        of classes in RoomsHandler.
+    -   ProfileHandler: talks to the storage to store/retrieve profile
+        info.
+-   EventFactory: generates events of particular event types.
+-   Notifier: Backs the events handler
+-   REST: Interfaces handlers and events to the outside world via
+    HTTP/JSON. Converts events back and forth from JSON.
+-   Federation: holds the HTTP client & server to talk to other servers.
+    Does replication to make sure there's nothing missing in the graph.
+    Handles reliability. Handles txns.
+-   Distributor: generic event bus. used for presence & typing only
+    currently. Notifier could be implemented using Distributor - so far
+    we are only using for things which actually /require/ dynamic
+    pluggability however as it can obfuscate the actual flow of control.
+-   Auth: helper singleton to say whether a given event is allowed to do
+    a given thing (TODO: put this on the diagram)
+-   State: helper singleton: does state conflict resolution. You give it
+    an event and it tells you if it actually updates the state or not,
+    and annotates the event up properly and handles merge conflict
+    resolution.
+-   Storage: abstracts the storage engine.

docs/architecture.rst

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-Synapse Architecture
-====================
-
-As of the end of Oct 2014, Synapse's overall architecture looks like::
-
-        synapse
-        .-----------------------------------------------------.
-        |                          Notifier                   |
-        |                            ^  |                     |
-        |                            |  |                     |
-        |                  .------------|------.              |
-        |                  | handlers/  |      |              |
-        |                  |            v      |              |
-        |                  | Event*Handler <--------> rest/* <=> Client
-        |                  | Rooms*Handler     |              |
-  HSes <=> federation/* <==> FederationHandler |              |
-        |      |           | PresenceHandler   |              |
-        |      |           | TypingHandler     |              |
-        |      |           '-------------------'              |
-        |      |                 |     |                      |
-        |      |              state/*  |                      |
-        |      |                 |     |                      |
-        |      |                 v     v                      |
-        |      `--------------> storage/*                     |
-        |                          |                          |
-        '--------------------------|--------------------------'
-                                   v
-                                .----.
-                                | DB |
-                                '----'
-
-* Handlers: business logic of synapse itself.  Follows a set contract of BaseHandler:
-
-  - BaseHandler gives us onNewRoomEvent which: (TODO: flesh this out and make it less cryptic):
- 
-    + handle_state(event)
-    + auth(event)
-    + persist_event(event)
-    + notify notifier or federation(event)
-   
-  - PresenceHandler: use distributor to get EDUs out of Federation.  Very
-    lightweight logic built on the distributor
-  - TypingHandler: use distributor to get EDUs out of Federation.  Very
-    lightweight logic built on the distributor
-  - EventsHandler: handles the events stream...
-  - FederationHandler: - gets PDU from Federation Layer; turns into an event;
-    follows basehandler functionality.
-  - RoomsHandler: does all the room logic, including members - lots of classes in
-    RoomsHandler.
-  - ProfileHandler: talks to the storage to store/retrieve profile info.
-
-* EventFactory: generates events of particular event types.
-* Notifier: Backs the events handler
-* REST: Interfaces handlers and events to the outside world via HTTP/JSON.
-  Converts events back and forth from JSON.
-* Federation: holds the HTTP client & server to talk to other servers.  Does
-  replication to make sure there's nothing missing in the graph.  Handles
-  reliability.  Handles txns.
-* Distributor: generic event bus. used for presence & typing only currently. 
-  Notifier could be implemented using Distributor - so far we are only using for
-  things which actually /require/ dynamic pluggability however as it can
-  obfuscate the actual flow of control.
-* Auth: helper singleton to say whether a given event is allowed to do a given
-  thing  (TODO: put this on the diagram)
-* State: helper singleton: does state conflict resolution. You give it an event
-  and it tells you if it actually updates the state or not, and annotates the
-  event up properly and handles merge conflict resolution.
-* Storage: abstracts the storage engine.

docs/code_style.md

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+# Code Style
+
+## Formatting tools
+
+The Synapse codebase uses a number of code formatting tools in order to
+quickly and automatically check for formatting (and sometimes logical)
+errors in code.
+
+The necessary tools are detailed below.
+
+-   **black**
+
+    The Synapse codebase uses [black](https://pypi.org/project/black/)
+    as an opinionated code formatter, ensuring all comitted code is
+    properly formatted.
+
+    First install `black` with:
+
+        pip install --upgrade black
+
+    Have `black` auto-format your code (it shouldn't change any
+    functionality) with:
+
+        black . --exclude="\.tox|build|env"
+
+-   **flake8**
+
+    `flake8` is a code checking tool. We require code to pass `flake8`
+    before being merged into the codebase.
+
+    Install `flake8` with:
+
+        pip install --upgrade flake8
+
+    Check all application and test code with:
+
+        flake8 synapse tests
+
+-   **isort**
+
+    `isort` ensures imports are nicely formatted, and can suggest and
+    auto-fix issues such as double-importing.
+
+    Install `isort` with:
+
+        pip install --upgrade isort
+
+    Auto-fix imports with:
+
+        isort -rc synapse tests
+
+    `-rc` means to recursively search the given directories.
+
+It's worth noting that modern IDEs and text editors can run these tools
+automatically on save. It may be worth looking into whether this
+functionality is supported in your editor for a more convenient
+development workflow. It is not, however, recommended to run `flake8` on
+save as it takes a while and is very resource intensive.
+
+## General rules
+
+-   **Naming**:
+    -   Use camel case for class and type names
+    -   Use underscores for functions and variables.
+-   **Docstrings**: should follow the [google code
+    style](https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#38-comments-and-docstrings).
+    This is so that we can generate documentation with
+    [sphinx](http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
+    See the
+    [examples](http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html)
+    in the sphinx documentation.
+-   **Imports**:
+    -   Imports should be sorted by `isort` as described above.
+    -   Prefer to import classes and functions rather than packages or
+        modules.
+
+        Example:
+
+            from synapse.types import UserID
+            ...
+            user_id = UserID(local, server)
+
+        is preferred over:
+
+            from synapse import types
+            ...
+            user_id = types.UserID(local, server)
+
+        (or any other variant).
+
+        This goes against the advice in the Google style guide, but it
+        means that errors in the name are caught early (at import time).
+
+    -   Avoid wildcard imports (`from synapse.types import *`) and
+        relative imports (`from .types import UserID`).
+
+## Configuration file format
+
+The [sample configuration file](./sample_config.yaml) acts as a
+reference to Synapse's configuration options for server administrators.
+Remember that many readers will be unfamiliar with YAML and server
+administration in general, so that it is important that the file be as
+easy to understand as possible, which includes following a consistent
+format.
+
+Some guidelines follow:
+
+-   Sections should be separated with a heading consisting of a single
+    line prefixed and suffixed with `##`. There should be **two** blank
+    lines before the section header, and **one** after.
+-   Each option should be listed in the file with the following format:
+    -   A comment describing the setting. Each line of this comment
+        should be prefixed with a hash (`#`) and a space.
+
+        The comment should describe the default behaviour (ie, what
+        happens if the setting is omitted), as well as what the effect
+        will be if the setting is changed.
+
+        Often, the comment end with something like "uncomment the
+        following to <do action>".
+
+    -   A line consisting of only `#`.
+    -   A commented-out example setting, prefixed with only `#`.
+
+        For boolean (on/off) options, convention is that this example
+        should be the *opposite* to the default (so the comment will end
+        with "Uncomment the following to enable [or disable]
+        <feature>." For other options, the example should give some
+        non-default value which is likely to be useful to the reader.
+
+-   There should be a blank line between each option.
+-   Where several settings are grouped into a single dict, *avoid* the
+    convention where the whole block is commented out, resulting in
+    comment lines starting `# #`, as this is hard to read and confusing
+    to edit. Instead, leave the top-level config option uncommented, and
+    follow the conventions above for sub-options. Ensure that your code
+    correctly handles the top-level option being set to `None` (as it
+    will be if no sub-options are enabled).
+-   Lines should be wrapped at 80 characters.
+
+Example:
+
+    ## Frobnication ##
+
+    # The frobnicator will ensure that all requests are fully frobnicated.
+    # To enable it, uncomment the following.
+    #
+    #frobnicator_enabled: true
+
+    # By default, the frobnicator will frobnicate with the default frobber.
+    # The following will make it use an alternative frobber.
+    #
+    #frobincator_frobber: special_frobber
+
+    # Settings for the frobber
+    #
+    frobber:
+       # frobbing speed. Defaults to 1.
+       #
+       #speed: 10
+
+       # frobbing distance. Defaults to 1000.
+       #
+       #distance: 100
+
+Note that the sample configuration is generated from the synapse code
+and is maintained by a script, `scripts-dev/generate_sample_config`.
+Making sure that the output from this script matches the desired format
+is left as an exercise for the reader!

docs/code_style.rst

@@ -1,180 +0,0 @@
-Code Style
-==========
-
-Formatting tools
-----------------
-
-The Synapse codebase uses a number of code formatting tools in order to
-quickly and automatically check for formatting (and sometimes logical) errors
-in code.
-
-The necessary tools are detailed below.
-
-- **black**
-
-  The Synapse codebase uses `black <https://pypi.org/project/black/>`_ as an
-  opinionated code formatter, ensuring all comitted code is properly
-  formatted.
-
-  First install ``black`` with::
-
-    pip install --upgrade black
-
-  Have ``black`` auto-format your code (it shouldn't change any functionality)
-  with::
-
-    black . --exclude="\.tox|build|env"
-
-- **flake8**
-
-  ``flake8`` is a code checking tool. We require code to pass ``flake8`` before being merged into the codebase.
-
-  Install ``flake8`` with::
-
-    pip install --upgrade flake8
-
-  Check all application and test code with::
-
-    flake8 synapse tests
-
-- **isort**
-
-  ``isort`` ensures imports are nicely formatted, and can suggest and
-  auto-fix issues such as double-importing.
-
-  Install ``isort`` with::
-
-    pip install --upgrade isort
-
-  Auto-fix imports with::
-
-    isort -rc synapse tests
-
-  ``-rc`` means to recursively search the given directories.
-
-It's worth noting that modern IDEs and text editors can run these tools
-automatically on save. It may be worth looking into whether this
-functionality is supported in your editor for a more convenient development
-workflow. It is not, however, recommended to run ``flake8`` on save as it
-takes a while and is very resource intensive.
-
-General rules
--------------
-
-- **Naming**:
-
-  - Use camel case for class and type names
-  - Use underscores for functions and variables.
-
-- **Docstrings**: should follow the `google code style
-  <https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#38-comments-and-docstrings>`_.
-  This is so that we can generate documentation with `sphinx
-  <http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_. See the
-  `examples
-  <http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html>`_
-  in the sphinx documentation.
-
-- **Imports**:
-
-  - Imports should be sorted by ``isort`` as described above.
-
-  - Prefer to import classes and functions rather than packages or modules.
-
-    Example::
-
-      from synapse.types import UserID
-      ...
-      user_id = UserID(local, server)
-
-    is preferred over::
-
-      from synapse import types
-      ...
-      user_id = types.UserID(local, server)
-
-    (or any other variant).
-
-    This goes against the advice in the Google style guide, but it means that
-    errors in the name are caught early (at import time).
-
-  - Avoid wildcard imports (``from synapse.types import *``) and relative
-    imports (``from .types import UserID``).
-
-Configuration file format
--------------------------
-
-The `sample configuration file <./sample_config.yaml>`_ acts as a reference to
-Synapse's configuration options for server administrators. Remember that many
-readers will be unfamiliar with YAML and server administration in general, so
-that it is important that the file be as easy to understand as possible, which
-includes following a consistent format.
-
-Some guidelines follow:
-
-* Sections should be separated with a heading consisting of a single line
-  prefixed and suffixed with ``##``. There should be **two** blank lines
-  before the section header, and **one** after.
-
-* Each option should be listed in the file with the following format:
-
-  * A comment describing the setting. Each line of this comment should be
-    prefixed with a hash (``#``) and a space.
-
-    The comment should describe the default behaviour (ie, what happens if
-    the setting is omitted), as well as what the effect will be if the
-    setting is changed.
-
-    Often, the comment end with something like "uncomment the
-    following to \<do action>".
-
-  * A line consisting of only ``#``.
-
-  * A commented-out example setting, prefixed with only ``#``.
-
-    For boolean (on/off) options, convention is that this example should be
-    the *opposite* to the default (so the comment will end with "Uncomment
-    the following to enable [or disable] \<feature\>." For other options,
-    the example should give some non-default value which is likely to be
-    useful to the reader.
-
-* There should be a blank line between each option.
-
-* Where several settings are grouped into a single dict, *avoid* the
-  convention where the whole block is commented out, resulting in comment
-  lines starting ``# #``, as this is hard to read and confusing to
-  edit. Instead, leave the top-level config option uncommented, and follow
-  the conventions above for sub-options. Ensure that your code correctly
-  handles the top-level option being set to ``None`` (as it will be if no
-  sub-options are enabled).
-
-* Lines should be wrapped at 80 characters.
-
-Example::
-
-    ## Frobnication ##
-
-    # The frobnicator will ensure that all requests are fully frobnicated.
-    # To enable it, uncomment the following.
-    #
-    #frobnicator_enabled: true
-
-    # By default, the frobnicator will frobnicate with the default frobber.
-    # The following will make it use an alternative frobber.
-    #
-    #frobincator_frobber: special_frobber
-
-    # Settings for the frobber
-    #
-    frobber:
-       # frobbing speed. Defaults to 1.
-       #
-       #speed: 10
-
-       # frobbing distance. Defaults to 1000.
-       #
-       #distance: 100
-
-Note that the sample configuration is generated from the synapse code and is
-maintained by a script, ``scripts-dev/generate_sample_config``. Making sure
-that the output from this script matches the desired format is left as an
-exercise for the reader!

docs/dev/saml.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# How to test SAML as a developer without a server
+
+https://capriza.github.io/samling/samling.html (https://github.com/capriza/samling) is a great
+resource for being able to tinker with the SAML options within Synapse without needing to
+deploy and configure a complicated software stack.
+
+To make Synapse (and therefore Riot) use it:
+
+1. Use the samling.html URL above or deploy your own and visit the IdP Metadata tab.
+2. Copy the XML to your clipboard.
+3. On your Synapse server, create a new file `samling.xml` next to your `homeserver.yaml` with
+   the XML from step 2 as the contents.
+4. Edit your `homeserver.yaml` to include:
+   ```yaml
+   saml2_config:
+     sp_config:
+       allow_unknown_attributes: true  # Works around a bug with AVA Hashes: https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/issues/388
+       metadata:
+         local: ["samling.xml"]   
+   ```
+5. Run `apt-get install xmlsec1` and `pip install --upgrade --force 'pysaml2>=4.5.0'` to ensure
+   the dependencies are installed and ready to go.
+6. Restart Synapse.
+
+Then in Riot:
+
+1. Visit the login page with a Riot pointing at your homeserver.
+2. Click the Single Sign-On button.
+3. On the samling page, enter a Name Identifier and add a SAML Attribute for `uid=your_localpart`.
+   The response must also be signed.
+4. Click "Next".
+5. Click "Post Response" (change nothing).
+6. You should be logged in.
+
+If you try and repeat this process, you may be automatically logged in using the information you
+gave previously. To fix this, open your developer console (`F12` or `Ctrl+Shift+I`) while on the
+samling page and clear the site data. In Chrome, this will be a button on the Application tab.

docs/federate.md

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ We no longer actively recommend against using a reverse proxy. Many admins will
 find it easier to direct federation traffic to a reverse proxy and manage their
 own TLS certificates, and this is a supported configuration.
 
-See [reverse_proxy.rst](reverse_proxy.rst) for information on setting up a
+See [reverse_proxy.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
 reverse proxy.
 
 #### Do I still need to give my TLS certificates to Synapse if I am using a reverse proxy?
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ a complicated dance which requires connections in both directions).
 
 Another common problem is that people on other servers can't join rooms that
 you invite them to. This can be caused by an incorrectly-configured reverse
-proxy: see [reverse_proxy.rst](<reverse_proxy.rst>) for instructions on how to correctly
+proxy: see [reverse_proxy.md](<reverse_proxy.md>) for instructions on how to correctly
 configure a reverse proxy.
 
 ## Running a Demo Federation of Synapses

docs/log_contexts.md

@@ -0,0 +1,494 @@
+# Log Contexts
+
+To help track the processing of individual requests, synapse uses a
+'`log context`' to track which request it is handling at any given
+moment. This is done via a thread-local variable; a `logging.Filter` is
+then used to fish the information back out of the thread-local variable
+and add it to each log record.
+
+Logcontexts are also used for CPU and database accounting, so that we
+can track which requests were responsible for high CPU use or database
+activity.
+
+The `synapse.logging.context` module provides a facilities for managing
+the current log context (as well as providing the `LoggingContextFilter`
+class).
+
+Deferreds make the whole thing complicated, so this document describes
+how it all works, and how to write code which follows the rules.
+
+##Logcontexts without Deferreds
+
+In the absence of any Deferred voodoo, things are simple enough. As with
+any code of this nature, the rule is that our function should leave
+things as it found them:
+
+```python
+from synapse.logging import context         # omitted from future snippets
+
+def handle_request(request_id):
+    request_context = context.LoggingContext()
+
+    calling_context = context.LoggingContext.current_context()
+    context.LoggingContext.set_current_context(request_context)
+    try:
+        request_context.request = request_id
+        do_request_handling()
+        logger.debug("finished")
+    finally:
+        context.LoggingContext.set_current_context(calling_context)
+
+def do_request_handling():
+    logger.debug("phew")  # this will be logged against request_id
+```
+
+LoggingContext implements the context management methods, so the above
+can be written much more succinctly as:
+
+```python
+def handle_request(request_id):
+    with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
+        request_context.request = request_id
+        do_request_handling()
+        logger.debug("finished")
+
+def do_request_handling():
+    logger.debug("phew")
+```
+
+## Using logcontexts with Deferreds
+
+Deferreds --- and in particular, `defer.inlineCallbacks` --- break the
+linear flow of code so that there is no longer a single entry point
+where we should set the logcontext and a single exit point where we
+should remove it.
+
+Consider the example above, where `do_request_handling` needs to do some
+blocking operation, and returns a deferred:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def handle_request(request_id):
+    with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
+        request_context.request = request_id
+        yield do_request_handling()
+        logger.debug("finished")
+```
+
+In the above flow:
+
+-   The logcontext is set
+-   `do_request_handling` is called, and returns a deferred
+-   `handle_request` yields the deferred
+-   The `inlineCallbacks` wrapper of `handle_request` returns a deferred
+
+So we have stopped processing the request (and will probably go on to
+start processing the next), without clearing the logcontext.
+
+To circumvent this problem, synapse code assumes that, wherever you have
+a deferred, you will want to yield on it. To that end, whereever
+functions return a deferred, we adopt the following conventions:
+
+**Rules for functions returning deferreds:**
+
+> -   If the deferred is already complete, the function returns with the
+>     same logcontext it started with.
+> -   If the deferred is incomplete, the function clears the logcontext
+>     before returning; when the deferred completes, it restores the
+>     logcontext before running any callbacks.
+
+That sounds complicated, but actually it means a lot of code (including
+the example above) "just works". There are two cases:
+
+-   If `do_request_handling` returns a completed deferred, then the
+    logcontext will still be in place. In this case, execution will
+    continue immediately after the `yield`; the "finished" line will
+    be logged against the right context, and the `with` block restores
+    the original context before we return to the caller.
+-   If the returned deferred is incomplete, `do_request_handling` clears
+    the logcontext before returning. The logcontext is therefore clear
+    when `handle_request` yields the deferred. At that point, the
+    `inlineCallbacks` wrapper adds a callback to the deferred, and
+    returns another (incomplete) deferred to the caller, and it is safe
+    to begin processing the next request.
+
+    Once `do_request_handling`'s deferred completes, it will reinstate
+    the logcontext, before running the callback added by the
+    `inlineCallbacks` wrapper. That callback runs the second half of
+    `handle_request`, so again the "finished" line will be logged
+    against the right context, and the `with` block restores the
+    original context.
+
+As an aside, it's worth noting that `handle_request` follows our rules
+-though that only matters if the caller has its own logcontext which it
+cares about.
+
+The following sections describe pitfalls and helpful patterns when
+implementing these rules.
+
+Always yield your deferreds
+---------------------------
+
+Whenever you get a deferred back from a function, you should `yield` on
+it as soon as possible. (Returning it directly to your caller is ok too,
+if you're not doing `inlineCallbacks`.) Do not pass go; do not do any
+logging; do not call any other functions.
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def fun():
+    logger.debug("starting")
+    yield do_some_stuff()       # just like this
+
+    d = more_stuff()
+    result = yield d            # also fine, of course
+
+    return result
+
+def nonInlineCallbacksFun():
+    logger.debug("just a wrapper really")
+    return do_some_stuff()      # this is ok too - the caller will yield on
+                                # it anyway.
+```
+
+Provided this pattern is followed all the way back up to the callchain
+to where the logcontext was set, this will make things work out ok:
+provided `do_some_stuff` and `more_stuff` follow the rules above, then
+so will `fun` (as wrapped by `inlineCallbacks`) and
+`nonInlineCallbacksFun`.
+
+It's all too easy to forget to `yield`: for instance if we forgot that
+`do_some_stuff` returned a deferred, we might plough on regardless. This
+leads to a mess; it will probably work itself out eventually, but not
+before a load of stuff has been logged against the wrong context.
+(Normally, other things will break, more obviously, if you forget to
+`yield`, so this tends not to be a major problem in practice.)
+
+Of course sometimes you need to do something a bit fancier with your
+Deferreds - not all code follows the linear A-then-B-then-C pattern.
+Notes on implementing more complex patterns are in later sections.
+
+## Where you create a new Deferred, make it follow the rules
+
+Most of the time, a Deferred comes from another synapse function.
+Sometimes, though, we need to make up a new Deferred, or we get a
+Deferred back from external code. We need to make it follow our rules.
+
+The easy way to do it is with a combination of `defer.inlineCallbacks`,
+and `context.PreserveLoggingContext`. Suppose we want to implement
+`sleep`, which returns a deferred which will run its callbacks after a
+given number of seconds. That might look like:
+
+```python
+# not a logcontext-rules-compliant function
+def get_sleep_deferred(seconds):
+    d = defer.Deferred()
+    reactor.callLater(seconds, d.callback, None)
+    return d
+```
+
+That doesn't follow the rules, but we can fix it by wrapping it with
+`PreserveLoggingContext` and `yield` ing on it:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def sleep(seconds):
+    with PreserveLoggingContext():
+        yield get_sleep_deferred(seconds)
+```
+
+This technique works equally for external functions which return
+deferreds, or deferreds we have made ourselves.
+
+You can also use `context.make_deferred_yieldable`, which just does the
+boilerplate for you, so the above could be written:
+
+```python
+def sleep(seconds):
+    return context.make_deferred_yieldable(get_sleep_deferred(seconds))
+```
+
+## Fire-and-forget
+
+Sometimes you want to fire off a chain of execution, but not wait for
+its result. That might look a bit like this:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def do_request_handling():
+    yield foreground_operation()
+
+    # *don't* do this
+    background_operation()
+
+    logger.debug("Request handling complete")
+
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def background_operation():
+    yield first_background_step()
+    logger.debug("Completed first step")
+    yield second_background_step()
+    logger.debug("Completed second step")
+```
+
+The above code does a couple of steps in the background after
+`do_request_handling` has finished. The log lines are still logged
+against the `request_context` logcontext, which may or may not be
+desirable. There are two big problems with the above, however. The first
+problem is that, if `background_operation` returns an incomplete
+Deferred, it will expect its caller to `yield` immediately, so will have
+cleared the logcontext. In this example, that means that 'Request
+handling complete' will be logged without any context.
+
+The second problem, which is potentially even worse, is that when the
+Deferred returned by `background_operation` completes, it will restore
+the original logcontext. There is nothing waiting on that Deferred, so
+the logcontext will leak into the reactor and possibly get attached to
+some arbitrary future operation.
+
+There are two potential solutions to this.
+
+One option is to surround the call to `background_operation` with a
+`PreserveLoggingContext` call. That will reset the logcontext before
+starting `background_operation` (so the context restored when the
+deferred completes will be the empty logcontext), and will restore the
+current logcontext before continuing the foreground process:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def do_request_handling():
+    yield foreground_operation()
+
+    # start background_operation off in the empty logcontext, to
+    # avoid leaking the current context into the reactor.
+    with PreserveLoggingContext():
+        background_operation()
+
+    # this will now be logged against the request context
+    logger.debug("Request handling complete")
+```
+
+Obviously that option means that the operations done in
+`background_operation` would be not be logged against a logcontext
+(though that might be fixed by setting a different logcontext via a
+`with LoggingContext(...)` in `background_operation`).
+
+The second option is to use `context.run_in_background`, which wraps a
+function so that it doesn't reset the logcontext even when it returns
+an incomplete deferred, and adds a callback to the returned deferred to
+reset the logcontext. In other words, it turns a function that follows
+the Synapse rules about logcontexts and Deferreds into one which behaves
+more like an external function --- the opposite operation to that
+described in the previous section. It can be used like this:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def do_request_handling():
+    yield foreground_operation()
+
+    context.run_in_background(background_operation)
+
+    # this will now be logged against the request context
+    logger.debug("Request handling complete")
+```
+
+## Passing synapse deferreds into third-party functions
+
+A typical example of this is where we want to collect together two or
+more deferred via `defer.gatherResults`:
+
+```python
+d1 = operation1()
+d2 = operation2()
+d3 = defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+```
+
+This is really a variation of the fire-and-forget problem above, in that
+we are firing off `d1` and `d2` without yielding on them. The difference
+is that we now have third-party code attached to their callbacks. Anyway
+either technique given in the [Fire-and-forget](#fire-and-forget)
+section will work.
+
+Of course, the new Deferred returned by `gatherResults` needs to be
+wrapped in order to make it follow the logcontext rules before we can
+yield it, as described in [Where you create a new Deferred, make it
+follow the
+rules](#where-you-create-a-new-deferred-make-it-follow-the-rules).
+
+So, option one: reset the logcontext before starting the operations to
+be gathered:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def do_request_handling():
+    with PreserveLoggingContext():
+        d1 = operation1()
+        d2 = operation2()
+        result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+```
+
+In this case particularly, though, option two, of using
+`context.preserve_fn` almost certainly makes more sense, so that
+`operation1` and `operation2` are both logged against the original
+logcontext. This looks like:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def do_request_handling():
+    d1 = context.preserve_fn(operation1)()
+    d2 = context.preserve_fn(operation2)()
+
+    with PreserveLoggingContext():
+        result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+```
+
+## Was all this really necessary?
+
+The conventions used work fine for a linear flow where everything
+happens in series via `defer.inlineCallbacks` and `yield`, but are
+certainly tricky to follow for any more exotic flows. It's hard not to
+wonder if we could have done something else.
+
+We're not going to rewrite Synapse now, so the following is entirely of
+academic interest, but I'd like to record some thoughts on an
+alternative approach.
+
+I briefly prototyped some code following an alternative set of rules. I
+think it would work, but I certainly didn't get as far as thinking how
+it would interact with concepts as complicated as the cache descriptors.
+
+My alternative rules were:
+
+-   functions always preserve the logcontext of their caller, whether or
+    not they are returning a Deferred.
+-   Deferreds returned by synapse functions run their callbacks in the
+    same context as the function was orignally called in.
+
+The main point of this scheme is that everywhere that sets the
+logcontext is responsible for clearing it before returning control to
+the reactor.
+
+So, for example, if you were the function which started a
+`with LoggingContext` block, you wouldn't `yield` within it --- instead
+you'd start off the background process, and then leave the `with` block
+to wait for it:
+
+```python
+def handle_request(request_id):
+    with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
+        request_context.request = request_id
+        d = do_request_handling()
+
+    def cb(r):
+        logger.debug("finished")
+
+    d.addCallback(cb)
+    return d
+```
+
+(in general, mixing `with LoggingContext` blocks and
+`defer.inlineCallbacks` in the same function leads to slighly
+counter-intuitive code, under this scheme).
+
+Because we leave the original `with` block as soon as the Deferred is
+returned (as opposed to waiting for it to be resolved, as we do today),
+the logcontext is cleared before control passes back to the reactor; so
+if there is some code within `do_request_handling` which needs to wait
+for a Deferred to complete, there is no need for it to worry about
+clearing the logcontext before doing so:
+
+```python
+def handle_request():
+    r = do_some_stuff()
+    r.addCallback(do_some_more_stuff)
+    return r
+```
+
+--- and provided `do_some_stuff` follows the rules of returning a
+Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original logcontext, all is
+happy.
+
+The business of a Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original
+logcontext isn't hard to achieve --- we have it today, in the shape of
+`context._PreservingContextDeferred`:
+
+```python
+def do_some_stuff():
+    deferred = do_some_io()
+    pcd = _PreservingContextDeferred(LoggingContext.current_context())
+    deferred.chainDeferred(pcd)
+    return pcd
+```
+
+It turns out that, thanks to the way that Deferreds chain together, we
+automatically get the property of a context-preserving deferred with
+`defer.inlineCallbacks`, provided the final Defered the function
+`yields` on has that property. So we can just write:
+
+```python
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def handle_request():
+    yield do_some_stuff()
+    yield do_some_more_stuff()
+```
+
+To conclude: I think this scheme would have worked equally well, with
+less danger of messing it up, and probably made some more esoteric code
+easier to write. But again --- changing the conventions of the entire
+Synapse codebase is not a sensible option for the marginal improvement
+offered.
+
+## A note on garbage-collection of Deferred chains
+
+It turns out that our logcontext rules do not play nicely with Deferred
+chains which get orphaned and garbage-collected.
+
+Imagine we have some code that looks like this:
+
+```python
+listener_queue = []
+
+def on_something_interesting():
+    for d in listener_queue:
+        d.callback("foo")
+
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def await_something_interesting():
+    new_deferred = defer.Deferred()
+    listener_queue.append(new_deferred)
+
+    with PreserveLoggingContext():
+        yield new_deferred
+```
+
+Obviously, the idea here is that we have a bunch of things which are
+waiting for an event. (It's just an example of the problem here, but a
+relatively common one.)
+
+Now let's imagine two further things happen. First of all, whatever was
+waiting for the interesting thing goes away. (Perhaps the request times
+out, or something *even more* interesting happens.)
+
+Secondly, let's suppose that we decide that the interesting thing is
+never going to happen, and we reset the listener queue:
+
+```python
+def reset_listener_queue():
+    listener_queue.clear()
+```
+
+So, both ends of the deferred chain have now dropped their references,
+and the deferred chain is now orphaned, and will be garbage-collected at
+some point. Note that `await_something_interesting` is a generator
+function, and when Python garbage-collects generator functions, it gives
+them a chance to clean up by making the `yield` raise a `GeneratorExit`
+exception. In our case, that means that the `__exit__` handler of
+`PreserveLoggingContext` will carefully restore the request context, but
+there is now nothing waiting for its return, so the request context is
+never cleared.
+
+To reiterate, this problem only arises when *both* ends of a deferred
+chain are dropped. Dropping the the reference to a deferred you're
+supposed to be calling is probably bad practice, so this doesn't
+actually happen too much. Unfortunately, when it does happen, it will
+lead to leaked logcontexts which are incredibly hard to track down.

docs/log_contexts.rst

@@ -1,498 +0,0 @@
-Log Contexts
-============
-
-.. contents::
-
-To help track the processing of individual requests, synapse uses a
-'log context' to track which request it is handling at any given moment. This
-is done via a thread-local variable; a ``logging.Filter`` is then used to fish
-the information back out of the thread-local variable and add it to each log
-record.
-
-Logcontexts are also used for CPU and database accounting, so that we can track
-which requests were responsible for high CPU use or database activity.
-
-The ``synapse.logging.context`` module provides a facilities for managing the
-current log context (as well as providing the ``LoggingContextFilter`` class).
-
-Deferreds make the whole thing complicated, so this document describes how it
-all works, and how to write code which follows the rules.
-
-Logcontexts without Deferreds
------------------------------
-
-In the absence of any Deferred voodoo, things are simple enough. As with any
-code of this nature, the rule is that our function should leave things as it
-found them:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    from synapse.logging import context         # omitted from future snippets
-
-    def handle_request(request_id):
-        request_context = context.LoggingContext()
-
-        calling_context = context.LoggingContext.current_context()
-        context.LoggingContext.set_current_context(request_context)
-        try:
-            request_context.request = request_id
-            do_request_handling()
-            logger.debug("finished")
-        finally:
-            context.LoggingContext.set_current_context(calling_context)
-
-    def do_request_handling():
-        logger.debug("phew")  # this will be logged against request_id
-
-
-LoggingContext implements the context management methods, so the above can be
-written much more succinctly as:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def handle_request(request_id):
-        with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
-            request_context.request = request_id
-            do_request_handling()
-            logger.debug("finished")
-
-    def do_request_handling():
-        logger.debug("phew")
-
-
-Using logcontexts with Deferreds
---------------------------------
-
-Deferreds — and in particular, ``defer.inlineCallbacks`` — break
-the linear flow of code so that there is no longer a single entry point where
-we should set the logcontext and a single exit point where we should remove it.
-
-Consider the example above, where ``do_request_handling`` needs to do some
-blocking operation, and returns a deferred:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def handle_request(request_id):
-        with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
-            request_context.request = request_id
-            yield do_request_handling()
-            logger.debug("finished")
-
-
-In the above flow:
-
-* The logcontext is set
-* ``do_request_handling`` is called, and returns a deferred
-* ``handle_request`` yields the deferred
-* The ``inlineCallbacks`` wrapper of ``handle_request`` returns a deferred
-
-So we have stopped processing the request (and will probably go on to start
-processing the next), without clearing the logcontext.
-
-To circumvent this problem, synapse code assumes that, wherever you have a
-deferred, you will want to yield on it. To that end, whereever functions return
-a deferred, we adopt the following conventions:
-
-**Rules for functions returning deferreds:**
-
-  * If the deferred is already complete, the function returns with the same
-    logcontext it started with.
-  * If the deferred is incomplete, the function clears the logcontext before
-    returning; when the deferred completes, it restores the logcontext before
-    running any callbacks.
-
-That sounds complicated, but actually it means a lot of code (including the
-example above) "just works". There are two cases:
-
-* If ``do_request_handling`` returns a completed deferred, then the logcontext
-  will still be in place. In this case, execution will continue immediately
-  after the ``yield``; the "finished" line will be logged against the right
-  context, and the ``with`` block restores the original context before we
-  return to the caller.
-
-* If the returned deferred is incomplete, ``do_request_handling`` clears the
-  logcontext before returning. The logcontext is therefore clear when
-  ``handle_request`` yields the deferred. At that point, the ``inlineCallbacks``
-  wrapper adds a callback to the deferred, and returns another (incomplete)
-  deferred to the caller, and it is safe to begin processing the next request.
-
-  Once ``do_request_handling``'s deferred completes, it will reinstate the
-  logcontext, before running the callback added by the ``inlineCallbacks``
-  wrapper. That callback runs the second half of ``handle_request``, so again
-  the "finished" line will be logged against the right
-  context, and the ``with`` block restores the original context.
-
-As an aside, it's worth noting that ``handle_request`` follows our rules -
-though that only matters if the caller has its own logcontext which it cares
-about.
-
-The following sections describe pitfalls and helpful patterns when implementing
-these rules.
-
-Always yield your deferreds
----------------------------
-
-Whenever you get a deferred back from a function, you should ``yield`` on it
-as soon as possible. (Returning it directly to your caller is ok too, if you're
-not doing ``inlineCallbacks``.) Do not pass go; do not do any logging; do not
-call any other functions.
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def fun():
-        logger.debug("starting")
-        yield do_some_stuff()       # just like this
-
-        d = more_stuff()
-        result = yield d            # also fine, of course
-
-        return result
-
-    def nonInlineCallbacksFun():
-        logger.debug("just a wrapper really")
-        return do_some_stuff()      # this is ok too - the caller will yield on
-                                    # it anyway.
-
-Provided this pattern is followed all the way back up to the callchain to where
-the logcontext was set, this will make things work out ok: provided
-``do_some_stuff`` and ``more_stuff`` follow the rules above, then so will
-``fun`` (as wrapped by ``inlineCallbacks``) and ``nonInlineCallbacksFun``.
-
-It's all too easy to forget to ``yield``: for instance if we forgot that
-``do_some_stuff`` returned a deferred, we might plough on regardless. This
-leads to a mess; it will probably work itself out eventually, but not before
-a load of stuff has been logged against the wrong context. (Normally, other
-things will break, more obviously, if you forget to ``yield``, so this tends
-not to be a major problem in practice.)
-
-Of course sometimes you need to do something a bit fancier with your Deferreds
-- not all code follows the linear A-then-B-then-C pattern. Notes on
-implementing more complex patterns are in later sections.
-
-Where you create a new Deferred, make it follow the rules
----------------------------------------------------------
-
-Most of the time, a Deferred comes from another synapse function. Sometimes,
-though, we need to make up a new Deferred, or we get a Deferred back from
-external code. We need to make it follow our rules.
-
-The easy way to do it is with a combination of ``defer.inlineCallbacks``, and
-``context.PreserveLoggingContext``. Suppose we want to implement ``sleep``,
-which returns a deferred which will run its callbacks after a given number of
-seconds. That might look like:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    # not a logcontext-rules-compliant function
-    def get_sleep_deferred(seconds):
-        d = defer.Deferred()
-        reactor.callLater(seconds, d.callback, None)
-        return d
-
-That doesn't follow the rules, but we can fix it by wrapping it with
-``PreserveLoggingContext`` and ``yield`` ing on it:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def sleep(seconds):
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            yield get_sleep_deferred(seconds)
-
-This technique works equally for external functions which return deferreds,
-or deferreds we have made ourselves.
-
-You can also use ``context.make_deferred_yieldable``, which just does the
-boilerplate for you, so the above could be written:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def sleep(seconds):
-        return context.make_deferred_yieldable(get_sleep_deferred(seconds))
-
-
-Fire-and-forget
----------------
-
-Sometimes you want to fire off a chain of execution, but not wait for its
-result. That might look a bit like this:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def do_request_handling():
-        yield foreground_operation()
-
-        # *don't* do this
-        background_operation()
-
-        logger.debug("Request handling complete")
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def background_operation():
-        yield first_background_step()
-        logger.debug("Completed first step")
-        yield second_background_step()
-        logger.debug("Completed second step")
-
-The above code does a couple of steps in the background after
-``do_request_handling`` has finished. The log lines are still logged against
-the ``request_context`` logcontext, which may or may not be desirable. There
-are two big problems with the above, however. The first problem is that, if
-``background_operation`` returns an incomplete Deferred, it will expect its
-caller to ``yield`` immediately, so will have cleared the logcontext. In this
-example, that means that 'Request handling complete' will be logged without any
-context.
-
-The second problem, which is potentially even worse, is that when the Deferred
-returned by ``background_operation`` completes, it will restore the original
-logcontext. There is nothing waiting on that Deferred, so the logcontext will
-leak into the reactor and possibly get attached to some arbitrary future
-operation.
-
-There are two potential solutions to this.
-
-One option is to surround the call to ``background_operation`` with a
-``PreserveLoggingContext`` call. That will reset the logcontext before
-starting ``background_operation`` (so the context restored when the deferred
-completes will be the empty logcontext), and will restore the current
-logcontext before continuing the foreground process:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def do_request_handling():
-        yield foreground_operation()
-
-        # start background_operation off in the empty logcontext, to
-        # avoid leaking the current context into the reactor.
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            background_operation()
-
-        # this will now be logged against the request context
-        logger.debug("Request handling complete")
-
-Obviously that option means that the operations done in
-``background_operation`` would be not be logged against a logcontext (though
-that might be fixed by setting a different logcontext via a ``with
-LoggingContext(...)`` in ``background_operation``).
-
-The second option is to use ``context.run_in_background``, which wraps a
-function so that it doesn't reset the logcontext even when it returns an
-incomplete deferred, and adds a callback to the returned deferred to reset the
-logcontext. In other words, it turns a function that follows the Synapse rules
-about logcontexts and Deferreds into one which behaves more like an external
-function — the opposite operation to that described in the previous section.
-It can be used like this:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def do_request_handling():
-        yield foreground_operation()
-
-        context.run_in_background(background_operation)
-
-        # this will now be logged against the request context
-        logger.debug("Request handling complete")
-
-Passing synapse deferreds into third-party functions
-----------------------------------------------------
-
-A typical example of this is where we want to collect together two or more
-deferred via ``defer.gatherResults``:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    d1 = operation1()
-    d2 = operation2()
-    d3 = defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
-
-This is really a variation of the fire-and-forget problem above, in that we are
-firing off ``d1`` and ``d2`` without yielding on them. The difference
-is that we now have third-party code attached to their callbacks. Anyway either
-technique given in the `Fire-and-forget`_ section will work.
-
-Of course, the new Deferred returned by ``gatherResults`` needs to be wrapped
-in order to make it follow the logcontext rules before we can yield it, as
-described in `Where you create a new Deferred, make it follow the rules`_.
-
-So, option one: reset the logcontext before starting the operations to be
-gathered:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def do_request_handling():
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            d1 = operation1()
-            d2 = operation2()
-            result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
-
-In this case particularly, though, option two, of using
-``context.preserve_fn`` almost certainly makes more sense, so that
-``operation1`` and ``operation2`` are both logged against the original
-logcontext. This looks like:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def do_request_handling():
-        d1 = context.preserve_fn(operation1)()
-        d2 = context.preserve_fn(operation2)()
-
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
-
-
-Was all this really necessary?
-------------------------------
-
-The conventions used work fine for a linear flow where everything happens in
-series via ``defer.inlineCallbacks`` and ``yield``, but are certainly tricky to
-follow for any more exotic flows. It's hard not to wonder if we could have done
-something else.
-
-We're not going to rewrite Synapse now, so the following is entirely of
-academic interest, but I'd like to record some thoughts on an alternative
-approach.
-
-I briefly prototyped some code following an alternative set of rules. I think
-it would work, but I certainly didn't get as far as thinking how it would
-interact with concepts as complicated as the cache descriptors.
-
-My alternative rules were:
-
-* functions always preserve the logcontext of their caller, whether or not they
-  are returning a Deferred.
-
-* Deferreds returned by synapse functions run their callbacks in the same
-  context as the function was orignally called in.
-
-The main point of this scheme is that everywhere that sets the logcontext is
-responsible for clearing it before returning control to the reactor.
-
-So, for example, if you were the function which started a ``with
-LoggingContext`` block, you wouldn't ``yield`` within it — instead you'd start
-off the background process, and then leave the ``with`` block to wait for it:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def handle_request(request_id):
-        with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
-            request_context.request = request_id
-            d = do_request_handling()
-
-        def cb(r):
-            logger.debug("finished")
-
-        d.addCallback(cb)
-        return d
-
-(in general, mixing ``with LoggingContext`` blocks and
-``defer.inlineCallbacks`` in the same function leads to slighly
-counter-intuitive code, under this scheme).
-
-Because we leave the original ``with`` block as soon as the Deferred is
-returned (as opposed to waiting for it to be resolved, as we do today), the
-logcontext is cleared before control passes back to the reactor; so if there is
-some code within ``do_request_handling`` which needs to wait for a Deferred to
-complete, there is no need for it to worry about clearing the logcontext before
-doing so:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def handle_request():
-        r = do_some_stuff()
-        r.addCallback(do_some_more_stuff)
-        return r
-
-— and provided ``do_some_stuff`` follows the rules of returning a Deferred which
-runs its callbacks in the original logcontext, all is happy.
-
-The business of a Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original logcontext
-isn't hard to achieve — we have it today, in the shape of
-``context._PreservingContextDeferred``:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def do_some_stuff():
-        deferred = do_some_io()
-        pcd = _PreservingContextDeferred(LoggingContext.current_context())
-        deferred.chainDeferred(pcd)
-        return pcd
-
-It turns out that, thanks to the way that Deferreds chain together, we
-automatically get the property of a context-preserving deferred with
-``defer.inlineCallbacks``, provided the final Defered the function ``yields``
-on has that property. So we can just write:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def handle_request():
-        yield do_some_stuff()
-        yield do_some_more_stuff()
-
-To conclude: I think this scheme would have worked equally well, with less
-danger of messing it up, and probably made some more esoteric code easier to
-write. But again — changing the conventions of the entire Synapse codebase is
-not a sensible option for the marginal improvement offered.
-
-
-A note on garbage-collection of Deferred chains
------------------------------------------------
-
-It turns out that our logcontext rules do not play nicely with Deferred
-chains which get orphaned and garbage-collected.
-
-Imagine we have some code that looks like this:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    listener_queue = []
-
-    def on_something_interesting():
-        for d in listener_queue:
-            d.callback("foo")
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def await_something_interesting():
-        new_deferred = defer.Deferred()
-        listener_queue.append(new_deferred)
-
-        with PreserveLoggingContext():
-            yield new_deferred
-
-Obviously, the idea here is that we have a bunch of things which are waiting
-for an event. (It's just an example of the problem here, but a relatively
-common one.)
-
-Now let's imagine two further things happen. First of all, whatever was
-waiting for the interesting thing goes away. (Perhaps the request times out,
-or something *even more* interesting happens.)
-
-Secondly, let's suppose that we decide that the interesting thing is never
-going to happen, and we reset the listener queue:
-
-.. code:: python
-
-    def reset_listener_queue():
-        listener_queue.clear()
-
-So, both ends of the deferred chain have now dropped their references, and the
-deferred chain is now orphaned, and will be garbage-collected at some point.
-Note that ``await_something_interesting`` is a generator function, and when
-Python garbage-collects generator functions, it gives them a chance to clean
-up by making the ``yield`` raise a ``GeneratorExit`` exception. In our case,
-that means that the ``__exit__`` handler of ``PreserveLoggingContext`` will
-carefully restore the request context, but there is now nothing waiting for
-its return, so the request context is never cleared.
-
-To reiterate, this problem only arises when *both* ends of a deferred chain
-are dropped. Dropping the the reference to a deferred you're supposed to be
-calling is probably bad practice, so this doesn't actually happen too much.
-Unfortunately, when it does happen, it will lead to leaked logcontexts which
-are incredibly hard to track down.

docs/media_repository.md

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+# Media Repository 
+
+*Synapse implementation-specific details for the media repository*
+
+The media repository is where attachments and avatar photos are stored.
+It stores attachment content and thumbnails for media uploaded by local users.
+It caches attachment content and thumbnails for media uploaded by remote users.
+
+## Storage
+
+Each item of media is assigned a `media_id` when it is uploaded.
+The `media_id` is a randomly chosen, URL safe 24 character string.
+
+Metadata such as the MIME type, upload time and length are stored in the
+sqlite3 database indexed by `media_id`.
+
+Content is stored on the filesystem under a `"local_content"` directory.
+
+Thumbnails are stored under a `"local_thumbnails"` directory.
+
+The item with `media_id` `"aabbccccccccdddddddddddd"` is stored under
+`"local_content/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd"`. Its thumbnail with width
+`128` and height `96` and type `"image/jpeg"` is stored under
+`"local_thumbnails/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd/128-96-image-jpeg"`
+
+Remote content is cached under `"remote_content"` directory. Each item of
+remote content is assigned a local `"filesystem_id"` to ensure that the
+directory structure `"remote_content/server_name/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd"`
+is appropriate. Thumbnails for remote content are stored under
+`"remote_thumbnails/server_name/..."`

docs/media_repository.rst

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-Media Repository 
-================
-
-*Synapse implementation-specific details for the media repository*
-
-The media repository is where attachments and avatar photos are stored.
-It stores attachment content and thumbnails for media uploaded by local users.
-It caches attachment content and thumbnails for media uploaded by remote users.
-
-Storage
--------
-
-Each item of media is assigned a ``media_id`` when it is uploaded.
-The ``media_id`` is a randomly chosen, URL safe 24 character string.
-Metadata such as the MIME type, upload time and length are stored in the
-sqlite3 database indexed by ``media_id``.
-Content is stored on the filesystem under a ``"local_content"`` directory.
-Thumbnails are stored under a ``"local_thumbnails"`` directory.
-The item with ``media_id`` ``"aabbccccccccdddddddddddd"`` is stored under
-``"local_content/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd"``. Its thumbnail with width
-``128`` and height ``96`` and type ``"image/jpeg"`` is stored under
-``"local_thumbnails/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd/128-96-image-jpeg"``
-Remote content is cached under ``"remote_content"`` directory. Each item of
-remote content is assigned a local "``filesystem_id``" to ensure that the
-directory structure ``"remote_content/server_name/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd"``
-is appropriate. Thumbnails for remote content are stored under
-``"remote_thumbnails/server_name/..."``

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+# How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
+
+1.  Install Prometheus:
+
+    Follow instructions at
+    <http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/install/>
+
+1.  Enable Synapse metrics:
+
+    There are two methods of enabling metrics in Synapse.
+
+    The first serves the metrics as a part of the usual web server and
+    can be enabled by adding the \"metrics\" resource to the existing
+    listener as such:
+
+        resources:
+          - names:
+            - client
+            - metrics
+
+    This provides a simple way of adding metrics to your Synapse
+    installation, and serves under `/_synapse/metrics`. If you do not
+    wish your metrics be publicly exposed, you will need to either
+    filter it out at your load balancer, or use the second method.
+
+    The second method runs the metrics server on a different port, in a
+    different thread to Synapse. This can make it more resilient to
+    heavy load meaning metrics cannot be retrieved, and can be exposed
+    to just internal networks easier. The served metrics are available
+    over HTTP only, and will be available at `/`.
+
+    Add a new listener to homeserver.yaml:
+
+        listeners:
+          - type: metrics
+            port: 9000
+            bind_addresses:
+              - '0.0.0.0'
+
+    For both options, you will need to ensure that `enable_metrics` is
+    set to `True`.
+
+1.  Restart Synapse.
+
+1.  Add a Prometheus target for Synapse.
+
+    It needs to set the `metrics_path` to a non-default value (under
+    `scrape_configs`):
+
+        - job_name: "synapse"
+          metrics_path: "/_synapse/metrics"
+          static_configs:
+            - targets: ["my.server.here:port"]
+
+    where `my.server.here` is the IP address of Synapse, and `port` is
+    the listener port configured with the `metrics` resource.
+
+    If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace
+    `static_configs` in the above with `target_groups`.
+
+1.  Restart Prometheus.
+
+## Renaming of metrics & deprecation of old names in 1.2
+
+Synapse 1.2 updates the Prometheus metrics to match the naming
+convention of the upstream `prometheus_client`. The old names are
+considered deprecated and will be removed in a future version of
+Synapse.
+
+| New Name                                                                     | Old Name                                                               |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| python_gc_objects_collected_total                                            | python_gc_objects_collected                                            |
+| python_gc_objects_uncollectable_total                                        | python_gc_objects_uncollectable                                        |
+| python_gc_collections_total                                                  | python_gc_collections                                                  |
+| process_cpu_seconds_total                                                    | process_cpu_seconds                                                    |
+| synapse_federation_client_sent_transactions_total                            | synapse_federation_client_sent_transactions                            |
+| synapse_federation_client_events_processed_total                             | synapse_federation_client_events_processed                             |
+| synapse_event_processing_loop_count_total                                    | synapse_event_processing_loop_count                                    |
+| synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count_total                               | synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count                               |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count_total                                       | synapse_util_metrics_block_count                                       |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds_total                                | synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds                                |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds_total                            | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds                            |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds_total                            | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds                            |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count_total                                | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count                                |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds_total                     | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds                     |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_sched_duration_seconds_total                   | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_sched_duration_seconds                   |
+| synapse_background_process_start_count_total                                 | synapse_background_process_start_count                                 |
+| synapse_background_process_ru_utime_seconds_total                            | synapse_background_process_ru_utime_seconds                            |
+| synapse_background_process_ru_stime_seconds_total                            | synapse_background_process_ru_stime_seconds                            |
+| synapse_background_process_db_txn_count_total                                | synapse_background_process_db_txn_count                                |
+| synapse_background_process_db_txn_duration_seconds_total                     | synapse_background_process_db_txn_duration_seconds                     |
+| synapse_background_process_db_sched_duration_seconds_total                   | synapse_background_process_db_sched_duration_seconds                   |
+| synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_total                                | synapse_storage_events_persisted_events                                |
+| synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_sep_total                            | synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_sep                            |
+| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_total                                     | synapse_storage_events_state_delta                                     |
+| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_single_event_total                        | synapse_storage_events_state_delta_single_event                        |
+| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_reuse_delta_total                         | synapse_storage_events_state_delta_reuse_delta                         |
+| synapse_federation_server_received_pdus_total                                | synapse_federation_server_received_pdus                                |
+| synapse_federation_server_received_edus_total                                | synapse_federation_server_received_edus                                |
+| synapse_handler_presence_notified_presence_total                             | synapse_handler_presence_notified_presence                             |
+| synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_out_total                       | synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_out                       |
+| synapse_handler_presence_presence_updates_total                              | synapse_handler_presence_presence_updates                              |
+| synapse_handler_presence_timers_fired_total                                  | synapse_handler_presence_timers_fired                                  |
+| synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_total                           | synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence                           |
+| synapse_handler_presence_bump_active_time_total                              | synapse_handler_presence_bump_active_time                              |
+| synapse_federation_client_sent_edus_total                                    | synapse_federation_client_sent_edus                                    |
+| synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations_count_total                  | synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations:count                  |
+| synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations_total                        | synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations:total                  |
+| synapse_handlers_appservice_events_processed_total                           | synapse_handlers_appservice_events_processed                           |
+| synapse_notifier_notified_events_total                                       | synapse_notifier_notified_events                                       |
+| synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_invalidation_counter_total  | synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_invalidation_counter  |
+| synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_state_size_counter_total    | synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_state_size_counter    |
+| synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_processed_total                          | synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_processed                          |
+| synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_failed_total                             | synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_failed                             |
+| synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_processed_total                        | synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_processed                        |
+| synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_failed_total                           | synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_failed                           |
+
+Removal of deprecated metrics & time based counters becoming histograms in 0.31.0
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The duplicated metrics deprecated in Synapse 0.27.0 have been removed.
+
+All time duration-based metrics have been changed to be seconds. This
+affects:
+
+| msec -> sec metrics                    |
+| -------------------------------------- |
+| python_gc_time                         |
+| python_twisted_reactor_tick_time       |
+| synapse_storage_query_time             |
+| synapse_storage_schedule_time          |
+| synapse_storage_transaction_time       |
+
+Several metrics have been changed to be histograms, which sort entries
+into buckets and allow better analysis. The following metrics are now
+histograms:
+
+| Altered metrics                                  |
+| ------------------------------------------------ |
+| python_gc_time                                   |
+| python_twisted_reactor_pending_calls             |
+| python_twisted_reactor_tick_time                 |
+| synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds        |
+| synapse_storage_query_time                       |
+| synapse_storage_schedule_time                    |
+| synapse_storage_transaction_time                 |
+
+Block and response metrics renamed for 0.27.0
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Synapse 0.27.0 begins the process of rationalising the duplicate
+`*:count` metrics reported for the resource tracking for code blocks and
+HTTP requests.
+
+At the same time, the corresponding `*:total` metrics are being renamed,
+as the `:total` suffix no longer makes sense in the absence of a
+corresponding `:count` metric.
+
+To enable a graceful migration path, this release just adds new names
+for the metrics being renamed. A future release will remove the old
+ones.
+
+The following table shows the new metrics, and the old metrics which
+they are replacing.
+
+| New name                                                      | Old name                                                   |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count                              | synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:count                     |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count                              | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:count                  |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count                              | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:count                  |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count                              | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:count              |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_count                              | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:count           |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds                       | synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:total                     |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds                   | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:total                  |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds                   | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:total                  |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count                       | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:total              |
+| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds            | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:total           |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_requests                               |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_response_time:count                    |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:count                |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:count                |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:count            |
+| synapse_http_server_response_count                            | synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:count         |
+| synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds                     | synapse_http_server_response_time:total                    |
+| synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime_seconds                 | synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:total                |
+| synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime_seconds                 | synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:total                |
+| synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count                     | synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:total            |
+| synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration_seconds          | synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:total         |
+
+Standard Metric Names
+---------------------
+
+As of synapse version 0.18.2, the format of the process-wide metrics has
+been changed to fit prometheus standard naming conventions. Additionally
+the units have been changed to seconds, from miliseconds.
+
+| New name                                 | Old name                          |
+| ---------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
+| process_cpu_user_seconds_total           | process_resource_utime / 1000     |
+| process_cpu_system_seconds_total         | process_resource_stime / 1000     |
+| process_open_fds (no \'type\' label)     | process_fds                       |
+
+The python-specific counts of garbage collector performance have been
+renamed.
+
+| New name                         | Old name                   |
+| -------------------------------- | -------------------------- |
+| python_gc_time                   | reactor_gc_time            |
+| python_gc_unreachable_total      | reactor_gc_unreachable     |
+| python_gc_counts                 | reactor_gc_counts          |
+
+The twisted-specific reactor metrics have been renamed.
+
+| New name                               | Old name                |
+| -------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
+| python_twisted_reactor_pending_calls   | reactor_pending_calls   |
+| python_twisted_reactor_tick_time       | reactor_tick_time       |

docs/metrics-howto.rst

@@ -1,285 +0,0 @@
-How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
-===============================================
-
-1. Install Prometheus:
-
-   Follow instructions at http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/install/
-
-2. Enable Synapse metrics:
-
-   There are two methods of enabling metrics in Synapse.
-
-   The first serves the metrics as a part of the usual web server and can be
-   enabled by adding the "metrics" resource to the existing listener as such::
-
-     resources:
-       - names:
-         - client
-         - metrics
-
-   This provides a simple way of adding metrics to your Synapse installation,
-   and serves under ``/_synapse/metrics``. If you do not wish your metrics be
-   publicly exposed, you will need to either filter it out at your load
-   balancer, or use the second method.
-
-   The second method runs the metrics server on a different port, in a
-   different thread to Synapse. This can make it more resilient to heavy load
-   meaning metrics cannot be retrieved, and can be exposed to just internal
-   networks easier. The served metrics are available over HTTP only, and will
-   be available at ``/``.
-
-   Add a new listener to homeserver.yaml::
-
-     listeners:
-       - type: metrics
-         port: 9000
-         bind_addresses:
-           - '0.0.0.0'
-
-   For both options, you will need to ensure that ``enable_metrics`` is set to
-   ``True``.
-
-   Restart Synapse.
-
-3. Add a Prometheus target for Synapse.
-
-   It needs to set the ``metrics_path`` to a non-default value (under ``scrape_configs``)::
-
-    - job_name: "synapse"
-      metrics_path: "/_synapse/metrics"
-      static_configs:
-        - targets: ["my.server.here:port"]
-
-   where ``my.server.here`` is the IP address of Synapse, and ``port`` is the listener port
-   configured with the ``metrics`` resource.
-
-   If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace
-   ``static_configs`` in the above with ``target_groups``.
-
-   Restart Prometheus.
-
-
-Renaming of metrics & deprecation of old names in 1.2
------------------------------------------------------
-
-Synapse 1.2 updates the Prometheus metrics to match the naming convention of the
-upstream ``prometheus_client``. The old names are considered deprecated and will
-be removed in a future version of Synapse.
-
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|                                  New Name                                   |                               Old Name                                |
-+=============================================================================+=======================================================================+
-| python_gc_objects_collected_total                                           | python_gc_objects_collected                                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| python_gc_objects_uncollectable_total                                       | python_gc_objects_uncollectable                                       |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| python_gc_collections_total                                                 | python_gc_collections                                                 |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| process_cpu_seconds_total                                                   | process_cpu_seconds                                                   |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_client_sent_transactions_total                           | synapse_federation_client_sent_transactions                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_client_events_processed_total                            | synapse_federation_client_events_processed                            |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_event_processing_loop_count_total                                   | synapse_event_processing_loop_count                                   |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count_total                              | synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count                              |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_count_total                                      | synapse_util_metrics_block_count                                      |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds_total                               | synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds_total                           | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds_total                           | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count_total                               | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds_total                    | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds                    |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_util_metrics_block_db_sched_duration_seconds_total                  | synapse_util_metrics_block_db_sched_duration_seconds                  |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_start_count_total                                | synapse_background_process_start_count                                |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_ru_utime_seconds_total                           | synapse_background_process_ru_utime_seconds                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_ru_stime_seconds_total                           | synapse_background_process_ru_stime_seconds                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_db_txn_count_total                               | synapse_background_process_db_txn_count                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_db_txn_duration_seconds_total                    | synapse_background_process_db_txn_duration_seconds                    |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_background_process_db_sched_duration_seconds_total                  | synapse_background_process_db_sched_duration_seconds                  |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_total                               | synapse_storage_events_persisted_events                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_sep_total                           | synapse_storage_events_persisted_events_sep                           |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_total                                    | synapse_storage_events_state_delta                                    |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_single_event_total                       | synapse_storage_events_state_delta_single_event                       |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_events_state_delta_reuse_delta_total                        | synapse_storage_events_state_delta_reuse_delta                        |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_server_received_pdus_total                               | synapse_federation_server_received_pdus                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_server_received_edus_total                               | synapse_federation_server_received_edus                               |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_notified_presence_total                            | synapse_handler_presence_notified_presence                            |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_out_total                      | synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_out                      |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_presence_updates_total                             | synapse_handler_presence_presence_updates                             |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_timers_fired_total                                 | synapse_handler_presence_timers_fired                                 |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence_total                          | synapse_handler_presence_federation_presence                          |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handler_presence_bump_active_time_total                             | synapse_handler_presence_bump_active_time                             |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_client_sent_edus_total                                   | synapse_federation_client_sent_edus                                   |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations_count_total                 | synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations:count                 |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations_total                       | synapse_federation_client_sent_pdu_destinations:total                 |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_handlers_appservice_events_processed_total                          | synapse_handlers_appservice_events_processed                          |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_notifier_notified_events_total                                      | synapse_notifier_notified_events                                      |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_invalidation_counter_total | synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_invalidation_counter |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_state_size_counter_total   | synapse_push_bulk_push_rule_evaluator_push_rules_state_size_counter   |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_processed_total                         | synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_processed                         |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_failed_total                            | synapse_http_httppusher_http_pushes_failed                            |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_processed_total                       | synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_processed                       |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_failed_total                          | synapse_http_httppusher_badge_updates_failed                          |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
-Removal of deprecated metrics & time based counters becoming histograms in 0.31.0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The duplicated metrics deprecated in Synapse 0.27.0 have been removed.
-
-All time duration-based metrics have been changed to be seconds. This affects:
-
-+----------------------------------+
-| msec -> sec metrics              |
-+==================================+
-| python_gc_time                   |
-+----------------------------------+
-| python_twisted_reactor_tick_time |
-+----------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_query_time       |
-+----------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_schedule_time    |
-+----------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_transaction_time |
-+----------------------------------+
-
-Several metrics have been changed to be histograms, which sort entries into
-buckets and allow better analysis. The following metrics are now histograms:
-
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| Altered metrics                           |
-+===========================================+
-| python_gc_time                            |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| python_twisted_reactor_pending_calls      |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| python_twisted_reactor_tick_time          |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_query_time                |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_schedule_time             |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-| synapse_storage_transaction_time          |
-+-------------------------------------------+
-
-
-Block and response metrics renamed for 0.27.0
----------------------------------------------
-
-Synapse 0.27.0 begins the process of rationalising the duplicate ``*:count``
-metrics reported for the resource tracking for code blocks and HTTP requests.
-
-At the same time, the corresponding ``*:total`` metrics are being renamed, as
-the ``:total`` suffix no longer makes sense in the absence of a corresponding
-``:count`` metric.
-
-To enable a graceful migration path, this release just adds new names for the
-metrics being renamed. A future release will remove the old ones.
-
-The following table shows the new metrics, and the old metrics which they are
-replacing.
-
-==================================================== ===================================================
-New name                                             Old name
-==================================================== ===================================================
-synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:count
-synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:count
-synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:count
-synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:count
-synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:count
-
-synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds              synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:total
-synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds          synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:total
-synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds          synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:total
-synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count              synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:total
-synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds   synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:total
-
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_requests
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_time:count
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:count
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:count
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:count
-synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:count
-
-synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds            synapse_http_server_response_time:total
-synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime_seconds        synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:total
-synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime_seconds        synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:total
-synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count            synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:total
-synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration_seconds synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:total
-==================================================== ===================================================
-
-
-Standard Metric Names
----------------------
-
-As of synapse version 0.18.2, the format of the process-wide metrics has been
-changed to fit prometheus standard naming conventions. Additionally the units
-have been changed to seconds, from miliseconds.
-
-================================== =============================
-New name                           Old name
-================================== =============================
-process_cpu_user_seconds_total     process_resource_utime / 1000
-process_cpu_system_seconds_total   process_resource_stime / 1000
-process_open_fds (no 'type' label) process_fds
-================================== =============================
-
-The python-specific counts of garbage collector performance have been renamed.
-
-=========================== ======================
-New name                    Old name
-=========================== ======================
-python_gc_time              reactor_gc_time
-python_gc_unreachable_total reactor_gc_unreachable
-python_gc_counts            reactor_gc_counts
-=========================== ======================
-
-The twisted-specific reactor metrics have been renamed.
-
-==================================== =====================
-New name                             Old name
-==================================== =====================
-python_twisted_reactor_pending_calls reactor_pending_calls
-python_twisted_reactor_tick_time     reactor_tick_time
-==================================== =====================

docs/opentracing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# OpenTracing
+
+## Background
+
+OpenTracing is a semi-standard being adopted by a number of distributed
+tracing platforms. It is a common api for facilitating vendor-agnostic
+tracing instrumentation. That is, we can use the OpenTracing api and
+select one of a number of tracer implementations to do the heavy lifting
+in the background. Our current selected implementation is Jaeger.
+
+OpenTracing is a tool which gives an insight into the causal
+relationship of work done in and between servers. The servers each track
+events and report them to a centralised server - in Synapse's case:
+Jaeger. The basic unit used to represent events is the span. The span
+roughly represents a single piece of work that was done and the time at
+which it occurred. A span can have child spans, meaning that the work of
+the child had to be completed for the parent span to complete, or it can
+have follow-on spans which represent work that is undertaken as a result
+of the parent but is not depended on by the parent to in order to
+finish.
+
+Since this is undertaken in a distributed environment a request to
+another server, such as an RPC or a simple GET, can be considered a span
+(a unit or work) for the local server. This causal link is what
+OpenTracing aims to capture and visualise. In order to do this metadata
+about the local server's span, i.e the 'span context', needs to be
+included with the request to the remote.
+
+It is up to the remote server to decide what it does with the spans it
+creates. This is called the sampling policy and it can be configured
+through Jaeger's settings.
+
+For OpenTracing concepts see
+<https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/>.
+
+For more information about Jaeger's implementation see
+<https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/>
+
+## Setting up OpenTracing
+
+To receive OpenTracing spans, start up a Jaeger server. This can be done
+using docker like so:
+
+```sh
+docker run -d --name jaeger
+  -p 6831:6831/udp \
+  -p 6832:6832/udp \
+  -p 5778:5778 \
+  -p 16686:16686 \
+  -p 14268:14268 \
+  jaegertracing/all-in-one:1.13
+```
+
+Latest documentation is probably at
+<https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.13/getting-started/>
+
+## Enable OpenTracing in Synapse
+
+OpenTracing is not enabled by default. It must be enabled in the
+homeserver config by uncommenting the config options under `opentracing`
+as shown in the [sample config](./sample_config.yaml). For example:
+
+```yaml
+opentracing:
+  tracer_enabled: true
+  homeserver_whitelist:
+    - "mytrustedhomeserver.org"
+    - "*.myotherhomeservers.com"
+```
+
+## Homeserver whitelisting
+
+The homeserver whitelist is configured using regular expressions. A list
+of regular expressions can be given and their union will be compared
+when propagating any spans contexts to another homeserver.
+
+Though it's mostly safe to send and receive span contexts to and from
+untrusted users since span contexts are usually opaque ids it can lead
+to two problems, namely:
+
+-   If the span context is marked as sampled by the sending homeserver
+    the receiver will sample it. Therefore two homeservers with wildly
+    different sampling policies could incur higher sampling counts than
+    intended.
+-   Sending servers can attach arbitrary data to spans, known as
+    'baggage'. For safety this has been disabled in Synapse but that
+    doesn't prevent another server sending you baggage which will be
+    logged to OpenTracing's logs.
+
+## Configuring Jaeger
+
+Sampling strategies can be set as in this document:
+<https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.13/sampling/>

docs/opentracing.rst

@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-===========
-OpenTracing
-===========
-
-Background
-----------
-
-OpenTracing is a semi-standard being adopted by a number of distributed tracing
-platforms. It is a common api for facilitating vendor-agnostic tracing
-instrumentation. That is, we can use the OpenTracing api and select one of a
-number of tracer implementations to do the heavy lifting in the background.
-Our current selected implementation is Jaeger.
-
-OpenTracing is a tool which gives an insight into the causal relationship of
-work done in and between servers. The servers each track events and report them
-to a centralised server - in Synapse's case: Jaeger. The basic unit used to
-represent events is the span. The span roughly represents a single piece of work
-that was done and the time at which it occurred. A span can have child spans,
-meaning that the work of the child had to be completed for the parent span to
-complete, or it can have follow-on spans which represent work that is undertaken
-as a result of the parent but is not depended on by the parent to in order to
-finish.
-
-Since this is undertaken in a distributed environment a request to another
-server, such as an RPC or a simple GET, can be considered a span (a unit or
-work) for the local server. This causal link is what OpenTracing aims to
-capture and visualise. In order to do this metadata about the local server's
-span, i.e the 'span context', needs to be included with the request to the
-remote.
-
-It is up to the remote server to decide what it does with the spans
-it creates. This is called the sampling policy and it can be configured
-through Jaeger's settings.
-
-For OpenTracing concepts see 
-https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/.
-
-For more information about Jaeger's implementation see
-https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/
-
-=====================
-Seting up OpenTracing
-=====================
-
-To receive OpenTracing spans, start up a Jaeger server. This can be done
-using docker like so:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-   docker run -d --name jaeger
-     -p 6831:6831/udp \
-     -p 6832:6832/udp \
-     -p 5778:5778 \
-     -p 16686:16686 \
-     -p 14268:14268 \
-     jaegertracing/all-in-one:1.13
-
-Latest documentation is probably at
-https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.13/getting-started/
-
-
-Enable OpenTracing in Synapse
------------------------------
-
-OpenTracing is not enabled by default. It must be enabled in the homeserver
-config by uncommenting the config options under ``opentracing`` as shown in
-the `sample config <./sample_config.yaml>`_. For example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  opentracing:
-    tracer_enabled: true
-    homeserver_whitelist:
-      - "mytrustedhomeserver.org"
-      - "*.myotherhomeservers.com"
-
-Homeserver whitelisting
------------------------
-
-The homeserver whitelist is configured using regular expressions. A list of regular
-expressions can be given and their union will be compared when propagating any
-spans contexts to another homeserver. 
-
-Though it's mostly safe to send and receive span contexts to and from
-untrusted users since span contexts are usually opaque ids it can lead to
-two problems, namely:
-
-- If the span context is marked as sampled by the sending homeserver the receiver will
-  sample it. Therefore two homeservers with wildly different sampling policies
-  could incur higher sampling counts than intended.
-- Sending servers can attach arbitrary data to spans, known as 'baggage'. For safety this has been disabled in Synapse
-  but that doesn't prevent another server sending you baggage which will be logged
-  to OpenTracing's logs.
-
-==================
-Configuring Jaeger
-==================
-
-Sampling strategies can be set as in this document:
-https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.13/sampling/

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+# Password auth provider modules
+
+Password auth providers offer a way for server administrators to
+integrate their Synapse installation with an existing authentication
+system.
+
+A password auth provider is a Python class which is dynamically loaded
+into Synapse, and provides a number of methods by which it can integrate
+with the authentication system.
+
+This document serves as a reference for those looking to implement their
+own password auth providers.
+
+## Required methods
+
+Password auth provider classes must provide the following methods:
+
+*class* `SomeProvider.parse_config`(*config*)
+
+> This method is passed the `config` object for this module from the
+> homeserver configuration file.
+>
+> It should perform any appropriate sanity checks on the provided
+> configuration, and return an object which is then passed into
+> `__init__`.
+
+*class* `SomeProvider`(*config*, *account_handler*)
+
+> The constructor is passed the config object returned by
+> `parse_config`, and a `synapse.module_api.ModuleApi` object which
+> allows the password provider to check if accounts exist and/or create
+> new ones.
+
+## Optional methods
+
+Password auth provider classes may optionally provide the following
+methods.
+
+*class* `SomeProvider.get_db_schema_files`()
+
+> This method, if implemented, should return an Iterable of
+> `(name, stream)` pairs of database schema files. Each file is applied
+> in turn at initialisation, and a record is then made in the database
+> so that it is not re-applied on the next start.
+
+`someprovider.get_supported_login_types`()
+
+> This method, if implemented, should return a `dict` mapping from a
+> login type identifier (such as `m.login.password`) to an iterable
+> giving the fields which must be provided by the user in the submission
+> to the `/login` api. These fields are passed in the `login_dict`
+> dictionary to `check_auth`.
+>
+> For example, if a password auth provider wants to implement a custom
+> login type of `com.example.custom_login`, where the client is expected
+> to pass the fields `secret1` and `secret2`, the provider should
+> implement this method and return the following dict:
+>
+>     {"com.example.custom_login": ("secret1", "secret2")}
+
+`someprovider.check_auth`(*username*, *login_type*, *login_dict*)
+
+> This method is the one that does the real work. If implemented, it
+> will be called for each login attempt where the login type matches one
+> of the keys returned by `get_supported_login_types`.
+>
+> It is passed the (possibly UNqualified) `user` provided by the client,
+> the login type, and a dictionary of login secrets passed by the
+> client.
+>
+> The method should return a Twisted `Deferred` object, which resolves
+> to the canonical `@localpart:domain` user id if authentication is
+> successful, and `None` if not.
+>
+> Alternatively, the `Deferred` can resolve to a `(str, func)` tuple, in
+> which case the second field is a callback which will be called with
+> the result from the `/login` call (including `access_token`,
+> `device_id`, etc.)
+
+`someprovider.check_3pid_auth`(*medium*, *address*, *password*)
+
+> This method, if implemented, is called when a user attempts to
+> register or log in with a third party identifier, such as email. It is
+> passed the medium (ex. "email"), an address (ex.
+> "<jdoe@example.com>") and the user's password.
+>
+> The method should return a Twisted `Deferred` object, which resolves
+> to a `str` containing the user's (canonical) User ID if
+> authentication was successful, and `None` if not.
+>
+> As with `check_auth`, the `Deferred` may alternatively resolve to a
+> `(user_id, callback)` tuple.
+
+`someprovider.check_password`(*user_id*, *password*)
+
+> This method provides a simpler interface than
+> `get_supported_login_types` and `check_auth` for password auth
+> providers that just want to provide a mechanism for validating
+> `m.login.password` logins.
+>
+> Iif implemented, it will be called to check logins with an
+> `m.login.password` login type. It is passed a qualified
+> `@localpart:domain` user id, and the password provided by the user.
+>
+> The method should return a Twisted `Deferred` object, which resolves
+> to `True` if authentication is successful, and `False` if not.
+
+`someprovider.on_logged_out`(*user_id*, *device_id*, *access_token*)
+
+> This method, if implemented, is called when a user logs out. It is
+> passed the qualified user ID, the ID of the deactivated device (if
+> any: access tokens are occasionally created without an associated
+> device ID), and the (now deactivated) access token.
+>
+> It may return a Twisted `Deferred` object; the logout request will
+> wait for the deferred to complete but the result is ignored.

docs/password_auth_providers.rst

@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-Password auth provider modules
-==============================
-
-Password auth providers offer a way for server administrators to integrate
-their Synapse installation with an existing authentication system.
-
-A password auth provider is a Python class which is dynamically loaded into
-Synapse, and provides a number of methods by which it can integrate with the
-authentication system.
-
-This document serves as a reference for those looking to implement their own
-password auth providers.
-
-Required methods
-----------------
-
-Password auth provider classes must provide the following methods:
-
-*class* ``SomeProvider.parse_config``\(*config*)
-
-    This method is passed the ``config`` object for this module from the
-    homeserver configuration file.
-
-    It should perform any appropriate sanity checks on the provided
-    configuration, and return an object which is then passed into ``__init__``.
-
-*class* ``SomeProvider``\(*config*, *account_handler*)
-
-    The constructor is passed the config object returned by ``parse_config``,
-    and a ``synapse.module_api.ModuleApi`` object which allows the
-    password provider to check if accounts exist and/or create new ones.
-
-Optional methods
-----------------
-
-Password auth provider classes may optionally provide the following methods.
-
-*class* ``SomeProvider.get_db_schema_files``\()
-
-    This method, if implemented, should return an Iterable of ``(name,
-    stream)`` pairs of database schema files. Each file is applied in turn at
-    initialisation, and a record is then made in the database so that it is
-    not re-applied on the next start.
-
-``someprovider.get_supported_login_types``\()
-
-    This method, if implemented, should return a ``dict`` mapping from a login
-    type identifier (such as ``m.login.password``) to an iterable giving the
-    fields which must be provided by the user in the submission to the
-    ``/login`` api. These fields are passed in the ``login_dict`` dictionary
-    to ``check_auth``.
-
-    For example, if a password auth provider wants to implement a custom login
-    type of ``com.example.custom_login``, where the client is expected to pass
-    the fields ``secret1`` and ``secret2``, the provider should implement this
-    method and return the following dict::
-
-      {"com.example.custom_login": ("secret1", "secret2")}
-
-``someprovider.check_auth``\(*username*, *login_type*, *login_dict*)
-
-    This method is the one that does the real work. If implemented, it will be
-    called for each login attempt where the login type matches one of the keys
-    returned by ``get_supported_login_types``.
-
-    It is passed the (possibly UNqualified) ``user`` provided by the client,
-    the login type, and a dictionary of login secrets passed by the client.
-
-    The method should return a Twisted ``Deferred`` object, which resolves to
-    the canonical ``@localpart:domain`` user id if authentication is successful,
-    and ``None`` if not.
-
-    Alternatively, the ``Deferred`` can resolve to a ``(str, func)`` tuple, in
-    which case the second field is a callback which will be called with the
-    result from the ``/login`` call (including ``access_token``, ``device_id``,
-    etc.)
-
-``someprovider.check_3pid_auth``\(*medium*, *address*, *password*)
-
-    This method, if implemented, is called when a user attempts to register or
-    log in with a third party identifier, such as email. It is passed the
-    medium (ex. "email"), an address (ex. "jdoe@example.com") and the user's
-    password.
-
-    The method should return a Twisted ``Deferred`` object, which resolves to
-    a ``str`` containing the user's (canonical) User ID if authentication was
-    successful, and ``None`` if not.
-
-    As with ``check_auth``, the ``Deferred`` may alternatively resolve to a
-    ``(user_id, callback)`` tuple.
-
-``someprovider.check_password``\(*user_id*, *password*)
-
-    This method provides a simpler interface than ``get_supported_login_types``
-    and ``check_auth`` for password auth providers that just want to provide a
-    mechanism for validating ``m.login.password`` logins.
-
-    Iif implemented, it will be called to check logins with an
-    ``m.login.password`` login type. It is passed a qualified
-    ``@localpart:domain`` user id, and the password provided by the user.
-
-    The method should return a Twisted ``Deferred`` object, which resolves to
-    ``True`` if authentication is successful, and ``False`` if not.
-
-``someprovider.on_logged_out``\(*user_id*, *device_id*, *access_token*)
-
-    This method, if implemented, is called when a user logs out. It is passed
-    the qualified user ID, the ID of the deactivated device (if any: access
-    tokens are occasionally created without an associated device ID), and the
-    (now deactivated) access token.
-
-    It may return a Twisted ``Deferred`` object; the logout request will wait
-    for the deferred to complete but the result is ignored.

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+# Using Postgres
+
+Postgres version 9.5 or later is known to work.
+
+## Install postgres client libraries
+
+Synapse will require the python postgres client library in order to
+connect to a postgres database.
+
+-   If you are using the [matrix.org debian/ubuntu
+    packages](../INSTALL.md#matrixorg-packages), the necessary python
+    library will already be installed, but you will need to ensure the
+    low-level postgres library is installed, which you can do with
+    `apt install libpq5`.
+-   For other pre-built packages, please consult the documentation from
+    the relevant package.
+-   If you installed synapse [in a
+    virtualenv](../INSTALL.md#installing-from-source), you can install
+    the library with:
+
+        ~/synapse/env/bin/pip install matrix-synapse[postgres]
+
+    (substituting the path to your virtualenv for `~/synapse/env`, if
+    you used a different path). You will require the postgres
+    development files. These are in the `libpq-dev` package on
+    Debian-derived distributions.
+
+## Set up database
+
+Assuming your PostgreSQL database user is called `postgres`, create a
+user `synapse_user` with:
+
+    su - postgres
+    createuser --pwprompt synapse_user
+
+Before you can authenticate with the `synapse_user`, you must create a
+database that it can access. To create a database, first connect to the
+database with your database user:
+
+    su - postgres
+    psql
+
+and then run:
+
+    CREATE DATABASE synapse
+     ENCODING 'UTF8'
+     LC_COLLATE='C'
+     LC_CTYPE='C'
+     template=template0
+     OWNER synapse_user;
+
+This would create an appropriate database named `synapse` owned by the
+`synapse_user` user (which must already have been created as above).
+
+Note that the PostgreSQL database *must* have the correct encoding set
+(as shown above), otherwise it will not be able to store UTF8 strings.
+
+You may need to enable password authentication so `synapse_user` can
+connect to the database. See
+<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/auth-pg-hba-conf.html>.
+
+## Tuning Postgres
+
+The default settings should be fine for most deployments. For larger
+scale deployments tuning some of the settings is recommended, details of
+which can be found at
+<https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server>.
+
+In particular, we've found tuning the following values helpful for
+performance:
+
+-   `shared_buffers`
+-   `effective_cache_size`
+-   `work_mem`
+-   `maintenance_work_mem`
+-   `autovacuum_work_mem`
+
+Note that the appropriate values for those fields depend on the amount
+of free memory the database host has available.
+
+## Synapse config
+
+When you are ready to start using PostgreSQL, edit the `database`
+section in your config file to match the following lines:
+
+    database:
+        name: psycopg2
+        args:
+            user: <user>
+            password: <pass>
+            database: <db>
+            host: <host>
+            cp_min: 5
+            cp_max: 10
+
+All key, values in `args` are passed to the `psycopg2.connect(..)`
+function, except keys beginning with `cp_`, which are consumed by the
+twisted adbapi connection pool.
+
+## Porting from SQLite
+
+### Overview
+
+The script `synapse_port_db` allows porting an existing synapse server
+backed by SQLite to using PostgreSQL. This is done in as a two phase
+process:
+
+1.  Copy the existing SQLite database to a separate location (while the
+    server is down) and running the port script against that offline
+    database.
+2.  Shut down the server. Rerun the port script to port any data that
+    has come in since taking the first snapshot. Restart server against
+    the PostgreSQL database.
+
+The port script is designed to be run repeatedly against newer snapshots
+of the SQLite database file. This makes it safe to repeat step 1 if
+there was a delay between taking the previous snapshot and being ready
+to do step 2.
+
+It is safe to at any time kill the port script and restart it.
+
+### Using the port script
+
+Firstly, shut down the currently running synapse server and copy its
+database file (typically `homeserver.db`) to another location. Once the
+copy is complete, restart synapse. For instance:
+
+    ./synctl stop
+    cp homeserver.db homeserver.db.snapshot
+    ./synctl start
+
+Copy the old config file into a new config file:
+
+    cp homeserver.yaml homeserver-postgres.yaml
+
+Edit the database section as described in the section *Synapse config*
+above and with the SQLite snapshot located at `homeserver.db.snapshot`
+simply run:
+
+    synapse_port_db --sqlite-database homeserver.db.snapshot \
+        --postgres-config homeserver-postgres.yaml
+
+The flag `--curses` displays a coloured curses progress UI.
+
+If the script took a long time to complete, or time has otherwise passed
+since the original snapshot was taken, repeat the previous steps with a
+newer snapshot.
+
+To complete the conversion shut down the synapse server and run the port
+script one last time, e.g. if the SQLite database is at `homeserver.db`
+run:
+
+    synapse_port_db --sqlite-database homeserver.db \
+        --postgres-config homeserver-postgres.yaml
+
+Once that has completed, change the synapse config to point at the
+PostgreSQL database configuration file `homeserver-postgres.yaml`:
+
+    ./synctl stop
+    mv homeserver.yaml homeserver-old-sqlite.yaml
+    mv homeserver-postgres.yaml homeserver.yaml
+    ./synctl start
+
+Synapse should now be running against PostgreSQL.

docs/postgres.rst

@@ -1,166 +0,0 @@
-Using Postgres
---------------
-
-Postgres version 9.5 or later is known to work.
-
-Install postgres client libraries
-=================================
-
-Synapse will require the python postgres client library in order to connect to
-a postgres database.
-
-* If you are using the `matrix.org debian/ubuntu
-  packages <../INSTALL.md#matrixorg-packages>`_,
-  the necessary python library will already be installed, but you will need to
-  ensure the low-level postgres library is installed, which you can do with
-  ``apt install libpq5``.
-
-* For other pre-built packages, please consult the documentation from the
-  relevant package.
-
-* If you installed synapse `in a virtualenv
-  <../INSTALL.md#installing-from-source>`_, you can install the library with::
-
-      ~/synapse/env/bin/pip install matrix-synapse[postgres]
-
-  (substituting the path to your virtualenv for ``~/synapse/env``, if you used a
-  different path). You will require the postgres development files. These are in
-  the ``libpq-dev`` package on Debian-derived distributions.
-
-Set up database
-===============
-
-Assuming your PostgreSQL database user is called ``postgres``, create a user
-``synapse_user`` with::
-
-   su - postgres
-   createuser --pwprompt synapse_user
-
-Before you can authenticate with the ``synapse_user``, you must create a
-database that it can access. To create a database, first connect to the database
-with your database user::
-
-   su - postgres
-   psql
-
-and then run::
-
-   CREATE DATABASE synapse
-    ENCODING 'UTF8'
-    LC_COLLATE='C'
-    LC_CTYPE='C'
-    template=template0
-    OWNER synapse_user;
-
-This would create an appropriate database named ``synapse`` owned by the
-``synapse_user`` user (which must already have been created as above).
-
-Note that the PostgreSQL database *must* have the correct encoding set (as
-shown above), otherwise it will not be able to store UTF8 strings.
-
-You may need to enable password authentication so ``synapse_user`` can connect
-to the database. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/auth-pg-hba-conf.html.
-
-Tuning Postgres
-===============
-
-The default settings should be fine for most deployments. For larger scale
-deployments tuning some of the settings is recommended, details of which can be
-found at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server.
-
-In particular, we've found tuning the following values helpful for performance:
-
-- ``shared_buffers``
-- ``effective_cache_size``
-- ``work_mem``
-- ``maintenance_work_mem``
-- ``autovacuum_work_mem``
-
-Note that the appropriate values for those fields depend on the amount of free
-memory the database host has available.
-
-Synapse config
-==============
-
-When you are ready to start using PostgreSQL, edit the ``database`` section in
-your config file to match the following lines::
-
-    database:
-        name: psycopg2
-        args:
-            user: <user>
-            password: <pass>
-            database: <db>
-            host: <host>
-            cp_min: 5
-            cp_max: 10
-
-All key, values in ``args`` are passed to the ``psycopg2.connect(..)``
-function, except keys beginning with ``cp_``, which are consumed by the twisted
-adbapi connection pool.
-
-
-Porting from SQLite
-===================
-
-Overview
-~~~~~~~~
-
-The script ``synapse_port_db`` allows porting an existing synapse server
-backed by SQLite to using PostgreSQL. This is done in as a two phase process:
-
-1. Copy the existing SQLite database to a separate location (while the server
-   is down) and running the port script against that offline database.
-2. Shut down the server. Rerun the port script to port any data that has come
-   in since taking the first snapshot. Restart server against the PostgreSQL
-   database.
-
-The port script is designed to be run repeatedly against newer snapshots of the
-SQLite database file. This makes it safe to repeat step 1 if there was a delay
-between taking the previous snapshot and being ready to do step 2.
-
-It is safe to at any time kill the port script and restart it.
-
-Using the port script
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Firstly, shut down the currently running synapse server and copy its database
-file (typically ``homeserver.db``) to another location. Once the copy is
-complete, restart synapse.  For instance::
-
-    ./synctl stop
-    cp homeserver.db homeserver.db.snapshot
-    ./synctl start
-
-Copy the old config file into a new config file::
-
-    cp homeserver.yaml homeserver-postgres.yaml
-
-Edit the database section as described in the section *Synapse config* above
-and with the SQLite snapshot located at ``homeserver.db.snapshot`` simply run::
-
-    synapse_port_db --sqlite-database homeserver.db.snapshot \
-        --postgres-config homeserver-postgres.yaml
-
-The flag ``--curses`` displays a coloured curses progress UI.
-
-If the script took a long time to complete, or time has otherwise passed since
-the original snapshot was taken, repeat the previous steps with a newer
-snapshot.
-
-To complete the conversion shut down the synapse server and run the port
-script one last time, e.g. if the SQLite database is at  ``homeserver.db``
-run::
-
-    synapse_port_db --sqlite-database homeserver.db \
-        --postgres-config homeserver-postgres.yaml
-
-Once that has completed, change the synapse config to point at the PostgreSQL
-database configuration file ``homeserver-postgres.yaml``::
-
-    ./synctl stop
-    mv homeserver.yaml homeserver-old-sqlite.yaml
-    mv homeserver-postgres.yaml homeserver.yaml
-    ./synctl start
-
-Synapse should now be running against PostgreSQL.

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+# Replication Architecture
+
+## Motivation
+
+We'd like to be able to split some of the work that synapse does into
+multiple python processes. In theory multiple synapse processes could
+share a single postgresql database and we\'d scale up by running more
+synapse processes. However much of synapse assumes that only one process
+is interacting with the database, both for assigning unique identifiers
+when inserting into tables, notifying components about new updates, and
+for invalidating its caches.
+
+So running multiple copies of the current code isn't an option. One way
+to run multiple processes would be to have a single writer process and
+multiple reader processes connected to the same database. In order to do
+this we'd need a way for the reader process to invalidate its in-memory
+caches when an update happens on the writer. One way to do this is for
+the writer to present an append-only log of updates which the readers
+can consume to invalidate their caches and to push updates to listening
+clients or pushers.
+
+Synapse already stores much of its data as an append-only log so that it
+can correctly respond to `/sync` requests so the amount of code changes
+needed to expose the append-only log to the readers should be fairly
+minimal.
+
+## Architecture
+
+### The Replication Protocol
+
+See [tcp_replication.md](tcp_replication.md)
+
+### The Slaved DataStore
+
+There are read-only version of the synapse storage layer in
+`synapse/replication/slave/storage` that use the response of the
+replication API to invalidate their caches.

docs/replication.rst

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-Replication Architecture
-========================
-
-Motivation
-----------
-
-We'd like to be able to split some of the work that synapse does into multiple
-python processes. In theory multiple synapse processes could share a single
-postgresql database and we'd scale up by running more synapse processes.
-However much of synapse assumes that only one process is interacting with the
-database, both for assigning unique identifiers when inserting into tables,
-notifying components about new updates, and for invalidating its caches.
-
-So running multiple copies of the current code isn't an option. One way to
-run multiple processes would be to have a single writer process and multiple
-reader processes connected to the same database. In order to do this we'd need
-a way for the reader process to invalidate its in-memory caches when an update
-happens on the writer. One way to do this is for the writer to present an
-append-only log of updates which the readers can consume to invalidate their
-caches and to push updates to listening clients or pushers.
-
-Synapse already stores much of its data as an append-only log so that it can
-correctly respond to /sync requests so the amount of code changes needed to
-expose the append-only log to the readers should be fairly minimal.
-
-Architecture
-------------
-
-The Replication Protocol
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-See ``tcp_replication.rst``
-
-
-The Slaved DataStore
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-There are read-only version of the synapse storage layer in
-``synapse/replication/slave/storage`` that use the response of the replication
-API to invalidate their caches.

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+# Using a reverse proxy with Synapse
+
+It is recommended to put a reverse proxy such as
+[nginx](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html),
+[Apache](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy_http.html),
+[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/docs/proxy) or
+[HAProxy](https://www.haproxy.org/) in front of Synapse. One advantage
+of doing so is that it means that you can expose the default https port
+(443) to Matrix clients without needing to run Synapse with root
+privileges.
+
+> **NOTE**: Your reverse proxy must not `canonicalise` or `normalise`
+the requested URI in any way (for example, by decoding `%xx` escapes).
+Beware that Apache *will* canonicalise URIs unless you specifify
+`nocanon`.
+
+When setting up a reverse proxy, remember that Matrix clients and other
+Matrix servers do not necessarily need to connect to your server via the
+same server name or port. Indeed, clients will use port 443 by default,
+whereas servers default to port 8448. Where these are different, we
+refer to the 'client port' and the \'federation port\'. See [Setting
+up federation](federate.md) for more details of the algorithm used for
+federation connections.
+
+Let's assume that we expect clients to connect to our server at
+`https://matrix.example.com`, and other servers to connect at
+`https://example.com:8448`.  The following sections detail the configuration of
+the reverse proxy and the homeserver.
+
+## Webserver configuration examples
+
+> **NOTE**: You only need one of these.
+
+### nginx
+
+        server {
+            listen 443 ssl;
+            listen [::]:443 ssl;
+            server_name matrix.example.com;
+
+            location /_matrix {
+                proxy_pass http://localhost:8008;
+                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
+            }
+        }
+
+        server {
+            listen 8448 ssl default_server;
+            listen [::]:8448 ssl default_server;
+            server_name example.com;
+
+            location / {
+                proxy_pass http://localhost:8008;
+                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
+            }
+        }
+
+> **NOTE**: Do not add a `/` after the port in `proxy_pass`, otherwise nginx will
+canonicalise/normalise the URI.
+
+### Caddy
+
+        matrix.example.com {
+          proxy /_matrix http://localhost:8008 {
+            transparent
+          }
+        }
+
+        example.com:8448 {
+          proxy / http://localhost:8008 {
+            transparent
+          }
+        }
+
+### Apache
+
+        <VirtualHost *:443>
+            SSLEngine on
+            ServerName matrix.example.com;
+
+            AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
+            ProxyPass /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix nocanon
+            ProxyPassReverse /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix
+        </VirtualHost>
+
+        <VirtualHost *:8448>
+            SSLEngine on
+            ServerName example.com;
+
+            AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
+            ProxyPass /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix nocanon
+            ProxyPassReverse /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix
+        </VirtualHost>
+
+> **NOTE**: ensure the  `nocanon` options are included.
+
+### HAProxy
+
+        frontend https
+          bind :::443 v4v6 ssl crt /etc/ssl/haproxy/ strict-sni alpn h2,http/1.1
+
+          # Matrix client traffic
+          acl matrix-host hdr(host) -i matrix.example.com
+          acl matrix-path path_beg /_matrix
+
+          use_backend matrix if matrix-host matrix-path
+
+        frontend matrix-federation
+          bind :::8448 v4v6 ssl crt /etc/ssl/haproxy/synapse.pem alpn h2,http/1.1
+          default_backend matrix
+
+        backend matrix
+          server matrix 127.0.0.1:8008
+
+## Homeserver Configuration
+
+You will also want to set `bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']` and
+`x_forwarded: true` for port 8008 in `homeserver.yaml` to ensure that
+client IP addresses are recorded correctly.
+
+Having done so, you can then use `https://matrix.example.com` (instead
+of `https://matrix.example.com:8448`) as the "Custom server" when
+connecting to Synapse from a client.

docs/reverse_proxy.rst

@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-Using a reverse proxy with Synapse
-==================================
-
-It is recommended to put a reverse proxy such as
-`nginx <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html>`_,
-`Apache <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy_http.html>`_,
-`Caddy <https://caddyserver.com/docs/proxy>`_ or
-`HAProxy <https://www.haproxy.org/>`_ in front of Synapse. One advantage of
-doing so is that it means that you can expose the default https port (443) to
-Matrix clients without needing to run Synapse with root privileges.
-
-**NOTE**: Your reverse proxy must not 'canonicalise' or 'normalise' the
-requested URI in any way (for example, by decoding ``%xx`` escapes). Beware
-that Apache *will* canonicalise URIs unless you specifify ``nocanon``.
-
-When setting up a reverse proxy, remember that Matrix clients and other Matrix
-servers do not necessarily need to connect to your server via the same server
-name or port. Indeed, clients will use port 443 by default, whereas servers
-default to port 8448. Where these are different, we refer to the 'client port'
-and the 'federation port'. See `Setting up federation
-<federate.md>`_ for more details of the algorithm used for
-federation connections.
-
-Let's assume that we expect clients to connect to our server at
-``https://matrix.example.com``, and other servers to connect at
-``https://example.com:8448``. Here are some example configurations:
-
-* nginx::
-
-      server {
-          listen 443 ssl;
-          listen [::]:443 ssl;
-          server_name matrix.example.com;
-
-          location /_matrix {
-              proxy_pass http://localhost:8008;
-              proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
-          }
-      }
-
-      server {
-          listen 8448 ssl default_server;
-          listen [::]:8448 ssl default_server;
-          server_name example.com;
-
-          location / {
-              proxy_pass http://localhost:8008;
-              proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
-          }
-      }
-      
-  Do not add a `/` after the port in `proxy_pass`, otherwise nginx will canonicalise/normalise the URI.
-
-* Caddy::
-
-      matrix.example.com {
-        proxy /_matrix http://localhost:8008 {
-          transparent
-        }
-      }
-
-      example.com:8448 {
-        proxy / http://localhost:8008 {
-          transparent
-        }
-      }
-
-* Apache (note the ``nocanon`` options here!)::
-
-      <VirtualHost *:443>
-          SSLEngine on
-          ServerName matrix.example.com;
-
-          AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
-          ProxyPass /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix nocanon
-          ProxyPassReverse /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix
-      </VirtualHost>
-
-      <VirtualHost *:8448>
-          SSLEngine on
-          ServerName example.com;
-          
-          AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
-          ProxyPass /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix nocanon
-          ProxyPassReverse /_matrix http://127.0.0.1:8008/_matrix
-      </VirtualHost>
-
-* HAProxy::
-
-      frontend https
-        bind :::443 v4v6 ssl crt /etc/ssl/haproxy/ strict-sni alpn h2,http/1.1
-
-        # Matrix client traffic
-        acl matrix-host hdr(host) -i matrix.example.com
-        acl matrix-path path_beg /_matrix
-
-        use_backend matrix if matrix-host matrix-path
-
-      frontend matrix-federation
-        bind :::8448 v4v6 ssl crt /etc/ssl/haproxy/synapse.pem alpn h2,http/1.1
-        default_backend matrix
-
-      backend matrix
-        server matrix 127.0.0.1:8008
-
-You will also want to set ``bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']`` and ``x_forwarded: true``
-for port 8008 in ``homeserver.yaml`` to ensure that client IP addresses are
-recorded correctly.
-
-Having done so, you can then use ``https://matrix.example.com`` (instead of
-``https://matrix.example.com:8448``) as the "Custom server" when connecting to
-Synapse from a client.

docs/room_and_user_statistics.md

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Room and User Statistics
+========================
+
+Synapse maintains room and user statistics (as well as a cache of room state),
+in various tables. These can be used for administrative purposes but are also
+used when generating the public room directory.
+
+
+# Synapse Developer Documentation
+
+## High-Level Concepts
+
+### Definitions
+
+* **subject**: Something we are tracking stats about – currently a room or user.
+* **current row**: An entry for a subject in the appropriate current statistics
+    table. Each subject can have only one.
+* **historical row**: An entry for a subject in the appropriate historical
+    statistics table. Each subject can have any number of these.
+
+### Overview
+
+Stats are maintained as time series. There are two kinds of column:
+
+* absolute columns – where the value is correct for the time given by `end_ts`
+    in the stats row. (Imagine a line graph for these values)
+    * They can also be thought of as 'gauges' in Prometheus, if you are familiar.
+* per-slice columns – where the value corresponds to how many of the occurrences
+    occurred within the time slice given by `(end_ts − bucket_size)…end_ts`
+    or `start_ts…end_ts`. (Imagine a histogram for these values)
+
+Stats are maintained in two tables (for each type): current and historical.
+
+Current stats correspond to the present values. Each subject can only have one
+entry.
+
+Historical stats correspond to values in the past. Subjects may have multiple
+entries.
+
+## Concepts around the management of stats
+
+### Current rows
+
+Current rows contain the most up-to-date statistics for a room.
+They only contain absolute columns
+
+### Historical rows
+
+Historical rows can always be considered to be valid for the time slice and
+end time specified.
+
+* historical rows will not exist for every time slice – they will be omitted
+    if there were no changes. In this case, the following assumptions can be
+    made to interpolate/recreate missing rows:
+    - absolute fields have the same values as in the preceding row
+    - per-slice fields are zero (`0`)
+* historical rows will not be retained forever – rows older than a configurable
+    time will be purged.
+
+#### Purge
+
+The purging of historical rows is not yet implemented.

docs/sample_config.yaml

@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ pid_file: DATADIR/homeserver.pid
 # blacklist IP address CIDR ranges. If this option is not specified, or
 # specified with an empty list, no ip range blacklist will be enforced.
 #
+# As of Synapse v1.4.0 this option also affects any outbound requests to identity
+# servers provided by user input.
+#
 # (0.0.0.0 and :: are always blacklisted, whether or not they are explicitly
 # listed here, since they correspond to unroutable addresses.)
 #
@@ -136,8 +139,8 @@ federation_ip_range_blacklist:
 #
 #   type: the type of listener. Normally 'http', but other valid options are:
 #       'manhole' (see docs/manhole.md),
-#       'metrics' (see docs/metrics-howto.rst),
-#       'replication' (see docs/workers.rst).
+#       'metrics' (see docs/metrics-howto.md),
+#       'replication' (see docs/workers.md).
 #
 #   tls: set to true to enable TLS for this listener. Will use the TLS
 #       key/cert specified in tls_private_key_path / tls_certificate_path.
@@ -172,12 +175,12 @@ federation_ip_range_blacklist:
 #
 #   media: the media API (/_matrix/media).
 #
-#   metrics: the metrics interface. See docs/metrics-howto.rst.
+#   metrics: the metrics interface. See docs/metrics-howto.md.
 #
 #   openid: OpenID authentication.
 #
 #   replication: the HTTP replication API (/_synapse/replication). See
-#       docs/workers.rst.
+#       docs/workers.md.
 #
 #   static: static resources under synapse/static (/_matrix/static). (Mostly
 #       useful for 'fallback authentication'.)
@@ -201,13 +204,13 @@ listeners:
   # that unwraps TLS.
   #
   # If you plan to use a reverse proxy, please see
-  # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/reverse_proxy.rst.
+  # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/reverse_proxy.md.
   #
   - port: 8008
     tls: false
-    bind_addresses: ['::1', '127.0.0.1']
     type: http
     x_forwarded: true
+    bind_addresses: ['::1', '127.0.0.1']
 
     resources:
       - names: [client, federation]
@@ -306,6 +309,19 @@ listeners:
 #
 #allow_per_room_profiles: false
 
+# How long to keep redacted events in unredacted form in the database. After
+# this period redacted events get replaced with their redacted form in the DB.
+#
+# Defaults to `7d`. Set to `null` to disable.
+#
+#redaction_retention_period: 28d
+
+# How long to track users' last seen time and IPs in the database.
+#
+# Defaults to `28d`. Set to `null` to disable clearing out of old rows.
+#
+#user_ips_max_age: 14d
+
 
 ## TLS ##
 
@@ -392,10 +408,10 @@ listeners:
 #    permission to listen on port 80.
 #
 acme:
-    # ACME support is disabled by default. Uncomment the following line
-    # (and tls_certificate_path and tls_private_key_path above) to enable it.
+    # ACME support is disabled by default. Set this to `true` and uncomment
+    # tls_certificate_path and tls_private_key_path above to enable it.
     #
-    #enabled: true
+    enabled: False
 
     # Endpoint to use to request certificates. If you only want to test,
     # use Let's Encrypt's staging url:
@@ -406,17 +422,17 @@ acme:
     # Port number to listen on for the HTTP-01 challenge. Change this if
     # you are forwarding connections through Apache/Nginx/etc.
     #
-    #port: 80
+    port: 80
 
     # Local addresses to listen on for incoming connections.
     # Again, you may want to change this if you are forwarding connections
     # through Apache/Nginx/etc.
     #
-    #bind_addresses: ['::', '0.0.0.0']
+    bind_addresses: ['::', '0.0.0.0']
 
     # How many days remaining on a certificate before it is renewed.
     #
-    #reprovision_threshold: 30
+    reprovision_threshold: 30
 
     # The domain that the certificate should be for. Normally this
     # should be the same as your Matrix domain (i.e., 'server_name'), but,
@@ -430,7 +446,7 @@ acme:
     #
     # If not set, defaults to your 'server_name'.
     #
-    #domain: matrix.example.com
+    domain: matrix.example.com
 
     # file to use for the account key. This will be generated if it doesn't
     # exist.
@@ -485,7 +501,8 @@ database:
 
 ## Logging ##
 
-# A yaml python logging config file
+# A yaml python logging config file as described by
+# https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/logging.config.html#configuration-dictionary-schema
 #
 log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 
@@ -510,6 +527,9 @@ log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 #   - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the account the
 #     client is attempting to log into, based on the amount of failed login
 #     attempts for this account.
+#   - one for ratelimiting redactions by room admins. If this is not explicitly
+#     set then it uses the same ratelimiting as per rc_message. This is useful
+#     to allow room admins to deal with abuse quickly.
 #
 # The defaults are as shown below.
 #
@@ -531,6 +551,10 @@ log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 #  failed_attempts:
 #    per_second: 0.17
 #    burst_count: 3
+#
+#rc_admin_redaction:
+#  per_second: 1
+#  burst_count: 50
 
 
 # Ratelimiting settings for incoming federation
@@ -565,6 +589,13 @@ log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 
 
 
+## Media Store ##
+
+# Enable the media store service in the Synapse master. Uncomment the
+# following if you are using a separate media store worker.
+#
+#enable_media_repo: false
+
 # Directory where uploaded images and attachments are stored.
 #
 media_store_path: "DATADIR/media_store"
@@ -802,6 +833,16 @@ uploads_path: "DATADIR/uploads"
 #  period: 6w
 #  renew_at: 1w
 #  renew_email_subject: "Renew your %(app)s account"
+#  # Directory in which Synapse will try to find the HTML files to serve to the
+#  # user when trying to renew an account. Optional, defaults to
+#  # synapse/res/templates.
+#  template_dir: "res/templates"
+#  # HTML to be displayed to the user after they successfully renewed their
+#  # account. Optional.
+#  account_renewed_html_path: "account_renewed.html"
+#  # HTML to be displayed when the user tries to renew an account with an invalid
+#  # renewal token. Optional.
+#  invalid_token_html_path: "invalid_token.html"
 
 # Time that a user's session remains valid for, after they log in.
 #
@@ -873,10 +914,44 @@ uploads_path: "DATADIR/uploads"
 # Also defines the ID server which will be called when an account is
 # deactivated (one will be picked arbitrarily).
 #
+# Note: This option is deprecated. Since v0.99.4, Synapse has tracked which identity
+# server a 3PID has been bound to. For 3PIDs bound before then, Synapse runs a
+# background migration script, informing itself that the identity server all of its
+# 3PIDs have been bound to is likely one of the below.
+#
+# As of Synapse v1.4.0, all other functionality of this option has been deprecated, and
+# it is now solely used for the purposes of the background migration script, and can be
+# removed once it has run.
 #trusted_third_party_id_servers:
 #  - matrix.org
 #  - vector.im
 
+# Handle threepid (email/phone etc) registration and password resets through a set of
+# *trusted* identity servers. Note that this allows the configured identity server to
+# reset passwords for accounts!
+#
+# Be aware that if `email` is not set, and SMTP options have not been
+# configured in the email config block, registration and user password resets via
+# email will be globally disabled.
+#
+# Additionally, if `msisdn` is not set, registration and password resets via msisdn
+# will be disabled regardless. This is due to Synapse currently not supporting any
+# method of sending SMS messages on its own.
+#
+# To enable using an identity server for operations regarding a particular third-party
+# identifier type, set the value to the URL of that identity server as shown in the
+# examples below.
+#
+# Servers handling the these requests must answer the `/requestToken` endpoints defined
+# by the Matrix Identity Service API specification:
+# https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/latest
+#
+# If a delegate is specified, the config option public_baseurl must also be filled out.
+#
+account_threepid_delegates:
+    #email: https://example.com     # Delegate email sending to example.org
+    #msisdn: http://localhost:8090  # Delegate SMS sending to this local process
+
 # Users who register on this homeserver will automatically be joined
 # to these rooms
 #
@@ -908,9 +983,24 @@ uploads_path: "DATADIR/uploads"
 #sentry:
 #    dsn: "..."
 
+# Flags to enable Prometheus metrics which are not suitable to be
+# enabled by default, either for performance reasons or limited use.
+#
+metrics_flags:
+    # Publish synapse_federation_known_servers, a g auge of the number of
+    # servers this homeserver knows about, including itself. May cause
+    # performance problems on large homeservers.
+    #
+    #known_servers: true
+
 # Whether or not to report anonymized homeserver usage statistics.
 # report_stats: true|false
 
+# The endpoint to report the anonymized homeserver usage statistics to.
+# Defaults to https://matrix.org/report-usage-stats/push
+#
+#report_stats_endpoint: https://example.com/report-usage-stats/push
+
 
 ## API Configuration ##
 
@@ -982,6 +1072,10 @@ signing_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.signing.key"
 # This setting supercedes an older setting named `perspectives`. The old format
 # is still supported for backwards-compatibility, but it is deprecated.
 #
+# 'trusted_key_servers' defaults to matrix.org, but using it will generate a
+# warning on start-up. To suppress this warning, set
+# 'suppress_key_server_warning' to true.
+#
 # Options for each entry in the list include:
 #
 #    server_name: the name of the server. required.
@@ -1006,20 +1100,31 @@ signing_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.signing.key"
 #      "ed25519:auto": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmopqr"
 #  - server_name: "my_other_trusted_server.example.com"
 #
-# The default configuration is:
+trusted_key_servers:
+  - server_name: "matrix.org"
+
+# Uncomment the following to disable the warning that is emitted when the
+# trusted_key_servers include 'matrix.org'. See above.
 #
-#trusted_key_servers:
-#  - server_name: "matrix.org"
+#suppress_key_server_warning: true
+
+# The signing keys to use when acting as a trusted key server. If not specified
+# defaults to the server signing key.
+#
+# Can contain multiple keys, one per line.
+#
+#key_server_signing_keys_path: "key_server_signing_keys.key"
 
 
 # Enable SAML2 for registration and login. Uses pysaml2.
 #
-# `sp_config` is the configuration for the pysaml2 Service Provider.
-# See pysaml2 docs for format of config.
+# At least one of `sp_config` or `config_path` must be set in this section to
+# enable SAML login.
 #
-# Default values will be used for the 'entityid' and 'service' settings,
-# so it is not normally necessary to specify them unless you need to
-# override them.
+# (You will probably also want to set the following options to `false` to
+# disable the regular login/registration flows:
+#   * enable_registration
+#   * password_config.enabled
 #
 # Once SAML support is enabled, a metadata file will be exposed at
 # https://<server>:<port>/_matrix/saml2/metadata.xml, which you may be able to
@@ -1027,52 +1132,85 @@ signing_key_path: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.signing.key"
 # the IdP to use an ACS location of
 # https://<server>:<port>/_matrix/saml2/authn_response.
 #
-#saml2_config:
-#  sp_config:
-#    # point this to the IdP's metadata. You can use either a local file or
-#    # (preferably) a URL.
-#    metadata:
-#      #local: ["saml2/idp.xml"]
-#      remote:
-#        - url: https://our_idp/metadata.xml
-#
-#    # By default, the user has to go to our login page first. If you'd like to
-#    # allow IdP-initiated login, set 'allow_unsolicited: True' in a
-#    # 'service.sp' section:
-#    #
-#    #service:
-#    #  sp:
-#    #    allow_unsolicited: True
-#
-#    # The examples below are just used to generate our metadata xml, and you
-#    # may well not need it, depending on your setup. Alternatively you
-#    # may need a whole lot more detail - see the pysaml2 docs!
-#
-#    description: ["My awesome SP", "en"]
-#    name: ["Test SP", "en"]
-#
-#    organization:
-#      name: Example com
-#      display_name:
-#        - ["Example co", "en"]
-#      url: "http://example.com"
-#
-#    contact_person:
-#      - given_name: Bob
-#        sur_name: "the Sysadmin"
-#        email_address": ["admin@example.com"]
-#        contact_type": technical
-#
-#  # Instead of putting the config inline as above, you can specify a
-#  # separate pysaml2 configuration file:
-#  #
-#  config_path: "CONFDIR/sp_conf.py"
-#
-#  # the lifetime of a SAML session. This defines how long a user has to
-#  # complete the authentication process, if allow_unsolicited is unset.
-#  # The default is 5 minutes.
-#  #
-#  # saml_session_lifetime: 5m
+saml2_config:
+  # `sp_config` is the configuration for the pysaml2 Service Provider.
+  # See pysaml2 docs for format of config.
+  #
+  # Default values will be used for the 'entityid' and 'service' settings,
+  # so it is not normally necessary to specify them unless you need to
+  # override them.
+  #
+  #sp_config:
+  #  # point this to the IdP's metadata. You can use either a local file or
+  #  # (preferably) a URL.
+  #  metadata:
+  #    #local: ["saml2/idp.xml"]
+  #    remote:
+  #      - url: https://our_idp/metadata.xml
+  #
+  #    # By default, the user has to go to our login page first. If you'd like
+  #    # to allow IdP-initiated login, set 'allow_unsolicited: True' in a
+  #    # 'service.sp' section:
+  #    #
+  #    #service:
+  #    #  sp:
+  #    #    allow_unsolicited: true
+  #
+  #    # The examples below are just used to generate our metadata xml, and you
+  #    # may well not need them, depending on your setup. Alternatively you
+  #    # may need a whole lot more detail - see the pysaml2 docs!
+  #
+  #    description: ["My awesome SP", "en"]
+  #    name: ["Test SP", "en"]
+  #
+  #    organization:
+  #      name: Example com
+  #      display_name:
+  #        - ["Example co", "en"]
+  #      url: "http://example.com"
+  #
+  #    contact_person:
+  #      - given_name: Bob
+  #        sur_name: "the Sysadmin"
+  #        email_address": ["admin@example.com"]
+  #        contact_type": technical
+
+  # Instead of putting the config inline as above, you can specify a
+  # separate pysaml2 configuration file:
+  #
+  #config_path: "CONFDIR/sp_conf.py"
+
+  # the lifetime of a SAML session. This defines how long a user has to
+  # complete the authentication process, if allow_unsolicited is unset.
+  # The default is 5 minutes.
+  #
+  #saml_session_lifetime: 5m
+
+  # The SAML attribute (after mapping via the attribute maps) to use to derive
+  # the Matrix ID from. 'uid' by default.
+  #
+  #mxid_source_attribute: displayName
+
+  # The mapping system to use for mapping the saml attribute onto a matrix ID.
+  # Options include:
+  #  * 'hexencode' (which maps unpermitted characters to '=xx')
+  #  * 'dotreplace' (which replaces unpermitted characters with '.').
+  # The default is 'hexencode'.
+  #
+  #mxid_mapping: dotreplace
+
+  # In previous versions of synapse, the mapping from SAML attribute to MXID was
+  # always calculated dynamically rather than stored in a table. For backwards-
+  # compatibility, we will look for user_ids matching such a pattern before
+  # creating a new account.
+  #
+  # This setting controls the SAML attribute which will be used for this
+  # backwards-compatibility lookup. Typically it should be 'uid', but if the
+  # attribute maps are changed, it may be necessary to change it.
+  #
+  # The default is 'uid'.
+  #
+  #grandfathered_mxid_source_attribute: upn
 
 
 
@@ -1138,19 +1276,6 @@ password_config:
 #   #
 #   riot_base_url: "http://localhost/riot"
 #
-#   # Enable sending password reset emails via the configured, trusted
-#   # identity servers
-#   #
-#   # IMPORTANT! This will give a malicious or overtaken identity server
-#   # the ability to reset passwords for your users! Make absolutely sure
-#   # that you want to do this! It is strongly recommended that password
-#   # reset emails be sent by the homeserver instead
-#   #
-#   # If this option is set to false and SMTP options have not been
-#   # configured, resetting user passwords via email will be disabled
-#   #
-#   #trust_identity_server_for_password_resets: false
-#
 #   # Configure the time that a validation email or text message code
 #   # will expire after sending
 #   #
@@ -1182,11 +1307,34 @@ password_config:
 #   #password_reset_template_html: password_reset.html
 #   #password_reset_template_text: password_reset.txt
 #
+#   # Templates for registration emails sent by the homeserver
+#   #
+#   #registration_template_html: registration.html
+#   #registration_template_text: registration.txt
+#
+#   # Templates for validation emails sent by the homeserver when adding an email to
+#   # your user account
+#   #
+#   #add_threepid_template_html: add_threepid.html
+#   #add_threepid_template_text: add_threepid.txt
+#
 #   # Templates for password reset success and failure pages that a user
 #   # will see after attempting to reset their password
 #   #
 #   #password_reset_template_success_html: password_reset_success.html
 #   #password_reset_template_failure_html: password_reset_failure.html
+#
+#   # Templates for registration success and failure pages that a user
+#   # will see after attempting to register using an email or phone
+#   #
+#   #registration_template_success_html: registration_success.html
+#   #registration_template_failure_html: registration_failure.html
+#
+#   # Templates for success and failure pages that a user will see after attempting
+#   # to add an email or phone to their account
+#   #
+#   #add_threepid_success_html: add_threepid_success.html
+#   #add_threepid_failure_html: add_threepid_failure.html
 
 
 #password_providers:

docs/structured_logging.md

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# Structured Logging
+
+A structured logging system can be useful when your logs are destined for a machine to parse and process. By maintaining its machine-readable characteristics, it enables more efficient searching and aggregations when consumed by software such as the "ELK stack".
+
+Synapse's structured logging system is configured via the file that Synapse's `log_config` config option points to. The file must be YAML and contain `structured: true`. It must contain a list of "drains" (places where logs go to).
+
+A structured logging configuration looks similar to the following:
+
+```yaml
+structured: true
+
+loggers:
+    synapse:
+        level: INFO
+    synapse.storage.SQL:
+        level: WARNING
+
+drains:
+    console:
+        type: console
+        location: stdout
+    file:
+        type: file_json
+        location: homeserver.log
+```
+
+The above logging config will set Synapse as 'INFO' logging level by default, with the SQL layer at 'WARNING', and will have two logging drains (to the console and to a file, stored as JSON).
+
+## Drain Types
+
+Drain types can be specified by the `type` key.
+
+### `console`
+
+Outputs human-readable logs to the console.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `location`: Either `stdout` or `stderr`.
+
+### `console_json`
+
+Outputs machine-readable JSON logs to the console.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `location`: Either `stdout` or `stderr`.
+
+### `console_json_terse`
+
+Outputs machine-readable JSON logs to the console, separated by newlines. This
+format is not designed to be read and re-formatted into human-readable text, but
+is optimal for a logging aggregation system.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `location`: Either `stdout` or `stderr`.
+
+### `file`
+
+Outputs human-readable logs to a file.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `location`: An absolute path to the file to log to.
+
+### `file_json`
+
+Outputs machine-readable logs to a file.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `location`: An absolute path to the file to log to.
+
+### `network_json_terse`
+
+Delivers machine-readable JSON logs to a log aggregator over TCP. This is
+compatible with LogStash's TCP input with the codec set to `json_lines`.
+
+Arguments:
+
+- `host`: Hostname or IP address of the log aggregator.
+- `port`: Numerical port to contact on the host.

docs/tcp_replication.md

@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+# TCP Replication
+
+## Motivation
+
+Previously the workers used an HTTP long poll mechanism to get updates
+from the master, which had the problem of causing a lot of duplicate
+work on the server. This TCP protocol replaces those APIs with the aim
+of increased efficiency.
+
+## Overview
+
+The protocol is based on fire and forget, line based commands. An
+example flow would be (where '>' indicates master to worker and
+'<' worker to master flows):
+
+    > SERVER example.com
+    < REPLICATE events 53
+    > RDATA events 54 ["$foo1:bar.com", ...]
+    > RDATA events 55 ["$foo4:bar.com", ...]
+
+The example shows the server accepting a new connection and sending its
+identity with the `SERVER` command, followed by the client asking to
+subscribe to the `events` stream from the token `53`. The server then
+periodically sends `RDATA` commands which have the format
+`RDATA <stream_name> <token> <row>`, where the format of `<row>` is
+defined by the individual streams.
+
+Error reporting happens by either the client or server sending an ERROR
+command, and usually the connection will be closed.
+
+Since the protocol is a simple line based, its possible to manually
+connect to the server using a tool like netcat. A few things should be
+noted when manually using the protocol:
+
+-   When subscribing to a stream using `REPLICATE`, the special token
+    `NOW` can be used to get all future updates. The special stream name
+    `ALL` can be used with `NOW` to subscribe to all available streams.
+-   The federation stream is only available if federation sending has
+    been disabled on the main process.
+-   The server will only time connections out that have sent a `PING`
+    command. If a ping is sent then the connection will be closed if no
+    further commands are receieved within 15s. Both the client and
+    server protocol implementations will send an initial PING on
+    connection and ensure at least one command every 5s is sent (not
+    necessarily `PING`).
+-   `RDATA` commands *usually* include a numeric token, however if the
+    stream has multiple rows to replicate per token the server will send
+    multiple `RDATA` commands, with all but the last having a token of
+    `batch`. See the documentation on `commands.RdataCommand` for
+    further details.
+
+## Architecture
+
+The basic structure of the protocol is line based, where the initial
+word of each line specifies the command. The rest of the line is parsed
+based on the command. For example, the RDATA command is defined as:
+
+    RDATA <stream_name> <token> <row_json>
+
+(Note that <row_json> may contains spaces, but cannot contain
+newlines.)
+
+Blank lines are ignored.
+
+### Keep alives
+
+Both sides are expected to send at least one command every 5s or so, and
+should send a `PING` command if necessary. If either side do not receive
+a command within e.g. 15s then the connection should be closed.
+
+Because the server may be connected to manually using e.g. netcat, the
+timeouts aren't enabled until an initial `PING` command is seen. Both
+the client and server implementations below send a `PING` command
+immediately on connection to ensure the timeouts are enabled.
+
+This ensures that both sides can quickly realize if the tcp connection
+has gone and handle the situation appropriately.
+
+### Start up
+
+When a new connection is made, the server:
+
+-   Sends a `SERVER` command, which includes the identity of the server,
+    allowing the client to detect if its connected to the expected
+    server
+-   Sends a `PING` command as above, to enable the client to time out
+    connections promptly.
+
+The client:
+
+-   Sends a `NAME` command, allowing the server to associate a human
+    friendly name with the connection. This is optional.
+-   Sends a `PING` as above
+-   For each stream the client wishes to subscribe to it sends a
+    `REPLICATE` with the `stream_name` and token it wants to subscribe
+    from.
+-   On receipt of a `SERVER` command, checks that the server name
+    matches the expected server name.
+
+### Error handling
+
+If either side detects an error it can send an `ERROR` command and close
+the connection.
+
+If the client side loses the connection to the server it should
+reconnect, following the steps above.
+
+### Congestion
+
+If the server sends messages faster than the client can consume them the
+server will first buffer a (fairly large) number of commands and then
+disconnect the client. This ensures that we don't queue up an unbounded
+number of commands in memory and gives us a potential oppurtunity to
+squawk loudly. When/if the client recovers it can reconnect to the
+server and ask for missed messages.
+
+### Reliability
+
+In general the replication stream should be considered an unreliable
+transport since e.g. commands are not resent if the connection
+disappears.
+
+The exception to that are the replication streams, i.e. RDATA commands,
+since these include tokens which can be used to restart the stream on
+connection errors.
+
+The client should keep track of the token in the last RDATA command
+received for each stream so that on reconneciton it can start streaming
+from the correct place. Note: not all RDATA have valid tokens due to
+batching. See `RdataCommand` for more details.
+
+### Example
+
+An example iteraction is shown below. Each line is prefixed with '>'
+or '<' to indicate which side is sending, these are *not* included on
+the wire:
+
+    * connection established *
+    > SERVER localhost:8823
+    > PING 1490197665618
+    < NAME synapse.app.appservice
+    < PING 1490197665618
+    < REPLICATE events 1
+    < REPLICATE backfill 1
+    < REPLICATE caches 1
+    > POSITION events 1
+    > POSITION backfill 1
+    > POSITION caches 1
+    > RDATA caches 2 ["get_user_by_id",["@01register-user:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
+    > RDATA events 14 ["$149019767112vOHxz:localhost:8823",
+        "!AFDCvgApUmpdfVjIXm:localhost:8823","m.room.guest_access","",null]
+    < PING 1490197675618
+    > ERROR server stopping
+    * connection closed by server *
+
+The `POSITION` command sent by the server is used to set the clients
+position without needing to send data with the `RDATA` command.
+
+An example of a batched set of `RDATA` is:
+
+    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
+    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test2:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
+    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test3:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
+    > RDATA caches 54 ["get_user_by_id",["@test4:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
+
+In this case the client shouldn't advance their caches token until it
+sees the the last `RDATA`.
+
+### List of commands
+
+The list of valid commands, with which side can send it: server (S) or
+client (C):
+
+#### SERVER (S)
+
+   Sent at the start to identify which server the client is talking to
+
+#### RDATA (S)
+
+   A single update in a stream
+
+#### POSITION (S)
+
+   The position of the stream has been updated. Sent to the client
+    after all missing updates for a stream have been sent to the client
+    and they're now up to date.
+
+#### ERROR (S, C)
+
+   There was an error
+
+#### PING (S, C)
+
+   Sent periodically to ensure the connection is still alive
+
+#### NAME (C)
+
+   Sent at the start by client to inform the server who they are
+
+#### REPLICATE (C)
+
+   Asks the server to replicate a given stream
+
+#### USER_SYNC (C)
+
+   A user has started or stopped syncing
+
+#### FEDERATION_ACK (C)
+
+   Acknowledge receipt of some federation data
+
+#### REMOVE_PUSHER (C)
+
+   Inform the server a pusher should be removed
+
+#### INVALIDATE_CACHE (C)
+
+   Inform the server a cache should be invalidated
+
+#### SYNC (S, C)
+
+   Used exclusively in tests
+
+See `synapse/replication/tcp/commands.py` for a detailed description and
+the format of each command.
+
+### Cache Invalidation Stream
+
+The cache invalidation stream is used to inform workers when they need
+to invalidate any of their caches in the data store. This is done by
+streaming all cache invalidations done on master down to the workers,
+assuming that any caches on the workers also exist on the master.
+
+Each individual cache invalidation results in a row being sent down
+replication, which includes the cache name (the name of the function)
+and they key to invalidate. For example:
+
+    > RDATA caches 550953771 ["get_user_by_id", ["@bob:example.com"], 1550574873251]
+
+However, there are times when a number of caches need to be invalidated
+at the same time with the same key. To reduce traffic we batch those
+invalidations into a single poke by defining a special cache name that
+workers understand to mean to expand to invalidate the correct caches.
+
+Currently the special cache names are declared in
+`synapse/storage/_base.py` and are:
+
+1.  `cs_cache_fake` ─ invalidates caches that depend on the current
+    state

docs/tcp_replication.rst

@@ -1,249 +0,0 @@
-TCP Replication
-===============
-
-Motivation
-----------
-
-Previously the workers used an HTTP long poll mechanism to get updates from the
-master, which had the problem of causing a lot of duplicate work on the server.
-This TCP protocol replaces those APIs with the aim of increased efficiency.
-
-
-
-Overview
---------
-
-The protocol is based on fire and forget, line based commands. An example flow
-would be (where '>' indicates master to worker and '<' worker to master flows)::
-
-    > SERVER example.com
-    < REPLICATE events 53
-    > RDATA events 54 ["$foo1:bar.com", ...]
-    > RDATA events 55 ["$foo4:bar.com", ...]
-
-The example shows the server accepting a new connection and sending its identity
-with the ``SERVER`` command, followed by the client asking to subscribe to the
-``events`` stream from the token ``53``. The server then periodically sends ``RDATA``
-commands which have the format ``RDATA <stream_name> <token> <row>``, where the
-format of ``<row>`` is defined by the individual streams.
-
-Error reporting happens by either the client or server sending an `ERROR`
-command, and usually the connection will be closed.
-
-
-Since the protocol is a simple line based, its possible to manually connect to
-the server using a tool like netcat. A few things should be noted when manually
-using the protocol:
-
-* When subscribing to a stream using ``REPLICATE``, the special token ``NOW`` can
-  be used to get all future updates. The special stream name ``ALL`` can be used
-  with ``NOW`` to subscribe to all available streams.
-* The federation stream is only available if federation sending has been
-  disabled on the main process.
-* The server will only time connections out that have sent a ``PING`` command.
-  If a ping is sent then the connection will be closed if no further commands
-  are receieved within 15s. Both the client and server protocol implementations
-  will send an initial PING on connection and ensure at least one command every
-  5s is sent (not necessarily ``PING``).
-* ``RDATA`` commands *usually* include a numeric token, however if the stream
-  has multiple rows to replicate per token the server will send multiple
-  ``RDATA`` commands, with all but the last having a token of ``batch``. See
-  the documentation on ``commands.RdataCommand`` for further details.
-
-
-Architecture
-------------
-
-The basic structure of the protocol is line based, where the initial word of
-each line specifies the command. The rest of the line is parsed based on the
-command. For example, the `RDATA` command is defined as::
-
-    RDATA <stream_name> <token> <row_json>
-
-(Note that `<row_json>` may contains spaces, but cannot contain newlines.)
-
-Blank lines are ignored.
-
-
-Keep alives
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Both sides are expected to send at least one command every 5s or so, and
-should send a ``PING`` command if necessary. If either side do not receive a
-command within e.g. 15s then the connection should be closed.
-
-Because the server may be connected to manually using e.g. netcat, the timeouts
-aren't enabled until an initial ``PING`` command is seen. Both the client and
-server implementations below send a ``PING`` command immediately on connection to
-ensure the timeouts are enabled.
-
-This ensures that both sides can quickly realize if the tcp connection has gone
-and handle the situation appropriately.
-
-
-Start up
-~~~~~~~~
-
-When a new connection is made, the server:
-
-* Sends a ``SERVER`` command, which includes the identity of the server, allowing
-  the client to detect if its connected to the expected server
-* Sends a ``PING`` command as above, to enable the client to time out connections
-  promptly.
-
-The client:
-
-* Sends a ``NAME`` command, allowing the server to associate a human friendly
-  name with the connection. This is optional.
-* Sends a ``PING`` as above
-* For each stream the client wishes to subscribe to it sends a ``REPLICATE``
-  with the stream_name and token it wants to subscribe from.
-* On receipt of a ``SERVER`` command, checks that the server name matches the
-  expected server name.
-
-
-Error handling
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-If either side detects an error it can send an ``ERROR`` command and close the
-connection.
-
-If the client side loses the connection to the server it should reconnect,
-following the steps above.
-
-
-Congestion
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-If the server sends messages faster than the client can consume them the server
-will first buffer a (fairly large) number of commands and then disconnect the
-client. This ensures that we don't queue up an unbounded number of commands in
-memory and gives us a potential oppurtunity to squawk loudly. When/if the client
-recovers it can reconnect to the server and ask for missed messages.
-
-
-Reliability
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-In general the replication stream should be considered an unreliable transport
-since e.g. commands are not resent if the connection disappears.
-
-The exception to that are the replication streams, i.e. RDATA commands, since
-these include tokens which can be used to restart the stream on connection
-errors.
-
-The client should keep track of the token in the last RDATA command received
-for each stream so that on reconneciton it can start streaming from the correct
-place. Note: not all RDATA have valid tokens due to batching. See
-``RdataCommand`` for more details.
-
-Example
-~~~~~~~
-
-An example iteraction is shown below. Each line is prefixed with '>' or '<' to
-indicate which side is sending, these are *not* included on the wire::
-
-    * connection established *
-    > SERVER localhost:8823
-    > PING 1490197665618
-    < NAME synapse.app.appservice
-    < PING 1490197665618
-    < REPLICATE events 1
-    < REPLICATE backfill 1
-    < REPLICATE caches 1
-    > POSITION events 1
-    > POSITION backfill 1
-    > POSITION caches 1
-    > RDATA caches 2 ["get_user_by_id",["@01register-user:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
-    > RDATA events 14 ["$149019767112vOHxz:localhost:8823",
-        "!AFDCvgApUmpdfVjIXm:localhost:8823","m.room.guest_access","",null]
-    < PING 1490197675618
-    > ERROR server stopping
-    * connection closed by server *
-
-The ``POSITION`` command sent by the server is used to set the clients position
-without needing to send data with the ``RDATA`` command.
-
-
-An example of a batched set of ``RDATA`` is::
-
-    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
-    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test2:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
-    > RDATA caches batch ["get_user_by_id",["@test3:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
-    > RDATA caches 54 ["get_user_by_id",["@test4:localhost:8823"],1490197670513]
-
-In this case the client shouldn't advance their caches token until it sees the
-the last ``RDATA``.
-
-
-List of commands
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The list of valid commands, with which side can send it: server (S) or client (C):
-
-SERVER (S)
-    Sent at the start to identify which server the client is talking to
-
-RDATA (S)
-    A single update in a stream
-
-POSITION (S)
-    The position of the stream has been updated. Sent to the client after all
-    missing updates for a stream have been sent to the client and they're now
-    up to date.
-
-ERROR (S, C)
-    There was an error
-
-PING (S, C)
-    Sent periodically to ensure the connection is still alive
-
-NAME (C)
-    Sent at the start by client to inform the server who they are
-
-REPLICATE (C)
-    Asks the server to replicate a given stream
-
-USER_SYNC (C)
-    A user has started or stopped syncing
-
-FEDERATION_ACK (C)
-    Acknowledge receipt of some federation data
-
-REMOVE_PUSHER (C)
-    Inform the server a pusher should be removed
-
-INVALIDATE_CACHE (C)
-    Inform the server a cache should be invalidated
-
-SYNC (S, C)
-    Used exclusively in tests
-
-
-See ``synapse/replication/tcp/commands.py`` for a detailed description and the
-format of each command.
-
-
-Cache Invalidation Stream
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The cache invalidation stream is used to inform workers when they need to
-invalidate any of their caches in the data store. This is done by streaming all
-cache invalidations done on master down to the workers, assuming that any caches
-on the workers also exist on the master.
-
-Each individual cache invalidation results in a row being sent down replication,
-which includes the cache name (the name of the function) and they key to
-invalidate. For example::
-
-    > RDATA caches 550953771 ["get_user_by_id", ["@bob:example.com"], 1550574873251]
-
-However, there are times when a number of caches need to be invalidated at the
-same time with the same key. To reduce traffic we batch those invalidations into
-a single poke by defining a special cache name that workers understand to mean
-to expand to invalidate the correct caches.
-
-Currently the special cache names are declared in ``synapse/storage/_base.py``
-and are:
-
-1. ``cs_cache_fake`` ─ invalidates caches that depend on the current state