Synapse 1.13.0rc2 (2020-05-14)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a long-standing bug which could cause messages not to be sent over federation, when state events with state keys matching user IDs (such as custom user statuses) were received. ([\#7376](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7376))
- Restore compatibility with non-compliant clients during the user interactive authentication process, fixing a problem introduced in v1.13.0rc1. ([\#7483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7483))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix linting errors in new version of Flake8. ([\#7470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7470))
Fix a bug where the `get_joined_users` cache could be corrupted by custom
status events (or other state events with a state_key matching the user ID).
The bug was introduced by #2229, but has largely gone unnoticed since then.
Fixes#7099, #7373.
The aim here is to get to a stage where we have a `PersistEventStore` that holds all the write methods used during event persistence, so that we can take that class out of the `DataStore` mixin and instansiate it separately. This will allow us to instansiate it on processes other than master, while also ensuring it is only available on processes that are configured to write to events stream.
This is a bit of an architectural change, where we end up with multiple classes per data store (rather than one per data store we have now). We end up having:
1. Storage classes that provide high level APIs that can talk to multiple data stores.
2. Data store modules that consist of classes that must point at the same database instance.
3. Classes in a data store that can be instantiated on processes depending on config.
Before all streams were only written to from master, so only master needed to respond to `REPLICATE` commands.
Before all instances wrote to the cache invalidation stream, but didn't respond to `REPLICATE`. This was a bug, which could lead to missed rows from cache invalidation stream if an instance is restarted, however all the caches would be empty in that case so it wasn't a problem.
Proactively send out `POSITION` commands (as if we had just received a `REPLICATE`) when we connect to Redis. This is important as other instances won't notice we've connected to issue a `REPLICATE` command (unlike for direct TCP connections). This is only currently an issue if master process reconnects without restarting (if it restarts then it won't have written anything and so other instances probably won't have missed anything).
* release-v1.13.0:
Don't UPGRADE database rows
RST indenting
Put rollback instructions in upgrade notes
Fix changelog typo
Oh yeah, RST
Absolute URL it is then
Fix upgrade notes link
Provide summary of upgrade issues in changelog. Fix )
Move next version notes from changelog to upgrade notes
Changelog fixes
1.13.0rc1
Documentation on setting up redis (#7446)
Rework UI Auth session validation for registration (#7455)
Fix errors from malformed log line (#7454)
Drop support for redis.dbid (#7450)
For the record, the reason we need this is as follows:
each RDATA command comes down the redis pipe as a subscription message. txredisapi as written needs at least three reactor ticks to read each subscription message from the tcp buffer. Hence, once the process gets loaded, it starts getting behind, and eventually redis knifes the connection. it then takes ages for the master to work its way through the backlog, before it reconnects again, during which any commands from any workers are dropped.
An update of check-manifest shone some light on some issues with MANIFEST.in, specifically that we didn't ignore/prune the contrib directory, and that we were using prune instead of exclude for files. This fixes both issues.
Fixes#7403
We forgot to set the password on the subscriber connection, as well as
not calling super methods for overridden connectionMade/connectionLost
functions.
For in memory streams when fetching updates on workers we need to query the source of the stream, which currently is hard coded to be master. This PR threads through the source instance we received via `POSITION` through to the update function in each stream, which can then be passed to the replication client for in memory streams.
We move the processing of typing and federation replication traffic into their handlers so that `Stream.current_token()` points to a valid token. This allows us to remove `get_streams_to_replicate()` and `stream_positions()`.
By persisting the user interactive authentication sessions to the database, this fixes
situations where a user hits different works throughout their auth session and also
allows sessions to persist through restarts of Synapse.
This is primarily for allowing us to send those commands from workers, but for now simply allows us to ignore echoed RDATA/POSITION commands that we sent (we get echoes of sent commands when using redis). Currently we log a WARNING on the master process every time we receive an echoed RDATA.
For direct TCP connections we need the master to relay REMOTE_SERVER_UP
commands to the other connections so that all instances get notified
about it. The old implementation just relayed to all connections,
assuming that sending back to the original sender of the command was
safe. This is not true for redis, where commands sent get echoed back to
the sender, which was causing master to effectively infinite loop
sending and then re-receiving REMOTE_SERVER_UP commands that it sent.
The fix is to ensure that we only relay to *other* connections and not
to the connection we received the notification from.
Fixes#7334.
* Factor out functions for injecting events into database
I want to add some more flexibility to the tools for injecting events into the
database, and I don't want to clutter up HomeserverTestCase with them, so let's
factor them out to a new file.
* Rework TestReplicationDataHandler
This wasn't very easy to work with: the mock wrapping was largely superfluous,
and it's useful to be able to inspect the received rows, and clear out the
received list.
* Fix AssertionErrors being thrown by EventsStream
Part of the problem was that there was an off-by-one error in the assertion,
but also the limit logic was too simple. Fix it all up and add some tests.
Specifically some tests for the typing stream, which means we test streams that fetch missing updates via HTTP (rather than via the DB).
We also shuffle things around a bit so that we create two separate `HomeServer` objects, rather than trying to insert a slaved store into places.
Note: `test_typing.py` is heavily inspired by `test_receipts.py`
It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and means that you suddenly start losing metrics without any obvious reason when you go from monolith to workers (e.g. #7312).
If the admin adds a `.yaml` file that's either empty or doesn't parse into a dict to a config directory (e.g. `conf.d` for debs installs), stuff like https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7322 would happen. This PR checks that the file is correctly parsed into a dict, or ignores it with a warning if it parses into any other type (including `None` for empty files).
Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7322
Figuring out how to correctly limit updates from this stream without dropping
entries is far more complicated than just counting the number of rows being
returned. We need to consider each query separately and, if any one query hits
the limit, truncate the results from the others.
I think this also fixes some potentially long-standing bugs where events or
state changes could get missed if we hit the limit on either query.
Synapse v1.12.4
Features:
* Always send users their own device updates. (#7160)
* Add support for handling GET requests for account_data on a worker. (#7311)
Bugfixes:
* Fix a bug that prevented cross-signing with users on worker-mode synapses. (#7255)
* Do not treat display names as globs in push rules. (#7271)
* Fix a bug with cross-signing devices belonging to remote users who did not share a
room with any user on the local homeserver. (#7289)
Long story short: if we're handling presence on the current worker, we shouldn't be sending USER_SYNC commands over replication.
In an attempt to figure out what is going on here, I ended up refactoring some bits of the presencehandler code, so the first 4 commits here are non-functional refactors to move this code slightly closer to sanity. (There's still plenty to do here :/). Suggest reviewing individual commits.
Fixes (I hope) #7257.
Adds a request_token_inhibit_errors configuration flag (disabled by
default) which, if enabled, change the behaviour of all /requestToken
endpoints so that they return a 200 and a fake sid if the 3PID was/was
not found associated with an account (depending on the endpoint),
instead of an error.
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
First some background: StreamChangeCache is used to keep track of what "entities" have
changed since a given stream ID. So for example, we might use it to keep track of when the last
to-device message for a given user was received [1], and hence whether we need to pull any to-device messages from the database on a sync [2].
Now, it turns out that StreamChangeCache didn't support more than one thing being changed at
a given stream_id (this was part of the problem with #7206). However, it's entirely valid to send
to-device messages to more than one user at a time.
As it turns out, this did in fact work, because *some* methods of StreamChangeCache coped
ok with having multiple things changing on the same stream ID, and it seems we never actually
use the methods which don't work on the stream change caches where we allow multiple
changes at the same stream ID. But that feels horribly fragile, hence: let's update
StreamChangeCache to properly support this, and add some typing and some more tests while
we're at it.
[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.12.3/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/deviceinbox.py#L301
[2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.12.3/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/deviceinbox.py#L47-L51
Splitting based on the response code means we can avoid double logging here and identical information from line 164 while still logging at info if we don't get a good response and need to retry.
Other parts of the code (such as the StreamChangeCache) assume that there will
not be multiple changes with the same stream id.
This code was introduced in #7024, and I hope this fixes#7206.
Add changelog
Save retrieved keys to the db
lint
Fix and de-brittle remote result dict processing
Use query_user_devices instead, assume only master, self_signing key types
Make changelog more useful
Remove very specific exception handling
Wrap get_verify_key_from_cross_signing_key in a try/except
Note that _get_e2e_cross_signing_verify_key can raise a SynapseError
lint
Add comment explaining why this is useful
Only fetch master and self_signing key types
Fix log statements, docstrings
Remove extraneous items from remote query try/except
lint
Factor key retrieval out into a separate function
Send device updates, modeled after SigningKeyEduUpdater._handle_signing_key_updates
Update method docstring
The general idea here is to get rid of the type: ignore annotations on all of the current_token and update_function assignments, which would have caught #7290.
After a bit of experimentation, it seems like the least-awful way to do this is to pass the offending functions in as parameters to the Stream constructor. Unfortunately that means that the concrete implementations no longer have the same constructor signature as Stream itself, which means that it gets hard to correctly annotate STREAMS_MAP.
I've also introduced a couple of new types, to take out some duplication.
Some of the query functions return generators rather than lists, so we can't
index into the result. Happily we already have a copy of the results.
(think this was introduced in #7024)
I don't really remember why this was so complicated; I think it dates
back to the time when we had to instantiate the Config classes before
we could call `add_arguments` - ie before #5597. In any case, I don't
think there's a good reason for it any more, and the impact of it
being complicated is that `--help` doesn't work correctly.
We pass --daemonize on the commandline, which (since at least #4853) overrides
whatever the config file, so there is no need for it to be set in the config
file.
`REPLICATE` is now a valid command, and it's nice if you can issue it from the
console without remembering to call it `REPLICATE ` with a trailing space.
Separate `SimpleCommand` from `Command`, so that things which don't want to use
the `data` property don't have to, and thus fix the warnings PyCharm was giving
me about not calling `__init__` in the base class.
The aim here is to move the command handling out of the TCP protocol classes and to also merge the client and server command handling (so that we can reuse them for redis protocol). This PR simply moves the client paths to the new `ReplicationCommandHandler`, a future PR will move the server paths too.
Fixes#6815
Before figuring out whether we should alert a user on MAU, we call get_notice_room_for_user to get some info on the existing server notices room for this user. This function, if the room doesn't exist, creates it and invites the user in it. This means that, if we decide later that no server notice is needed, the user gets invited in a room with no message in it. This happens at every restart of the server, since the room ID returned by get_notice_room_for_user is cached.
This PR fixes that by moving the inviting bit to a dedicated function, that's only called when the server actually needs to send a notice to the user. A potential issue with this approach is that the room that's created by get_notice_room_for_user doesn't match how that same function looks for an existing room (i.e. it creates a room that doesn't have an invite or a join for the current user in it, so it could lead to a new room being created each time a user syncs), but I'm not sure this is a problem given it's cached until the server restarts, so that function won't run very often.
It also renames get_notice_room_for_user into get_or_create_notice_room_for_user to make what it does clearer.
Synapse 1.12.3 (2020-04-03)
===========================
- Remove the the pin to Pillow 7.0 which was introduced in Synapse 1.12.2, and
correctly fix the issue with building the Debian packages. ([\#7212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7212))
Synapse 1.12.2 (2020-04-02)
===========================
This release fixes [an
issue](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7208) with building the
debian packages.
No other significant changes since 1.12.1.
Occasionally we could get a federation device list update transaction which
looked like:
```
[
{'edu_type': 'm.device_list_update', 'content': {'user_id': '@user:test', 'device_id': 'D2', 'prev_id': [], 'stream_id': 12, 'deleted': True}},
{'edu_type': 'm.device_list_update', 'content': {'user_id': '@user:test', 'device_id': 'D1', 'prev_id': [12], 'stream_id': 11, 'deleted': True}},
{'edu_type': 'm.device_list_update', 'content': {'user_id': '@user:test', 'device_id': 'D3', 'prev_id': [11], 'stream_id': 13, 'deleted': True}}
]
```
Having `stream_ids` which are lower than `prev_ids` looks odd. It might work
(I'm not actually sure), but in any case it doesn't seem like a reasonable
thing to expect other implementations to support.
* master:
1.12.1
Note where bugs were introduced
1.12.1rc1
Newsfile
Rewrite changelog
Add changelog
Only import sqlite3 when type checking
Fix another instance
Only setdefault for signatures if device has key_json
Fix starting workers when federation sending not split out.
Attempt to clarify Python version requirements (#7161)
Improve the UX of the login fallback when using SSO (#7152)
Update the wording of the config comment
Lint
Changelog
Regenerate sample config
Whitelist the login fallback by default for SSO
Synapse 1.12.1 (2020-04-02)
===========================
No significant changes since 1.12.1rc1.
Synapse 1.12.1rc1 (2020-03-31)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix starting workers when federation sending not split out. ([\#7133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7133)). Introduced in v1.12.0.
- Avoid importing `sqlite3` when using the postgres backend. Contributed by David Vo. ([\#7155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7155)). Introduced in v1.12.0rc1.
- Fix a bug which could cause outbound federation traffic to stop working if a client uploaded an incorrect e2e device signature. ([\#7177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7177)). Introduced in v1.11.0.
* tag 'v1.12.1':
1.12.1
Note where bugs were introduced
1.12.1rc1
Newsfile
Rewrite changelog
Add changelog
Only import sqlite3 when type checking
Fix another instance
Only setdefault for signatures if device has key_json
Fix starting workers when federation sending not split out.
This broke in a recent PR (#7024) and is no longer useful due to all
replication clients implicitly subscribing to all streams, so let's
just remove it.
If there was an exception setting up one of the attributes of the Homeserver
god object, then future attempts to fetch that attribute would raise a
confusing "Cyclic dependency" error. Let's make sure that we clear the
`building` flag so that we just get the original exception.
Ref: #7169
* Remove `conn_id` usage for UserSyncCommand.
Each tcp replication connection is assigned a "conn_id", which is used
to give an ID to a remotely connected worker. In a redis world, there
will no longer be a one to one mapping between connection and instance,
so instead we need to replace such usages with an ID generated by the
remote instances and included in the replicaiton commands.
This really only effects UserSyncCommand.
* Add CLEAR_USER_SYNCS command that is sent on shutdown.
This should help with the case where a synchrotron gets restarted
gracefully, rather than rely on 5 minute timeout.
In particular, we depend on `typing.TYPE_CHECKING`, which is only present in
3.5.2.
It turns out that Ubuntu Xenial, despite having a package called `python 3
(3.5.1-3)`, actually has python 3.5.2, so I think this is fine.
That fallback sets the redirect URL to itself (so it can process the login
token then return gracefully to the client). This would make it pointless to
ask the user for confirmation, since the URL the confirmation page would be
showing wouldn't be the client's.
* Don't show the login forms if we're currently logging in with a
password or a token.
* Submit directly the SSO login form, showing only a spinner to the
user, in order to eliminate from the clunkiness of SSO through this
fallback.
* change debian package from python3-virtualenv to virtualenv
The virtualenv package is needed for the virtualenv command. The
virtualenv package depends on python3-virtualenv (at least since
debian jessie) so there is no need to specify python3-virtualenv
additionally.
Signed-off-by: Vieno Hakkerinen <vieno@hakkerinen.eu>
* Add changelog
Co-authored-by: Andrew Morgan <andrew@amorgan.xyz>
* Don't show the login forms if we're currently logging in with a
password or a token.
* Submit directly the SSO login form, showing only a spinner to the
user, in order to eliminate from the clunkiness of SSO through this
fallback.
This changes the replication protocol so that the server does not send down `RDATA` for rows that happened before the client connected. Instead, the server will send a `POSITION` and clients then query the database (or master out of band) to get up to date.
* Pull Sentinel out of LoggingContext
... and drop a few unnecessary references to it
* Factor out LoggingContext.current_context
move `current_context` and `set_context` out to top-level functions.
Mostly this means that I can more easily trace what's actually referring to
LoggingContext, but I think it's generally neater.
* move copy-to-parent into `stop`
this really just makes `start` and `stop` more symetric. It also means that it
behaves correctly if you manually `set_log_context` rather than using the
context manager.
* Replace `LoggingContext.alive` with `finished`
Turn `alive` into `finished` and make it a bit better defined.
* Add 'device_lists_outbound_pokes' as extra table.
This makes sure we check all the relevant tables to get the current max
stream ID.
Currently not doing so isn't problematic as the max stream ID in
`device_lists_outbound_pokes` is the same as in `device_lists_stream`,
however that will change.
* Change device lists stream to have one row per id.
This will make it possible to process the streams more incrementally,
avoiding having to process large chunks at once.
* Change device list replication to match new semantics.
Instead of sending down batches of user ID/host tuples, send down a row
per entity (user ID or host).
* Newsfile
* Remove handling of multiple rows per ID
* Fix worker handling
* Comments from review
This should be safe to do on all workers/masters because it is guarded by
a config option which will ensure it is only actually done on the worker
assigned as a pusher.
It was originally implemented by pulling the full auth chain of all
state sets out of the database and doing set comparison. However, that
can take a lot work if the state and auth chains are large.
Instead, lets try and fetch the auth chains at the same time and
calculate the difference on the fly, allowing us to bail early if all
the auth chains converge. Assuming that the auth chains do converge more
often than not, this should improve performance. Hopefully.
Fixes#7065
This is basically the same as https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/6847 except it tries to populate events from `state_events` rather than `current_state_events`, since the latter might have been cleared from the state of some rooms too early, leaving them with a `NULL` room version.
If an error happened while processing a SAML AuthN response, or a client
ends up doing a `GET` request to `/authn_response`, then render a
customisable error page rather than a confusing error.
Fixes#7054
I also had a look at the rest of the functions in
`EventPushActionsStore` and in the push notifications send code and it
looks to me like there shouldn't be any other method with this issue in
this part of the codebase.
This is a bit fiddly because it all has to be done on one fell swoop:
* Wherever we create a new event, pass in the room version (and check it matches the format version)
* When we prune an event, use the room version of the unpruned event to create the pruned version.
* When we pass an event over the replication protocol, pass the room version over alongside it, and use it when deserialising the event again.
This currently causes presence notify code to log exceptions when there
is no state changes to process. This doesn't actually cause any problems
as we'd simply do nothing anyway.
This makes sure we check all the relevant tables to get the current max
stream ID.
Currently not doing so isn't problematic as the max stream ID in
`device_lists_outbound_pokes` is the same as in `device_lists_stream`,
however that will change.
Instead lets just warn if the worker has a media listener configured but
has the media repository disabled.
Previously non media repository workers would just ignore the media
listener.
When we get an invite over federation, store the room version in the rooms table.
The general idea here is that, when we pull the invite out again, we'll want to know what room_version it belongs to (so that we can later redact it if need be). So we need to store it somewhere...
This is intended as a precursor to storing room versions when we receive an
invite over federation, but has the happy side-effect of fixing #3374 at last.
In short: change the store_room with try/except to a proper upsert which
updates the right columns.
* Give `notif_template_html`, `notif_template_text` default values (fixes#6960)
* Don't complain if `smtp_host` and `smtp_port` are unset, since they have sensible defaults (fixes#6961)
* Set the example for `enable_notifs` to `True`, for consistency and because it's more useful
* Raise errors as ConfigError rather than RuntimeError for nicer formatting
The state res v2 algorithm only cares about the difference between auth
chains, so we can pass in the known common state to the `get_auth_chain`
storage function so that it can ignore those events.
* Increase DB/CPU perf of `_is_server_still_joined` check.
For rooms with large amount of state a single user leaving could cause
us to go and load a lot of membership events and then pull out
membership state in a large number of batches.
* Newsfile
* Update synapse/storage/persist_events.py
Co-Authored-By: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix adding if too soon
* Update docstring
* Review comments
* Woops typo
Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
... and set it everywhere it's called.
while we're here, rename it for consistency with `check_user_in_room` (and to
help check that I haven't missed any instances)
* Reject device display names that are too long.
Too long is currently defined as 100 characters in length.
* Add a regression test for rejecting a too long device display name.
Synapse 1.10.0rc3 (2020-02-10)
==============================
Features
--------
- Filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API to mitigate abuse while a better solution is specced. ([\#6878](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6878))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix continuous integration failures with old versions of `pip`, which were introduced by a release of the `zipp` library. ([\#6880](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6880))
We're in the middle of properly mitigating spam caused by malicious aliases being added to a room. However, until this work fully lands, we temporarily filter out all m.room.aliases events from /sync and /messages on the CS API, to remove abusive aliases. This is considered acceptable as m.room.aliases events were never a reliable record of the given alias->id mapping and were purely informational, and in their current state do more harm than good.
A lot of the things we log at INFO are now a bit superfluous, so lets
make them DEBUG logs to reduce the amount we log by default.
Co-Authored-By: Brendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Brendan Abolivier <github@brendanabolivier.com>
We were looking at the wrong event type (`m.room.encryption` vs
`m.room.encrypted`).
Also fixup the duplicate `EvenTypes` entries.
Introduced in #6776.
I messed this up a bit in #6805, but fortunately we weren't actually doing
anything with the room_version so it didn't matter that it was a str not a RoomVersion.
When a server leaves a room it may stop sharing a room with remote
users, and thus not get any updates to their device lists. So we need to
check for this case and delete those device lists from the cache.
We don't need to do this if we stop sharing a room because the remote
user leaves the room, because we track that case via looking at
membership changes.
If we detect that the remote users' keys may have changed then we should
attempt to resync against the remote server rather than using the
(potentially) stale local cache.
We were sending device updates down both the federation stream and
device streams. This mean there was a race if the federation sender
worker processed the federation stream first, as when the sender checked
if there were new device updates the slaved ID generator hadn't been
updated with the new stream IDs and so returned nothing.
This situation is correctly handled by events/receipts/etc by not
sending updates down the federation stream and instead having the
federation sender worker listen on the other streams and poke the
transaction queues as appropriate.
Otherwise its just stale data, which may get deleted later anyway so
can't be relied on. It's also a bit of a shotgun if we're trying to get
the current state of a room we're not in.
These are easier to work with than the strings and we normally have one around.
This fixes `FederationHander._persist_auth_tree` which was passing a
RoomVersion object into event_auth.check instead of a string.
* Add note that user_dir requires disabling user dir
updates from the main synapse process.
* Add note that federation_reader should have
the federation listener resource.
Signed-off-by: Jason Robinson <jasonr@matrix.org>
There are quite a few places that we assume that a redaction event has a
corresponding `redacts` key, which is not always the case. So lets
cheekily make it so that event.redacts just returns None instead.
The old statement returned `None` for such a `password_config` (like the one
created on first run), thus retrieval of the `pepper` key failed with
`AttributeError`.
Fixes#5315
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>
* Raise an exception if there are pending background updates
So we return with a non-0 code
* Changelog
* Port synapse_port_db to async/await
* Port update_database to async/await
* Add version string to mocked homeservers
* Remove unused imports
* Convert overseen bits to async/await
* Fixup logging contexts
* Fix imports
* Add a way to print an error without raising an exception
* Incorporate review
2020-01-21 19:04:58 +00:00
527 changed files with 28617 additions and 13024 deletions
- Fix a long-standing bug which could cause messages not to be sent over federation, when state events with state keys matching user IDs (such as custom user statuses) were received. ([\#7376](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7376))
- Restore compatibility with non-compliant clients during the user interactive authentication process, fixing a problem introduced in v1.13.0rc1. ([\#7483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7483))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix linting errors in new version of Flake8. ([\#7470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7470))
Synapse 1.13.0rc1 (2020-05-11)
==============================
This release brings some potential changes necessary for certain
configurations of Synapse:
* If your Synapse is configured to use SSO and have a custom
`sso_redirect_confirm_template_dir` configuration option set, you will need
to duplicate the new `sso_auth_confirm.html`, `sso_auth_success.html` and
`sso_account_deactivated.html` templates into that directory.
* Synapse plugins using the `complete_sso_login` method of
`synapse.module_api.ModuleApi` should instead switch to the async/await
version, `complete_sso_login_async`, which includes additional checks. The
former version is now deprecated.
* A bug was introduced in Synapse 1.4.0 which could cause the room directory
to be incomplete or empty if Synapse was upgraded directly from v1.2.1 or
earlier, to versions between v1.4.0 and v1.12.x.
Please review [UPGRADE.rst](UPGRADE.rst) for more details on these changes
and for general upgrade guidance.
Features
--------
- Extend the `web_client_location` option to accept an absolute URL to use as a redirect. Adds a warning when running the web client on the same hostname as homeserver. Contributed by Martin Milata. ([\#7006](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7006))
- Set `Referrer-Policy` header to `no-referrer` on media downloads. ([\#7009](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7009))
- Add support for running replication over Redis when using workers. ([\#7040](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7040), [\#7325](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7325), [\#7352](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7352), [\#7401](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7401), [\#7427](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7427), [\#7439](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7439), [\#7446](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7446), [\#7450](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7450), [\#7454](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7454))
- Admin API `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/join/<roomIdOrAlias>` to join users to a room like `auto_join_rooms` for creation of users. ([\#7051](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7051))
- Add options to prevent users from changing their profile or associated 3PIDs. ([\#7096](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7096))
- Support SSO in the user interactive authentication workflow. ([\#7102](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7102), [\#7186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7186), [\#7279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7279), [\#7343](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7343))
- Allow server admins to define and enforce a password policy ([MSC2000](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2000)). ([\#7118](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7118))
- Improve the support for SSO authentication on the login fallback page. ([\#7152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7152), [\#7235](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7235))
- Always whitelist the login fallback in the SSO configuration if `public_baseurl` is set. ([\#7153](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7153))
- Admin users are no longer required to be in a room to create an alias for it. ([\#7191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7191))
- Require admin privileges to enable room encryption by default. This does not affect existing rooms. ([\#7230](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7230))
- Add a config option for specifying the value of the Accept-Language HTTP header when generating URL previews. ([\#7265](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7265))
- Allow `/requestToken` endpoints to hide the existence (or lack thereof) of 3PID associations on the homeserver. ([\#7315](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7315))
- Add a configuration setting to tweak the threshold for dummy events. ([\#7422](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7422))
Bugfixes
--------
- Don't attempt to use an invalid sqlite config if no database configuration is provided. Contributed by @nekatak. ([\#6573](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6573))
- Fix single-sign on with CAS systems: pass the same service URL when requesting the CAS ticket and when calling the `proxyValidate` URL. Contributed by @Naugrimm. ([\#6634](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6634))
- Fix missing field `default` when fetching user-defined push rules. ([\#6639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6639))
- Improve error responses when accessing remote public room lists. ([\#6899](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6899), [\#7368](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7368))
- Transfer alias mappings on room upgrade. ([\#6946](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6946))
- Ensure that a user interactive authentication session is tied to a single request. ([\#7068](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7068), [\#7455](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7455))
- Fix a bug in the federation API which could cause occasional "Failed to get PDU" errors. ([\#7089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7089))
- Return the proper error (`M_BAD_ALIAS`) when a non-existant canonical alias is provided. ([\#7109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7109))
- Fix a bug which meant that groups updates were not correctly replicated between workers. ([\#7117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7117))
- Fix starting workers when federation sending not split out. ([\#7133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7133))
- Ensure `is_verified` is a boolean in responses to `GET /_matrix/client/r0/room_keys/keys`. Also warn the user if they forgot the `version` query param. ([\#7150](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7150))
- Fix error page being shown when a custom SAML handler attempted to redirect when processing an auth response. ([\#7151](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7151))
- Avoid importing `sqlite3` when using the postgres backend. Contributed by David Vo. ([\#7155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7155))
- Fix excessive CPU usage by `prune_old_outbound_device_pokes` job. ([\#7159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7159))
- Fix a bug which could cause outbound federation traffic to stop working if a client uploaded an incorrect e2e device signature. ([\#7177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7177))
- Fix a bug which could cause incorrect 'cyclic dependency' error. ([\#7178](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7178))
- Fix a bug that could cause a user to be invited to a server notices (aka System Alerts) room without any notice being sent. ([\#7199](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7199))
- Fix some worker-mode replication handling not being correctly recorded in CPU usage stats. ([\#7203](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7203))
- Do not allow a deactivated user to login via SSO. ([\#7240](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7240), [\#7259](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7259))
- Fix room publish permissions not being checked on room creation. ([\#7260](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7260))
- Reject unknown session IDs during user interactive authentication instead of silently creating a new session. ([\#7268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7268))
- Fix a SQL query introduced in Synapse 1.12.0 which could cause large amounts of logging to the postgres slow-query log. ([\#7274](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7274))
- Persist user interactive authentication sessions across workers and Synapse restarts. ([\#7302](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7302))
- Fixed backwards compatibility logic of the first value of `trusted_third_party_id_servers` being used for `account_threepid_delegates.email`, which occurs when the former, deprecated option is set and the latter is not. ([\#7316](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7316))
- Fix a bug where event updates might not be sent over replication to worker processes after the stream falls behind. ([\#7337](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7337), [\#7358](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7358))
- Fix bad error handling that would cause Synapse to crash if it's provided with a YAML configuration file that's either empty or doesn't parse into a key-value map. ([\#7341](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7341))
- Fix incorrect metrics reporting for `renew_attestations` background task. ([\#7344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7344))
- Prevent non-federating rooms from appearing in responses to federated `POST /publicRoom` requests when a filter was included. ([\#7367](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7367))
- Fix a bug which would cause the room durectory to be incorrectly populated if Synapse was upgraded directly from v1.2.1 or earlier to v1.4.0 or later. Note that this fix does not apply retrospectively; see the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v1130) for more information. ([\#7387](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7387))
- Fix bug in `EventContext.deserialize`. ([\#7393](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7393))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Update Debian installation instructions to recommend installing the `virtualenv` package instead of `python3-virtualenv`. ([\#6892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6892))
- Improve the documentation for database configuration. ([\#6988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6988))
- Improve the documentation of application service configuration files. ([\#7091](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7091))
- Update pre-built package name for FreeBSD. ([\#7107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7107))
- Update postgres docs with login troubleshooting information. ([\#7119](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7119))
- Clean up INSTALL.md a bit. ([\#7141](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7141))
- Add documentation for running a local CAS server for testing. ([\#7147](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7147))
- Improve README.md by being explicit about public IP recommendation for TURN relaying. ([\#7167](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7167))
- Fix a small typo in the `metrics_flags` config option. ([\#7171](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7171))
- Update the contributed documentation on managing synapse workers with systemd, and bring it into the core distribution. ([\#7234](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7234))
- Add documentation to the `password_providers` config option. Add known password provider implementations to docs. ([\#7238](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7238), [\#7248](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7248))
- Modify suggested nginx reverse proxy configuration to match Synapse's default file upload size. Contributed by @ProCycleDev. ([\#7251](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7251))
- Documentation of media_storage_providers options updated to avoid misunderstandings. Contributed by Tristan Lins. ([\#7272](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7272))
- Add documentation on monitoring workers with Prometheus. ([\#7357](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7357))
- Clarify endpoint usage in the users admin api documentation. ([\#7361](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7361))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Remove nonfunctional `captcha_bypass_secret` option from `homeserver.yaml`. ([\#7137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7137))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Add benchmarks for LruCache. ([\#6446](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6446))
- Return total number of users and profile attributes in admin users endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#6881](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6881))
- Change device list streams to have one row per ID. ([\#7010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7010))
- Remove concept of a non-limited stream. ([\#7011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7011))
- Move catchup of replication streams logic to worker. ([\#7024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7024), [\#7195](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7195), [\#7226](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7226), [\#7239](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7239), [\#7286](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7286), [\#7290](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7290), [\#7318](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7318), [\#7326](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7326), [\#7378](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7378), [\#7421](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7421))
- Convert some of synapse.rest.media to async/await. ([\#7110](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7110), [\#7184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7184), [\#7241](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7241))
- De-duplicate / remove unused REST code for login and auth. ([\#7115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7115))
- Convert `*StreamRow` classes to inner classes. ([\#7116](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7116))
- Clean up some LoggingContext code. ([\#7120](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7120), [\#7181](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7181), [\#7183](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7183), [\#7408](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7408), [\#7426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7426))
- Add explicit `instance_id` for USER_SYNC commands and remove implicit `conn_id` usage. ([\#7128](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7128))
- Refactored the CAS authentication logic to a separate class. ([\#7136](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7136))
- Run replication streamers on workers. ([\#7146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7146))
- Add tests for outbound device pokes. ([\#7157](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7157))
- Fix device list update stream ids going backward. ([\#7158](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7158))
- Use `stream.current_token()` and remove `stream_positions()`. ([\#7172](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7172))
- Move client command handling out of TCP protocol. ([\#7185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7185))
- Move server command handling out of TCP protocol. ([\#7187](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7187))
- Fix consistency of HTTP status codes reported in log lines. ([\#7188](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7188))
- Only run one background database update at a time. ([\#7190](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7190))
- Remove sent outbound device list pokes from the database. ([\#7192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7192))
- Add a background database update job to clear out duplicate `device_lists_outbound_pokes`. ([\#7193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7193))
- Remove some extraneous debugging log lines. ([\#7207](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7207))
- Add explicit Python build tooling as dependencies for the snapcraft build. ([\#7213](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7213))
- Add typing information to federation server code. ([\#7219](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7219))
- Extend room admin api (`GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms`) with additional attributes. ([\#7225](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7225))
- Unblacklist '/upgrade creates a new room' sytest for workers. ([\#7228](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7228))
- Remove redundant checks on `daemonize` from synctl. ([\#7233](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7233))
- Upgrade jQuery to v3.4.1 on fallback login/registration pages. ([\#7236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7236))
- Change log line that told user to implement onLogin/onRegister fallback js functions to a warning, instead of an info, so it's more visible. ([\#7237](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7237))
- Correct the parameters of a test fixture. Contributed by Isaiah Singletary. ([\#7243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7243))
- Convert auth handler to async/await. ([\#7261](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7261))
- Add some unit tests for replication. ([\#7278](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7278))
- Improve typing annotations in `synapse.replication.tcp.streams.Stream`. ([\#7291](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7291))
- Reduce log verbosity of url cache cleanup tasks. ([\#7295](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7295))
- Fix sample SAML Service Provider configuration. Contributed by @frcl. ([\#7300](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7300))
- Fix StreamChangeCache to work with multiple entities changing on the same stream id. ([\#7303](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7303))
- Fix an incorrect import in IdentityHandler. ([\#7319](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7319))
- Reduce logging verbosity for successful federation requests. ([\#7321](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7321))
- Convert some federation handler code to async/await. ([\#7338](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7338))
- Fix collation for postgres for unit tests. ([\#7359](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7359))
- Convert RegistrationWorkerStore.is_server_admin and dependent code to async/await. ([\#7363](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7363))
- Add an `instance_name` to `RDATA` and `POSITION` replication commands. ([\#7364](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7364))
- Thread through instance name to replication client. ([\#7369](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7369))
- Convert synapse.server_notices to async/await. ([\#7394](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7394))
- Convert synapse.notifier to async/await. ([\#7395](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7395))
- Fix issues with the Python package manifest. ([\#7404](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7404))
- Prevent methods in `synapse.handlers.auth` from polling the homeserver config every request. ([\#7420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7420))
- Speed up fetching device lists changes when handling `/sync` requests. ([\#7423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7423))
- Run group attestation renewal in series rather than parallel for performance. ([\#7442](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7442))
Synapse 1.12.4 (2020-04-23)
===========================
No significant changes.
Synapse 1.12.4rc1 (2020-04-22)
==============================
Features
--------
- Always send users their own device updates. ([\#7160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7160))
- Add support for handling GET requests for `account_data` on a worker. ([\#7311](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7311))
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug that prevented cross-signing with users on worker-mode synapses. ([\#7255](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7255))
- Do not treat display names as globs in push rules. ([\#7271](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7271))
- Fix a bug with cross-signing devices belonging to remote users who did not share a room with any user on the local homeserver. ([\#7289](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7289))
Synapse 1.12.3 (2020-04-03)
===========================
- Remove the the pin to Pillow 7.0 which was introduced in Synapse 1.12.2, and
correctly fix the issue with building the Debian packages. ([\#7212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7212))
Synapse 1.12.2 (2020-04-02)
===========================
This release works around [an issue](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7208) with building the debian packages.
No other significant changes since 1.12.1.
Synapse 1.12.1 (2020-04-02)
===========================
No significant changes since 1.12.1rc1.
Synapse 1.12.1rc1 (2020-03-31)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix starting workers when federation sending not split out. ([\#7133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7133)). Introduced in v1.12.0.
- Avoid importing `sqlite3` when using the postgres backend. Contributed by David Vo. ([\#7155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7155)). Introduced in v1.12.0rc1.
- Fix a bug which could cause outbound federation traffic to stop working if a client uploaded an incorrect e2e device signature. ([\#7177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7177)). Introduced in v1.11.0.
Synapse 1.12.0 (2020-03-23)
===========================
Debian packages and Docker images are rebuilt using the latest versions of
dependency libraries, including Twisted 20.3.0. **Please see security advisory
below**.
Potential slow database update during upgrade
---------------------------------------------
Synapse 1.12.0 includes a database update which is run as part of the upgrade,
and which may take some time (several hours in the case of a large
server). Synapse will not respond to HTTP requests while this update is taking
place. For imformation on seeing if you are affected, and workaround if you
are, see the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v1120).
Security advisory
-----------------
Synapse may be vulnerable to request-smuggling attacks when it is used with a
reverse-proxy. The vulnerabilties are fixed in Twisted 20.3.0, and are
Currently, the default `git` branch for Synapse is `master`, which tracks the
latest release.
After the release of Synapse 1.13.0, we intend to change this default to
`develop`, which is the development tip. This is more consistent with common
practice and modern `git` usage.
Although we try to keep `develop` in a stable state, there may be occasions
where regressions creep in. Developers and distributors who have scripts which
run builds using the default branch of `Synapse` should therefore consider
pinning their scripts to `master`.
Synapse 1.12.0rc1 (2020-03-19)
==============================
Features
--------
- Changes related to room alias management ([MSC2432](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2432)):
- Publishing/removing a room from the room directory now requires the user to have a power level capable of modifying the canonical alias, instead of the room aliases. ([\#6965](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6965))
- Validate the `alt_aliases` property of canonical alias events. ([\#6971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6971))
- Users with a power level sufficient to modify the canonical alias of a room can now delete room aliases. ([\#6986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6986))
- Implement updated authorization rules and redaction rules for aliases events, from [MSC2261](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2261) and [MSC2432](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2432). ([\#7037](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7037))
- Stop sending m.room.aliases events during room creation and upgrade. ([\#6941](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6941))
- Synapse no longer uses room alias events to calculate room names for push notifications. ([\#6966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6966))
- The room list endpoint no longer returns a list of aliases. ([\#6970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6970))
- Remove special handling of aliases events from [MSC2260](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2260) added in v1.10.0rc1. ([\#7034](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7034))
- Expose the `synctl`, `hash_password` and `generate_config` commands in the snapcraft package. Contributed by @devec0. ([\#6315](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6315))
- Check that server_name is correctly set before running database updates. ([\#6982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6982))
- Break down monthly active users by `appservice_id` and emit via Prometheus. ([\#7030](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7030))
- Render a configurable and comprehensible error page if something goes wrong during the SAML2 authentication process. ([\#7058](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7058), [\#7067](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7067))
- Add an optional parameter to control whether other sessions are logged out when a user's password is modified. ([\#7085](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7085))
- Add prometheus metrics for the number of active pushers. ([\#7103](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7103), [\#7106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7106))
- Improve performance when making HTTPS requests to sygnal, sydent, etc, by sharing the SSL context object between connections. ([\#7094](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7094))
Bugfixes
--------
- When a user's profile is updated via the admin API, also generate a displayname/avatar update for that user in each room. ([\#6572](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6572))
- Fix a couple of bugs in email configuration handling. ([\#6962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6962))
- Fix an issue affecting worker-based deployments where replication would stop working, necessitating a full restart, after joining a large room. ([\#6967](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6967))
- Fix `duplicate key` error which was logged when rejoining a room over federation. ([\#6968](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6968))
- Prevent user from setting 'deactivated' to anything other than a bool on the v2 PUT /users Admin API. ([\#6990](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6990))
- Fix py35-old CI by using native tox package. ([\#7018](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7018))
- Fix a bug causing `org.matrix.dummy_event` to be included in responses from `/sync`. ([\#7035](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7035))
- Fix a bug that renders UTF-8 text files incorrectly when loaded from media. Contributed by @TheStranjer. ([\#7044](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7044))
- Fix a bug that would cause Synapse to respond with an error about event visibility if a client tried to request the state of a room at a given token. ([\#7066](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7066))
- Repair a data-corruption issue which was introduced in Synapse 1.10, and fixed in Synapse 1.11, and which could cause `/sync` to return with 404 errors about missing events and unknown rooms. ([\#7070](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7070))
- Fix a bug causing account validity renewal emails to be sent even if the feature is turned off in some cases. ([\#7074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7074))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Updated CentOS8 install instructions. Contributed by Richard Kellner. ([\#6925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6925))
- Fix `POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS` in the `contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml` example docker-compose configuration. ([\#6984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6984))
- Change date in [INSTALL.md](./INSTALL.md#tls-certificates) for last date of getting TLS certificates to November 2019. ([\#7015](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7015))
- Document that the fallback auth endpoints must be routed to the same worker node as the register endpoints. ([\#7048](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7048))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Remove the unused query_auth federation endpoint per [MSC2451](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2451). ([\#7026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7026))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Add type hints to `logging/context.py`. ([\#6309](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6309))
- Add some clarifications to `README.md` in the database schema directory. ([\#6615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6615))
- Refactoring work in preparation for changing the event redaction algorithm. ([\#6874](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6874), [\#6875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6875), [\#6983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6983), [\#7003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7003))
- Improve performance of v2 state resolution for large rooms. ([\#6952](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6952), [\#7095](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7095))
- Reduce time spent doing GC, by freezing objects on startup. ([\#6953](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6953))
- Minor perfermance fixes to `get_auth_chain_ids`. ([\#6954](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6954))
- Don't record remote cross-signing keys in the `devices` table. ([\#6956](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6956))
- Use flake8-comprehensions to enforce good hygiene of list/set/dict comprehensions. ([\#6957](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6957))
- Remove redundant `store_room` call from `FederationHandler._process_received_pdu`. ([\#6979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6979))
- Update warning for incorrect database collation/ctype to include link to documentation. ([\#6985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6985))
- Add some type annotations to the database storage classes. ([\#6987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6987))
- Port `synapse.handlers.presence` to async/await. ([\#6991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6991), [\#7019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7019))
- Add some type annotations to the federation base & client classes. ([\#6995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6995))
- Port `synapse.rest.keys` to async/await. ([\#7020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7020))
- Add a type check to `is_verified` when processing room keys. ([\#7045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7045))
- Add type annotations and comments to the auth handler. ([\#7063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7063))
Synapse 1.11.1 (2020-03-03)
===========================
This release includes a security fix impacting installations using Single Sign-On (i.e. SAML2 or CAS) for authentication. Administrators of such installations are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
The release also includes fixes for a couple of other bugs.
Bugfixes
--------
- Add a confirmation step to the SSO login flow before redirecting users to the redirect URL. ([b2bd54a2](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/b2bd54a2e31d9a248f73fadb184ae9b4cbdb49f9), [65c73cdf](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/65c73cdfec1876a9fec2fd2c3a74923cd146fe0b), [a0178df1](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/a0178df10422a76fd403b82d2b2a4ed28a9a9d1e))
- Fixed set a user as an admin with the admin API `PUT /_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#6910](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6910))
- Fix bug introduced in Synapse 1.11.0 which sometimes caused errors when joining rooms over federation, with `'coroutine' object has no attribute 'event_id'`. ([\#6996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6996))
Synapse 1.11.0 (2020-02-21)
===========================
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Small grammatical fixes to the ACME v1 deprecation notice. ([\#6944](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6944))
Synapse 1.11.0rc1 (2020-02-19)
==============================
Features
--------
- Admin API to add or modify threepids of user accounts. ([\#6769](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6769))
- Limit the number of events that can be requested by the backfill federation API to 100. ([\#6864](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6864))
- Add ability to run some group APIs on workers. ([\#6866](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6866))
- Reject device display names over 100 characters in length to prevent abuse. ([\#6882](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6882))
- Add ability to route federation user device queries to workers. ([\#6873](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6873))
- The result of a user directory search can now be filtered via the spam checker. ([\#6888](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6888))
- Implement new `GET /_matrix/client/unstable/org.matrix.msc2432/rooms/{roomId}/aliases` endpoint as per [MSC2432](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2432). ([\#6939](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6939), [\#6948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6948), [\#6949](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6949))
- Stop sending `m.room.alias` events wheng adding / removing aliases. Check `alt_aliases` in the latest `m.room.canonical_alias` event when deleting an alias. ([\#6904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6904))
- Change the default power levels of invites, tombstones and server ACLs for new rooms. ([\#6834](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6834))
Bugfixes
--------
- Fixed third party event rules function `on_create_room`'s return value being ignored. ([\#6781](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6781))
- Allow URL-encoded User IDs on `/_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>[/admin]` endpoints. Thanks to @NHAS for reporting. ([\#6825](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6825))
- Fix Synapse refusing to start if `federation_certificate_verification_whitelist` option is blank. ([\#6849](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6849))
- Fix errors from logging in the purge jobs related to the message retention policies support. ([\#6945](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6945))
- Return a 404 instead of 200 for querying information of a non-existant user through the admin API. ([\#6901](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6901))
Updates to the Docker image
---------------------------
- The deprecated "generate-config-on-the-fly" mode is no longer supported. ([\#6918](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6918))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Add details of PR merge strategy to contributing docs. ([\#6846](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6846))
- Spell out that the last event sent to a room won't be deleted by a purge. ([\#6891](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6891))
- Update Synapse's documentation to warn about the deprecation of ACME v1. ([\#6905](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6905), [\#6907](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6907), [\#6909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6909))
- Add documentation for the spam checker. ([\#6906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6906))
- Fix worker docs to point `/publicised_groups` API correctly. ([\#6938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6938))
- Clean up and update docs on setting up federation. ([\#6940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6940))
- Add a warning about indentation to generated configuration files. ([\#6920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6920))
- Databases created using the compose file in contrib/docker will now always have correct encoding and locale settings. Contributed by Fridtjof Mund. ([\#6921](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6921))
- Update pip install directions in readme to avoid error when using zsh. ([\#6855](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6855))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Remove `m.lazy_load_members` from `unstable_features` since lazy loading is in the stable Client-Server API version r0.5.0. ([\#6877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6877))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Add type hints to `SyncHandler`. ([\#6821](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6821))
- Refactoring work in preparation for changing the event redaction algorithm. ([\#6823](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6823), [\#6827](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6827), [\#6854](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6854), [\#6856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6856), [\#6857](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6857), [\#6858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6858))
- Fix stacktraces when using `ObservableDeferred` and async/await. ([\#6836](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6836))
- Port much of `synapse.handlers.federation` to async/await. ([\#6837](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6837), [\#6840](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6840))
- Populate `rooms.room_version` database column at startup, rather than in a background update. ([\#6847](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6847))
- Reduce amount we log at `INFO` level. ([\#6833](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6833), [\#6862](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6862))
- Add typing to `synapse.federation.sender` and port to async/await. ([\#6871](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6871))
- Refactor `_EventInternalMetadata` object to improve type safety. ([\#6872](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6872))
- Add an additional entry to the SyTest blacklist for worker mode. ([\#6883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6883))
- Fix the use of sed in the linting scripts when using BSD sed. ([\#6887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6887))
- Add type hints to the spam checker module. ([\#6915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6915))
- Convert the directory handler tests to use HomeserverTestCase. ([\#6919](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6919))
- Increase DB/CPU perf of `_is_server_still_joined` check. ([\#6936](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6936))
- Tiny optimisation for incoming HTTP request dispatch. ([\#6950](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6950))
Synapse 1.10.1 (2020-02-17)
===========================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.10.0 which would cause room state to be cleared in the database if Synapse was upgraded direct from 1.2.1 or earlier to 1.10.0. ([\#6924](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6924))
Synapse 1.10.0 (2020-02-12)
===========================
**WARNING to client developers**: As of this release Synapse validates `client_secret` parameters in the Client-Server API as per the spec. See [\#6766](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6766) for details.
Updates to the Docker image
---------------------------
- Update the docker images to Alpine Linux 3.11. ([\#6897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6897))
Synapse 1.10.0rc5 (2020-02-11)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix the filtering introduced in 1.10.0rc3 to also apply to the state blocks returned by `/sync`. ([\#6884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6884))
Synapse 1.10.0rc4 (2020-02-11)
==============================
This release candidate was built incorrectly and is superceded by 1.10.0rc5.
Synapse 1.10.0rc3 (2020-02-10)
==============================
Features
--------
- Filter out `m.room.aliases` from the CS API to mitigate abuse while a better solution is specced. ([\#6878](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6878))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Fix continuous integration failures with old versions of `pip`, which were introduced by a release of the `zipp` library. ([\#6880](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6880))
Synapse 1.10.0rc2 (2020-02-06)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix an issue with cross-signing where device signatures were not sent to remote servers. ([\#6844](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6844))
- Fix to the unknown remote device detection which was introduced in 1.10.rc1. ([\#6848](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6848))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Detect unexpected sender keys on remote encrypted events and resync device lists. ([\#6850](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6850))
Synapse 1.10.0rc1 (2020-01-31)
==============================
Features
--------
- Add experimental support for updated authorization rules for aliases events, from [MSC2260](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2260). ([\#6787](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6787), [\#6790](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6790), [\#6794](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6794))
Bugfixes
--------
- Warn if postgres database has a non-C locale, as that can cause issues when upgrading locales (e.g. due to upgrading OS). ([\#6734](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6734))
- Minor fixes to `PUT /_synapse/admin/v2/users` admin api. ([\#6761](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6761))
- Validate `client_secret` parameter using the regex provided by the Client-Server API, temporarily allowing `:` characters for older clients. The `:` character will be removed in a future release. ([\#6767](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6767))
- Fix persisting redaction events that have been redacted (or otherwise don't have a redacts key). ([\#6771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6771))
- Fix bug where querying a remote user's device keys that weren't cached resulted in only returning a single device. ([\#6796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6796))
- Fix race in federation sender worker that delayed sending of device updates. ([\#6799](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6799), [\#6800](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6800))
- Fix bug where Synapse didn't invalidate cache of remote users' devices when Synapse left a room. ([\#6801](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6801))
- Fix waking up other workers when remote server is detected to have come back online. ([\#6811](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6811))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Clarify documentation related to `user_dir` and `federation_reader` workers. ([\#6775](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6775))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Record room versions in the `rooms` table. ([\#6729](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6729), [\#6788](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6788), [\#6810](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6810))
- Propagate cache invalidates from workers to other workers. ([\#6748](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6748))
- Remove some unnecessary admin handler abstraction methods. ([\#6751](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6751))
- Add some debugging for media storage providers. ([\#6757](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6757))
- Detect unknown remote devices and mark cache as stale. ([\#6776](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6776), [\#6819](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6819))
- Attempt to resync remote users' devices when detected as stale. ([\#6786](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6786))
- Delete current state from the database when server leaves a room. ([\#6792](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6792))
- When a client asks for a remote user's device keys check if the local cache for that user has been marked as potentially stale. ([\#6797](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6797))
- Add background update to clean out left rooms from current state. ([\#6802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6802), [\#6816](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6816))
- Refactoring work in preparation for changing the event redaction algorithm. ([\#6803](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6803), [\#6805](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6805), [\#6806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6806), [\#6807](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6807), [\#6820](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6820))
Synapse 1.9.1 (2020-01-28)
==========================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix bug where setting `mau_limit_reserved_threepids` config would cause Synapse to refuse to start. ([\#6793](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6793))
Synapse 1.9.0 (2020-01-23)
==========================
**WARNING**: As of this release, Synapse no longer supports versions of SQLite before 3.11, and will refuse to start when configured to use an older version. Administrators are recommended to migrate their database to Postgres (see instructions [here](docs/postgres.md)).
If your Synapse deployment uses workers, note that the reverse-proxy configurations for the `synapse.app.media_repository`, `synapse.app.federation_reader` and `synapse.app.event_creator` workers have changed, with the addition of a few paths (see the updated configurations [here](docs/workers.md#available-worker-applications)). Existing configurations will continue to work.
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Fix endpoint documentation for the List Rooms admin API. ([\#6770](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6770))
Synapse 1.9.0rc1 (2020-01-22)
=============================
Features
--------
- Allow admin to create or modify a user. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5742](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5742))
- Add new quarantine media admin APIs to quarantine by media ID or by user who uploaded the media. ([\#6681](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6681), [\#6756](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6756))
- Add `org.matrix.e2e_cross_signing` to `unstable_features` in `/versions` as per [MSC1756](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1756). ([\#6712](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6712))
- Add a new admin API to list and filter rooms on the server. ([\#6720](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6720))
Bugfixes
--------
- Correctly proxy HTTP errors due to API calls to remote group servers. ([\#6654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6654))
- Fix media repo admin APIs when using a media worker. ([\#6664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6664))
- Fix "CRITICAL" errors being logged when a request is received for a uri containing non-ascii characters. ([\#6682](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6682))
- Fix a bug where we would assign a numeric user ID if somebody tried registering with an empty username. ([\#6690](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6690))
- Fix a bug causing Synapse to not always purge quiet rooms with a low `max_lifetime` in their message retention policies when running the automated purge jobs. ([\#6714](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6714))
- Fix the `synapse_port_db` not correctly running background updates. Thanks @tadzik for reporting. ([\#6718](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6718))
- Fix changing password via user admin API. ([\#6730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6730))
- Fix monthly active user limiting support for worker mode, fixes [#4639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4639). ([\#6742](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6742))
- Fix bug when setting `account_validity` to an empty block in the config. Thanks to @Sorunome for reporting. ([\#6747](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6747))
- Fix `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'` in `hash_password` when configuration has an empty `password_config`. Contributed by @ivilata. ([\#6753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6753))
- Fix the `docker-compose.yaml` overriding the entire `/etc` folder of the container. Contributed by Fabian Meyer. ([\#6656](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6656))
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Fix a typo in the configuration example for purge jobs in the sample configuration file. ([\#6621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6621))
- Add complete documentation of the message retention policies support. ([\#6624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6624), [\#6665](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6665))
- Add some helpful tips about changelog entries to the GitHub pull request template. ([\#6663](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6663))
- Clarify the `account_validity` and `email` sections of the sample configuration. ([\#6685](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6685))
- Add more endpoints to the documentation for Synapse workers. ([\#6698](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6698))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Synapse no longer supports versions of SQLite before 3.11, and will refuse to start when configured to use an older version. Administrators are recommended to migrate their database to Postgres (see instructions [here](docs/postgres.md)). ([\#6675](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6675))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Add `local_current_membership` table for tracking local user membership state in rooms. ([\#6655](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6655), [\#6728](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6728))
- Port `synapse.replication.tcp` to async/await. ([\#6666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6666))
- Fixup `synapse.replication` to pass mypy checks. ([\#6667](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6667))
- Allow `additional_resources` to implement `IResource` directly. ([\#6686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6686))
- Allow REST endpoint implementations to raise a `RedirectException`, which will redirect the user's browser to a given location. ([\#6687](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6687))
- Updates and extensions to the module API. ([\#6688](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6688))
- Updates to the SAML mapping provider API. ([\#6689](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6689), [\#6723](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6723))
- Don't block processing of incoming EDUs behind processing PDUs in the same transaction. ([\#6697](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6697))
- Remove duplicate check for the `session` query parameter on the `/auth/xxx/fallback/web` Client-Server endpoint. ([\#6702](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6702))
- Attempt to retry sending a transaction when we detect a remote server has come back online, rather than waiting for a transaction to be triggered by new data. ([\#6706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6706))
- Add `StateMap` type alias to simplify types. ([\#6715](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6715))
- Add a `DeltaState` to track changes to be made to current state during event persistence. ([\#6716](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6716))
- Add more logging around message retention policies support. ([\#6717](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6717))
- When processing a SAML response, log the assertions for easier configuration. ([\#6724](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6724))
- Fixup `synapse.rest` to pass mypy. ([\#6732](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6732), [\#6764](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6764))
- Fixup `synapse.api` to pass mypy. ([\#6733](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6733))
- Allow streaming cache 'invalidate all' to workers. ([\#6749](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6749))
- Remove unused CI docker compose files. ([\#6754](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6754))
There is currently no port for OpenBSD. Additionally, OpenBSD's security
settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
XXX: I suspect this is out of date.
(XXX: I suspect this is out of date)
1. Create a new directory in `/usr/local` called `_synapse`. Also, create a
new user called `_synapse` and set that directory as the new user's home.
@@ -187,7 +198,7 @@ XXX: I suspect this is out of date.
write and execute permissions on the same memory space to be run from
`/usr/local`.
2.`su` to the new `_synapse` user and change to their home directory.
3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse`
3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python3 ~/.synapse`
4. Source the virtualenv configuration located at
`/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate`. This is done in `ksh` by
using the `.` command, rather than `bash`'s `source`.
@@ -208,45 +219,6 @@ be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 for
Windows 10 and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
for Windows Server.
### Troubleshooting Installation
XXX a bunch of this is no longer relevant.
Synapse requires pip 8 or later, so if your OS provides too old a version you
may need to manually upgrade it::
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
Installing may fail with `Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pymacaroons-pynacl (from matrix-synapse==0.12.0)`.
You can fix this by manually upgrading pip and virtualenv::
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
You can next rerun `virtualenv -p python3 synapse` to update the virtual env.
Installing may fail during installing virtualenv with `InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.`
You can fix this by manually installing ndg-httpsclient::
pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
Installing may fail with `mock requires setuptools>=17.1. Aborting installation`.
You can fix this by upgrading setuptools::
pip install --upgrade setuptools
If pip crashes mid-installation for reason (e.g. lost terminal), pip may
refuse to run until you remove the temporary installation directory it
created. To reset the installation::
rm -rf /tmp/pip_install_matrix
pip seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
failing, e.g.::
pip install twisted
## Prebuilt packages
As an alternative to installing from source, prebuilt packages are available
@@ -305,7 +277,7 @@ For `buster` and `sid`, Synapse is available in the Debian repositories and
it should be possible to install it with simply:
```
sudo apt install matrix-synapse
sudo apt install matrix-synapse
```
There is also a version of `matrix-synapse` in `stretch-backports`. Please see
@@ -366,15 +338,17 @@ sudo pip install py-bcrypt
Synapse can be found in the void repositories as 'synapse':
xbps-install -Su
xbps-install -S synapse
```
xbps-install -Su
xbps-install -S synapse
```
### FreeBSD
Synapse can be installed via FreeBSD Ports or Packages contributed by Brendan Molloy from:
- Ports: `cd /usr/ports/net-im/py-matrix-synapse && make install clean`
- Packages: `pkg install py27-matrix-synapse`
- Packages: `pkg install py37-matrix-synapse`
### NixOS
@@ -388,15 +362,17 @@ Once you have installed synapse as above, you will need to configure it.
## TLS certificates
The default configuration exposes a single HTTP port: http://localhost:8008. It
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.
The default configuration exposes a single HTTP port on the local
interface: `http://localhost:8008`. It is suitable for local testing,
but for any practical use, you will need Synapse's APIs to be served
over HTTPS.
For information on using a reverse proxy, see
The recommended way to do so is to set up a reverse proxy on port
`8448`. You can find documentation on doing so in
[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:
Alternatively, you can configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port. To do
so, you will need to edit `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
* First, under the `listeners` section, uncomment the configuration for the
TLS-enabled listener. (Remove the hash sign (`#`) at the start of
@@ -409,19 +385,23 @@ To configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port, you will need to edit
resources:
- names: [client, federation]
```
* You will also need to uncomment the `tls_certificate_path` and
`tls_private_key_path` lines under the `TLS` section. You can either
point these settings at an existing certificate and key, or you can
Synapse no longer supports versions of SQLite before 3.11, and will refuse to start when configured to use an older version. Administrators are recommended to migrate their database to Postgres (see instructions [here](docs/postgres.md)).
Attempt to retry sending a transaction when we detect a remote server has come back online, rather than waiting for a transaction to be triggered by new data.
Fix a bug causing Synapse to not always purge quiet rooms with a low `max_lifetime` in their message retention policies when running the automated purge jobs.
0. Set up Prometheus and Grafana. Out of scope for this readme. Useful documentation about using Grafana with Prometheus: http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/prometheus/
1. Have your Prometheus scrape your Synapse. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/metrics-howto.rst
1. Have your Prometheus scrape your Synapse. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/metrics-howto.md
2. Import dashboard into Grafana. Download `synapse.json`. Import it to Grafana and select the correct Prometheus datasource. http://docs.grafana.org/reference/export_import/
If your homeserver's APIs are accessible on the default federation port (8448)
and the domain your `server_name` points to, you do not need any delegation.
For instance, if you registered `example.com` and pointed its DNS A record at a
fresh server, you could install Synapse on that host, giving it a `server_name`
of `example.com`, and once a reverse proxy has been set up to proxy all requests
sent to the port `8448` and serve TLS certificates for `example.com`, you
wouldn't need any delegation set up.
**However**, if your homeserver's APIs aren't accessible on port 8448 and on the
domain `server_name` points to, you will need to let other servers know how to
find it using delegation.
### Do you still recommend against using a reverse proxy on the federation port?
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.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?
This is no longer necessary. If you are using a reverse proxy for all of your
TLS traffic, then you can set `no_tls: True` in the Synapse config.
In that case, the only reason Synapse needs the certificate is to populate a legacy
`tls_fingerprints` field in the federation API. This is ignored by Synapse 0.99.0
and later, and the only time pre-0.99 Synapses will check it is when attempting to
fetch the server keys - and generally this is delegated via `matrix.org`, which
is running a modern version of Synapse.
### Do I need the same certificate for the client and federation port?
No. There is nothing stopping you from using different certificates,
particularly if you are using a reverse proxy.
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