1.4.0

Replace `client_secret` query parameter values with `<redacted>` in the logs. Prevents a scenario where a MITM of server traffic can horde 3pids on their account.

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,185 @@
+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)
 ==========================
 

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

@@ -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:
@@ -446,7 +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
 

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

@@ -2,108 +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
 ===================
 
-Config options
---------------
+New custom templates
+--------------------
 
-**Note: Registration by email address or phone number will not work in this release unless
-some config options are changed from their defaults.**
+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.
 
-This is due to Synapse v1.4.0 now defaulting to sending registration and password reset tokens
-itself. This is for security reasons as well as putting less reliance on identity servers.
-However, currently Synapse only supports sending emails, and does not have support for
-phone-based password reset or account registration. If Synapse is configured to handle these on
-its own, phone-based password resets and registration will be disabled. For Synapse to send
-emails, the ``email`` block of the config must be filled out. If not, then password resets and
-registration via email will be disabled entirely.
+* ``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``
 
-This release also deprecates the ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` option and
-replaces it with the ``account_threepid_delegates`` dictionary. This option 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 password reset or
-registration messages via email and SMS.
-
-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 throw an error.
-
-If ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is ``false`` or absent and a threepid
-type in ``account_threepid_delegates`` is not set to a domain, then Synapse will attempt to
-send password reset and registration messages for that type.
-
-Email templates
----------------
-
-If you have configured a custom template directory with the ``email.template_dir`` option, be
-aware that there are new templates regarding registration. ``registration.html`` and
-``registration.txt`` have been added and contain the content that is sent to a client upon
-registering via an email address.
-
-``registration_success.html`` and ``registration_failure.html`` are also new HTML templates
-that will be shown to the user when they click the link in their registration emai , either
-showing them a success or failure page (assuming a redirect URL is not configured).
-
-Synapse will expect these files to exist inside the configured template directory. To view the
-default templates, see `synapse/res/templates
+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

changelog.d/5633.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Don't create broken room when power_level_content_override.users does not contain creator_id.

changelog.d/5680.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Lay the groundwork for structured logging output.

changelog.d/5771.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make Opentracing work in worker mode.

changelog.d/5776.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update opentracing docs to use the unified `trace` method.

changelog.d/5835.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server.

changelog.d/5844.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-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.

changelog.d/5845.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add an admin API to purge old rooms from the database.

changelog.d/5850.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add retry to well-known lookups if we have recently seen a valid well-known record for the server.

changelog.d/5852.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Pass opentracing contexts between servers when transmitting EDUs.

changelog.d/5853.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Opentracing for device list updates.

changelog.d/5855.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Opentracing for room and e2e keys.

changelog.d/5856.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add a tag recording a request's authenticated entity and corresponding servlet in opentracing.

changelog.d/5857.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix database index so that different backup versions can have the same sessions.

changelog.d/5859.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add unstable support for MSC2197 (filtered search requests over federation), in order to allow upcoming room directory query performance improvements.

changelog.d/5860.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove log line for debugging issue #5407.

changelog.d/5863.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-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`.

changelog.d/5864.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Correctly retry all hosts returned from SRV when we fail to connect.

changelog.d/5868.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add `m.require_identity_server` key to `/versions`'s `unstable_features` section.

changelog.d/5875.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Deprecate the `trusted_third_party_id_servers` option.

changelog.d/5876.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Replace `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` config option with `account_threepid_delegates`.

changelog.d/5877.removal

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove shared secret registration from client/r0/register endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH.

changelog.d/5878.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add admin API endpoint for setting whether or not a user is a server administrator.

changelog.d/5885.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix stack overflow when recovering an appservice which had an outage.

changelog.d/5886.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Refactor the Appservice scheduler code.

changelog.d/5892.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Compatibility with v2 Identity Service APIs other than /lookup.

changelog.d/5893.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Drop some unused tables.

changelog.d/5894.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add missing index on users_in_public_rooms to improve the performance of directory queries.

changelog.d/5895.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add config option to sign remote key query responses with a separate key.

changelog.d/5896.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve the logging when we have an error when fetching signing keys.

changelog.d/5897.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-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)).

changelog.d/5900.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add support for config templating.

changelog.d/5902.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Users with the type of "support" or "bot" are no longer required to consent.

changelog.d/5904.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Let synctl accept a directory of config files.

changelog.d/5906.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Increase max display name size to 256.

changelog.d/5909.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix error message which referred to public_base_url instead of public_baseurl. Thanks to @aaronraimist for the fix!

changelog.d/5911.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add support for database engine-specific schema deltas, based on file extension.

changelog.d/5914.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add admin API endpoint for getting whether or not a user is a server administrator.

changelog.d/5915.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix 404 for thumbnail download when `dynamic_thumbnails` is `false` and the thumbnail was dynamically generated. Fix reported by rkfg.

changelog.d/5920.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a cache-invalidation bug for worker-based deployments.

changelog.d/5922.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update Buildkite pipeline to use plugins instead of buildkite-agent commands.

changelog.d/5926.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add link in sample config to the logging config schema.

changelog.d/5931.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements.

changelog.d/5934.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Redact events in the database that have been redacted for a month.

changelog.d/5938.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove unused jenkins/prepare_sytest.sh file.

changelog.d/5940.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server.

changelog.d/5943.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Move Buildkite pipeline config to the pipelines repo.

changelog.d/5953.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update INSTALL.md to say that Python 2 is no longer supported.

changelog.d/5962.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove unnecessary return statements in the codebase which were the result of a regex run.

changelog.d/5963.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove left-over methods from C/S registration API.

changelog.d/5964.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove `bind_email` and `bind_msisdn` parameters from /register ala MSC2140.

changelog.d/5966.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix admin API for listing media in a room not being available with an external media repo.

changelog.d/5967.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix list media admin API always returning an error.

changelog.d/5969.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Replace `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` config option with `account_threepid_delegates`.

changelog.d/5970.docker

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Avoid changing UID/GID if they are already correct.

changelog.d/5971.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix room and user stats tracking.

changelog.d/5975.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Cleanup event auth type initialisation.

changelog.d/5980.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add POST /_matrix/client/r0/account/3pid/unbind endpoint from MSC2140 for unbinding a 3PID from an identity server without removing it from the homeserver user account.

changelog.d/5981.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Setting metrics_flags.known_servers to True in the configuration will publish the synapse_federation_known_servers metric over Prometheus. This represents the total number of servers your server knows about (i.e. is in rooms with), including itself.

changelog.d/5982.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Include missing opentracing contexts in outbout replication requests.

changelog.d/5983.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add minimum opentracing for client servlets.

changelog.d/5984.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix sending of EDUs when opentracing is enabled with an empty whitelist.

changelog.d/5985.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Check at setup that opentracing is installed if it's enabled in the config.

changelog.d/5986.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Trace replication send times.

changelog.d/5988.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix invalid references to None while opentracing if the log context slips.

changelog.d/5989.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clean up dependency checking at setup.

changelog.d/5991.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix invalid references to None while opentracing if the log context slips.

changelog.d/5993.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server.

changelog.d/5994.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server.

changelog.d/5995.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Return a M_MISSING_PARAM if `sid` is not provided to `/account/3pid`.

changelog.d/5998.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix room and user stats tracking.

changelog.d/6003.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add opentracing span over HTTP push processing.

changelog.d/6004.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Only count real users when checking for auto-creation of auto-join room.

changelog.d/6005.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The new Prometheus metric `synapse_build_info` exposes the Python version, OS version, and Synapse version of the running server.

changelog.d/6009.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Small refactor of function arguments and docstrings in RoomMemberHandler.

changelog.d/6010.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove unused `origin` argument on FederationHandler.add_display_name_to_third_party_invite.

changelog.d/6011.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Use account_threepid_delegate.email and account_threepid_delegate.msisdn for validating threepid sessions.

changelog.d/6012.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add report_stats_endpoint option to configure where stats are reported to, if enabled. Contributed by @Sorunome.

changelog.d/6013.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Compatibility with v2 Identity Service APIs other than /lookup.

changelog.d/6015.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add config option to increase ratelimits for room admins redacting messages.

changelog.d/6017.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clean up some code in the retry logic.

changelog.d/6020.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensure support users can be registered even if MAU limit is reached.

changelog.d/6023.misc

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix the structured logging tests stomping on the global log configuration for subsequent tests.

changelog.d/6024.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug where login error was shown incorrectly on SSO fallback login.

changelog.d/6025.bugfix

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug in calculating the federation retry backoff period.

changelog.d/6026.feature

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time.

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+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.

docker/README.md

@@ -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`.
 

docker/start.py

@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ def main(args, environ):
     mode = args[1] if len(args) > 1 else None
     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:
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ def main(args, environ):
 
     log("Starting synapse with config file " + config_path)
 
-    args = ["python", "-m", "synapse.app.homeserver", "--config-path", config_path]
+    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)

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/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.