Update changelog

Fixes a problem where `impish` packages could not be processed by `reprepro`.

.buildkite/.env

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-CI
-BUILDKITE
-BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER
-BUILDKITE_BRANCH
-BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER
-BUILDKITE_JOB_ID
-BUILDKITE_BUILD_URL
-BUILDKITE_PROJECT_SLUG
-BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST
-BUILDKITE_TAG
-CODECOV_TOKEN
-TRIAL_FLAGS

.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e
-
-if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" =~ ^(develop|master|dinsic|shhs|release-.*)$ ]]; then
-    echo "Not merging forward, as this is a release branch"
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-if [[ -z $BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH ]]; then
-    echo "Not a pull request, or hasn't had a PR opened yet..."
-
-    # It probably hasn't had a PR opened yet. Since all PRs land on develop, we
-    # can probably assume it's based on it and will be merged into it.
-    GITBASE="develop"
-else
-    # Get the reference, using the GitHub API
-    GITBASE=$BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH
-fi
-
-echo "--- merge_base_branch $GITBASE"
-
-# Show what we are before
-git --no-pager show -s
-
-# Set up username so it can do a merge
-git config --global user.email bot@matrix.org
-git config --global user.name "A robot"
-
-# Fetch and merge. If it doesn't work, it will raise due to set -e.
-git fetch -u origin $GITBASE
-git merge --no-edit --no-commit origin/$GITBASE
-
-# Show what we are after.
-git --no-pager show -s

.buildkite/worker-blacklist

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# This file serves as a blacklist for SyTest tests that we expect will fail in
-# Synapse when run under worker mode. For more details, see sytest-blacklist.
-
-Can re-join room if re-invited
-
-# new failures as of https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/pull/732
-Device list doesn't change if remote server is down
-
-# https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/synapse/builds/6134#6f67bf47-e234-474d-80e8-c6e1868b15c5
-Server correctly handles incoming m.device_list_update

.ci/patch_for_twisted_trunk.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# replaces the dependency on Twisted in `python_dependencies` with trunk.
+
+set -e
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"/..
+
+sed -i -e 's#"Twisted.*"#"Twisted @ git+https://github.com/twisted/twisted"#' synapse/python_dependencies.py

.ci/postgres-config.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # CI's Docker setup at the point where this file is considered.
 server_name: "localhost:8800"
 
-signing_key_path: ".buildkite/test.signing.key"
+signing_key_path: ".ci/test.signing.key"
 
 report_stats: false
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ database:
   name: "psycopg2"
   args:
     user: postgres
-    host: postgres
+    host: localhost
     password: postgres
     database: synapse
 

.ci/scripts/postgres_exec.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import psycopg2
 # We use "postgres" as a database because it's bound to exist and the "synapse" one
 # doesn't exist yet.
 db_conn = psycopg2.connect(
-    user="postgres", host="postgres", password="postgres", dbname="postgres"
+    user="postgres", host="localhost", password="postgres", dbname="postgres"
 )
 db_conn.autocommit = True
 cur = db_conn.cursor()

.ci/scripts/test_export_data_command.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Test for the export-data admin command against sqlite and postgres
+
+set -xe
+cd `dirname $0`/../..
+
+echo "--- Install dependencies"
+
+# Install dependencies for this test.
+pip install psycopg2
+
+# Install Synapse itself. This won't update any libraries.
+pip install -e .
+
+echo "--- Generate the signing key"
+
+# Generate the server's signing key.
+python -m synapse.app.homeserver --generate-keys -c .ci/sqlite-config.yaml
+
+echo "--- Prepare test database"
+
+# Make sure the SQLite3 database is using the latest schema and has no pending background update.
+scripts/update_synapse_database --database-config .ci/sqlite-config.yaml --run-background-updates
+
+# Run the export-data command on the sqlite test database
+python -m synapse.app.admin_cmd -c .ci/sqlite-config.yaml  export-data @anon-20191002_181700-832:localhost:8800 \
+--output-directory /tmp/export_data
+
+# Test that the output directory exists and contains the rooms directory
+dir="/tmp/export_data/rooms"
+if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+  echo "Command successful, this test passes"
+else
+  echo "No output directories found, the command fails against a sqlite database."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Create the PostgreSQL database.
+.ci/scripts/postgres_exec.py "CREATE DATABASE synapse"
+
+# Port the SQLite databse to postgres so we can check command works against postgres
+echo "+++ Port SQLite3 databse to postgres"
+scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .ci/test_db.db --postgres-config .ci/postgres-config.yaml
+
+# Run the export-data command on postgres database
+python -m synapse.app.admin_cmd -c .ci/postgres-config.yaml  export-data @anon-20191002_181700-832:localhost:8800 \
+--output-directory /tmp/export_data2
+
+# Test that the output directory exists and contains the rooms directory
+dir2="/tmp/export_data2/rooms"
+if [ -d "$dir2" ]; then
+  echo "Command successful, this test passes"
+else
+  echo "No output directories found, the command fails against a postgres database."
+  exit 1
+fi

.ci/scripts/test_old_deps.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# this script is run by buildkite in a plain `bionic` container; it installs the
+# this script is run by GitHub Actions in a plain `bionic` container; it installs the
 # minimal requirements for tox and hands over to the py3-old tox environment.
 
 set -ex

.ci/scripts/test_synapse_port_db.sh

@@ -20,22 +20,22 @@ pip install -e .
 echo "--- Generate the signing key"
 
 # Generate the server's signing key.
-python -m synapse.app.homeserver --generate-keys -c .buildkite/sqlite-config.yaml
+python -m synapse.app.homeserver --generate-keys -c .ci/sqlite-config.yaml
 
 echo "--- Prepare test database"
 
 # Make sure the SQLite3 database is using the latest schema and has no pending background update.
-scripts-dev/update_database --database-config .buildkite/sqlite-config.yaml
+scripts/update_synapse_database --database-config .ci/sqlite-config.yaml --run-background-updates
 
 # Create the PostgreSQL database.
-./.buildkite/scripts/postgres_exec.py "CREATE DATABASE synapse"
+.ci/scripts/postgres_exec.py "CREATE DATABASE synapse"
 
 echo "+++ Run synapse_port_db against test database"
-coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .buildkite/test_db.db --postgres-config .buildkite/postgres-config.yaml
+coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .ci/test_db.db --postgres-config .ci/postgres-config.yaml
 
 # We should be able to run twice against the same database.
 echo "+++ Run synapse_port_db a second time"
-coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .buildkite/test_db.db --postgres-config .buildkite/postgres-config.yaml
+coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .ci/test_db.db --postgres-config .ci/postgres-config.yaml
 
 #####
 
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .buildkite/test_db.db --p
 echo "--- Prepare empty SQLite database"
 
 # we do this by deleting the sqlite db, and then doing the same again.
-rm .buildkite/test_db.db
+rm .ci/test_db.db
 
-scripts-dev/update_database --database-config .buildkite/sqlite-config.yaml
+scripts/update_synapse_database --database-config .ci/sqlite-config.yaml --run-background-updates
 
 # re-create the PostgreSQL database.
-./.buildkite/scripts/postgres_exec.py \
+.ci/scripts/postgres_exec.py \
   "DROP DATABASE synapse" \
   "CREATE DATABASE synapse"
 
 echo "+++ Run synapse_port_db against empty database"
-coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .buildkite/test_db.db --postgres-config .buildkite/postgres-config.yaml
+coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .ci/test_db.db --postgres-config .ci/postgres-config.yaml

.ci/sqlite-config.yaml

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 # schema and run background updates on it.
 server_name: "localhost:8800"
 
-signing_key_path: ".buildkite/test.signing.key"
+signing_key_path: ".ci/test.signing.key"
 
 report_stats: false
 
 database:
   name: "sqlite3"
   args:
-    database: ".buildkite/test_db.db"
+    database: ".ci/test_db.db"
 
 # Suppress the key server warning.
 trusted_key_servers: []

.ci/twisted_trunk_build_failed_issue_template.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: CI run against Twisted trunk is failing
+---
+See https://github.com/{{env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY}}/actions/runs/{{env.GITHUB_RUN_ID}}

.ci/worker-blacklist

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# This file serves as a blacklist for SyTest tests that we expect will fail in
+# Synapse when run under worker mode. For more details, see sytest-blacklist.

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-version: 2.1
-jobs:
-  dockerhubuploadrelease:
-    docker:
-      - image: docker:git
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - docker_prepare
-      - run: docker login --username $DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME --password $DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD
-      # for release builds, we want to get the amd64 image out asap, so first
-      # we do an amd64-only build, before following up with a multiarch build.
-      - docker_build:
-          tag: -t matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG}
-          platforms: linux/amd64
-      - docker_build:
-          tag: -t matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG}
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-
-  dockerhubuploadlatest:
-    docker:
-      - image: docker:git
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - docker_prepare
-      - run: docker login --username $DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME --password $DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD
-      # for `latest`, we don't want the arm images to disappear, so don't update the tag
-      # until all of the platforms are built.
-      - docker_build:
-          tag: -t matrixdotorg/synapse:latest
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-
-workflows:
-  build:
-    jobs:
-      - dockerhubuploadrelease:
-          filters:
-            tags:
-              only: /v[0-9].[0-9]+.[0-9]+.*/
-            branches:
-              ignore: /.*/
-      - dockerhubuploadlatest:
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              only: [ master, main ]
-
-commands:
-  docker_prepare:
-    description: Sets up a remote docker server, downloads the buildx cli plugin, and enables multiarch images
-    parameters:
-      buildx_version:
-        type: string
-        default: "v0.4.1"
-    steps:
-      - setup_remote_docker:
-          # 19.03.13 was the most recent available on circleci at the time of
-          # writing.
-          version: 19.03.13
-      - run: apk add --no-cache curl
-      - run: mkdir -vp ~/.docker/cli-plugins/ ~/dockercache
-      - run: curl --silent -L "https://github.com/docker/buildx/releases/download/<< parameters.buildx_version >>/buildx-<< parameters.buildx_version >>.linux-amd64" > ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
-      - run: chmod a+x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
-      # install qemu links in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc on the docker instance running the circleci job
-      - run: docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
-      # create a context named `builder` for the builds
-      - run: docker context create builder
-      # create a buildx builder using the new context, and set it as the default
-      - run: docker buildx create builder --use
-
-  docker_build:
-    description: Builds and pushed images to dockerhub using buildx
-    parameters:
-      platforms:
-        type: string
-        default: linux/amd64
-      tag:
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - run: docker buildx build -f docker/Dockerfile --push --platform << parameters.platforms >> --label gitsha1=${CIRCLE_SHA1} << parameters.tag >> --progress=plain .

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Automatically request reviews from the synapse-core team when a pull request comes in.
+* @matrix-org/synapse-core

.github/workflows/docker.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# GitHub actions workflow which builds and publishes the docker images.
+
+name: Build docker images
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ["v*"]
+    branches: [ master, main ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        id: qemu
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1
+        with:
+          platforms: arm64
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        id: buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
+
+      - name: Inspect builder
+        run: docker buildx inspect
+          
+      - name: Log in to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v1
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Calculate docker image tag
+        id: set-tag
+        run: |
+          case "${GITHUB_REF}" in
+              refs/heads/master|refs/heads/main)
+                  tag=latest
+                  ;;
+              refs/tags/*)
+                  tag=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}
+                  ;;
+              *)
+                  tag=${GITHUB_SHA}
+                  ;;
+          esac
+          echo "::set-output name=tag::$tag"
+
+        # for release builds, we want to get the amd64 image out asap, so first
+        # we do an amd64-only build, before following up with a multiarch build.
+      - name: Build and push amd64
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
+        if: "${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}"
+        with:
+          push: true
+          labels: "gitsha1=${{ github.sha }}"
+          tags: "matrixdotorg/synapse:${{ steps.set-tag.outputs.tag }}"
+          file: "docker/Dockerfile"
+          platforms: linux/amd64
+
+      - name: Build and push all platforms
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
+        with:
+          push: true
+          labels: "gitsha1=${{ github.sha }}"
+          tags: "matrixdotorg/synapse:${{ steps.set-tag.outputs.tag }}"
+          file: "docker/Dockerfile"
+          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64

.github/workflows/docs.yaml

@@ -61,6 +61,5 @@ jobs:
         uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@068dc23d9710f1ba62e86896f84735d869951305 # v3.8.0
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          keep_files: true
           publish_dir: ./book
           destination_dir: ./${{ steps.vars.outputs.branch-version }}

.github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml

@@ -3,28 +3,37 @@
 name: Build release artifacts
 
 on:
+  # we build on PRs and develop to (hopefully) get early warning
+  # of things breaking (but only build one set of debs)
+  pull_request:
   push:
-    # we build on develop and release branches to (hopefully) get early warning
-    # of things breaking
-    branches: ["develop", "release-*"]
+    branches: ["develop"]
 
-    # we also rebuild on tags, so that we can be sure of picking the artifacts
-    # from the right tag.
+    # we do the full build on tags.
     tags: ["v*"]
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+  
 permissions:
   contents: write
 
 jobs:
-  # first get the list of distros to build for.
   get-distros:
+    name: "Calculate list of debian distros"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       - id: set-distros
         run: |
-          echo "::set-output name=distros::$(scripts-dev/build_debian_packages --show-dists-json)"
+          # if we're running from a tag, get the full list of distros; otherwise just use debian:sid
+          dists='["debian:sid"]'
+          if [[ $GITHUB_REF == refs/tags/* ]]; then
+              dists=$(scripts-dev/build_debian_packages --show-dists-json)
+          fi
+          echo "::set-output name=distros::$dists"
     # map the step outputs to job outputs
     outputs:
       distros: ${{ steps.set-distros.outputs.distros }}
@@ -39,12 +48,43 @@ jobs:
         distro: ${{ fromJson(needs.get-distros.outputs.distros) }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           path: src
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      - run: ./src/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages "${{ matrix.distro }}"
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        id: buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
+        with:
+          install: true
+
+      - name: Set up docker layer caching
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: /tmp/.buildx-cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-buildx-${{ github.sha }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-buildx-
+
+      - name: Set up python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+
+      - name: Build the packages
+        # see https://github.com/docker/build-push-action/issues/252
+        # for the cache magic here
+        run: |
+          ./src/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages \
+            --docker-build-arg=--cache-from=type=local,src=/tmp/.buildx-cache \
+            --docker-build-arg=--cache-to=type=local,mode=max,dest=/tmp/.buildx-cache-new \
+            --docker-build-arg=--progress=plain \
+            --docker-build-arg=--load \
+            "${{ matrix.distro }}"
+          rm -rf /tmp/.buildx-cache
+          mv /tmp/.buildx-cache-new /tmp/.buildx-cache
+
+      - name: Upload debs as artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: debs
           path: debs/*
@@ -66,7 +106,7 @@ jobs:
   # if it's a tag, create a release and attach the artifacts to it
   attach-assets:
     name: "Attach assets to release"
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
+    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') }}
     needs:
       - build-debs
       - build-sdist

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ on:
     branches: ["develop", "release-*"]
   pull_request:
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   lint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -34,20 +38,15 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ github.base_ref == 'develop'  || contains(github.base_ref, 'release-') }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      # Note: This and the script can be simplified once we drop Buildkite. See:
-      #   https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/266#issuecomment-638346893
-      #   https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/416
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       - run: pip install tox
-      - name: Patch Buildkite-specific test script
-        run: |
-          sed -i -e 's/\$BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST/${{ github.event.number }}/' \
-            scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
       - run: scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
+        env:
+          PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.number }}
 
   lint-sdist:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -65,34 +64,37 @@ jobs:
 
   # Dummy step to gate other tests on without repeating the whole list
   linting-done:
-    if: ${{ always() }} # Run this even if prior jobs were skipped
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() }} # Run this even if prior jobs were skipped
     needs: [lint, lint-crlf, lint-newsfile, lint-sdist]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - run: "true"
 
   trial:
-    if: ${{ !failure() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && !failure() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9"]
+        python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
         database: ["sqlite"]
+        toxenv: ["py"]
         include:
           # Newest Python without optional deps
-          - python-version: "3.9"
-            toxenv: "py-noextras,combine"
+          - python-version: "3.10"
+            toxenv: "py-noextras"
 
           # Oldest Python with PostgreSQL
           - python-version: "3.6"
             database: "postgres"
             postgres-version: "9.6"
+            toxenv: "py"
 
-          # Newest Python with PostgreSQL
-          - python-version: "3.9"
+          # Newest Python with newest PostgreSQL
+          - python-version: "3.10"
             database: "postgres"
-            postgres-version: "13"
+            postgres-version: "14"
+            toxenv: "py"
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ matrix.postgres-version }}
         timeout-minutes: 2
         run: until pg_isready -h localhost; do sleep 1; done
-      - run: tox -e py,combine
+      - run: tox -e ${{ matrix.toxenv }}
         env:
           TRIAL_FLAGS: "--jobs=2"
           SYNAPSE_POSTGRES: ${{ matrix.database == 'postgres' || '' }}
@@ -120,6 +122,8 @@ jobs:
           SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER: postgres
           SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
       - name: Dump logs
+        # Logs are most useful when the command fails, always include them.
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         # Note: Dumps to workflow logs instead of using actions/upload-artifact
         #       This keeps logs colocated with failing jobs
         #       It also ignores find's exit code; this is a best effort affair
@@ -131,7 +135,7 @@ jobs:
           || true
 
   trial-olddeps:
-    if: ${{ !failure() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && !failure() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -140,10 +144,12 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker://ubuntu:bionic # For old python and sqlite
         with:
           workdir: /github/workspace
-          entrypoint: .buildkite/scripts/test_old_deps.sh
+          entrypoint: .ci/scripts/test_old_deps.sh
         env:
           TRIAL_FLAGS: "--jobs=2"
       - name: Dump logs
+        # Logs are most useful when the command fails, always include them.
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         # Note: Dumps to workflow logs instead of using actions/upload-artifact
         #       This keeps logs colocated with failing jobs
         #       It also ignores find's exit code; this is a best effort affair
@@ -156,7 +162,7 @@ jobs:
 
   trial-pypy:
     # Very slow; only run if the branch name includes 'pypy'
-    if: ${{ contains(github.ref, 'pypy') && !failure() }}
+    if: ${{ contains(github.ref, 'pypy') && !failure() && !cancelled() }}
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
@@ -170,10 +176,12 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - run: pip install tox
-      - run: tox -e py,combine
+      - run: tox -e py
         env:
           TRIAL_FLAGS: "--jobs=2"
       - name: Dump logs
+        # Logs are most useful when the command fails, always include them.
+        if: ${{ always() }}
         # Note: Dumps to workflow logs instead of using actions/upload-artifact
         #       This keeps logs colocated with failing jobs
         #       It also ignores find's exit code; this is a best effort affair
@@ -185,7 +193,7 @@ jobs:
           || true
 
   sytest:
-    if: ${{ !failure() }}
+    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() }}
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
@@ -193,12 +201,13 @@ jobs:
       volumes:
         - ${{ github.workspace }}:/src
       env:
-        BUILDKITE_BRANCH: ${{ github.head_ref }}
+        SYTEST_BRANCH: ${{ github.head_ref }}
         POSTGRES: ${{ matrix.postgres && 1}}
         MULTI_POSTGRES: ${{ (matrix.postgres == 'multi-postgres') && 1}}
         WORKERS: ${{ matrix.workers && 1 }}
         REDIS: ${{ matrix.redis && 1 }}
         BLACKLIST: ${{ matrix.workers && 'synapse-blacklist-with-workers' }}
+        TOP: ${{ github.workspace }}
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -228,7 +237,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Prepare test blacklist
-        run: cat sytest-blacklist .buildkite/worker-blacklist > synapse-blacklist-with-workers
+        run: cat sytest-blacklist .ci/worker-blacklist > synapse-blacklist-with-workers
       - name: Run SyTest
         run: /bootstrap.sh synapse
         working-directory: /src
@@ -244,18 +253,49 @@ jobs:
             /logs/results.tap
             /logs/**/*.log*
 
+  export-data:
+    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
+    needs: [linting-done, portdb]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      TOP: ${{ github.workspace }}
+
+    services:
+      postgres:
+        image: postgres
+        ports:
+          - 5432:5432
+        env:
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "postgres"
+          POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: "--lc-collate C --lc-ctype C --encoding UTF8"
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd pg_isready
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 5
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - run: sudo apt-get -qq install xmlsec1
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.9"
+      - run: .ci/scripts/test_export_data_command.sh
+
   portdb:
-    if: ${{ !failure() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
+    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() }} # Allow previous steps to be skipped, but not fail
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      TOP: ${{ github.workspace }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
           - python-version: "3.6"
             postgres-version: "9.6"
 
-          - python-version: "3.9"
-            postgres-version: "13"
+          - python-version: "3.10"
+            postgres-version: "14"
 
     services:
       postgres:
@@ -277,16 +317,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      - name: Patch Buildkite-specific test scripts
-        run: |
-          sed -i -e 's/host="postgres"/host="localhost"/' .buildkite/scripts/postgres_exec.py
-          sed -i -e 's/host: postgres/host: localhost/' .buildkite/postgres-config.yaml
-          sed -i -e 's|/src/||' .buildkite/{sqlite,postgres}-config.yaml
-          sed -i -e 's/\$TOP/\$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/' .coveragerc
-      - run: .buildkite/scripts/test_synapse_port_db.sh
+      - run: .ci/scripts/test_synapse_port_db.sh
 
   complement:
-    if: ${{ !failure() }}
+    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() }}
     needs: linting-done
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
@@ -340,7 +374,44 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: complement/dockerfiles
 
       # Run Complement
-      - run: go test -v -tags synapse_blacklist,msc2403,msc2946,msc3083 ./tests
+      - run: go test -v -tags synapse_blacklist,msc2403,msc2946,msc3083 ./tests/...
         env:
           COMPLEMENT_BASE_IMAGE: complement-synapse:latest
         working-directory: complement
+
+  # a job which marks all the other jobs as complete, thus allowing PRs to be merged.
+  tests-done:
+    if: ${{ always() }}
+    needs:
+      - lint
+      - lint-crlf
+      - lint-newsfile
+      - lint-sdist
+      - trial
+      - trial-olddeps
+      - sytest
+      - portdb
+      - complement
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Set build result
+        env:
+          NEEDS_CONTEXT: ${{ toJSON(needs) }}
+        # the `jq` incantation dumps out a series of "<job> <result>" lines.
+        # we set it to an intermediate variable to avoid a pipe, which makes it
+        # hard to set $rc.
+        run: |
+          rc=0
+          results=$(jq -r 'to_entries[] | [.key,.value.result] | join(" ")' <<< $NEEDS_CONTEXT)
+          while read job result ; do
+              # The newsfile lint may be skipped on non PR builds
+              if [ $result == "skipped" ] && [ $job == "lint-newsfile" ]; then
+                continue
+              fi
+
+              if [ "$result" != "success" ]; then
+                  echo "::set-failed ::Job $job returned $result"
+                  rc=1
+              fi
+          done <<< $results
+          exit $rc

.github/workflows/twisted_trunk.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+name: Twisted Trunk
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: 0 8 * * *
+
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  mypy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - run: .ci/patch_for_twisted_trunk.sh
+      - run: pip install tox
+      - run: tox -e mypy
+
+  trial:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - run: sudo apt-get -qq install xmlsec1
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.6
+      - run: .ci/patch_for_twisted_trunk.sh
+      - run: pip install tox
+      - run: tox -e py
+        env:
+          TRIAL_FLAGS: "--jobs=2"
+
+      - name: Dump logs
+        # Logs are most useful when the command fails, always include them.
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        # Note: Dumps to workflow logs instead of using actions/upload-artifact
+        #       This keeps logs colocated with failing jobs
+        #       It also ignores find's exit code; this is a best effort affair
+        run: >-
+          find _trial_temp -name '*.log'
+          -exec echo "::group::{}" \;
+          -exec cat {} \;
+          -exec echo "::endgroup::" \;
+          || true
+
+  sytest:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:buster
+      volumes:
+        - ${{ github.workspace }}:/src
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Patch dependencies
+        run: .ci/patch_for_twisted_trunk.sh
+        working-directory: /src
+      - name: Run SyTest
+        run: /bootstrap.sh synapse
+        working-directory: /src
+      - name: Summarise results.tap
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        run: /sytest/scripts/tap_to_gha.pl /logs/results.tap
+      - name: Upload SyTest logs
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        with:
+          name: Sytest Logs - ${{ job.status }} - (${{ join(matrix.*, ', ') }})
+          path: |
+            /logs/results.tap
+            /logs/**/*.log*
+
+  # open an issue if the build fails, so we know about it.
+  open-issue:
+    if: failure()
+    needs:
+      - mypy
+      - trial
+      - sytest
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: JasonEtco/create-an-issue@5d9504915f79f9cc6d791934b8ef34f2353dd74d # v2.5.0, 2020-12-06
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          update_existing: true
+          filename: .ci/twisted_trunk_build_failed_issue_template.md

.gitignore

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ __pycache__/
 /.coverage*
 /.mypy_cache/
 /.tox
+/.tox-pg-container
 /build/
 /coverage.*
 /dist/

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,847 @@
+Synapse 1.46.0 (2021-11-02)
+===========================
+
+The cause of the [performance regression affecting Synapse 1.44](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11049) has been identified and fixed. ([\#11177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11177))
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in v1.46.0rc1 where URL previews of some XML documents would fail. ([\#11196](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11196))
+
+
+Synapse 1.46.0rc1 (2021-10-27)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add support for Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri". ([\#11024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11024))
+- Port the Password Auth Providers module interface to the new generic interface. ([\#10548](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10548), [\#11180](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11180))
+- Experimental support for the thread relation defined in [MSC3440](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3440). ([\#11088](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11088), [\#11181](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11181), [\#11192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11192))
+- Users admin API can now also modify user type in addition to allowing it to be set on user creation. ([\#11174](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11174))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Newly-created public rooms are now only assigned an alias if the room's creation has not been blocked by permission settings. Contributed by @AndrewFerr. ([\#10930](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10930))
+- Fix a long-standing bug which meant that events received over federation were sometimes incorrectly accepted into the room state. ([\#11001](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11001), [\#11009](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11009), [\#11012](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11012))
+- Fix 500 error on `/messages` when the server accumulates more than 5 backwards extremities at a given depth for a room. ([\#11027](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11027))
+- Fix a bug where setting a user's `external_id` via the admin API returns 500 and deletes user's existing external mappings if that external ID is already mapped. ([\#11051](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11051))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where users excluded from the user directory were added into the directory if they belonged to a room which became public or private. ([\#11075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11075))
+- Fix a long-standing bug when attempting to preview URLs which are in the `windows-1252` character encoding. ([\#11077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11077), [\#11089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11089))
+- Fix broken export-data admin command and add test script checking the command to CI. ([\#11078](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11078))
+- Show an error when timestamp in seconds is provided to the `/purge_media_cache` Admin API. ([\#11101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11101))
+- Fix local users who left all their rooms being removed from the user directory, even if the `search_all_users` config option was enabled. ([\#11103](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11103))
+- Fix a bug which caused the module API's `get_user_ip_and_agents` function to always fail on workers. `get_user_ip_and_agents` was introduced in 1.44.0 and did not function correctly on worker processes at the time. ([\#11112](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11112))
+- Identity server connection is no longer ignoring `ip_range_whitelist`. ([\#11120](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11120))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.45.0 breaking the configuration file parsing script. ([\#11145](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11145))
+- Fix a performance regression introduced in 1.44.0 which could cause client requests to time out when making large numbers of outbound requests. ([\#11177](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11177), [\#11190](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11190))
+- Resolve and share `state_groups` for all [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) historical events in batch. ([\#10975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10975))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Fix broken links relating to module API deprecation in the upgrade notes. ([\#11069](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11069))
+- Add more information about what happens when a user is deactivated. ([\#11083](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11083))
+- Clarify the the sample log config can be copied from the documentation without issue. ([\#11092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11092))
+- Update the admin API documentation with an updated list of the characters allowed in registration tokens. ([\#11093](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11093))
+- Document Synapse's behaviour when dealing with multiple modules registering the same callbacks and/or handlers for the same HTTP endpoints. ([\#11096](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11096))
+- Fix instances of `[example]{.title-ref}` in the upgrade documentation as a result of prior RST to Markdown conversion. ([\#11118](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11118))
+- Document the version of Synapse each module callback was introduced in. ([\#11132](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11132))
+- Document the version of Synapse that introduced each module API method. ([\#11183](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11183))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+- Fix spurious warnings about losing the logging context on the `ReplicationCommandHandler` when losing the replication connection. ([\#10984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10984))
+- Include rejected status when we log events. ([\#11008](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11008))
+- Add some extra logging to the event persistence code. ([\#11014](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11014))
+- Rearrange the internal workings of the incremental user directory updates. ([\#11035](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11035))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where users excluded from the directory could still be added to the `users_who_share_private_rooms` table after a regular user joins a private room. ([\#11143](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11143))
+- Add and improve type hints. ([\#10972](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10972), [\#11055](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11055), [\#11066](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11066), [\#11076](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11076), [\#11095](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11095), [\#11109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11109), [\#11121](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11121), [\#11146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11146))
+- Mark the Synapse package as containing type annotations and fix export declarations so that Synapse pluggable modules may be type checked against Synapse. ([\#11054](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11054))
+- Remove dead code from `MediaFilePaths`. ([\#11056](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11056))
+- Be more lenient when parsing oEmbed response versions. ([\#11065](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11065))
+- Create a separate module for the retention configuration. ([\#11070](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11070))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#11115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11115), [\#11116](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11116), [\#11122](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11122))
+- Add docstrings and comments to the application service ephemeral event sending code. ([\#11138](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11138))
+- Update the `sign_json` script to support inline configuration of the signing key. ([\#11139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11139))
+- Fix broken link in the docker image README. ([\#11144](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11144))
+- Always dump logs from unit tests during CI runs. ([\#11068](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11068))
+- Add tests for `MediaFilePaths` class. ([\#11057](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11057))
+- Simplify the user admin API tests. ([\#11048](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11048))
+- Add a test for the workaround introduced in [\#11042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/11042) concerning the behaviour of third-party rule modules and `SynapseError`s. ([\#11071](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11071))
+
+
+Synapse 1.45.1 (2021-10-20)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Revert change to counting of deactivated users towards the monthly active users limit, introduced in 1.45.0rc1. ([\#11127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11127))
+
+
+Synapse 1.45.0 (2021-10-19)
+===========================
+
+No functional changes since Synapse 1.45.0rc2.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- A suspected [performance regression](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11049) which was first reported after the release of 1.44.0 remains unresolved.
+
+  We have not been able to identify a probable cause. Affected users report that setting up a federation sender worker appears to alleviate symptoms of the regression.
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Reword changelog to clarify concerns about a suspected performance regression in 1.44.0. ([\#11117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11117))
+
+
+Synapse 1.45.0rc2 (2021-10-14)
+==============================
+
+This release candidate [fixes](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11053) a user directory [bug](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11025) present in 1.45.0rc1.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- A suspected [performance regression](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11049) which was first reported after the release of 1.44.0 remains unresolved.
+
+  We have not been able to identify a probable cause. Affected users report that setting up a federation sender worker appears to alleviate symptoms of the regression.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a long-standing bug when using multiple event persister workers where events were not correctly sent down `/sync` due to a race. ([\#11045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11045))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.45.0rc1 where the user directory would stop updating if it processed an event from a
+  user not in the `users` table. ([\#11053](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11053))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.44.0 when logging errors during oEmbed processing. ([\#11061](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11061))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Add an 'approximate difference' method to `StateFilter`. ([\#10825](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10825))
+- Fix inconsistent behavior of `get_last_client_by_ip` when reporting data that has not been stored in the database yet. ([\#10970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10970))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.21.0 that causes opentracing and Prometheus metrics for replication requests to be measured incorrectly. ([\#10996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10996))
+- Ensure that cache config tests do not share state. ([\#11036](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11036))
+
+
+Synapse 1.45.0rc1 (2021-10-12)
+==============================
+
+**Note:** Media storage providers module that read from Synapse's configuration need changes as of this version, see the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/upgrade#upgrading-to-v1450) for more information.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- We are investigating [a performance issue](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11049) which was reported after the release of 1.44.0.
+- We are aware of [a bug](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11025) with the user directory when using application services. A second release candidate is expected which will resolve this.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add [MSC3069](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3069) support to `/account/whoami`. ([\#9655](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9655))
+- Support autodiscovery of oEmbed previews. ([\#10822](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10822))
+- Add a `user_may_send_3pid_invite` spam checker callback for modules to allow or deny 3PID invites. ([\#10894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10894))
+- Add a spam checker callback to allow or deny room joins. ([\#10910](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10910))
+- Include an `update_synapse_database` script in the distribution. Contributed by @Fizzadar at Beeper. ([\#10954](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10954))
+- Include exception information in JSON logging output. Contributed by @Fizzadar at Beeper. ([\#11028](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11028))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a minor bug in the response to `/_matrix/client/r0/voip/turnServer`. Contributed by @lukaslihotzki. ([\#10922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10922))
+- Fix a bug where empty `yyyy-mm-dd/` directories would be left behind in the media store's `url_cache_thumbnails/` directory. ([\#10924](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10924))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0 where the signature checks for room version 8 and 9 could be applied to earlier room versions in some situations. ([\#10927](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10927))
+- Fix a long-standing bug wherein deactivated users still count towards the monthly active users limit. ([\#10947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10947))
+- Fix a long-standing bug which meant that events received over federation were sometimes incorrectly accepted into the room state. ([\#10956](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10956))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where rebuilding the user directory wouldn't exclude support and deactivated users. ([\#10960](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10960))
+- Fix [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` endpoint rejecting subsequent batches with unknown batch ID error in existing room versions from the room creator. ([\#10962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10962))
+- Fix a bug that could leak local users' per-room nicknames and avatars when the user directory is rebuilt. ([\#10981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10981))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where the remainder of a batch of user directory changes would be silently dropped if the server left a room early in the batch. ([\#10982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10982))
+- Correct a bugfix introduced in Synapse v1.44.0 that would catch the wrong error if a connection is lost before a response could be written to it. ([\#10995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10995))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where local users' per-room nicknames/avatars were visible to anyone who could see you in the user directory. ([\#11002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11002))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where a user's per-room nickname/avatar would overwrite their profile in the user directory when a room was made public. ([\#11003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11003))
+- Work around a regression, introduced in Synapse v1.39.0, that caused `SynapseError`s raised by the experimental third-party rules module callback `check_event_allowed` to be ignored. ([\#11042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11042))
+- Fix a bug in [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) insertion events in rooms that could cause cross-talk/conflicts between batches. ([\#10877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10877))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Change wording ("reference homeserver") in Synapse repository documentation. Contributed by @maxkratz. ([\#10971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10971))
+- Fix a dead URL in development documentation (SAML) and change wording from "Riot" to "Element". Contributed by @maxkratz. ([\#10973](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10973))
+- Add additional content to the Welcome and Overview page of the documentation. ([\#10990](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10990))
+- Update links to MSCs in documentation. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10991))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Improve type hinting in `synapse.util`. ([\#10888](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10888))
+- Add further type hints to `synapse.storage.util`. ([\#10892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10892))
+- Fix type hints to be compatible with an upcoming change to Twisted. ([\#10895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10895))
+- Update utility code to handle C implementations of frozendict. ([\#10902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10902))
+- Drop old functionality which maintained database compatibility with Synapse versions before v1.31. ([\#10903](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10903))
+- Clean-up configuration helper classes for the `ServerConfig` class. ([\#10915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10915))
+- Use direct references to config flags. ([\#10916](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10916), [\#10959](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10959), [\#10985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10985))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10926), [\#10940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10940), [\#10986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10986), [\#10987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10987), [\#10988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10988), [\#11010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11010), [\#11011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11011))
+- Refactor various parts of the codebase to use `RoomVersion` objects instead of room version identifier strings. ([\#10934](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10934))
+- Refactor user directory tests in preparation for upcoming changes. ([\#10935](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10935))
+- Include the event id in the logcontext when handling PDUs received over federation. ([\#10936](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10936))
+- Fix logged errors in unit tests. ([\#10939](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10939))
+- Fix a broken test to ensure that consent configuration works during registration. ([\#10945](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10945))
+- Add type hints to filtering classes. ([\#10958](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10958))
+- Add type-hint to `HomeserverTestcase.setup_test_homeserver`. ([\#10961](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10961))
+- Fix the test utility function `create_room_as` so that `is_public=True` will explicitly set the `visibility` parameter of room creation requests to `public`. Contributed by @AndrewFerr. ([\#10963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10963))
+- Make the release script more robust and transparent. ([\#10966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10966))
+- Refactor [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` mega function into smaller handler functions. ([\#10974](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10974))
+- Log stack traces when a missing opentracing span is detected. ([\#10983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10983))
+- Update GHA config to run tests against Python 3.10 and PostgreSQL 14. ([\#10992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10992))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where `ReadWriteLock`s could drop logging contexts on exit. ([\#10993](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10993))
+- Add a `CODEOWNERS` file to automatically request reviews from the `@matrix-org/synapse-core` team on new pull requests. ([\#10994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10994))
+- Add further type hints to `synapse.state`. ([\#11004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11004))
+- Remove the deprecated `BaseHandler` object. ([\#11005](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11005))
+- Bump mypy version for CI to 0.910, and pull in new type stubs for dependencies. ([\#11006](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11006))
+- Fix CI to run the unit tests without optional deps. ([\#11017](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11017))
+- Ensure that cache config tests do not share state. ([\#11019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11019))
+- Add additional type hints to `synapse.server_notices`. ([\#11021](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11021))
+- Add additional type hints for `synapse.push`. ([\#11023](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11023))
+- When installing the optional developer dependencies, also include the dependencies needed for type-checking and unit testing. ([\#11034](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11034))
+- Remove unnecessary list comprehension from `synapse_port_db` to satisfy code style requirements. ([\#11043](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11043))
+
+
+Synapse 1.44.0 (2021-10-05)
+===========================
+
+No significant changes since 1.44.0rc3.
+
+
+Synapse 1.44.0rc3 (2021-10-04)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0 where changing a user's display name or avatar in a restricted room would cause an authentication error. ([\#10933](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10933))
+- Fix `/admin/whois/{user_id}` endpoint, which was broken in v1.44.0rc1. ([\#10968](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10968))
+
+
+Synapse 1.44.0rc2 (2021-09-30)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in v1.44.0rc1 which caused the experimental [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` endpoint to return a 500 error. ([\#10938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10938))
+- Fix a bug introduced in v1.44.0rc1 which prevented sending presence events to application services. ([\#10944](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10944))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Minor updates to the installation instructions. ([\#10919](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10919))
+
+
+Synapse 1.44.0rc1 (2021-09-29)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Only allow the [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send?chunk_id=xxx` endpoint to connect to an already existing insertion event. ([\#10776](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10776))
+- Improve oEmbed URL previews by processing the author name, photo, and video information. ([\#10814](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10814), [\#10819](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10819))
+- Speed up responding with large JSON objects to requests. ([\#10868](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10868), [\#10905](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10905))
+- Add a `user_may_create_room_with_invites` spam checker callback to allow modules to allow or deny a room creation request based on the invites and/or 3PID invites it includes. ([\#10898](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10898))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a long-standing bug that caused an `AssertionError` when purging history in certain rooms. Contributed by @Kokokokoka. ([\#10690](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10690))
+- Fix a long-standing bug which caused deactivated users that were later reactivated to be missing from the user directory. ([\#10782](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10782))
+- Fix a long-standing bug that caused unbanning a user by sending a membership event to fail. Contributed by @aaronraimist. ([\#10807](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10807))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where logging contexts would go missing when federation requests time out. ([\#10810](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10810))
+- Fix a long-standing bug causing an error in the deprecated `/initialSync` endpoint when using the undocumented `from` and `to` parameters. ([\#10827](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10827))
+- Fix a bug causing the `remove_stale_pushers` background job to repeatedly fail and log errors. This bug affected Synapse servers that had been upgraded from version 1.28 or older and are using SQLite. ([\#10843](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10843))
+- Fix a long-standing bug in Unicode support of the room search admin API breaking search for rooms with non-ASCII characters. ([\#10859](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10859))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.37.0 which caused `knock` membership events which we sent to remote servers to be incorrectly stored in the local database. ([\#10873](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10873))
+- Fix invalidating one-time key count cache after claiming keys. The bug was introduced in Synapse v1.41.0. Contributed by Tulir at Beeper. ([\#10875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10875))
+- Fix a long-standing bug causing application service users to be subject to MAU blocking if the MAU limit had been reached, even if configured not to be blocked. ([\#10881](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10881))
+- Fix a long-standing bug which could cause events pulled over federation to be incorrectly rejected. ([\#10907](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10907))
+- Fix a long-standing bug causing URL cache files to be stored in storage providers. Server admins may safely delete the `url_cache/` and `url_cache_thumbnails/` directories from any configured storage providers to reclaim space. ([\#10911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10911))
+- Fix a long-standing bug leading to race conditions when creating media store and config directories. ([\#10913](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10913))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Fix some crashes in the Module API example code, by adding JSON encoding/decoding. ([\#10845](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10845))
+- Add developer documentation about experimental configuration flags. ([\#10865](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10865))
+- Properly remove deleted files from GitHub pages when generating the documentation. ([\#10869](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10869))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix GitHub Actions config so we can run sytest on synapse from parallel branches. ([\#10659](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10659))
+- Split out [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) meta events to their own fields in the `/batch_send` response. ([\#10777](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10777))
+- Add missing type hints to REST servlets. ([\#10785](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10785), [\#10817](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10817))
+- Simplify the internal logic which maintains the user directory database tables. ([\#10796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10796))
+- Use direct references to config flags. ([\#10812](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10812), [\#10885](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10885), [\#10893](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10893), [\#10897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10897))
+- Specify the type of token in generic "Invalid token" error messages. ([\#10815](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10815))
+- Make `StateFilter` frozen so it is hashable. ([\#10816](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10816))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where an `m.room.message` event containing a null byte would cause an internal server error. ([\#10820](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10820))
+- Add type hints to the state database. ([\#10823](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10823))
+- Opt out of cache expiry for `get_users_who_share_room_with_user`, to hopefully improve `/sync` performance when you
+  haven't synced recently. ([\#10826](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10826))
+- Track cache eviction rates more finely in Prometheus's monitoring. ([\#10829](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10829))
+- Add missing type hints to `synapse.handlers`. ([\#10831](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10831), [\#10856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10856))
+- Extend the Module API to let plug-ins check whether an ID is local and to access IP + User Agent data. ([\#10833](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10833))
+- Factor out PNG image data to a constant to be used in several tests. ([\#10834](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10834))
+- Add a test to ensure state events sent by modules get persisted correctly. ([\#10835](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10835))
+- Rename [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) fields and event types from `chunk` to `batch` to match the `/batch_send` endpoint. ([\#10838](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10838))
+- Rename [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` query parameter from `?prev_event` to more obvious usage with `?prev_event_id`. ([\#10839](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10839))
+- Add type hints to `synapse.http.site`. ([\#10867](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10867))
+- Include outlier status when we log V2 or V3 events. ([\#10879](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10879))
+- Break down Grafana's cache expiry time series based on reason for eviction, c.f. [\#10829](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10829). ([\#10880](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10880))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10883), [\#10884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10884), [\#10896](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10896), [\#10901](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10901))
+- Allow the `.` and `~` characters when creating registration tokens as per the change to [MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3231). ([\#10887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10887))
+- Clean up some unnecessary parentheses in places around the codebase. ([\#10889](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10889))
+- Improve type hinting in the user directory code. ([\#10891](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10891))
+- Update development testing script `test_postgresql.sh` to use a supported Python version and make re-runs quicker. ([\#10906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10906))
+- Document and summarize changes in schema version `61` – `64`. ([\#10917](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10917))
+- Update release script to sign the newly created git tags. ([\#10925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10925))
+- Fix Debian builds due to `dh-virtualenv` no longer being able to build their docs. ([\#10931](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10931))
+
+
+Synapse 1.43.0 (2021-09-21)
+===========================
+
+This release drops support for the deprecated, unstable API for [MSC2858 (Multiple SSO Identity Providers)](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/2858-Multiple-SSO-Identity-Providers.md#unstable-prefix), as well as the undocumented `experimental.msc2858_enabled` config option. Client authors should update their clients to use the stable API, available since Synapse 1.30.
+
+The documentation has been updated with configuration for routing `/spaces`, `/hierarchy` and `/summary` to workers. See [the upgrade notes](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.43/docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1430) for more details.
+
+No significant changes since 1.43.0rc2.
+
+Synapse 1.43.0rc2 (2021-09-17)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Added opentracing logging to help debug [\#9424](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9424). ([\#10828](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10828))
+
+
+Synapse 1.43.0rc1 (2021-09-14)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Allow room creators to send historical events specified by [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) in existing room versions. ([\#10566](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10566))
+- Add config option to use non-default manhole password and keys. ([\#10643](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10643))
+- Skip final GC at shutdown to improve restart performance. ([\#10712](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10712))
+- Allow configuration of the oEmbed URLs used for URL previews. ([\#10714](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10714), [\#10759](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10759))
+- Prefer [room version 9](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3375) for restricted rooms per the [room version capabilities](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3244) API. ([\#10772](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10772))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a long-standing bug where room avatars were not included in email notifications. ([\#10658](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10658))
+- Fix a bug where the ordering algorithm was skipping the `origin_server_ts` step in the spaces summary resulting in unstable room orderings. ([\#10730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10730))
+- Fix edge case when persisting events into a room where there are multiple events we previously hadn't calculated auth chains for (and hadn't marked as needing to be calculated). ([\#10743](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10743))
+- Fix a bug which prevented calls to `/createRoom` that included the `room_alias_name` parameter from being handled by worker processes. ([\#10757](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10757))
+- Fix a bug which prevented user registration via SSO to require consent tracking for SSO mapping providers that don't prompt for Matrix ID selection. Contributed by @AndrewFerr. ([\#10733](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10733))
+- Only return the stripped state events for the `m.space.child` events in a room for the spaces summary from [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10760](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10760))
+- Properly handle room upgrades of spaces. ([\#10774](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10774))
+- Fix a bug which generated invalid homeserver config when the `frontend_proxy` worker type was passed to the Synapse Worker-based Complement image. ([\#10783](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10783))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Minor fix to the `media_repository` developer documentation. Contributed by @cuttingedge1109. ([\#10556](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10556))
+- Update the documentation to note that the `/spaces` and `/hierarchy` endpoints can be routed to workers. ([\#10648](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10648))
+- Clarify admin API documentation on undoing room deletions. ([\#10735](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10735))
+- Split up the modules documentation and add examples for module developers. ([\#10758](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10758))
+- Correct 2 typographical errors in the [Log Contexts documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/log_contexts.html). ([\#10795](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10795))
+- Fix a wording mistake in the sample configuration. Contributed by @bramvdnheuvel:nltrix.net. ([\#10804](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10804))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove the [unstable MSC2858 API](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/2858-Multiple-SSO-Identity-Providers.md#unstable-prefix), including the undocumented `experimental.msc2858_enabled` config option. The unstable API has been deprecated since Synapse 1.35. Client authors should update their clients to use the stable API introduced in Synapse 1.30 if they have not already done so. ([\#10693](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10693))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Add OpenTracing logging to help debug stuck messages (as described by issue [#9424](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9424)). ([\#10704](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10704))
+- Add type annotations to the `synapse.util` package. ([\#10601](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10601))
+- Ensure `rooms.creator` field is always populated for easy lookup in [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) usage later. ([\#10697](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10697))
+- Add missing type hints to REST servlets. ([\#10707](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10707), [\#10728](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10728), [\#10736](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10736))
+- Do not include rooms with unknown room versions in the spaces summary results. ([\#10727](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10727))
+- Additional error checking for the `preset` field when creating a room. ([\#10738](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10738))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10744](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10744), [\#10745](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10745), [\#10746](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10746), [\#10771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10771), [\#10773](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10773), [\#10781](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10781))
+- Add an index to `presence_stream` to hopefully speed up startups a little. ([\#10748](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10748))
+- Refactor event size checking code to simplify searching the codebase for the origins of certain error strings that are occasionally emitted. ([\#10750](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10750))
+- Move tests relating to rooms having encryption out of the user directory tests. ([\#10752](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10752))
+- Use `attrs` internally for the URL preview code & update documentation. ([\#10753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10753))
+- Minor speed ups when joining large rooms over federation. ([\#10754](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10754), [\#10755](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10755), [\#10756](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10756), [\#10780](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10780), [\#10784](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10784))
+- Add a constant for `m.federate`. ([\#10775](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10775))
+- Add a script to update the Debian changelog in a Docker container for systems that are not Debian-based. ([\#10778](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10778))
+- Change the format of authenticated users in logs when a user is being puppeted by and admin user. ([\#10779](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10779))
+- Remove fixed and flakey tests from the Sytest blacklist. ([\#10788](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10788))
+- Improve internal details of the user directory code. ([\#10789](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10789))
+- Use direct references to config flags. ([\#10798](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10798))
+- Ensure the Rust reporter passes type checking with jaeger-client 4.7's type annotations. ([\#10799](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10799))
+
+
+Synapse 1.42.0 (2021-09-07)
+===========================
+
+This version of Synapse removes deprecated room-management admin APIs, removes out-of-date email pushers, and improves error handling for fallback templates for user-interactive authentication. For more information on these points, server administrators are encouraged to read [the upgrade notes](docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1420).
+
+No significant changes since 1.42.0rc2.
+
+
+Synapse 1.42.0rc2 (2021-09-06)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Support room version 9 from [MSC3375](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3375). ([\#10747](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10747))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Print a warning when using one of the deprecated `template_dir` settings. ([\#10768](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10768))
+
+
+Synapse 1.42.0rc1 (2021-09-01)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add support for [MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3231): Token authenticated registration. Users can be required to submit a token during registration to authenticate themselves. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10142))
+- Add support for [MSC3283](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3283): Expose `enable_set_displayname` in capabilities. ([\#10452](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10452))
+- Port the `PresenceRouter` module interface to the new generic interface. ([\#10524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10524))
+- Add pagination to the spaces summary based on updates to [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10613), [\#10725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10725))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Validate new `m.room.power_levels` events. Contributed by @aaronraimist. ([\#10232](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10232))
+- Display an error on User-Interactive Authentication fallback pages when authentication fails. Contributed by Callum Brown. ([\#10561](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10561))
+- Remove pushers when deleting an e-mail address from an account. Pushers for old unlinked emails will also be deleted. ([\#10581](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10581), [\#10734](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10734))
+- Reject Client-Server `/keys/query` requests which provide `device_ids` incorrectly. ([\#10593](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10593))
+- Rooms with unsupported room versions are no longer returned via `/sync`. ([\#10644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10644))
+- Enforce the maximum length for per-room display names and avatar URLs. ([\#10654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10654))
+- Fix a bug which caused the `synapse_user_logins_total` Prometheus metric not to be correctly initialised on restart. ([\#10677](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10677))
+- Improve `ServerNoticeServlet` to avoid duplicate requests and add unit tests. ([\#10679](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10679))
+- Fix long-standing issue which caused an error when a thumbnail is requested and there are multiple thumbnails with the same quality rating. ([\#10684](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10684))
+- Fix a regression introduced in v1.41.0 which affected the performance of concurrent fetches of large sets of events, in extreme cases causing the process to hang. ([\#10703](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10703))
+- Fix a regression introduced in Synapse 1.41 which broke email transmission on Systems using older versions of the Twisted library. ([\#10713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10713))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Add documentation on how to connect Django with Synapse using OpenID Connect and django-oauth-toolkit. Contributed by @HugoDelval. ([\#10192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10192))
+- Advertise https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse documentation in the `README` and `CONTRIBUTING` files. ([\#10595](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10595))
+- Fix some of the titles not rendering in the OpenID Connect documentation. ([\#10639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10639))
+- Minor clarifications to the documentation for reverse proxies. ([\#10708](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10708))
+- Remove table of contents from the top of installation and contributing documentation pages. ([\#10711](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10711))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated Shutdown Room and Purge Room Admin API. ([\#8830](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8830))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Improve type hints for the proxy agent and SRV resolver modules. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10608](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10608))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10614), [\#10615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10615), [\#10624](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10624), [\#10640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10640))
+- Add a comment asking developers to leave a reason when bumping the database schema version. ([\#10621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10621))
+- Remove not needed database updates in modify user admin API. ([\#10627](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10627))
+- Convert room member storage tuples to `attrs` classes. ([\#10629](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10629), [\#10642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10642))
+- Use auto-attribs for the attrs classes used in sync. ([\#10630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10630))
+- Make `backfill` and `get_missing_events` use the same codepath. ([\#10645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10645))
+- Improve the performance of the `/hierarchy` API (from [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946)) by caching responses received over federation. ([\#10647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10647))
+- Run a nightly CI build against Twisted trunk. ([\#10651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10651), [\#10672](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10672))
+- Do not print out stack traces for network errors when fetching data over federation. ([\#10662](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10662))
+- Simplify tests for device admin rest API. ([\#10664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10664))
+- Add missing type hints to REST servlets. ([\#10665](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10665), [\#10666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10666), [\#10674](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10674))
+- Flatten the `tests.synapse.rests` package by moving the contents of `v1` and `v2_alpha` into the parent. ([\#10667](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10667))
+- Update `complement.sh` to rebuild the base Docker image when run with workers. ([\#10686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10686))
+- Split the event-processing methods in `FederationHandler` into a separate `FederationEventHandler`. ([\#10692](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10692))
+- Remove unused `compare_digest` function. ([\#10706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10706))
+
+
+Synapse 1.41.1 (2021-08-31)
+===========================
+
+Due to the two security issues highlighted below, server administrators are encouraged to update Synapse. We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
+
+Security advisory
+-----------------
+
+The following issues are fixed in v1.41.1.
+
+- **[GHSA-3x4c-pq33-4w3q](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-3x4c-pq33-4w3q) / [CVE-2021-39164](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39164): Enumerating a private room's list of members and their display names.**
+
+  If an unauthorized user both knows the Room ID of a private room *and* that room's history visibility is set to `shared`, then they may be able to enumerate the room's members, including their display names.
+
+  The unauthorized user must be on the same homeserver as a user who is a member of the target room.
+
+  Fixed by [52c7a51cf](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/52c7a51cf).
+
+- **[GHSA-jj53-8fmw-f2w2](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-jj53-8fmw-f2w2) / [CVE-2021-39163](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39163): Disclosing a private room's name, avatar, topic, and number of members.**
+
+  If an unauthorized user knows the Room ID of a private room, then its name, avatar, topic, and number of members may be disclosed through Group / Community features.
+
+  The unauthorized user must be on the same homeserver as a user who is a member of the target room, and their homeserver must allow non-administrators to create groups (`enable_group_creation` in the Synapse configuration; off by default).
+
+  Fixed by [cb35df940a](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/cb35df940a), [\#10723](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10723).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a regression introduced in Synapse 1.41 which broke email transmission on systems using older versions of the Twisted library. ([\#10713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10713))
+
+Synapse 1.41.0 (2021-08-24)
+===========================
+
+This release adds support for Debian 12 (Bookworm), but **removes support for Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)**, which reached End of Life last month.
+
+Note that when using workers the `/_synapse/admin/v1/users/{userId}/media` must now be handled by media workers. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade.html) for more information.
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Enable room capabilities ([MSC3244](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3244)) by default and set room version 8 as the preferred room version when creating restricted rooms. ([\#10571](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10571))
+
+
+Synapse 1.41.0rc1 (2021-08-18)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add `get_userinfo_by_id` method to ModuleApi. ([\#9581](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9581))
+- Initial local support for [MSC3266](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/10394), Room Summary over the unstable `/rooms/{roomIdOrAlias}/summary` API. ([\#10394](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10394))
+- Experimental support for [MSC3288](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3288), sending `room_type` to the identity server for 3pid invites over the `/store-invite` API. ([\#10435](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10435))
+- Add support for sending federation requests through a proxy. Contributed by @Bubu and @dklimpel. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade.html) for more information. ([\#10596](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10596)). ([\#10475](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10475))
+- Add support for "marker" events which makes historical events discoverable for servers that already have all of the scrollback history (part of [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716)). ([\#10498](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10498))
+- Add a configuration setting for the time a `/sync` response is cached for. ([\#10513](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10513))
+- The default logging handler for new installations is now `PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler`, a buffered logging handler which periodically flushes itself. ([\#10518](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10518))
+- Add support for new redaction rules for historical events specified in [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716). ([\#10538](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10538))
+- Add a setting to disable TLS when sending email. ([\#10546](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10546))
+- Add pagination to the spaces summary based on updates to [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10549](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10549), [\#10560](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10560), [\#10569](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10569), [\#10574](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10574), [\#10575](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10575), [\#10579](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10579), [\#10583](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10583))
+- Admin API to delete several media for a specific user. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10558](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10558), [\#10628](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10628))
+- Add support for routing `/createRoom` to workers. ([\#10564](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10564))
+- Update the Synapse Grafana dashboard. ([\#10570](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10570))
+- Add an admin API (`GET /_synapse/admin/username_available`) to check if a username is available (regardless of registration settings). ([\#10578](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10578))
+- Allow editing a user's `external_ids` via the "Edit User" admin API. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10598](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10598))
+- The Synapse manhole no longer needs coroutines to be wrapped in `defer.ensureDeferred`. ([\#10602](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10602))
+- Add option to allow modules to run periodic tasks on all instances, rather than just the one configured to run background tasks. ([\#10638](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10638))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add some clarification to the sample config file. Contributed by @Kentokamoto. ([\#10129](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10129))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where protocols which are not implemented by any appservices were incorrectly returned via `GET /_matrix/client/r0/thirdparty/protocols`. ([\#10532](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10532))
+- Fix exceptions in logs when failing to get remote room list. ([\#10541](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10541))
+- Fix longstanding bug which caused the user's presence "status message" to be reset when the user went offline. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10550](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10550))
+- Allow public rooms to be previewed in the spaces summary APIs from [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10580](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10580))
+- Fix a bug introduced in v1.37.1 where an error could occur in the asynchronous processing of PDUs when the queue was empty. ([\#10592](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10592))
+- Fix errors on /sync when read receipt data is a string. Only affects homeservers with the experimental flag for [MSC2285](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2285) enabled. Contributed by @SimonBrandner. ([\#10606](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10606))
+- Additional validation for the spaces summary API to avoid errors like `ValueError: Stop argument for islice() must be None or an integer`. The missing validation has existed since v1.31.0. ([\#10611](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10611))
+- Revert behaviour introduced in v1.38.0 that strips `org.matrix.msc2732.device_unused_fallback_key_types` from `/sync` when its value is empty. This field should instead always be present according to [MSC2732](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/2732-olm-fallback-keys.md). ([\#10623](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10623))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Add documentation for configuring a forward proxy. ([\#10443](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10443))
+- Updated the reverse proxy documentation to highlight the homserver configuration that is needed to make Synapse aware that is is intentionally reverse proxied. ([\#10551](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10551))
+- Update CONTRIBUTING.md to fix index links and the instructions for SyTest in docker. ([\#10599](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10599))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- No longer build `.deb` packages for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, which has now EOLed. ([\#10588](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10588))
+- The `template_dir` configuration settings in the `sso`, `account_validity` and `email` sections of the configuration file are now deprecated in favour of the global `templates.custom_template_directory` setting. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade.html) for more information. ([\#10596](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10596))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Improve event caching mechanism to avoid having multiple copies of an event in memory at a time. ([\#10119](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10119))
+- Reduce errors in PostgreSQL logs due to concurrent serialization errors. ([\#10504](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10504))
+- Include room ID in ignored EDU log messages. Contributed by @ilmari. ([\#10507](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10507))
+- Add pagination to the spaces summary based on updates to [MSC2946](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946). ([\#10527](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10527), [\#10530](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10530))
+- Fix CI to not break when run against branches rather than pull requests. ([\#10529](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10529))
+- Mark all events stemming from the [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) `/batch_send` endpoint as historical. ([\#10537](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10537))
+- Clean up some of the federation event authentication code for clarity. ([\#10539](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10539), [\#10591](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10591))
+- Convert `Transaction` and `Edu` objects to attrs. ([\#10542](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10542))
+- Update `/batch_send` endpoint to only return `state_events` created by the `state_events_from_before` passed in. ([\#10552](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10552))
+- Update contributing.md to warn against rebasing an open PR. ([\#10563](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10563))
+- Remove the unused public rooms replication stream. ([\#10565](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10565))
+- Clarify error message when failing to join a restricted room. ([\#10572](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10572))
+- Remove references to BuildKite in favour of GitHub Actions. ([\#10573](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10573))
+- Move `/batch_send` endpoint defined by [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) to the `/v2_alpha` directory. ([\#10576](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10576))
+- Allow multiple custom directories in `read_templates`. ([\#10587](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10587))
+- Re-organize the `synapse.federation.transport.server` module to create smaller files. ([\#10590](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10590))
+- Flatten the `synapse.rest.client` package by moving the contents of `v1` and `v2_alpha` into the parent. ([\#10600](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10600))
+- Build Debian packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm). ([\#10612](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10612))
+- Fix up a couple of links to the database schema documentation. ([\#10620](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10620))
+- Fix a broken link to the upgrade notes. ([\#10631](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10631))
+
+
+Synapse 1.40.0 (2021-08-10)
+===========================
+
+No significant changes.
+
+
+Synapse 1.40.0rc3 (2021-08-09)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Support [MSC3289: room version 8](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3289). ([\#10449](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10449))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Mark the experimental room version from [MSC2716](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716) as unstable. ([\#10449](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10449))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Fix broken links in `upgrade.md`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#10543](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10543))
+
+
+Synapse 1.40.0rc2 (2021-08-04)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix the `PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler` inhibiting application shutdown because of its background thread. ([\#10517](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10517))
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.40.0rc1 that could cause Synapse to respond with an error when clients would update read receipts. ([\#10531](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10531))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix release script to open the correct URL for the release. ([\#10516](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10516))
+
+
+Synapse 1.40.0rc1 (2021-08-03)
+==============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add support for [MSC2033](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2033): `device_id` on `/account/whoami`. ([\#9918](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9918))
+- Update support for [MSC2716 - Incrementally importing history into existing rooms](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716). ([\#10245](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10245), [\#10432](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10432), [\#10463](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10463))
+- Update support for [MSC3083](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3083) to consider changes in the MSC around which servers can issue join events. ([\#10254](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10254), [\#10447](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10447), [\#10489](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10489))
+- Initial support for [MSC3244](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3244), Room version capabilities over the /capabilities API. ([\#10283](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10283))
+- Add a buffered logging handler which periodically flushes itself. ([\#10407](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10407), [\#10515](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10515))
+- Add support for https connections to a proxy server. Contributed by @Bubu and @dklimpel. ([\#10411](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10411))
+- Support for [MSC2285 (hidden read receipts)](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2285). Contributed by @SimonBrandner. ([\#10413](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10413))
+- Email notifications now state whether an invitation is to a room or a space. ([\#10426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10426))
+- Allow setting transaction limit for database connections. ([\#10440](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10440), [\#10511](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10511))
+- Add `creation_ts` to "list users" admin API. ([\#10448](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10448))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Improve character set detection in URL previews by supporting underscores (in addition to hyphens). Contributed by @srividyut. ([\#10410](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10410))
+- Fix events being incorrectly rejected over federation if they reference auth events that the server needed to fetch. ([\#10439](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10439))
+- Fix `synapse_federation_server_oldest_inbound_pdu_in_staging` Prometheus metric to not report a max age of 51 years when the queue is empty. ([\#10455](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10455))
+- Fix a bug which caused an explicit assignment of power-level 0 to a user to be misinterpreted in rare circumstances. ([\#10499](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10499))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Fix hierarchy of providers on the OpenID page. ([\#10445](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10445))
+- Consolidate development documentation to `docs/development/`. ([\#10453](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10453))
+- Add some developer docs to explain room DAG concepts like `outliers`, `state_groups`, `depth`, etc. ([\#10464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10464))
+- Document how to use Complement while developing a new Synapse feature. ([\#10483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10483))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Prune inbound federation queues for a room if they get too large. ([\#10390](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10390))
+- Add type hints to `synapse.federation.transport.client` module. ([\#10408](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10408))
+- Remove shebang line from module files. ([\#10415](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10415))
+- Drop backwards-compatibility code that was required to support Ubuntu Xenial. ([\#10429](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10429))
+- Use a docker image cache for the prerequisites for the debian package build. ([\#10431](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10431))
+- Improve servlet type hints. ([\#10437](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10437), [\#10438](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10438))
+- Replace usage of `or_ignore` in `simple_insert` with `simple_upsert` usage, to stop spamming postgres logs with spurious ERROR messages. ([\#10442](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10442))
+- Update the `tests-done` Github Actions status. ([\#10444](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10444), [\#10512](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10512))
+- Update type annotations to work with forthcoming Twisted 21.7.0 release. ([\#10446](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10446), [\#10450](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10450))
+- Cancel redundant GHA workflows when a new commit is pushed. ([\#10451](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10451))
+- Mitigate media repo XSS attacks on IE11 via the non-standard X-Content-Security-Policy header. ([\#10468](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10468))
+- Additional type hints in the state handler. ([\#10482](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10482))
+- Update syntax used to run complement tests. ([\#10488](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10488))
+- Fix up type annotations to work with Twisted 21.7. ([\#10490](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10490))
+- Improve type annotations for `ObservableDeferred`. ([\#10491](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10491))
+- Extend release script to also tag and create GitHub releases. ([\#10496](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10496))
+- Fix a bug which caused production debian packages to be incorrectly marked as 'prerelease'. ([\#10500](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10500))
+
+
+Synapse 1.39.0 (2021-07-29)
+===========================
+
+No significant changes.
+
+
+Synapse 1.39.0rc3 (2021-07-28)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.38 which caused an exception at startup when SAML authentication was enabled. ([\#10477](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10477))
+- Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would not inform clients that a device had exhausted its one-time-key pool, potentially causing problems decrypting events. ([\#10485](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10485))
+- Fix reporting old R30 stats as R30v2 stats. Introduced in v1.39.0rc1. ([\#10486](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10486))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Fix an error which prevented the Github Actions workflow to build the docker images from running. ([\#10461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10461))
+- Fix release script to correctly version debian changelog when doing RCs. ([\#10465](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10465))
+
+
+Synapse 1.39.0rc2 (2021-07-22)
+==============================
+
+This release also includes the changes in v1.38.1.
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Move docker image build to Github Actions. ([\#10416](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10416))
+
+
+Synapse 1.38.1 (2021-07-22)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Always include `device_one_time_keys_count` key in `/sync` response to work around a bug in Element Android that broke encryption for new devices. ([\#10457](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10457))
+
+
+Synapse 1.39.0rc1 (2021-07-20)
+==============================
+
+The Third-Party Event Rules module interface has been deprecated in favour of the generic module interface introduced in Synapse v1.37.0. Support for the old interface is planned to be removed in September 2021. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1390) for more information.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add the ability to override the account validity feature with a module. ([\#9884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9884))
+- The spaces summary API now returns any joinable rooms, not only rooms which are world-readable. ([\#10298](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10298), [\#10305](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10305))
+- Add a new version of the R30 phone-home metric, which removes a false impression of retention given by the old R30 metric. ([\#10332](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10332), [\#10427](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10427))
+- Allow providing credentials to `http_proxy`. ([\#10360](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10360))
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix error while dropping locks on shutdown. Introduced in v1.38.0. ([\#10433](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10433))
+- Add base starting insertion event when no chunk ID is specified in the historical batch send API. ([\#10250](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10250))
+- Fix historical batch send endpoint (MSC2716) rejecting batches with messages from multiple senders. ([\#10276](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10276))
+- Fix purging rooms that other homeservers are still sending events for. Contributed by @ilmari. ([\#10317](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10317))
+- Fix errors during backfill caused by previously purged redaction events. Contributed by Andreas Rammhold (@andir). ([\#10343](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10343))
+- Fix the user directory becoming broken (and noisy errors being logged) when knocking and room statistics are in use. ([\#10344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10344))
+- Fix newly added `synapse_federation_server_oldest_inbound_pdu_in_staging` prometheus metric to measure age rather than timestamp. ([\#10355](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10355))
+- Fix PostgreSQL sometimes using table scans for queries against `state_groups_state` table, taking a long time and a large amount of IO. ([\#10359](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10359))
+- Fix `make_room_admin` failing for users that have left a private room. ([\#10367](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10367))
+- Fix a number of logged errors caused by remote servers being down. ([\#10400](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10400), [\#10414](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10414))
+- Responses from `/make_{join,leave,knock}` no longer include signatures, which will turn out to be invalid after events are returned to `/send_{join,leave,knock}`. ([\#10404](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10404))
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+
+- Updated installation dependencies for newer macOS versions and ARM Macs. Contributed by Luke Walsh. ([\#9971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9971))
+- Simplify structure of room admin API. ([\#10313](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10313))
+- Refresh the logcontext dev documentation. ([\#10353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10353)), ([\#10337](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10337))
+- Add delegation example for caddy in the reverse proxy documentation. Contributed by @moritzdietz. ([\#10368](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10368))
+- Fix and clarify some links in `docs` and `contrib`. ([\#10370](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10370)), ([\#10322](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10322)), ([\#10399](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10399))
+- Make deprecation notice of the spam checker doc more obvious. ([\#10395](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10395))
+- Add instructions on installing Debian packages for release candidates. ([\#10396](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10396))
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Remove functionality associated with the unused `room_stats_historical` and `user_stats_historical` tables. Contributed by @xmunoz. ([\#9721](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9721))
+- The third-party event rules module interface is deprecated in favour of the generic module interface introduced in Synapse v1.37.0. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1390) for more information. ([\#10386](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10386))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Convert `room_depth.min_depth` column to a `BIGINT`. ([\#10289](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10289))
+- Add tests to characterise the current behaviour of R30 phone-home metrics. ([\#10315](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10315))
+- Rebuild event context and auth when processing specific results from `ThirdPartyEventRules` modules. ([\#10316](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10316))
+- Minor change to the code that populates `user_daily_visits`. ([\#10324](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10324))
+- Re-enable Sytests that were disabled for the 1.37.1 release. ([\#10345](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10345), [\#10357](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10357))
+- Run `pyupgrade` on the codebase. ([\#10347](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10347), [\#10348](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10348))
+- Switch `application_services_txns.txn_id` database column to `BIGINT`. ([\#10349](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10349))
+- Convert internal type variable syntax to reflect wider ecosystem use. ([\#10350](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10350), [\#10380](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10380), [\#10381](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10381), [\#10382](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10382), [\#10418](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10418))
+- Make the Github Actions workflow configuration more efficient. ([\#10383](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10383))
+- Add type hints to `get_{domain,localpart}_from_id`. ([\#10385](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10385))
+- When building Debian packages for prerelease versions, set the Section accordingly. ([\#10391](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10391))
+- Add type hints and comments to event auth code. ([\#10393](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10393))
+- Stagger sending of presence update to remote servers, reducing CPU spikes caused by starting many connections to remote servers at once. ([\#10398](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10398))
+- Remove unused `events_by_room` code (tech debt). ([\#10421](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10421))
+- Add a github actions job which records success of other jobs. ([\#10430](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10430))
+
+
+Synapse 1.38.0 (2021-07-13)
+===========================
+
+This release includes a database schema update which could result in elevated disk usage. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/upgrade#upgrading-to-v1380) for more information.
+
+No significant changes since 1.38.0rc3.
+
+
 Synapse 1.38.0rc3 (2021-07-13)
 ==============================
 
@@ -26,8 +870,6 @@ Improved Documentation
 Synapse 1.38.0rc1 (2021-07-06)
 ==============================
 
-This release includes a database schema update which could result in elevated disk usage. See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/upgrade#upgrading-to-v1380) for more information.
-
 Features
 --------
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,404 +1,3 @@
-Welcome to Synapse
+# Welcome to Synapse
 
-This document aims to get you started with contributing to this repo! 
-
-- [1. Who can contribute to Synapse?](#1-who-can-contribute-to-synapse)
-- [2. What do I need?](#2-what-do-i-need)
-- [3. Get the source.](#3-get-the-source)
-- [4. Install the dependencies](#4-install-the-dependencies)
-  * [Under Unix (macOS, Linux, BSD, ...)](#under-unix-macos-linux-bsd-)
-  * [Under Windows](#under-windows)
-- [5. Get in touch.](#5-get-in-touch)
-- [6. Pick an issue.](#6-pick-an-issue)
-- [7. Turn coffee and documentation into code and documentation!](#7-turn-coffee-and-documentation-into-code-and-documentation)
-- [8. Test, test, test!](#8-test-test-test)
-  * [Run the linters.](#run-the-linters)
-  * [Run the unit tests.](#run-the-unit-tests)
-  * [Run the integration tests.](#run-the-integration-tests)
-- [9. Submit your patch.](#9-submit-your-patch)
-  * [Changelog](#changelog)
-    + [How do I know what to call the changelog file before I create the PR?](#how-do-i-know-what-to-call-the-changelog-file-before-i-create-the-pr)
-    + [Debian changelog](#debian-changelog)
-  * [Sign off](#sign-off)
-- [10. Turn feedback into better code.](#10-turn-feedback-into-better-code)
-- [11. Find a new issue.](#11-find-a-new-issue)
-- [Notes for maintainers on merging PRs etc](#notes-for-maintainers-on-merging-prs-etc)
-- [Conclusion](#conclusion)
-
-# 1. Who can contribute to Synapse?
-
-Everyone is welcome to contribute code to [matrix.org
-projects](https://github.com/matrix-org), provided that they are willing to
-license their contributions under the same license as the project itself. We
-follow a simple 'inbound=outbound' model for contributions: the act of
-submitting an 'inbound' contribution means that the contributor agrees to
-license the code under the same terms as the project's overall 'outbound'
-license - in our case, this is almost always Apache Software License v2 (see
-[LICENSE](LICENSE)).
-
-# 2. What do I need?
-
-The code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll need [a recent version of Python 3](https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download).
-
-The source code of Synapse is hosted on GitHub. You will also need [a recent version of git](https://github.com/git-guides/install-git).
-
-For some tests, you will need [a recent version of Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/).
-
-
-# 3. Get the source.
-
-The preferred and easiest way to contribute changes is to fork the relevant
-project on GitHub, and then [create a pull request](
-https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/) to ask us to pull your
-changes into our repo.
-
-Please base your changes on the `develop` branch.
-
-```sh
-git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME/synapse.git
-git checkout develop
-```
-
-If you need help getting started with git, this is beyond the scope of the document, but you
-can find many good git tutorials on the web.
-
-# 4. Install the dependencies
-
-## Under Unix (macOS, Linux, BSD, ...)
-
-Once you have installed Python 3 and added the source, please open a terminal and
-setup a *virtualenv*, as follows:
-
-```sh
-cd path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository
-python3 -m venv ./env
-source ./env/bin/activate
-pip install -e ".[all,lint,mypy,test]"
-pip install tox
-```
-
-This will install the developer dependencies for the project.
-
-## Under Windows
-
-TBD
-
-
-# 5. Get in touch.
-
-Join our developer community on Matrix: #synapse-dev:matrix.org !
-
-
-# 6. Pick an issue.
-
-Fix your favorite problem or perhaps find a [Good First Issue](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Good+First+Issue%22)
-to work on.
-
-
-# 7. Turn coffee and documentation into code and documentation!
-
-Synapse's code style is documented [here](docs/code_style.md). Please follow
-it, including the conventions for the [sample configuration
-file](docs/code_style.md#configuration-file-format).
-
-There is a growing amount of documentation located in the [docs](docs)
-directory. This documentation is intended primarily for sysadmins running their
-own Synapse instance, as well as developers interacting externally with
-Synapse. [docs/dev](docs/dev) exists primarily to house documentation for
-Synapse developers. [docs/admin_api](docs/admin_api) houses documentation
-regarding Synapse's Admin API, which is used mostly by sysadmins and external
-service developers.
-
-If you add new files added to either of these folders, please use [GitHub-Flavoured
-Markdown](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).
-
-Some documentation also exists in [Synapse's GitHub
-Wiki](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/wiki), although this is primarily
-contributed to by community authors.
-
-
-# 8. Test, test, test!
-<a name="test-test-test"></a>
-
-While you're developing and before submitting a patch, you'll
-want to test your code.
-
-## Run the linters.
-
-The linters look at your code and do two things:
-
-- ensure that your code follows the coding style adopted by the project;
-- catch a number of errors in your code.
-
-They're pretty fast, don't hesitate!
-
-```sh
-source ./env/bin/activate
-./scripts-dev/lint.sh
-```
-
-Note that this script *will modify your files* to fix styling errors.
-Make sure that you have saved all your files.
-
-If you wish to restrict the linters to only the files changed since the last commit
-(much faster!), you can instead run:
-
-```sh
-source ./env/bin/activate
-./scripts-dev/lint.sh -d
-```
-
-Or if you know exactly which files you wish to lint, you can instead run:
-
-```sh
-source ./env/bin/activate
-./scripts-dev/lint.sh path/to/file1.py path/to/file2.py path/to/folder
-```
-
-## Run the unit tests.
-
-The unit tests run parts of Synapse, including your changes, to see if anything
-was broken. They are slower than the linters but will typically catch more errors.
-
-```sh
-source ./env/bin/activate
-trial tests
-```
-
-If you wish to only run *some* unit tests, you may specify
-another module instead of `tests` - or a test class or a method:
-
-```sh
-source ./env/bin/activate
-trial tests.rest.admin.test_room tests.handlers.test_admin.ExfiltrateData.test_invite
-```
-
-If your tests fail, you may wish to look at the logs (the default log level is `ERROR`):
-
-```sh
-less _trial_temp/test.log
-```
-
-To increase the log level for the tests, set `SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL`:
-
-```sh
-SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG trial tests
-```
-
-
-## Run the integration tests.
-
-The integration tests are a more comprehensive suite of tests. They
-run a full version of Synapse, including your changes, to check if
-anything was broken. They are slower than the unit tests but will
-typically catch more errors.
-
-The following command will let you run the integration test with the most common
-configuration:
-
-```sh
-$ docker run --rm -it -v /path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository\:/src:ro -v /path/to/where/you/want/logs\:/logs matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:py37
-```
-
-This configuration should generally cover  your needs. For more details about other configurations, see [documentation in the SyTest repo](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md).
-
-
-# 9. Submit your patch.
-
-Once you're happy with your patch, it's time to prepare a Pull Request.
-
-To prepare a Pull Request, please:
-
-1. verify that [all the tests pass](#test-test-test), including the coding style;
-2. [sign off](#sign-off) your contribution;
-3. `git push` your commit to your fork of Synapse;
-4. on GitHub, [create the Pull Request](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request);
-5. add a [changelog entry](#changelog) and push it to your Pull Request;
-6. for most contributors, that's all - however, if you are a member of the organization `matrix-org`, on GitHub, please request a review from `matrix.org / Synapse Core`.
-
-
-## Changelog
-
-All changes, even minor ones, need a corresponding changelog / newsfragment
-entry. These are managed by [Towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier).
-
-To create a changelog entry, make a new file in the `changelog.d` directory named
-in the format of `PRnumber.type`. The type can be one of the following:
-
-* `feature`
-* `bugfix`
-* `docker` (for updates to the Docker image)
-* `doc` (for updates to the documentation)
-* `removal` (also used for deprecations)
-* `misc` (for internal-only changes)
-
-This file will become part of our [changelog](
-https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CHANGES.md) at the next
-release, so the content of the file should be a short description of your
-change in the same style as the rest of the changelog. The file can contain Markdown
-formatting, and should end with a full stop (.) or an exclamation mark (!) for
-consistency.
-
-Adding credits to the changelog is encouraged, we value your
-contributions and would like to have you shouted out in the release notes!
-
-For example, a fix in PR #1234 would have its changelog entry in
-`changelog.d/1234.bugfix`, and contain content like:
-
-> The security levels of Florbs are now validated when received
-> via the `/federation/florb` endpoint. Contributed by Jane Matrix.
-
-If there are multiple pull requests involved in a single bugfix/feature/etc,
-then the content for each `changelog.d` file should be the same. Towncrier will
-merge the matching files together into a single changelog entry when we come to
-release.
-
-### How do I know what to call the changelog file before I create the PR?
-
-Obviously, you don't know if you should call your newsfile
-`1234.bugfix` or `5678.bugfix` until you create the PR, which leads to a
-chicken-and-egg problem.
-
-There are two options for solving this:
-
- 1. Open the PR without a changelog file, see what number you got, and *then*
-    add the changelog file to your branch (see [Updating your pull
-    request](#updating-your-pull-request)), or:
-
- 1. Look at the [list of all
-    issues/PRs](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=), add one to the
-    highest number you see, and quickly open the PR before somebody else claims
-    your number.
-
-    [This
-    script](https://github.com/richvdh/scripts/blob/master/next_github_number.sh)
-    might be helpful if you find yourself doing this a lot.
-
-Sorry, we know it's a bit fiddly, but it's *really* helpful for us when we come
-to put together a release!
-
-### Debian changelog
-
-Changes which affect the debian packaging files (in `debian`) are an
-exception to the rule that all changes require a `changelog.d` file.
-
-In this case, you will need to add an entry to the debian changelog for the
-next release. For this, run the following command:
-
-```
-dch
-```
-
-This will make up a new version number (if there isn't already an unreleased
-version in flight), and open an editor where you can add a new changelog entry.
-(Our release process will ensure that the version number and maintainer name is
-corrected for the release.)
-
-If your change affects both the debian packaging *and* files outside the debian
-directory, you will need both a regular newsfragment *and* an entry in the
-debian changelog. (Though typically such changes should be submitted as two
-separate pull requests.)
-
-## Sign off
-
-In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is intentional
-and you agree to license it under the same terms as the project's license, we've adopted the
-same lightweight approach that the Linux Kernel
-[submitting patches process](
-https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin>),
-[Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), and many other
-projects use: the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin:
-http://developercertificate.org/). This is a simple declaration that you wrote
-the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Matrix:
-
-```
-Developer Certificate of Origin
-Version 1.1
-
-Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
-660 York Street, Suite 102,
-San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
-
-Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
-license document, but changing it is not allowed.
-
-Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
-
-By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
-
-(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
-    have the right to submit it under the open source license
-    indicated in the file; or
-
-(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
-    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
-    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
-    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
-    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
-    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
-    in the file; or
-
-(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
-    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
-    it.
-
-(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
-    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
-    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
-    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
-    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
-```
-
-If you agree to this for your contribution, then all that's needed is to
-include the line in your commit or pull request comment:
-
-```
-Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
-```
-
-We accept contributions under a legally identifiable name, such as
-your name on government documentation or common-law names (names
-claimed by legitimate usage or repute). Unfortunately, we cannot
-accept anonymous contributions at this time.
-
-Git allows you to add this signoff automatically when using the `-s`
-flag to `git commit`, which uses the name and email set in your
-`user.name` and `user.email` git configs.
-
-
-# 10. Turn feedback into better code.
-
-Once the Pull Request is opened, you will see a few things:
-
-1. our automated CI (Continuous Integration) pipeline will run (again) the linters, the unit tests, the integration tests and more;
-2. one or more of the developers will take a look at your Pull Request and offer feedback.
-
-From this point, you should:
-
-1. Look at the results of the CI pipeline.
-   - If there is any error, fix the error.
-2. If a developer has requested changes, make these changes and let us know if it is ready for a developer to review again.
-3. Create a new commit with the changes.
-   - Please do NOT overwrite the history. New commits make the reviewer's life easier.
-   - Push this commits to your Pull Request.
-4. Back to 1.
-
-Once both the CI and the developers are happy, the patch will be merged into Synapse and released shortly!
-
-# 11. Find a new issue.
-
-By now, you know the drill!
-
-# Notes for maintainers on merging PRs etc
-
-There are some notes for those with commit access to the project on how we
-manage git [here](docs/dev/git.md).
-
-# Conclusion
-
-That's it! Matrix is a very open and collaborative project as you might expect
-given our obsession with open communication. If we're going to successfully
-matrix together all the fragmented communication technologies out there we are
-reliant on contributions and collaboration from the community to do so. So
-please get involved - and we hope you have as much fun hacking on Matrix as we
-do!
+Please see the [contributors' guide](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/development/contributing_guide.html) in our rendered documentation.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ include demo/demo.tls.dh
 include demo/*.py
 include demo/*.sh
 
+include synapse/py.typed
 recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql
 recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql.postgres
 recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql.sqlite
@@ -44,9 +45,9 @@ include book.toml
 include pyproject.toml
 recursive-include changelog.d *
 
-prune .buildkite
 prune .circleci
 prune .github
+prune .ci
 prune contrib
 prune debian
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README.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-=========================================================
-Synapse |support| |development| |license| |pypi| |python|
-=========================================================
+=========================================================================
+Synapse |support| |development| |documentation| |license| |pypi| |python|
+=========================================================================
 
 .. contents::
 
@@ -55,11 +55,8 @@ solutions. The hope is for Matrix to act as the building blocks for a new
 generation of fully open and interoperable messaging and VoIP apps for the
 internet.
 
-Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core
-development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted.  It is intended to
-showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in the context of a
-codebase and let you run your own homeserver and generally help bootstrap the
-ecosystem.
+Synapse is a Matrix "homeserver" implementation developed by the matrix.org core 
+team, written in Python 3/Twisted.
 
 In Matrix, every user runs one or more Matrix clients, which connect through to
 a Matrix homeserver. The homeserver stores all their personal chat history and
@@ -85,9 +82,14 @@ For support installing or managing Synapse, please join |room|_ (from a matrix.o
 account if necessary) and ask questions there. We do not use GitHub issues for
 support requests, only for bug reports and feature requests.
 
+Synapse's documentation is `nicely rendered on GitHub Pages <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse>`_,
+with its source available in |docs|_.
+
 .. |room| replace:: ``#synapse:matrix.org``
 .. _room: https://matrix.to/#/#synapse:matrix.org
 
+.. |docs| replace:: ``docs``
+.. _docs: docs
 
 Synapse Installation
 ====================
@@ -263,11 +265,27 @@ Then update the ``users`` table in the database::
 Synapse Development
 ===================
 
-Join our developer community on Matrix: `#synapse-dev:matrix.org <https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org>`_
+The best place to get started is our
+`guide for contributors <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/development/contributing_guide.html>`_.
+This is part of our larger `documentation <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest>`_, which includes
+information for synapse developers as well as synapse administrators.
+
+Developers might be particularly interested in:
+
+* `Synapse's database schema <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/development/database_schema.html>`_,
+* `notes on Synapse's implementation details <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/development/internal_documentation/index.html>`_, and
+* `how we use git <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/development/git.html>`_.
+
+Alongside all that, join our developer community on Matrix:
+`#synapse-dev:matrix.org <https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org>`_, featuring real humans!
+
+
+Quick start
+-----------
 
 Before setting up a development environment for synapse, make sure you have the
 system dependencies (such as the python header files) installed - see
-`Installing from source <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html#installing-from-source>`_.
+`Platform-specific prerequisites <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html#platform-specific-prerequisites>`_.
 
 To check out a synapse for development, clone the git repo into a working
 directory of your choice::
@@ -280,7 +298,7 @@ to install using pip and a virtualenv::
 
     python3 -m venv ./env
     source ./env/bin/activate
-    pip install -e ".[all,test]"
+    pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
 
 This will run a process of downloading and installing all the needed
 dependencies into a virtual env. If any dependencies fail to install,
@@ -308,7 +326,7 @@ If you just want to start a single instance of the app and run it directly::
 
 
 Running the unit tests
-======================
+----------------------
 
 After getting up and running, you may wish to run Synapse's unit tests to
 check that everything is installed correctly::
@@ -327,7 +345,7 @@ to see the logging output, see the `CONTRIBUTING doc <CONTRIBUTING.md#run-the-un
 
 
 Running the Integration Tests
-=============================
+-----------------------------
 
 Synapse is accompanied by `SyTest <https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest>`_,
 a Matrix homeserver integration testing suite, which uses HTTP requests to
@@ -445,6 +463,10 @@ This is normally caused by a misconfiguration in your reverse-proxy. See
   :alt: (discuss development on #synapse-dev:matrix.org)
   :target: https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org
 
+.. |documentation| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/documentation-%E2%9C%93-success
+  :alt: (Rendered documentation on GitHub Pages)
+  :target: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/
+
 .. |license| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/license/matrix-org/synapse
   :alt: (check license in LICENSE file)
   :target: LICENSE

UPGRADE.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Upgrading Synapse
 =================
 
-This document has moved to the `Synapse documentation website <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrading>`_.
+This document has moved to the `Synapse documentation website <https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/upgrade>`_.
 Please update your links.
 
 The markdown source is available in `docs/upgrade.md <docs/upgrade.md>`_.

contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ services:
       - POSTGRES_USER=synapse
       - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme
       # ensure the database gets created correctly
-      # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/postgres.md#set-up-database
+      # https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/postgres.html#set-up-database
       - POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS=--encoding=UTF-8 --lc-collate=C --lc-ctype=C
     volumes:
       # You may store the database tables in a local folder..

contrib/grafana/README.md

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 # Using the Synapse Grafana dashboard
 
 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.md
+1. Have your Prometheus scrape your Synapse. https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/metrics-howto.html
 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/
-3. Set up required recording rules. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/contrib/prometheus
+3. Set up required recording rules. [contrib/prometheus](../prometheus)

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             "x": 0,
-            "y": 8
+            "y": 33
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 48,
@@ -4749,7 +5052,7 @@
             "h": 7,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 8
+            "y": 33
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 104,
@@ -4877,7 +5180,7 @@
             "h": 7,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 15
+            "y": 40
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 10,
@@ -4981,7 +5284,7 @@
             "h": 7,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 15
+            "y": 40
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 11,
@@ -5086,7 +5389,7 @@
             "h": 7,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 22
+            "y": 47
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 180,
@@ -5168,6 +5471,126 @@
             "align": false,
             "alignLevel": null
           }
+        },
+        {
+          "aliasColors": {},
+          "bars": false,
+          "dashLength": 10,
+          "dashes": false,
+          "datasource": "$datasource",
+          "fieldConfig": {
+            "defaults": {
+              "custom": {},
+              "links": []
+            },
+            "overrides": []
+          },
+          "fill": 6,
+          "fillGradient": 0,
+          "gridPos": {
+            "h": 9,
+            "w": 12,
+            "x": 12,
+            "y": 47
+          },
+          "hiddenSeries": false,
+          "id": 200,
+          "legend": {
+            "avg": false,
+            "current": false,
+            "max": false,
+            "min": false,
+            "show": true,
+            "total": false,
+            "values": false
+          },
+          "lines": true,
+          "linewidth": 1,
+          "links": [],
+          "nullPointMode": "null",
+          "options": {
+            "alertThreshold": true
+          },
+          "percentage": false,
+          "pluginVersion": "7.3.7",
+          "pointradius": 5,
+          "points": false,
+          "renderer": "flot",
+          "seriesOverrides": [],
+          "spaceLength": 10,
+          "stack": false,
+          "steppedLine": false,
+          "targets": [
+            {
+              "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(synapse_storage_schedule_time_bucket{index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\",job=\"$job\"}[$bucket_size])) by (le))",
+              "format": "time_series",
+              "intervalFactor": 1,
+              "legendFormat": "99%",
+              "refId": "D"
+            },
+            {
+              "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.9, sum(rate(synapse_storage_schedule_time_bucket{index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\",job=\"$job\"}[$bucket_size])) by (le))",
+              "format": "time_series",
+              "intervalFactor": 1,
+              "legendFormat": "90%",
+              "refId": "A"
+            },
+            {
+              "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.75, sum(rate(synapse_storage_schedule_time_bucket{index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\",job=\"$job\"}[$bucket_size])) by (le))",
+              "format": "time_series",
+              "intervalFactor": 1,
+              "legendFormat": "75%",
+              "refId": "C"
+            },
+            {
+              "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.5, sum(rate(synapse_storage_schedule_time_bucket{index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\",job=\"$job\"}[$bucket_size])) by (le))",
+              "format": "time_series",
+              "intervalFactor": 1,
+              "legendFormat": "50%",
+              "refId": "B"
+            }
+          ],
+          "thresholds": [],
+          "timeFrom": null,
+          "timeRegions": [],
+          "timeShift": null,
+          "title": "Time waiting for DB connection quantiles",
+          "tooltip": {
+            "shared": true,
+            "sort": 2,
+            "value_type": "individual"
+          },
+          "type": "graph",
+          "xaxis": {
+            "buckets": null,
+            "mode": "time",
+            "name": null,
+            "show": true,
+            "values": []
+          },
+          "yaxes": [
+            {
+              "decimals": null,
+              "format": "s",
+              "label": "",
+              "logBase": 1,
+              "max": null,
+              "min": "0",
+              "show": true
+            },
+            {
+              "format": "short",
+              "label": null,
+              "logBase": 1,
+              "max": null,
+              "min": null,
+              "show": false
+            }
+          ],
+          "yaxis": {
+            "align": false,
+            "alignLevel": null
+          }
         }
       ],
       "repeat": null,
@@ -5916,7 +6339,7 @@
             "h": 10,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 84
+            "y": 35
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 1,
@@ -6022,7 +6445,7 @@
             "h": 10,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 84
+            "y": 35
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 8,
@@ -6126,7 +6549,7 @@
             "h": 10,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 94
+            "y": 45
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 38,
@@ -6226,7 +6649,7 @@
             "h": 10,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 94
+            "y": 45
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 39,
@@ -6258,8 +6681,9 @@
           "steppedLine": false,
           "targets": [
             {
-              "expr": "topk(10, rate(synapse_util_caches_cache:total{job=\"$job\",index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size]) - rate(synapse_util_caches_cache:hits{job=\"$job\",instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size]))",
+              "expr": "topk(10, rate(synapse_util_caches_cache:total{job=~\"$job\",index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size]) - rate(synapse_util_caches_cache:hits{job=~\"$job\",index=~\"$index\",instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size]))",
               "format": "time_series",
+              "interval": "",
               "intervalFactor": 2,
               "legendFormat": "{{name}} {{job}}-{{index}}",
               "refId": "A",
@@ -6326,7 +6750,7 @@
             "h": 9,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 104
+            "y": 55
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 65,
@@ -6361,7 +6785,7 @@
               "expr": "rate(synapse_util_caches_cache:evicted_size{instance=\"$instance\",job=~\"$job\",index=~\"$index\"}[$bucket_size])",
               "format": "time_series",
               "intervalFactor": 1,
-              "legendFormat": "{{name}} {{job}}-{{index}}",
+              "legendFormat": "{{name}} ({{reason}}) {{job}}-{{index}}",
               "refId": "A"
             }
           ],
@@ -9051,7 +9475,7 @@
             "h": 8,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 119
+            "y": 41
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 156,
@@ -9089,7 +9513,7 @@
           "steppedLine": false,
           "targets": [
             {
-              "expr": "synapse_admin_mau:current{instance=\"$instance\"}",
+              "expr": "synapse_admin_mau:current{instance=\"$instance\", job=~\"$job\"}",
               "format": "time_series",
               "interval": "",
               "intervalFactor": 1,
@@ -9097,7 +9521,7 @@
               "refId": "A"
             },
             {
-              "expr": "synapse_admin_mau:max{instance=\"$instance\"}",
+              "expr": "synapse_admin_mau:max{instance=\"$instance\", job=~\"$job\"}",
               "format": "time_series",
               "interval": "",
               "intervalFactor": 1,
@@ -9164,7 +9588,7 @@
             "h": 8,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 119
+            "y": 41
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 160,
@@ -9484,7 +9908,7 @@
             "h": 8,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 0,
-            "y": 73
+            "y": 43
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 168,
@@ -9516,7 +9940,7 @@
             {
               "expr": "rate(synapse_appservice_api_sent_events{instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size])",
               "interval": "",
-              "legendFormat": "{{exported_service}}",
+              "legendFormat": "{{service}}",
               "refId": "A"
             }
           ],
@@ -9579,7 +10003,7 @@
             "h": 8,
             "w": 12,
             "x": 12,
-            "y": 73
+            "y": 43
           },
           "hiddenSeries": false,
           "id": 171,
@@ -9611,7 +10035,7 @@
             {
               "expr": "rate(synapse_appservice_api_sent_transactions{instance=\"$instance\"}[$bucket_size])",
               "interval": "",
-              "legendFormat": "{{exported_service}}",
+              "legendFormat": "{{service}}",
               "refId": "A"
             }
           ],
@@ -9959,7 +10383,6 @@
           },
           "yaxes": [
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:165",
               "format": "hertz",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -9968,7 +10391,6 @@
               "show": true
             },
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:166",
               "format": "short",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -10071,7 +10493,6 @@
           },
           "yaxes": [
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:390",
               "format": "hertz",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -10080,7 +10501,6 @@
               "show": true
             },
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:391",
               "format": "short",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -10169,7 +10589,6 @@
           },
           "yaxes": [
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:390",
               "format": "hertz",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -10178,7 +10597,6 @@
               "show": true
             },
             {
-              "$$hashKey": "object:391",
               "format": "short",
               "label": null,
               "logBase": 1,
@@ -10470,5 +10888,5 @@
   "timezone": "",
   "title": "Synapse",
   "uid": "000000012",
-  "version": 90
+  "version": 100
 }

contrib/prometheus/README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Add a new job to the main prometheus.yml file:
 ```
 
 An example of a Prometheus configuration with workers can be found in
-[metrics-howto.md](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/metrics-howto.md).
+[metrics-howto.md](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/metrics-howto.html).
 
 To use `synapse.rules` add
 

contrib/purge_api/README.md

@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Purge history API examples
 
 # `purge_history.sh`
 
-A bash file, that uses the [purge history API](/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst) to 
-purge all messages in a list of rooms up to a certain event. You can select a 
+A bash file, that uses the
+[purge history API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/purge_history_api.html)
+to purge all messages in a list of rooms up to a certain event. You can select a 
 timeframe or a number of messages that you want to keep in the room.
 
 Just configure the variables DOMAIN, ADMIN, ROOMS_ARRAY and TIME at the top of
@@ -12,5 +13,6 @@ the script.
 
 # `purge_remote_media.sh`
 
-A bash file, that uses the [purge history API](/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst) to 
-purge all old cached remote media.
+A bash file, that uses the
+[purge history API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/purge_history_api.html)
+to purge all old cached remote media.

contrib/purge_api/purge_history.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # this script will use the api:
-#    https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst
+#    https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/purge_history_api.html
 # 
 # It will purge all messages in a list of rooms up to a cetrain event
 

contrib/systemd-with-workers/README.md

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 The documentation for using systemd to manage synapse workers is now part of
-the main synapse distribution. See [docs/systemd-with-workers](../../docs/systemd-with-workers).
+the main synapse distribution. See
+[docs/systemd-with-workers](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/systemd-with-workers/index.html).

debian/build_virtualenv

@@ -33,13 +33,11 @@ esac
 # Use --builtin-venv to use the better `venv` module from CPython 3.4+ rather
 # than the 2/3 compatible `virtualenv`.
 
-# Pin pip to 20.3.4 to fix breakage in 21.0 on py3.5 (xenial)
-
 dh_virtualenv \
     --install-suffix "matrix-synapse" \
     --builtin-venv \
     --python "$SNAKE" \
-    --upgrade-pip-to="20.3.4" \
+    --upgrade-pip \
     --preinstall="lxml" \
     --preinstall="mock" \
     --extra-pip-arg="--no-cache-dir" \
@@ -102,3 +100,18 @@ esac
 # add a dependency on the right version of python to substvars.
 PYPKG=`basename $SNAKE`
 echo "synapse:pydepends=$PYPKG" >> debian/matrix-synapse-py3.substvars
+
+
+# add a couple of triggers.  This is needed so that dh-virtualenv can rebuild
+# the venv when the system python changes (see
+# https://dh-virtualenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#step-2-set-up-packaging-for-your-project)
+#
+# we do it here rather than the more conventional way of just adding it to
+# debian/matrix-synapse-py3.triggers, because we need to add a trigger on the
+# right version of python.
+cat >>"debian/.debhelper/generated/matrix-synapse-py3/triggers" <<EOF
+# triggers for dh-virtualenv
+interest-noawait $SNAKE
+interest dh-virtualenv-interpreter-update
+
+EOF

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,185 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.46.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Richard van der Hoff ]
+  * Compress debs with xz, to fix incompatibility of impish debs with reprepro.
+
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.46.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:22:53 +0000
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.46.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.46.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:04:04 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.45.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.45.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:58:27 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.45.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.45.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:18:53 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.45.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.45.0~rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:58:24 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.45.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Nick @ Beeper ]
+  * Include an `update_synapse_database` script in the distribution.
+
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.45.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:46:27 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.44.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.44.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:43:57 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.44.0~rc3) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.44.0~rc3.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:57:22 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.44.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.44.0~rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:39:10 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.44.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.44.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:28 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.43.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.43.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:49:05 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.43.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.43.0~rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:43:21 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.43.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.43.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:39:46 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.42.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.42.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:19:09 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.42.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.42.0~rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:25:13 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.42.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.42.0rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:37:48 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.41.1) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * New synapse release 1.41.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:59:10 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.41.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.41.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:31:45 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.41.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.41.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:52:00 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.40.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.40.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:50:48 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.40.0~rc3) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.40.0~rc3.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:41:08 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.40.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.40.0~rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 04 Aug 2021 17:08:55 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.40.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Richard van der Hoff ]
+  * Drop backwards-compatibility code that was required to support Ubuntu Xenial.
+  * Update package triggers so that the virtualenv is correctly rebuilt
+    when the system python is rebuilt, on recent Python versions.
+
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.40.0~rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:31:49 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.39.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.39.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:59:00 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.39.0~rc3) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.39.0~rc3.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:30:58 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.38.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.38.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:37:06 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.39.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.39.0rc1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:28:34 +0100
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.38.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.38.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:20:56 +0100
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.38.0rc3) prerelease; urgency=medium
 
   [ Erik Johnston ]

debian/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-9
+10

debian/control

@@ -3,11 +3,8 @@ Section: contrib/python
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>
 # keep this list in sync with the build dependencies in docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv.
-# TODO: Remove the dependency on dh-systemd after dropping support for Ubuntu xenial
-#       On all other supported releases, it's merely a transitional package which
-#       does nothing but depends on debhelper (> 9.20160709)
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 9.20160709) | dh-systemd,
+ debhelper (>= 10),
  dh-virtualenv (>= 1.1),
  libsystemd-dev,
  libpq-dev,

debian/matrix-synapse-py3.links

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/register_new_matrix_user usr/bin/register_new_matri
 opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/synapse_port_db usr/bin/synapse_port_db
 opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/synapse_review_recent_signups usr/bin/synapse_review_recent_signups
 opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/synctl usr/bin/synctl
+opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/update_synapse_database usr/bin/update_synapse_database

debian/matrix-synapse-py3.triggers

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Register interest in Python interpreter changes and
-# don't make the Python package dependent on the virtualenv package
-# processing (noawait)
-interest-noawait /usr/bin/python3.5
-interest-noawait /usr/bin/python3.6
-interest-noawait /usr/bin/python3.7
-
-# Also provide a symbolic trigger for all dh-virtualenv packages
-interest dh-virtualenv-interpreter-update

debian/rules

@@ -51,7 +51,11 @@ override_dh_shlibdeps:
 override_dh_virtualenv:
 	./debian/build_virtualenv
 
-# We are restricted to compat level 9 (because xenial), so have to
-# enable the systemd bits manually.
+override_dh_builddeb:
+        # force the compression to xzip, to stop dpkg-deb on impish defaulting to zstd
+        # (which requires reprepro 5.3.0-1.3, which is currently only in 'experimental' in Debian:
+        # https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/r/reprepro/reprepro_5.3.0-1.3_changelog)
+	dh_builddeb -- -Zxz
+
 %:
-	dh $@ --with python-virtualenv --with systemd
+	dh $@ --with python-virtualenv

docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv

@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ ARG distro=""
 ###
 ### Stage 0: build a dh-virtualenv
 ###
+
+# This is only really needed on bionic and focal, since other distributions we
+# care about have a recent version of dh-virtualenv by default. Unfortunately,
+# it looks like focal is going to be with us for a while.
+#
+# (focal doesn't have a dh-virtualenv package at all. There is a PPA at
+# https://launchpad.net/~jyrki-pulliainen/+archive/ubuntu/dh-virtualenv, but
+# it's not obviously easier to use that than to build our own.)
+
 FROM ${distro} as builder
 
 RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none
@@ -27,7 +36,7 @@ RUN env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
         wget
 
 # fetch and unpack the package
-# TODO: Upgrade to 1.2.2 once xenial is dropped
+# TODO: Upgrade to 1.2.2 once bionic is dropped (1.2.2 requires debhelper 12; bionic has only 11)
 RUN mkdir /dh-virtualenv
 RUN wget -q -O /dh-virtualenv.tar.gz https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv/archive/ac6e1b1.tar.gz
 RUN tar -xv --strip-components=1 -C /dh-virtualenv -f /dh-virtualenv.tar.gz
@@ -38,8 +47,9 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none \
     && cd /dh-virtualenv \
     && env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive mk-build-deps -ri -t "apt-get -y --no-install-recommends"
 
-# build it
-RUN cd /dh-virtualenv && dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
+# Build it. Note that building the docs doesn't work due to differences in
+# Sphinx APIs across versions/distros.
+RUN cd /dh-virtualenv && DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodoc dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
 
 ###
 ### Stage 1
@@ -59,8 +69,6 @@ ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 #
 # NB: keep this list in sync with the list of build-deps in debian/control
 # TODO: it would be nice to do that automatically.
-# TODO: Remove the dh-systemd stanza after dropping support for Ubuntu xenial
-#       it's a transitional package on all other, more recent releases
 RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none \
     && env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
         -yqq --no-install-recommends -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-unsafe-io \
@@ -76,10 +84,7 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq -o Acquire::Languages=none \
         python3-venv \
         sqlite3 \
         libpq-dev \
-        xmlsec1 \
-    && ( env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
-         -yqq --no-install-recommends -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-unsafe-io \
-         dh-systemd || true )
+        xmlsec1
 
 COPY --from=builder /dh-virtualenv_1.2~dev-1_all.deb /
 

docker/Dockerfile-pgtests

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Use the Sytest image that comes with a lot of the build dependencies
 # pre-installed
-FROM matrixdotorg/sytest:latest
+FROM matrixdotorg/sytest:bionic
 
 # The Sytest image doesn't come with python, so install that
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -qq install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip
@@ -8,5 +8,23 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get -qq install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip
 # We need tox to run the tests in run_pg_tests.sh
 RUN python3 -m pip install tox
 
-ADD run_pg_tests.sh /pg_tests.sh
-ENTRYPOINT /pg_tests.sh
+# Initialise the db
+RUN su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -E "UTF-8" --lc-collate="C.UTF-8" --lc-ctype="C.UTF-8" --username=postgres' postgres
+
+# Add a user with our UID and GID so that files get created on the host owned
+# by us, not root.
+ARG UID
+ARG GID
+RUN groupadd --gid $GID user
+RUN useradd --uid $UID --gid $GID --groups sudo --no-create-home user
+
+# Ensure we can start postgres by sudo-ing as the postgres user.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -qq install -y sudo
+RUN echo "user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
+
+ADD run_pg_tests.sh /run_pg_tests.sh
+# Use the "exec form" of ENTRYPOINT (https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#entrypoint)
+# so that we can `docker run` this container and pass arguments to pg_tests.sh
+ENTRYPOINT ["/run_pg_tests.sh"]
+
+USER user

docker/README.md

@@ -226,4 +226,5 @@ healthcheck:
 ## Using jemalloc
 
 Jemalloc is embedded in the image and will be used instead of the default allocator.
-You can read about jemalloc by reading the Synapse [README](../README.rst).
+You can read about jemalloc by reading the Synapse 
+[README](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/HEAD/README.rst#help-synapse-is-slow-and-eats-all-my-ram-cpu).

docker/build_debian.sh

@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ DIST=`cut -d ':' -f2 <<< $distro`
 cp -aT /synapse/source /synapse/build
 cd /synapse/build
 
+# if this is a prerelease, set the Section accordingly.
+#
+# When the package is later added to the package repo, reprepro will use the
+# Section to determine which "component" it should go into (see
+# https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/reprepro/reprepro.1.en.html#GUESSING)
+
+DEB_VERSION=`dpkg-parsechangelog -SVersion`
+case $DEB_VERSION in
+    *~rc*|*~a*|*~b*|*~c*)
+        sed -ie '/^Section:/c\Section: prerelease' debian/control
+        ;;
+esac
+
 # add an entry to the changelog for this distribution
 dch -M -l "+$DIST" "build for $DIST"
 dch -M -r "" --force-distribution --distribution "$DIST"

docker/conf/log.config

@@ -18,18 +18,31 @@ handlers:
     backupCount: 6  # Does not include the current log file.
     encoding: utf8
 
-  # Default to buffering writes to log file for efficiency. This means that
-  # there will be a delay for INFO/DEBUG logs to get written, but WARNING/ERROR
-  # logs will still be flushed immediately.
+  # Default to buffering writes to log file for efficiency.
+  # WARNING/ERROR logs will still be flushed immediately, but there will be a
+  # delay (of up to `period` seconds, or until the buffer is full with
+  # `capacity` messages) before INFO/DEBUG logs get written.
   buffer:
-    class: logging.handlers.MemoryHandler
+    class: synapse.logging.handlers.PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler
     target: file
-    # The capacity is the number of log lines that are buffered before
-    # being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
+
+    # The capacity is the maximum number of log lines that are buffered
+    # before being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
     # performance, at the expensive of it taking longer for log lines to
     # be written to disk.
+    # This parameter is required.
     capacity: 10
-    flushLevel: 30  # Flush for WARNING logs as well
+
+    # Logs with a level at or above the flush level will cause the buffer to
+    # be flushed immediately.
+    # Default value: 40 (ERROR)
+    # Other values: 50 (CRITICAL), 30 (WARNING), 20 (INFO), 10 (DEBUG)
+    flushLevel: 30  # Flush immediately for WARNING logs and higher
+
+    # The period of time, in seconds, between forced flushes.
+    # Messages will not be delayed for longer than this time.
+    # Default value: 5 seconds
+    period: 5
 {% endif %}
 
   console:

docker/configure_workers_and_start.py

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ WORKERS_CONFIG = {
         "shared_extra_conf": {},
         "worker_extra_conf": (
             "worker_main_http_uri: http://127.0.0.1:%d"
-            % (MAIN_PROCESS_HTTP_LISTENER_PORT,),
+            % (MAIN_PROCESS_HTTP_LISTENER_PORT,)
         ),
     },
 }

docker/run_pg_tests.sh

@@ -10,11 +10,10 @@ set -e
 # Set PGUSER so Synapse's tests know what user to connect to the database with
 export PGUSER=postgres
 
-# Initialise & start the database
-su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -E "UTF-8" --lc-collate="en_US.UTF-8" --lc-ctype="en_US.UTF-8" --username=postgres' postgres
-su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/postgresql/data start' postgres
+# Start the database
+sudo -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/postgresql/data start
 
 # Run the tests
 cd /src
 export TRIAL_FLAGS="-j 4"
-tox --workdir=/tmp -e py35-postgres
+tox --workdir=./.tox-pg-container -e py36-postgres "$@"

docs/MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Historical Note
 This document was originally written to guide server admins through the upgrade
 path towards Synapse 1.0. Specifically,
-[MSC1711](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/1711-x509-for-federation.md)
+[MSC1711](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/main/proposals/1711-x509-for-federation.md)
 required that all servers present valid TLS certificates on their federation
 API. Admins were encouraged to achieve compliance from version 0.99.0 (released
 in February 2019) ahead of version 1.0 (released June 2019) enforcing the
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ 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.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
+See [the reverse proxy documentation](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
 reverse proxy.
 
 #### Option 3: add a .well-known file to delegate your matrix traffic
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ coffin of the Perspectives project (which was already pretty dead). So, the
 Spec Core Team decided that a better approach would be to mandate valid TLS
 certificates for federation alongside the rest of the Web. More details can be
 found in
-[MSC1711](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/proposals/1711-x509-for-federation.md#background-the-failure-of-the-perspectives-approach).
+[MSC1711](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/main/proposals/1711-x509-for-federation.md#background-the-failure-of-the-perspectives-approach).
 
 This results in a breaking change, which is disruptive, but absolutely critical
 for the security model. However, the existence of Let's Encrypt as a trivial
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ 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.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
+See [the reverse proxy documentation](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

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Please update any links to point to the new website instead.
 ## About
 
 This directory currently holds a series of markdown files documenting how to install, use
-and develop Synapse, the reference Matrix homeserver. The documentation is readable directly
-from this repository, but it is recommended to instead browse through the
-[website](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse) for easier discoverability.
+and develop Synapse. The documentation is readable directly from this repository, but it is 
+recommended to instead browse through the [website](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse) for 
+easier discoverability.
 
 ## Adding to the documentation
 

docs/SUMMARY.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   - [Installation](setup/installation.md)
   - [Using Postgres](postgres.md)
   - [Configuring a Reverse Proxy](reverse_proxy.md)
+  - [Configuring a Forward/Outbound Proxy](setup/forward_proxy.md)
   - [Configuring a Turn Server](turn-howto.md)
   - [Delegation](delegate.md)
 
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@
     - [Homeserver Sample Config File](usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.md)
     - [Logging Sample Config File](usage/configuration/logging_sample_config.md)
     - [Structured Logging](structured_logging.md)
+    - [Templates](templates.md)
     - [User Authentication](usage/configuration/user_authentication/README.md)
       - [Single-Sign On]()
         - [OpenID Connect](openid.md)
@@ -32,14 +34,17 @@
     - [Application Services](application_services.md)
     - [Server Notices](server_notices.md)
     - [Consent Tracking](consent_tracking.md)
-    - [URL Previews](url_previews.md)
+    - [URL Previews](development/url_previews.md)
     - [User Directory](user_directory.md)
     - [Message Retention Policies](message_retention_policies.md)
-    - [Pluggable Modules](modules.md)
-      - [Third Party Rules]()
-      - [Spam Checker](spam_checker.md)
-      - [Presence Router](presence_router_module.md)
-      - [Media Storage Providers]()
+    - [Pluggable Modules](modules/index.md)
+      - [Writing a module](modules/writing_a_module.md)
+        - [Spam checker callbacks](modules/spam_checker_callbacks.md)
+        - [Third-party rules callbacks](modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.md)
+        - [Presence router callbacks](modules/presence_router_callbacks.md)
+        - [Account validity callbacks](modules/account_validity_callbacks.md)
+        - [Password auth provider callbacks](modules/password_auth_provider_callbacks.md)
+        - [Porting a legacy module to the new interface](modules/porting_legacy_module.md)
     - [Workers](workers.md)
       - [Using `synctl` with Workers](synctl_workers.md)
       - [Systemd](systemd-with-workers/README.md)
@@ -50,12 +55,11 @@
       - [Event Reports](admin_api/event_reports.md)
       - [Media](admin_api/media_admin_api.md)
       - [Purge History](admin_api/purge_history_api.md)
-      - [Purge Rooms](admin_api/purge_room.md)
       - [Register Users](admin_api/register_api.md)
+      - [Registration Tokens](usage/administration/admin_api/registration_tokens.md)
       - [Manipulate Room Membership](admin_api/room_membership.md)
       - [Rooms](admin_api/rooms.md)
       - [Server Notices](admin_api/server_notices.md)
-      - [Shutdown Room](admin_api/shutdown_room.md)
       - [Statistics](admin_api/statistics.md)
       - [Users](admin_api/user_admin_api.md)
       - [Server Version](admin_api/version_api.md)
@@ -67,18 +71,20 @@
 # Development
   - [Contributing Guide](development/contributing_guide.md)
   - [Code Style](code_style.md)
-  - [Git Usage](dev/git.md)
+  - [Git Usage](development/git.md)
   - [Testing]()
   - [OpenTracing](opentracing.md)
   - [Database Schemas](development/database_schema.md)
+  - [Experimental features](development/experimental_features.md)
   - [Synapse Architecture]()
     - [Log Contexts](log_contexts.md)
     - [Replication](replication.md)
     - [TCP Replication](tcp_replication.md)
   - [Internal Documentation](development/internal_documentation/README.md)
     - [Single Sign-On]()
-      - [SAML](dev/saml.md)
-      - [CAS](dev/cas.md)
+      - [SAML](development/saml.md)
+      - [CAS](development/cas.md)
+    - [Room DAG concepts](development/room-dag-concepts.md)
     - [State Resolution]()
       - [The Auth Chain Difference Algorithm](auth_chain_difference_algorithm.md)
     - [Media Repository](media_repository.md)

docs/admin_api/media_admin_api.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 - [Delete local media](#delete-local-media)
   * [Delete a specific local media](#delete-a-specific-local-media)
   * [Delete local media by date or size](#delete-local-media-by-date-or-size)
+  * [Delete media uploaded by a user](#delete-media-uploaded-by-a-user)
 - [Purge Remote Media API](#purge-remote-media-api)
 
 # Querying media
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ The API returns a JSON body like the following:
 ## List all media uploaded by a user
 
 Listing all media that has been uploaded by a local user can be achieved through
-the use of the [List media of a user](user_admin_api.rst#list-media-of-a-user)
+the use of the
+[List media uploaded by a user](user_admin_api.md#list-media-uploaded-by-a-user)
 Admin API.
 
 # Quarantine media
@@ -255,9 +257,9 @@ POST /_synapse/admin/v1/media/<server_name>/delete?before_ts=<before_ts>
 URL Parameters
 
 * `server_name`: string - The name of your local server (e.g `matrix.org`).
-* `before_ts`: string representing a positive integer - Unix timestamp in ms.
+* `before_ts`: string representing a positive integer - Unix timestamp in milliseconds.
 Files that were last used before this timestamp will be deleted. It is the timestamp of
-last access and not the timestamp creation. 
+last access, not the timestamp when the file was created.
 * `size_gt`: Optional - string representing a positive integer - Size of the media in bytes.
 Files that are larger will be deleted. Defaults to `0`.
 * `keep_profiles`: Optional - string representing a boolean - Switch to also delete files
@@ -281,6 +283,11 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
 * `deleted_media`: an array of strings - List of deleted `media_id`
 * `total`: integer - Total number of deleted `media_id`
 
+## Delete media uploaded by a user
+
+You can find details of how to delete multiple media uploaded by a user in
+[User Admin API](user_admin_api.md#delete-media-uploaded-by-a-user).
+
 # Purge Remote Media API
 
 The purge remote media API allows server admins to purge old cached remote media.
@@ -295,7 +302,7 @@ POST /_synapse/admin/v1/purge_media_cache?before_ts=<unix_timestamp_in_ms>
 
 URL Parameters
 
-* `unix_timestamp_in_ms`: string representing a positive integer - Unix timestamp in ms.
+* `unix_timestamp_in_ms`: string representing a positive integer - Unix timestamp in milliseconds.
 All cached media that was last accessed before this timestamp will be removed.
 
 Response:

docs/admin_api/purge_room.md

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated: Purge room API
-==========================
-
-**The old Purge room API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
-See the new [Delete Room API](rooms.md#delete-room-api) for more details.**
-
-This API will remove all trace of a room from your database.
-
-All local users must have left the room before it can be removed.
-
-The API is:
-
-```
-POST /_synapse/admin/v1/purge_room
-
-{
-    "room_id": "!room:id"
-}
-```
-
-You must authenticate using the access token of an admin user.

docs/admin_api/rooms.md

@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 # Contents
 - [List Room API](#list-room-api)
-  * [Parameters](#parameters)
-  * [Usage](#usage)
 - [Room Details API](#room-details-api)
 - [Room Members API](#room-members-api)
 - [Room State API](#room-state-api)
 - [Delete Room API](#delete-room-api)
-  * [Parameters](#parameters-1)
-  * [Response](#response)
   * [Undoing room shutdowns](#undoing-room-shutdowns)
 - [Make Room Admin API](#make-room-admin-api)
 - [Forward Extremities Admin API](#forward-extremities-admin-api)
@@ -19,7 +15,7 @@ The List Room admin API allows server admins to get a list of rooms on their
 server. There are various parameters available that allow for filtering and
 sorting the returned list. This API supports pagination.
 
-## Parameters
+**Parameters**
 
 The following query parameters are available:
 
@@ -46,6 +42,8 @@ The following query parameters are available:
 * `search_term` - Filter rooms by their room name. Search term can be contained in any
                   part of the room name. Defaults to no filtering.
 
+**Response**
+
 The following fields are possible in the JSON response body:
 
 * `rooms` - An array of objects, each containing information about a room.
@@ -79,17 +77,15 @@ The following fields are possible in the JSON response body:
                  Use `prev_batch` for the `from` value in the next request to
                  get the "previous page" of results.
 
-## Usage
+The API is:
 
 A standard request with no filtering:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -137,11 +133,9 @@ Filtering by room name:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms?search_term=TWIM
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -172,11 +166,9 @@ Paginating through a list of rooms:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms?order_by=size
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -228,11 +220,9 @@ parameter to the value of `next_token`.
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms?order_by=size&from=100
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -304,17 +294,13 @@ The following fields are possible in the JSON response body:
 * `history_visibility` - Who can see the room history. One of: ["invited", "joined", "shared", "world_readable"].
 * `state_events` - Total number of state_events of a room. Complexity of the room.
 
-## Usage
-
-A standard request:
+The API is:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -347,17 +333,13 @@ The response includes the following fields:
 * `members` - A list of all the members that are present in the room, represented by their ids.
 * `total` - Total number of members in the room.
 
-## Usage
-
-A standard request:
+The API is:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/members
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -378,17 +360,13 @@ The response includes the following fields:
 
 * `state` - The current state of the room at the time of request.
 
-## Usage
-
-A standard request:
+The API is:
 
 ```
 GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/state
-
-{}
 ```
 
-Response:
+A response body like the following is returned:
 
 ```json
 {
@@ -432,6 +410,7 @@ DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>
 ```
 
 with a body of:
+
 ```json
 {
     "new_room_user_id": "@someuser:example.com",
@@ -461,7 +440,7 @@ A response body like the following is returned:
 }
 ```
 
-## Parameters
+**Parameters**
 
 The following parameters should be set in the URL:
 
@@ -491,7 +470,7 @@ The following JSON body parameters are available:
 
 The JSON body must not be empty. The body must be at least `{}`.
 
-## Response
+**Response**
 
 The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
 
@@ -502,32 +481,44 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
 * `new_room_id` - A string representing the room ID of the new room.
 
 
-## Undoing room shutdowns
+## Undoing room deletions
 
-*Note*: This guide may be outdated by the time you read it. By nature of room shutdowns being performed at the database level,
+*Note*: This guide may be outdated by the time you read it. By nature of room deletions being performed at the database level,
 the structure can and does change without notice.
 
-First, it's important to understand that a room shutdown is very destructive. Undoing a shutdown is not as simple as pretending it
+First, it's important to understand that a room deletion is very destructive. Undoing a deletion is not as simple as pretending it
 never happened - work has to be done to move forward instead of resetting the past. In fact, in some cases it might not be possible
 to recover at all:
 
 * If the room was invite-only, your users will need to be re-invited.
 * If the room no longer has any members at all, it'll be impossible to rejoin.
-* The first user to rejoin will have to do so via an alias on a different server.
+* The first user to rejoin will have to do so via an alias on a different
+  server (or receive an invite from a user on a different server).
 
 With all that being said, if you still want to try and recover the room:
 
-1. For safety reasons, shut down Synapse.
-2. In the database, run `DELETE FROM blocked_rooms WHERE room_id = '!example:example.org';`
-   * For caution: it's recommended to run this in a transaction: `BEGIN; DELETE ...;`, verify you got 1 result, then `COMMIT;`.
-   * The room ID is the same one supplied to the shutdown room API, not the Content Violation room.
-3. Restart Synapse.
+1. If the room was `block`ed, you must unblock it on your server. This can be
+   accomplished as follows:
 
-You will have to manually handle, if you so choose, the following:
+   1. For safety reasons, shut down Synapse.
+   2. In the database, run `DELETE FROM blocked_rooms WHERE room_id = '!example:example.org';`
+      * For caution: it's recommended to run this in a transaction: `BEGIN; DELETE ...;`, verify you got 1 result, then `COMMIT;`.
+      * The room ID is the same one supplied to the delete room API, not the Content Violation room.
+   3. Restart Synapse.
 
-* Aliases that would have been redirected to the Content Violation room.
-* Users that would have been booted from the room (and will have been force-joined to the Content Violation room).
-* Removal of the Content Violation room if desired.
+   This step is unnecessary if `block` was not set.
+
+2. Any room aliases on your server that pointed to the deleted room may have
+   been deleted, or redirected to the Content Violation room. These will need
+   to be restored manually.
+
+3. Users on your server that were in the deleted room will have been kicked
+   from the room. Consider whether you want to update their membership
+   (possibly via the [Edit Room Membership API](room_membership.md)) or let
+   them handle rejoining themselves.
+
+4. If `new_room_user_id` was given, a 'Content Violation' will have been
+   created. Consider whether you want to delete that roomm.
 
 ## Deprecated endpoint
 
@@ -548,16 +539,16 @@ By default the server admin (the caller) is granted power, but another user can
 optionally be specified, e.g.:
 
 ```
-    POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/make_room_admin
-    {
-        "user_id": "@foo:example.com"
-    }
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/make_room_admin
+{
+    "user_id": "@foo:example.com"
+}
 ```
 
 # Forward Extremities Admin API
 
 Enables querying and deleting forward extremities from rooms. When a lot of forward
-extremities accumulate in a room, performance can become degraded. For details, see 
+extremities accumulate in a room, performance can become degraded. For details, see
 [#1760](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1760).
 
 ## Check for forward extremities
@@ -565,7 +556,7 @@ extremities accumulate in a room, performance can become degraded. For details,
 To check the status of forward extremities for a room:
 
 ```
-    GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/forward_extremities
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/forward_extremities
 ```
 
 A response as follows will be returned:
@@ -581,12 +572,12 @@ A response as follows will be returned:
       "received_ts": 1611263016761
     }
   ]
-}    
+}
 ```
 
 ## Deleting forward extremities
 
-**WARNING**: Please ensure you know what you're doing and have read 
+**WARNING**: Please ensure you know what you're doing and have read
 the related issue [#1760](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1760).
 Under no situations should this API be executed as an automated maintenance task!
 
@@ -594,7 +585,7 @@ If a room has lots of forward extremities, the extra can be
 deleted as follows:
 
 ```
-    DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/forward_extremities
+DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id_or_alias>/forward_extremities
 ```
 
 A response as follows will be returned, indicating the amount of forward extremities

docs/admin_api/server_notices.md

@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ Once the notice has been sent, the API will return the following response:
 ```
 
 Note that server notices must be enabled in `homeserver.yaml` before this API
-can be used. See [server_notices.md](../server_notices.md) for more information.
+can be used. See [the server notices documentation](../server_notices.md) for more information.

docs/admin_api/shutdown_room.md

@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-# Deprecated: Shutdown room API
-
-**The old Shutdown room API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
-See the new [Delete Room API](rooms.md#delete-room-api) for more details.**
-
-Shuts down a room, preventing new joins and moves local users and room aliases automatically
-to a new room. The new room will be created with the user specified by the
-`new_room_user_id` parameter as room administrator and will contain a message
-explaining what happened. Users invited to the new room will have power level
--10 by default, and thus be unable to speak. The old room's power levels will be changed to
-disallow any further invites or joins.
-
-The local server will only have the power to move local user and room aliases to
-the new room. Users on other servers will be unaffected.
-
-## API
-
-You will need to authenticate with an access token for an admin user.
-
-### URL
-
-`POST /_synapse/admin/v1/shutdown_room/{room_id}`
-
-### URL Parameters
-
-* `room_id` - The ID of the room (e.g `!someroom:example.com`)
-
-### JSON Body Parameters
-
-* `new_room_user_id` - Required. A string representing the user ID of the user that will admin
-                       the new room that all users in the old room will be moved to.
-* `room_name` - Optional. A string representing the name of the room that new users will be
-                invited to.
-* `message` - Optional. A string containing the first message that will be sent as
-              `new_room_user_id` in the new room. Ideally this will clearly convey why the
-               original room was shut down.
-
-If not specified, the default value of `room_name` is "Content Violation
-Notification". The default value of `message` is "Sharing illegal content on
-othis server is not permitted and rooms in violation will be blocked."
-
-### Response Parameters
-
-* `kicked_users` - An integer number representing the number of users that
-                   were kicked.
-* `failed_to_kick_users` - An integer number representing the number of users
-                           that were not kicked.
-* `local_aliases` - An array of strings representing the local aliases that were migrated from
-                    the old room to the new.
-* `new_room_id` - A string representing the room ID of the new room.
-
-## Example
-
-Request:
-
-```
-POST /_synapse/admin/v1/shutdown_room/!somebadroom%3Aexample.com
-
-{
-    "new_room_user_id": "@someuser:example.com",
-    "room_name": "Content Violation Notification",
-    "message": "Bad Room has been shutdown due to content violations on this server. Please review our Terms of Service."
-}
-```
-
-Response:
-
-```
-{
-    "kicked_users": 5,
-    "failed_to_kick_users": 0,
-    "local_aliases": ["#badroom:example.com", "#evilsaloon:example.com],
-    "new_room_id": "!newroomid:example.com",
-},
-```
-
-## Undoing room shutdowns
-
-*Note*: This guide may be outdated by the time you read it. By nature of room shutdowns being performed at the database level,
-the structure can and does change without notice.
-
-First, it's important to understand that a room shutdown is very destructive. Undoing a shutdown is not as simple as pretending it
-never happened - work has to be done to move forward instead of resetting the past. In fact, in some cases it might not be possible
-to recover at all:
-
-* If the room was invite-only, your users will need to be re-invited.
-* If the room no longer has any members at all, it'll be impossible to rejoin.
-* The first user to rejoin will have to do so via an alias on a different server.
-
-With all that being said, if you still want to try and recover the room:
-
-1. For safety reasons, shut down Synapse.
-2. In the database, run `DELETE FROM blocked_rooms WHERE room_id = '!example:example.org';`
-   * For caution: it's recommended to run this in a transaction: `BEGIN; DELETE ...;`, verify you got 1 result, then `COMMIT;`.
-   * The room ID is the same one supplied to the shutdown room API, not the Content Violation room.
-3. Restart Synapse.
-
-You will have to manually handle, if you so choose, the following:
-
-* Aliases that would have been redirected to the Content Violation room.
-* Users that would have been booted from the room (and will have been force-joined to the Content Violation room).
-* Removal of the Content Violation room if desired.

docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md

@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ It returns a JSON body like the following:
     "threepids": [
         {
             "medium": "email",
-            "address": "<user_mail_1>"
+            "address": "<user_mail_1>",
+            "added_at": 1586458409743,
+            "validated_at": 1586458409743
         },
         {
             "medium": "email",
-            "address": "<user_mail_2>"
+            "address": "<user_mail_2>",
+            "added_at": 1586458409743,
+            "validated_at": 1586458409743
         }
     ],
     "avatar_url": "<avatar_url>",
@@ -46,7 +50,8 @@ It returns a JSON body like the following:
             "auth_provider": "<provider2>",
             "external_id": "<user_id_provider_2>"
         }
-    ]
+    ],
+    "user_type": null
 }
 ```
 
@@ -81,38 +86,60 @@ with a body of:
             "address": "<user_mail_2>"
         }
     ],
+    "external_ids": [
+        {
+            "auth_provider": "<provider1>",
+            "external_id": "<user_id_provider_1>"
+        },
+        {
+            "auth_provider": "<provider2>",
+            "external_id": "<user_id_provider_2>"
+        }
+    ],
     "avatar_url": "<avatar_url>",
     "admin": false,
-    "deactivated": false
+    "deactivated": false,
+    "user_type": null
 }
 ```
 
 To use it, you will need to authenticate by providing an `access_token` for a
 server admin: [Admin API](../usage/administration/admin_api)
 
+Returns HTTP status code:
+- `201` - When a new user object was created.
+- `200` - When a user was modified.
+
 URL parameters:
 
 - `user_id`: fully-qualified user id: for example, `@user:server.com`.
 
 Body parameters:
 
-- `password`, optional. If provided, the user's password is updated and all
+- `password` - string, optional. If provided, the user's password is updated and all
   devices are logged out.
-
-- `displayname`, optional, defaults to the value of `user_id`.
-
-- `threepids`, optional, allows setting the third-party IDs (email, msisdn)
+- `displayname` - string, optional, defaults to the value of `user_id`.
+- `threepids` - array, optional, allows setting the third-party IDs (email, msisdn)
+  - `medium` - string. Kind of third-party ID, either `email` or `msisdn`.
+  - `address` - string. Value of third-party ID.
   belonging to a user.
-
-- `avatar_url`, optional, must be a
+- `external_ids` - array, optional. Allow setting the identifier of the external identity
+  provider for SSO (Single sign-on). Details in
+  [Sample Configuration File](../usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.html)
+  section `sso` and `oidc_providers`.
+  - `auth_provider` - string. ID of the external identity provider. Value of `idp_id`
+    in homeserver configuration.
+  - `external_id` - string, user ID in the external identity provider.
+- `avatar_url` - string, optional, must be a
   [MXC URI](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#matrix-content-mxc-uris).
-
-- `admin`, optional, defaults to `false`.
-
-- `deactivated`, optional. If unspecified, deactivation state will be left
+- `admin` - bool, optional, defaults to `false`.
+- `deactivated` - bool, optional. If unspecified, deactivation state will be left
   unchanged on existing accounts and set to `false` for new accounts.
   A user cannot be erased by deactivating with this API. For details on
   deactivating users see [Deactivate Account](#deactivate-account).
+- `user_type` - string or null, optional. If provided, the user type will be
+  adjusted. If `null` given, the user type will be cleared. Other 
+  allowed options are: `bot` and `support`.
 
 If the user already exists then optional parameters default to the current value.
 
@@ -144,7 +171,8 @@ A response body like the following is returned:
             "deactivated": 0,
             "shadow_banned": 0,
             "displayname": "<User One>",
-            "avatar_url": null
+            "avatar_url": null,
+            "creation_ts": 1560432668000
         }, {
             "name": "<user_id2>",
             "is_guest": 0,
@@ -153,7 +181,8 @@ A response body like the following is returned:
             "deactivated": 0,
             "shadow_banned": 0,
             "displayname": "<User Two>",
-            "avatar_url": "<avatar_url>"
+            "avatar_url": "<avatar_url>",
+            "creation_ts": 1561550621000
         }
     ],
     "next_token": "100",
@@ -197,11 +226,12 @@ The following parameters should be set in the URL:
   - `shadow_banned` - Users are ordered by `shadow_banned` status.
   - `displayname` - Users are ordered alphabetically by `displayname`.
   - `avatar_url` - Users are ordered alphabetically by avatar URL.
+  - `creation_ts` - Users are ordered by when the users was created in ms.
 
 - `dir` - Direction of media order. Either `f` for forwards or `b` for backwards.
   Setting this value to `b` will reverse the above sort order. Defaults to `f`.
 
-Caution. The database only has indexes on the columns `name` and `created_ts`.
+Caution. The database only has indexes on the columns `name` and `creation_ts`.
 This means that if a different sort order is used (`is_guest`, `admin`,
 `user_type`, `deactivated`, `shadow_banned`, `avatar_url` or `displayname`),
 this can cause a large load on the database, especially for large environments.
@@ -222,6 +252,7 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
   - `shadow_banned` - bool - Status if that user has been marked as shadow banned.
   - `displayname` - string - The user's display name if they have set one.
   - `avatar_url` - string -  The user's avatar URL if they have set one.
+  - `creation_ts` - integer - The user's creation timestamp in ms.
 
 - `next_token`: string representing a positive integer - Indication for pagination. See above.
 - `total` - integer - Total number of media.
@@ -315,6 +346,7 @@ The following actions are performed when deactivating an user:
 - Remove all 3PIDs from the homeserver
 - Delete all devices and E2EE keys
 - Delete all access tokens
+- Delete all pushers
 - Delete the password hash
 - Removal from all rooms the user is a member of
 - Remove the user from the user directory
@@ -328,6 +360,15 @@ is set to `true`:
 - Remove the user's avatar URL
 - Mark the user as erased
 
+The following actions are **NOT** performed. The list may be incomplete.
+
+- Remove mappings of SSO IDs
+- [Delete media uploaded](#delete-media-uploaded-by-a-user) by user (included avatar images)
+- Delete sent and received messages
+- Delete E2E cross-signing keys
+- Remove the user's creation (registration) timestamp
+- [Remove rate limit overrides](#override-ratelimiting-for-users)
+- Remove from monthly active users
 
 ## Reset password
 
@@ -439,8 +480,9 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
 - `joined_rooms` - An array of `room_id`.
 - `total` - Number of rooms.
 
+## User media
 
-## List media of a user
+### List media uploaded by a user
 Gets a list of all local media that a specific `user_id` has created.
 By default, the response is ordered by descending creation date and ascending media ID.
 The newest media is on top. You can change the order with parameters
@@ -539,7 +581,6 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
 
 - `media` - An array of objects, each containing information about a media.
   Media objects contain the following fields:
-
   - `created_ts` - integer - Timestamp when the content was uploaded in ms.
   - `last_access_ts` - integer - Timestamp when the content was last accessed in ms.
   - `media_id` - string - The id used to refer to the media.
@@ -547,13 +588,58 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
   - `media_type` - string - The MIME-type of the media.
   - `quarantined_by` - string - The user ID that initiated the quarantine request
     for this media.
-
   - `safe_from_quarantine` - bool - Status if this media is safe from quarantining.
   - `upload_name` - string - The name the media was uploaded with.
-
 - `next_token`: integer - Indication for pagination. See above.
 - `total` - integer - Total number of media.
 
+### Delete media uploaded by a user
+
+This API deletes the *local* media from the disk of your own server
+that a specific `user_id` has created. This includes any local thumbnails.
+
+This API will not affect media that has been uploaded to external
+media repositories (e.g https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/).
+
+By default, the API deletes media ordered by descending creation date and ascending media ID.
+The newest media is deleted first. You can change the order with parameters
+`order_by` and `dir`. If no `limit` is set the API deletes `100` files per request.
+
+The API is:
+
+```
+DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/media
+```
+
+To use it, you will need to authenticate by providing an `access_token` for a
+server admin: [Admin API](../usage/administration/admin_api)
+
+A response body like the following is returned:
+
+```json
+{
+  "deleted_media": [
+    "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx"
+  ],
+  "total": 1
+}
+```
+
+The following fields are returned in the JSON response body:
+
+* `deleted_media`: an array of strings - List of deleted `media_id`
+* `total`: integer - Total number of deleted `media_id`
+
+**Note**: There is no `next_token`. This is not useful for deleting media, because
+after deleting media the remaining media have a new order.
+
+**Parameters**
+
+This API has the same parameters as
+[List media uploaded by a user](#list-media-uploaded-by-a-user).
+With the parameters you can for example limit the number of files to delete at once or
+delete largest/smallest or newest/oldest files first.
+
 ## Login as a user
 
 Get an access token that can be used to authenticate as that user. Useful for
@@ -1009,3 +1095,22 @@ The following parameters should be set in the URL:
 - `user_id` - The fully qualified MXID: for example, `@user:server.com`. The user must
   be local.
 
+### Check username availability
+
+Checks to see if a username is available, and valid, for the server. See [the client-server 
+API](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#get-matrix-client-r0-register-available)
+for more information.
+
+This endpoint will work even if registration is disabled on the server, unlike 
+`/_matrix/client/r0/register/available`.
+
+The API is:
+
+```
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/username_availabile?username=$localpart
+```
+
+The request and response format is the same as the [/_matrix/client/r0/register/available](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#get-matrix-client-r0-register-available) API.
+
+To use it, you will need to authenticate by providing an `access_token` for a
+server admin: [Admin API](../usage/administration/admin_api)

docs/consent_tracking.md

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ version of the policy. To do so:
 
  * ensure that the consent resource is configured, as in the previous section
 
- * ensure that server notices are configured, as in [server_notices.md](server_notices.md).
+ * ensure that server notices are configured, as in [the server notice documentation](server_notices.md).
 
  * Add `server_notice_content` under `user_consent` in `homeserver.yaml`. For
    example:

docs/delegate.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ 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.md](reverse_proxy.md) for information on setting up a
+See [the reverse proxy documentation](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/development/contributing_guide.md

@@ -1,7 +1,474 @@
-<!--
-  Include the contents of CONTRIBUTING.md from the project root (where GitHub likes it 
-  to be)
--->
 # Contributing
 
-{{#include ../../CONTRIBUTING.md}}
+This document aims to get you started with contributing to Synapse!
+
+# 1. Who can contribute to Synapse?
+
+Everyone is welcome to contribute code to [matrix.org
+projects](https://github.com/matrix-org), provided that they are willing to
+license their contributions under the same license as the project itself. We
+follow a simple 'inbound=outbound' model for contributions: the act of
+submitting an 'inbound' contribution means that the contributor agrees to
+license the code under the same terms as the project's overall 'outbound'
+license - in our case, this is almost always Apache Software License v2 (see
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/LICENSE)).
+
+# 2. What do I need?
+
+The code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll need [a recent version of Python 3](https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download).
+
+The source code of Synapse is hosted on GitHub. You will also need [a recent version of git](https://github.com/git-guides/install-git).
+
+For some tests, you will need [a recent version of Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/).
+
+
+# 3. Get the source.
+
+The preferred and easiest way to contribute changes is to fork the relevant
+project on GitHub, and then [create a pull request](
+https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/) to ask us to pull your
+changes into our repo.
+
+Please base your changes on the `develop` branch.
+
+```sh
+git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME/synapse.git
+git checkout develop
+```
+
+If you need help getting started with git, this is beyond the scope of the document, but you
+can find many good git tutorials on the web.
+
+# 4. Install the dependencies
+
+## Under Unix (macOS, Linux, BSD, ...)
+
+Once you have installed Python 3 and added the source, please open a terminal and
+setup a *virtualenv*, as follows:
+
+```sh
+cd path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository
+python3 -m venv ./env
+source ./env/bin/activate
+pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
+pip install tox
+```
+
+This will install the developer dependencies for the project.
+
+## Under Windows
+
+TBD
+
+
+# 5. Get in touch.
+
+Join our developer community on Matrix: [#synapse-dev:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org)!
+
+
+# 6. Pick an issue.
+
+Fix your favorite problem or perhaps find a [Good First Issue](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Good+First+Issue%22)
+to work on.
+
+
+# 7. Turn coffee into code and documentation!
+
+There is a growing amount of documentation located in the
+[`docs`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs)
+directory, with a rendered version [available online](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse).
+This documentation is intended primarily for sysadmins running their
+own Synapse instance, as well as developers interacting externally with
+Synapse.
+[`docs/development`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs/development)
+exists primarily to house documentation for
+Synapse developers.
+[`docs/admin_api`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs/admin_api) houses documentation
+regarding Synapse's Admin API, which is used mostly by sysadmins and external
+service developers.
+
+Synapse's code style is documented [here](../code_style.md). Please follow
+it, including the conventions for the [sample configuration
+file](../code_style.md#configuration-file-format).
+
+We welcome improvements and additions to our documentation itself! When
+writing new pages, please
+[build `docs` to a book](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs#adding-to-the-documentation)
+to check that your contributions render correctly. The docs are written in
+[GitHub-Flavoured Markdown](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).
+
+Some documentation also exists in [Synapse's GitHub
+Wiki](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/wiki), although this is primarily
+contributed to by community authors.
+
+
+# 8. Test, test, test!
+<a name="test-test-test"></a>
+
+While you're developing and before submitting a patch, you'll
+want to test your code.
+
+## Run the linters.
+
+The linters look at your code and do two things:
+
+- ensure that your code follows the coding style adopted by the project;
+- catch a number of errors in your code.
+
+They're pretty fast, don't hesitate!
+
+```sh
+source ./env/bin/activate
+./scripts-dev/lint.sh
+```
+
+Note that this script *will modify your files* to fix styling errors.
+Make sure that you have saved all your files.
+
+If you wish to restrict the linters to only the files changed since the last commit
+(much faster!), you can instead run:
+
+```sh
+source ./env/bin/activate
+./scripts-dev/lint.sh -d
+```
+
+Or if you know exactly which files you wish to lint, you can instead run:
+
+```sh
+source ./env/bin/activate
+./scripts-dev/lint.sh path/to/file1.py path/to/file2.py path/to/folder
+```
+
+## Run the unit tests (Twisted trial).
+
+The unit tests run parts of Synapse, including your changes, to see if anything
+was broken. They are slower than the linters but will typically catch more errors.
+
+```sh
+source ./env/bin/activate
+trial tests
+```
+
+If you wish to only run *some* unit tests, you may specify
+another module instead of `tests` - or a test class or a method:
+
+```sh
+source ./env/bin/activate
+trial tests.rest.admin.test_room tests.handlers.test_admin.ExfiltrateData.test_invite
+```
+
+If your tests fail, you may wish to look at the logs (the default log level is `ERROR`):
+
+```sh
+less _trial_temp/test.log
+```
+
+To increase the log level for the tests, set `SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL`:
+
+```sh
+SYNAPSE_TEST_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG trial tests
+```
+
+### Running tests under PostgreSQL
+
+Invoking `trial` as above will use an in-memory SQLite database. This is great for
+quick development and testing. However, we recommend using a PostgreSQL database
+in production (and indeed, we have some code paths specific to each database).
+This means that we need to run our unit tests against PostgreSQL too. Our CI does
+this automatically for pull requests and release candidates, but it's sometimes
+useful to reproduce this locally.
+
+To do so, [configure Postgres](../postgres.md) and run `trial` with the
+following environment variables matching your configuration:
+
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES` to anything nonempty
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST`
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER`
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD`
+
+For example:
+
+```shell
+export SYNAPSE_POSTGRES=1
+export SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST=localhost
+export SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER=postgres
+export SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mydevenvpassword
+trial
+```
+
+#### Prebuilt container
+
+Since configuring PostgreSQL can be fiddly, we can make use of a pre-made
+Docker container to set up PostgreSQL and run our tests for us. To do so, run
+
+```shell
+scripts-dev/test_postgresql.sh
+```
+
+Any extra arguments to the script will be passed to `tox` and then to `trial`,
+so we can run a specific test in this container with e.g.
+
+```shell
+scripts-dev/test_postgresql.sh tests.replication.test_sharded_event_persister.EventPersisterShardTestCase
+```
+
+The container creates a folder in your Synapse checkout called
+`.tox-pg-container` and uses this as a tox environment. The output of any
+`trial` runs goes into `_trial_temp` in your synapse source directory — the same
+as running `trial` directly on your host machine.
+
+## Run the integration tests ([Sytest](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest)).
+
+The integration tests are a more comprehensive suite of tests. They
+run a full version of Synapse, including your changes, to check if
+anything was broken. They are slower than the unit tests but will
+typically catch more errors.
+
+The following command will let you run the integration test with the most common
+configuration:
+
+```sh
+$ docker run --rm -it -v /path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository\:/src:ro -v /path/to/where/you/want/logs\:/logs matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:buster
+```
+
+This configuration should generally cover  your needs. For more details about other configurations, see [documentation in the SyTest repo](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md).
+
+
+## Run the integration tests ([Complement](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement)).
+
+[Complement](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement) is a suite of black box tests that can be run on any homeserver implementation. It can also be thought of as end-to-end (e2e) tests.
+
+It's often nice to develop on Synapse and write Complement tests at the same time.
+Here is how to run your local Synapse checkout against your local Complement checkout.
+
+(checkout [`complement`](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement) alongside your `synapse` checkout)
+```sh
+COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh
+```
+
+To run a specific test file, you can pass the test name at the end of the command. The name passed comes from the naming structure in your Complement tests. If you're unsure of the name, you can do a full run and copy it from the test output:
+
+```sh
+COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh TestBackfillingHistory
+```
+
+To run a specific test, you can specify the whole name structure:
+
+```sh
+COMPLEMENT_DIR=../complement ./scripts-dev/complement.sh TestBackfillingHistory/parallel/Backfilled_historical_events_resolve_with_proper_state_in_correct_order
+```
+
+
+### Access database for homeserver after Complement test runs.
+
+If you're curious what the database looks like after you run some tests, here are some steps to get you going in Synapse:
+
+1. In your Complement test comment out `defer deployment.Destroy(t)` and replace with `defer time.Sleep(2 * time.Hour)` to keep the homeserver running after the tests complete
+1. Start the Complement tests
+1. Find the name of the container, `docker ps -f name=complement_` (this will filter for just the Compelement related Docker containers)
+1. Access the container replacing the name with what you found in the previous step: `docker exec -it complement_1_hs_with_application_service.hs1_2 /bin/bash`
+1. Install sqlite (database driver), `apt-get update && apt-get install -y sqlite3`
+1. Then run `sqlite3` and open the database `.open /conf/homeserver.db` (this db path comes from the Synapse homeserver.yaml)
+
+
+# 9. Submit your patch.
+
+Once you're happy with your patch, it's time to prepare a Pull Request.
+
+To prepare a Pull Request, please:
+
+1. verify that [all the tests pass](#test-test-test), including the coding style;
+2. [sign off](#sign-off) your contribution;
+3. `git push` your commit to your fork of Synapse;
+4. on GitHub, [create the Pull Request](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request);
+5. add a [changelog entry](#changelog) and push it to your Pull Request;
+6. for most contributors, that's all - however, if you are a member of the organization `matrix-org`, on GitHub, please request a review from `matrix.org / Synapse Core`.
+7. if you need to update your PR, please avoid rebasing and just add new commits to your branch.
+
+
+## Changelog
+
+All changes, even minor ones, need a corresponding changelog / newsfragment
+entry. These are managed by [Towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier).
+
+To create a changelog entry, make a new file in the `changelog.d` directory named
+in the format of `PRnumber.type`. The type can be one of the following:
+
+* `feature`
+* `bugfix`
+* `docker` (for updates to the Docker image)
+* `doc` (for updates to the documentation)
+* `removal` (also used for deprecations)
+* `misc` (for internal-only changes)
+
+This file will become part of our [changelog](
+https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CHANGES.md) at the next
+release, so the content of the file should be a short description of your
+change in the same style as the rest of the changelog. The file can contain Markdown
+formatting, and should end with a full stop (.) or an exclamation mark (!) for
+consistency.
+
+Adding credits to the changelog is encouraged, we value your
+contributions and would like to have you shouted out in the release notes!
+
+For example, a fix in PR #1234 would have its changelog entry in
+`changelog.d/1234.bugfix`, and contain content like:
+
+> The security levels of Florbs are now validated when received
+> via the `/federation/florb` endpoint. Contributed by Jane Matrix.
+
+If there are multiple pull requests involved in a single bugfix/feature/etc,
+then the content for each `changelog.d` file should be the same. Towncrier will
+merge the matching files together into a single changelog entry when we come to
+release.
+
+### How do I know what to call the changelog file before I create the PR?
+
+Obviously, you don't know if you should call your newsfile
+`1234.bugfix` or `5678.bugfix` until you create the PR, which leads to a
+chicken-and-egg problem.
+
+There are two options for solving this:
+
+1. Open the PR without a changelog file, see what number you got, and *then*
+   add the changelog file to your branch (see [Updating your pull
+   request](#updating-your-pull-request)), or:
+
+1. Look at the [list of all
+   issues/PRs](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=), add one to the
+   highest number you see, and quickly open the PR before somebody else claims
+   your number.
+
+   [This
+   script](https://github.com/richvdh/scripts/blob/master/next_github_number.sh)
+   might be helpful if you find yourself doing this a lot.
+
+Sorry, we know it's a bit fiddly, but it's *really* helpful for us when we come
+to put together a release!
+
+### Debian changelog
+
+Changes which affect the debian packaging files (in `debian`) are an
+exception to the rule that all changes require a `changelog.d` file.
+
+In this case, you will need to add an entry to the debian changelog for the
+next release. For this, run the following command:
+
+```
+dch
+```
+
+This will make up a new version number (if there isn't already an unreleased
+version in flight), and open an editor where you can add a new changelog entry.
+(Our release process will ensure that the version number and maintainer name is
+corrected for the release.)
+
+If your change affects both the debian packaging *and* files outside the debian
+directory, you will need both a regular newsfragment *and* an entry in the
+debian changelog. (Though typically such changes should be submitted as two
+separate pull requests.)
+
+## Sign off
+
+In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is intentional
+and you agree to license it under the same terms as the project's license, we've adopted the
+same lightweight approach that the Linux Kernel
+[submitting patches process](
+https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin>),
+[Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), and many other
+projects use: the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin:
+http://developercertificate.org/). This is a simple declaration that you wrote
+the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Matrix:
+
+```
+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+660 York Street, Suite 102,
+San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+    have the right to submit it under the open source license
+    indicated in the file; or
+
+(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+    in the file; or
+
+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+    it.
+
+(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+```
+
+If you agree to this for your contribution, then all that's needed is to
+include the line in your commit or pull request comment:
+
+```
+Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
+```
+
+We accept contributions under a legally identifiable name, such as
+your name on government documentation or common-law names (names
+claimed by legitimate usage or repute). Unfortunately, we cannot
+accept anonymous contributions at this time.
+
+Git allows you to add this signoff automatically when using the `-s`
+flag to `git commit`, which uses the name and email set in your
+`user.name` and `user.email` git configs.
+
+
+# 10. Turn feedback into better code.
+
+Once the Pull Request is opened, you will see a few things:
+
+1. our automated CI (Continuous Integration) pipeline will run (again) the linters, the unit tests, the integration tests and more;
+2. one or more of the developers will take a look at your Pull Request and offer feedback.
+
+From this point, you should:
+
+1. Look at the results of the CI pipeline.
+    - If there is any error, fix the error.
+2. If a developer has requested changes, make these changes and let us know if it is ready for a developer to review again.
+3. Create a new commit with the changes.
+    - Please do NOT overwrite the history. New commits make the reviewer's life easier.
+    - Push this commits to your Pull Request.
+4. Back to 1.
+
+Once both the CI and the developers are happy, the patch will be merged into Synapse and released shortly!
+
+# 11. Find a new issue.
+
+By now, you know the drill!
+
+# Notes for maintainers on merging PRs etc
+
+There are some notes for those with commit access to the project on how we
+manage git [here](git.md).
+
+# Conclusion
+
+That's it! Matrix is a very open and collaborative project as you might expect
+given our obsession with open communication. If we're going to successfully
+matrix together all the fragmented communication technologies out there we are
+reliant on contributions and collaboration from the community to do so. So
+please get involved - and we hope you have as much fun hacking on Matrix as we
+do!

docs/development/experimental_features.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Implementing experimental features in Synapse
+
+It can be desirable to implement "experimental" features which are disabled by
+default and must be explicitly enabled via the Synapse configuration. This is
+applicable for features which:
+
+* Are unstable in the Matrix spec (e.g. those defined by an MSC that has not yet been merged).
+* Developers are not confident in their use by general Synapse administrators/users
+  (e.g. a feature is incomplete, buggy, performs poorly, or needs further testing).
+
+Note that this only really applies to features which are expected to be desirable
+to a broad audience. The [module infrastructure](../modules/index.md) should
+instead be investigated for non-standard features.
+
+Guarding experimental features behind configuration flags should help with some
+of the following scenarios:
+
+* Ensure that clients do not assume that unstable features exist (failing
+  gracefully if they do not).
+* Unstable features do not become de-facto standards and can be removed
+  aggressively (since only those who have opted-in will be affected).
+* Ease finding the implementation of unstable features in Synapse (for future
+  removal or stabilization).
+* Ease testing a feature (or removal of feature) due to enabling/disabling without
+  code changes. It also becomes possible to ask for wider testing, if desired.
+
+Experimental configuration flags should be disabled by default (requiring Synapse
+administrators to explicitly opt-in), although there are situations where it makes
+sense (from a product point-of-view) to enable features by default. This is
+expected and not an issue.
+
+It is not a requirement for experimental features to be behind a configuration flag,
+but one should be used if unsure.
+
+New experimental configuration flags should be added under the `experimental`
+configuration key (see the `synapse.config.experimental` file) and either explain
+(briefly) what is being enabled, or include the MSC number.

docs/development/git.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ commits each of which contains a single change building on what came
 before. Here, by way of an arbitrary example, is the top of `git log --graph
 b2dba0607`:
 
-<img src="git/clean.png" alt="clean git graph" width="500px">
+<img src="img/git/clean.png" alt="clean git graph" width="500px">
 
 Note how the commit comment explains clearly what is changing and why. Also
 note the *absence* of merge commits, as well as the absence of commits called
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Ok, so that's what we'd like to achieve. How do we achieve it?
 The TL;DR is: when you come to merge a pull request, you *probably* want to
 “squash and merge”:
 
-![squash and merge](git/squash.png).
+![squash and merge](img/git/squash.png).
 
 (This applies whether you are merging your own PR, or that of another
 contributor.)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ complicated. Here's how we do it.
 
 Let's start with a picture:
 
-![branching model](git/branches.jpg)
+![branching model](img/git/branches.jpg)
 
 It looks complicated, but it's really not. There's one basic rule: *anyone* is
 free to merge from *any* more-stable branch to *any* less-stable branch at

docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# Room DAG concepts
+
+## Edges
+
+The word "edge" comes from graph theory lingo. An edge is just a connection
+between two events. In Synapse, we connect events by specifying their
+`prev_events`. A subsequent event points back at a previous event.
+
+```
+A (oldest) <---- B <---- C (most recent)
+```
+
+
+## Depth and stream ordering
+
+Events are normally sorted by `(topological_ordering, stream_ordering)` where
+`topological_ordering` is just `depth`. In other words, we first sort by `depth`
+and then tie-break based on `stream_ordering`. `depth` is incremented as new
+messages are added to the DAG. Normally, `stream_ordering` is an auto
+incrementing integer, but backfilled events start with `stream_ordering=-1` and decrement.
+
+---
+
+ - `/sync` returns things in the order they arrive at the server (`stream_ordering`).
+ - `/messages` (and `/backfill` in the federation API) return them in the order determined by the event graph `(topological_ordering, stream_ordering)`.
+
+The general idea is that, if you're following a room in real-time (i.e.
+`/sync`), you probably want to see the messages as they arrive at your server,
+rather than skipping any that arrived late; whereas if you're looking at a
+historical section of timeline (i.e. `/messages`), you want to see the best
+representation of the state of the room as others were seeing it at the time.
+
+
+## Forward extremity
+
+Most-recent-in-time events in the DAG which are not referenced by any other events' `prev_events` yet.
+
+The forward extremities of a room are used as the `prev_events` when the next event is sent.
+
+
+## Backwards extremity
+
+The current marker of where we have backfilled up to and will generally be the
+oldest-in-time events we know of in the DAG.
+
+This is an event where we haven't fetched all of the `prev_events` for.
+
+Once we have fetched all of its `prev_events`, it's unmarked as a backwards
+extremity (although we may have formed new backwards extremities from the prev
+events during the backfilling process).
+
+
+## Outliers
+
+We mark an event as an `outlier` when we haven't figured out the state for the
+room at that point in the DAG yet.
+
+We won't *necessarily* have the `prev_events` of an `outlier` in the database,
+but it's entirely possible that we *might*. The status of whether we have all of
+the `prev_events` is marked as a [backwards extremity](#backwards-extremity).
+
+For example, when we fetch the event auth chain or state for a given event, we
+mark all of those claimed auth events as outliers because we haven't done the
+state calculation ourself.
+
+
+## State groups
+
+For every non-outlier event we need to know the state at that event. Instead of
+storing the full state for each event in the DB (i.e. a `event_id -> state`
+mapping), which is *very* space inefficient when state doesn't change, we
+instead assign each different set of state a "state group" and then have
+mappings of `event_id -> state_group` and `state_group -> state`.
+
+
+### Stage group edges
+
+TODO: `state_group_edges` is a further optimization...
+      notes from @Azrenbeth, https://pastebin.com/seUGVGeT

docs/development/saml.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # How to test SAML as a developer without a server
 
-https://capriza.github.io/samling/samling.html (https://github.com/capriza/samling) is a great
-resource for being able to tinker with the SAML options within Synapse without needing to
-deploy and configure a complicated software stack.
+https://fujifish.github.io/samling/samling.html (https://github.com/fujifish/samling) is a great resource for being able to tinker with the 
+SAML options within Synapse without needing to deploy and configure a complicated software stack.
 
-To make Synapse (and therefore Riot) use it:
+To make Synapse (and therefore Element) use it:
 
 1. Use the samling.html URL above or deploy your own and visit the IdP Metadata tab.
 2. Copy the XML to your clipboard.
@@ -26,9 +25,9 @@ To make Synapse (and therefore Riot) use it:
    the dependencies are installed and ready to go.
 7. Restart Synapse.
 
-Then in Riot:
+Then in Element:
 
-1. Visit the login page with a Riot pointing at your homeserver.
+1. Visit the login page and point Element towards your homeserver using the `public_baseurl` above.
 2. Click the Single Sign-On button.
 3. On the samling page, enter a Name Identifier and add a SAML Attribute for `uid=your_localpart`.
    The response must also be signed.

docs/development/url_previews.md

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+URL Previews
+============
+
+The `GET /_matrix/media/r0/preview_url` endpoint provides a generic preview API
+for URLs which outputs [Open Graph](https://ogp.me/) responses (with some Matrix
+specific additions).
+
+This does have trade-offs compared to other designs:
+
+* Pros:
+  * Simple and flexible; can be used by any clients at any point
+* Cons:
+  * If each homeserver provides one of these independently, all the HSes in a
+    room may needlessly DoS the target URI
+  * The URL metadata must be stored somewhere, rather than just using Matrix
+    itself to store the media.
+  * Matrix cannot be used to distribute the metadata between homeservers.
+
+When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
+
+1. Checks against a URL blacklist (defined as `url_preview_url_blacklist` in the
+   config).
+2. Checks the in-memory cache by URLs and returns the result if it exists. (This
+   is also used to de-duplicate processing of multiple in-flight requests at once.)
+3. Kicks off a background process to generate a preview:
+   1. Checks the database cache by URL and timestamp and returns the result if it
+      has not expired and was successful (a 2xx return code).
+   2. Checks if the URL matches an [oEmbed](https://oembed.com/) pattern. If it
+      does, update the URL to download.
+   3. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage provider
+      and saves the local media metadata.
+   4. If the media is an image:
+      1. Generates thumbnails.
+      2. Generates an Open Graph response based on image properties.
+   5. If the media is HTML:
+      1. Decodes the HTML via the stored file.
+      2. Generates an Open Graph response from the HTML.
+      3. If an image exists in the Open Graph response:
+         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage
+            provider and saves the local media metadata.
+         2. Generates thumbnails.
+         3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
+   6. If the media is JSON and an oEmbed URL was found:
+      1. Convert the oEmbed response to an Open Graph response.
+      2. If a thumbnail or image is in the oEmbed response:
+         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage
+            provider and saves the local media metadata.
+         2. Generates thumbnails.
+         3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
+   7. Stores the result in the database cache.
+4. Returns the result.
+
+The in-memory cache expires after 1 hour.
+
+Expired entries in the database cache (and their associated media files) are
+deleted every 10 seconds. The default expiration time is 1 hour from download.

docs/federate.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ you set the `server_name` to match your machine's public DNS hostname.
 
 For this default configuration to work, you will need to listen for TLS
 connections on port 8448. The preferred way to do that is by using a
-reverse proxy: see [reverse_proxy.md](reverse_proxy.md) for instructions
+reverse proxy: see [the reverse proxy documentation](reverse_proxy.md) for instructions
 on how to correctly set one up.
 
 In some cases you might not want to run Synapse on the machine that has
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ traffic to use a different port than 8448. For example, you might want to
 have your user names look like `@user:example.com`, but you want to run
 Synapse on `synapse.example.com` on port 443. This can be done using
 delegation, which allows an admin to control where federation traffic should
-be sent. See [delegate.md](delegate.md) for instructions on how to set this up.
+be sent. See [the delegation documentation](delegate.md) for instructions on how to set this up.
 
 Once federation has been configured, you should be able to join a room over
 federation. A good place to start is `#synapse:matrix.org` - a room for
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ a complicated dance which requires connections in both directions).
 
 Another common problem is that people on other servers can't join rooms that
 you invite them to. This can be caused by an incorrectly-configured reverse
-proxy: see [reverse_proxy.md](reverse_proxy.md) for instructions on how to correctly
-configure a reverse proxy.
+proxy: see [the reverse proxy documentation](reverse_proxy.md) for instructions on how
+to correctly configure a reverse proxy.
 
 ### Known issues
 

docs/log_contexts.md

@@ -10,16 +10,20 @@ Logcontexts are also used for CPU and database accounting, so that we
 can track which requests were responsible for high CPU use or database
 activity.
 
-The `synapse.logging.context` module provides a facilities for managing
+The `synapse.logging.context` module provides facilities for managing
 the current log context (as well as providing the `LoggingContextFilter`
 class).
 
-Deferreds make the whole thing complicated, so this document describes
+Asynchronous functions make the whole thing complicated, so this document describes
 how it all works, and how to write code which follows the rules.
 
-##Logcontexts without Deferreds
+In this document, "awaitable" refers to any object which can be `await`ed. In the context of
+Synapse, that normally means either a coroutine or a Twisted 
+[`Deferred`](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.html).
 
-In the absence of any Deferred voodoo, things are simple enough. As with
+## Logcontexts without asynchronous code
+
+In the absence of any asynchronous voodoo, things are simple enough. As with
 any code of this nature, the rule is that our function should leave
 things as it found them:
 
@@ -55,126 +59,109 @@ def do_request_handling():
     logger.debug("phew")
 ```
 
-## Using logcontexts with Deferreds
+## Using logcontexts with awaitables
 
-Deferreds --- and in particular, `defer.inlineCallbacks` --- break the
-linear flow of code so that there is no longer a single entry point
-where we should set the logcontext and a single exit point where we
-should remove it.
+Awaitables break the linear flow of code so that there is no longer a single entry point
+where we should set the logcontext and a single exit point where we should remove it.
 
 Consider the example above, where `do_request_handling` needs to do some
-blocking operation, and returns a deferred:
+blocking operation, and returns an awaitable:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def handle_request(request_id):
+async def handle_request(request_id):
     with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
         request_context.request = request_id
-        yield do_request_handling()
+        await do_request_handling()
         logger.debug("finished")
 ```
 
 In the above flow:
 
 -   The logcontext is set
--   `do_request_handling` is called, and returns a deferred
--   `handle_request` yields the deferred
--   The `inlineCallbacks` wrapper of `handle_request` returns a deferred
+-   `do_request_handling` is called, and returns an awaitable
+-   `handle_request` awaits the awaitable
+-   Execution of `handle_request` is suspended
 
 So we have stopped processing the request (and will probably go on to
 start processing the next), without clearing the logcontext.
 
 To circumvent this problem, synapse code assumes that, wherever you have
-a deferred, you will want to yield on it. To that end, whereever
-functions return a deferred, we adopt the following conventions:
+an awaitable, you will want to `await` it. To that end, whereever
+functions return awaitables, we adopt the following conventions:
 
-**Rules for functions returning deferreds:**
+**Rules for functions returning awaitables:**
 
-> -   If the deferred is already complete, the function returns with the
+> -   If the awaitable is already complete, the function returns with the
 >     same logcontext it started with.
-> -   If the deferred is incomplete, the function clears the logcontext
->     before returning; when the deferred completes, it restores the
+> -   If the awaitable is incomplete, the function clears the logcontext
+>     before returning; when the awaitable completes, it restores the
 >     logcontext before running any callbacks.
 
 That sounds complicated, but actually it means a lot of code (including
 the example above) "just works". There are two cases:
 
--   If `do_request_handling` returns a completed deferred, then the
+-   If `do_request_handling` returns a completed awaitable, then the
     logcontext will still be in place. In this case, execution will
-    continue immediately after the `yield`; the "finished" line will
+    continue immediately after the `await`; the "finished" line will
     be logged against the right context, and the `with` block restores
     the original context before we return to the caller.
--   If the returned deferred is incomplete, `do_request_handling` clears
+-   If the returned awaitable is incomplete, `do_request_handling` clears
     the logcontext before returning. The logcontext is therefore clear
-    when `handle_request` yields the deferred. At that point, the
-    `inlineCallbacks` wrapper adds a callback to the deferred, and
-    returns another (incomplete) deferred to the caller, and it is safe
-    to begin processing the next request.
+    when `handle_request` `await`s the awaitable.
 
-    Once `do_request_handling`'s deferred completes, it will reinstate
-    the logcontext, before running the callback added by the
-    `inlineCallbacks` wrapper. That callback runs the second half of
-    `handle_request`, so again the "finished" line will be logged
-    against the right context, and the `with` block restores the
-    original context.
+    Once `do_request_handling`'s awaitable completes, it will reinstate
+    the logcontext, before running the second half of `handle_request`,
+    so again the "finished" line will be logged against the right context,
+    and the `with` block restores the original context.
 
 As an aside, it's worth noting that `handle_request` follows our rules
--though that only matters if the caller has its own logcontext which it
+- though that only matters if the caller has its own logcontext which it
 cares about.
 
 The following sections describe pitfalls and helpful patterns when
 implementing these rules.
 
-Always yield your deferreds
----------------------------
+Always await your awaitables
+----------------------------
 
-Whenever you get a deferred back from a function, you should `yield` on
-it as soon as possible. (Returning it directly to your caller is ok too,
-if you're not doing `inlineCallbacks`.) Do not pass go; do not do any
-logging; do not call any other functions.
+Whenever you get an awaitable back from a function, you should `await` on
+it as soon as possible. Do not pass go; do not do any logging; do not
+call any other functions.
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def fun():
+async def fun():
     logger.debug("starting")
-    yield do_some_stuff()       # just like this
+    await do_some_stuff()       # just like this
 
-    d = more_stuff()
-    result = yield d            # also fine, of course
+    coro = more_stuff()
+    result = await coro         # also fine, of course
 
     return result
-
-def nonInlineCallbacksFun():
-    logger.debug("just a wrapper really")
-    return do_some_stuff()      # this is ok too - the caller will yield on
-                                # it anyway.
 ```
 
 Provided this pattern is followed all the way back up to the callchain
 to where the logcontext was set, this will make things work out ok:
 provided `do_some_stuff` and `more_stuff` follow the rules above, then
-so will `fun` (as wrapped by `inlineCallbacks`) and
-`nonInlineCallbacksFun`.
+so will `fun`.
 
-It's all too easy to forget to `yield`: for instance if we forgot that
-`do_some_stuff` returned a deferred, we might plough on regardless. This
+It's all too easy to forget to `await`: for instance if we forgot that
+`do_some_stuff` returned an awaitable, we might plough on regardless. This
 leads to a mess; it will probably work itself out eventually, but not
 before a load of stuff has been logged against the wrong context.
 (Normally, other things will break, more obviously, if you forget to
-`yield`, so this tends not to be a major problem in practice.)
+`await`, so this tends not to be a major problem in practice.)
 
 Of course sometimes you need to do something a bit fancier with your
-Deferreds - not all code follows the linear A-then-B-then-C pattern.
+awaitable - not all code follows the linear A-then-B-then-C pattern.
 Notes on implementing more complex patterns are in later sections.
 
-## Where you create a new Deferred, make it follow the rules
+## Where you create a new awaitable, make it follow the rules
 
-Most of the time, a Deferred comes from another synapse function.
-Sometimes, though, we need to make up a new Deferred, or we get a
-Deferred back from external code. We need to make it follow our rules.
+Most of the time, an awaitable comes from another synapse function.
+Sometimes, though, we need to make up a new awaitable, or we get an awaitable
+back from external code. We need to make it follow our rules.
 
-The easy way to do it is with a combination of `defer.inlineCallbacks`,
-and `context.PreserveLoggingContext`. Suppose we want to implement
+The easy way to do it is by using `context.make_deferred_yieldable`. Suppose we want to implement
 `sleep`, which returns a deferred which will run its callbacks after a
 given number of seconds. That might look like:
 
@@ -186,25 +173,12 @@ def get_sleep_deferred(seconds):
     return d
 ```
 
-That doesn't follow the rules, but we can fix it by wrapping it with
-`PreserveLoggingContext` and `yield` ing on it:
+That doesn't follow the rules, but we can fix it by calling it through
+`context.make_deferred_yieldable`:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def sleep(seconds):
-    with PreserveLoggingContext():
-        yield get_sleep_deferred(seconds)
-```
-
-This technique works equally for external functions which return
-deferreds, or deferreds we have made ourselves.
-
-You can also use `context.make_deferred_yieldable`, which just does the
-boilerplate for you, so the above could be written:
-
-```python
-def sleep(seconds):
-    return context.make_deferred_yieldable(get_sleep_deferred(seconds))
+async def sleep(seconds):
+    return await context.make_deferred_yieldable(get_sleep_deferred(seconds))
 ```
 
 ## Fire-and-forget
@@ -213,20 +187,18 @@ Sometimes you want to fire off a chain of execution, but not wait for
 its result. That might look a bit like this:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def do_request_handling():
-    yield foreground_operation()
+async def do_request_handling():
+    await foreground_operation()
 
     # *don't* do this
     background_operation()
 
     logger.debug("Request handling complete")
 
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def background_operation():
-    yield first_background_step()
+async def background_operation():
+    await first_background_step()
     logger.debug("Completed first step")
-    yield second_background_step()
+    await second_background_step()
     logger.debug("Completed second step")
 ```
 
@@ -235,13 +207,13 @@ The above code does a couple of steps in the background after
 against the `request_context` logcontext, which may or may not be
 desirable. There are two big problems with the above, however. The first
 problem is that, if `background_operation` returns an incomplete
-Deferred, it will expect its caller to `yield` immediately, so will have
+awaitable, it will expect its caller to `await` immediately, so will have
 cleared the logcontext. In this example, that means that 'Request
 handling complete' will be logged without any context.
 
 The second problem, which is potentially even worse, is that when the
-Deferred returned by `background_operation` completes, it will restore
-the original logcontext. There is nothing waiting on that Deferred, so
+awaitable returned by `background_operation` completes, it will restore
+the original logcontext. There is nothing waiting on that awaitable, so
 the logcontext will leak into the reactor and possibly get attached to
 some arbitrary future operation.
 
@@ -254,9 +226,8 @@ deferred completes will be the empty logcontext), and will restore the
 current logcontext before continuing the foreground process:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def do_request_handling():
-    yield foreground_operation()
+async def do_request_handling():
+    await foreground_operation()
 
     # start background_operation off in the empty logcontext, to
     # avoid leaking the current context into the reactor.
@@ -274,16 +245,15 @@ Obviously that option means that the operations done in
 
 The second option is to use `context.run_in_background`, which wraps a
 function so that it doesn't reset the logcontext even when it returns
-an incomplete deferred, and adds a callback to the returned deferred to
+an incomplete awaitable, and adds a callback to the returned awaitable to
 reset the logcontext. In other words, it turns a function that follows
-the Synapse rules about logcontexts and Deferreds into one which behaves
+the Synapse rules about logcontexts and awaitables into one which behaves
 more like an external function --- the opposite operation to that
 described in the previous section. It can be used like this:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def do_request_handling():
-    yield foreground_operation()
+async def do_request_handling():
+    await foreground_operation()
 
     context.run_in_background(background_operation)
 
@@ -294,152 +264,53 @@ def do_request_handling():
 ## Passing synapse deferreds into third-party functions
 
 A typical example of this is where we want to collect together two or
-more deferred via `defer.gatherResults`:
+more awaitables via `defer.gatherResults`:
 
 ```python
-d1 = operation1()
-d2 = operation2()
-d3 = defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+a1 = operation1()
+a2 = operation2()
+a3 = defer.gatherResults([a1, a2])
 ```
 
 This is really a variation of the fire-and-forget problem above, in that
-we are firing off `d1` and `d2` without yielding on them. The difference
+we are firing off `a1` and `a2` without awaiting on them. The difference
 is that we now have third-party code attached to their callbacks. Anyway
 either technique given in the [Fire-and-forget](#fire-and-forget)
 section will work.
 
-Of course, the new Deferred returned by `gatherResults` needs to be
+Of course, the new awaitable returned by `gather` needs to be
 wrapped in order to make it follow the logcontext rules before we can
-yield it, as described in [Where you create a new Deferred, make it
+yield it, as described in [Where you create a new awaitable, make it
 follow the
-rules](#where-you-create-a-new-deferred-make-it-follow-the-rules).
+rules](#where-you-create-a-new-awaitable-make-it-follow-the-rules).
 
 So, option one: reset the logcontext before starting the operations to
 be gathered:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def do_request_handling():
+async def do_request_handling():
     with PreserveLoggingContext():
-        d1 = operation1()
-        d2 = operation2()
-        result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+        a1 = operation1()
+        a2 = operation2()
+        result = await defer.gatherResults([a1, a2])
 ```
 
 In this case particularly, though, option two, of using
-`context.preserve_fn` almost certainly makes more sense, so that
+`context.run_in_background` almost certainly makes more sense, so that
 `operation1` and `operation2` are both logged against the original
 logcontext. This looks like:
 
 ```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def do_request_handling():
-    d1 = context.preserve_fn(operation1)()
-    d2 = context.preserve_fn(operation2)()
+async def do_request_handling():
+    a1 = context.run_in_background(operation1)
+    a2 = context.run_in_background(operation2)
 
-    with PreserveLoggingContext():
-        result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2])
+    result = await make_deferred_yieldable(defer.gatherResults([a1, a2]))
 ```
 
-## Was all this really necessary?
+## A note on garbage-collection of awaitable chains
 
-The conventions used work fine for a linear flow where everything
-happens in series via `defer.inlineCallbacks` and `yield`, but are
-certainly tricky to follow for any more exotic flows. It's hard not to
-wonder if we could have done something else.
-
-We're not going to rewrite Synapse now, so the following is entirely of
-academic interest, but I'd like to record some thoughts on an
-alternative approach.
-
-I briefly prototyped some code following an alternative set of rules. I
-think it would work, but I certainly didn't get as far as thinking how
-it would interact with concepts as complicated as the cache descriptors.
-
-My alternative rules were:
-
--   functions always preserve the logcontext of their caller, whether or
-    not they are returning a Deferred.
--   Deferreds returned by synapse functions run their callbacks in the
-    same context as the function was orignally called in.
-
-The main point of this scheme is that everywhere that sets the
-logcontext is responsible for clearing it before returning control to
-the reactor.
-
-So, for example, if you were the function which started a
-`with LoggingContext` block, you wouldn't `yield` within it --- instead
-you'd start off the background process, and then leave the `with` block
-to wait for it:
-
-```python
-def handle_request(request_id):
-    with context.LoggingContext() as request_context:
-        request_context.request = request_id
-        d = do_request_handling()
-
-    def cb(r):
-        logger.debug("finished")
-
-    d.addCallback(cb)
-    return d
-```
-
-(in general, mixing `with LoggingContext` blocks and
-`defer.inlineCallbacks` in the same function leads to slighly
-counter-intuitive code, under this scheme).
-
-Because we leave the original `with` block as soon as the Deferred is
-returned (as opposed to waiting for it to be resolved, as we do today),
-the logcontext is cleared before control passes back to the reactor; so
-if there is some code within `do_request_handling` which needs to wait
-for a Deferred to complete, there is no need for it to worry about
-clearing the logcontext before doing so:
-
-```python
-def handle_request():
-    r = do_some_stuff()
-    r.addCallback(do_some_more_stuff)
-    return r
-```
-
---- and provided `do_some_stuff` follows the rules of returning a
-Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original logcontext, all is
-happy.
-
-The business of a Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original
-logcontext isn't hard to achieve --- we have it today, in the shape of
-`context._PreservingContextDeferred`:
-
-```python
-def do_some_stuff():
-    deferred = do_some_io()
-    pcd = _PreservingContextDeferred(LoggingContext.current_context())
-    deferred.chainDeferred(pcd)
-    return pcd
-```
-
-It turns out that, thanks to the way that Deferreds chain together, we
-automatically get the property of a context-preserving deferred with
-`defer.inlineCallbacks`, provided the final Defered the function
-`yields` on has that property. So we can just write:
-
-```python
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def handle_request():
-    yield do_some_stuff()
-    yield do_some_more_stuff()
-```
-
-To conclude: I think this scheme would have worked equally well, with
-less danger of messing it up, and probably made some more esoteric code
-easier to write. But again --- changing the conventions of the entire
-Synapse codebase is not a sensible option for the marginal improvement
-offered.
-
-## A note on garbage-collection of Deferred chains
-
-It turns out that our logcontext rules do not play nicely with Deferred
+It turns out that our logcontext rules do not play nicely with awaitable
 chains which get orphaned and garbage-collected.
 
 Imagine we have some code that looks like this:
@@ -451,13 +322,12 @@ def on_something_interesting():
     for d in listener_queue:
         d.callback("foo")
 
-@defer.inlineCallbacks
-def await_something_interesting():
-    new_deferred = defer.Deferred()
-    listener_queue.append(new_deferred)
+async def await_something_interesting():
+    new_awaitable = defer.Deferred()
+    listener_queue.append(new_awaitable)
 
     with PreserveLoggingContext():
-        yield new_deferred
+        await new_awaitable
 ```
 
 Obviously, the idea here is that we have a bunch of things which are
@@ -476,18 +346,19 @@ def reset_listener_queue():
     listener_queue.clear()
 ```
 
-So, both ends of the deferred chain have now dropped their references,
-and the deferred chain is now orphaned, and will be garbage-collected at
-some point. Note that `await_something_interesting` is a generator
-function, and when Python garbage-collects generator functions, it gives
-them a chance to clean up by making the `yield` raise a `GeneratorExit`
+So, both ends of the awaitable chain have now dropped their references,
+and the awaitable chain is now orphaned, and will be garbage-collected at
+some point. Note that `await_something_interesting` is a coroutine, 
+which Python implements as a generator function.  When Python
+garbage-collects generator functions, it gives them a chance to 
+clean up by making the `await` (or `yield`) raise a `GeneratorExit`
 exception. In our case, that means that the `__exit__` handler of
 `PreserveLoggingContext` will carefully restore the request context, but
 there is now nothing waiting for its return, so the request context is
 never cleared.
 
-To reiterate, this problem only arises when *both* ends of a deferred
-chain are dropped. Dropping the the reference to a deferred you're
-supposed to be calling is probably bad practice, so this doesn't
+To reiterate, this problem only arises when *both* ends of a awaitable
+chain are dropped. Dropping the the reference to an awaitable you're
+supposed to be awaiting is bad practice, so this doesn't
 actually happen too much. Unfortunately, when it does happen, it will
 lead to leaked logcontexts which are incredibly hard to track down.

docs/manhole.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Note that this will give administrative access to synapse to **all users** with
 shell access to the server. It should therefore **not** be enabled in
 environments where untrusted users have shell access.
 
-***
+## Configuring the manhole
 
 To enable it, first uncomment the `manhole` listener configuration in
 `homeserver.yaml`. The configuration is slightly different if you're using docker.
@@ -52,22 +52,43 @@ listeners:
     type: manhole
 ```
 
-#### Accessing synapse manhole
+### Security settings
+
+The following config options are available:
+
+- `username` - The username for the manhole (defaults to `matrix`)
+- `password` - The password for the manhole (defaults to `rabbithole`)
+- `ssh_priv_key` - The path to a private SSH key (defaults to a hardcoded value)
+- `ssh_pub_key` - The path to a public SSH key (defaults to a hardcoded value)
+
+For example:
+
+```yaml
+manhole_settings:
+  username: manhole
+  password: mypassword
+  ssh_priv_key: "/home/synapse/manhole_keys/id_rsa"
+  ssh_pub_key: "/home/synapse/manhole_keys/id_rsa.pub"
+```
+
+
+## Accessing synapse manhole
 
 Then restart synapse, and point an ssh client at port 9000 on localhost, using
-the username `matrix`:
+the username and password configured in `homeserver.yaml` - with the default 
+configuration, this would be:
 
 ```bash
 ssh -p9000 matrix@localhost
 ```
 
-The password is `rabbithole`.
+Then enter the password when prompted (the default is `rabbithole`).
 
 This gives a Python REPL in which `hs` gives access to the
 `synapse.server.HomeServer` object - which in turn gives access to many other
 parts of the process.
 
-Note that any call which returns a coroutine will need to be wrapped in `ensureDeferred`.
+Note that, prior to Synapse 1.41, any call which returns a coroutine will need to be wrapped in `ensureDeferred`.
 
 As a simple example, retrieving an event from the database:
 

docs/media_repository.md

@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Remote content is cached under `"remote_content"` directory. Each item of
 remote content is assigned a local `"filesystem_id"` to ensure that the
 directory structure `"remote_content/server_name/aa/bb/ccccccccdddddddddddd"`
 is appropriate. Thumbnails for remote content are stored under
-`"remote_thumbnails/server_name/..."`
+`"remote_thumbnail/server_name/..."`

docs/modules.md

@@ -1,258 +0,0 @@
-# Modules
-
-Synapse supports extending its functionality by configuring external modules.
-
-## Using modules
-
-To use a module on Synapse, add it to the `modules` section of the configuration file:
-
-```yaml
-modules:
-  - module: my_super_module.MySuperClass
-    config:
-      do_thing: true
-  - module: my_other_super_module.SomeClass
-    config: {}
-```
-
-Each module is defined by a path to a Python class as well as a configuration. This
-information for a given module should be available in the module's own documentation.
-
-**Note**: When using third-party modules, you effectively allow someone else to run
-custom code on your Synapse homeserver. Server admins are encouraged to verify the
-provenance of the modules they use on their homeserver and make sure the modules aren't
-running malicious code on their instance.
-
-Also note that we are currently in the process of migrating module interfaces to this
-system. While some interfaces might be compatible with it, others still require
-configuring modules in another part of Synapse's configuration file. Currently, only the
-spam checker interface is compatible with this new system.
-
-## Writing a module
-
-A module is a Python class that uses Synapse's module API to interact with the
-homeserver. It can register callbacks that Synapse will call on specific operations, as
-well as web resources to attach to Synapse's web server.
-
-When instantiated, a module is given its parsed configuration as well as an instance of
-the `synapse.module_api.ModuleApi` class. The configuration is a dictionary, and is
-either the output of the module's `parse_config` static method (see below), or the
-configuration associated with the module in Synapse's configuration file.
-
-See the documentation for the `ModuleApi` class
-[here](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/module_api/__init__.py).
-
-### Handling the module's configuration
-
-A module can implement the following static method:
-
-```python
-@staticmethod
-def parse_config(config: dict) -> dict
-```
-
-This method is given a dictionary resulting from parsing the YAML configuration for the
-module. It may modify it (for example by parsing durations expressed as strings (e.g.
-"5d") into milliseconds, etc.), and return the modified dictionary. It may also verify
-that the configuration is correct, and raise an instance of
-`synapse.module_api.errors.ConfigError` if not.
-
-### Registering a web resource
-
-Modules can register web resources onto Synapse's web server using the following module
-API method:
-
-```python
-def ModuleApi.register_web_resource(path: str, resource: IResource)
-```
-
-The path is the full absolute path to register the resource at. For example, if you
-register a resource for the path `/_synapse/client/my_super_module/say_hello`, Synapse
-will serve it at `http(s)://[HS_URL]/_synapse/client/my_super_module/say_hello`. Note
-that Synapse does not allow registering resources for several sub-paths in the `/_matrix`
-namespace (such as anything under `/_matrix/client` for example). It is strongly
-recommended that modules register their web resources under the `/_synapse/client`
-namespace.
-
-The provided resource is a Python class that implements Twisted's [IResource](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.web.resource.IResource.html)
-interface (such as [Resource](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.web.resource.Resource.html)).
-
-Only one resource can be registered for a given path. If several modules attempt to
-register a resource for the same path, the module that appears first in Synapse's
-configuration file takes priority.
-
-Modules **must** register their web resources in their `__init__` method.
-
-### Registering a callback
-
-Modules can use Synapse's module API to register callbacks. Callbacks are functions that
-Synapse will call when performing specific actions. Callbacks must be asynchronous, and
-are split in categories. A single module may implement callbacks from multiple categories,
-and is under no obligation to implement all callbacks from the categories it registers
-callbacks for.
-
-#### Spam checker callbacks
-
-To register one of the callbacks described in this section, a module needs to use the
-module API's `register_spam_checker_callbacks` method. The callback functions are passed
-to `register_spam_checker_callbacks` as keyword arguments, with the callback name as the
-argument name and the function as its value. This is demonstrated in the example below.
-
-The available spam checker callbacks are:
-
-```python
-async def check_event_for_spam(event: "synapse.events.EventBase") -> Union[bool, str]
-```
-
-Called when receiving an event from a client or via federation. The module can return
-either a `bool` to indicate whether the event must be rejected because of spam, or a `str`
-to indicate the event must be rejected because of spam and to give a rejection reason to
-forward to clients.
-
-```python
-async def user_may_invite(inviter: str, invitee: str, room_id: str) -> bool
-```
-
-Called when processing an invitation. The module must return a `bool` indicating whether
-the inviter can invite the invitee to the given room. Both inviter and invitee are
-represented by their Matrix user ID (i.e. `@alice:example.com`).
-
-```python
-async def user_may_create_room(user: str) -> bool
-```
-
-Called when processing a room creation request. The module must return a `bool` indicating
-whether the given user (represented by their Matrix user ID) is allowed to create a room.
-
-```python
-async def user_may_create_room_alias(user: str, room_alias: "synapse.types.RoomAlias") -> bool
-```
-
-Called when trying to associate an alias with an existing room. The module must return a
-`bool` indicating whether the given user (represented by their Matrix user ID) is allowed
-to set the given alias.
-
-```python
-async def user_may_publish_room(user: str, room_id: str) -> bool
-```
-
-Called when trying to publish a room to the homeserver's public rooms directory. The
-module must return a `bool` indicating whether the given user (represented by their
-Matrix user ID) is allowed to publish the given room.
-
-```python
-async def check_username_for_spam(user_profile: Dict[str, str]) -> bool
-```
-
-Called when computing search results in the user directory. The module must return a
-`bool` indicating whether the given user profile can appear in search results. The profile
-is represented as a dictionary with the following keys:
-
-* `user_id`: The Matrix ID for this user.
-* `display_name`: The user's display name.
-* `avatar_url`: The `mxc://` URL to the user's avatar.
-
-The module is given a copy of the original dictionary, so modifying it from within the
-module cannot modify a user's profile when included in user directory search results.
-
-```python
-async def check_registration_for_spam(
-    email_threepid: Optional[dict],
-    username: Optional[str],
-    request_info: Collection[Tuple[str, str]],
-    auth_provider_id: Optional[str] = None,
-) -> "synapse.spam_checker_api.RegistrationBehaviour"
-```
-
-Called when registering a new user. The module must return a `RegistrationBehaviour`
-indicating whether the registration can go through or must be denied, or whether the user
-may be allowed to register but will be shadow banned.
-
-The arguments passed to this callback are:
-
-* `email_threepid`: The email address used for registering, if any.
-* `username`: The username the user would like to register. Can be `None`, meaning that
-  Synapse will generate one later.
-* `request_info`: A collection of tuples, which first item is a user agent, and which
-  second item is an IP address. These user agents and IP addresses are the ones that were
-  used during the registration process.
-* `auth_provider_id`: The identifier of the SSO authentication provider, if any.
-
-```python
-async def check_media_file_for_spam(
-    file_wrapper: "synapse.rest.media.v1.media_storage.ReadableFileWrapper",
-    file_info: "synapse.rest.media.v1._base.FileInfo"
-) -> bool
-```
-
-Called when storing a local or remote file. The module must return a boolean indicating
-whether the given file can be stored in the homeserver's media store.
-
-### Porting an existing module that uses the old interface
-
-In order to port a module that uses Synapse's old module interface, its author needs to:
-
-* ensure the module's callbacks are all asynchronous.
-* register their callbacks using one or more of the `register_[...]_callbacks` methods
-  from the `ModuleApi` class in the module's `__init__` method (see [this section](#registering-a-callback)
-  for more info).
-
-Additionally, if the module is packaged with an additional web resource, the module
-should register this resource in its `__init__` method using the `register_web_resource`
-method from the `ModuleApi` class (see [this section](#registering-a-web-resource) for
-more info).
-
-The module's author should also update any example in the module's configuration to only
-use the new `modules` section in Synapse's configuration file (see [this section](#using-modules)
-for more info).
-
-### Example
-
-The example below is a module that implements the spam checker callback
-`user_may_create_room` to deny room creation to user `@evilguy:example.com`, and registers
-a web resource to the path `/_synapse/client/demo/hello` that returns a JSON object.
-
-```python
-import json
-
-from twisted.web.resource import Resource
-from twisted.web.server import Request
-
-from synapse.module_api import ModuleApi
-
-
-class DemoResource(Resource):
-    def __init__(self, config):
-        super(DemoResource, self).__init__()
-        self.config = config
-
-    def render_GET(self, request: Request):
-        name = request.args.get(b"name")[0]
-        request.setHeader(b"Content-Type", b"application/json")
-        return json.dumps({"hello": name})
-
-
-class DemoModule:
-    def __init__(self, config: dict, api: ModuleApi):
-        self.config = config
-        self.api = api
-
-        self.api.register_web_resource(
-            path="/_synapse/client/demo/hello",
-            resource=DemoResource(self.config),
-        )
-
-        self.api.register_spam_checker_callbacks(
-            user_may_create_room=self.user_may_create_room,
-        )
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def parse_config(config):
-        return config
-
-    async def user_may_create_room(self, user: str) -> bool:
-        if user == "@evilguy:example.com":
-            return False
-
-        return True
-```

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+# Account validity callbacks
+
+Account validity callbacks allow module developers to add extra steps to verify the
+validity on an account, i.e. see if a user can be granted access to their account on the
+Synapse instance. Account validity callbacks can be registered using the module API's
+`register_account_validity_callbacks` method.
+
+The available account validity callbacks are:
+
+### `is_user_expired`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def is_user_expired(user: str) -> Optional[bool]
+```
+
+Called when processing any authenticated request (except for logout requests). The module
+can return a `bool` to indicate whether the user has expired and should be locked out of
+their account, or `None` if the module wasn't able to figure it out. The user is
+represented by their Matrix user ID (e.g. `@alice:example.com`).
+
+If the module returns `True`, the current request will be denied with the error code
+`ORG_MATRIX_EXPIRED_ACCOUNT` and the HTTP status code 403. Note that this doesn't
+invalidate the user's access token.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `None`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `None` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `on_user_registration`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def on_user_registration(user: str) -> None
+```
+
+Called after successfully registering a user, in case the module needs to perform extra
+operations to keep track of them. (e.g. add them to a database table). The user is
+represented by their Matrix user ID.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, Synapse runs them all in order.

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+# Modules
+
+Synapse supports extending its functionality by configuring external modules.
+
+**Note**: When using third-party modules, you effectively allow someone else to run
+custom code on your Synapse homeserver. Server admins are encouraged to verify the
+provenance of the modules they use on their homeserver and make sure the modules aren't
+running malicious code on their instance.
+
+## Using modules
+
+To use a module on Synapse, add it to the `modules` section of the configuration file:
+
+```yaml
+modules:
+  - module: my_super_module.MySuperClass
+    config:
+      do_thing: true
+  - module: my_other_super_module.SomeClass
+    config: {}
+```
+
+Each module is defined by a path to a Python class as well as a configuration. This
+information for a given module should be available in the module's own documentation.
+
+## Using multiple modules
+
+The order in which modules are listed in this section is important. When processing an
+action that can be handled by several modules, Synapse will always prioritise the module
+that appears first (i.e. is the highest in the list). This means:
+
+* If several modules register the same callback, the callback registered by the module
+  that appears first is used.
+* If several modules try to register a handler for the same HTTP path, only the handler
+  registered by the module that appears first is used. Handlers registered by the other
+  module(s) are ignored and Synapse will log a warning message about them.
+
+Note that Synapse doesn't allow multiple modules implementing authentication checkers via
+the password auth provider feature for the same login type with different fields. If this
+happens, Synapse will refuse to start.
+
+## Current status
+
+We are currently in the process of migrating module interfaces to this system. While some
+interfaces might be compatible with it, others still require configuring modules in
+another part of Synapse's configuration file.
+
+Currently, only the following pre-existing interfaces are compatible with this new system:
+
+* spam checker
+* third-party rules
+* presence router
+* password auth providers

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+# Password auth provider callbacks
+
+Password auth providers offer a way for server administrators to integrate
+their Synapse installation with an external authentication system. The callbacks can be
+registered by using the Module API's `register_password_auth_provider_callbacks` method.
+
+## Callbacks
+
+### `auth_checkers`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.46.0_
+
+```
+ auth_checkers: Dict[Tuple[str,Tuple], Callable]
+```
+
+A dict mapping from tuples of a login type identifier (such as `m.login.password`) and a
+tuple of field names (such as `("password", "secret_thing")`) to authentication checking
+callbacks, which should be of the following form:
+
+```python
+async def check_auth(
+    user: str,
+    login_type: str,
+    login_dict: "synapse.module_api.JsonDict",
+) -> Optional[
+    Tuple[
+        str, 
+        Optional[Callable[["synapse.module_api.LoginResponse"], Awaitable[None]]]
+    ]
+]
+```
+
+The login type and field names should be provided by the user in the
+request to the `/login` API. [The Matrix specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#authentication-types)
+defines some types, however user defined ones are also allowed.
+
+The callback is passed the `user` field provided by the client (which might not be in
+`@username:server` form), the login type, and a dictionary of login secrets passed by
+the client.
+
+If the authentication is successful, the module must return the user's Matrix ID (e.g. 
+`@alice:example.com`) and optionally a callback to be called with the response to the
+`/login` request. If the module doesn't wish to return a callback, it must return `None`
+instead.
+
+If the authentication is unsuccessful, the module must return `None`.
+
+If multiple modules register an auth checker for the same login type but with different
+fields, Synapse will refuse to start.
+
+If multiple modules register an auth checker for the same login type with the same fields,
+then the callbacks will be executed in order, until one returns a Matrix User ID (and
+optionally a callback). In that case, the return value of that callback will be accepted
+and subsequent callbacks will not be fired. If every callback returns `None`, then the
+authentication fails.
+
+### `check_3pid_auth`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.46.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_3pid_auth(
+    medium: str, 
+    address: str,
+    password: str,
+) -> Optional[
+    Tuple[
+        str, 
+        Optional[Callable[["synapse.module_api.LoginResponse"], Awaitable[None]]]
+    ]
+]
+```
+
+Called when a user attempts to register or log in with a third party identifier,
+such as email. It is passed the medium (eg. `email`), an address (eg. `jdoe@example.com`)
+and the user's password.
+
+If the authentication is successful, the module must return the user's Matrix ID (e.g. 
+`@alice:example.com`) and optionally a callback to be called with the response to the `/login` request.
+If the module doesn't wish to return a callback, it must return None instead.
+
+If the authentication is unsuccessful, the module must return `None`.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `None`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `None` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback. If every callback return `None`,
+the authentication is denied.
+
+### `on_logged_out`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.46.0_
+
+```python
+async def on_logged_out(
+    user_id: str,
+    device_id: Optional[str],
+    access_token: str
+) -> None
+``` 
+Called during a logout request for a user. It is passed the qualified user ID, the ID of the
+deactivated device (if any: access tokens are occasionally created without an associated
+device ID), and the (now deactivated) access token.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, Synapse runs them all in order.
+
+## Example
+
+The example module below implements authentication checkers for two different login types: 
+-  `my.login.type` 
+    - Expects a `my_field` field to be sent to `/login`
+    - Is checked by the method: `self.check_my_login`
+- `m.login.password` (defined in [the spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#password-based))
+    - Expects a `password` field to be sent to `/login`
+    - Is checked by the method: `self.check_pass` 
+
+
+```python
+from typing import Awaitable, Callable, Optional, Tuple
+
+import synapse
+from synapse import module_api
+
+
+class MyAuthProvider:
+    def __init__(self, config: dict, api: module_api):
+
+        self.api = api
+
+        self.credentials = {
+            "bob": "building",
+            "@scoop:matrix.org": "digging",
+        }
+
+        api.register_password_auth_provider_callbacks(
+            auth_checkers={
+                ("my.login_type", ("my_field",)): self.check_my_login,
+                ("m.login.password", ("password",)): self.check_pass,
+            },
+        )
+
+    async def check_my_login(
+        self,
+        username: str,
+        login_type: str,
+        login_dict: "synapse.module_api.JsonDict",
+    ) -> Optional[
+        Tuple[
+            str,
+            Optional[Callable[["synapse.module_api.LoginResponse"], Awaitable[None]]],
+        ]
+    ]:
+        if login_type != "my.login_type":
+            return None
+
+        if self.credentials.get(username) == login_dict.get("my_field"):
+            return self.api.get_qualified_user_id(username)
+
+    async def check_pass(
+        self,
+        username: str,
+        login_type: str,
+        login_dict: "synapse.module_api.JsonDict",
+    ) -> Optional[
+        Tuple[
+            str,
+            Optional[Callable[["synapse.module_api.LoginResponse"], Awaitable[None]]],
+        ]
+    ]:
+        if login_type != "m.login.password":
+            return None
+
+        if self.credentials.get(username) == login_dict.get("password"):
+            return self.api.get_qualified_user_id(username)
+```

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+# Porting an existing module that uses the old interface
+
+In order to port a module that uses Synapse's old module interface, its author needs to:
+
+* ensure the module's callbacks are all asynchronous.
+* register their callbacks using one or more of the `register_[...]_callbacks` methods
+  from the `ModuleApi` class in the module's `__init__` method (see [this section](writing_a_module.html#registering-a-callback)
+  for more info).
+
+Additionally, if the module is packaged with an additional web resource, the module
+should register this resource in its `__init__` method using the `register_web_resource`
+method from the `ModuleApi` class (see [this section](writing_a_module.html#registering-a-web-resource) for
+more info).
+
+There is no longer a `get_db_schema_files` callback provided for password auth provider modules. Any
+changes to the database should now be made by the module using the module API class.
+
+The module's author should also update any example in the module's configuration to only
+use the new `modules` section in Synapse's configuration file (see [this section](index.html#using-modules)
+for more info).

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+# Presence router callbacks
+
+Presence router callbacks allow module developers to specify additional users (local or remote)
+to receive certain presence updates from local users. Presence router callbacks can be 
+registered using the module API's `register_presence_router_callbacks` method.
+
+## Callbacks
+
+The available presence router callbacks are:
+
+### `get_users_for_states`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.42.0_
+
+```python 
+async def get_users_for_states(
+    state_updates: Iterable["synapse.api.UserPresenceState"],
+) -> Dict[str, Set["synapse.api.UserPresenceState"]]
+```
+**Requires** `get_interested_users` to also be registered
+
+Called when processing updates to the presence state of one or more users. This callback can
+be used to instruct the server to forward that presence state to specific users. The module
+must return a dictionary that maps from Matrix user IDs (which can be local or remote) to the
+`UserPresenceState` changes that they should be forwarded.
+
+Synapse will then attempt to send the specified presence updates to each user when possible.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, Synapse merges all the dictionaries returned
+by the callbacks. If multiple callbacks return a dictionary containing the same key,
+Synapse concatenates the sets associated with this key from each dictionary. 
+
+### `get_interested_users`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.42.0_
+
+```python
+async def get_interested_users(
+    user_id: str
+) -> Union[Set[str], "synapse.module_api.PRESENCE_ALL_USERS"]
+```
+**Requires** `get_users_for_states` to also be registered
+
+Called when determining which users someone should be able to see the presence state of. This
+callback should return complementary results to `get_users_for_state` or the presence information 
+may not be properly forwarded.
+
+The callback is given the Matrix user ID for a local user that is requesting presence data and
+should return the Matrix user IDs of the users whose presence state they are allowed to
+query. The returned users can be local or remote. 
+
+Alternatively the callback can return `synapse.module_api.PRESENCE_ALL_USERS`
+to indicate that the user should receive updates from all known users.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. Synapse
+calls each callback one by one, and use a concatenation of all the `set`s returned by the
+callbacks. If one callback returns `synapse.module_api.PRESENCE_ALL_USERS`, Synapse uses
+this value instead. If this happens, Synapse does not call any of the subsequent
+implementations of this callback.
+
+## Example
+
+The example below is a module that implements both presence router callbacks, and ensures
+that `@alice:example.org` receives all presence updates from `@bob:example.com` and
+`@charlie:somewhere.org`, regardless of whether Alice shares a room with any of them.
+
+```python
+from typing import Dict, Iterable, Set, Union
+
+from synapse.module_api import ModuleApi
+
+
+class CustomPresenceRouter:
+    def __init__(self, config: dict, api: ModuleApi):
+        self.api = api
+
+        self.api.register_presence_router_callbacks(
+            get_users_for_states=self.get_users_for_states,
+            get_interested_users=self.get_interested_users,
+        )
+
+    async def get_users_for_states(
+        self,
+        state_updates: Iterable["synapse.api.UserPresenceState"],
+    ) -> Dict[str, Set["synapse.api.UserPresenceState"]]:
+        res = {}
+        for update in state_updates:
+            if (
+                update.user_id == "@bob:example.com"
+                or update.user_id == "@charlie:somewhere.org"
+            ):
+                res.setdefault("@alice:example.com", set()).add(update)
+
+        return res
+
+    async def get_interested_users(
+        self,
+        user_id: str,
+    ) -> Union[Set[str], "synapse.module_api.PRESENCE_ALL_USERS"]:
+        if user_id == "@alice:example.com":
+            return {"@bob:example.com", "@charlie:somewhere.org"}
+
+        return set()
+```

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+# Spam checker callbacks
+
+Spam checker callbacks allow module developers to implement spam mitigation actions for
+Synapse instances. Spam checker callbacks can be registered using the module API's
+`register_spam_checker_callbacks` method.
+
+## Callbacks
+
+The available spam checker callbacks are:
+
+### `check_event_for_spam`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_event_for_spam(event: "synapse.events.EventBase") -> Union[bool, str]
+```
+
+Called when receiving an event from a client or via federation. The module can return
+either a `bool` to indicate whether the event must be rejected because of spam, or a `str`
+to indicate the event must be rejected because of spam and to give a rejection reason to
+forward to clients.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `False`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `False` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_join_room`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_join_room(user: str, room: str, is_invited: bool) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when a user is trying to join a room. The module must return a `bool` to indicate
+whether the user can join the room. The user is represented by their Matrix user ID (e.g.
+`@alice:example.com`) and the room is represented by its Matrix ID (e.g.
+`!room:example.com`). The module is also given a boolean to indicate whether the user
+currently has a pending invite in the room.
+
+This callback isn't called if the join is performed by a server administrator, or in the
+context of a room creation.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_invite`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_invite(inviter: str, invitee: str, room_id: str) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when processing an invitation. The module must return a `bool` indicating whether
+the inviter can invite the invitee to the given room. Both inviter and invitee are
+represented by their Matrix user ID (e.g. `@alice:example.com`).
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_send_3pid_invite`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.45.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_send_3pid_invite(
+    inviter: str,
+    medium: str,
+    address: str,
+    room_id: str,
+) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when processing an invitation using a third-party identifier (also called a 3PID,
+e.g. an email address or a phone number). The module must return a `bool` indicating
+whether the inviter can invite the invitee to the given room.
+
+The inviter is represented by their Matrix user ID (e.g. `@alice:example.com`), and the
+invitee is represented by its medium (e.g. "email") and its address
+(e.g. `alice@example.com`). See [the Matrix specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/appendices#pid-types)
+for more information regarding third-party identifiers.
+
+For example, a call to this callback to send an invitation to the email address
+`alice@example.com` would look like this:
+
+```python
+await user_may_send_3pid_invite(
+    "@bob:example.com",  # The inviter's user ID
+    "email",  # The medium of the 3PID to invite
+    "alice@example.com",  # The address of the 3PID to invite
+    "!some_room:example.com",  # The ID of the room to send the invite into
+)
+```
+
+**Note**: If the third-party identifier is already associated with a matrix user ID,
+[`user_may_invite`](#user_may_invite) will be used instead.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_create_room`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_create_room(user: str) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when processing a room creation request. The module must return a `bool` indicating
+whether the given user (represented by their Matrix user ID) is allowed to create a room.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_create_room_with_invites`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.44.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_create_room_with_invites(
+    user: str,
+    invites: List[str],
+    threepid_invites: List[Dict[str, str]],
+) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when processing a room creation request (right after `user_may_create_room`).
+The module is given the Matrix user ID of the user trying to create a room, as well as a
+list of Matrix users to invite and a list of third-party identifiers (3PID, e.g. email
+addresses) to invite.
+
+An invited Matrix user to invite is represented by their Matrix user IDs, and an invited
+3PIDs is represented by a dict that includes the 3PID medium (e.g. "email") through its
+`medium` key and its address (e.g. "alice@example.com") through its `address` key.
+
+See [the Matrix specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/appendices#pid-types) for more
+information regarding third-party identifiers.
+
+If no invite and/or 3PID invite were specified in the room creation request, the
+corresponding list(s) will be empty.
+
+**Note**: This callback is not called when a room is cloned (e.g. during a room upgrade)
+since no invites are sent when cloning a room. To cover this case, modules also need to
+implement `user_may_create_room`.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_create_room_alias`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_create_room_alias(user: str, room_alias: "synapse.types.RoomAlias") -> bool
+```
+
+Called when trying to associate an alias with an existing room. The module must return a
+`bool` indicating whether the given user (represented by their Matrix user ID) is allowed
+to set the given alias.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `user_may_publish_room`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def user_may_publish_room(user: str, room_id: str) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when trying to publish a room to the homeserver's public rooms directory. The
+module must return a `bool` indicating whether the given user (represented by their
+Matrix user ID) is allowed to publish the given room.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `check_username_for_spam`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_username_for_spam(user_profile: Dict[str, str]) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when computing search results in the user directory. The module must return a
+`bool` indicating whether the given user profile can appear in search results. The profile
+is represented as a dictionary with the following keys:
+
+* `user_id`: The Matrix ID for this user.
+* `display_name`: The user's display name.
+* `avatar_url`: The `mxc://` URL to the user's avatar.
+
+The module is given a copy of the original dictionary, so modifying it from within the
+module cannot modify a user's profile when included in user directory search results.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `False`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `False` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `check_registration_for_spam`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_registration_for_spam(
+    email_threepid: Optional[dict],
+    username: Optional[str],
+    request_info: Collection[Tuple[str, str]],
+    auth_provider_id: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> "synapse.spam_checker_api.RegistrationBehaviour"
+```
+
+Called when registering a new user. The module must return a `RegistrationBehaviour`
+indicating whether the registration can go through or must be denied, or whether the user
+may be allowed to register but will be shadow banned.
+
+The arguments passed to this callback are:
+
+* `email_threepid`: The email address used for registering, if any.
+* `username`: The username the user would like to register. Can be `None`, meaning that
+  Synapse will generate one later.
+* `request_info`: A collection of tuples, which first item is a user agent, and which
+  second item is an IP address. These user agents and IP addresses are the ones that were
+  used during the registration process.
+* `auth_provider_id`: The identifier of the SSO authentication provider, if any.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `RegistrationBehaviour.ALLOW`, Synapse falls through to the next one.
+The value of the first callback that does not return `RegistrationBehaviour.ALLOW` will
+be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call any of the subsequent implementations of
+this callback.
+
+### `check_media_file_for_spam`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.37.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_media_file_for_spam(
+    file_wrapper: "synapse.rest.media.v1.media_storage.ReadableFileWrapper",
+    file_info: "synapse.rest.media.v1._base.FileInfo",
+) -> bool
+```
+
+Called when storing a local or remote file. The module must return a boolean indicating
+whether the given file can be stored in the homeserver's media store.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `False`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `False` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+## Example
+
+The example below is a module that implements the spam checker callback
+`check_event_for_spam` to deny any message sent by users whose Matrix user IDs are
+mentioned in a configured list, and registers a web resource to the path
+`/_synapse/client/list_spam_checker/is_evil` that returns a JSON object indicating
+whether the provided user appears in that list.
+
+```python
+import json
+from typing import Union
+
+from twisted.web.resource import Resource
+from twisted.web.server import Request
+
+from synapse.module_api import ModuleApi
+
+
+class IsUserEvilResource(Resource):
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super(IsUserEvilResource, self).__init__()
+        self.evil_users = config.get("evil_users") or []
+
+    def render_GET(self, request: Request):
+        user = request.args.get(b"user")[0].decode()
+        request.setHeader(b"Content-Type", b"application/json")
+        return json.dumps({"evil": user in self.evil_users}).encode()
+
+
+class ListSpamChecker:
+    def __init__(self, config: dict, api: ModuleApi):
+        self.api = api
+        self.evil_users = config.get("evil_users") or []
+
+        self.api.register_spam_checker_callbacks(
+            check_event_for_spam=self.check_event_for_spam,
+        )
+
+        self.api.register_web_resource(
+            path="/_synapse/client/list_spam_checker/is_evil",
+            resource=IsUserEvilResource(config),
+        )
+
+    async def check_event_for_spam(self, event: "synapse.events.EventBase") -> Union[bool, str]:
+        return event.sender not in self.evil_users
+```

docs/modules/third_party_rules_callbacks.md

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+# Third party rules callbacks
+
+Third party rules callbacks allow module developers to add extra checks to verify the
+validity of incoming events. Third party event rules callbacks can be registered using
+the module API's `register_third_party_rules_callbacks` method.
+
+## Callbacks
+
+The available third party rules callbacks are:
+
+### `check_event_allowed`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_event_allowed(
+    event: "synapse.events.EventBase",
+    state_events: "synapse.types.StateMap",
+) -> Tuple[bool, Optional[dict]]
+```
+
+**<span style="color:red">
+This callback is very experimental and can and will break without notice. Module developers
+are encouraged to implement `check_event_for_spam` from the spam checker category instead.
+</span>**
+
+Called when processing any incoming event, with the event and a `StateMap`
+representing the current state of the room the event is being sent into. A `StateMap` is
+a dictionary that maps tuples containing an event type and a state key to the
+corresponding state event. For example retrieving the room's `m.room.create` event from
+the `state_events` argument would look like this: `state_events.get(("m.room.create", ""))`.
+The module must return a boolean indicating whether the event can be allowed.
+
+Note that this callback function processes incoming events coming via federation
+traffic (on top of client traffic). This means denying an event might cause the local
+copy of the room's history to diverge from that of remote servers. This may cause
+federation issues in the room. It is strongly recommended to only deny events using this
+callback function if the sender is a local user, or in a private federation in which all
+servers are using the same module, with the same configuration.
+
+If the boolean returned by the module is `True`, it may also tell Synapse to replace the
+event with new data by returning the new event's data as a dictionary. In order to do
+that, it is recommended the module calls `event.get_dict()` to get the current event as a
+dictionary, and modify the returned dictionary accordingly.
+
+Note that replacing the event only works for events sent by local users, not for events
+received over federation.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `on_create_room`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def on_create_room(
+    requester: "synapse.types.Requester",
+    request_content: dict,
+    is_requester_admin: bool,
+) -> None
+```
+
+Called when processing a room creation request, with the `Requester` object for the user
+performing the request, a dictionary representing the room creation request's JSON body
+(see [the spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#post-matrix-client-r0-createroom)
+for a list of possible parameters), and a boolean indicating whether the user performing
+the request is a server admin.
+
+Modules can modify the `request_content` (by e.g. adding events to its `initial_state`),
+or deny the room's creation by raising a `module_api.errors.SynapseError`.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns without raising an exception, Synapse falls through to the next one. The
+room creation will be forbidden as soon as one of the callbacks raises an exception. If
+this happens, Synapse will not call any of the subsequent implementations of this
+callback.
+
+### `check_threepid_can_be_invited`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_threepid_can_be_invited(
+    medium: str,
+    address: str,
+    state_events: "synapse.types.StateMap",
+) -> bool:
+```
+
+Called when processing an invite via a third-party identifier (i.e. email or phone number).
+The module must return a boolean indicating whether the invite can go through.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+### `check_visibility_can_be_modified`
+
+_First introduced in Synapse v1.39.0_
+
+```python
+async def check_visibility_can_be_modified(
+    room_id: str,
+    state_events: "synapse.types.StateMap",
+    new_visibility: str,
+) -> bool:
+```
+
+Called when changing the visibility of a room in the local public room directory. The
+visibility is a string that's either "public" or "private". The module must return a
+boolean indicating whether the change can go through.
+
+If multiple modules implement this callback, they will be considered in order. If a
+callback returns `True`, Synapse falls through to the next one. The value of the first
+callback that does not return `True` will be used. If this happens, Synapse will not call
+any of the subsequent implementations of this callback.
+
+## Example
+
+The example below is a module that implements the third-party rules callback
+`check_event_allowed` to censor incoming messages as dictated by a third-party service.
+
+```python
+from typing import Optional, Tuple
+
+from synapse.module_api import ModuleApi
+
+_DEFAULT_CENSOR_ENDPOINT = "https://my-internal-service.local/censor-event"
+
+class EventCensorer:
+    def __init__(self, config: dict, api: ModuleApi):
+        self.api = api
+        self._endpoint = config.get("endpoint", _DEFAULT_CENSOR_ENDPOINT)
+
+        self.api.register_third_party_rules_callbacks(
+            check_event_allowed=self.check_event_allowed,
+        )
+
+    async def check_event_allowed(
+        self,
+        event: "synapse.events.EventBase",
+        state_events: "synapse.types.StateMap",
+    ) -> Tuple[bool, Optional[dict]]:
+        event_dict = event.get_dict()
+        new_event_content = await self.api.http_client.post_json_get_json(
+            uri=self._endpoint, post_json=event_dict,
+        )
+        event_dict["content"] = new_event_content
+        return event_dict
+```

docs/modules/writing_a_module.md

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Writing a module
+
+A module is a Python class that uses Synapse's module API to interact with the
+homeserver. It can register callbacks that Synapse will call on specific operations, as
+well as web resources to attach to Synapse's web server.
+
+When instantiated, a module is given its parsed configuration as well as an instance of
+the `synapse.module_api.ModuleApi` class. The configuration is a dictionary, and is
+either the output of the module's `parse_config` static method (see below), or the
+configuration associated with the module in Synapse's configuration file.
+
+See the documentation for the `ModuleApi` class
+[here](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/module_api/__init__.py).
+
+## When Synapse runs with several modules configured
+
+If Synapse is running with other modules configured, the order each module appears in
+within the `modules` section of the Synapse configuration file might restrict what it can
+or cannot register. See [this section](index.html#using-multiple-modules) for more
+information.
+
+On top of the rules listed in the link above, if a callback returns a value that should
+cause the current operation to fail (e.g. if a callback checking an event returns with a
+value that should cause the event to be denied), Synapse will fail the operation and
+ignore any subsequent callbacks that should have been run after this one.
+
+The documentation for each callback mentions how Synapse behaves when
+multiple modules implement it.
+
+## Handling the module's configuration
+
+A module can implement the following static method:
+
+```python
+@staticmethod
+def parse_config(config: dict) -> dict
+```
+
+This method is given a dictionary resulting from parsing the YAML configuration for the
+module. It may modify it (for example by parsing durations expressed as strings (e.g.
+"5d") into milliseconds, etc.), and return the modified dictionary. It may also verify
+that the configuration is correct, and raise an instance of
+`synapse.module_api.errors.ConfigError` if not.
+
+## Registering a web resource
+
+Modules can register web resources onto Synapse's web server using the following module
+API method:
+
+```python
+def ModuleApi.register_web_resource(path: str, resource: IResource) -> None
+```
+
+The path is the full absolute path to register the resource at. For example, if you
+register a resource for the path `/_synapse/client/my_super_module/say_hello`, Synapse
+will serve it at `http(s)://[HS_URL]/_synapse/client/my_super_module/say_hello`. Note
+that Synapse does not allow registering resources for several sub-paths in the `/_matrix`
+namespace (such as anything under `/_matrix/client` for example). It is strongly
+recommended that modules register their web resources under the `/_synapse/client`
+namespace.
+
+The provided resource is a Python class that implements Twisted's [IResource](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.web.resource.IResource.html)
+interface (such as [Resource](https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.web.resource.Resource.html)).
+
+Only one resource can be registered for a given path. If several modules attempt to
+register a resource for the same path, the module that appears first in Synapse's
+configuration file takes priority.
+
+Modules **must** register their web resources in their `__init__` method.
+
+## Registering a callback
+
+Modules can use Synapse's module API to register callbacks. Callbacks are functions that
+Synapse will call when performing specific actions. Callbacks must be asynchronous, and
+are split in categories. A single module may implement callbacks from multiple categories,
+and is under no obligation to implement all callbacks from the categories it registers
+callbacks for.
+
+Modules can register callbacks using one of the module API's `register_[...]_callbacks`
+methods. The callback functions are passed to these methods as keyword arguments, with
+the callback name as the argument name and the function as its value. This is demonstrated
+in the example below. A `register_[...]_callbacks` method exists for each category.
+
+Callbacks for each category can be found on their respective page of the
+[Synapse documentation website](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse).

docs/openid.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ oidc_providers:
         display_name_template: "{{ user.name }}"
 ```
 
-### [Dex][dex-idp]
+### Dex
 
 [Dex][dex-idp] is a simple, open-source, certified OpenID Connect Provider.
 Although it is designed to help building a full-blown provider with an
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ oidc_providers:
         localpart_template: "{{ user.name }}"
         display_name_template: "{{ user.name|capitalize }}"
 ```
-### [Keycloak][keycloak-idp]
+### Keycloak
 
 [Keycloak][keycloak-idp] is an opensource IdP maintained by Red Hat.
 
@@ -166,7 +166,9 @@ oidc_providers:
         localpart_template: "{{ user.preferred_username }}"
         display_name_template: "{{ user.name }}"
 ```
-### [Auth0][auth0]
+### Auth0
+
+[Auth0][auth0] is a hosted SaaS IdP solution.
 
 1. Create a regular web application for Synapse
 2. Set the Allowed Callback URLs to `[synapse public baseurl]/_synapse/client/oidc/callback`
@@ -209,7 +211,7 @@ oidc_providers:
 
 ### GitHub
 
-GitHub is a bit special as it is not an OpenID Connect compliant provider, but
+[GitHub][github-idp] is a bit special as it is not an OpenID Connect compliant provider, but
 just a regular OAuth2 provider.
 
 The [`/user` API endpoint](https://developer.github.com/v3/users/#get-the-authenticated-user)
@@ -242,11 +244,13 @@ oidc_providers:
         display_name_template: "{{ user.name }}"
 ```
 
-### [Google][google-idp]
+### Google
+
+[Google][google-idp] is an OpenID certified authentication and authorisation provider.
 
 1. Set up a project in the Google API Console (see
    https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/openid-connect#appsetup).
-2. add an "OAuth Client ID" for a Web Application under "Credentials".
+2. Add an "OAuth Client ID" for a Web Application under "Credentials".
 3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret, and add the following to your synapse config:
    ```yaml
    oidc_providers:
@@ -410,7 +414,7 @@ oidc_providers:
         display_name_template: "{{ user.name }}"
 ```
 
-## Apple
+### Apple
 
 Configuring "Sign in with Apple" (SiWA) requires an Apple Developer account.
 
@@ -446,3 +450,51 @@ The synapse config will look like this:
       config:
         email_template: "{{ user.email }}"
 ```
+
+## Django OAuth Toolkit
+
+[django-oauth-toolkit](https://github.com/jazzband/django-oauth-toolkit) is a
+Django application providing out of the box all the endpoints, data and logic
+needed to add OAuth2 capabilities to your Django projects. It supports
+[OpenID Connect too](https://django-oauth-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oidc.html).
+
+Configuration on Django's side:
+
+1. Add an application: https://example.com/admin/oauth2_provider/application/add/ and choose parameters like this:
+* `Redirect uris`: https://synapse.example.com/_synapse/client/oidc/callback
+* `Client type`: `Confidential`
+* `Authorization grant type`: `Authorization code`
+* `Algorithm`: `HMAC with SHA-2 256`
+2. You can [customize the claims](https://django-oauth-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oidc.html#customizing-the-oidc-responses) Django gives to synapse (optional):
+   <details>
+    <summary>Code sample</summary>
+
+    ```python
+    class CustomOAuth2Validator(OAuth2Validator):
+
+        def get_additional_claims(self, request):
+            return {
+                "sub": request.user.email,
+                "email": request.user.email,
+                "first_name": request.user.first_name,
+                "last_name": request.user.last_name,
+            }
+    ```
+   </details>
+Your synapse config is then:
+
+```yaml
+oidc_providers:
+  - idp_id: django_example
+    idp_name: "Django Example"
+    issuer: "https://example.com/o/"
+    client_id: "your-client-id"  # CHANGE ME
+    client_secret: "your-client-secret"  # CHANGE ME
+    scopes: ["openid"]
+    user_profile_method: "userinfo_endpoint"  # needed because oauth-toolkit does not include user information in the authorization response
+    user_mapping_provider:
+      config:
+        localpart_template: "{{ user.email.split('@')[0] }}"
+        display_name_template: "{{ user.first_name }} {{ user.last_name }}"
+        email_template: "{{ user.email }}"
+```

docs/password_auth_providers.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+<h2 style="color:red">
+This page of the Synapse documentation is now deprecated. For up to date
+documentation on setting up or writing a password auth provider module, please see
+<a href="modules.md">this page</a>.
+</h2>
+
 # Password auth provider modules
 
 Password auth providers offer a way for server administrators to

docs/presence_router_module.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+<h2 style="color:red">
+This page of the Synapse documentation is now deprecated. For up to date
+documentation on setting up or writing a presence router module, please see
+<a href="modules.md">this page</a>.
+</h2>
+
 # Presence Router Module
 
 Synapse supports configuring a module that can specify additional users

docs/replication.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ minimal.
 
 ### The Replication Protocol
 
-See [tcp_replication.md](tcp_replication.md)
+See [the TCP replication documentation](tcp_replication.md).
 
 ### The Slaved DataStore
 

docs/reverse_proxy.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ port 8448. Where these are different, we refer to the 'client port' and the
 'federation port'. See [the Matrix
 specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names)
 for more details of the algorithm used for federation connections, and
-[delegate.md](delegate.md) for instructions on setting up delegation.
+[Delegation](delegate.md) for instructions on setting up delegation.
 
 **NOTE**: Your reverse proxy must not `canonicalise` or `normalise`
 the requested URI in any way (for example, by decoding `%xx` escapes).
@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ Let's assume that we expect clients to connect to our server at
 `https://example.com:8448`.  The following sections detail the configuration of
 the reverse proxy and the homeserver.
 
+
+## Homeserver Configuration
+
+The HTTP configuration will need to be updated for Synapse to correctly record 
+client IP addresses and generate redirect URLs while behind a reverse proxy. 
+
+In `homeserver.yaml` set `x_forwarded: true` in the port 8008 section and 
+consider setting `bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']` so that the server only
+listens to traffic on localhost. (Do not change `bind_addresses` to `127.0.0.1` 
+when using a containerized Synapse, as that will prevent it from responding
+to proxied traffic.)
+
+
 ## Reverse-proxy configuration examples
 
 **NOTE**: You only need one of these.
@@ -51,6 +64,9 @@ server {
     server_name matrix.example.com;
 
     location ~* ^(\/_matrix|\/_synapse\/client) {
+        # note: do not add a path (even a single /) after the port in `proxy_pass`,
+        # otherwise nginx will canonicalise the URI and cause signature verification
+        # errors.
         proxy_pass http://localhost:8008;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
@@ -63,10 +79,7 @@ server {
 }
 ```
 
-**NOTE**: Do not add a path after the port in `proxy_pass`, otherwise nginx will
-canonicalise/normalise the URI.
-
-### Caddy 1
+### Caddy v1
 
 ```
 matrix.example.com {
@@ -86,7 +99,7 @@ example.com:8448 {
 }
 ```
 
-### Caddy 2
+### Caddy v2
 
 ```
 matrix.example.com {
@@ -98,6 +111,33 @@ example.com:8448 {
   reverse_proxy http://localhost:8008
 }
 ```
+[Delegation](delegate.md) example:
+```
+(matrix-well-known-header) {
+    # Headers
+    header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
+    header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS"
+    header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization"
+    header Content-Type "application/json"
+}
+
+example.com {
+    handle /.well-known/matrix/server {
+        import matrix-well-known-header
+        respond `{"m.server":"matrix.example.com:443"}`
+    }
+
+    handle /.well-known/matrix/client {
+        import matrix-well-known-header
+        respond `{"m.homeserver":{"base_url":"https://matrix.example.com"},"m.identity_server":{"base_url":"https://identity.example.com"}}`
+    }
+}
+
+matrix.example.com {
+    reverse_proxy /_matrix/* http://localhost:8008
+    reverse_proxy /_synapse/client/* http://localhost:8008
+}
+```
 
 ### Apache
 
@@ -212,16 +252,6 @@ relay "matrix_federation" {
 }
 ```
 
-## Homeserver Configuration
-
-You will also want to set `bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']` and
-`x_forwarded: true` for port 8008 in `homeserver.yaml` to ensure that
-client IP addresses are recorded correctly.
-
-Having done so, you can then use `https://matrix.example.com` (instead
-of `https://matrix.example.com:8448`) as the "Custom server" when
-connecting to Synapse from a client.
-
 
 ## Health check endpoint
 

docs/room_and_user_statistics.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Room and User Statistics
 ========================
 
-Synapse maintains room and user statistics (as well as a cache of room state),
-in various tables. These can be used for administrative purposes but are also
-used when generating the public room directory.
+Synapse maintains room and user statistics in various tables. These can be used
+for administrative purposes but are also used when generating the public room
+directory.
 
 
 # Synapse Developer Documentation
@@ -15,48 +15,8 @@ used when generating the public room directory.
 * **subject**: Something we are tracking stats about – currently a room or user.
 * **current row**: An entry for a subject in the appropriate current statistics
     table. Each subject can have only one.
-* **historical row**: An entry for a subject in the appropriate historical
-    statistics table. Each subject can have any number of these.
 
 ### Overview
 
-Stats are maintained as time series. There are two kinds of column:
-
-* absolute columns – where the value is correct for the time given by `end_ts`
-    in the stats row. (Imagine a line graph for these values)
-    * They can also be thought of as 'gauges' in Prometheus, if you are familiar.
-* per-slice columns – where the value corresponds to how many of the occurrences
-    occurred within the time slice given by `(end_ts − bucket_size)…end_ts`
-    or `start_ts…end_ts`. (Imagine a histogram for these values)
-
-Stats are maintained in two tables (for each type): current and historical.
-
-Current stats correspond to the present values. Each subject can only have one
-entry.
-
-Historical stats correspond to values in the past. Subjects may have multiple
-entries.
-
-## Concepts around the management of stats
-
-### Current rows
-
-Current rows contain the most up-to-date statistics for a room.
-They only contain absolute columns
-
-### Historical rows
-
-Historical rows can always be considered to be valid for the time slice and
-end time specified.
-
-* historical rows will not exist for every time slice – they will be omitted
-    if there were no changes. In this case, the following assumptions can be
-    made to interpolate/recreate missing rows:
-    - absolute fields have the same values as in the preceding row
-    - per-slice fields are zero (`0`)
-* historical rows will not be retained forever – rows older than a configurable
-    time will be purged.
-
-#### Purge
-
-The purging of historical rows is not yet implemented.
+Stats correspond to the present values. Current rows contain the most up-to-date
+statistics for a room. Each subject can only have one entry.

docs/sample_config.yaml

@@ -108,20 +108,6 @@ presence:
   #
   #enabled: false
 
-  # Presence routers are third-party modules that can specify additional logic
-  # to where presence updates from users are routed.
-  #
-  presence_router:
-    # The custom module's class. Uncomment to use a custom presence router module.
-    #
-    #module: "my_custom_router.PresenceRouter"
-
-    # Configuration options of the custom module. Refer to your module's
-    # documentation for available options.
-    #
-    #config:
-    #  example_option: 'something'
-
 # Whether to require authentication to retrieve profile data (avatars,
 # display names) of other users through the client API. Defaults to
 # 'false'. Note that profile data is also available via the federation
@@ -210,6 +196,8 @@ presence:
 #
 # This option replaces federation_ip_range_blacklist in Synapse v1.25.0.
 #
+# Note: The value is ignored when an HTTP proxy is in use
+#
 #ip_range_blacklist:
 #  - '127.0.0.0/8'
 #  - '10.0.0.0/8'
@@ -347,6 +335,24 @@ listeners:
   #  bind_addresses: ['::1', '127.0.0.1']
   #  type: manhole
 
+# Connection settings for the manhole
+#
+manhole_settings:
+  # The username for the manhole. This defaults to 'matrix'.
+  #
+  #username: manhole
+
+  # The password for the manhole. This defaults to 'rabbithole'.
+  #
+  #password: mypassword
+
+  # The private and public SSH key pair used to encrypt the manhole traffic.
+  # If these are left unset, then hardcoded and non-secret keys are used,
+  # which could allow traffic to be intercepted if sent over a public network.
+  #
+  #ssh_priv_key_path: CONFDIR/id_rsa
+  #ssh_pub_key_path: CONFDIR/id_rsa.pub
+
 # Forward extremities can build up in a room due to networking delays between
 # homeservers. Once this happens in a large room, calculation of the state of
 # that room can become quite expensive. To mitigate this, once the number of
@@ -466,6 +472,48 @@ limit_remote_rooms:
 #
 #user_ips_max_age: 14d
 
+# Inhibits the /requestToken endpoints from returning an error that might leak
+# information about whether an e-mail address is in use or not on this
+# homeserver.
+# Note that for some endpoints the error situation is the e-mail already being
+# used, and for others the error is entering the e-mail being unused.
+# If this option is enabled, instead of returning an error, these endpoints will
+# act as if no error happened and return a fake session ID ('sid') to clients.
+#
+#request_token_inhibit_3pid_errors: true
+
+# A list of domains that the domain portion of 'next_link' parameters
+# must match.
+#
+# This parameter is optionally provided by clients while requesting
+# validation of an email or phone number, and maps to a link that
+# users will be automatically redirected to after validation
+# succeeds. Clients can make use this parameter to aid the validation
+# process.
+#
+# The whitelist is applied whether the homeserver or an
+# identity server is handling validation.
+#
+# The default value is no whitelist functionality; all domains are
+# allowed. Setting this value to an empty list will instead disallow
+# all domains.
+#
+#next_link_domain_whitelist: ["matrix.org"]
+
+# Templates to use when generating email or HTML page contents.
+#
+templates:
+  # Directory in which Synapse will try to find template files to use to generate
+  # email or HTML page contents.
+  # If not set, or a file is not found within the template directory, a default
+  # template from within the Synapse package will be used.
+  #
+  # See https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/templates.html for more
+  # information about using custom templates.
+  #
+  #custom_template_directory: /path/to/custom/templates/
+
+
 # Message retention policy at the server level.
 #
 # Room admins and mods can define a retention period for their rooms using the
@@ -535,34 +583,6 @@ retention:
   #  - shortest_max_lifetime: 3d
   #    interval: 1d
 
-# Inhibits the /requestToken endpoints from returning an error that might leak
-# information about whether an e-mail address is in use or not on this
-# homeserver.
-# Note that for some endpoints the error situation is the e-mail already being
-# used, and for others the error is entering the e-mail being unused.
-# If this option is enabled, instead of returning an error, these endpoints will
-# act as if no error happened and return a fake session ID ('sid') to clients.
-#
-#request_token_inhibit_3pid_errors: true
-
-# A list of domains that the domain portion of 'next_link' parameters
-# must match.
-#
-# This parameter is optionally provided by clients while requesting
-# validation of an email or phone number, and maps to a link that
-# users will be automatically redirected to after validation
-# succeeds. Clients can make use this parameter to aid the validation
-# process.
-#
-# The whitelist is applied whether the homeserver or an
-# identity server is handling validation.
-#
-# The default value is no whitelist functionality; all domains are
-# allowed. Setting this value to an empty list will instead disallow
-# all domains.
-#
-#next_link_domain_whitelist: ["matrix.org"]
-
 
 ## TLS ##
 
@@ -711,6 +731,15 @@ caches:
   #
   #expiry_time: 30m
 
+  # Controls how long the results of a /sync request are cached for after
+  # a successful response is returned. A higher duration can help clients with
+  # intermittent connections, at the cost of higher memory usage.
+  #
+  # By default, this is zero, which means that sync responses are not cached
+  # at all.
+  #
+  #sync_response_cache_duration: 2m
+
 
 ## Database ##
 
@@ -720,6 +749,9 @@ caches:
 # 'name' gives the database engine to use: either 'sqlite3' (for SQLite) or
 # 'psycopg2' (for PostgreSQL).
 #
+# 'txn_limit' gives the maximum number of transactions to run per connection
+# before reconnecting. Defaults to 0, which means no limit.
+#
 # 'args' gives options which are passed through to the database engine,
 # except for options starting 'cp_', which are used to configure the Twisted
 # connection pool. For a reference to valid arguments, see:
@@ -740,6 +772,7 @@ caches:
 #
 #database:
 #  name: psycopg2
+#  txn_limit: 10000
 #  args:
 #    user: synapse_user
 #    password: secretpassword
@@ -779,6 +812,8 @@ log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 #     is using
 #   - one for registration that ratelimits registration requests based on the
 #     client's IP address.
+#   - one for checking the validity of registration tokens that ratelimits
+#     requests based on the client's IP address.
 #   - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the client's IP
 #     address.
 #   - one for login that ratelimits login requests based on the account the
@@ -807,6 +842,10 @@ log_config: "CONFDIR/SERVERNAME.log.config"
 #  per_second: 0.17
 #  burst_count: 3
 #
+#rc_registration_token_validity:
+#  per_second: 0.1
+#  burst_count: 5
+#
 #rc_login:
 #  address:
 #    per_second: 0.17
@@ -959,6 +998,8 @@ media_store_path: "DATADIR/media_store"
 # This must be specified if url_preview_enabled is set. It is recommended that
 # you uncomment the following list as a starting point.
 #
+# Note: The value is ignored when an HTTP proxy is in use
+#
 #url_preview_ip_range_blacklist:
 #  - '127.0.0.0/8'
 #  - '10.0.0.0/8'
@@ -1053,6 +1094,27 @@ url_preview_accept_language:
 #   - en
 
 
+# oEmbed allows for easier embedding content from a website. It can be
+# used for generating URLs previews of services which support it.
+#
+oembed:
+  # A default list of oEmbed providers is included with Synapse.
+  #
+  # Uncomment the following to disable using these default oEmbed URLs.
+  # Defaults to 'false'.
+  #
+  #disable_default_providers: true
+
+  # Additional files with oEmbed configuration (each should be in the
+  # form of providers.json).
+  #
+  # By default, this list is empty (so only the default providers.json
+  # is used).
+  #
+  #additional_providers:
+  #  - oembed/my_providers.json
+
+
 ## Captcha ##
 # See docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md for full details of configuring this.
 
@@ -1153,6 +1215,15 @@ url_preview_accept_language:
 #
 #enable_3pid_lookup: true
 
+# Require users to submit a token during registration.
+# Tokens can be managed using the admin API:
+# https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/administration/admin_api/registration_tokens.html
+# Note that `enable_registration` must be set to `true`.
+# Disabling this option will not delete any tokens previously generated.
+# Defaults to false. Uncomment the following to require tokens:
+#
+#registration_requires_token: true
+
 # If set, allows registration of standard or admin accounts by anyone who
 # has the shared secret, even if registration is otherwise disabled.
 #
@@ -1310,91 +1381,6 @@ account_threepid_delegates:
 #auto_join_rooms_for_guests: false
 
 
-## Account Validity ##
-
-# Optional account validity configuration. This allows for accounts to be denied
-# any request after a given period.
-#
-# Once this feature is enabled, Synapse will look for registered users without an
-# expiration date at startup and will add one to every account it found using the
-# current settings at that time.
-# This means that, if a validity period is set, and Synapse is restarted (it will
-# then derive an expiration date from the current validity period), and some time
-# after that the validity period changes and Synapse is restarted, the users'
-# expiration dates won't be updated unless their account is manually renewed. This
-# date will be randomly selected within a range [now + period - d ; now + period],
-# where d is equal to 10% of the validity period.
-#
-account_validity:
-  # The account validity feature is disabled by default. Uncomment the
-  # following line to enable it.
-  #
-  #enabled: true
-
-  # The period after which an account is valid after its registration. When
-  # renewing the account, its validity period will be extended by this amount
-  # of time. This parameter is required when using the account validity
-  # feature.
-  #
-  #period: 6w
-
-  # The amount of time before an account's expiry date at which Synapse will
-  # send an email to the account's email address with a renewal link. By
-  # default, no such emails are sent.
-  #
-  # If you enable this setting, you will also need to fill out the 'email' and
-  # 'public_baseurl' configuration sections.
-  #
-  #renew_at: 1w
-
-  # The subject of the email sent out with the renewal link. '%(app)s' can be
-  # used as a placeholder for the 'app_name' parameter from the 'email'
-  # section.
-  #
-  # Note that the placeholder must be written '%(app)s', including the
-  # trailing 's'.
-  #
-  # If this is not set, a default value is used.
-  #
-  #renew_email_subject: "Renew your %(app)s account"
-
-  # Directory in which Synapse will try to find templates for the HTML files to
-  # serve to the user when trying to renew an account. If not set, default
-  # templates from within the Synapse package will be used.
-  #
-  # The currently available templates are:
-  #
-  # * account_renewed.html: Displayed to the user after they have successfully
-  #       renewed their account.
-  #
-  # * account_previously_renewed.html: Displayed to the user if they attempt to
-  #       renew their account with a token that is valid, but that has already
-  #       been used. In this case the account is not renewed again.
-  #
-  # * invalid_token.html: Displayed to the user when they try to renew an account
-  #       with an unknown or invalid renewal token.
-  #
-  # See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates for
-  # default template contents.
-  #
-  # The file name of some of these templates can be configured below for legacy
-  # reasons.
-  #
-  #template_dir: "res/templates"
-
-  # A custom file name for the 'account_renewed.html' template.
-  #
-  # If not set, the file is assumed to be named "account_renewed.html".
-  #
-  #account_renewed_html_path: "account_renewed.html"
-
-  # A custom file name for the 'invalid_token.html' template.
-  #
-  # If not set, the file is assumed to be named "invalid_token.html".
-  #
-  #invalid_token_html_path: "invalid_token.html"
-
-
 ## Metrics ###
 
 # Enable collection and rendering of performance metrics
@@ -1963,6 +1949,9 @@ cas_config:
 # Additional settings to use with single-sign on systems such as OpenID Connect,
 # SAML2 and CAS.
 #
+# Server admins can configure custom templates for pages related to SSO. See
+# https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/templates.html for more information.
+#
 sso:
     # A list of client URLs which are whitelisted so that the user does not
     # have to confirm giving access to their account to the URL. Any client
@@ -1995,169 +1984,6 @@ sso:
     #
     #update_profile_information: true
 
-    # Directory in which Synapse will try to find the template files below.
-    # If not set, or the files named below are not found within the template
-    # directory, default templates from within the Synapse package will be used.
-    #
-    # Synapse will look for the following templates in this directory:
-    #
-    # * HTML page to prompt the user to choose an Identity Provider during
-    #   login: 'sso_login_idp_picker.html'.
-    #
-    #   This is only used if multiple SSO Identity Providers are configured.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #     * redirect_url: the URL that the user will be redirected to after
-    #       login.
-    #
-    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
-    #
-    #     * providers: a list of available Identity Providers. Each element is
-    #       an object with the following attributes:
-    #
-    #         * idp_id: unique identifier for the IdP
-    #         * idp_name: user-facing name for the IdP
-    #         * idp_icon: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
-    #              for the IdP
-    #         * idp_brand: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
-    #              for the brand of the IdP
-    #
-    #   The rendered HTML page should contain a form which submits its results
-    #   back as a GET request, with the following query parameters:
-    #
-    #     * redirectUrl: the client redirect URI (ie, the `redirect_url` passed
-    #       to the template)
-    #
-    #     * idp: the 'idp_id' of the chosen IDP.
-    #
-    # * HTML page to prompt new users to enter a userid and confirm other
-    #   details: 'sso_auth_account_details.html'. This is only shown if the
-    #   SSO implementation (with any user_mapping_provider) does not return
-    #   a localpart.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #
-    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
-    #
-    #     * idp: details of the SSO Identity Provider that the user logged in
-    #       with: an object with the following attributes:
-    #
-    #         * idp_id: unique identifier for the IdP
-    #         * idp_name: user-facing name for the IdP
-    #         * idp_icon: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
-    #              for the IdP
-    #         * idp_brand: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
-    #              for the brand of the IdP
-    #
-    #     * user_attributes: an object containing details about the user that
-    #       we received from the IdP. May have the following attributes:
-    #
-    #         * display_name: the user's display_name
-    #         * emails: a list of email addresses
-    #
-    #   The template should render a form which submits the following fields:
-    #
-    #     * username: the localpart of the user's chosen user id
-    #
-    # * HTML page allowing the user to consent to the server's terms and
-    #   conditions. This is only shown for new users, and only if
-    #   `user_consent.require_at_registration` is set.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #
-    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
-    #
-    #     * user_id: the user's matrix proposed ID.
-    #
-    #     * user_profile.display_name: the user's proposed display name, if any.
-    #
-    #     * consent_version: the version of the terms that the user will be
-    #       shown
-    #
-    #     * terms_url: a link to the page showing the terms.
-    #
-    #   The template should render a form which submits the following fields:
-    #
-    #     * accepted_version: the version of the terms accepted by the user
-    #       (ie, 'consent_version' from the input variables).
-    #
-    # * HTML page for a confirmation step before redirecting back to the client
-    #   with the login token: 'sso_redirect_confirm.html'.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #
-    #     * redirect_url: the URL the user is about to be redirected to.
-    #
-    #     * display_url: the same as `redirect_url`, but with the query
-    #                    parameters stripped. The intention is to have a
-    #                    human-readable URL to show to users, not to use it as
-    #                    the final address to redirect to.
-    #
-    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
-    #
-    #     * new_user: a boolean indicating whether this is the user's first time
-    #          logging in.
-    #
-    #     * user_id: the user's matrix ID.
-    #
-    #     * user_profile.avatar_url: an MXC URI for the user's avatar, if any.
-    #           None if the user has not set an avatar.
-    #
-    #     * user_profile.display_name: the user's display name. None if the user
-    #           has not set a display name.
-    #
-    # * HTML page which notifies the user that they are authenticating to confirm
-    #   an operation on their account during the user interactive authentication
-    #   process: 'sso_auth_confirm.html'.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #     * redirect_url: the URL the user is about to be redirected to.
-    #
-    #     * description: the operation which the user is being asked to confirm
-    #
-    #     * idp: details of the Identity Provider that we will use to confirm
-    #       the user's identity: an object with the following attributes:
-    #
-    #         * idp_id: unique identifier for the IdP
-    #         * idp_name: user-facing name for the IdP
-    #         * idp_icon: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
-    #              for the IdP
-    #         * idp_brand: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
-    #              for the brand of the IdP
-    #
-    # * HTML page shown after a successful user interactive authentication session:
-    #   'sso_auth_success.html'.
-    #
-    #   Note that this page must include the JavaScript which notifies of a successful authentication
-    #   (see https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#fallback).
-    #
-    #   This template has no additional variables.
-    #
-    # * HTML page shown after a user-interactive authentication session which
-    #   does not map correctly onto the expected user: 'sso_auth_bad_user.html'.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
-    #     * server_name: the homeserver's name.
-    #     * user_id_to_verify: the MXID of the user that we are trying to
-    #       validate.
-    #
-    # * HTML page shown during single sign-on if a deactivated user (according to Synapse's database)
-    #   attempts to login: 'sso_account_deactivated.html'.
-    #
-    #   This template has no additional variables.
-    #
-    # * HTML page to display to users if something goes wrong during the
-    #   OpenID Connect authentication process: 'sso_error.html'.
-    #
-    #   When rendering, this template is given two variables:
-    #     * error: the technical name of the error
-    #     * error_description: a human-readable message for the error
-    #
-    # You can see the default templates at:
-    # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates
-    #
-    #template_dir: "res/templates"
-
 
 # JSON web token integration. The following settings can be used to make
 # Synapse JSON web tokens for authentication, instead of its internal
@@ -2261,7 +2087,7 @@ password_config:
       #
       #require_lowercase: true
 
-      # Whether a password must contain at least one lowercase letter.
+      # Whether a password must contain at least one uppercase letter.
       # Defaults to 'false'.
       #
       #require_uppercase: true
@@ -2288,6 +2114,9 @@ ui_auth:
 
 # Configuration for sending emails from Synapse.
 #
+# Server admins can configure custom templates for email content. See
+# https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/templates.html for more information.
+#
 email:
   # The hostname of the outgoing SMTP server to use. Defaults to 'localhost'.
   #
@@ -2310,6 +2139,14 @@ email:
   #
   #require_transport_security: true
 
+  # Uncomment the following to disable TLS for SMTP.
+  #
+  # By default, if the server supports TLS, it will be used, and the server
+  # must present a certificate that is valid for 'smtp_host'. If this option
+  # is set to false, TLS will not be used.
+  #
+  #enable_tls: false
+
   # notif_from defines the "From" address to use when sending emails.
   # It must be set if email sending is enabled.
   #
@@ -2356,49 +2193,6 @@ email:
   #
   #invite_client_location: https://app.element.io
 
-  # Directory in which Synapse will try to find the template files below.
-  # If not set, or the files named below are not found within the template
-  # directory, default templates from within the Synapse package will be used.
-  #
-  # Synapse will look for the following templates in this directory:
-  #
-  # * The contents of email notifications of missed events: 'notif_mail.html' and
-  #   'notif_mail.txt'.
-  #
-  # * The contents of account expiry notice emails: 'notice_expiry.html' and
-  #   'notice_expiry.txt'.
-  #
-  # * The contents of password reset emails sent by the homeserver:
-  #   'password_reset.html' and 'password_reset.txt'
-  #
-  # * An HTML page that a user will see when they follow the link in the password
-  #   reset email. The user will be asked to confirm the action before their
-  #   password is reset: 'password_reset_confirmation.html'
-  #
-  # * HTML pages for success and failure that a user will see when they confirm
-  #   the password reset flow using the page above: 'password_reset_success.html'
-  #   and 'password_reset_failure.html'
-  #
-  # * The contents of address verification emails sent during registration:
-  #   'registration.html' and 'registration.txt'
-  #
-  # * HTML pages for success and failure that a user will see when they follow
-  #   the link in an address verification email sent during registration:
-  #   'registration_success.html' and 'registration_failure.html'
-  #
-  # * The contents of address verification emails sent when an address is added
-  #   to a Matrix account: 'add_threepid.html' and 'add_threepid.txt'
-  #
-  # * HTML pages for success and failure that a user will see when they follow
-  #   the link in an address verification email sent when an address is added
-  #   to a Matrix account: 'add_threepid_success.html' and
-  #   'add_threepid_failure.html'
-  #
-  # You can see the default templates at:
-  # https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates
-  #
-  #template_dir: "res/templates"
-
   # Subjects to use when sending emails from Synapse.
   #
   # The placeholder '%(app)s' will be replaced with the value of the 'app_name'
@@ -2467,34 +2261,6 @@ email:
     #email_validation: "[%(server_name)s] Validate your email"
 
 
-# Password providers allow homeserver administrators to integrate
-# their Synapse installation with existing authentication methods
-# ex. LDAP, external tokens, etc.
-#
-# For more information and known implementations, please see
-# https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/password_auth_providers.html
-#
-# Note: instances wishing to use SAML or CAS authentication should
-# instead use the `saml2_config` or `cas_config` options,
-# respectively.
-#
-password_providers:
-#    # Example config for an LDAP auth provider
-#    - module: "ldap_auth_provider.LdapAuthProvider"
-#      config:
-#        enabled: true
-#        uri: "ldap://ldap.example.com:389"
-#        start_tls: true
-#        base: "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com"
-#        attributes:
-#           uid: "cn"
-#           mail: "email"
-#           name: "givenName"
-#        #bind_dn:
-#        #bind_password:
-#        #filter: "(objectClass=posixAccount)"
-
-
 
 ## Push ##
 
@@ -2569,12 +2335,16 @@ user_directory:
     #enabled: false
 
     # Defines whether to search all users visible to your HS when searching
-    # the user directory, rather than limiting to users visible in public
-    # rooms. Defaults to false.
+    # the user directory. If false, search results will only contain users
+    # visible in public rooms and users sharing a room with the requester.
+    # Defaults to false.
     #
-    # If you set it true, you'll have to rebuild the user_directory search
-    # indexes, see:
-    # https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/user_directory.html
+    # NB. If you set this to true, and the last time the user_directory search
+    # indexes were (re)built was before Synapse 1.44, you'll have to
+    # rebuild the indexes in order to search through all known users.
+    # These indexes are built the first time Synapse starts; admins can
+    # manually trigger a rebuild following the instructions at
+    #     https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/user_directory.html
     #
     # Uncomment to return search results containing all known users, even if that
     # user does not share a room with the requester.
@@ -2653,11 +2423,6 @@ stats:
   #
   #enabled: false
 
-  # The size of each timeslice in the room_stats_historical and
-  # user_stats_historical tables, as a time period. Defaults to "1d".
-  #
-  #bucket_size: 1h
-
 
 # Server Notices room configuration
 #
@@ -2744,19 +2509,6 @@ stats:
 #    action: allow
 
 
-# Server admins can define a Python module that implements extra rules for
-# allowing or denying incoming events. In order to work, this module needs to
-# override the methods defined in synapse/events/third_party_rules.py.
-#
-# This feature is designed to be used in closed federations only, where each
-# participating server enforces the same rules.
-#
-#third_party_event_rules:
-#  module: "my_custom_project.SuperRulesSet"
-#  config:
-#    example_option: 'things'
-
-
 ## Opentracing ##
 
 # These settings enable opentracing, which implements distributed tracing.

docs/sample_log_config.yaml

@@ -24,18 +24,31 @@ handlers:
         backupCount: 3  # Does not include the current log file.
         encoding: utf8
 
-    # Default to buffering writes to log file for efficiency. This means that
-    # will be a delay for INFO/DEBUG logs to get written, but WARNING/ERROR
-    # logs will still be flushed immediately.
+    # Default to buffering writes to log file for efficiency.
+    # WARNING/ERROR logs will still be flushed immediately, but there will be a
+    # delay (of up to `period` seconds, or until the buffer is full with
+    # `capacity` messages) before INFO/DEBUG logs get written.
     buffer:
-        class: logging.handlers.MemoryHandler
+        class: synapse.logging.handlers.PeriodicallyFlushingMemoryHandler
         target: file
-        # The capacity is the number of log lines that are buffered before
-        # being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
+
+        # The capacity is the maximum number of log lines that are buffered
+        # before being written to disk. Increasing this will lead to better
         # performance, at the expensive of it taking longer for log lines to
         # be written to disk.
+        # This parameter is required.
         capacity: 10
-        flushLevel: 30  # Flush for WARNING logs as well
+
+        # Logs with a level at or above the flush level will cause the buffer to
+        # be flushed immediately.
+        # Default value: 40 (ERROR)
+        # Other values: 50 (CRITICAL), 30 (WARNING), 20 (INFO), 10 (DEBUG)
+        flushLevel: 30  # Flush immediately for WARNING logs and higher
+
+        # The period of time, in seconds, between forced flushes.
+        # Messages will not be delayed for longer than this time.
+        # Default value: 5 seconds
+        period: 5
 
     # A handler that writes logs to stderr. Unused by default, but can be used
     # instead of "buffer" and "file" in the logger handlers.

docs/server_notices.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 'Server Notices' are a new feature introduced in Synapse 0.30. They provide a
 channel whereby server administrators can send messages to users on the server.
 
-They are used as part of communication of the server polices(see
-[consent_tracking.md](consent_tracking.md)), however the intention is that
+They are used as part of communication of the server polices (see
+[Consent Tracking](consent_tracking.md)), however the intention is that
 they may also find a use for features such as "Message of the day".
 
 This is a feature specific to Synapse, but it uses standard Matrix

docs/setup/forward_proxy.md

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Using a forward proxy with Synapse
+
+You can use Synapse with a forward or outbound proxy. An example of when
+this is necessary is in corporate environments behind a DMZ (demilitarized zone).
+Synapse supports routing outbound HTTP(S) requests via a proxy. Only HTTP(S)
+proxy is supported, not SOCKS proxy or anything else.
+
+## Configure
+
+The `http_proxy`, `https_proxy`, `no_proxy` environment variables are used to
+specify proxy settings. The environment variable is not case sensitive.
+- `http_proxy`: Proxy server to use for HTTP requests.
+- `https_proxy`: Proxy server to use for HTTPS requests.
+- `no_proxy`: Comma-separated list of hosts, IP addresses, or IP ranges in CIDR
+  format which should not use the proxy. Synapse will directly connect to these hosts.
+
+The `http_proxy` and `https_proxy` environment variables have the form: `[scheme://][<username>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>]`
+- Supported schemes are `http://` and `https://`. The default scheme is `http://`
+  for compatibility reasons; it is recommended to set a scheme. If scheme is set
+  to `https://` the connection uses TLS between Synapse and the proxy.
+
+  **NOTE**: Synapse validates the certificates. If the certificate is not
+  valid, then the connection is dropped.
+- Default port if not given is `1080`.
+- Username and password are optional and will be used to authenticate against
+  the proxy.
+
+**Examples**
+- HTTP_PROXY=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@10.0.1.1:8080/
+- HTTPS_PROXY=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@proxy.example.com:8080/
+- NO_PROXY=master.hostname.example.com,10.1.0.0/16,172.30.0.0/16
+
+**NOTE**:
+Synapse does not apply the IP blacklist to connections through the proxy (since
+the DNS resolution is done by the proxy). It is expected that the proxy or firewall
+will apply blacklisting of IP addresses.
+
+## Connection types
+
+The proxy will be **used** for:
+
+- push
+- url previews
+- phone-home stats
+- recaptcha validation
+- CAS auth validation
+- OpenID Connect
+- Outbound federation
+- Federation (checking public key revocation)
+- Fetching public keys of other servers
+- Downloading remote media
+
+It will **not be used** for:
+
+- Application Services
+- Identity servers
+- In worker configurations
+  - connections between workers
+  - connections from workers to Redis
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+If a proxy server is used with TLS (HTTPS) and no connections are established,
+it is most likely due to the proxy's certificates. To test this, the validation
+in Synapse can be deactivated.
+
+**NOTE**: This has an impact on security and is for testing purposes only!
+
+To deactivate the certificate validation, the following setting must be made in
+[homserver.yaml](../usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.md).
+
+```yaml
+use_insecure_ssl_client_just_for_testing_do_not_use: true
+```

docs/setup/installation.md

@@ -1,44 +1,5 @@
 # Installation Instructions
 
-There are 3 steps to follow under **Installation Instructions**.
-
-- [Installation Instructions](#installation-instructions)
-  - [Choosing your server name](#choosing-your-server-name)
-  - [Installing Synapse](#installing-synapse)
-    - [Installing from source](#installing-from-source)
-      - [Platform-specific prerequisites](#platform-specific-prerequisites)
-        - [Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian](#debianubunturaspbian)
-        - [ArchLinux](#archlinux)
-        - [CentOS/Fedora](#centosfedora)
-        - [macOS](#macos)
-        - [OpenSUSE](#opensuse)
-        - [OpenBSD](#openbsd)
-        - [Windows](#windows)
-    - [Prebuilt packages](#prebuilt-packages)
-      - [Docker images and Ansible playbooks](#docker-images-and-ansible-playbooks)
-      - [Debian/Ubuntu](#debianubuntu)
-        - [Matrix.org packages](#matrixorg-packages)
-        - [Downstream Debian packages](#downstream-debian-packages)
-        - [Downstream Ubuntu packages](#downstream-ubuntu-packages)
-      - [Fedora](#fedora)
-      - [OpenSUSE](#opensuse-1)
-      - [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server](#suse-linux-enterprise-server)
-      - [ArchLinux](#archlinux-1)
-      - [Void Linux](#void-linux)
-      - [FreeBSD](#freebsd)
-      - [OpenBSD](#openbsd-1)
-      - [NixOS](#nixos)
-  - [Setting up Synapse](#setting-up-synapse)
-    - [Using PostgreSQL](#using-postgresql)
-    - [TLS certificates](#tls-certificates)
-    - [Client Well-Known URI](#client-well-known-uri)
-    - [Email](#email)
-    - [Registering a user](#registering-a-user)
-    - [Setting up a TURN server](#setting-up-a-turn-server)
-    - [URL previews](#url-previews)
-    - [Troubleshooting Installation](#troubleshooting-installation)
-
-
 ## Choosing your server name
 
 It is important to choose the name for your server before you install Synapse,
@@ -57,192 +18,10 @@ that your email address is probably `user@example.com` rather than
 
 ## Installing Synapse
 
-### Installing from source
-
-(Prebuilt packages are available for some platforms - see [Prebuilt packages](#prebuilt-packages).)
-
-When installing from source please make sure that the [Platform-specific prerequisites](#platform-specific-prerequisites) are already installed.
-
-System requirements:
-
-- POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.5.2 or later, up to Python 3.9.
-- At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
-
-
-To install the Synapse homeserver run:
-
-```sh
-mkdir -p ~/synapse
-virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env
-source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
-pip install --upgrade pip
-pip install --upgrade setuptools
-pip install matrix-synapse
-```
-
-This will download Synapse from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/matrix-synapse)
-and install it, along with the python libraries it uses, into a virtual environment
-under `~/synapse/env`.  Feel free to pick a different directory if you
-prefer.
-
-This Synapse installation can then be later upgraded by using pip again with the
-update flag:
-
-```sh
-source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
-pip install -U matrix-synapse
-```
-
-Before you can start Synapse, you will need to generate a configuration
-file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before):
-
-```sh
-cd ~/synapse
-python -m synapse.app.homeserver \
-    --server-name my.domain.name \
-    --config-path homeserver.yaml \
-    --generate-config \
-    --report-stats=[yes|no]
-```
-
-... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`.
-
-This command will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
-also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your homeserver to
-identify itself to other homeserver, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
-wise to back them up somewhere safe. (If, for whatever reason, you do need to
-change your homeserver's keys, you may find that other homeserver have the
-old key cached. If you update the signing key, you should change the name of the
-key in the `<server name>.signing.key` file (the second word) to something
-different. See the [spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest.html#retrieving-server-keys) for more information on key management).
-
-To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
-run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and:
-
-```sh
-cd ~/synapse
-source env/bin/activate
-synctl start
-```
-
-#### Platform-specific prerequisites
-
-Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
-C. So before we can install Synapse itself we need a working C compiler and the
-header files for Python C extensions.
-
-##### Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian
-
-Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu or Debian:
-
-```sh
-sudo apt install build-essential python3-dev libffi-dev \
-                     python3-pip python3-setuptools sqlite3 \
-                     libssl-dev virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev
-```
-
-##### ArchLinux
-
-Installing prerequisites on ArchLinux:
-
-```sh
-sudo pacman -S base-devel python python-pip \
-               python-setuptools python-virtualenv sqlite3
-```
-
-##### CentOS/Fedora
-
-Installing prerequisites on CentOS or Fedora Linux:
-
-```sh
-sudo dnf install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
-                 libwebp-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libpq-devel \
-                 python3-virtualenv libffi-devel openssl-devel python3-devel
-sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
-```
-
-##### macOS
-
-Installing prerequisites on macOS:
-
-```sh
-xcode-select --install
-sudo easy_install pip
-sudo pip install virtualenv
-brew install pkg-config libffi
-```
-
-On macOS Catalina (10.15) you may need to explicitly install OpenSSL
-via brew and inform `pip` about it so that `psycopg2` builds:
-
-```sh
-brew install openssl@1.1
-export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
-export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
-```
-
-##### OpenSUSE
-
-Installing prerequisites on openSUSE:
-
-```sh
-sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis
-sudo zypper in python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 python-virtualenv \
-               python-devel libffi-devel libopenssl-devel libjpeg62-devel
-```
-
-##### OpenBSD
-
-A port of Synapse is available under `net/synapse`. The filesystem
-underlying the homeserver directory (defaults to `/var/synapse`) has to be
-mounted with `wxallowed` (cf. `mount(8)`), so creating a separate filesystem
-and mounting it to `/var/synapse` should be taken into consideration.
-
-To be able to build Synapse's dependency on python the `WRKOBJDIR`
-(cf. `bsd.port.mk(5)`) for building python, too, needs to be on a filesystem
-mounted with `wxallowed` (cf. `mount(8)`).
-
-Creating a `WRKOBJDIR` for building python under `/usr/local` (which on a
-default OpenBSD installation is mounted with `wxallowed`):
-
-```sh
-doas mkdir /usr/local/pobj_wxallowed
-```
-
-Assuming `PORTS_PRIVSEP=Yes` (cf. `bsd.port.mk(5)`) and `SUDO=doas` are
-configured in `/etc/mk.conf`:
-
-```sh
-doas chown _pbuild:_pbuild /usr/local/pobj_wxallowed
-```
-
-Setting the `WRKOBJDIR` for building python:
-
-```sh
-echo WRKOBJDIR_lang/python/3.7=/usr/local/pobj_wxallowed  \\nWRKOBJDIR_lang/python/2.7=/usr/local/pobj_wxallowed >> /etc/mk.conf
-```
-
-Building Synapse:
-
-```sh
-cd /usr/ports/net/synapse
-make install
-```
-
-##### Windows
-
-If you wish to run or develop Synapse on Windows, the Windows Subsystem For
-Linux provides a Linux environment on Windows 10 which is capable of using the
-Debian, Fedora, or source installation methods. More information about WSL can
-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.
-
 ### Prebuilt packages
 
-As an alternative to installing from source, prebuilt packages are available
-for a number of platforms.
+Prebuilt packages are available for a number of platforms. These are recommended
+for most users.
 
 #### Docker images and Ansible playbooks
 
@@ -268,9 +47,10 @@ For more details, see
 
 ##### Matrix.org packages
 
-Matrix.org provides Debian/Ubuntu packages of the latest stable version of
-Synapse via <https://packages.matrix.org/debian/>. They are available for Debian
-9 (Stretch), Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), and later. To use them:
+Matrix.org provides Debian/Ubuntu packages of Synapse, for the amd64
+architecture via <https://packages.matrix.org/debian/>.  
+
+To install the latest release:
 
 ```sh
 sudo apt install -y lsb-release wget apt-transport-https
@@ -281,12 +61,16 @@ sudo apt update
 sudo apt install matrix-synapse-py3
 ```
 
-**Note**: if you followed a previous version of these instructions which
-recommended using `apt-key add` to add an old key from
-`https://matrix.org/packages/debian/`, you should note that this key has been
-revoked. You should remove the old key with `sudo apt-key remove
-C35EB17E1EAE708E6603A9B3AD0592FE47F0DF61`, and follow the above instructions to
-update your configuration.
+Packages are also published for release candidates. To enable the prerelease
+channel, add `prerelease` to the `sources.list` line. For example:
+
+```sh
+sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.matrix.org/debian/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg
+echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.matrix.org/debian/ $(lsb_release -cs) main prerelease" |
+    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/matrix-org.list
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install matrix-synapse-py3
+```
 
 The fingerprint of the repository signing key (as shown by `gpg
 /usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg`) is
@@ -394,6 +178,191 @@ doas pkg_add synapse
 Robin Lambertz has packaged Synapse for NixOS at:
 <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/misc/matrix-synapse.nix>
 
+
+### Installing as a Python module from PyPI
+
+It's also possible to install Synapse as a Python module from PyPI.
+
+When following this route please make sure that the [Platform-specific prerequisites](#platform-specific-prerequisites) are already installed.
+
+System requirements:
+
+- POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
+- Python 3.6 or later, up to Python 3.9.
+- At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
+
+To install the Synapse homeserver run:
+
+```sh
+mkdir -p ~/synapse
+virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env
+source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
+pip install --upgrade pip
+pip install --upgrade setuptools
+pip install matrix-synapse
+```
+
+This will download Synapse from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/matrix-synapse)
+and install it, along with the python libraries it uses, into a virtual environment
+under `~/synapse/env`.  Feel free to pick a different directory if you
+prefer.
+
+This Synapse installation can then be later upgraded by using pip again with the
+update flag:
+
+```sh
+source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
+pip install -U matrix-synapse
+```
+
+Before you can start Synapse, you will need to generate a configuration
+file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before):
+
+```sh
+cd ~/synapse
+python -m synapse.app.homeserver \
+    --server-name my.domain.name \
+    --config-path homeserver.yaml \
+    --generate-config \
+    --report-stats=[yes|no]
+```
+
+... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`.
+
+This command will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
+also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your homeserver to
+identify itself to other homeserver, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
+wise to back them up somewhere safe. (If, for whatever reason, you do need to
+change your homeserver's keys, you may find that other homeserver have the
+old key cached. If you update the signing key, you should change the name of the
+key in the `<server name>.signing.key` file (the second word) to something
+different. See the [spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest.html#retrieving-server-keys) for more information on key management).
+
+To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
+run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and:
+
+```sh
+cd ~/synapse
+source env/bin/activate
+synctl start
+```
+
+#### Platform-specific prerequisites
+
+Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
+C. So before we can install Synapse itself we need a working C compiler and the
+header files for Python C extensions.
+
+##### Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian
+
+Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu or Debian:
+
+```sh
+sudo apt install build-essential python3-dev libffi-dev \
+                     python3-pip python3-setuptools sqlite3 \
+                     libssl-dev virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev
+```
+
+##### ArchLinux
+
+Installing prerequisites on ArchLinux:
+
+```sh
+sudo pacman -S base-devel python python-pip \
+               python-setuptools python-virtualenv sqlite3
+```
+
+##### CentOS/Fedora
+
+Installing prerequisites on CentOS or Fedora Linux:
+
+```sh
+sudo dnf install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
+                 libwebp-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libpq-devel \
+                 python3-virtualenv libffi-devel openssl-devel python3-devel
+sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
+```
+
+##### macOS
+
+Installing prerequisites on macOS:
+
+You may need to install the latest Xcode developer tools:
+```sh
+xcode-select --install
+```
+
+On ARM-based Macs you may need to explicitly install libjpeg which is a pillow dependency. You can use Homebrew (https://brew.sh):
+```sh
+ brew install jpeg
+ ```
+
+On macOS Catalina (10.15) you may need to explicitly install OpenSSL
+via brew and inform `pip` about it so that `psycopg2` builds:
+
+```sh
+brew install openssl@1.1
+export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
+export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
+```
+
+##### OpenSUSE
+
+Installing prerequisites on openSUSE:
+
+```sh
+sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis
+sudo zypper in python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 python-virtualenv \
+               python-devel libffi-devel libopenssl-devel libjpeg62-devel
+```
+
+##### OpenBSD
+
+A port of Synapse is available under `net/synapse`. The filesystem
+underlying the homeserver directory (defaults to `/var/synapse`) has to be
+mounted with `wxallowed` (cf. `mount(8)`), so creating a separate filesystem
+and mounting it to `/var/synapse` should be taken into consideration.
+
+To be able to build Synapse's dependency on python the `WRKOBJDIR`
+(cf. `bsd.port.mk(5)`) for building python, too, needs to be on a filesystem
+mounted with `wxallowed` (cf. `mount(8)`).
+
+Creating a `WRKOBJDIR` for building python under `/usr/local` (which on a
+default OpenBSD installation is mounted with `wxallowed`):
+
+```sh
+doas mkdir /usr/local/pobj_wxallowed
+```
+
+Assuming `PORTS_PRIVSEP=Yes` (cf. `bsd.port.mk(5)`) and `SUDO=doas` are
+configured in `/etc/mk.conf`:
+
+```sh
+doas chown _pbuild:_pbuild /usr/local/pobj_wxallowed
+```
+
+Setting the `WRKOBJDIR` for building python:
+
+```sh
+echo WRKOBJDIR_lang/python/3.7=/usr/local/pobj_wxallowed  \\nWRKOBJDIR_lang/python/2.7=/usr/local/pobj_wxallowed >> /etc/mk.conf
+```
+
+Building Synapse:
+
+```sh
+cd /usr/ports/net/synapse
+make install
+```
+
+##### Windows
+
+If you wish to run or develop Synapse on Windows, the Windows Subsystem For
+Linux provides a Linux environment on Windows 10 which is capable of using the
+Debian, Fedora, or source installation methods. More information about WSL can
+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.
+
 ## Setting up Synapse
 
 Once you have installed synapse as above, you will need to configure it.
@@ -409,7 +378,7 @@ instead. Advantages include:
 - allowing the DB to be run on separate hardware
 
 For information on how to install and use PostgreSQL in Synapse, please see
-[docs/postgres.md](../postgres.md)
+[Using Postgres](../postgres.md)
 
 SQLite is only acceptable for testing purposes. SQLite should not be used in
 a production server. Synapse will perform poorly when using
@@ -424,7 +393,7 @@ over HTTPS.
 
 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](../reverse_proxy.md).
+[the reverse proxy documentation](../reverse_proxy.md).
 
 Alternatively, you can configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port. To do
 so, you will need to edit `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
@@ -451,7 +420,7 @@ so, you will need to edit `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
   `cert.pem`).
 
 For a more detailed guide to configuring your server for federation, see
-[federate.md](../federate.md).
+[Federation](../federate.md).
 
 ### Client Well-Known URI
 
@@ -563,9 +532,7 @@ 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.md](../turn-howto.md)
-for details.
+a TURN server. See [TURN setup](../turn-howto.md) for details.
 
 ### URL previews
 

docs/spam_checker.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-**Note: this page of the Synapse documentation is now deprecated. For up to date
+<h2 style="color:red">
+This page of the Synapse documentation is now deprecated. For up to date
 documentation on setting up or writing a spam checker module, please see
-[this page](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/modules.html).**
+<a href="modules.md">this page</a>.
+</h2>
 
 # Handling spam in Synapse
 

docs/systemd-with-workers/README.md

@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ contains an example configuration for the `federation_reader` worker.
 
 ## Synapse configuration files
 
-See [workers.md](../workers.md) for information on how to set up the
-configuration files and reverse-proxy correctly. You can find an example worker
-config in the [workers](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs/systemd-with-workers/workers/)
-folder.
+See [the worker documentation](../workers.md) for information on how to set up the
+configuration files and reverse-proxy correctly.
+Below is a sample `federation_reader` worker configuration file.
+```yaml
+{{#include workers/federation_reader.yaml}}
+```
 
 Systemd manages daemonization itself, so ensure that none of the configuration
 files set either `daemonize` or `worker_daemonize`.
@@ -72,12 +74,12 @@ systemctl restart matrix-synapse.target
 
 **Optional:** If further hardening is desired, the file
 `override-hardened.conf` may be copied from
-`contrib/systemd/override-hardened.conf` in this repository to the location
+[contrib/systemd/override-hardened.conf](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/contrib/systemd/)
+in this repository to the location
 `/etc/systemd/system/matrix-synapse.service.d/override-hardened.conf` (the
 directory may have to be created). It enables certain sandboxing features in
 systemd to further secure the synapse service. You may read the comments to
-understand what the override file is doing. The same file will need to be copied
-to
+understand what the override file is doing. The same file will need to be copied to
 `/etc/systemd/system/matrix-synapse-worker@.service.d/override-hardened-worker.conf`
 (this directory may also have to be created) in order to apply the same
 hardening options to any worker processes.

docs/templates.md

@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+# Templates
+
+Synapse uses parametrised templates to generate the content of emails it sends and
+webpages it shows to users.
+
+By default, Synapse will use the templates listed [here](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates).
+Server admins can configure an additional directory for Synapse to look for templates
+in, allowing them to specify custom templates:
+
+```yaml
+templates:
+  custom_templates_directory: /path/to/custom/templates/
+```
+
+If this setting is not set, or the files named below are not found within the directory,
+default templates from within the Synapse package will be used.
+
+Templates that are given variables when being rendered are rendered using [Jinja 2](https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/).
+Templates rendered by Jinja 2 can also access two functions on top of the functions
+already available as part of Jinja 2:
+
+```python
+format_ts(value: int, format: str) -> str
+```
+
+Formats a timestamp in milliseconds.
+
+Example: `reason.last_sent_ts|format_ts("%c")`
+
+```python
+mxc_to_http(value: str, width: int, height: int, resize_method: str = "crop") -> str
+```
+
+Turns a `mxc://` URL for media content into an HTTP(S) one using the homeserver's
+`public_baseurl` configuration setting as the URL's base.
+
+Example: `message.sender_avatar_url|mxc_to_http(32,32)`
+
+
+## Email templates
+
+Below are the templates Synapse will look for when generating the content of an email:
+
+* `notif_mail.html` and `notif_mail.txt`: The contents of email notifications of missed
+  events.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `user_display_name`: the display name for the user receiving the notification
+    * `unsubscribe_link`: the link users can click to unsubscribe from email notifications
+    * `summary_text`: a summary of the notification(s). The text used can be customised
+      by configuring the various settings in the `email.subjects` section of the
+      configuration file.
+    * `rooms`: a list of rooms containing events to include in the email. Each element is
+      an object with the following attributes:
+        * `title`: a human-readable name for the room
+        * `hash`: a hash of the ID of the room
+        * `invite`: a boolean, which is `True` if the room is an invite the user hasn't
+          accepted yet, `False` otherwise
+        * `notifs`: a list of events, or an empty list if `invite` is `True`. Each element
+          is an object with the following attributes:
+            * `link`: a `matrix.to` link to the event
+            * `ts`: the time in milliseconds at which the event was received
+            * `messages`: a list of messages containing one message before the event, the
+              message in the event, and one message after the event. Each element is an
+              object with the following attributes:
+                * `event_type`: the type of the event
+                * `is_historical`: a boolean, which is `False` if the message is the one
+                  that triggered the notification, `True` otherwise
+                * `id`: the ID of the event
+                * `ts`: the time in milliseconds at which the event was sent
+                * `sender_name`: the display name for the event's sender
+                * `sender_avatar_url`: the avatar URL (as a `mxc://` URL) for the event's
+                  sender
+                * `sender_hash`: a hash of the user ID of the sender
+        * `link`: a `matrix.to` link to the room
+    * `reason`: information on the event that triggered the email to be sent. It's an
+      object with the following attributes:
+        * `room_id`: the ID of the room the event was sent in
+        * `room_name`: a human-readable name for the room the event was sent in
+        * `now`: the current time in milliseconds
+        * `received_at`: the time in milliseconds at which the event was received
+        * `delay_before_mail_ms`: the amount of time in milliseconds Synapse always waits
+          before ever emailing about a notification (to give the user a chance to respond
+          to other push or notice the window)
+        * `last_sent_ts`: the time in milliseconds at which a notification was last sent
+          for an event in this room
+        * `throttle_ms`: the minimum amount of time in milliseconds between two
+          notifications can be sent for this room
+* `password_reset.html` and `password_reset.txt`: The contents of password reset emails
+  sent by the homeserver.
+  When rendering, these templates are given a `link` variable which contains the link the
+  user must click in order to reset their password.
+* `registration.html` and `registration.txt`: The contents of address verification emails
+  sent during registration.
+  When rendering, these templates are given a `link` variable which contains the link the
+  user must click in order to validate their email address.
+* `add_threepid.html` and `add_threepid.txt`: The contents of address verification emails
+  sent when an address is added to a Matrix account.
+  When rendering, these templates are given a `link` variable which contains the link the
+  user must click in order to validate their email address.
+
+
+## HTML page templates for registration and password reset
+
+Below are the templates Synapse will look for when generating pages related to
+registration and password reset:
+
+* `password_reset_confirmation.html`: An HTML page that a user will see when they follow
+  the link in the password reset email. The user will be asked to confirm the action
+  before their password is reset.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `sid`: the session ID for the password reset
+    * `token`: the token for the password reset
+    * `client_secret`: the client secret for the password reset
+* `password_reset_success.html` and `password_reset_failure.html`: HTML pages for success
+  and failure that a user will see when they confirm the password reset flow using the
+  page above.
+  When rendering, `password_reset_success.html` is given no variable, and
+  `password_reset_failure.html` is given a `failure_reason`, which contains the reason
+  for the password reset failure. 
+* `registration_success.html` and `registration_failure.html`: HTML pages for success and
+  failure that a user will see when they follow the link in an address verification email
+  sent during registration.
+  When rendering, `registration_success.html` is given no variable, and
+  `registration_failure.html` is given a `failure_reason`, which contains the reason
+  for the registration failure.
+* `add_threepid_success.html` and `add_threepid_failure.html`: HTML pages for success and
+  failure that a user will see when they follow the link in an address verification email
+  sent when an address is added to a Matrix account.
+  When rendering, `add_threepid_success.html` is given no variable, and
+  `add_threepid_failure.html` is given a `failure_reason`, which contains the reason
+  for the registration failure.
+
+
+## HTML page templates for Single Sign-On (SSO)
+
+Below are the templates Synapse will look for when generating pages related to SSO:
+
+* `sso_login_idp_picker.html`: HTML page to prompt the user to choose an
+  Identity Provider during login.
+  This is only used if multiple SSO Identity Providers are configured.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `redirect_url`: the URL that the user will be redirected to after
+      login.
+    * `server_name`: the homeserver's name.
+    * `providers`: a list of available Identity Providers. Each element is
+      an object with the following attributes:
+        * `idp_id`: unique identifier for the IdP
+        * `idp_name`: user-facing name for the IdP
+        * `idp_icon`: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
+             for the IdP
+        * `idp_brand`: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
+             for the brand of the IdP
+  The rendered HTML page should contain a form which submits its results
+  back as a GET request, with the following query parameters:
+    * `redirectUrl`: the client redirect URI (ie, the `redirect_url` passed
+      to the template)
+    * `idp`: the 'idp_id' of the chosen IDP.
+* `sso_auth_account_details.html`: HTML page to prompt new users to enter a
+  userid and confirm other details. This is only shown if the
+  SSO implementation (with any `user_mapping_provider`) does not return
+  a localpart.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `server_name`: the homeserver's name.
+    * `idp`: details of the SSO Identity Provider that the user logged in
+      with: an object with the following attributes:
+        * `idp_id`: unique identifier for the IdP
+        * `idp_name`: user-facing name for the IdP
+        * `idp_icon`: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
+             for the IdP
+        * `idp_brand`: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
+             for the brand of the IdP
+    * `user_attributes`: an object containing details about the user that
+      we received from the IdP. May have the following attributes:
+        * display_name: the user's display_name
+        * emails: a list of email addresses
+  The template should render a form which submits the following fields:
+    * `username`: the localpart of the user's chosen user id
+* `sso_new_user_consent.html`: HTML page allowing the user to consent to the
+  server's terms and conditions. This is only shown for new users, and only if
+  `user_consent.require_at_registration` is set.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `server_name`: the homeserver's name.
+    * `user_id`: the user's matrix proposed ID.
+    * `user_profile.display_name`: the user's proposed display name, if any.
+    * consent_version: the version of the terms that the user will be
+      shown
+    * `terms_url`: a link to the page showing the terms.
+  The template should render a form which submits the following fields:
+    * `accepted_version`: the version of the terms accepted by the user
+      (ie, 'consent_version' from the input variables).
+* `sso_redirect_confirm.html`: HTML page for a confirmation step before redirecting back
+  to the client with the login token.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `redirect_url`: the URL the user is about to be redirected to.
+    * `display_url`: the same as `redirect_url`, but with the query
+                   parameters stripped. The intention is to have a
+                   human-readable URL to show to users, not to use it as
+                   the final address to redirect to.
+    * `server_name`: the homeserver's name.
+    * `new_user`: a boolean indicating whether this is the user's first time
+         logging in.
+    * `user_id`: the user's matrix ID.
+    * `user_profile.avatar_url`: an MXC URI for the user's avatar, if any.
+          `None` if the user has not set an avatar.
+    * `user_profile.display_name`: the user's display name. `None` if the user
+          has not set a display name.
+* `sso_auth_confirm.html`: HTML page which notifies the user that they are authenticating
+  to confirm an operation on their account during the user interactive authentication
+  process.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `redirect_url`: the URL the user is about to be redirected to.
+    * `description`: the operation which the user is being asked to confirm
+    * `idp`: details of the Identity Provider that we will use to confirm
+      the user's identity: an object with the following attributes:
+        * `idp_id`: unique identifier for the IdP
+        * `idp_name`: user-facing name for the IdP
+        * `idp_icon`: if specified in the IdP config, an MXC URI for an icon
+             for the IdP
+        * `idp_brand`: if specified in the IdP config, a textual identifier
+             for the brand of the IdP
+* `sso_auth_success.html`: HTML page shown after a successful user interactive
+  authentication session.
+  Note that this page must include the JavaScript which notifies of a successful
+  authentication (see https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#fallback).
+  This template has no additional variables.
+* `sso_auth_bad_user.html`: HTML page shown after a user-interactive authentication
+  session which does not map correctly onto the expected user.
+  When rendering, this template is given the following variables:
+    * `server_name`: the homeserver's name.
+    * `user_id_to_verify`: the MXID of the user that we are trying to
+      validate.
+* `sso_account_deactivated.html`: HTML page shown during single sign-on if a deactivated
+  user (according to Synapse's database) attempts to login.
+  This template has no additional variables.
+* `sso_error.html`: HTML page to display to users if something goes wrong during the
+  OpenID Connect authentication process.
+  When rendering, this template is given two variables:
+    * `error`: the technical name of the error
+    * `error_description`: a human-readable message for the error

docs/upgrade.md

@@ -85,6 +85,114 @@ process, for example:
     dpkg -i matrix-synapse-py3_1.3.0+stretch1_amd64.deb
     ```
 
+# Upgrading to v1.45.0
+
+## Changes required to media storage provider modules when reading from the Synapse configuration object
+
+Media storage provider modules that read from the Synapse configuration object (i.e. that
+read the value of `hs.config.[...]`) now need to specify the configuration section they're
+reading from. This means that if a module reads the value of e.g. `hs.config.media_store_path`,
+it needs to replace it with `hs.config.media.media_store_path`.
+
+# Upgrading to v1.44.0
+
+## The URL preview cache is no longer mirrored to storage providers
+The `url_cache/` and `url_cache_thumbnails/` directories in the media store are
+no longer mirrored to storage providers. These two directories can be safely
+deleted from any configured storage providers to reclaim space.
+
+# Upgrading to v1.43.0
+
+## The spaces summary APIs can now be handled by workers
+
+The [available worker applications documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/workers.html#available-worker-applications)
+has been updated to reflect that calls to the `/spaces`, `/hierarchy`, and
+`/summary` endpoints can now be routed to workers for both client API and
+federation requests.
+
+# Upgrading to v1.42.0
+
+## Removal of old Room Admin API
+
+The following admin APIs were deprecated in [Synapse 1.25](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v1.25.0/CHANGES.md#removal-warning)
+(released on 2021-01-13) and have now been removed:
+
+-   `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/purge_room`
+-   `POST /_synapse/admin/v1/shutdown_room/<room_id>`
+
+Any scripts still using the above APIs should be converted to use the
+[Delete Room API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/rooms.html#delete-room-api).
+
+## User-interactive authentication fallback templates can now display errors
+
+This may affect you if you make use of custom HTML templates for the
+[reCAPTCHA](../synapse/res/templates/recaptcha.html) or
+[terms](../synapse/res/templates/terms.html) fallback pages.
+
+The template is now provided an `error` variable if the authentication
+process failed. See the default templates linked above for an example.
+
+## Removal of out-of-date email pushers
+
+Users will stop receiving message updates via email for addresses that were
+once, but not still, linked to their account.
+
+# Upgrading to v1.41.0
+
+## Add support for routing outbound HTTP requests via a proxy for federation
+
+Since Synapse 1.6.0 (2019-11-26) you can set a proxy for outbound HTTP requests via
+http_proxy/https_proxy environment variables. This proxy was set for:
+- push
+- url previews
+- phone-home stats
+- recaptcha validation
+- CAS auth validation
+- OpenID Connect
+- Federation (checking public key revocation)
+
+In this version we have added support for outbound requests for:
+- Outbound federation
+- Downloading remote media
+- Fetching public keys of other servers
+
+These requests use the same proxy configuration. If you have a proxy configuration we
+recommend to verify the configuration. It may be necessary to adjust the `no_proxy`
+environment variable.
+
+See [using a forward proxy with Synapse documentation](setup/forward_proxy.md) for
+details.
+
+## Deprecation of `template_dir`
+
+The `template_dir` settings in the `sso`, `account_validity` and `email` sections of the
+configuration file are now deprecated. Server admins should use the new
+`templates.custom_template_directory` setting in the configuration file and use one single
+custom template directory for all aforementioned features. Template file names remain
+unchanged. See [the related documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/templates.html)
+for more information and examples.
+
+We plan to remove support for these settings in October 2021.
+
+## `/_synapse/admin/v1/users/{userId}/media` must be handled by media workers
+
+The [media repository worker documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/workers.html#synapseappmedia_repository)
+has been updated to reflect that calls to `/_synapse/admin/v1/users/{userId}/media`
+must now be handled by media repository workers. This is due to the new `DELETE` method
+of this endpoint modifying the media store.
+
+# Upgrading to v1.39.0
+
+## Deprecation of the current third-party rules module interface
+
+The current third-party rules module interface is deprecated in favour of the new generic
+modules system introduced in Synapse v1.37.0. Authors of third-party rules modules can refer
+to [this documentation](modules/porting_legacy_module.md)
+to update their modules. Synapse administrators can refer to [this documentation](modules/index.md)
+to update their configuration once the modules they are using have been updated.
+
+We plan to remove support for the current third-party rules interface in September 2021.
+
 
 # Upgrading to v1.38.0
 
@@ -129,9 +237,9 @@ SQLite databases are unaffected by this change.
 
 The current spam checker interface is deprecated in favour of a new generic modules system.
 Authors of spam checker modules can refer to [this
-documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/modules.html#porting-an-existing-module-that-uses-the-old-interface)
+documentation](modules/porting_legacy_module.md
 to update their modules. Synapse administrators can refer to [this
-documentation](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/develop/modules.html#using-modules)
+documentation](modules/index.md)
 to update their configuration once the modules they are using have been updated.
 
 We plan to remove support for the current spam checker interface in August 2021.
@@ -204,8 +312,7 @@ Instructions for doing so are provided
 
 ## Dropping support for old Python, Postgres and SQLite versions
 
-In line with our [deprecation
-policy](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.32.0/docs/deprecation_policy.md),
+In line with our [deprecation policy](deprecation_policy.md),
 we've dropped support for Python 3.5 and PostgreSQL 9.5, as they are no
 longer supported upstream.
 
@@ -218,8 +325,7 @@ The deprecated v1 "list accounts" admin API
 (`GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>`) has been removed in this
 version.
 
-The [v2 list accounts
-API](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst#list-accounts)
+The [v2 list accounts API](admin_api/user_admin_api.md#list-accounts)
 has been available since Synapse 1.7.0 (2019-12-13), and is accessible
 under `GET /_synapse/admin/v2/users`.
 
@@ -242,24 +348,24 @@ Please ensure your Application Services are up to date.
 ## Requirement for X-Forwarded-Proto header
 
 When using Synapse with a reverse proxy (in particular, when using the
-[x_forwarded]{.title-ref} option on an HTTP listener), Synapse now
-expects to receive an [X-Forwarded-Proto]{.title-ref} header on incoming
+`x_forwarded` option on an HTTP listener), Synapse now
+expects to receive an `X-Forwarded-Proto` header on incoming
 HTTP requests. If it is not set, Synapse will log a warning on each
 received request.
 
 To avoid the warning, administrators using a reverse proxy should ensure
-that the reverse proxy sets [X-Forwarded-Proto]{.title-ref} header to
-[https]{.title-ref} or [http]{.title-ref} to indicate the protocol used
+that the reverse proxy sets `X-Forwarded-Proto` header to
+`https` or `http` to indicate the protocol used
 by the client.
 
-Synapse also requires the [Host]{.title-ref} header to be preserved.
+Synapse also requires the `Host` header to be preserved.
 
-See the [reverse proxy documentation](../reverse_proxy.md), where the
+See the [reverse proxy documentation](reverse_proxy.md), where the
 example configurations have been updated to show how to set these
 headers.
 
 (Users of [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) are unaffected, since we
-believe it sets [X-Forwarded-Proto]{.title-ref} by default.)
+believe it sets `X-Forwarded-Proto` by default.)
 
 # Upgrading to v1.27.0
 
@@ -273,7 +379,7 @@ identity providers:
     `[synapse public baseurl]/_synapse/client/oidc/callback` to the list
     of permitted "redirect URIs" at the identity provider.
 
-    See the [OpenID docs](../openid.md) for more information on setting
+    See the [OpenID docs](openid.md) for more information on setting
     up OpenID Connect.
 
 -   If your server is configured for single sign-on via a SAML2 identity
@@ -423,13 +529,13 @@ mapping provider to specify different algorithms, instead of the
 way](<https://matrix.org/docs/spec/appendices#mapping-from-other-character-sets>).
 
 If your Synapse configuration uses a custom mapping provider
-([oidc_config.user_mapping_provider.module]{.title-ref} is specified and
+(`oidc_config.user_mapping_provider.module` is specified and
 not equal to
-[synapse.handlers.oidc_handler.JinjaOidcMappingProvider]{.title-ref})
-then you *must* ensure that [map_user_attributes]{.title-ref} of the
+`synapse.handlers.oidc_handler.JinjaOidcMappingProvider`)
+then you *must* ensure that `map_user_attributes` of the
 mapping provider performs some normalisation of the
-[localpart]{.title-ref} returned. To match previous behaviour you can
-use the [map_username_to_mxid_localpart]{.title-ref} function provided
+`localpart` returned. To match previous behaviour you can
+use the `map_username_to_mxid_localpart` function provided
 by Synapse. An example is shown below:
 
 ```python
@@ -458,7 +564,7 @@ v1.24.0. The Admin API is now only accessible under:
 
 -   `/_synapse/admin/v1`
 
-The only exception is the [/admin/whois]{.title-ref} endpoint, which is
+The only exception is the `/admin/whois` endpoint, which is
 [also available via the client-server
 API](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.1#get-matrix-client-r0-admin-whois-userid).
 
@@ -473,8 +579,7 @@ lock down external access to the Admin API endpoints.
 This release deprecates use of the `structured: true` logging
 configuration for structured logging. If your logging configuration
 contains `structured: true` then it should be modified based on the
-[structured logging
-documentation](../structured_logging.md).
+[structured logging documentation](structured_logging.md).
 
 The `structured` and `drains` logging options are now deprecated and
 should be replaced by standard logging configuration of `handlers` and
@@ -504,14 +609,13 @@ acts the same as the `http_client` argument previously passed to
 
 ## Forwarding `/_synapse/client` through your reverse proxy
 
-The [reverse proxy
-documentation](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/reverse_proxy.md)
+The [reverse proxy documentation](reverse_proxy.md)
 has been updated to include reverse proxy directives for
 `/_synapse/client/*` endpoints. As the user password reset flow now uses
 endpoints under this prefix, **you must update your reverse proxy
 configurations for user password reset to work**.
 
-Additionally, note that the [Synapse worker documentation](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/workers.md) has been updated to
+Additionally, note that the [Synapse worker documentation](workers.md) has been updated to
 
 :   state that the `/_synapse/client/password_reset/email/submit_token`
     endpoint can be handled
@@ -535,7 +639,7 @@ This page will appear to the user after clicking a password reset link
 that has been emailed to them.
 
 To complete password reset, the page must include a way to make a
-[POST]{.title-ref} request to
+`POST` request to
 `/_synapse/client/password_reset/{medium}/submit_token` with the query
 parameters from the original link, presented as a URL-encoded form. See
 the file itself for more details.
@@ -556,18 +660,18 @@ but the parameters are slightly different:
 
 # Upgrading to v1.18.0
 
-## Docker [-py3]{.title-ref} suffix will be removed in future versions
+## Docker `-py3` suffix will be removed in future versions
 
 From 10th August 2020, we will no longer publish Docker images with the
-[-py3]{.title-ref} tag suffix. The images tagged with the
-[-py3]{.title-ref} suffix have been identical to the non-suffixed tags
+`-py3` tag suffix. The images tagged with the
+`-py3` suffix have been identical to the non-suffixed tags
 since release 0.99.0, and the suffix is obsolete.
 
-On 10th August, we will remove the [latest-py3]{.title-ref} tag.
-Existing per-release tags (such as [v1.18.0-py3]{.title-ref}) will not
-be removed, but no new [-py3]{.title-ref} tags will be added.
+On 10th August, we will remove the `latest-py3` tag.
+Existing per-release tags (such as `v1.18.0-py3` will not
+be removed, but no new `-py3` tags will be added.
 
-Scripts relying on the [-py3]{.title-ref} suffix will need to be
+Scripts relying on the `-py3` suffix will need to be
 updated.
 
 ## Redis replication is now recommended in lieu of TCP replication
@@ -575,7 +679,7 @@ updated.
 When setting up worker processes, we now recommend the use of a Redis
 server for replication. **The old direct TCP connection method is
 deprecated and will be removed in a future release.** See
-[workers](../workers.md) for more details.
+[workers](workers.md) for more details.
 
 # Upgrading to v1.14.0
 
@@ -601,8 +705,8 @@ This will *not* be a problem for Synapse installations which were:
 If completeness of the room directory is a concern, installations which
 are affected can be repaired as follows:
 
-1.  Run the following sql from a [psql]{.title-ref} or
-    [sqlite3]{.title-ref} console:
+1.  Run the following sql from a `psql` or
+    `sqlite3` console:
 
     ```sql
     INSERT INTO background_updates (update_name, progress_json, depends_on) VALUES
@@ -666,8 +770,8 @@ participating in many rooms.
     of any problems.
 
 1.  As an initial check to see if you will be affected, you can try
-    running the following query from the [psql]{.title-ref} or
-    [sqlite3]{.title-ref} console. It is safe to run it while Synapse is
+    running the following query from the `psql` or
+    `sqlite3` console. It is safe to run it while Synapse is
     still running.
 
     ```sql
@@ -707,8 +811,7 @@ participating in many rooms.
     omitting the `CONCURRENTLY` keyword. Note however that this
     operation may in itself cause Synapse to stop running for some time.
     Synapse admins are reminded that [SQLite is not recommended for use
-    outside a test
-    environment](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/README.rst#using-postgresql).
+    outside a test environment](postgres.md).
 
 3.  Once the index has been created, the `SELECT` query in step 1 above
     should complete quickly. It is therefore safe to upgrade to Synapse
@@ -726,7 +829,7 @@ participating in many rooms.
 Synapse will now log a warning on start up if used with a PostgreSQL
 database that has a non-recommended locale set.
 
-See [Postgres](../postgres.md) for details.
+See [Postgres](postgres.md) for details.
 
 # Upgrading to v1.8.0
 
@@ -843,8 +946,8 @@ section headed `email`, and be sure to have at least the
 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.
+See the [sample configuration file](usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.md)
+for more details on these settings.
 
 #### Delegate email to an identity server
 
@@ -946,7 +1049,7 @@ back to v1.3.1, subject to the following:
 
 Some counter metrics have been renamed, with the old names deprecated.
 See [the metrics
-documentation](../metrics-howto.md#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12)
+documentation](metrics-howto.md#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12)
 for details.
 
 # Upgrading to v1.1.0
@@ -982,7 +1085,7 @@ more details on upgrading your database.
 Synapse v1.0 is the first release to enforce validation of TLS
 certificates for the federation API. It is therefore essential that your
 certificates are correctly configured. See the
-[FAQ](../MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md) for more information.
+[FAQ](MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md) for more information.
 
 Note, v1.0 installations will also no longer be able to federate with
 servers that have not correctly configured their certificates.
@@ -997,8 +1100,8 @@ ways:-
 -   Configure a whitelist of server domains to trust via
     `federation_certificate_verification_whitelist`.
 
-See the [sample configuration file](docs/sample_config.yaml) for more
-details on these settings.
+See the [sample configuration file](usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.md)
+for more details on these settings.
 
 ## Email
 
@@ -1023,8 +1126,8 @@ If you are absolutely certain that you wish to continue using an
 identity server for password resets, set
 `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` to `true`.
 
-See the [sample configuration file](docs/sample_config.yaml) for more
-details on these settings.
+See the [sample configuration file](usage/configuration/homeserver_sample_config.md)
+for more details on these settings.
 
 ## New email templates
 
@@ -1044,11 +1147,11 @@ sent to them.
 
 Please be aware that, before Synapse v1.0 is released around March 2019,
 you will need to replace any self-signed certificates with those
-verified by a root CA. Information on how to do so can be found at [the
-ACME docs](../ACME.md).
+verified by a root CA. Information on how to do so can be found at the
+ACME docs.
 
 For more information on configuring TLS certificates see the
-[FAQ](../MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md).
+[FAQ](MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md).
 
 # Upgrading to v0.34.0
 
@@ -1250,9 +1353,9 @@ first need to upgrade the database by running:
 
     python scripts/upgrade_db_to_v0.6.0.py <db> <server_name> <signing_key>
 
-Where [<db>]{.title-ref} is the location of the database,
-[<server_name>]{.title-ref} is the server name as specified in the
-synapse configuration, and [<signing_key>]{.title-ref} is the location
+Where `<db>` is the location of the database,
+`<server_name>` is the server name as specified in the
+synapse configuration, and `<signing_key>` is the location
 of the signing key as specified in the synapse configuration.
 
 This may take some time to complete. Failures of signatures and content

docs/url_previews.md

@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-URL Previews
-============
-
-Design notes on a URL previewing service for Matrix:
-
-Options are:
-
- 1. Have an AS which listens for URLs, downloads them, and inserts an event that describes their metadata.
-   * Pros:
-     * Decouples the implementation entirely from Synapse.
-     * Uses existing Matrix events & content repo to store the metadata.
-   * Cons:
-     * Which AS should provide this service for a room, and why should you trust it?
-     * Doesn't work well with E2E; you'd have to cut the AS into every room
-     * the AS would end up subscribing to every room anyway.
-
- 2. Have a generic preview API (nothing to do with Matrix) that provides a previewing service:
-   * Pros:
-     * Simple and flexible; can be used by any clients at any point
-   * Cons:
-     * If each HS provides one of these independently, all the HSes in a room may needlessly DoS the target URI
-     * We need somewhere to store the URL metadata rather than just using Matrix itself
-     * We can't piggyback on matrix to distribute the metadata between HSes.
-
- 3. Make the synapse of the sending user responsible for spidering the URL and inserting an event asynchronously which describes the metadata.
-   * Pros:
-     * Works transparently for all clients
-     * Piggy-backs nicely on using Matrix for distributing the metadata.
-     * No confusion as to which AS
-   * Cons:
-     * Doesn't work with E2E
-     * We might want to decouple the implementation of the spider from the HS, given spider behaviour can be quite complicated and evolve much more rapidly than the HS.  It's more like a bot than a core part of the server.
-
- 4. Make the sending client use the preview API and insert the event itself when successful.
-   * Pros:
-      * Works well with E2E
-      * No custom server functionality
-      * Lets the client customise the preview that they send (like on FB)
-   * Cons:
-      * Entirely specific to the sending client, whereas it'd be nice if /any/ URL was correctly previewed if clients support it.
-
- 5. Have the option of specifying a shared (centralised) previewing service used by a room, to avoid all the different HSes in the room DoSing the target.
-
-Best solution is probably a combination of both 2 and 4.
- * Sending clients do their best to create and send a preview at the point of sending the message, perhaps delaying the message until the preview is computed?  (This also lets the user validate the preview before sending)
- * Receiving clients have the option of going and creating their own preview if one doesn't arrive soon enough (or if the original sender didn't create one)
-
-This is a bit magical though in that the preview could come from two entirely different sources - the sending HS or your local one.  However, this can always be exposed to users: "Generate your own URL previews if none are available?"
-
-This is tantamount also to senders calculating their own thumbnails for sending in advance of the main content - we are trusting the sender not to lie about the content in the thumbnail.  Whereas currently thumbnails are calculated by the receiving homeserver to avoid this attack.
-
-However, this kind of phishing attack does exist whether we let senders pick their thumbnails or not, in that a malicious sender can send normal text messages around the attachment claiming it to be legitimate.  We could rely on (future) reputation/abuse management to punish users who phish (be it with bogus metadata or bogus descriptions).   Bogus metadata is particularly bad though, especially if it's avoidable.
-
-As a first cut, let's do #2 and have the receiver hit the API to calculate its own previews (as it does currently for image thumbnails).  We can then extend/optimise this to option 4 as a special extra if needed.
-
-API
----
-
-```
-GET /_matrix/media/r0/preview_url?url=http://wherever.com
-200 OK
-{
-    "og:type"        : "article"
-    "og:url"         : "https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/684074366691356672"
-    "og:title"       : "Matrix on Twitter"
-    "og:image"       : "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/500400952029888512/yI0qtFi7_400x400.png"
-    "og:description" : "“Synapse 0.12 is out! Lots of polishing, performance & bugfixes: /sync API, /r0 prefix, fulltext search, 3PID invites https://t.co/5alhXLLEGP”"
-    "og:site_name"   : "Twitter"
-}
-```
-
-* Downloads the URL
-  * If HTML, just stores it in RAM and parses it for OG meta tags
-    * Download any media OG meta tags to the media repo, and refer to them in the OG via mxc:// URIs.
-  * If a media filetype we know we can thumbnail: store it on disk, and hand it to the thumbnailer. Generate OG meta tags from the thumbnailer contents.
-  * Otherwise, don't bother downloading further.

docs/usage/administration/admin_api/registration_tokens.md

@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+# Registration Tokens
+
+This API allows you to manage tokens which can be used to authenticate
+registration requests, as proposed in
+[MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/main/proposals/3231-token-authenticated-registration.md).
+To use it, you will need to enable the `registration_requires_token` config
+option, and authenticate by providing an `access_token` for a server admin:
+see [Admin API](../../usage/administration/admin_api).
+Note that this API is still experimental; not all clients may support it yet.
+
+
+## Registration token objects
+
+Most endpoints make use of JSON objects that contain details about tokens.
+These objects have the following fields:
+- `token`: The token which can be used to authenticate registration.
+- `uses_allowed`: The number of times the token can be used to complete a
+  registration before it becomes invalid.
+- `pending`: The number of pending uses the token has. When someone uses
+  the token to authenticate themselves, the pending counter is incremented
+  so that the token is not used more than the permitted number of times.
+  When the person completes registration the pending counter is decremented,
+  and the completed counter is incremented.
+- `completed`: The number of times the token has been used to successfully
+  complete a registration.
+- `expiry_time`: The latest time the token is valid. Given as the number of
+  milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (the start of the Unix epoch).
+  To convert this into a human-readable form you can remove the milliseconds
+  and use the `date` command. For example, `date -d '@1625394937'`.
+
+
+## List all tokens
+
+Lists all tokens and details about them. If the request is successful, the top
+level JSON object will have a `registration_tokens` key which is an array of
+registration token objects.
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens
+```
+
+Optional query parameters:
+- `valid`: `true` or `false`. If `true`, only valid tokens are returned.
+  If `false`, only tokens that have expired or have had all uses exhausted are
+  returned. If omitted, all tokens are returned regardless of validity.
+
+Example:
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "registration_tokens": [
+        {
+            "token": "abcd",
+            "uses_allowed": 3,
+            "pending": 0,
+            "completed": 1,
+            "expiry_time": null
+        },
+        {
+            "token": "pqrs",
+            "uses_allowed": 2,
+            "pending": 1,
+            "completed": 1,
+            "expiry_time": null
+        },
+        {
+            "token": "wxyz",
+            "uses_allowed": null,
+            "pending": 0,
+            "completed": 9,
+            "expiry_time": 1625394937000    // 2021-07-04 10:35:37 UTC
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
+Example using the `valid` query parameter:
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens?valid=false
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "registration_tokens": [
+        {
+            "token": "pqrs",
+            "uses_allowed": 2,
+            "pending": 1,
+            "completed": 1,
+            "expiry_time": null
+        },
+        {
+            "token": "wxyz",
+            "uses_allowed": null,
+            "pending": 0,
+            "completed": 9,
+            "expiry_time": 1625394937000    // 2021-07-04 10:35:37 UTC
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
+
+## Get one token
+
+Get details about a single token. If the request is successful, the response
+body will be a registration token object.
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/<token>
+```
+
+Path parameters:
+- `token`: The registration token to return details of.
+
+Example:
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/abcd
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "token": "abcd",
+    "uses_allowed": 3,
+    "pending": 0,
+    "completed": 1,
+    "expiry_time": null
+}
+```
+
+
+## Create token
+
+Create a new registration token. If the request is successful, the newly created
+token will be returned as a registration token object in the response body.
+
+```
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/new
+```
+
+The request body must be a JSON object and can contain the following fields:
+- `token`: The registration token. A string of no more than 64 characters that
+  consists only of characters matched by the regex `[A-Za-z0-9._~-]`.
+  Default: randomly generated.
+- `uses_allowed`: The integer number of times the token can be used to complete
+  a registration before it becomes invalid.
+  Default: `null` (unlimited uses).
+- `expiry_time`: The latest time the token is valid. Given as the number of
+  milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (the start of the Unix epoch).
+  You could use, for example, `date '+%s000' -d 'tomorrow'`.
+  Default: `null` (token does not expire).
+- `length`: The length of the token randomly generated if `token` is not
+  specified. Must be between 1 and 64 inclusive. Default: `16`.
+
+If a field is omitted the default is used.
+
+Example using defaults:
+
+```
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/new
+
+{}
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "token": "0M-9jbkf2t_Tgiw1",
+    "uses_allowed": null,
+    "pending": 0,
+    "completed": 0,
+    "expiry_time": null
+}
+```
+
+Example specifying some fields:
+
+```
+POST /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/new
+
+{
+    "token": "defg",
+    "uses_allowed": 1
+}
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "token": "defg",
+    "uses_allowed": 1,
+    "pending": 0,
+    "completed": 0,
+    "expiry_time": null
+}
+```
+
+
+## Update token
+
+Update the number of allowed uses or expiry time of a token. If the request is
+successful, the updated token will be returned as a registration token object
+in the response body.
+
+```
+PUT /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/<token>
+```
+
+Path parameters:
+- `token`: The registration token to update.
+
+The request body must be a JSON object and can contain the following fields:
+- `uses_allowed`: The integer number of times the token can be used to complete
+  a registration before it becomes invalid. By setting `uses_allowed` to `0`
+  the token can be easily made invalid without deleting it.
+  If `null` the token will have an unlimited number of uses.
+- `expiry_time`: The latest time the token is valid. Given as the number of
+  milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (the start of the Unix epoch).
+  If `null` the token will not expire.
+
+If a field is omitted its value is not modified.
+
+Example:
+
+```
+PUT /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/defg
+
+{
+    "expiry_time": 4781243146000    // 2121-07-06 11:05:46 UTC
+}
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{
+    "token": "defg",
+    "uses_allowed": 1,
+    "pending": 0,
+    "completed": 0,
+    "expiry_time": 4781243146000
+}
+```
+
+
+## Delete token
+
+Delete a registration token. If the request is successful, the response body
+will be an empty JSON object.
+
+```
+DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/<token>
+```
+
+Path parameters:
+- `token`: The registration token to delete.
+
+Example:
+
+```
+DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/wxyz
+```
+```
+200 OK
+
+{}
+```
+
+
+## Errors
+
+If a request fails a "standard error response" will be returned as defined in
+the [Matrix Client-Server API specification](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.1#api-standards).
+
+For example, if the token specified in a path parameter does not exist a
+`404 Not Found` error will be returned.
+
+```
+GET /_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/1234
+```
+```
+404 Not Found
+
+{
+    "errcode": "M_NOT_FOUND",
+    "error": "No such registration token: 1234"
+}
+```

docs/usage/configuration/logging_sample_config.md

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 Below is a sample logging configuration file. This file can be tweaked to control how your
 homeserver will output logs. A restart of the server is generally required to apply any
-changes made to this file.
+changes made to this file. The value of the `log_config` option in your homeserver
+config should be the path to this file.
 
-Note that the contents below are *not* intended to be copied and used as the basis for
-a real homeserver.yaml. Instead, if you are starting from scratch, please generate
-a fresh config using Synapse by following the instructions in
-[Installation](../../setup/installation.md).
+Note that a default logging configuration (shown below) is created automatically alongside
+the homeserver config when following the [installation instructions](../../setup/installation.md).
+It should be named `<SERVERNAME>.log.config` by default.
 
 ```yaml
 {{#include ../../sample_log_config.yaml}}
-``__`
+```

docs/user_directory.md

@@ -10,3 +10,40 @@ DB corruption) get stale or out of sync.  If this happens, for now the
 solution to fix it is to execute the SQL [here](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/storage/schema/main/delta/53/user_dir_populate.sql)
 and then restart synapse. This should then start a background task to
 flush the current tables and regenerate the directory.
+
+Data model
+----------
+
+There are five relevant tables that collectively form the "user directory".
+Three of them track a master list of all the users we could search for.
+The last two (collectively called the "search tables") track who can
+see who.
+
+From all of these tables we exclude three types of local user:
+  - support users
+  - appservice users
+  - deactivated users
+
+* `user_directory`. This contains the user_id, display name and avatar we'll
+  return when you search the directory.
+  - Because there's only one directory entry per user, it's important that we only
+    ever put publicly visible names here. Otherwise we might leak a private
+    nickname or avatar used in a private room.
+  - Indexed on rooms. Indexed on users.
+
+* `user_directory_search`. To be joined to `user_directory`. It contains an extra
+  column that enables full text search based on user ids and display names.
+  Different schemas for SQLite and Postgres with different code paths to match.
+  - Indexed on the full text search data. Indexed on users.
+
+* `user_directory_stream_pos`. When the initial background update to populate
+  the directory is complete, we record a stream position here. This indicates
+  that synapse should now listen for room changes and incrementally update
+  the directory where necessary.
+
+* `users_in_public_rooms`. Contains associations between users and the public rooms they're in.
+  Used to determine which users are in public rooms and should be publicly visible in the directory.
+
+* `users_who_share_private_rooms`. Rows are triples `(L, M, room id)` where `L`
+   is a local user and `M` is a local or remote user. `L` and `M` should be
+   different, but this isn't enforced by a constraint.