change other 404 to a SynapseError

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

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

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

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

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

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

.buildkite/format_tap.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import sys
+from tap.parser import Parser
+from tap.line import Result, Unknown, Diagnostic
+
+out = ["### TAP Output for " + sys.argv[2]]
+
+p = Parser()
+
+in_error = False
+
+for line in p.parse_file(sys.argv[1]):
+    if isinstance(line, Result):
+        if in_error:
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("</pre></code></details>")
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("----")
+            out.append("")
+        in_error = False
+
+        if not line.ok and not line.todo:
+            in_error = True
+
+            out.append("FAILURE Test #%d: ``%s``" % (line.number, line.description))
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("<details><summary>Show log</summary><code><pre>")
+
+    elif isinstance(line, Diagnostic) and in_error:
+        out.append(line.text)
+
+if out:
+    for line in out[:-3]:
+        print(line)

.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-set -e
+set -ex
 
 if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" =~ ^(develop|master|dinsic|shhs|release-.*)$ ]]; then
     echo "Not merging forward, as this is a release branch"
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ else
     GITBASE=$BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH
 fi
 
-echo "--- merge_base_branch $GITBASE"
-
 # Show what we are before
 git --no-pager show -s
 
@@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ git config --global user.name "A robot"
 
 # Fetch and merge. If it doesn't work, it will raise due to set -e.
 git fetch -u origin $GITBASE
-git merge --no-edit --no-commit origin/$GITBASE
+git merge --no-edit origin/$GITBASE
 
 # Show what we are after.
 git --no-pager show -s

.buildkite/pipeline.yml

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

.buildkite/postgres-config.yaml

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration file used for testing the 'synapse_port_db' script.
-# Tells the script to connect to the postgresql database that will be available in the
-# CI's Docker setup at the point where this file is considered.
-server_name: "localhost:8800"
-
-signing_key_path: "/src/.buildkite/test.signing.key"
-
-report_stats: false
-
-database:
-  name: "psycopg2"
-  args:
-    user: postgres
-    host: postgres
-    password: postgres
-    database: synapse
-
-# Suppress the key server warning.
-trusted_key_servers:
-  - server_name: "matrix.org"
-suppress_key_server_warning: true

.buildkite/scripts/create_postgres_db.py

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright 2019 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import logging
-from synapse.storage.engines import create_engine
-
-logger = logging.getLogger("create_postgres_db")
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    # Create a PostgresEngine.
-    db_engine = create_engine({"name": "psycopg2", "args": {}})
-
-    # Connect to postgres to create the base database.
-    # We use "postgres" as a database because it's bound to exist and the "synapse" one
-    # doesn't exist yet.
-    db_conn = db_engine.module.connect(
-        user="postgres", host="postgres", password="postgres", dbname="postgres"
-    )
-    db_conn.autocommit = True
-    cur = db_conn.cursor()
-    cur.execute("CREATE DATABASE synapse;")
-    cur.close()
-    db_conn.close()

.buildkite/scripts/test_synapse_port_db.sh

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Test script for 'synapse_port_db', which creates a virtualenv, installs Synapse along
-# with additional dependencies needed for the test (such as coverage or the PostgreSQL
-# driver), update the schema of the test SQLite database and run background updates on it,
-# create an empty test database in PostgreSQL, then run the 'synapse_port_db' script to
-# test porting the SQLite database to the PostgreSQL database (with coverage).
-
-set -xe
-cd `dirname $0`/../..
-
-echo "--- Install dependencies"
-
-# Install dependencies for this test.
-pip install psycopg2 coverage coverage-enable-subprocess
-
-# 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 .buildkite/sqlite-config.yaml
-
-echo "--- Prepare the databases"
-
-# 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
-
-# Create the PostgreSQL database.
-./.buildkite/scripts/create_postgres_db.py
-
-echo "+++ Run synapse_port_db"
-
-# Run the script
-coverage run scripts/synapse_port_db --sqlite-database .buildkite/test_db.db --postgres-config .buildkite/postgres-config.yaml

.buildkite/sqlite-config.yaml

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration file used for testing the 'synapse_port_db' script.
-# Tells the 'update_database' script to connect to the test SQLite database to upgrade its
-# schema and run background updates on it.
-server_name: "localhost:8800"
-
-signing_key_path: "/src/.buildkite/test.signing.key"
-
-report_stats: false
-
-database:
-  name: "sqlite3"
-  args:
-    database: ".buildkite/test_db.db"
-
-# Suppress the key server warning.
-trusted_key_servers:
-  - server_name: "matrix.org"
-suppress_key_server_warning: true

.buildkite/worker-blacklist

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 Message history can be paginated
 
+m.room.history_visibility == "world_readable" allows/forbids appropriately for Guest users
+
+m.room.history_visibility == "world_readable" allows/forbids appropriately for Real users
+
 Can re-join room if re-invited
 
 /upgrade creates a new room
@@ -28,39 +32,3 @@ User sees updates to presence from other users in the incremental sync.
 Gapped incremental syncs include all state changes
 
 Old members are included in gappy incr LL sync if they start speaking
-
-# new failures as of https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/pull/732
-Device list doesn't change if remote server is down
-Remote servers cannot set power levels in rooms without existing powerlevels
-Remote servers should reject attempts by non-creators to set the power levels
-
-# new failures as of https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/pull/753
-GET /rooms/:room_id/messages returns a message
-GET /rooms/:room_id/messages lazy loads members correctly
-Read receipts are sent as events
-Only original members of the room can see messages from erased users
-Device deletion propagates over federation
-If user leaves room, remote user changes device and rejoins we see update in /sync and /keys/changes
-Changing user-signing key notifies local users
-Newly updated tags appear in an incremental v2 /sync
-Server correctly handles incoming m.device_list_update
-Local device key changes get to remote servers with correct prev_id
-AS-ghosted users can use rooms via AS
-Ghost user must register before joining room
-Test that a message is pushed
-Invites are pushed
-Rooms with aliases are correctly named in pushed
-Rooms with names are correctly named in pushed
-Rooms with canonical alias are correctly named in pushed
-Rooms with many users are correctly pushed
-Don't get pushed for rooms you've muted
-Rejected events are not pushed
-Test that rejected pushers are removed.
-Events come down the correct room
-
-# https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/sytest/builds/326#cca62404-a88a-4fcb-ad41-175fd3377603
-Presence changes to UNAVAILABLE are reported to remote room members
-If remote user leaves room, changes device and rejoins we see update in sync
-uploading self-signing key notifies over federation
-Inbound federation can receive redacted events
-Outbound federation can request missing events

.coveragerc

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/BUG_REPORT.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ about: Create a report to help us improve
 <!--
 
 **IF YOU HAVE SUPPORT QUESTIONS ABOUT RUNNING OR CONFIGURING YOUR OWN HOME SERVER**:
-You will likely get better support more quickly if you ask in ** #synapse:matrix.org ** ;)
+You will likely get better support more quickly if you ask in ** #matrix:matrix.org ** ;)
 
 
 This is a bug report template. By following the instructions below and
@@ -44,26 +44,22 @@ those (please be careful to remove any personal or private data). Please surroun
 <!-- IMPORTANT: please answer the following questions, to help us narrow down the problem -->
 
 <!-- Was this issue identified on matrix.org or another homeserver? -->
-- **Homeserver**:
+- **Homeserver**: 
 
 If not matrix.org:
 
 <!--
- What version of Synapse is running?
-
-You can find the Synapse version with this command:
-
-$ curl http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/server_version
-
-(You may need to replace `localhost:8008` if Synapse is not configured to
-listen on that port.)
+What version of Synapse is running?
+You can find the Synapse version by inspecting the server headers (replace matrix.org with
+your own homeserver domain):
+$ curl -v https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/versions 2>&1 | grep "Server:"
 -->
-- **Version**:
+- **Version**: 
 
-- **Install method**:
+- **Install method**: 
 <!-- examples: package manager/git clone/pip  -->
 
-- **Platform**:
+- **Platform**: 
 <!--
 Tell us about the environment in which your homeserver is operating
 distro, hardware, if it's running in a vm/container, etc.

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 ### Pull Request Checklist
 
-<!-- Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting your pull request -->
+<!-- Please read CONTRIBUTING.rst before submitting your pull request -->
 
 * [ ] Pull request is based on the develop branch
-* [ ] Pull request includes a [changelog file](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#changelog)
-* [ ] Pull request includes a [sign off](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-off)
-* [ ] Code style is correct (run the [linters](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-style))
+* [ ] Pull request includes a [changelog file](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#changelog)
+* [ ] Pull request includes a [sign off](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#sign-off)

.gitignore

@@ -7,22 +7,18 @@
 *.egg-info
 *.lock
 *.pyc
-*.snap
 *.tac
 _trial_temp/
 _trial_temp*/
-/out
 
 # stuff that is likely to exist when you run a server locally
 /*.db
 /*.log
 /*.log.config
 /*.pid
-/.python-version
 /*.signing.key
 /env/
 /homeserver*.yaml
-/logs
 /media_store/
 /uploads
 
@@ -32,9 +28,8 @@ _trial_temp*/
 /.vscode/
 
 # build products
-!/.coveragerc
 /.coverage*
-/.mypy_cache/
+!/.coveragerc
 /.tox
 /build/
 /coverage.*
@@ -42,3 +37,4 @@ _trial_temp*/
 /docs/build/
 /htmlcov
 /pip-wheel-metadata/
+

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -1,8 +1,34 @@
-The following is an incomplete list of people outside the core team who have
-contributed to Synapse. It is no longer maintained: more recent contributions
-are listed in the `changelog <CHANGES.md>`_.
+Erik Johnston <erik at matrix.org>
+ * HS core
+ * Federation API impl
 
-----
+Mark Haines <mark at matrix.org>
+ * HS core
+ * Crypto
+ * Content repository
+ * CS v2 API impl
+
+Kegan Dougal <kegan at matrix.org>
+ * HS core
+ * CS v1 API impl
+ * AS API impl
+
+Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <paul at matrix.org>
+ * HS core
+ * Presence
+ * Typing Notifications
+ * Performance metrics and caching layer
+
+Dave Baker <dave at matrix.org>
+ * Push notifications
+ * Auth CS v2 impl
+
+Matthew Hodgson <matthew at matrix.org>
+ * General doc & housekeeping
+ * Vertobot/vertobridge matrix<->verto PoC
+
+Emmanuel Rohee <manu at matrix.org>
+ * Supporting iOS clients (testability and fallback registration)
 
 Turned to Dust <dwinslow86 at gmail.com>
  * ArchLinux installation instructions
@@ -36,13 +62,16 @@ Christoph Witzany <christoph at web.crofting.com>
  * Add LDAP support for authentication
 
 Pierre Jaury <pierre at jaury.eu>
- * Docker packaging
+* Docker packaging
 
 Serban Constantin <serban.constantin at gmail dot com>
  * Small bug fix
 
+Jason Robinson <jasonr at matrix.org>
+ * Minor fixes
+
 Joseph Weston <joseph at weston.cloud>
- * Add admin API for querying HS version
+ + Add admin API for querying HS version
 
 Benjamin Saunders <ben.e.saunders at gmail dot com>
  * Documentation improvements

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,637 +1,3 @@
-Synapse 1.7.1 (2019-12-18)
-==========================
-
-This release includes several security fixes as well as a fix to a bug exposed by the security fixes. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
-
-Security updates
-----------------
-
-- Fix a bug which could cause room events to be incorrectly authorized using events from a different room. ([\#6501](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6501), [\#6503](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6503), [\#6521](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6521), [\#6524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6524), [\#6530](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6530), [\#6531](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6531))
-- Fix a bug causing responses to the `/context` client endpoint to not use the pruned version of the event. ([\#6553](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6553))
-- Fix a cause of state resets in room versions 2 onwards. ([\#6556](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6556), [\#6560](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6560))
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix a bug which could cause the federation server to incorrectly return errors when handling certain obscure event graphs. ([\#6526](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6526), [\#6527](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6527))
-
-Synapse 1.7.0 (2019-12-13)
-==========================
-
-This release changes the default settings so that only local authenticated users can query the server's room directory. See the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v170) for details.
-
-Support for SQLite versions before 3.11 is now deprecated. A future release will refuse to start if used with an SQLite version before 3.11.
-
-Administrators are reminded that SQLite should not be used for production instances. Instructions for migrating to Postgres are available [here](docs/postgres.md). A future release of synapse will, by default, disable federation for servers using SQLite.
-
-No significant changes since 1.7.0rc2.
-
-
-Synapse 1.7.0rc2 (2019-12-11)
-=============================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix incorrect error message for invalid requests when setting user's avatar URL. ([\#6497](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6497))
-- Fix support for SQLite 3.7. ([\#6499](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6499))
-- Fix regression where sending email push would not work when using a pusher worker. ([\#6507](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6507), [\#6509](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6509))
-
-
-Synapse 1.7.0rc1 (2019-12-09)
-=============================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Implement per-room message retention policies. ([\#5815](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5815), [\#6436](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6436))
-- Add etag and count fields to key backup endpoints to help clients guess if there are new keys. ([\#5858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5858))
-- Add `/admin/v2/users` endpoint with pagination. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5925))
-- Require User-Interactive Authentication for `/account/3pid/add`, meaning the user's password will be required to add a third-party ID to their account. ([\#6119](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6119))
-- Implement the `/_matrix/federation/unstable/net.atleastfornow/state/<context>` API as drafted in MSC2314. ([\#6176](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6176))
-- Configure privacy-preserving settings by default for the room directory. ([\#6355](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6355))
-- Add ephemeral messages support by partially implementing [MSC2228](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2228). ([\#6409](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6409))
-- Add support for [MSC 2367](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2367), which allows specifying a reason on all membership events. ([\#6434](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6434))
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Transfer non-standard power levels on room upgrade. ([\#6237](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6237))
-- Fix error from the Pillow library when uploading RGBA images. ([\#6241](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6241))
-- Correctly apply the event filter to the `state`, `events_before` and `events_after` fields in the response to `/context` requests. ([\#6329](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6329))
-- Fix caching devices for remote users when using workers, so that we don't attempt to refetch (and potentially fail) each time a user requests devices. ([\#6332](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6332))
-- Prevent account data syncs getting lost across TCP replication. ([\#6333](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6333))
-- Fix bug: TypeError in `register_user()` while using LDAP auth module. ([\#6406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6406))
-- Fix an intermittent exception when handling read-receipts. ([\#6408](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6408))
-- Fix broken guest registration when there are existing blocks of numeric user IDs. ([\#6420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6420))
-- Fix startup error when http proxy is defined. ([\#6421](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6421))
-- Fix error when using synapse_port_db on a vanilla synapse db. ([\#6449](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6449))
-- Fix uploading multiple cross signing signatures for the same user. ([\#6451](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6451))
-- Fix bug which lead to exceptions being thrown in a loop when a cross-signed device is deleted. ([\#6462](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6462))
-- Fix `synapse_port_db` not exiting with a 0 code if something went wrong during the port process. ([\#6470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6470))
-- Improve sanity-checking when receiving events over federation. ([\#6472](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6472))
-- Fix inaccurate per-block Prometheus metrics. ([\#6491](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6491))
-- Fix small performance regression for sending invites. ([\#6493](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6493))
-- Back out cross-signing code added in Synapse 1.5.0, which caused a performance regression. ([\#6494](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6494))
-
-
-Improved Documentation
-----------------------
-
-- Update documentation and variables in user contributed systemd reference file. ([\#6369](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6369), [\#6490](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6490))
-- Fix link in the user directory documentation. ([\#6388](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6388))
-- Add build instructions to the docker readme. ([\#6390](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6390))
-- Switch Ubuntu package install recommendation to use python3 packages in INSTALL.md. ([\#6443](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6443))
-- Write some docs for the quarantine_media api. ([\#6458](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6458))
-- Convert CONTRIBUTING.rst to markdown (among other small fixes). ([\#6461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6461))
-
-
-Deprecations and Removals
--------------------------
-
-- Remove admin/v1/users_paginate endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5925))
-- Remove fallback for federation with old servers which lack the /federation/v1/state_ids API. ([\#6488](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6488))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Add benchmarks for structured logging and improve output performance. ([\#6266](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6266))
-- Improve the performance of outputting structured logging. ([\#6322](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6322))
-- Refactor some code in the event authentication path for clarity. ([\#6343](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6343), [\#6468](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6468), [\#6480](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6480))
-- Clean up some unnecessary quotation marks around the codebase. ([\#6362](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6362))
-- Complain on startup instead of 500'ing during runtime when `public_baseurl` isn't set when necessary. ([\#6379](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6379))
-- Add a test scenario to make sure room history purges don't break `/messages` in the future. ([\#6392](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6392))
-- Clarifications for the email configuration settings. ([\#6423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6423))
-- Add more tests to the blacklist when running in worker mode. ([\#6429](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6429))
-- Refactor data store layer to support multiple databases in the future. ([\#6454](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6454), [\#6464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6464), [\#6469](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6469), [\#6487](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6487))
-- Port synapse.rest.client.v1 to async/await. ([\#6482](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6482))
-- Port synapse.rest.client.v2_alpha to async/await. ([\#6483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6483))
-- Port SyncHandler to async/await. ([\#6484](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6484))
-
-Synapse 1.6.1 (2019-11-28)
-==========================
-
-Security updates
-----------------
-
-This release includes a security fix ([\#6426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6426), below). Administrators are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Clean up local threepids from user on account deactivation. ([\#6426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6426))
-- Fix startup error when http proxy is defined. ([\#6421](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6421))
-
-
-Synapse 1.6.0 (2019-11-26)
-==========================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix phone home stats reporting. ([\#6418](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6418))
-
-
-Synapse 1.6.0rc2 (2019-11-25)
-=============================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix a bug which could cause the background database update hander for event labels to get stuck in a loop raising exceptions. ([\#6407](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6407))
-
-
-Synapse 1.6.0rc1 (2019-11-20)
-=============================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Add federation support for cross-signing. ([\#5727](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5727))
-- Increase default room version from 4 to 5, thereby enforcing server key validity period checks. ([\#6220](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6220))
-- Add support for outbound http proxying via http_proxy/HTTPS_PROXY env vars. ([\#6238](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6238))
-- Implement label-based filtering on `/sync` and `/messages` ([MSC2326](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2326)). ([\#6301](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6301), [\#6310](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6310), [\#6340](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6340))
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix LruCache callback deduplication for Python 3.8. Contributed by @V02460. ([\#6213](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6213))
-- Remove a room from a server's public rooms list on room upgrade. ([\#6232](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6232), [\#6235](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6235))
-- Delete keys from key backup when deleting backup versions. ([\#6253](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6253))
-- Make notification of cross-signing signatures work with workers. ([\#6254](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6254))
-- Fix exception when remote servers attempt to join a room that they're not allowed to join. ([\#6278](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6278))
-- Prevent errors from appearing on Synapse startup if `git` is not installed. ([\#6284](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6284))
-- Appservice requests will no longer contain a double slash prefix when the appservice url provided ends in a slash. ([\#6306](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6306))
-- Fix `/purge_room` admin API. ([\#6307](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6307))
-- Fix the `hidden` field in the `devices` table for SQLite versions prior to 3.23.0. ([\#6313](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6313))
-- Fix bug which casued rejected events to be persisted with the wrong room state. ([\#6320](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6320))
-- Fix bug where `rc_login` ratelimiting would prematurely kick in. ([\#6335](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6335))
-- Prevent the server taking a long time to start up when guest registration is enabled. ([\#6338](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6338))
-- Fix bug where upgrading a guest account to a full user would fail when account validity is enabled. ([\#6359](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6359))
-- Fix `to_device` stream ID getting reset every time Synapse restarts, which had the potential to cause unable to decrypt errors. ([\#6363](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6363))
-- Fix permission denied error when trying to generate a config file with the docker image. ([\#6389](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6389))
-
-
-Improved Documentation
-----------------------
-
-- Contributor documentation now mentions script to run linters. ([\#6164](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6164))
-- Modify CAPTCHA_SETUP.md to update the terms `private key` and `public key` to `secret key` and `site key` respectively. Contributed by Yash Jipkate. ([\#6257](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6257))
-- Update `INSTALL.md` Email section to talk about `account_threepid_delegates`. ([\#6272](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6272))
-- Fix a small typo in `account_threepid_delegates` configuration option. ([\#6273](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6273))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Add a CI job to test the `synapse_port_db` script. ([\#6140](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6140), [\#6276](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6276))
-- Convert EventContext to an attrs. ([\#6218](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6218))
-- Move `persist_events` out from main data store. ([\#6240](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6240), [\#6300](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6300))
-- Reduce verbosity of user/room stats. ([\#6250](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6250))
-- Reduce impact of debug logging. ([\#6251](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6251))
-- Expose some homeserver functionality to spam checkers. ([\#6259](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6259))
-- Change cache descriptors to always return deferreds. ([\#6263](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6263), [\#6291](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6291))
-- Fix incorrect comment regarding the functionality of an `if` statement. ([\#6269](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6269))
-- Update CI to run `isort` over the `scripts` and `scripts-dev` directories. ([\#6270](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6270))
-- Replace every instance of `logger.warn` method with `logger.warning` as the former is deprecated. ([\#6271](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6271), [\#6314](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6314))
-- Port replication http server endpoints to async/await. ([\#6274](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6274))
-- Port room rest handlers to async/await. ([\#6275](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6275))
-- Remove redundant CLI parameters on CI's `flake8` step. ([\#6277](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6277))
-- Port `federation_server.py` to async/await. ([\#6279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6279))
-- Port receipt and read markers to async/wait. ([\#6280](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6280))
-- Split out state storage into separate data store. ([\#6294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6294), [\#6295](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6295))
-- Refactor EventContext for clarity. ([\#6298](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6298))
-- Update the version of black used to 19.10b0. ([\#6304](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6304))
-- Add some documentation about worker replication. ([\#6305](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6305))
-- Move admin endpoints into separate files. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#6308](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6308))
-- Document the use of `lint.sh` for code style enforcement & extend it to run on specified paths only. ([\#6312](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6312))
-- Add optional python dependencies and dependant binary libraries to snapcraft packaging. ([\#6317](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6317))
-- Remove the dependency on psutil and replace functionality with the stdlib `resource` module. ([\#6318](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6318), [\#6336](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6336))
-- Improve documentation for EventContext fields. ([\#6319](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6319))
-- Add some checks that we aren't using state from rejected events. ([\#6330](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6330))
-- Add continuous integration for python 3.8. ([\#6341](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6341))
-- Correct spacing/case of various instances of the word "homeserver". ([\#6357](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6357))
-- Temporarily blacklist the failing unit test PurgeRoomTestCase.test_purge_room. ([\#6361](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6361))
-
-
-Synapse 1.5.1 (2019-11-06)
-==========================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Limit the length of data returned by url previews, to prevent DoS attacks. ([\#6331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6331), [\#6334](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6334))
-
-
-Synapse 1.5.0 (2019-10-29)
-==========================
-
-Security updates
-----------------
-
-This release includes a security fix ([\#6262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6262), below). Administrators are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix bug where room directory search was case sensitive. ([\#6268](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6268))
-
-
-Synapse 1.5.0rc2 (2019-10-28)
-=============================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Update list of boolean columns in `synapse_port_db`. ([\#6247](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6247))
-- Fix /keys/query API on workers. ([\#6256](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6256))
-- Improve signature checking on some federation APIs. ([\#6262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6262))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Move schema delta files to the correct data store. ([\#6248](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6248))
-- Small performance improvement by removing repeated config lookups in room stats calculation. ([\#6255](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6255))
-
-
-Synapse 1.5.0rc1 (2019-10-24)
-==========================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Improve quality of thumbnails for 1-bit/8-bit color palette images. ([\#2142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2142))
-- Add ability to upload cross-signing signatures. ([\#5726](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5726))
-- Allow uploading of cross-signing keys. ([\#5769](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5769))
-- CAS login now provides a default display name for users if a `displayname_attribute` is set in the configuration file. ([\#6114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6114))
-- Reject all pending invites for a user during deactivation. ([\#6125](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6125))
-- Add config option to suppress client side resource limit alerting. ([\#6173](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6173))
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Return an HTTP 404 instead of 400 when requesting a filter by ID that is unknown to the server. Thanks to @krombel for contributing this! ([\#2380](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2380))
-- Fix a bug where users could be invited twice to the same group. ([\#3436](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3436))
-- Fix `/createRoom` failing with badly-formatted MXIDs in the invitee list. Thanks to @wener291! ([\#4088](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4088))
-- Make the `synapse_port_db` script create the right indexes on a new PostgreSQL database. ([\#6102](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6102), [\#6178](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6178), [\#6243](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6243))
-- Fix bug when uploading a large file: Synapse responds with `M_UNKNOWN` while it should be `M_TOO_LARGE` according to spec. Contributed by Anshul Angaria. ([\#6109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6109))
-- Fix user push rules being deleted from a room when it is upgraded. ([\#6144](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6144))
-- Don't 500 when trying to exchange a revoked 3PID invite. ([\#6147](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6147))
-- Fix transferring notifications and tags when joining an upgraded room that is new to your server. ([\#6155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6155))
-- Fix bug where guest account registration can wedge after restart. ([\#6161](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6161))
-- Fix monthly active user reaping when reserved users are specified. ([\#6168](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6168))
-- Fix `/federation/v1/state` endpoint not supporting newer room versions. ([\#6170](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6170))
-- Fix bug where we were updating censored events as bytes rather than text, occaisonally causing invalid JSON being inserted breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
-- Fix occasional missed updates in the room and user directories. ([\#6187](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6187))
-- Fix tracing of non-JSON APIs, `/media`, `/key` etc. ([\#6195](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6195))
-- Fix bug where presence would not get timed out correctly if a synchrotron worker is used and restarted. ([\#6212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6212))
-- synapse_port_db: Add 2 additional BOOLEAN_COLUMNS to be able to convert from database schema v56. ([\#6216](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6216))
-- Fix a bug where the Synapse demo script blacklisted `::1` (ipv6 localhost) from receiving federation traffic. ([\#6229](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6229))
-
-
-Updates to the Docker image
----------------------------
-
-- Fix logging getting lost for the docker image. ([\#6197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6197))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Update `user_filters` table to have a unique index, and non-null columns. Thanks to @pik for contributing this. ([\#1172](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1172), [\#6175](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6175), [\#6184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6184))
-- Allow devices to be marked as hidden, for use by features such as cross-signing.
-  This adds a new field with a default value to the devices field in the database,
-  and so the database upgrade may take a long time depending on how many devices
-  are in the database. ([\#5759](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5759))
-- Move lookup-related functions from RoomMemberHandler to IdentityHandler. ([\#5978](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5978))
-- Improve performance of the public room list directory. ([\#6019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6019), [\#6152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6152), [\#6153](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6153), [\#6154](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6154))
-- Edit header dicts docstrings in `SimpleHttpClient` to note that `str` or `bytes` can be passed as header keys. ([\#6077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6077))
-- Add snapcraft packaging information. Contributed by @devec0. ([\#6084](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6084), [\#6191](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6191))
-- Kill off half-implemented password-reset via sms. ([\#6101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6101))
-- Remove `get_user_by_req` opentracing span and add some tags. ([\#6108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6108))
-- Drop some unused database tables. ([\#6115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6115))
-- Add env var to turn on tracking of log context changes. ([\#6127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6127))
-- Refactor configuration loading to allow better typechecking. ([\#6137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6137))
-- Log responder when responding to media request. ([\#6139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6139))
-- Improve performance of `find_next_generated_user_id` DB query. ([\#6148](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6148))
-- Expand type-checking on modules imported by `synapse.config`. ([\#6150](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6150))
-- Use Postgres ANY for selecting many values. ([\#6156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6156))
-- Add more caching to `_get_joined_users_from_context` DB query. ([\#6159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6159))
-- Add some metrics on the federation sender. ([\#6160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6160))
-- Add some logging to the rooms stats updates, to try to track down a flaky test. ([\#6167](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6167))
-- Remove unused `timeout` parameter from `_get_public_room_list`. ([\#6179](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6179))
-- Reject (accidental) attempts to insert bytes into postgres tables. ([\#6186](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6186))
-- Make `version` optional in body of `PUT /room_keys/version/{version}`, since it's redundant. ([\#6189](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6189))
-- Make storage layer responsible for adding device names to key, rather than the handler. ([\#6193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6193))
-- Port `synapse.rest.admin` module to use async/await. ([\#6196](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6196))
-- Enforce that all boolean configuration values are lowercase in CI. ([\#6203](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6203))
-- Remove some unused event-auth code. ([\#6214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6214))
-- Remove `Auth.check` method. ([\#6217](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6217))
-- Remove `format_tap.py` script in favour of a perl reimplementation in Sytest's repo. ([\#6219](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6219))
-- Refactor storage layer in preparation to support having multiple databases. ([\#6231](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6231))
-- Remove some extra quotation marks across the codebase. ([\#6236](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6236))
-
-
-Synapse 1.4.1 (2019-10-18)
-==========================
-
-No changes since 1.4.1rc1.
-
-
-Synapse 1.4.1rc1 (2019-10-17)
-=============================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix bug where redacted events were sometimes incorrectly censored in the database, breaking APIs that attempted to fetch such events. ([\#6185](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6185), [5b0e9948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/5b0e9948eaae801643e594b5abc8ee4b10bd194e))
-
-Synapse 1.4.0 (2019-10-03)
-==========================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Redact `client_secret` in server logs. ([\#6158](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6158))
-
-
-Synapse 1.4.0rc2 (2019-10-02)
-=============================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix bug in background update that adds last seen information to the `devices` table, and improve its performance on Postgres. ([\#6135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6135))
-- Fix bad performance of censoring redactions background task. ([\#6141](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6141))
-- Fix fetching censored redactions from DB, which caused APIs like initial sync to fail if it tried to include the censored redaction. ([\#6145](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6145))
-- Fix exceptions when storing large retry intervals for down remote servers. ([\#6146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6146))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Fix up sample config entry for `redaction_retention_period` option. ([\#6117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6117))
-
-
-Synapse 1.4.0rc1 (2019-09-26)
-=============================
-
-Note that this release includes significant changes around 3pid
-verification. Administrators are reminded to review the [upgrade notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v140).
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Changes to 3pid verification:
-  - Add the ability to send registration emails from the homeserver rather than delegating to an identity server. ([\#5835](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5835), [\#5940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5940), [\#5993](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5993), [\#5994](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5994), [\#5868](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5868))
-  - Replace `trust_identity_server_for_password_resets` config option with `account_threepid_delegates`, and make the `id_server` parameteter optional on `*/requestToken` endpoints, as per [MSC2263](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2263). ([\#5876](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5876), [\#5969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5969), [\#6028](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6028))
-  - Switch to using the v2 Identity Service `/lookup` API where available, with fallback to v1. (Implements [MSC2134](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2134) plus `id_access_token authentication` for v2 Identity Service APIs from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140)). ([\#5897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5897))
-  - Remove `bind_email` and `bind_msisdn` parameters from `/register` ala [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140). ([\#5964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5964))
-  - Add `m.id_access_token` to `unstable_features` in `/versions` as per [MSC2264](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2264). ([\#5974](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5974))
-  - Use the v2 Identity Service API for 3PID invites. ([\#5979](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5979))
-  - Add `POST /_matrix/client/unstable/account/3pid/unbind` endpoint from [MSC2140](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2140) for unbinding a 3PID from an identity server without removing it from the homeserver user account. ([\#5980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5980), [\#6062](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6062))
-  - Use `account_threepid_delegate.email` and `account_threepid_delegate.msisdn` for validating threepid sessions. ([\#6011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6011))
-  - Allow homeserver to handle or delegate email validation when adding an email to a user's account. ([\#6042](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6042))
-  - Implement new Client Server API endpoints `/account/3pid/add` and `/account/3pid/bind` as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290). ([\#6043](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6043))
-  - Add an unstable feature flag for separate add/bind 3pid APIs. ([\#6044](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6044))
-  - Remove `bind` parameter from Client Server POST `/account` endpoint as per [MSC2290](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2290/). ([\#6067](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6067))
-  - Add `POST /add_threepid/msisdn/submit_token` endpoint for proxying submitToken on an `account_threepid_handler`. ([\#6078](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6078))
-  - Add `submit_url` response parameter to `*/msisdn/requestToken` endpoints. ([\#6079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6079))
-  - Add `m.require_identity_server` flag to /version's unstable_features. ([\#5972](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5972))
-- Enhancements to OpenTracing support:
-  - Make OpenTracing work in worker mode. ([\#5771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5771))
-  - Pass OpenTracing contexts between servers when transmitting EDUs. ([\#5852](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5852))
-  - OpenTracing for device list updates. ([\#5853](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5853))
-  - Add a tag recording a request's authenticated entity and corresponding servlet in OpenTracing. ([\#5856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5856))
-  - Add minimum OpenTracing for client servlets. ([\#5983](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5983))
-  - Check at setup that OpenTracing is installed if it's enabled in the config. ([\#5985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5985))
-  - Trace replication send times. ([\#5986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5986))
-  - Include missing OpenTracing contexts in outbout replication requests. ([\#5982](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5982))
-  - Fix sending of EDUs when OpenTracing is enabled with an empty whitelist. ([\#5984](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5984))
-  - Fix invalid references to None while OpenTracing if the log context slips. ([\#5988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5988), [\#5991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5991))
-  - OpenTracing for room and e2e keys. ([\#5855](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5855))
-  - Add OpenTracing span over HTTP push processing. ([\#6003](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6003))
-- Add an admin API to purge old rooms from the database. ([\#5845](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5845))
-- Retry well-known lookups if we have recently seen a valid well-known record for the server. ([\#5850](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5850))
-- Add support for filtered room-directory search requests over federation ([MSC2197](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2197), in order to allow upcoming room directory query performance improvements. ([\#5859](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5859))
-- Correctly retry all hosts returned from SRV when we fail to connect. ([\#5864](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5864))
-- Add admin API endpoint for setting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5878](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5878))
-- Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to prevent undue build up of forward extremities. ([\#5884](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5884))
-- Add config option to sign remote key query responses with a separate key. ([\#5895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5895))
-- Add support for config templating. ([\#5900](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5900))
-- Users with the type of "support" or "bot" are no longer required to consent. ([\#5902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5902))
-- Let synctl accept a directory of config files. ([\#5904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5904))
-- Increase max display name size to 256. ([\#5906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5906))
-- Add admin API endpoint for getting whether or not a user is a server administrator. ([\#5914](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5914))
-- Redact events in the database that have been redacted for a week. ([\#5934](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5934))
-- New prometheus metrics:
-  - `synapse_federation_known_servers`: represents the total number of servers your server knows about (i.e. is in rooms with), including itself. Enable by setting `metrics_flags.known_servers` to True in the configuration.([\#5981](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5981))
-  - `synapse_build_info`: exposes the Python version, OS version, and Synapse version of the running server. ([\#6005](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6005))
-- Give appropriate exit codes when synctl fails. ([\#5992](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5992))
-- Apply the federation blacklist to requests to identity servers. ([\#6000](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6000))
-- Add `report_stats_endpoint` option to configure where stats are reported to, if enabled. Contributed by @Sorunome. ([\#6012](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6012))
-- Add config option to increase ratelimits for room admins redacting messages. ([\#6015](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6015))
-- Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time. ([\#6026](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6026))
-- Make the process for mapping SAML2 users to matrix IDs more flexible. ([\#6037](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6037))
-- Return a clearer error message when a timeout occurs when attempting to contact an identity server. ([\#6073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6073))
-- Prevent password reset's submit_token endpoint from accepting trailing slashes. ([\#6074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6074))
-- Return 403 on `/register/available` if registration has been disabled. ([\#6082](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6082))
-- Explicitly log when a homeserver does not have the `trusted_key_servers` config field configured. ([\#6090](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6090))
-- Add support for pruning old rows in `user_ips` table. ([\#6098](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6098))
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Don't create broken room when `power_level_content_override.users` does not contain `creator_id`. ([\#5633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5633))
-- Fix database index so that different backup versions can have the same sessions. ([\#5857](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5857))
-- Fix Synapse looking for config options `password_reset_failure_template` and `password_reset_success_template`, when they are actually `password_reset_template_failure_html`, `password_reset_template_success_html`. ([\#5863](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5863))
-- Fix stack overflow when recovering an appservice which had an outage. ([\#5885](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5885))
-- Fix error message which referred to `public_base_url` instead of `public_baseurl`. Thanks to @aaronraimist for the fix! ([\#5909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5909))
-- Fix 404 for thumbnail download when `dynamic_thumbnails` is `false` and the thumbnail was dynamically generated. Fix reported by rkfg. ([\#5915](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5915))
-- Fix a cache-invalidation bug for worker-based deployments. ([\#5920](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5920))
-- Fix admin API for listing media in a room not being available with an external media repo. ([\#5966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5966))
-- Fix list media admin API always returning an error. ([\#5967](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5967))
-- Fix room and user stats tracking. ([\#5971](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5971), [\#5998](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5998), [\#6029](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6029))
-- Return a `M_MISSING_PARAM` if `sid` is not provided to `/account/3pid`. ([\#5995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5995))
-- `federation_certificate_verification_whitelist` now will not cause `TypeErrors` to be raised (a regression in 1.3). Additionally, it now supports internationalised domain names in their non-canonical representation. ([\#5996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5996))
-- Only count real users when checking for auto-creation of auto-join room. ([\#6004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6004))
-- Ensure support users can be registered even if MAU limit is reached. ([\#6020](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6020))
-- Fix bug where login error was shown incorrectly on SSO fallback login. ([\#6024](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6024))
-- Fix bug in calculating the federation retry backoff period. ([\#6025](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6025))
-- Prevent exceptions being logged when extremity-cleanup events fail due to lack of user consent to the terms of service. ([\#6053](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6053))
-- Remove POST method from password-reset `submit_token` endpoint until we implement `submit_url` functionality. ([\#6056](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6056))
-- Fix logcontext spam on non-Linux platforms. ([\#6059](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6059))
-- Ensure query parameters in email validation links are URL-encoded. ([\#6063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6063))
-- Fix a bug which caused SAML attribute maps to be overridden by defaults. ([\#6069](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6069))
-- Fix the logged number of updated items for the `users_set_deactivated_flag` background update. ([\#6092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6092))
-- Add `sid` to `next_link` for email validation. ([\#6097](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6097))
-- Threepid validity checks on msisdns should not be dependent on `threepid_behaviour_email`. ([\#6104](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6104))
-- Ensure that servers which are not configured to support email address verification do not offer it in the registration flows. ([\#6107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6107))
-
-
-Updates to the Docker image
----------------------------
-
-- Avoid changing `UID/GID` if they are already correct. ([\#5970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5970))
-- Provide `SYNAPSE_WORKER` envvar to specify python module. ([\#6058](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6058))
-
-
-Improved Documentation
-----------------------
-
-- Convert documentation to markdown (from rst) ([\#5849](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5849))
-- Update `INSTALL.md` to say that Python 2 is no longer supported. ([\#5953](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5953))
-- Add developer documentation for using SAML2. ([\#6032](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6032))
-- Add some notes on rolling back to v1.3.1. ([\#6049](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6049))
-- Update the upgrade notes. ([\#6050](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6050))
-
-
-Deprecations and Removals
--------------------------
-
-- Remove shared-secret registration from `/_matrix/client/r0/register` endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. ([\#5877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5877))
-- Deprecate the `trusted_third_party_id_servers` option. ([\#5875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5875))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Lay the groundwork for structured logging output. ([\#5680](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5680))
-- Retry well-known lookup before the cache expires, giving a grace period where the remote well-known can be down but we still use the old result. ([\#5844](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5844))
-- Remove log line for debugging issue #5407. ([\#5860](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5860))
-- Refactor the Appservice scheduler code. ([\#5886](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5886))
-- Compatibility with v2 Identity Service APIs other than /lookup. ([\#5892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5892), [\#6013](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6013))
-- Stop populating some unused tables. ([\#5893](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5893), [\#6047](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6047))
-- Add missing index on `users_in_public_rooms` to improve the performance of directory queries. ([\#5894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5894))
-- Improve the logging when we have an error when fetching signing keys. ([\#5896](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5896))
-- Add support for database engine-specific schema deltas, based on file extension. ([\#5911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5911))
-- Update Buildkite pipeline to use plugins instead of buildkite-agent commands. ([\#5922](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5922))
-- Add link in sample config to the logging config schema. ([\#5926](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5926))
-- Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements. ([\#5931](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5931))
-- Remove unused `jenkins/prepare_sytest.sh` file. ([\#5938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5938))
-- Move Buildkite pipeline config to the pipelines repo. ([\#5943](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5943))
-- Remove unnecessary return statements in the codebase which were the result of a regex run. ([\#5962](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5962))
-- Remove left-over methods from v1 registration API. ([\#5963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5963))
-- Cleanup event auth type initialisation. ([\#5975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5975))
-- Clean up dependency checking at setup. ([\#5989](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5989))
-- Update OpenTracing docs to use the unified `trace` method. ([\#5776](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5776))
-- Small refactor of function arguments and docstrings in` RoomMemberHandler`. ([\#6009](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6009))
-- Remove unused `origin` argument on `FederationHandler.add_display_name_to_third_party_invite`. ([\#6010](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6010))
-- Add a `failure_ts` column to the `destinations` database table. ([\#6016](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6016), [\#6072](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6072))
-- Clean up some code in the retry logic. ([\#6017](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6017))
-- Fix the structured logging tests stomping on the global log configuration for subsequent tests. ([\#6023](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6023))
-- Clean up the sample config for SAML authentication. ([\#6064](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6064))
-- Change mailer logging to reflect Synapse doesn't just do chat notifications by email now. ([\#6075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6075))
-- Move last-seen info into devices table. ([\#6089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6089))
-- Remove unused parameter to `get_user_id_by_threepid`. ([\#6099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6099))
-- Refactor the user-interactive auth handling. ([\#6105](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6105))
-- Refactor code for calculating registration flows. ([\#6106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6106))
-
-
-Synapse 1.3.1 (2019-08-17)
-==========================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Drop hard dependency on `sdnotify` python package. ([\#5871](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5871))
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix startup issue (hang on ACME provisioning) due to ordering of Twisted reactor startup. Thanks to @chrismoos for supplying the fix. ([\#5867](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5867))
-
-
-Synapse 1.3.0 (2019-08-15)
-==========================
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix 500 Internal Server Error on `publicRooms` when the public room list was
-  cached. ([\#5851](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5851))
-
-
-Synapse 1.3.0rc1 (2019-08-13)
-==========================
-
-Features
---------
-
-- Use `M_USER_DEACTIVATED` instead of `M_UNKNOWN` for errcode when a deactivated user attempts to login. ([\#5686](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5686))
-- Add sd_notify hooks to ease systemd integration and allows usage of Type=Notify. ([\#5732](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5732))
-- Synapse will no longer serve any media repo admin endpoints when `enable_media_repo` is set to False in the configuration. If a media repo worker is used, the admin APIs relating to the media repo will be served from it instead. ([\#5754](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5754), [\#5848](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5848))
-- Synapse can now be configured to not join remote rooms of a given "complexity" (currently, state events) over federation. This option can be used to prevent adverse performance on resource-constrained homeservers. ([\#5783](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5783))
-- Allow defining HTML templates to serve the user on account renewal attempt when using the account validity feature. ([\#5807](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5807))
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix UISIs during homeserver outage. ([\#5693](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5693), [\#5789](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5789))
-- Fix stack overflow in server key lookup code. ([\#5724](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5724))
-- start.sh no longer uses deprecated cli option. ([\#5725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5725))
-- Log when we receive an event receipt from an unexpected origin. ([\#5743](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5743))
-- Fix debian packaging scripts to correctly build sid packages. ([\#5775](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5775))
-- Correctly handle redactions of redactions. ([\#5788](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5788))
-- Return 404 instead of 403 when accessing /rooms/{roomId}/event/{eventId} for an event without the appropriate permissions. ([\#5798](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5798))
-- Fix check that tombstone is a state event in push rules. ([\#5804](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5804))
-- Fix error when trying to login as a deactivated user when using a worker to handle login. ([\#5806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5806))
-- Fix bug where user `/sync` stream could get wedged in rare circumstances. ([\#5825](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5825))
-- The purge_remote_media.sh script was fixed. ([\#5839](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5839))
-
-
-Deprecations and Removals
--------------------------
-
-- Synapse now no longer accepts the `-v`/`--verbose`, `-f`/`--log-file`, or `--log-config` command line flags, and removes the deprecated `verbose` and `log_file` configuration file options. Users of these options should migrate their options into the dedicated log configuration. ([\#5678](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5678), [\#5729](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5729))
-- Remove non-functional 'expire_access_token' setting. ([\#5782](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5782))
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Make Jaeger fully configurable. ([\#5694](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5694))
-- Add precautionary measures to prevent future abuse of `window.opener` in default welcome page. ([\#5695](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5695))
-- Reduce database IO usage by optimising queries for current membership. ([\#5706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5706), [\#5738](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5738), [\#5746](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5746), [\#5752](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5752), [\#5770](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5770), [\#5774](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5774), [\#5792](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5792), [\#5793](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5793))
-- Improve caching when fetching `get_filtered_current_state_ids`. ([\#5713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5713))
-- Don't accept opentracing data from clients. ([\#5715](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5715))
-- Speed up PostgreSQL unit tests in CI. ([\#5717](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5717))
-- Update the coding style document. ([\#5719](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5719))
-- Improve database query performance when recording retry intervals for remote hosts. ([\#5720](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5720))
-- Add a set of opentracing utils. ([\#5722](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5722))
-- Cache result of get_version_string to reduce overhead of `/version` federation requests. ([\#5730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5730))
-- Return 'user_type' in admin API user endpoints results. ([\#5731](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5731))
-- Don't package the sytest test blacklist file. ([\#5733](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5733))
-- Replace uses of returnValue with plain return, as returnValue is not needed on Python 3. ([\#5736](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5736))
-- Blacklist some flakey tests in worker mode. ([\#5740](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5740))
-- Fix some error cases in the caching layer. ([\#5749](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5749))
-- Add a prometheus metric for pending cache lookups. ([\#5750](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5750))
-- Stop trying to fetch events with event_id=None. ([\#5753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5753))
-- Convert RedactionTestCase to modern test style. ([\#5768](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5768))
-- Allow looping calls to be given arguments. ([\#5780](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5780))
-- Set the logs emitted when checking typing and presence timeouts to DEBUG level, not INFO. ([\#5785](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5785))
-- Remove DelayedCall debugging from the test suite, as it is no longer required in the vast majority of Synapse's tests. ([\#5787](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5787))
-- Remove some spurious exceptions from the logs where we failed to talk to a remote server. ([\#5790](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5790))
-- Improve performance when making `.well-known` requests by sharing the SSL options between requests. ([\#5794](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5794))
-- Disable codecov GitHub comments on PRs. ([\#5796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5796))
-- Don't allow clients to send tombstone events that reference the room it's sent in. ([\#5801](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5801))
-- Deny redactions of events sent in a different room. ([\#5802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5802))
-- Deny sending well known state types as non-state events. ([\#5805](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5805))
-- Handle incorrectly encoded query params correctly by returning a 400. ([\#5808](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5808))
-- Handle pusher being deleted during processing rather than logging an exception. ([\#5809](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5809))
-- Return 502 not 500 when failing to reach any remote server. ([\#5810](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5810))
-- Reduce global pauses in the events stream caused by expensive state resolution during persistence. ([\#5826](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5826))
-- Add a lower bound to well-known lookup cache time to avoid repeated lookups. ([\#5836](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5836))
-- Whitelist history visbility sytests in worker mode tests. ([\#5843](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5843))
-
-
 Synapse 1.2.1 (2019-07-26)
 ==========================
 

CONTRIBUTING.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# Contributing code to Matrix
+Contributing code to Matrix
+===========================
 
 Everyone is welcome to contribute code to Matrix
 (https://github.com/matrix-org), provided that they are willing to license
@@ -6,17 +7,18 @@ 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)).
+case, this is almost always Apache Software License v2 (see LICENSE).
 
-## How to contribute
+How to contribute
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The preferred and easiest way to contribute changes to Matrix 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.
+relevant project on github, and then create a pull request to ask us to pull
+your changes into our repo
+(https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)
 
 **The single biggest thing you need to know is: please base your changes on
-the develop branch - *not* master.**
+the develop branch - /not/ master.**
 
 We use the master branch to track the most recent release, so that folks who
 blindly clone the repo and automatically check out master get something that
@@ -28,8 +30,9 @@ use github's pull request workflow to review the contribution, and either ask
 you to make any refinements needed or merge it and make them ourselves. The
 changes will then land on master when we next do a release.
 
-We use [Buildkite](https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/synapse) for continuous
-integration. If your change breaks the build, this will be shown in GitHub, so
+We use `Buildkite <https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/synapse>`_ for
+continuous integration.  Buildkite builds need to be authorised by a
+maintainer. If your change breaks the build, this will be shown in GitHub, so
 please keep an eye on the pull request for feedback.
 
 To run unit tests in a local development environment, you can use:
@@ -44,63 +47,41 @@ To run unit tests in a local development environment, you can use:
   set up PostgreSQL yourself.
 
 Docker images are available for running the integration tests (SyTest) locally,
-see the [documentation in the SyTest repo](
-https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md) for more
+see the `documentation in the SyTest repo
+<https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md>`_ for more
 information.
 
-## Code style
+Code style
+~~~~~~~~~~
 
 All Matrix projects have a well-defined code-style - and sometimes we've even
 got as far as documenting it... For instance, synapse's code style doc lives
-[here](docs/code_style.md).
-
-To facilitate meeting these criteria you can run `scripts-dev/lint.sh`
-locally. Since this runs the tools listed in the above document, you'll need
-python 3.6 and to install each tool:
-
-```
-# Install the dependencies
-pip install -U black flake8 isort
-
-# Run the linter script
-./scripts-dev/lint.sh
-```
-
-**Note that the script does not just test/check, but also reformats code, so you
-may wish to ensure any new code is committed first**. By default this script
-checks all files and can take some time; if you alter only certain files, you
-might wish to specify paths as arguments to reduce the run-time:
-
-```
-./scripts-dev/lint.sh path/to/file1.py path/to/file2.py path/to/folder
-```
-
-Before pushing new changes, ensure they don't produce linting errors. Commit any
-files that were corrected.
+at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/docs/code_style.rst.
 
 Please ensure your changes match the cosmetic style of the existing project,
 and **never** mix cosmetic and functional changes in the same commit, as it
 makes it horribly hard to review otherwise.
 
-
-## Changelog
+Changelog
+~~~~~~~~~
 
 All changes, even minor ones, need a corresponding changelog / newsfragment
-entry. These are managed by [Towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier).
+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:
+To create a changelog entry, make a new file in the ``changelog.d`` file 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)
+* ``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).
 
 The content of the file is your changelog entry, which should be a short
-description of your change in the same style as the rest of our [changelog](
-https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CHANGES.md). The file can
+description of your change in the same style as the rest of our `changelog
+<https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CHANGES.md>`_. The file can
 contain Markdown formatting, and should end with a full stop ('.') for
 consistency.
 
@@ -108,21 +89,20 @@ 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 over federation. Contributed by Jane
+``changelog.d/1234.bugfix``, and contain content like "The security levels of
+Florbs are now validated when recieved over federation. Contributed by Jane
 Matrix.".
 
-## Debian changelog
+Debian changelog
+----------------
 
-Changes which affect the debian packaging files (in `debian`) are an
+Changes which affect the debian packaging files (in ``debian``) are an
 exception.
 
 In this case, you will need to add an entry to the debian changelog for the
-next release. For this, run the following command:
+next release. For this, run the following command::
 
-```
-dch
-```
+  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.
@@ -134,77 +114,85 @@ 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
+Attribution
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Everyone who contributes anything to Matrix is welcome to be listed in the
+AUTHORS.rst file for the project in question. Please feel free to include a
+change to AUTHORS.rst in your pull request to list yourself and a short
+description of the area(s) you've worked on. Also, we sometimes have swag to
+give away to contributors - if you feel that Matrix-branded apparel is missing
+from your life, please mail us your shipping address to matrix at matrix.org and
+we'll try to fix it :)
+
+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
+`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:
+the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Matrix::
 
-```
-Developer Certificate of Origin
-Version 1.1
+    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
+    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.
+    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
+    Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
 
-By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+    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
+    (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
+    (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.
+    (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.
-```
+    (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:
+include the line in your commit or pull request comment::
 
-```
-Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
-```
+    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.
+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.
 
-## Conclusion
+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
+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
+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!

INSTALL.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ that your email address is probably `user@example.com` rather than
 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8.
+- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, or 2.7
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu or Debian:
 
 ```
 sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev libffi-dev \
-                     python3-pip python3-setuptools sqlite3 \
-                     libssl-dev python3-virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev
+                     python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 \
+                     libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev
 ```
 
 #### ArchLinux
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
 sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
 ```
 
-#### macOS
+#### Mac OS X
 
-Installing prerequisites on macOS:
+Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X:
 
 ```
 xcode-select --install
@@ -144,14 +144,6 @@ 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:
-
-```
-brew install openssl@1.1
-export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/Cellar/openssl\@1.1/1.1.1d/lib/
-```
-
 #### OpenSUSE
 
 Installing prerequisites on openSUSE:
@@ -357,13 +349,6 @@ sudo pip uninstall py-bcrypt
 sudo pip install py-bcrypt
 ```
 
-### Void Linux
-
-Synapse can be found in the void repositories as 'synapse':
-
-    xbps-install -Su
-    xbps-install -S synapse
-
 ### FreeBSD
 
 Synapse can be installed via FreeBSD Ports or Packages contributed by Brendan Molloy from:
@@ -388,7 +373,7 @@ is suitable for local testing, but for any practical use, you will either need
 to enable a reverse proxy, or configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port.
 
 For information on using a reverse proxy, see
-[docs/reverse_proxy.md](docs/reverse_proxy.md).
+[docs/reverse_proxy.rst](docs/reverse_proxy.rst).
 
 To configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port, you will need to edit
 `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
@@ -421,26 +406,25 @@ For a more detailed guide to configuring your server for federation, see
 
 ## Email
 
-It is desirable for Synapse to have the capability to send email. This allows
-Synapse to send password reset emails, send verifications when an email address
-is added to a user's account, and send email notifications to users when they
-receive new messages.
+It is desirable for Synapse to have the capability to send email. For example,
+this is required to support the 'password reset' feature.
 
 To configure an SMTP server for Synapse, modify the configuration section
-headed `email`, and be sure to have at least the `smtp_host`, `smtp_port`
-and `notif_from` fields filled out.  You may also need to set `smtp_user`,
-`smtp_pass`, and `require_transport_security`.
+headed ``email``, and be sure to have at least the ``smtp_host``, ``smtp_port``
+and ``notif_from`` fields filled out. You may also need to set ``smtp_user``,
+``smtp_pass``, and ``require_transport_security``.
 
-If email is not configured, password reset, registration and notifications via
-email will be disabled.
+If Synapse is not configured with an SMTP server, password reset via email will
+ be disabled by default.
 
 ## Registering a user
 
-The easiest way to create a new user is to do so from a client like [Riot](https://riot.im).
+You will need at least one user on your server in order to use a Matrix
+client. Users can be registered either via a Matrix client, or via a
+commandline script.
 
-Alternatively you can do so from the command line if you have installed via pip.
-
-This can be done as follows:
+To get started, it is easiest to use the command line to register new
+users. This can be done as follows:
 
 ```
 $ source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
@@ -463,7 +447,7 @@ 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](docs/turn-howto.md) for details.
+a TURN server.  See [docs/turn-howto.rst](docs/turn-howto.rst) for details.
 
 ## URL previews
 

MANIFEST.in

@@ -8,12 +8,11 @@ include demo/demo.tls.dh
 include demo/*.py
 include demo/*.sh
 
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql.postgres
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.sql.sqlite
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.py
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.txt
-recursive-include synapse/storage *.md
+recursive-include synapse/storage/schema *.sql
+recursive-include synapse/storage/schema *.sql.postgres
+recursive-include synapse/storage/schema *.sql.sqlite
+recursive-include synapse/storage/schema *.py
+recursive-include synapse/storage/schema *.txt
 
 recursive-include docs *
 recursive-include scripts *
@@ -39,14 +38,14 @@ exclude sytest-blacklist
 include pyproject.toml
 recursive-include changelog.d *
 
-prune .buildkite
-prune .circleci
-prune .codecov.yml
-prune .coveragerc
 prune .github
-prune debian
 prune demo/etc
 prune docker
-prune mypy.ini
-prune snap
-prune stubs
+prune .circleci
+prune .coveragerc
+prune debian
+prune .codecov.yml
+prune .buildkite
+
+exclude jenkins*
+recursive-exclude jenkins *.sh

README.rst

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Registering a new user from a client
 
 By default, registration of new users via Matrix clients is disabled. To enable
 it, specify ``enable_registration: true`` in ``homeserver.yaml``. (It is then
-recommended to also set up CAPTCHA - see `<docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md>`_.)
+recommended to also set up CAPTCHA - see `<docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.rst>`_.)
 
 Once ``enable_registration`` is set to ``true``, it is possible to register a
 user via `riot.im <https://riot.im/app/#/register>`_ or other Matrix clients.
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Almost all installations should opt to use PostreSQL. Advantages include:
   synapse itself.
 
 For information on how to install and use PostgreSQL, please see
-`docs/postgres.md <docs/postgres.md>`_.
+`docs/postgres.rst <docs/postgres.rst>`_.
 
 .. _reverse-proxy:
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ It is recommended to put a reverse proxy such as
 doing so is that it means that you can expose the default https port (443) to
 Matrix clients without needing to run Synapse with root privileges.
 
-For information on configuring one, see `<docs/reverse_proxy.md>`_.
+For information on configuring one, see `<docs/reverse_proxy.rst>`_.
 
 Identity Servers
 ================
@@ -381,16 +381,3 @@ indicate that your server is also issuing far more outgoing federation
 requests than can be accounted for by your users' activity, this is a
 likely cause. The misbehavior can be worked around by setting
 ``use_presence: false`` in the Synapse config file.
-
-People can't accept room invitations from me
---------------------------------------------
-
-The typical failure mode here is that you send an invitation to someone 
-to join a room or direct chat, but when they go to accept it, they get an
-error (typically along the lines of "Invalid signature"). They might see
-something like the following in their logs::
-
-    2019-09-11 19:32:04,271 - synapse.federation.transport.server - 288 - WARNING - GET-11752 - authenticate_request failed: 401: Invalid signature for server <server> with key ed25519:a_EqML: Unable to verify signature for <server>
-
-This is normally caused by a misconfiguration in your reverse-proxy. See
-`<docs/reverse_proxy.rst>`_ and double-check that your settings are correct.

UPGRADE.rst

@@ -2,295 +2,58 @@ Upgrading Synapse
 =================
 
 Before upgrading check if any special steps are required to upgrade from the
-version you currently have installed to the current version of Synapse. The extra
+what you currently have installed to current version of synapse. The extra
 instructions that may be required are listed later in this document.
 
-* If Synapse was installed using `prebuilt packages
-  <INSTALL.md#prebuilt-packages>`_, you will need to follow the normal process
-  for upgrading those packages.
+1. If synapse was installed in a virtualenv then activate that virtualenv before
+   upgrading. If synapse is installed in a virtualenv in ``~/synapse/env`` then
+   run:
 
-* If Synapse was installed from source, then:
-
-  1. Activate the virtualenv before upgrading. For example, if Synapse is
-     installed in a virtualenv in ``~/synapse/env`` then run:
-
-     .. code:: bash
+   .. code:: bash
 
        source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
 
-  2. If Synapse was installed using pip then upgrade to the latest version by
-     running:
+2. If synapse was installed using pip then upgrade to the latest version by
+   running:
 
-     .. code:: bash
+   .. code:: bash
 
-       pip install --upgrade matrix-synapse
+       pip install --upgrade matrix-synapse[all]
 
-     If Synapse was installed using git then upgrade to the latest version by
-     running:
+       # restart synapse
+       synctl restart
 
-     .. code:: bash
 
+   If synapse was installed using git then upgrade to the latest version by
+   running:
+
+   .. code:: bash
+
+       # Pull the latest version of the master branch.
        git pull
-       pip install --upgrade .
 
-  3. Restart Synapse:
-
-     .. code:: bash
+       # Update synapse and its python dependencies.
+       pip install --upgrade .[all]
 
+       # restart synapse
        ./synctl restart
 
-To check whether your update was successful, you can check the running server
-version with:
+
+To check whether your update was successful, you can check the Server header
+returned by the Client-Server API:
 
 .. code:: bash
 
-    # you may need to replace 'localhost:8008' if synapse is not configured
-    # to listen on port 8008.
-
-    curl http://localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/server_version
-
-Rolling back to older versions
-------------------------------
-
-Rolling back to previous releases can be difficult, due to database schema
-changes between releases. Where we have been able to test the rollback process,
-this will be noted below.
-
-In general, you will need to undo any changes made during the upgrade process,
-for example:
-
-* pip:
-
-  .. code:: bash
-
-     source env/bin/activate
-     # replace `1.3.0` accordingly:
-     pip install matrix-synapse==1.3.0
-
-* Debian:
-
-  .. code:: bash
-
-     # replace `1.3.0` and `stretch` accordingly:
-     wget https://packages.matrix.org/debian/pool/main/m/matrix-synapse-py3/matrix-synapse-py3_1.3.0+stretch1_amd64.deb
-     dpkg -i matrix-synapse-py3_1.3.0+stretch1_amd64.deb
-
-Upgrading to v1.7.0
-===================
-
-In an attempt to configure Synapse in a privacy preserving way, the default
-behaviours of ``allow_public_rooms_without_auth`` and
-``allow_public_rooms_over_federation`` have been inverted. This means that by
-default, only authenticated users querying the Client/Server API will be able
-to query the room directory, and relatedly that the server will not share
-room directory information with other servers over federation.
-
-If your installation does not explicitly set these settings one way or the other
-and you want either setting to be ``true`` then it will necessary to update
-your homeserver configuration file accordingly.
-
-For more details on the surrounding context see our `explainer
-<https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/09/avoiding-unwelcome-visitors-on-private-matrix-servers>`_.
-
-
-Upgrading to v1.5.0
-===================
-
-This release includes a database migration which may take several minutes to
-complete if there are a large number (more than a million or so) of entries in
-the ``devices`` table. This is only likely to a be a problem on very large
-installations.
-
-
-Upgrading to v1.4.0
-===================
-
-New custom templates
---------------------
-
-If you have configured a custom template directory with the
-``email.template_dir`` option, be aware that there are new templates regarding
-registration and threepid management (see below) that must be included.
-
-* ``registration.html`` and ``registration.txt``
-* ``registration_success.html`` and ``registration_failure.html``
-* ``add_threepid.html`` and  ``add_threepid.txt``
-* ``add_threepid_failure.html`` and ``add_threepid_success.html``
-
-Synapse will expect these files to exist inside the configured template
-directory, and **will fail to start** if they are absent.
-To view the default templates, see `synapse/res/templates
-<https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/synapse/res/templates>`_.
-
-3pid verification changes
--------------------------
-
-**Note: As of this release, users will be unable to add phone numbers or email
-addresses to their accounts, without changes to the Synapse configuration. This
-includes adding an email address during registration.**
-
-It is possible for a user to associate an email address or phone number
-with their account, for a number of reasons:
-
-* for use when logging in, as an alternative to the user id.
-* in the case of email, as an alternative contact to help with account recovery.
-* in the case of email, to receive notifications of missed messages.
-
-Before an email address or phone number can be added to a user's account,
-or before such an address is used to carry out a password-reset, Synapse must
-confirm the operation with the owner of the email address or phone number.
-It does this by sending an email or text giving the user a link or token to confirm
-receipt. This process is known as '3pid verification'. ('3pid', or 'threepid',
-stands for third-party identifier, and we use it to refer to external
-identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers.)
-
-Previous versions of Synapse delegated the task of 3pid verification to an
-identity server by default. In most cases this server is ``vector.im`` or
-``matrix.org``.
-
-In Synapse 1.4.0, for security and privacy reasons, the homeserver will no
-longer delegate this task to an identity server by default. Instead,
-the server administrator will need to explicitly decide how they would like the
-verification messages to be sent.
-
-In the medium term, the ``vector.im`` and ``matrix.org`` identity servers will
-disable support for delegated 3pid verification entirely. However, in order to
-ease the transition, they will retain the capability for a limited
-period. Delegated email verification will be disabled on Monday 2nd December
-2019 (giving roughly 2 months notice). Disabling delegated SMS verification
-will follow some time after that once SMS verification support lands in
-Synapse.
-
-Once delegated 3pid verification support has been disabled in the ``vector.im`` and
-``matrix.org`` identity servers, all Synapse versions that depend on those
-instances will be unable to verify email and phone numbers through them. There
-are no imminent plans to remove delegated 3pid verification from Sydent
-generally. (Sydent is the identity server project that backs the ``vector.im`` and
-``matrix.org`` instances).
-
-Email
-~~~~~
-Following upgrade, to continue verifying email (e.g. as part of the
-registration process), admins can either:-
-
-* Configure Synapse to use an email server.
-* Run or choose an identity server which allows delegated email verification
-  and delegate to it.
-
-Configure SMTP in Synapse
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-To configure an SMTP server for Synapse, modify the configuration section
-headed ``email``, and be sure to have at least the ``smtp_host, smtp_port``
-and ``notif_from`` fields filled out.
-
-You may also need to set ``smtp_user``, ``smtp_pass``, and
-``require_transport_security``.
-
-See the `sample configuration file <docs/sample_config.yaml>`_ for more details
-on these settings.
-
-Delegate email to an identity server
-++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Some admins will wish to continue using email verification as part of the
-registration process, but will not immediately have an appropriate SMTP server
-at hand.
-
-To this end, we will continue to support email verification delegation via the
-``vector.im`` and ``matrix.org`` identity servers for two months. Support for
-delegated email verification will be disabled on Monday 2nd December.
-
-The ``account_threepid_delegates`` dictionary defines whether the homeserver
-should delegate an external server (typically an `identity server
-<https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/r0.2.1>`_) to handle sending
-confirmation messages via email and SMS.
-
-So to delegate email verification, in ``homeserver.yaml``, set
-``account_threepid_delegates.email`` to the base URL of an identity server. For
-example:
-
-.. code:: yaml
-
-   account_threepid_delegates:
-       email: https://example.com     # Delegate email sending to example.com
-
-Note that ``account_threepid_delegates.email`` replaces the deprecated
-``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets``: if
-``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is set to ``true``, and
-``account_threepid_delegates.email`` is not set, then the first entry in
-``trusted_third_party_id_servers`` will be used as the
-``account_threepid_delegate`` for email. This is to ensure compatibility with
-existing Synapse installs that set up external server handling for these tasks
-before v1.4.0. If ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is
-``true`` and no trusted identity server domains are configured, Synapse will
-report an error and refuse to start.
-
-If ``email.trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` is ``false`` or absent
-and no ``email`` delegate is configured in ``account_threepid_delegates``,
-then Synapse will send email verification messages itself, using the configured
-SMTP server (see above).
-that type.
-
-Phone numbers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Synapse does not support phone-number verification itself, so the only way to
-maintain the ability for users to add phone numbers to their accounts will be
-by continuing to delegate phone number verification to the ``matrix.org`` and
-``vector.im`` identity servers (or another identity server that supports SMS
-sending).
-
-The ``account_threepid_delegates`` dictionary defines whether the homeserver
-should delegate an external server (typically an `identity server
-<https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/r0.2.1>`_) to handle sending
-confirmation messages via email and SMS.
-
-So to delegate phone number verification, in ``homeserver.yaml``, set
-``account_threepid_delegates.msisdn`` to the base URL of an identity
-server. For example:
-
-.. code:: yaml
-
-   account_threepid_delegates:
-       msisdn: https://example.com     # Delegate sms sending to example.com
-
-The ``matrix.org`` and ``vector.im`` identity servers will continue to support
-delegated phone number verification via SMS until such time as it is possible
-for admins to configure their servers to perform phone number verification
-directly. More details will follow in a future release.
-
-Rolling back to v1.3.1
-----------------------
-
-If you encounter problems with v1.4.0, it should be possible to roll back to
-v1.3.1, subject to the following:
-
-* The 'room statistics' engine was heavily reworked in this release (see
-  `#5971 <https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5971>`_), including
-  significant changes to the database schema, which are not easily
-  reverted. This will cause the room statistics engine to stop updating when
-  you downgrade.
-
-  The room statistics are essentially unused in v1.3.1 (in future versions of
-  Synapse, they will be used to populate the room directory), so there should
-  be no loss of functionality. However, the statistics engine will write errors
-  to the logs, which can be avoided by setting the following in
-  `homeserver.yaml`:
-
-  .. code:: yaml
-
-    stats:
-      enabled: false
-
-  Don't forget to re-enable it when you upgrade again, in preparation for its
-  use in the room directory!
+    # replace <host.name> with the hostname of your synapse homeserver.
+    # You may need to specify a port (eg, :8448) if your server is not
+    # configured on port 443.
+    curl -kv https://<host.name>/_matrix/client/versions 2>&1 | grep "Server:"
 
 Upgrading to v1.2.0
 ===================
 
 Some counter metrics have been renamed, with the old names deprecated. See
-`the metrics documentation <docs/metrics-howto.md#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12>`_
+`the metrics documentation <docs/metrics-howto.rst#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12>`_
 for details.
 
 Upgrading to v1.1.0
@@ -369,19 +132,6 @@ server for password resets, set ``trust_identity_server_for_password_resets`` to
 See the `sample configuration file <docs/sample_config.yaml>`_
 for more details on these settings.
 
-New email templates
----------------
-Some new templates have been added to the default template directory for the purpose of the
-homeserver sending its own password reset emails. If you have configured a custom
-``template_dir`` in your Synapse config, these files will need to be added.
-
-``password_reset.html`` and ``password_reset.txt`` are HTML and plain text templates
-respectively that contain the contents of what will be emailed to the user upon attempting to
-reset their password via email. ``password_reset_success.html`` and
-``password_reset_failure.html`` are HTML files that the content of which (assuming no redirect
-URL is set) will be shown to the user after they attempt to click the link in the email sent
-to them.
-
 Upgrading to v0.99.0
 ====================
 

changelog.d/5678.removal

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

changelog.d/5693.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5694.misc

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

changelog.d/5695.misc

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

changelog.d/5706.misc

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

changelog.d/5713.misc

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

changelog.d/5715.misc

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

changelog.d/5717.misc

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

changelog.d/5719.misc

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

changelog.d/5720.misc

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

changelog.d/5722.misc

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

changelog.d/5724.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5725.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5729.removal

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

changelog.d/5730.misc

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

changelog.d/5731.misc

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

changelog.d/5732.feature

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

changelog.d/5733.misc

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

changelog.d/5736.misc

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

changelog.d/5738.misc

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

changelog.d/5740.misc

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

changelog.d/5743.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5746.misc

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

changelog.d/5749.misc

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

changelog.d/5750.misc

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

changelog.d/5752.misc

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

changelog.d/5753.misc

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

changelog.d/5768.misc

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

changelog.d/5770.misc

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

changelog.d/5774.misc

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

changelog.d/5775.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5780.misc

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

changelog.d/5782.removal

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

changelog.d/5783.feature

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

changelog.d/5785.misc

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

changelog.d/5787.misc

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

changelog.d/5789.bugfix

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

changelog.d/5792.misc

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

changelog.d/5793.misc

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

changelog.d/5794.misc

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

changelog.d/5796.misc

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

changelog.d/5798.bugfix

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

contrib/cmdclient/console.py

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

contrib/docker/README.md

@@ -1,26 +1,39 @@
-
 # Synapse Docker
 
-### Configuration
+FIXME: this is out-of-date as of
+https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5518. Contributions to bring it up
+to date would be welcome.
+
+### Automated configuration
+
+It is recommended that you use Docker Compose to run your containers, including
+this image and a Postgres server. A sample ``docker-compose.yml`` is provided,
+including example labels for reverse proxying and other artifacts.
+
+Read the section about environment variables and set at least mandatory variables,
+then run the server:
+
+```
+docker-compose up -d
+```
+
+If secrets are not specified in the environment variables, they will be generated
+as part of the startup. Please ensure these secrets are kept between launches of the
+Docker container, as their loss may require users to log in again.
+
+### Manual configuration
 
 A sample ``docker-compose.yml`` is provided, including example labels for
 reverse proxying and other artifacts. The docker-compose file is an example,
 please comment/uncomment sections that are not suitable for your usecase.
 
 Specify a ``SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH``, preferably to a persistent path,
-to use manual configuration.
-
-To generate a fresh `homeserver.yaml`, you can use the `generate` command.
-(See the [documentation](../../docker/README.md#generating-a-configuration-file)
-for more information.) You will need to specify appropriate values for at least the
-`SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME` and `SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS` environment variables. For example:
+to use manual configuration. To generate a fresh ``homeserver.yaml``, simply run:
 
 ```
-docker-compose run --rm -e SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=my.matrix.host -e SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=yes synapse generate
+docker-compose run --rm -e SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=my.matrix.host synapse generate
 ```
 
-(This will also generate necessary signing keys.)
-
 Then, customize your configuration and run the server:
 
 ```

contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml

@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ services:
     restart: unless-stopped
     # See the readme for a full documentation of the environment settings
     environment:
-      - SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/homeserver.yaml
+      - SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=my.matrix.host
+      - SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=no
+      - SYNAPSE_ENABLE_REGISTRATION=yes
+      - SYNAPSE_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme
     volumes:
       # You may either store all the files in a local folder
-      - ./matrix-config:/etc
       - ./files:/data
       # .. or you may split this between different storage points
       # - ./files:/data
@@ -32,23 +35,9 @@ services:
       - 8448:8448/tcp
     # ... or use a reverse proxy, here is an example for traefik:
     labels:
-      # The following lines are valid for Traefik version 1.x:
       - traefik.enable=true
       - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:my.matrix.Host
       - traefik.port=8008
-      # Alternatively, for Traefik version 2.0:
-      - traefik.enable=true
-      - traefik.http.routers.http-synapse.entryPoints=http
-      - traefik.http.routers.http-synapse.rule=Host(`my.matrix.host`)
-      - traefik.http.middlewares.https_redirect.redirectscheme.scheme=https
-      - traefik.http.middlewares.https_redirect.redirectscheme.permanent=true
-      - traefik.http.routers.http-synapse.middlewares=https_redirect
-      - traefik.http.routers.https-synapse.entryPoints=https
-      - traefik.http.routers.https-synapse.rule=Host(`my.matrix.host`)
-      - traefik.http.routers.https-synapse.service=synapse
-      - traefik.http.routers.https-synapse.tls=true
-      - traefik.http.services.synapse.loadbalancer.server.port=8008
-      - traefik.http.routers.https-synapse.tls.certResolver=le-ssl
 
   db:
     image: docker.io/postgres:10-alpine

contrib/experiments/test_messaging.py

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class InputOutput(object):
             m = re.match("^join (\S+)$", line)
             if m:
                 # The `sender` wants to join a room.
-                (room_name,) = m.groups()
+                room_name, = m.groups()
                 self.print_line("%s joining %s" % (self.user, room_name))
                 self.server.join_room(room_name, self.user, self.user)
                 # self.print_line("OK.")
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class InputOutput(object):
             m = re.match("^backfill (\S+)$", line)
             if m:
                 # we want to backfill a room
-                (room_name,) = m.groups()
+                room_name, = m.groups()
                 self.print_line("backfill %s" % room_name)
                 self.server.backfill(room_name)
                 return
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ def main(stdscr):
     root_logger = logging.getLogger()
 
     formatter = logging.Formatter(
-        "%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(lineno)d - %(levelname)s - %(message)s"
+        "%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(lineno)d - " "%(levelname)s - %(message)s"
     )
     if not os.path.exists("logs"):
         os.makedirs("logs")

contrib/graph/graph2.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def make_graph(db_name, room_id, file_prefix, limit):
     args = [room_id]
 
     if limit:
-        sql += " ORDER BY topological_ordering DESC, stream_ordering DESC LIMIT ?"
+        sql += " ORDER BY topological_ordering DESC, stream_ordering DESC " "LIMIT ?"
 
         args.append(limit)
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def make_graph(db_name, room_id, file_prefix, limit):
 
     for event in events:
         c = conn.execute(
-            "SELECT state_group FROM event_to_state_groups WHERE event_id = ?",
+            "SELECT state_group FROM event_to_state_groups " "WHERE event_id = ?",
             (event.event_id,),
         )
 

contrib/purge_api/purge_remote_media.sh

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

contrib/systemd/README.md

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Setup Synapse with Systemd
-This is a setup for managing synapse with a user contributed systemd unit 
-file. It provides a `matrix-synapse` systemd unit file that should be tailored 
-to accommodate your installation in accordance with the installation 
-instructions provided in [installation instructions](../../INSTALL.md).
-
-## Setup
-1. Under the service section, ensure the `User` variable matches which user
-you installed synapse under and wish to run it as. 
-2. Under the service section, ensure the `WorkingDirectory` variable matches
-where you have installed synapse.
-3. Under the service section, ensure the `ExecStart` variable matches the
-appropriate locations of your installation.
-4. Copy the `matrix-synapse.service` to `/etc/systemd/system/`
-5. Start Synapse: `sudo systemctl start matrix-synapse`
-6. Verify Synapse is running: `sudo systemctl status matrix-synapse`
-7. *optional* Enable Synapse to start at system boot: `sudo systemctl enable matrix-synapse`

contrib/systemd/matrix-synapse.service

@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@
 #    systemctl enable matrix-synapse
 #    systemctl start matrix-synapse
 #
-# This assumes that Synapse has been installed by a user named
-# synapse.
-#
 # This assumes that Synapse has been installed in a virtualenv in
-# the user's home directory: `/home/synapse/synapse/env`.
+# /opt/synapse/env.
 #
 # **NOTE:** This is an example service file that may change in the future. If you
 # wish to use this please copy rather than symlink it.
@@ -25,8 +22,8 @@ Restart=on-abort
 User=synapse
 Group=nogroup
 
-WorkingDirectory=/home/synapse/synapse
-ExecStart=/home/synapse/synapse/env/bin/python -m synapse.app.homeserver --config-path=/home/synapse/synapse/homeserver.yaml
+WorkingDirectory=/opt/synapse
+ExecStart=/opt/synapse/env/bin/python -m synapse.app.homeserver --config-path=/opt/synapse/homeserver.yaml
 SyslogIdentifier=matrix-synapse
 
 # adjust the cache factor if necessary

debian/changelog

@@ -1,66 +1,8 @@
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.7.1) stable; urgency=medium
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.2.1) stable; urgency=medium
 
-  * New synapse release 1.7.1.
+  * New synapse release 1.2.1.
 
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:37:59 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.7.0) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.7.0.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:19:38 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.6.1) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.6.1.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:10:40 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.6.0) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.6.0.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:15:40 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.5.1) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.5.1.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:02:14 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.5.0) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.5.0.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:28:41 +0000
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.4.1) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.4.1.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:13:27 +0100
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.4.0) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.4.0.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:22:25 +0100
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.1) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  * New synapse release 1.3.1.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:15:49 +0100
-
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.0) stable; urgency=medium
-
-  [ Andrew Morgan ]
-  * Remove libsqlite3-dev from required build dependencies.
-
-  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
-  * New synapse release 1.3.0.
-
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:04:23 +0100
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:32:47 +0100
 
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.2.0) stable; urgency=medium
 

debian/control

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

demo/start.sh

@@ -77,13 +77,14 @@ for port in 8080 8081 8082; do
 
         # Reduce the blacklist
         blacklist=$(cat <<-BLACK
-		# Set the blacklist so that it doesn't include 127.0.0.1, ::1
+		# Set the blacklist so that it doesn't include 127.0.0.1
 		federation_ip_range_blacklist:
 		  - '10.0.0.0/8'
 		  - '172.16.0.0/12'
 		  - '192.168.0.0/16'
 		  - '100.64.0.0/10'
 		  - '169.254.0.0/16'
+		  - '::1/128'
 		  - 'fe80::/64'
 		  - 'fc00::/7'
 		BLACK

docker/README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ By default, the image expects a single volume, located at ``/data``, that will h
 * the appservices configuration.
 
 You are free to use separate volumes depending on storage endpoints at your
-disposal. For instance, ``/data/media`` could be stored on a large but low
+disposal. For instance, ``/data/media`` coud be stored on a large but low
 performance hdd storage while other files could be stored on high performance
 endpoints.
 
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ configuration file there. Multiple application services are supported.
 
 ## Generating a configuration file
 
-The first step is to generate a valid config file. To do this, you can run the
-image with the `generate` command line option.
+The first step is to genearte a valid config file. To do this, you can run the
+image with the `generate` commandline option.
 
 You will need to specify values for the `SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME` and
 `SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS` environment variable, and mount a docker volume to store
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The following environment variables are supported in `generate` mode:
 * `SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH`: path to the file to be generated. Defaults to
   `<SYNAPSE_CONFIG_DIR>/homeserver.yaml`.
 * `SYNAPSE_DATA_DIR`: where the generated config will put persistent data
-  such as the database and media store. Defaults to `/data`.
+  such as the datatase and media store. Defaults to `/data`.
 * `UID`, `GID`: the user id and group id to use for creating the data
   directories. Defaults to `991`, `991`.
 
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@ The following environment variables are supported in run mode:
   `/data`.
 * `SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH`: path to the config file. Defaults to
   `<SYNAPSE_CONFIG_DIR>/homeserver.yaml`.
-* `SYNAPSE_WORKER`: module to execute, used when running synapse with workers.
-   Defaults to `synapse.app.homeserver`, which is suitable for non-worker mode.
 * `UID`, `GID`: the user and group id to run Synapse as. Defaults to `991`, `991`.
 * `TZ`: the [timezone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones) the container will run with. Defaults to `UTC`.
 
@@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ is suitable for local testing, but for any practical use, you will either need
 to use a reverse proxy, or configure Synapse to expose an HTTPS port.
 
 For documentation on using a reverse proxy, see
-https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/reverse_proxy.md.
+https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/reverse_proxy.rst.
 
 For more information on enabling TLS support in synapse itself, see
 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md#tls-certificates. Of
@@ -117,7 +115,7 @@ not given).
 
 To migrate from a dynamic configuration file to a static one, run the docker
 container once with the environment variables set, and `migrate_config`
-command line option. For example:
+commandline option. For example:
 
 ```
 docker run -it --rm \
@@ -130,15 +128,3 @@ docker run -it --rm \
 This will generate the same configuration file as the legacy mode used, but
 will store it in `/data/homeserver.yaml` instead of a temporary location. You
 can then use it as shown above at [Running synapse](#running-synapse).
-
-## Building the image
-
-If you need to build the image from a Synapse checkout, use the following `docker
- build` command from the repo's root:
- 
-```
-docker build -t matrixdotorg/synapse -f docker/Dockerfile .
-```
-
-You can choose to build a different docker image by changing the value of the `-f` flag to
-point to another Dockerfile.

docker/conf/log.config

@@ -24,5 +24,3 @@ loggers:
 root:
     level: {{ SYNAPSE_LOG_LEVEL or "INFO" }}
     handlers: [console]
-
-disable_existing_loggers: false

docker/start.py

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ def generate_config_from_template(config_dir, config_path, environ, ownership):
         config_dir (str): where to put generated config files
         config_path (str): where to put the main config file
         environ (dict): environment dictionary
-        ownership (str|None): "<user>:<group>" string which will be used to set
-            ownership of the generated configs. If None, ownership will not change.
+        ownership (str): "<user>:<group>" string which will be used to set
+            ownership of the generated configs
     """
     for v in ("SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME", "SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS"):
         if v not in environ:
@@ -105,24 +105,24 @@ def generate_config_from_template(config_dir, config_path, environ, ownership):
     log("Generating log config file " + log_config_file)
     convert("/conf/log.config", log_config_file, environ)
 
+    subprocess.check_output(["chown", "-R", ownership, "/data"])
+
     # Hopefully we already have a signing key, but generate one if not.
-    args = [
-        "python",
-        "-m",
-        "synapse.app.homeserver",
-        "--config-path",
-        config_path,
-        # tell synapse to put generated keys in /data rather than /compiled
-        "--keys-directory",
-        config_dir,
-        "--generate-keys",
-    ]
-
-    if ownership is not None:
-        subprocess.check_output(["chown", "-R", ownership, "/data"])
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
-
-    subprocess.check_output(args)
+    subprocess.check_output(
+        [
+            "su-exec",
+            ownership,
+            "python",
+            "-m",
+            "synapse.app.homeserver",
+            "--config-path",
+            config_path,
+            # tell synapse to put generated keys in /data rather than /compiled
+            "--keys-directory",
+            config_dir,
+            "--generate-keys",
+        ]
+    )
 
 
 def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
 
     Args:
         environ (dict): env var dict
-        ownership (str|None): "userid:groupid" arg for chmod. If None, ownership will not change.
+        ownership (str): "userid:groupid" arg for chmod
 
     Never returns.
     """
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
         log("Creating log config %s" % (log_config_file,))
         convert("/conf/log.config", log_config_file, environ)
 
+    # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
+    subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
+
     args = [
         "python",
         "-m",
@@ -167,34 +170,12 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
         "--open-private-ports",
     ]
     # log("running %s" % (args, ))
-
-    if ownership is not None:
-        # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
-        subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
-
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
-        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
-    else:
-        os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
+    os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
 
 
 def main(args, environ):
     mode = args[1] if len(args) > 1 else None
-    desired_uid = int(environ.get("UID", "991"))
-    desired_gid = int(environ.get("GID", "991"))
-    synapse_worker = environ.get("SYNAPSE_WORKER", "synapse.app.homeserver")
-    if (desired_uid == os.getuid()) and (desired_gid == os.getgid()):
-        ownership = None
-    else:
-        ownership = "{}:{}".format(desired_uid, desired_gid)
-
-    log(
-        "Container running as UserID %s:%s, ENV (or defaults) requests %s:%s"
-        % (os.getuid(), os.getgid(), desired_uid, desired_gid)
-    )
-
-    if ownership is None:
-        log("Will not perform chmod/su-exec as UserID already matches request")
+    ownership = "{}:{}".format(environ.get("UID", 991), environ.get("GID", 991))
 
     # In generate mode, generate a configuration and missing keys, then exit
     if mode == "generate":
@@ -217,9 +198,8 @@ def main(args, environ):
         # backwards-compatibility generate-a-config-on-the-fly mode
         if "SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH" in environ:
             error(
-                "SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME can only be combined with SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH "
-                "in `generate` or `migrate_config` mode. To start synapse using a "
-                "config file, unset the SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME environment variable."
+                "SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME and SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH are mutually exclusive "
+                "except in `generate` or `migrate_config` mode."
             )
 
         config_path = "/compiled/homeserver.yaml"
@@ -247,12 +227,16 @@ def main(args, environ):
 
     log("Starting synapse with config file " + config_path)
 
-    args = ["python", "-m", synapse_worker, "--config-path", config_path]
-    if ownership is not None:
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
-        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
-    else:
-        os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
+    args = [
+        "su-exec",
+        ownership,
+        "python",
+        "-m",
+        "synapse.app.homeserver",
+        "--config-path",
+        config_path,
+    ]
+    os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Overview
-Captcha can be enabled for this home server. This file explains how to do that.
-The captcha mechanism used is Google's ReCaptcha. This requires API keys from Google.
-
-## Getting keys
-
-Requires a site/secret key pair from:
-
-<https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/>
-
-Must be a reCAPTCHA v2 key using the "I'm not a robot" Checkbox option
-
-## Setting ReCaptcha Keys
-
-The keys are a config option on the home server config. If they are not
-visible, you can generate them via `--generate-config`. Set the following value:
-
-    recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_SITE_KEY
-    recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
-
-In addition, you MUST enable captchas via:
-
-    enable_registration_captcha: true
-
-## Configuring IP used for auth
-
-The ReCaptcha API requires that the IP address of the user who solved the
-captcha is sent. If the client is connecting through a proxy or load balancer,
-it may be required to use the `X-Forwarded-For` (XFF) header instead of the origin
-IP address. This can be configured using the `x_forwarded` directive in the
-listeners section of the homeserver.yaml configuration file.

docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Captcha can be enabled for this home server. This file explains how to do that.
+The captcha mechanism used is Google's ReCaptcha. This requires API keys from Google.
+
+Getting keys
+------------
+Requires a public/private key pair from:
+
+https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/
+
+Must be a reCAPTCHA v2 key using the "I'm not a robot" Checkbox option
+
+Setting ReCaptcha Keys
+----------------------
+The keys are a config option on the home server config. If they are not
+visible, you can generate them via --generate-config. Set the following value::
+
+  recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY
+  recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
+
+In addition, you MUST enable captchas via::
+
+  enable_registration_captcha: true
+
+Configuring IP used for auth
+----------------------------
+The ReCaptcha API requires that the IP address of the user who solved the
+captcha is sent. If the client is connecting through a proxy or load balancer,
+it may be required to use the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header instead of the origin
+IP address. This can be configured using the x_forwarded directive in the
+listeners section of the homeserver.yaml configuration file.

docs/MSC1711_certificates_FAQ.md

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

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

docs/README.rst

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

docs/admin_api/README.rst

@@ -10,15 +10,3 @@ server admin by updating the database directly, e.g.:
 ``UPDATE users SET admin = 1 WHERE name = '@foo:bar.com'``
 
 Restarting may be required for the changes to register.
-
-Using an admin access_token
-###########################
-
-Many of the API calls listed in the documentation here will require to include an admin `access_token`.
-Finding your user's `access_token` is client-dependent, but will usually be shown in the client's settings.
-
-Once you have your `access_token`, to include it in a request, the best option is to add the token to a request header:
-
-``curl --header "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" <the_rest_of_your_API_request>``
-
-Fore more details, please refer to the complete `matrix spec documentation <https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.5.0#using-access-tokens>`_.

docs/admin_api/media_admin_api.md

@@ -21,20 +21,3 @@ It returns a JSON body like the following:
     ]
 }
 ```
-
-# Quarantine media in a room
-
-This API 'quarantines' all the media in a room.
-
-The API is:
-
-```
-POST /_synapse/admin/v1/quarantine_media/<room_id>
-
-{}
-```
-
-Quarantining media means that it is marked as inaccessible by users. It applies
-to any local media, and any locally-cached copies of remote media.
-
-The media file itself (and any thumbnails) is not deleted from the server.

docs/admin_api/purge_room.md

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

docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst

@@ -1,48 +1,3 @@
-List Accounts
-=============
-
-This API returns all local user accounts.
-
-The api is::
-
-    GET /_synapse/admin/v2/users?from=0&limit=10&guests=false
-
-including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
-The parameters ``from`` and ``limit`` are required only for pagination.
-By default, a ``limit`` of 100 is used.
-The parameter ``user_id`` can be used to select only users with user ids that
-contain this value.
-The parameter ``guests=false`` can be used to exclude guest users,
-default is to include guest users.
-The parameter ``deactivated=true`` can be used to include deactivated users,
-default is to exclude deactivated users.
-If the endpoint does not return a ``next_token`` then there are no more users left.
-It returns a JSON body like the following:
-
-.. code:: json
-
-    {
-        "users": [
-            {
-                "name": "<user_id1>",
-                "password_hash": "<password_hash1>",
-                "is_guest": 0,
-                "admin": 0,
-                "user_type": null,
-                "deactivated": 0
-            }, {
-                "name": "<user_id2>",
-                "password_hash": "<password_hash2>",
-                "is_guest": 0,
-                "admin": 1,
-                "user_type": null,
-                "deactivated": 0
-            }
-        ],
-        "next_token": "100"
-    }
-
-
 Query Account
 =============
 
@@ -129,42 +84,3 @@ with a body of:
    }
 
 including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
-
-
-Get whether a user is a server administrator or not
-===================================================
-
-
-The api is::
-
-    GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin
-
-including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.
-
-A response body like the following is returned:
-
-.. code:: json
-
-    {
-        "admin": true
-    }
-
-
-Change whether a user is a server administrator or not
-======================================================
-
-Note that you cannot demote yourself.
-
-The api is::
-
-    PUT /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/admin
-
-with a body of:
-
-.. code:: json
-
-    {
-        "admin": true
-    }
-
-including an ``access_token`` of a server admin.

docs/ancient_architecture_notes.md

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

docs/ancient_architecture_notes.rst

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

docs/application_services.md

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

docs/application_services.rst

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

docs/architecture.md

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

docs/architecture.rst

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

docs/code_style.md

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

docs/code_style.rst

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

docs/dev/saml.md

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

docs/federate.md

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

docs/log_contexts.md

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

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