v1.2.0rc1

Features

• Add support for opentracing. (#5544, #5712)
• Add ability to pull all locally stored events out of synapse that a particular user can see. (#5589)
• Add a basic admin command app to allow server operators to run Synapse admin commands separately from the main production instance. (#5597)
• Add sender and origin_server_ts fields to m.replace. (#5613)
• Add default push rule to ignore reactions. (#5623)
• Include the original event when asking for its relations. (#5626)
• Implement session_lifetime configuration option, after which access tokens will expire. (#5660)
• Return "This account has been deactivated" when a deactivated user tries to login. (#5674)
• Enable aggregations support by default (#5714)

Bugfixes

• Fix 'utime went backwards' errors on daemonization. (#5609)
• Various minor fixes to the federation request rate limiter. (#5621)
• Forbid viewing relations on an event once it has been redacted. (#5629)
• Fix requests to the /store_invite endpoint of identity servers being sent in the wrong format. (#5638)
• Fix newly-registered users not being able to lookup their own profile without joining a room. (#5644)
• Fix bug in #5626 that prevented the original_event field from actually having the contents of the original event in a call to /relations. (#5654)
• Fix 3PID bind requests being sent to identity servers as application/x-form-www-urlencoded data, which is deprecated. (#5658)
• Fix some problems with authenticating redactions in recent room versions. (#5699, #5700, #5707)
• Ignore redactions of m.room.create events. (#5701)

Updates to the Docker image

• Base Docker image on a newer Alpine Linux version (3.8 -> 3.10). (#5619)
• Add missing space in default logging file format generated by the Docker image. (#5620)

Improved Documentation

• Add information about nginx normalisation to reverse_proxy.rst. Contributed by @skalarproduktraum - thanks! (#5397)
• --no-pep517 should be --no-use-pep517 in the documentation to setup the development environment. (#5651)
• Improvements to Postgres setup instructions. Contributed by @Lrizika - thanks! (#5661)
• Minor tweaks to postgres documentation. (#5675)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove support for the invite_3pid_guest configuration setting. (#5625)

Internal Changes

• Move logging code out of synapse.util and into synapse.logging. (#5606, #5617)
• Add a blacklist file to the repo to blacklist certain sytests from failing CI. (#5611)
• Make runtime errors surrounding password reset emails much clearer. (#5616)
• Remove dead code for persiting outgoing federation transactions. (#5622)
• Add lint.sh to the scripts-dev folder which will run all linting steps required by CI. (#5627)
• Move RegistrationHandler.get_or_create_user to test code. (#5628)
• Add some more common python virtual-environment paths to the black exclusion list. (#5630)
• Some counter metrics exposed over Prometheus have been renamed, with the old names preserved for backwards compatibility and deprecated. See docs/metrics-howto.rst for details. (#5636)
• Unblacklist some user_directory sytests. (#5637)
• Factor out some redundant code in the login implementation. (#5639)
• Update ModuleApi to avoid register(generate_token=True). (#5640)
• Remove access-token support from RegistrationHandler.register, and rename it. (#5641)
• Remove access-token support from RegistrationStore.register, and rename it. (#5642)
• Improve logging for auto-join when a new user is created. (#5643)
• Remove unused and unnecessary check for FederationDeniedError in _exception_to_failure. (#5645)
• Fix a small typo in a code comment. (#5655)
• Clean up exception handling around client access tokens. (#5656)
• Add a mechanism for per-test homeserver configuration in the unit tests. (#5657)
• Inline issue_access_token. (#5659)
• Update the sytest BuildKite configuration to checkout Synapse in /src. (#5664)
• Add a docker type to the towncrier configuration. (#5673)
• Convert synapse.federation.transport.server to async. Might improve some stack traces. (#5689)
• Documentation for opentracing. (#5703)