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v1.36.0
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Synapse 1.36.0 (2021-06-15)
No significant changes.
Synapse 1.36.0rc2 (2021-06-11)
Bugfixes
- Fix a bug which caused presence updates to stop working some time after a restart, when using a presence writer worker. Broke in v1.33.0. (#10149)
- Fix a bug when using federation sender worker where it would send out more presence updates than necessary, leading to high resource usage. Broke in v1.33.0. (#10163)
- Fix a bug where Synapse could send the same presence update to a remote twice. (#10165)
Synapse 1.36.0rc1 (2021-06-08)
Features
- Add new endpoint
/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{roomId}/aliases
from Client-Server API r0.6.1 (previously MSC2432). (#9224) - Improve performance of incoming federation transactions in large rooms. (#9953, #9973)
- Rewrite logic around verifying JSON object and fetching server keys to be more performant and use less memory. (#10035)
- Add new admin APIs for unprotecting local media from quarantine. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#10040)
- Add new admin APIs to remove media by media ID from quarantine. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#10044)
- Make reason and score parameters optional for reporting content. Implements MSC2414. Contributed by Callum Brown. (#10077)
- Add support for routing more requests to workers. (#10084)
- Report OpenTracing spans for database activity. (#10113, #10136, #10141)
- Significantly reduce memory usage of joining large remote rooms. (#10117)
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug causing replication requests to fail when receiving a lot of events via federation. (#10082)
- Fix a bug in the
force_tracing_for_users
option introduced in Synapse v1.35 which meant that the OpenTracing spans produced were missing most tags. (#10092) - Fixed a bug that could cause Synapse to stop notifying application services. Contributed by Willem Mulder. (#10107)
- Fix bug where the server would attempt to fetch the same history in the room from a remote server multiple times in parallel. (#10116)
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.33.0 which caused replication requests to fail when receiving a lot of very large events via federation. (#10118)
- Fix bug when using workers where pagination requests failed if a remote server returned zero events from
/backfill
. Introduced in 1.35.0. (#10133)
Improved Documentation
- Clarify security note regarding hosting Synapse on the same domain as other web applications. (#9221)
- Update CAPTCHA documentation to mention turning off the verify origin feature. Contributed by @aaronraimist. (#10046)
- Tweak wording of database recommendation in
INSTALL.md
. Contributed by @aaronraimist. (#10057) - Add initial infrastructure for rendering Synapse documentation with mdbook. (#10086)
- Convert the remaining Admin API documentation files to markdown. (#10089)
- Make a link in docs use HTTPS. Contributed by @RhnSharma. (#10130)
- Fix broken link in Docker docs. (#10132)
Deprecations and Removals
- Remove the experimental
spaces_enabled
flag. The spaces features are always available now. (#10063)
Internal Changes
- Tell CircleCI to build Docker images from
main
branch. (#9906) - Simplify naming convention for release branches to only include the major and minor version numbers. (#10013)
- Add
parse_strings_from_args
for parsing an array from query parameters. (#10048, #10137) - Remove some dead code regarding TLS certificate handling. (#10054)
- Remove redundant, unmaintained
convert_server_keys
script. (#10055) - Improve the error message printed by synctl when synapse fails to start. (#10059)
- Fix GitHub Actions lint for newsfragments. (#10069)
- Update opentracing to inject the right context into the carrier. (#10074)
- Fix up
BatchingQueue
implementation. (#10078) - Log method and path when dropping request due to size limit. (#10091)
- In Github Actions workflows, summarize the Sytest results in an easy-to-read format. (#10094)
- Make
/sync
do fewer state resolutions. (#10102) - Add missing type hints to the admin API servlets. (#10105)
- Improve opentracing annotations for
Notifier
. (#10111) - Enable Prometheus metrics for the jaeger client library. (#10112)
- Work to improve the responsiveness of
/sync
requests. (#10124) - OpenTracing: use a consistent name for background processes. (#10135)