v1.39.0

Synapse 1.39.0 (2021-07-29)

No significant changes.

Synapse 1.39.0rc3 (2021-07-28)

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.38 which caused an exception at startup when SAML authentication was enabled. (#10477)
• Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would not inform clients that a device had exhausted its one-time-key pool, potentially causing problems decrypting events. (#10485)
• Fix reporting old R30 stats as R30v2 stats. Introduced in v1.39.0rc1. (#10486)

Internal Changes

• Fix an error which prevented the Github Actions workflow to build the docker images from running. (#10461)
• Fix release script to correctly version debian changelog when doing RCs. (#10465)

Synapse 1.39.0rc2 (2021-07-22)

This release also includes the changes in v1.38.1.

Internal Changes

• Move docker image build to Github Actions. (#10416)

Synapse 1.39.0rc1 (2021-07-20)

The Third-Party Event Rules module interface has been deprecated in favour of the generic module interface introduced in Synapse v1.37.0. Support for the old interface is planned to be removed in September 2021. See the upgrade notes for more information.

Features

• Add the ability to override the account validity feature with a module. (#9884)
• The spaces summary API now returns any joinable rooms, not only rooms which are world-readable. (#10298, #10305)
• Add a new version of the R30 phone-home metric, which removes a false impression of retention given by the old R30 metric. (#10332, #10427)
• Allow providing credentials to http_proxy. (#10360)

Bugfixes

• Fix error while dropping locks on shutdown. Introduced in v1.38.0. (#10433)
• Add base starting insertion event when no chunk ID is specified in the historical batch send API. (#10250)
• Fix historical batch send endpoint (MSC2716) rejecting batches with messages from multiple senders. (#10276)
• Fix purging rooms that other homeservers are still sending events for. Contributed by @ilmari. (#10317)
• Fix errors during backfill caused by previously purged redaction events. Contributed by Andreas Rammhold (@andir). (#10343)
• Fix the user directory becoming broken (and noisy errors being logged) when knocking and room statistics are in use. (#10344)
• Fix newly added synapse_federation_server_oldest_inbound_pdu_in_staging prometheus metric to measure age rather than timestamp. (#10355)
• Fix PostgreSQL sometimes using table scans for queries against state_groups_state table, taking a long time and a large amount of IO. (#10359)
• Fix make_room_admin failing for users that have left a private room. (#10367)
• Fix a number of logged errors caused by remote servers being down. (#10400, #10414)
• Responses from /make_{join,leave,knock} no longer include signatures, which will turn out to be invalid after events are returned to /send_{join,leave,knock}. (#10404)

Improved Documentation

• Updated installation dependencies for newer macOS versions and ARM Macs. Contributed by Luke Walsh. (#9971)
• Simplify structure of room admin API. (#10313)
• Refresh the logcontext dev documentation. (#10353), (#10337)
• Add delegation example for caddy in the reverse proxy documentation. Contributed by @moritzdietz. (#10368)
• Fix and clarify some links in docs and contrib. (#10370), (#10322), (#10399)
• Make deprecation notice of the spam checker doc more obvious. (#10395)
• Add instructions on installing Debian packages for release candidates. (#10396)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove functionality associated with the unused room_stats_historical and user_stats_historical tables. Contributed by @xmunoz. (#9721)
• The third-party event rules module interface is deprecated in favour of the generic module interface introduced in Synapse v1.37.0. See the upgrade notes for more information. (#10386)

Internal Changes

• Convert room_depth.min_depth column to a BIGINT. (#10289)
• Add tests to characterise the current behaviour of R30 phone-home metrics. (#10315)
• Rebuild event context and auth when processing specific results from ThirdPartyEventRules modules. (#10316)
• Minor change to the code that populates user_daily_visits. (#10324)
• Re-enable Sytests that were disabled for the 1.37.1 release. (#10345, #10357)
• Run pyupgrade on the codebase. (#10347, #10348)
• Switch application_services_txns.txn_id database column to BIGINT. (#10349)
• Convert internal type variable syntax to reflect wider ecosystem use. (#10350, #10380, #10381, #10382, #10418)
• Make the Github Actions workflow configuration more efficient. (#10383)
• Add type hints to get_{domain,localpart}_from_id. (#10385)
• When building Debian packages for prerelease versions, set the Section accordingly. (#10391)
• Add type hints and comments to event auth code. (#10393)
• Stagger sending of presence update to remote servers, reducing CPU spikes caused by starting many connections to remote servers at once. (#10398)
• Remove unused events_by_room code (tech debt). (#10421)
• Add a github actions job which records success of other jobs. (#10430)