v1.59.0rc2

Synapse 1.59.0rc2 (2022-05-16)

Note: This release candidate includes a performance regression which can cause database disruption. Other release candidates in the 1.59.0 series are not affected, and a fix will be included in the 1.59.0 final release.

Synapse 1.59 makes several changes that server administrators should be aware of:

• Device name lookup over federation is now disabled by default. (#12616)
• The synapse.app.appservice and synapse.app.user_dir worker application types are now deprecated. (#12452, #12654)

See the upgrade notes for more details.

Additionally, this release removes the non-standard m.login.jwt login type from Synapse. It can be replaced with org.matrix.login.jwt for identical behaviour. This is only used if jwt_config.enabled is set to true in the configuration. (#12597)

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.58.0 where /sync would fail if the most recent event in a room was rejected. (#12729)