v1.99.0

Synapse 1.99.0 (2024-01-16)

Synapse 1.99.0 is the first Synapse release under an AGPLv3.0 licence (with CLA to enable Element to sell AGPL exceptions). You can read more about this here:

• https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
• https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/
• https://element.io/blog/synapse-now-lives-at-github-com-element-hq-synapse/

No significant changes since 1.99.0rc1.

Synapse 1.99.0rc1 (2024-01-09)

• Add config options to set the avatar and the topic of the server notices room, as well as the avatar of the server notices user. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16679)

• Add config option email.notif_delay_before_mail to tweak the delay before an email is sent following a notification. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16696)

• Add new configuration option sentry.environment for improved system monitoring. Contributed by @zeeshanrafiqrana. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16738)

• Filter out rooms from the room directory being served to other homeservers when those rooms block that homeserver by their Access Control Lists. (#16759)

• Fix a long-standing bug where the signing keys generated by Synapse were world-readable. Contributed by Fabian Klemp. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16740)

• Fix email verification redirection. Contributed by Fadhlan Ridhwanallah. (#16761)

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from being queried by display name if it contains non-ASCII characters. (#16767)

• Allow reactivate user without password with Admin API in some edge cases. (#16770)

• Adds the recursion_depth parameter to the response of the /relations endpoint if MSC3981 recursion is being performed. (#16775)

• Added version picker for Synapse documentation. Contributed by @Dmytro27Ind. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16533)

• Clarify that password_config.enabled: "only_for_reauth" does not allow new logins to be created using password auth. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16737)

• Remove value from header in configuration documentation for refresh_token_lifetime. (#16763)

• Add another custom statistics collection server to the documentation. Contributed by @loelkes. (#16769)

• Remove run-once workflow after adding the version picker to the documentation. (#9453)

• Update the implementation of [MSC2965](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2965) (OIDC Provider discovery). (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16726)

• Move the rust stubs inline for better IDE integration. (#16757)

• Fix sample config doc CI. (#16758)

• Simplify event internal metadata class. (#16762, #16780)

• Sign the published docker image using cosign. (#16774)

• Port EventInternalMetadata class to Rust. (#16782)

• Bump actions/setup-go from 4 to 5. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16749)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16748)
• Bump immutabledict from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16743)
• Bump isort from 5.12.0 to 5.13.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16745)
• Bump isort from 5.13.0 to 5.13.1. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16752)
• Bump pydantic from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16747)
• Bump ruff from 0.1.6 to 0.1.7. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16746)
• Bump types-setuptools from 68.2.0.2 to 69.0.0.0. (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/16744)