v1.99.0rc1

Synapse 1.99.0rc1 (2024-01-09)

Synapse is now released by Element under an AGPLv3.0 licence. 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/

Features

• 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. (#16679)
• Add config option email.notif_delay_before_mail to tweak the delay before an email is sent following a notification. (#16696)
• Add new configuration option sentry.environment for improved system monitoring. Contributed by @zeeshanrafiqrana. (#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)

Bugfixes

• Fix a long-standing bug where the signing keys generated by Synapse were world-readable. Contributed by Fabian Klemp. (#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)

Improved Documentation

• Added version picker for Synapse documentation. Contributed by @Dmytro27Ind. (#16533)
• Clarify that password_config.enabled: "only_for_reauth" does not allow new logins to be created using password auth. (#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)

Internal Changes

• Remove run-once workflow after adding the version picker to the documentation. (#9453)
• Update the implementation of MSC2965 (OIDC Provider discovery). (#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)

Updates to locked dependencies

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