Changes in synapse v0.24.0 (2017-10-23)

No changes since v0.24.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.24.0-rc1 (2017-10-19)

Features:

• Add Group Server (PR #2352, #2363, #2374, #2377, #2378, #2382, #2410, #2426,
  #2430, #2454, #2471, #2472, #2544)
• Add support for channel notifications (PR #2501)
• Add basic implementation of backup media store (PR #2538)
• Add config option to auto-join new users to rooms (PR #2545)

Changes:

• Make the spam checker a module (PR #2474)
• Delete expired url cache data (PR #2478)
• Ignore incoming events for rooms that we have left (PR #2490)
• Allow spam checker to reject invites too (PR #2492)
• Add room creation checks to spam checker (PR #2495)
• Spam checking: add the invitee to user_may_invite (PR #2502)
• Process events from federation for different rooms in parallel (PR #2520)
• Allow error strings from spam checker (PR #2531)
• Improve error handling for missing files in config (PR #2551)

Bug fixes:

• Fix handling SERVFAILs when doing AAAA lookups for federation (PR #2477)
• Fix incompatibility with newer versions of ujson (PR #2483) Thanks to
  @jeremycline!
• Fix notification keywords that start/end with non-word chars (PR #2500)
• Fix stack overflow and logcontexts from linearizer (PR #2532)
• Fix 500 error when fields missing from power_levels event (PR #2552)
• Fix 500 error when we get an error handling a PDU (PR #2553)

Changes in synapse v0.23.1 (2017-10-02)

Changes:

• Make 'affinity' package optional, as it is not supported on some platforms

Changes in synapse v0.23.0 (2017-10-02)

No changes since v0.23.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.22.1 (2017-07-06)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where pusher pool didn't start and caused issues when
  interacting with some rooms (PR #2342)

Changes in synapse v0.22.0 (2017-07-06)

No changes since v0.22.0-rc2

Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc2 (2017-07-04)

Changes:

• Improve performance of storing user IPs (PR #2307, #2308)
• Slightly improve performance of verifying access tokens (PR #2320)
• Slightly improve performance of event persistence (PR #2321)
• Increase default cache factor size from 0.1 to 0.5 (PR #2330)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug with storing registration sessions that caused frequent CPU churn
  (PR #2319)

Changes in synapse v0.22.0-rc1 (2017-06-26)

Features:

• Add a user directory API (PR #2252, and many more)
• Add shutdown room API to remove room from local server (PR #2291)
• Add API to quarantine media (PR #2292)
• Add new config option to not send event contents to push servers (PR #2301)
  Thanks to @cjdelisle!

Changes:

• Various performance fixes (PR #2177, #2233, #2230, #2238, #2248, #2256,
  #2274)
• Deduplicate sync filters (PR #2219) Thanks to @krombel!
• Correct a typo in UPGRADE.rst (PR #2231) Thanks to @aaronraimist!
• Add count of one time keys to sync stream (PR #2237)
• Only store event_auth for state events (PR #2247)
• Store URL cache preview downloads separately (PR #2299)

Bug fixes:

• Fix users not getting notifications when AS listened to that user_id (PR
  #2216) Thanks to @slipeer!
• Fix users without push set up not getting notifications after joining rooms
  (PR #2236)
• Fix preview url API to trim long descriptions (PR #2243)
• Fix bug where we used cached but unpersisted state group as prev group,
  resulting in broken state of restart (PR #2263)
• Fix removing of pushers when using workers (PR #2267)
• Fix CORS headers to allow Authorization header (PR #2285) Thanks to @krombel!