Synapse v0.34.1rc1

Features

• Special-case a support user for use in verifying behaviour of a given server. The support user does not appear in user directory or monthly active user counts. (#4141, #4344)
• Support for serving .well-known files (#4262)
• Rework SAML2 authentication (#4265, #4267)
• SAML2 authentication: Initialise user display name from SAML2 data (#4272)
• Synapse can now have its conditional/extra dependencies installed by pip. This functionality can be used by using pip install matrix-synapse[feature], where feature is a comma separated list with the possible values email.enable_notifs, matrix-synapse-ldap3, postgres, resources.consent, saml2, url_preview, and test. If you want to install all optional dependencies, you can use "all" instead. (#4298, #4325, #4327)
• Add routes for reading account data. (#4303)
• Add opt-in support for v2 rooms (#4307)
• Add a script to generate a clean config file (#4315)
• Return server data in /login response (#4319)

Bugfixes

• Fix contains_url check to be consistent with other instances in code-base and check that value is an instance of string. (#3405)
• Fix CAS login when username is not valid in an MXID (#4264)
• Send CORS headers for /media/config (#4279)
• Add 'sandbox' to CSP for media reprository (#4284)
• Make the new landing page prettier. (#4294)
• Fix deleting E2E room keys when using old SQLite versions. (#4295)
• The metric synapse_admin_mau:current previously did not update when config.mau_stats_only was set to True (#4305)
• Fixed per-room account data filters (#4309)
• Fix indentation in default config (#4313)
• Fix synapse:latest docker upload (#4316)
• Fix test_metric.py compatibility with prometheus_client 0.5. Contributed by Maarten de Vries maarten@de-vri.es. (#4317)
• Avoid packaging _trial_temp directory in -py3 debian packages (#4326)
• Check jinja version for consent resource (#4327)
• fix NPE in /messages by checking if all events were filtered out (#4330)
• Fix python -m synapse.config on Python 3. (#4356)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove the deprecated v1/register API on Python 2. It was never ported to Python 3. (#4334)

Internal Changes

• Getting URL previews of IP addresses no longer fails on Python 3. (#4215)
• drop undocumented dependency on dateutil (#4266)
• Update the example systemd config to use a virtualenv (#4273)
• Update link to kernel DCO guide (#4274)
• Make isort tox check print diff when it fails (#4283)
• Log room_id in Unknown room errors (#4297)
• Documentation improvements for coturn setup. Contributed by Krithin Sitaram. (#4333)
• Update pull request template to use absolute links (#4341)
• Update README to not lie about required restart when updating TLS certificates (#4343)
• Update debian packaging for compatibility with transitional package (#4349)
• Fix command hint to generate a config file when trying to start without a config file (#4353)
• Add better logging for unexpected errors while sending transactions (#4358)