v1.35.0

Synapse 1.35.0 (2021-06-01)

Note that the tag and docker images for v1.35.0rc3 were incorrectly built. If you are experiencing issues with either, it is recommended to upgrade to the equivalent tag or docker image for the v1.35.0 release.

Deprecations and Removals

• The core Synapse development team plan to drop support for the unstable API of MSC2858, including the undocumented experimental.msc2858_enabled config option, in August 2021. Client authors should ensure that their clients are updated to use the stable API (which has been supported since Synapse 1.30) well before that time, to give their users time to upgrade. (#10101)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug causing replication requests to fail when receiving a lot of events via federation. Introduced in v1.33.0. (#10082)
• Fix HTTP response size limit to allow joining very large rooms over federation. Introduced in v1.33.0. (#10093)

Internal Changes

• Log method and path when dropping request due to size limit. (#10091)

Synapse 1.35.0rc2 (2021-05-27)

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug introduced in v1.35.0rc1 when calling the spaces summary API via a GET request. (#10079)

Synapse 1.35.0rc1 (2021-05-25)

Features

• Add experimental support to allow a user who could join a restricted room to view it in the spaces summary. (#9922, #10007, #10038)
• Reduce memory usage when joining very large rooms over federation. (#9958)
• Add a configuration option which allows enabling opentracing by user id. (#9978)
• Enable experimental support for MSC2946 (spaces summary API) and MSC3083 (restricted join rules) by default. (#10011)

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug introduced in v1.26.0 which meant that synapse_port_db would not correctly initialise some postgres sequences, requiring manual updates afterwards. (#9991)
• Fix synctl's --no-daemonize parameter to work correctly with worker processes. (#9995)
• Fix a validation bug introduced in v1.34.0 in the ordering of spaces in the space summary API. (#10002)
• Fixed deletion of new presence stream states from database. (#10014, #10033)
• Fixed a bug with very high resolution image uploads throwing internal server errors. (#10029)

Updates to the Docker image

• Fix bug introduced in Synapse 1.33.0 which caused a Permission denied: '/homeserver.log' error when starting Synapse with the generated log configuration. Contributed by Sergio Miguéns Iglesias. (#10045)

Improved Documentation

• Add hardened systemd files as proposed in #9760 and added them to contrib/. Change the docs to reflect the presence of these files. (#9803)
• Clarify documentation around SSO mapping providers generating unique IDs and localparts. (#9980)
• Updates to the PostgreSQL documentation (postgres.md). (#9988, #9989)
• Fix broken link in user directory documentation. Contributed by @junquera. (#10016)
• Add missing room state entry to the table of contents of room admin API. (#10043)

Deprecations and Removals

• Removed support for the deprecated tls_fingerprints configuration setting. Contributed by Jerin J Titus. (#9280)

Internal Changes

• Allow sending full presence to users via workers other than the one that called ModuleApi.send_local_online_presence_to. (#9823)
• Update comments in the space summary handler. (#9974)
• Minor enhancements to the @cachedList descriptor. (#9975)
• Split multipart email sending into a dedicated handler. (#9977)
• Run black on files in the scripts directory. (#9981)
• Add missing type hints to synapse.util module. (#9982)
• Simplify a few helper functions. (#9984, #9985, #9986)
• Remove unnecessary property from SQLBaseStore. (#9987)
• Remove keylen param on LruCache. (#9993)
• Update the Grafana dashboard in contrib/. (#10001)
• Add a batching queue implementation. (#10017)
• Reduce memory usage when verifying signatures on large numbers of events at once. (#10018)
• Properly invalidate caches for destination retry timings every (instead of expiring entries every 5 minutes). (#10036)
• Fix running complement tests with Synapse workers. (#10039)
• Fix typo in get_state_ids_for_event docstring where the return type was incorrect. (#10050)