All the threes, Synapse 0.33.3!

This release brings together a lot of bugfixes, and also some preparation for support for Lazy Loading and Room Versioning.

We also have, as a great contribution from @vojeroen, SNI extension support! With v0.33.3, Synapse now supports sending SNI over federation for vhosted servers, which resolves this long-standing request.

As always, you can get the new update from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v0.33.3 or any of the sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse.

Features

  • Add support for the SNI extension to federation TLS connections. Thanks to @vojeroen! (#3439)
  • Add /_media/r0/config (#3184)
  • speed up /members API and add at and membership params as per MSC1227 (#3568)
  • implement summary block in /sync response as per MSC688 (#3574)
  • Add lazy-loading support to /messages as per MSC1227 (#3589)
  • Add ability to limit number of monthly active users on the server (#3633)
  • Support more federation endpoints on workers (#3653)
  • Basic support for room versioning (#3654)
  • Ability to disable client/server Synapse via conf toggle (#3655)
  • Ability to whitelist specific threepids against monthly active user limiting (#3662)
  • Add some metrics for the appservice and federation event sending loops (#3664)
  • Where server is disabled, block ability for locked out users to read new messages (#3670)
  • set admin uri via config, to be used in error messages where the user should contact the administrator (#3687)
  • Synapse's presence functionality can now be disabled with the "use_presence" configuration option. (#3694)
  • For resource limit blocked users, prevent writing into rooms (#3708)

Bugfixes

  • Fix occasional glitches in the synapse_event_persisted_position metric (#3658)
  • Fix bug on deleting 3pid when using identity servers that don't support unbind API (#3661)
  • Make the tests pass on Twisted < 18.7.0 (#3676)
  • Don't ship recaptcha_ajax.js, use it directly from Google (#3677)
  • Fixes test_reap_monthly_active_users so it passes under postgres (#3681)
  • Fix mau blocking calculation bug on login (#3689)
  • Fix missing yield in synapse.storage.monthly_active_users.initialise_reserved_users (#3692)
  • Improve HTTP request logging to include all requests (#3700, #3723)
  • Avoid timing out requests while we are streaming back the response (#3701)
  • Support more federation endpoints on workers (#3705, #3713)
  • Fix "Starting db txn 'get_all_updated_receipts' from sentinel context" warning (#3710)
  • Fix bug where state_cache cache factor ignored environment variables (#3719)

Deprecations and Removals

Internal Changes

  • The test suite now can run under PostgreSQL. (#3423)
  • Refactor HTTP replication endpoints to reduce code duplication (#3632)
  • Tests now correctly execute on Python 3. (#3647)
  • Sytests can now be run inside a Docker container. (#3660)
  • Port over enough to Python 3 to allow the sytests to start. (#3668, #3732)
  • Update docker base image from alpine 3.7 to 3.8. (#3669)
  • Rename synapse.util.async to synapse.util.async_helpers to mitigate async becoming a keyword on Python 3.7. (#3678)
  • Synapse's tests are now formatted with the black autoformatter. (#3679)
  • Implemented a new testing base class to reduce test boilerplate. (#3684)
  • Rename MAU prometheus metrics (#3690)
  • add new error type ResourceLimit (#3707)
  • Logcontexts for replication command handlers (#3709)
  • Update admin register API documentation to reference a real user ID. (#3712)

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