Synapse 1.112.0rc1 (2024-07-23)

Features

• Add to-device extension support to experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17416)
• Populate name/avatar fields in experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17418)
• Populate heroes and room summary fields (joined_count, invited_count) in experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17419)
• Populate is_dm room field in experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17429)
• Add room subscriptions to experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17432)
• Prepare for authenticated media freeze. (#17433)
• Add E2EE extension support to experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint. (#17454)

Bugfixes

• Add configurable option to always include offline users in presence sync results. Contributed by @Michael-Hollister. (#17231)
• Fix bug in experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint when using room type filters and the user has one or more remote invites. (#17434)
• Order heroes by stream_ordering as the Matrix specification states (applies to /sync). (#17435)
• Fix rare bug where /sync would break for a user when using workers with multiple stream writers. (#17438)

Improved Documentation

• Update the readme image to have a white background, so that it is readable in dark mode. (#17387)
• Add Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rocky Linux 8 and 9 installation instructions. (#17423)
• Improve documentation for the default_power_level_content_override config option. (#17451)

Internal Changes

• Make sure we always use the right logic for enabling the media repo. (#17424)
• Fix argument documentation for method RateLimiter.record_action. (#17426)
• Reduce volume of 'Waiting for current token' logs, which were introduced in v1.109.0. (#17428)
• Limit concurrent remote downloads to 6 per IP address, and decrement remote downloads without a content-length from the ratelimiter after the download is complete. (#17439)
• Remove unnecessary call to resume producing in fake channel. (#17449)
• Update experimental MSC3575 Sliding Sync /sync endpoint to bump room when it is created. (#17453)
• Speed up generating sliding sync responses. (#17458)
• Add cache to get_rooms_for_local_user_where_membership_is to speed up sliding sync. (#17460)
• Speed up fetching room keys from backup. (#17461)
• Speed up sorting of the room list in sliding sync. (#17468)
• Implement handling of $ME as a state key in sliding sync. (#17469)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump bytes from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1. (#17441)
• Bump hiredis from 2.3.2 to 3.0.0. (#17464)
• Bump jsonschema from 4.22.0 to 4.23.0. (#17444)
• Bump matrix-org/done-action from 2 to 3. (#17440)
• Bump mypy from 1.9.0 to 1.10.1. (#17445)
• Bump pyopenssl from 24.1.0 to 24.2.1. (#17465)
• Bump ruff from 0.5.0 to 0.5.4. (#17466)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 2.6.0 to 2.8.0. (#17456)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 2.8.0 to 2.10.0. (#17467)
• Bump setuptools from 67.6.0 to 70.0.0. (#17448)
• Bump twine from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1. (#17443)
• Bump types-jsonschema from 4.22.0.20240610 to 4.23.0.20240712. (#17446)
• Bump ulid from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3. (#17442)
• Bump zipp from 3.15.0 to 3.19.1. (#17427)