Synapse 1.117.0rc1 (2024-10-08)

Features

• Add config option redis.password_path. (#17717)

Bugfixes

• Fix a rare bug introduced in v1.29.0 where invalidating a user's access token from a worker could raise an error. (#17779)
• In the response to GET /_matrix/client/versions, set the unstable_features flag for MSC4140 to false when server configuration disables support for delayed events. (#17780)
• Improve input validation and room membership checks in admin redaction API. (#17792)

Improved Documentation

• Clarify the docstring of test_forget_when_not_left. (#17628)
• Add documentation note about PYTHONMALLOC for accurate jemalloc memory tracking. Contributed by @hensg. (#17709)
• Remove spurious "TODO UPDATE ALL THIS" note in the Debian installation docs. (#17749)
• Explain how load balancing works for federation_sender_instances. (#17776)

Internal Changes

• Minor performance increase for large accounts using sliding sync. (#17751)
• Increase performance of the notifier when there are many syncing users. (#17765, #17766)
• Fix performance of streams that don't change often. (#17767)
• Improve performance of sliding sync connections that do not ask for any rooms. (#17768)
• Reduce overhead of sliding sync E2EE loops. (#17771)
• Sliding sync minor performance speed up using new table. (#17787)
• Sliding sync minor performance improvement by omitting unchanged data from incremental responses. (#17788)
• Speed up sliding sync when there are many active subscriptions. (#17789)
• Add missing license headers on new source files. (#17799)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.45 to 8.13.46. (#17773)
• Bump python-multipart from 0.0.10 to 0.0.12. (#17772)
• Bump regex from 1.10.6 to 1.11.0. (#17770)
• Bump ruff from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8. (#17774)