Synapse 1.125.0rc1 (2025-02-18)

Features

• Add functionality to be able to use multiple values in SSO feature attribute_requirements. (#17949)
• Add experimental config options admin_token_path and client_secret_path for MSC3861. (#18004)
• Add get_current_time_msec() method to the module API for sound time comparisons with Synapse. (#18144)

Bugfixes

• Update the response when a client attempts to add an invalid email address to the user's account from a 500, to a 400 with error text. (#18125)
• Fix user directory search when using a legacy module with a check_username_for_spam callback. Broke in v1.122.0. (#18135)

Updates to the Docker image

• Add SYNAPSE_HTTP_PROXY/SYNAPSE_HTTPS_PROXY/SYNAPSE_NO_PROXY environment variables to pass through specifically to the Synapse process (instead of needing to apply http_proxy/https_proxy/no_proxy globally). (#18158)

Improved Documentation

• Add Oracle Linux 8 and 9 installation instructions. (#17436)
• Document missing server config options (daemonize, print_pidfile, user_agent_suffix, use_frozen_dicts, manhole). (#18122)
• Document consequences of replacing secrets. (#18138)
• Make burst_count field an integer in rc_presence config documentation example. (#18159)

Internal Changes

• Overload DatabasePool.simple_select_one_txn to return non-None when the allow_none parameter is False. (#17616)
• Python 3.8 EOL: compile native extensions with the 3.9 ABI and use typing hints from the standard library. (#17967)
• Add log message when worker lock timeouts get large. (#18124)
• Make it explicit that you can buy an AGPL-alternative commercial license from Element. (#18134)
• Fix the 'Fix linting' GitHub Actions workflow. (#18136)
• Do not log at the exception-level when clients provide empty since token to /sync API. (#18139)
• Reduce database load of user search when using large search terms. (#18172)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump bcrypt from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. (#18127)
• Bump bytes from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0. (#18149)
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.43 to 3.1.44. (#18128)
• Bump hiredis from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0. (#18169)
• Bump serde_json from 1.0.137 to 1.0.138. (#18129)
• Bump service-identity from 24.1.0 to 24.2.0. (#18171)
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0. (#18147)
• Bump twine from 6.0.1 to 6.1.0. (#18170)
• Bump types-pyyaml from 6.0.12.20240917 to 6.0.12.20241230. (#18097)
• Bump ulid from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0. (#18148)