Synapse 1.128.0rc1 (2025-04-01)

Features

• Add an access token introspection cache to make Matrix Authentication Service integration (MSC3861) more efficient. (#18231)
• Add background job to clear unreferenced state groups. (#18254)
• Hashes of media files are now tracked by Synapse. Media quarantines will now apply to all files with the same hash. (#18277, #18302, #18296)

Bugfixes

• Add index to sliding sync (MSC4186) membership snapshot table, to fix a performance issue. (#18074)

Updates to the Docker image

• Specify the architecture of installed packages via an APT config option, which is more reliable than appending package names with :{arch}. (#18271)
• Always specify base image debian versions with a build argument. (#18272)
• Allow passing arguments to start_for_complement.sh (to be sent to configure_workers_and_start.py). (#18273)
• Make some improvements to the prefix-log script in the workers image. (#18274)
• Use uv pip to install supervisor in the worker image. (#18275)
• Avoid needing to download & use rsync in a build layer. (#18287)

Improved Documentation

• Fix how to obtain access token and change naming from riot to element (#18225)
• Correct a small typo in the SSO mapping providers documentation. (#18276)
• Add docs for how to clear out the Poetry wheel cache. (#18283)

Internal Changes

• Add a column participant to room_memberships table. (#18068)
• Update Poetry to 2.1.1, including updating the lock file version. (#18251)
• Pin GitHub Actions dependencies by commit hash. (#18255)
• Add DB delta to remove the old state group deletion job. (#18284)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump actions/add-to-project from f5473ace9aeee8b97717b281e26980aa5097023f to 280af8ae1f83a494cfad2cb10f02f6d13529caa9. (#18303)
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3. (#18266)
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. (#18268)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5.4.0 to 5.5.0. (#18298)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.6.1 to 4.6.2. (#18304)
• Bump authlib from 1.4.1 to 1.5.1. (#18306)
• Bump dawidd6/action-download-artifact from 8 to 9. (#18204)
• Bump jinja2 from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6. (#18223)
• Bump log from 0.4.26 to 0.4.27. (#18267)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.50 to 9.0.2. (#18299)
• Bump pygithub from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1. (#18243)
• Bump pyo3-log from 0.12.1 to 0.12.2. (#18269)