Tuwunel 1.8.0

June 27, 2026

New Features & Enhancements

• Conduit database migration available again courtesy of @x86pup. Open Tuwunel with an existing Conduit (or foreign-lineage) database directory and it migrates in-place: rooms, original media including S3-backed objects, pending knocks, and suspended or locked users all carry over, media is attributed to its local owners, and conduit-migrated rooms become usable. Raised by @Korvox in (#41).

• Third-party-identifier (3pid) email support (MSC2290) arrives with outbound email, 3pid storage, the email-3pid request and management endpoints, and admin commands to manage and query email 3pids.

• Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) support is implemented: the provisioning API endpoints, synced provisioned email bindings, and SSO redirect-action forwarding (MSC3824, so a register action becomes prompt=create on the upstream OIDC request). Opened by @CEbbinghaus in (#266).

• A remote-server version API, a new client endpoint exposing the versions reported by remote servers, shipped by @dasha-uwu (d038c5b).

• SSLKEYLOGFILE support for the outbound client, for debugging federation TLS, also from @dasha-uwu (5f00e39).

• User reports can post to a configurable room instead of the admin room, so operators can moderate without holding server-admin, graciously contributed by @x86pup. Opened by @iwalkalone69 in (#180).

• The nginx reverse-proxy example collapses its duplicate 443 and 8448 server blocks into one, tip of the hat to @Daniel15 in (#487).

• Push gateway resolution now runs through the validating resolver, so the private-IP CIDR denylist (ip_range_denylist) applies to pusher delivery, including redirect hops (28e08c2). Operator note: this silently stops delivery to any push gateway on a private or loopback address (a localhost Sygnal, a LAN ntfy or UnifiedPush) until ip_range_denylist is adjusted to permit it.

• Spec compliance advanced across many endpoints: stable /v1/mutual_rooms with count and paging (MSC2666, cd5004e); rich-text room topics preferring the m.topic block with legacy fallback and indexed for search (MSC3765, fc29fe4); extended profile fields with enforced size and grammar limits (MSC4133, 03b9909); invite and knock stripped state carried as full federation PDUs so a receiver can bind the create event (MSC4311, d2c473f); a registration terms stage (MSC1692, opened by @erebion in #289); appservice device management (MSC4190, opened by @ngophuocloi-miracle-aavn in #488); the user-report endpoint returning 200 for unknown users to deter enumeration (MSC4277, 6ddd590); per-requester thread bundles with current_user_participated and the full latest_event (MSC3816, 3c3e65a); search results populating surrounding event context and pagination tokens (945e79c); device-list updates flushed to federation on key change (eff8e52); and federation get_missing_events serving stored canonical JSON so unmodeled fields survive (e2eca44).

Bug Fixes

• The local server is now always exempt from allowed_remote_server_names and forbidden_remote_server_names. A 1.7.x allow-list that omitted the local name classified a local user's own events as coming from a forbidden remote and dropped them (fixes #489). Reported by @BurningEnlightenment. Sincere apologies to anyone whose own users went quiet.

• /timestamp_to_event (MSC3030) returned M_NOT_FOUND for valid searches because the room-scoped scan stopped on the first foreign-room key; fixed by @lingbohome in (#477).

• make-user-admin now grants the correct power level when the target is already in the admin room, with appreciation to @x86pup. Reported by @mio-19 in (#84).

• LDAP is skipped during UIA reauth for non-LDAP accounts, so resetting device keys on a non-LDAP account no longer triggers a filterless LDAP search, credit to @x86pup. Reported by @kuhnchris in (#255).

• A lost-wakeup in until_shutdown that could stall a service worker is fixed (22676a3).

• /timestamp_to_event falls back to federation for local misses and forward start-edge queries (MSC3030, 914b16c).

• Several federation membership fixes: a re-invite over a stale local ban is honored, an out-of-band invite rescission is applied, join_authorised_via_users_server is ignored for an existing member, custom /join body keys are merged into the member event, and kicking a non-member returns 403 (a37bd24, b5101ac, 836831c, 8e135be, fae1595).

• Lazy-loaded incremental sync no longer drops changed members other than the syncing user (MSC4222, 0e5800c).

• State resolution for pre-v12 rooms now begins iterative auth checks from an empty initial state, matching the handling used for version 12 rooms (954b0c3).

• Per-room push rules now carry across a room upgrade (c852ae2).

• A device's local notification settings are removed on every device-deletion path (MSC3890, e0283e0).

• The single-event endpoint returns 404 rather than 403 for an event hidden from the requester (404b516).

• A client invite to a server lacking the room version returns M_UNSUPPORTED_ROOM_VERSION (MSC1866, 5869123).

• Version 12 room upgrades omit the deprecated predecessor.event_id (MSC4291, 6625065).

• The /context end token is positioned so a backward page still includes the base event (f3fe502).

• The [global.smtp] config section is fixed (6061c5c).

• Notable for operators: the RocksDB storage engine is bumped to 11.1.1 (ab32765), and the first 1.8.0 boot on an existing database performs a one-time timestamp-index rebuild from pduid_pdu, which lengthens first startup on large instances (41f0de0, 873f670).