Synapse 1.29.0rc1 (2021-03-04)

Note that synapse now expects an X-Forwarded-Proto header when used with a reverse proxy. Please see UPGRADE.rst for more details on this change.

Features

Add rate limiters to cross-user key sharing requests. (#8957)
Add order_by to the admin API GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/media. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#8978)
Add some configuration settings to make users' profile data more private. (#9203)
The no_proxy and NO_PROXY environment variables are now respected in proxied HTTP clients with the lowercase form taking precedence if both are present. Additionally, the lowercase https_proxy environment variable is now respected in proxied HTTP clients on top of existing support for the uppercase HTTPS_PROXY form and takes precedence if both are present. Contributed by Timothy Leung. (#9372)
Add a configuration option, user_directory.prefer_local_users, which when enabled will make it more likely for users on the same server as you to appear above other users. (#9383, #9385)
Add support for regenerating thumbnails if they have been deleted but the original image is still stored. (#9438)
Add support for X-Forwarded-Proto header when using a reverse proxy. (#9472, #9501, #9512, #9539)

Fix a bug where users' pushers were not all deleted when they deactivated their account. (#9285, #9516)
Fix a bug where a lot of unnecessary presence updates were sent when joining a room. (#9402)
Fix a bug that caused multiple calls to the experimental shared_rooms endpoint to return stale results. (#9416)
Fix a bug in single sign-on which could cause a "No session cookie found" error. (#9436)
Fix bug introduced in v1.27.0 where allowing a user to choose their own username when logging in via single sign-on did not work unless an idp_icon was defined. (#9440)
Fix a bug introduced in v1.26.0 where some sequences were not properly configured when running synapse_port_db. (#9449)
Fix deleting pushers when using sharded pushers. (#9465, #9466, #9479, #9536)
Fix missing startup checks for the consistency of certain PostgreSQL sequences. (#9470)
Fix a long-standing bug where the media repository could leak file descriptors while previewing media. (#9497)
Properly purge the event chain cover index when purging history. (#9498)
Fix missing chain cover index due to a schema delta not being applied correctly. Only affected servers that ran development versions. (#9503)
Fix a bug introduced in v1.25.0 where /_synapse/admin/join/ would fail when given a room alias. (#9506)
Prevent presence background jobs from running when presence is disabled. (#9530)
Fix rare edge case that caused a background update to fail if the server had rejected an event that had duplicate auth events. (#9537)

Update the example systemd config to propagate reloads to individual units. (#9463)