Synapse 1.74.0 (2022-12-20)

Improved Documentation

• Add release note and update documentation regarding optional ICU support in user search. (#14712)

Synapse 1.74.0rc1 (2022-12-13)

Features

• Improve user search for international display names. (#14464)
• Stop using deprecated keyIds parameter when calling /_matrix/key/v2/server. (#14490, #14525)
• Add new push.enabled config option to allow opting out of push notification calculation. (#14551, #14619)
• Advertise support for Matrix 1.5 on /_matrix/client/versions. (#14576)
• Improve opentracing and logging for to-device message handling. (#14598)
• Allow selecting "prejoin" events by state keys in addition to event types. (#14642)

Bugfixes

• Fix a long-standing bug where a device list update might not be sent to clients in certain circumstances. (#14435, #14592, #14604)
• Suppress a spurious warning when POST /rooms/<room_id>/<membership>/, POST /join/<room_id_or_alias, or the unspecced PUT /join/<room_id_or_alias>/<txn_id> receive an empty HTTP request body. (#14600)
• Return spec-compliant JSON errors when unknown endpoints are requested. (#14620, #14621)
• Update html templates to load images over HTTPS. Contributed by @ashfame. (#14625)
• Fix a long-standing bug where the user directory would return 1 more row than requested. (#14631)
• Reject invalid read receipt requests with empty room or event IDs. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@Fizzadar). (#14632)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.67.0 where not specifying a config file or a server URL would lead to the register_new_matrix_user script failing. (#14637)
• Fix a long-standing bug where the user directory and room/user stats might be out of sync. (#14639, #14643)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.72.0 where the background updates to add non-thread unique indexes on receipts would fail if they were previously interrupted. (#14650)
• Improve validation of field size limits in events. (#14664)
• Fix bugs introduced in Synapse 1.55.0 and 1.69.0 where application services would not be notified of events in the correct rooms, due to stale caches. (#14670)

Improved Documentation

• Update worker settings for pusher and federation_sender functionality. (#14493)
• Add links to third party package repositories, and point to the bug which highlights Ubuntu's out-of-date packages. (#14517)
• Remove old, incorrect minimum postgres version note and replace with a link to the Dependency Deprecation Policy. (#14590)
• Add Single-Sign On setup instructions for Mastodon-based instances. (#14594)
• Change turn_allow_guests example value to lowercase true. (#14634)

Internal Changes

• Optimise push badge count calculations. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@Fizzadar). (#14255)
• Faster remote room joins: stream the un-partial-stating of rooms over replication. (#14473, #14474)
• Share the ClientRestResource for both workers and the main process. (#14528)
• Add --editable flag to complement.sh which uses an editable install of Synapse for faster turn-around times whilst developing iteratively. (#14548)
• Faster joins: use servers list approximation to send read receipts when in partial state instead of waiting for the full state of the room. (#14549)
• Modernize unit tests configuration related to workers. (#14568)
• Bump jsonschema from 4.17.0 to 4.17.3. (#14591)
• Fix Rust lint CI. (#14602)
• Bump JasonEtco/create-an-issue from 2.5.0 to 2.8.1. (#14607)
• Alter some unit test environment parameters to decrease time spent running tests. (#14610)
• Switch to Go recommended installation method for gotestfmt template in CI. (#14611)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.0 to 8.13.1. (#14612)
• Bump types-setuptools from 65.5.0.3 to 65.6.0.1. (#14613)
• Bump twine from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2. (#14614)
• Bump types-requests from 2.28.11.2 to 2.28.11.5. (#14615)
• Bump cryptography from 38.0.3 to 38.0.4. (#14616)
• Remove useless cargo install with apt from Dockerfile. (#14636)
• Bump certifi from 2021.10.8 to 2022.12.7. (#14645)
• Bump flake8-bugbear from 22.10.27 to 22.12.6. (#14656)
• Bump packaging from 21.3 to 22.0. (#14657)
• Bump types-pillow from 9.3.0.1 to 9.3.0.4. (#14658)
• Bump serde from 1.0.148 to 1.0.150. (#14659)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.1 to 8.13.2. (#14660)
• Bump authlib from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0. (#14661)
• Move StateFilter to synapse.types. (#14668)
• Improve type hints. (#14597, #14646, #14671)