Synapse 1.80.0rc1 (2023-03-21)

Features

• Stabilise support for MSC3966: event_property_contains push condition. (#15187)
• Implement MSC2659: application service ping endpoint. Contributed by Tulir @ Beeper. (#15249)
• Allow loading /register/available endpoint on workers. (#15268)
• Improve performance of creating and authenticating events. (#15195)
• Add topic and name events to group of events that are batch persisted when creating a room. (#15229)

Bugfixes

• Fix a long-standing bug in which the user directory would assume any remote membership state events represent a profile change. (#14755, #14756)
• Implement MSC3873 to fix a long-standing bug where properties with dots were handled ambiguously in push rules. (#15190)
• Faster joins: Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.66 where spurious "Failed to find memberships ..." errors would be logged. (#15232)
• Fix a long-standing error when sending message into deleted room. (#15235)

Updates to the Docker image

• Ensure the Dockerfile builds on platforms that don't have a cryptography wheel. (#15239)
• Mirror images to the GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io/matrix-org/synapse). (#15281, #15282)

Improved Documentation

• Add a missing endpoint to the workers documentation. (#15223)

Internal Changes

• Add additional functionality to declaring worker types when starting Complement in worker mode. (#14921)
• Add Synapse-Trace-Id to access-control-expose-headers header. (#14974)
• Make the HttpTransactionCache use the Requester in addition of the just the Request to build the transaction key. (#15200)
• Improve log lines when purging rooms. (#15222)
• Improve type hints. (#15230, #15231, #15238)
• Move various module API callback registration methods to a dedicated class. (#15237)
• Configure GitHub Actions for merge queues. (#15244)
• Add schema comments about the destinations and destination_rooms tables. (#15247)
• Skip processing of auto-join room behaviour if there are no auto-join rooms configured. (#15262)
• Remove unused store method _set_destination_retry_timings_emulated. (#15266)
• Reorganize URL preview code. (#15269)
• Clean-up direct TCP replication code. (#15272, #15274)
• Make configure_workers_and_start script used in Complement tests compatible with older versions of Python. (#15275)
• Add a /versions flag for MSC3952. (#15293)
• Bump hiredis from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. (#15252)
• Bump serde from 1.0.152 to 1.0.155. (#15253)
• Bump pysaml2 from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1. (#15254)
• Bump msgpack from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. (#15255)
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.30 to 3.1.31. (#15256)
• Bump cryptography from 39.0.1 to 39.0.2. (#15257)
• Bump pydantic from 1.10.4 to 1.10.6. (#15286)
• Bump serde from 1.0.155 to 1.0.157. (#15287)
• Bump anyhow from 1.0.69 to 1.0.70. (#15288)
• Bump txredisapi from 1.4.7 to 1.4.9. (#15289)
• Bump pygithub from 1.57 to 1.58.1. (#15290)
• Bump types-requests from 2.28.11.12 to 2.28.11.15. (#15291)