Synapse 1.98.0 (2023-12-12)

Synapse 1.98.0 will be the last Synapse release in 2023; the regular release cadence will resume in January 2024.

Synapse will soon be forked by Element under an AGPLv3.0 licence (with CLA, for
proprietary dual licensing). You can read more about this here:

• https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/
• https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

The Matrix.org Foundation copy of the project will be archived. Any changes needed
by server administrators will be communicated via our usual announcements channels,
but we are striving to make this as seamless as possible.

No significant changes since 1.98.0rc1.

Synapse 1.98.0rc1 (2023-12-05)

Features

• Synapse now declares support for Matrix v1.7, v1.8, and v1.9. (#16707)
• Add on_user_login module API callback for when a user logs in. (#15207)
• Support MSC4069: Inhibit profile propagation. (#16636)
• Restore tracking of requests and monthly active users when delegating authentication via MSC3861 to an OIDC provider. (#16672)
• Add an autojoin setting for server notices rooms, so users may be joined directly instead of receiving an invite. (#16699)
• Follow redirects when downloading media over federation (per MSC3860). (#16701)

Bugfixes

• Enable refreshable tokens on the admin registration endpoint. (#16642)
• Consistently bypass rate limits when using the server notice admin API. (#16670)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.7.2 where rooms whose power levels lacked an events field could not be upgraded. (#16725)
• Fix GET /_synapse/admin/v1/federation/destinations admin API returning null (instead of 0) for retry_last_ts and retry_interval. (#16729)

Improved Documentation

• Add schema rollback information to documentation. (#16661)
• Fix poetry version typo in the contributors' guide. (#16695)
• Switch the example UNIX socket paths to /run. Add HAProxy example configuration for UNIX sockets. (#16700)
• Add documentation for how to validate the configuration file with synapse.config script. (#16714)

Internal Changes

• Clean-up unused tables. (#16522)
• Reduce a little database load while processing state auth chains. (#16552)
• Reduce database load of pruning old user_ips. (#16667)
• Reduce DB load when forget on leave setting is disabled. (#16668)
• Ignore encryption_enabled_by_default_for_room_type setting when creating server notices room, since the notices will be send unencrypted anyway. (#16677)
• Correctly read the to-device stream ID on startup using SQLite. (#16682)
• Reoranganise test files. (#16684)
• Remove old full schema dumps which are no longer used. (#16697)
• Raise poetry-core upper bound to <=1.8.1. This allows contributors to import Synapse after poetry installing with Poetry 1.6 and above. Contributed by Mo Balaa. (#16702)
• Add a workflow to try and automatically fixup linting in a PR. (#16704)

Updates to locked dependencies

• Bump cryptography from 41.0.5 to 41.0.6. (#16703)
• Bump cryptography from 41.0.6 to 41.0.7. (#16721)
• Bump idna from 3.4 to 3.6. (#16720)
• Bump jsonschema from 4.19.1 to 4.20.0. (#16692)
• Bump matrix-org/netlify-pr-preview from 2 to 3. (#16719)
• Bump phonenumbers from 8.13.23 to 8.13.26. (#16722)
• Bump prometheus-client from 0.18.0 to 0.19.0. (#16691)
• Bump pyasn1 from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1. (#16689)
• Bump pydantic from 2.4.2 to 2.5.1. (#16663)
• Bump pyo3 (0.19.2→0.20.0), pythonize (0.19.0→0.20.0) and pyo3-log (0.8.1→0.9.0). (#16673)
• Bump pyopenssl from 23.2.0 to 23.3.0. (#16662)
• Bump ruff from 0.1.4 to 0.1.6. (#16690)
• Bump sentry-sdk from 1.32.0 to 1.35.0. (#16666)
• Bump serde from 1.0.192 to 1.0.193. (#16693)
• Bump sphinx-autodoc2 from 0.4.2 to 0.5.0. (#16723)
• Bump types-jsonschema from 4.19.0.4 to 4.20.0.0. (#16724)
• Bump types-pillow from 10.1.0.0 to 10.1.0.2. (#16664)
• Bump types-psycopg2 from 2.9.21.15 to 2.9.21.16. (#16665)
• Bump types-setuptools from 68.2.0.0 to 68.2.0.2. (#16688)