The highlight of this release is the media refactor, which include many improvements to media handling, such as:
- De-duplicating identical files
- Retention policies, to configure how long media is stored for, as well as size limits for scopes of media
- Commands for blocking and purging media, making it easy to remove media and/or prevent it from being
downloaded
And more! See !740 for an exhaustive list
The other new features added are:
- Support for simplified sliding sync !744
- Appservice pinging !738
- Knocking !728
- Refactoring space handling, allowing remote servers to get space information over federation !598
- Allowing remote servers to leave rooms over federation !728
- Allowing remote servers to join restricted rooms over federation !618