Uncharacteristically, we're actually remembering to announce a new release of Synapse!

Major performance fixes on federation, as well as the changes required to support E2E encrypted attachments (yay!)

Please install or upgrade from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse :)

Changes in synapse v0.18.4 (2016-11-22)

Bug fixes:

  • Add workaround for buggy clients that the fail to register (PR #1632)

Changes in synapse v0.18.4-rc1 (2016-11-14)

Changes:

  • Various database efficiency improvements (PR #1188, #1192)
  • Update default config to blacklist more internal IPs, thanks to Euan Kemp @euank (PR #1198)
  • Allow specifying duration in minutes in config, thanks to Daniel Dent @DanielDent (PR #1625)
Bug fixes:
  • Fix media repo to set CORs headers on responses (PR #1190)
  • Fix registration to not error on non-ascii passwords (PR #1191)
  • Fix create event code to limit the number of prev_events (PR #1615)
  • Fix bug in transaction ID deduplication (PR #1624)

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