Some of you will have been bitten by a bug that prevented Synapse 1.3.0 from starting up correctly. If this is you, please upgrade.

Additionally we have taken the opportunity to fix a dependency bug for our intrepid packagers.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

As ever, you can get the new update here or any of the sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse. Also, check out our Synapse installation guide page

The changelog since 1.3.0 follows:

Synapse 1.3.1 (2019-08-17)

Features

• Drop hard dependency on sdnotify python package. (#5871)

Bugfixes

• Fix startup issue (hang on ACME provisioning) due to ordering of Twisted reactor startup. Thanks to @chrismoos for supplying the fix. (#5867)