Synapse 1.8.0 has arrived, it contains a whole host of bug fixes and tweaks, most notably fixing some long standing problems with search.

More generally we are spending a lot of time improving the e2ee experience ahead of switching on e2ee by default, so watch this space.

Get the new release from github or any of the sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md.

Synapse 1.8.0 (2020-01-09)

Bugfixes

• Fix GET request on /_synapse/admin/v2/users endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. (#6563)
• Fix incorrect signing of responses from the key server implementation. (#6657)

Synapse 1.8.0rc1 (2020-01-07)

Features

• Add v2 APIs for the send_join and send_leave federation endpoints (as described in MSC1802). (#6349)
• Add a develop script to generate full SQL schemas. (#6394)
• Add custom SAML username mapping functionality through an external provider plugin. (#6411)
• Automatically delete empty groups/communities. (#6453)
• Add option limit_profile_requests_to_users_who_share_rooms to prevent requirement of a local user sharing a room with another user to query their profile information. (#6523)
• Add an export_signing_key script to extract the public part of signing keys when rotating them. (#6546)
• Add experimental config option to specify multiple databases. (#6580)
• Raise an error if someone tries to use the log_file config option. (#6626)

Bugfixes

• Prevent redacted events from being returned during message search. (#6377, #6522)
• Prevent error on trying to search a upgraded room when the server is not in the predecessor room. (#6385)
• Improve performance of looking up cross-signing keys. (#6486)
• Fix race which occasionally caused deleted devices to reappear. (#6514)
• Fix missing row in device_max_stream_id that could cause unable to decrypt errors after server restart. (#6555)
• Fix a bug which meant that we did not send systemd notifications on startup if acme was enabled. (#6571)
• Fix exception when fetching the matrix.org:ed25519:auto key. (#6625)
• Fix bug where a moderator upgraded a room and became an admin in the new room. (#6633)
• Fix an error which was thrown by the PresenceHandler _on_shutdown handler. (#6640)
• Fix exceptions in the synchrotron worker log when events are rejected. (#6645)
• Ensure that upgraded rooms are removed from the directory. (#6648)
• Fix a bug causing Synapse not to fetch missing events when it believes it has every event in the room. (#6652)

Improved Documentation

• Document the Room Shutdown Admin API. (#6541)
• Reword sections of docs/federate.md that explained delegation at time of Synapse 1.0 transition. (#6601)
• Added the section 'Configuration' in docs/turn-howto.md. (#6614)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove redundant code from event authorisation implementation. (#6502)
• Remove unused, undocumented /_matrix/content API. (#6628)

Internal Changes

• Add experimental support for multiple physical databases and split out state storage to separate data store. (#6245, #6510, #6511, #6513, #6564, #6565)
• Port sections of code base to async/await. (#6496, #6504, #6505, #6517, #6559, #6647, #6653)
• Remove SnapshotCache in favour of ResponseCache. (#6506)
• Silence mypy errors for files outside those specified. (#6512)
• Clean up some logging when handling incoming events over federation. (#6515)
• Test more folders against mypy. (#6534)
• Update mypy to new version. (#6537)
• Adjust the sytest blacklist for worker mode. (#6538)
• Remove unused get_pagination_rows methods from EventSource classes. (#6557)
• Clean up logs from the push notifier at startup. (#6558)
• Improve diagnostics on database upgrade failure. (#6570)
• Reduce the reconnect time when worker replication fails, to make it easier to catch up. (#6617)
• Simplify http handling by removing redundant SynapseRequestFactory. (#6619)
• Add a workaround for synapse raising exceptions when fetching the notary's own key from the notary. (#6620)
• Automate generation of the sample log config. (#6627)
• Simplify event creation code by removing redundant queries on the event_reference_hashes table. (#6629)
• Fix errors when frozen_dicts are enabled. (#6642)

Get the new release from github or any of the sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md.