Synapse 1.16.0 is here!

Notable additions in 1.16.0 include:-

• An important performance fix to improve room state resolution.
• An option to enable e2e by default for new rooms.
• Ability to run multiple media repo workers side by side.
• Ability to mark specific content as being safe from quarantine.
• Bug fixes to make migrating from SQLite to Postgres more reliable - if you are running sqlite for anything other than evaluation purposes then please migrate!

Note, we have deprecated the m.login.jwt login method in favour of org.matrix.login.jwt see the changelog for more details.

Enjoy!

Get the new releases from any of the usual sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md. 1.16.0 is on github here.

Changelog for 1.16.0 follows:

Synapse 1.16.0 (2020-07-08)

No significant changes since 1.16.0rc2.

Note that this release deprecates the m.login.jwt login method, renaming it to org.matrix.login.jwt, as m.login.jwt is not part of the Matrix spec. Otherwise the behaviour is identical. Synapse will accept both names for now, but this may change in a future release.

Synapse 1.16.0rc2 (2020-07-02)

Synapse 1.16.0rc2 includes the security fixes released with Synapse 1.15.2. Please see the 1.15.2 release notes for more details.

Improved Documentation

• Update postgres image in example docker-compose.yaml to tag 12-alpine. (#7696)

Internal Changes

• Add some metrics for inbound and outbound federation latencies: synapse_federation_server_pdu_process_time and synapse_event_processing_lag_by_event. (#7771)

Synapse 1.16.0rc1 (2020-07-01)

Features

• Add an option to enable encryption by default for new rooms. (#7639)
• Add support for running multiple media repository workers. See docs/workers.md for instructions. (#7706)
• Media can now be marked as safe from quarantined. (#7718)
• Expand the configuration options for auto-join rooms. (#7763)

Bugfixes

• Remove user_id from the response to GET /_matrix/client/r0/presence/{userId}/status to match the specification. (#7606)
• In worker mode, ensure that replicated data has not already been received. (#7648)
• Fix intermittent exception during startup, introduced in Synapse 1.14.0. (#7663)
• Include a user-agent for federation and well-known requests. (#7677)
• Accept the proper field (phone) for the m.id.phone identifier type. The legacy field of number is still accepted as a fallback. Bug introduced in v0.20.0. (#7687)
• Fix "Starting db txn 'get_completed_ui_auth_stages' from sentinel context" warning. The bug was introduced in 1.13.0. (#7688)
• Compare the URI and method during user interactive authentication (instead of the URI twice). Bug introduced in 1.13.0. (#7689)
• Fix a long standing bug where the response to the GET room_keys/version endpoint had the incorrect type for the etag field. (#7691)
• Fix logged error during device resync in opentracing. Broke in v1.14.0. (#7698)
• Do not break push rule evaluation when receiving an event with a non-string body. This is a long-standing bug. (#7701)
• Fixs a long standing bug which resulted in an exception: "TypeError: argument of type 'ObservableDeferred' is not iterable". (#7708)
• The synapse_port_db script no longer fails when the ui_auth_sessions table is non-empty. This bug has existed since v1.13.0. (#7711)
• Synapse will now fetch media from the proper specified URL (using the r0 prefix instead of the unspecified v1). (#7714)
• Fix the tables ignored by synapse_port_db to be in sync the current database schema. (#7717)
• Fix missing Content-Length on HTTP responses from the metrics handler. (#7730)
• Fix large state resolutions from stalling Synapse for seconds at a time. (#7735, #7746)

Improved Documentation

• Spelling correction in sample_config.yaml. (#7652)
• Added instructions for how to use Keycloak via OpenID Connect to authenticate with Synapse. (#7659)
• Corrected misspelling of PostgreSQL. (#7724)

Deprecations and Removals

• Deprecate m.login.jwt login method in favour of org.matrix.login.jwt, as m.login.jwt is not part of the Matrix spec. (#7675)

Internal Changes

• Refactor getting replication updates from database. (#7636)
• Clean-up the login fallback code. (#7657)
• Increase the default SAML session expiry time to 15 minutes. (#7664)
• Convert the device message and pagination handlers to async/await. (#7678)
• Convert typing handler to async/await. (#7679)
• Require parameterized package version to be at least 0.7.0. (#7680)
• Refactor handling of listeners configuration settings. (#7681)
• Replace uses of six.iterkeys/iteritems/itervalues with keys()/items()/values(). (#7692)
• Add support for using rust-python-jaeger-reporter library to reduce jaeger tracing overhead. (#7697)
• Make Tox actions work on Debian 10. (#7703)
• Replace all remaining uses of six with native Python 3 equivalents. Contributed by @ilmari. (#7704)
• Fix broken link in sample config. (#7712)
• Speed up state res v2 across large state differences. (#7725)
• Convert directory handler to async/await. (#7727)
• Move flake8 to the end of scripts-dev/lint.sh as it takes the longest and could cause the script to exit early. (#7738)
• Explain the "test" conditional requirement for dependencies is not all of the modules necessary to run the unit tests. (#7751)
• Add some metrics for inbound and outbound federation latencies: synapse_federation_server_pdu_process_time and synapse_event_processing_lag_by_event. (#7755)