Synapse 1.17.0 is here!

Hot on the heels of Synapse 1.16.1, 1.17.0 is a bug fix release most notably containing a fix for 'stuck invites' which happen when we are unable to reject a room invite received over federation.

Get the new releases from any of the usual sources mentioned at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md. 1.17.0 is on github here.

Changelog for 1.17.0 follows:

πŸ”—Synapse 1.17.0 (2020-07-13)

Synapse 1.17.0 is identical to 1.17.0rc1, with the addition of the fix that was included in 1.16.1.

πŸ”—Synapse 1.17.0rc1 (2020-07-09)

πŸ”—Bugfixes

  • Fix inconsistent handling of upper and lower case in email addresses when used as identifiers for login, etc. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#7021)
  • Fix "Tried to close a non-active scope!" error messages when opentracing is enabled. (#7732)
  • Fix incorrect error message when database CTYPE was set incorrectly. (#7760)
  • Fix to not ignore set_tweak actions in Push Rules that have no value, as permitted by the specification. (#7766)
  • Fix synctl to handle empty config files correctly. Contributed by @kotovalexarian. (#7779)
  • Fixes a long standing bug in worker mode where worker information was saved in the devices table instead of the original IP address and user agent. (#7797)
  • Fix 'stuck invites' which happen when we are unable to reject a room invite received over federation. (#7804, #7809, #7810)

πŸ”—Updates to the Docker image

  • Include libwebp in the Docker file to properly handle webp image uploads. (#7791)

πŸ”—Improved Documentation

  • Improve the documentation of the non-standard JSON web token login type. (#7776)
  • Update doc links for caddy. Contributed by Nicolai SΓΈborg. (#7789)

πŸ”—Internal Changes

  • Refactor getting replication updates from database. (#7740)
  • Send push notifications with a high or low priority depending upon whether they may generate user-observable effects. (#7765)
  • Use symbolic names for replication stream names. (#7768)
  • Add early returns to _check_for_soft_fail. (#7769)
  • Fix up synapse.handlers.federation to pass mypy. (#7770)
  • Convert the appserver handler to async/await. (#7775)
  • Allow to use higher versions of prometheus_client <0.9.0 which are expected to introduce no breaking changes. Contributed by Oliver Kurz. (#7780)
  • Update linting scripts and codebase to be compatible with isort v5. (#7786)
  • Stop populating unused table local_invites. (#7793)
  • Ensure that strings (not bytes) are passed into JSON serialization. (#7799)
  • Switch from simplejson to the standard library json. (#7800)
  • Add signing_key property to HomeServer to save code duplication. (#7805)
  • Improve stacktraces from exceptions in background processes. (#7808)
  • Fix various spelling errors in comments and log lines. (#7811)

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