As of Synapse 1.69, we consider "faster remote room joins" to be ready for testing by server admins.
There are a number of caveats, which I'll come to, but first: this is an important step in a project which we've been working on for 9 months. Most people who use Matrix will be familiar with the pain of joining a large room over federation: typically you are just faced with a spinner, which is eventually replaced by a cryptic error. If you're lucky, the room eventually pops up in your room list of its own accord. The whole experience is one of the longest-standing open issues in Synapse.
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Hey everyone, it's time for a new Synapse release! Synapse
1.69 is out, fresh
out of the oven. But before we take a look at it, here's a quick announcement:
We have recently disclosed a moderate severity security vulnerability, which
was fixed in Synapse
1.62 (released on
July 5th 2022). This issue affects all homeservers running a version of
Synapse older than 1.62 with open federation. If this is the case for your
deployment, please update to a more recent version of Synapse at your earliest
convenience.
See advisory
GHSA-jhjh-776m-4765
and CVE-2022-31152 for more
information.
Now let's see what's new in Synapse 1.69!
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Hey all,
It’s finally here: threads, edits, and private read receipts. v1.4 has been a little later than usual in the quarter because we wanted to make sure we nailed down all the core MSCs for threads before publishing the spec itself, but we’ve done that now and we’re excited about it.
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