Matrix (Synapse/Element) - Package Updates
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Synapse [1.14.1]
- Update Synapse to 1.23.1
- Full changelog
- There is a denial of service attack (CVE-2020-26257) against the federation APIs in which future events will not be correctly sent to other servers over federation. This affects all servers that participate in open federation. (Fixed in #8776).
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[1.16.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.25.0
- Full changelog
- Add an admin API that lets server admins get power in rooms in which local users have power. (#8756)
- Add optional HTTP authentication to replication endpoints. (#8853)
- Improve the error messages printed as a result of configuration problems for extension modules. (#8874)
- Add the number of local devices to Room Details Admin API. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#8886)
- Add X-Robots-Tag header to stop web crawlers from indexing media. Contributed by Aaron Raimist. (#8887)
- Spam-checkers may now define their methods as async. (#8890)
- Add support for allowing users to pick their own user ID during a single-sign-on login. (#8897, #8900, #8911, #8938, #8941, #8942, #8951)
- Add an email.invite_client_location configuration option to send a web client location to the invite endpoint on the identity server which allows customisation of the email template. (#8930)
- The search term in the list room and list user Admin APIs is now treated as case-insensitive. (#8931)
- Apply an IP range blacklist to push and key revocation requests. (#8821, #8870, #8954)
- Add an option to allow re-use of user-interactive authentication sessions for a period of time. (#8970)
- Allow running the redact endpoint on workers. (#8994)
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Synapse [1.17.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.26.0
- Full changelog
- During user-interactive authentication via single-sign-on, give a better error if the user uses the wrong account on the SSO IdP. (#9091)
- Give the public_baseurl a default value, if it is not explicitly set in the configuration file. (#9159)
- Improve performance when calculating ignored users in large rooms. (#9024)
- Implement MSC2176 in an experimental room version. (#8984)
- Add an admin API for protecting local media from quarantine. (#9086)
- Remove a user's avatar URL and display name when deactivated with the Admin API. (#8932)
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Synapse [1.18.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.27.0
- Use base image v3
- Update python to 3.8
- Full changelog
- Add an admin API for getting and deleting forward extremities for a room. (#9062)
- Add an admin API for retrieving the current room state of a room. (#9168)
- Add an admin API endpoint for shadow-banning users. (#9209)
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Synapse [1.19.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.28.0
- Full changelog
- New admin API to get the context of an event: /_synapse/admin/rooms/{roomId}/context/{eventId}. (#9150)
- Further improvements to the user experience of registration via single sign-on. (#9300, #9301)
- Add hook to spam checker modules that allow checking file uploads and remote downloads. (#9311)
- Add support for receiving OpenID Connect authentication responses via form POSTs rather than GETs. (#9376)
- Add the shadow-banning status to the admin API for user info. (#9400)
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Synapse [1.20.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.29.0
- Full changelog
- Add rate limiters to cross-user key sharing requests. (#8957)
- Add order_by to the admin API GET /_synapse/admin/v1/users/<user_id>/media. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#8978)
- Add some configuration settings to make users' profile data more private. (#9203)
- The no_proxy and NO_PROXY environment variables are now respected in proxied HTTP clients with the lowercase form taking precedence if both are present. Additionally, the lowercase https_proxy environment variable is now respected in proxied HTTP clients on top of existing support for the uppercase HTTPS_PROXY form and takes precedence if both are present. Contributed by Timothy Leung. (#9372)
- Add a configuration option, user_directory.prefer_local_users, which when enabled will make it more likely for users on the same server as you to appear above other users. (#9383, #9385)
- Add support for regenerating thumbnails if they have been deleted but the original image is still stored. (#9438)
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[1.21.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.30.0
- Full changelog
- Add prometheus metrics for number of users successfully registering and logging in. (#9510, #9511, #9573)
- Add synapse_federation_last_sent_pdu_time and synapse_federation_last_received_pdu_time prometheus metrics, which monitor federation delays by reporting the timestamps of messages sent and received to a set of remote servers. (#9540)
- Add support for generating JSON Web Tokens dynamically for use as OIDC client secrets. (#9549)
- Optimise handling of incomplete room history for incoming federation. (#9601)
- Finalise support for allowing clients to pick an SSO Identity Provider (MSC2858). (#9617)
- Tell spam checker modules about the SSO IdP a user registered through if one was used. (#9626)
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[1.22.0]
- Update Synapse to 1.31.0
- Full changelog
- Add support to OpenID Connect login for requiring attributes on the userinfo response. Contributed by Hubbe King. (#9609)
- Add initial experimental support for a "space summary" API. (#9643, #9652, #9653)
- Add support for the busy presence state as described in MSC3026. (#9644)
- Add support for credentials for proxy authentication in the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable. (#9657)
