Matrix (Synapse/Element) - Package Updates

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[1.51.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.68.0
• Full changelog
• Fix packaging to include Cargo.lock in sdist. (#13909)
• Fix building from packaged sdist. Broken in v1.68.0rc1. (#13866)
• Fix the release script not publishing binary wheels. (#13850)
• Lower minimum supported rustc version to 1.58.1. (#13857)
• Lock Rust dependencies' versions. (#13858)
• Keep track of when we fail to process a pulled event over federation so we can intelligently back off in the future. (#13589, #13814)
• Add an admin API endpoint to fetch messages within a particular window of time. (#13672)
• Add an admin API endpoint to find a user based on their external ID in an auth provider. (#13810)
• Cancel the processing of key query requests when they time out. (#13680)
• Improve validation of request bodies for the following client-server API endpoints: /account/3pid/msisdn/requestToken, /org.matrix.msc3720/account_status, /account/3pid/add, /account/3pid/bind, /account/3pid/delete and /account/3pid/unbind. (#13687, #13736)
• Document the timestamp when a user accepts the consent, if consent tracking is used. (#13741)
• Add a listeners[x].request_id_header configuration option to specify which request header to extract and use as the request ID in order to correlate requests from a reverse proxy. (#13801)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.41.0 where the /hierarchy API returned non-standard information (a room_id field under each entry in children_state). (#13506)
• Fix a long-standing bug where previously rejected events could end up in room state because they pass auth checks given the current state of the room. (#13723)
• Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse fails to start if a signing key file contains an empty line. (#13738)
• Fix a long-standing bug where Synapse would fail to handle malformed user IDs or room aliases gracefully in certain cases. (#13746)
• Fix a long-standing bug where device lists would remain cached when remote users left and rejoined the last room shared with the local homeserver. (#13749, #13826)
• Fix a long-standing bug that could cause stale caches in some rare cases on the first startup of Synapse with replication. (#13766)
• Fix a long-standing spec compliance bug where Synapse would accept a trailing slash on the end of /get_missing_events federation requests. (#13789)
• Delete associated data from event_failed_pull_attempts, insertion_events, insertion_event_extremities, insertion_event_extremities, insertion_event_extremities when purging the room. (#13825)

[girish]

Element [1.8.6]

• Update ELement to 1.11.6
• Full changelog
• Element Call video rooms (#9267).
• Device manager - rename session (#9282).
• Allow widgets to read related events (#9210). Contributed by @dhenneke.
• Device manager - logout of other session (#9280).
• Device manager - logout current session (#9275).
• Device manager - verify other devices (#9274).
• Allow integration managers to remove users (#9211).
• Device manager - add verify current session button (#9252).
• Add NotifPanel dot back. (#9242). Fixes #17641.
• Implement MSC3575: Sliding Sync (#8328).
• Add the clipboard read permission for widgets (#9250). Contributed by @stefanmuhle.

[nebulon]

[1.8.7]

• Update Element to 1.11.7
• Full changelog
• Fix for CVE-2022-39249
• Fix for CVE-2022-39250
• Fix for CVE-2022-39251
• Fix for CVE-2022-39236

[nebulon]

[1.8.8]

• Update Element to 1.11.8
• Full changelog
• Bump IDB crypto store version (#2705).

[nebulon]

[1.8.9]

• Update Element to 1.11.9
• Full changelog
• Legacy Piwik config.json option piwik.policy_url is deprecated in favour of privacy_policy_url. Support will be removed in the next release.
• Device manager - select all devices (#9330). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• New group call experience: Call tiles (#9332).
• Add Shift key to FormatQuote keyboard shortcut (#9298). Contributed by @owi92.
• Device manager - sign out of multiple sessions (#9325). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Display push toggle for web sessions (MSC3890) (#9327).
• Add device notifications enabled switch (#9324).
• Implement push notification toggle in device detail (#9308).
• New group call experience: Starting and ending calls (#9318).
• New group call experience: Room header call buttons (#9311).
• Make device ID copyable in device list (#9297). Contributed by @duxovni.
• Use display name instead of user ID when rendering power events (#9295).
• Read receipts for threads (#9239). Fixes #23191.
• Use the correct sender key when checking shared secret (#2730). Fixes #23374.
• Fix device selection in pre-join screen for Element Call video rooms (#9321). Fixes #23331.
• Don't render a 1px high room topic if the room topic is empty (#9317). Contributed by @Arnei.
• Don't show feedback prompts when that UIFeature is disabled (#9305). Fixes #23327.
• Fix soft crash around unknown room pills (#9301). Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#15465.
• Fix spaces feedback prompt wrongly showing when feedback is disabled (#9302). Fixes #23314.
• Fix tile soft crash in ReplyInThreadButton (#9300). Fixes matrix-org/element-web-rageshakes#15493.

[nebulon]

[1.8.10]

• Update Element to 1.11.10
• Full changelog
• Use correct default for notification silencing (#9388). Fixes vector-im/element-web#23456.

[nebulon]

[1.52.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.69.0
• Full changelog
• Fix poor performance of the event_push_backfill_thread_id background update, which was introduced in Synapse 1.68.0rc1. (#14172, #14181)
• Fix an issue with Docker images causing the Rust dependencies to not be pinned correctly. Introduced in v1.68.0 (#14129)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.69.0rc1 which would cause registration replication requests to fail if the worker sending the request is not running Synapse 1.69. (#14135)
• Fix error in background update when rotating existing notifications. Introduced in v1.69.0rc2. (#14138)
• Allow application services to set the origin_server_ts of a state event by providing the query parameter ts in PUT /_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{roomId}/state/{eventType}/{stateKey}, per MSC3316. Contributed by @lukasdenk. (#11866)
• Allow server admins to require a manual approval process before new accounts can be used (using MSC3866). (#13556)
• Exponentially backoff from backfilling the same event over and over. (#13635, #13936)
• Add cache invalidation across workers to module API. (#13667, #13947)
• Experimental implementation of MSC3882 to allow an existing device/session to generate a login token for use on a new device/session. (#13722, #13868)
• Experimental support for thread-specific receipts (MSC3771). (#13782, #13893, #13932, #13937, #13939)
• Add experimental support for MSC3881: Remotely toggle push notifications for another client. (#13799, #13831, #13860)
• Keep track when an event pulled over federation fails its signature check so we can intelligently back-off in the future. (#13815)
• Improve validation for the unspecced, internal-only _matrix/client/unstable/add_threepid/msisdn/submit_token endpoint. (#13832)
• Faster remote room joins: record when we first partial-join to a room. (#13892)
• Support a dir parameter on the /relations endpoint per MSC3715. (#13920)
• Ask mail servers receiving emails from Synapse to not send automatic replies (e.g. out-of-office responses). (#13957)
• Send push notifications for invites received over federation. (#13719, #14014)
• Fix a long-standing bug where typing events would be accepted from remote servers not present in a room. Also fix a bug where incoming typing events would cause other incoming events to get stuck during a fast join. (#13830)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.53.0 where the experimental implementation of MSC3715 would give incorrect results when paginating forward. (#13840)
• Fix access token leak to logs from proxy agent. (#13855)
• Fix have_seen_event cache not being invalidated after we persist an event which causes inefficiency effects like extra /state federation calls. (#13863)
• Faster room joins: Fix a bug introduced in 1.66.0 where an error would be logged when syncing after joining a room. (#13872)
• Fix a bug introduced in 1.66.0 where some required fields in the pushrules sent to clients were not present anymore. Contributed by Nico. (#13904)
• Fix packaging to include Cargo.lock in sdist. (#13909)
• Fix a long-standing bug where device updates could cause delays sending out to-device messages over federation. (#13922)
• Fix a bug introduced in v1.68.0 where Synapse would require setuptools_rust at runtime, even though the package is only required at build time. (#13952)
• Fix a long-standing bug where POST /_matrix/client/v3/keys/query requests could result in excessively large SQL queries. (#13956)
• Fix a performance regression in the get_users_in_room database query. Introduced in v1.67.0. (#13972)
• Fix a bug introduced in v1.68.0 bug where Rust extension wasn't built in release mode when using poetry install. (#14009)
• Do not return an unspecified original_event field when using the stable /relations endpoint. Introduced in Synapse v1.57.0. (#14025)
• Correctly handle a race with device lists when a remote user leaves during a partial join. (#13885)
• Correctly handle sending local device list updates to remote servers during a partial join. (#13934)

[girish]

Element [1.8.11]

• Update Element to 1.11.11
• Full changelog
• Device manager - tweak string formatting of default device name (#23457).
• Add Element Call participant limit (#23431).
• Add Element Call brand (#23443).
• Include a file-safe room name and ISO date in chat exports (#9440). Fixes #21812 and #19724.
• Room call banner (#9378). Fixes #23453. Contributed by @toger5.

[nebulon]

[1.53.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.70.0
• Full changelog
• Support for MSC3856: threads list API. (#13394, #14171, #14175)
• Support for thread-specific notifications & receipts (MSC3771 and MSC3773). (#13776, #13824, #13877, #13878, #14050, #14140, #14159, #14163, #14174, #14222)
• Stop fetching missing prev_events after we already know their signature is invalid. (#13816)
• Send application service access tokens as a header (and query parameter). Implements MSC2832. (#13996)
• Ignore server ACL changes when generating pushes. Implements MSC3786. (#13997)
• Experimental support for redirecting to an implementation of a MSC3886 HTTP rendezvous service. (#14018)
• The /relations endpoint can now be used on workers. (#14028)
• Advertise support for Matrix 1.3 and 1.4 on /_matrix/client/versions. (#14032, #14184)
• Improve validation of request bodies for the Device Management and MSC2697 Device Dehyrdation client-server API endpoints. (#14054)
• Experimental support for MSC3874: Filtering threads from the /messages endpoint. (#14148)
• Improve the validation of the following PUT endpoints: /directory/room/{roomAlias}, /directory/list/room/{roomId} and /directory/list/appservice/{networkId}/{roomId}. (#14179)
• Build and publish binary wheels for aarch64 platforms. (#14212)

[nebulon]

[1.8.12]

• Update Element to 1.11.12
• Full changelog
• Fix config.json failing to load for Jitsi wrapper in non-root deployment (#23577).

[nebulon]

[1.53.1]

• Update Synapse to 1.70.1
• Full changelog
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.70.0rc1 where the access tokens sent to application services as headers were malformed. Application services which were obtaining access tokens from query parameters were not affected. (#14301)
• Fix room creation being rate limited too aggressively since Synapse v1.69.0. (#14314)

[girish]

[1.8.13]

• Update Element to 1.11.13
• Full changelog
• Fix default behavior of Room.getBlacklistUnverifiedDevices (#2830). Contributed by @duxovni.
• Catch server versions API call exception when starting the client (#2828). Fixes #23634.
• Fix authedRequest including Authorization: Bearer undefined for password resets (#2822). Fixes #23655.

[nebulon]

[1.54.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.71.0
• Full changelog

[girish]

[1.8.14]

• Update Element to 1.11.14
• Full changelog
• Loading threads with server-side assistance (#9356). Fixes #21807, #21799, #21911, #22141, #22157, #22641, #22501 #22438 and #21678. Contributed by @justjanne.
• Make thread replies trigger a room list re-ordering (#9510). Fixes #21700.
• Device manager - add extra details to device security and renaming (#9501). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Add plain text mode to the wysiwyg composer (#9503). Contributed by @florianduros.
• Sliding Sync: improve sort order, show subspace rooms, better tombstoned room handling (#9484).
• Device manager - add learn more popups to filtered sessions section (#9497). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Show thread notification if thread timeline is closed (#9495). Fixes #23589.
• Add message editing to wysiwyg composer (#9488). Contributed by @florianduros.
• Device manager - confirm sign out of other sessions (#9487). Contributed by @kerryarchibald.
• Automatically request logs from other users in a call when submitting logs (#9492).
• Add thread notification with server assistance (MSC3773) (#9400). Fixes #21114, #21413, #21416, #21433, #21481, #21798, #21823 #23192 and #21765.
• Support for login + E2EE set up with QR (#9403). Contributed by @hughns.
• Allow pressing Enter to send messages in new composer (#9451). Contributed by @andybalaam.

[girish]

[1.55.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.72.0
• Full changelog
• Add experimental support for MSC3912: Relation-based redactions. (#14260)
• Add an Admin API endpoint for user lookup based on third-party ID (3PID). Contributed by @ashfame. (#14405)
• Faster joins: include heroes' membership events in the partial join response, for rooms without a name or canonical alias. (#14442)

[girish]

[1.8.15]

• Update Element to 1.11.15
• Full changelog
• Make clear notifications work with threads (#9575). Fixes #23751.
• Change "None" to "Off" in notification options (#9539). Contributed by @Arnei.
• Advanced audio processing settings (#8759). Fixes #6278. Contributed by @MrAnno.
• Add way to create a user notice via config.json (#9559).
• Improve design of the rich text editor (#9533). Contributed by @florianduros.
• Enable user to zoom beyond image size (#5949). Contributed by @jaiwanth-v.
• Fix: Move "Leave Space" option to the bottom of space context menu (#9535). Contributed by @hanadi92.

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[1.8.16]

• Update Element to 1.11.16
• Update Cloudron base image to 4.0.0
• Full changelog
• Further improve replies (#6396). Fixes #19074, #18194 #18027 and #19179.
• Enable users to join group calls from multiple devices (#9625).
• fix(visual): make cursor a pointer for summaries (#9419). Contributed by @r00ster91.
• Add placeholder for rich text editor (#9613).
• Consolidate public room search experience (#9605). Fixes #22846.
• New password reset flow (#9581). Fixes #23131.
• Device manager - add tooltip to device details toggle (#9594).
• sliding sync: add lazy-loading member support (#9530).
• Limit formatting bar offset to top of composer (#9365). Fixes #12359. Contributed by @owi92.
• Fix issues around up arrow event edit shortcut (#9645). Fixes #18497 and #18964.
• Fix search not being cleared when clicking on a result (#9635). Fixes #23845.
• Fix screensharing in 1:1 calls (#9612). Fixes #23808.
• Fix the background color flashing when joining a call (#9640).
• Fix the size of the 'Private space' icon (#9638).
• Fix reply editing in rich text editor (https (#9615).
• Fix thread list jumping back down while scrolling (#9606). Fixes #23727.
• Fix regression with TimelinePanel props updates not taking effect (#9608). Fixes #23794.
• Fix form tooltip positioning (#9598). Fixes #22861.
• Extract Search handling from RoomView into its own Component (#9574). Fixes #498.
• Fix call splitbrains when switching between rooms (#9692).
• [Backport staging] Fix replies to emotes not showing as inline (#9708).

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[1.56.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.73.0
• Update Cloudron base image to 4.0.0
• Full changelog

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[1.57.0]

• Update Synapse to 1.74.0
• Full changelog
• Improve user search for international display names. (#14464)
• Stop using deprecated keyIds parameter when calling /_matrix/key/v2/server. (#14490, #14525)
• Add new push.enabled config option to allow opting out of push notification calculation. (#14551, #14619)
• Advertise support for Matrix 1.5 on /_matrix/client/versions. (#14576)
• Improve opentracing and logging for to-device message handling. (#14598)
• Allow selecting "prejoin" events by state keys in addition to event types. (#14642)
• Fix a long-standing bug where a device list update might not be sent to clients in certain circumstances. (#14435, #14592, #14604)
• Suppress a spurious warning when POST /rooms/<room_id>/<membership>/, POST /join/<room_id_or_alias, or the unspecced PUT /join/<room_id_or_alias>/<txn_id> receive an empty HTTP request body. (#14600)
• Return spec-compliant JSON errors when unknown endpoints are requested. (#14620, #14621)
• Update html templates to load images over HTTPS. Contributed by @ashfame. (#14625)
• Fix a long-standing bug where the user directory would return 1 more row than requested. (#14631)
• Reject invalid read receipt requests with empty room or event IDs. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@fizzadar). (#14632)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.67.0 where not specifying a config file or a server URL would lead to the register_new_matrix_user script failing. (#14637)
• Fix a long-standing bug where the user directory and room/user stats might be out of sync. (#14639, #14643)
• Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.72.0 where the background updates to add non-thread unique indexes on receipts would fail if they were previously interrupted. (#14650)
• Improve validation of field size limits in events. (#14664)
• Fix bugs introduced in Synapse 1.55.0 and 1.69.0 where application services would not be notified of events in the correct rooms, due to stale caches. (#14670)

[girish]

[1.8.17]

• Update Element to 1.11.17
• Full changelog
• Add inline code formatting to rich text editor (#9720).
• Add emoji handling for plain text mode of the new rich text editor (#9727).
• Overlay virtual room call events into main timeline (#9626). Fixes #22929.
• Adds a new section under "Room Settings" > "Roles & Permissions" which adds the possibility to multiselect users from this room and grant them more permissions. (#9596). Contributed by @GoodGuyMarco.
• Add emoji handling for rich text mode (#9661).
• Add setting to hide bold notifications (#9705).
• Further password reset flow enhancements (#9662).
• Snooze the bulk unverified sessions reminder on dismiss (#9706).