Matrix (Synapse/Element) - Package Updates

girish

Synapse [1.19.0]

Update Synapse to 1.28.0
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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)

girish

Element [1.5.2]

Update Element to 1.7.22
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Fixes a severity issue (CVE-2021-21320) where the user content sandbox can be abused to trick users into opening unexpected documents

girish

Synapse [1.20.0]

Update Synapse to 1.29.0
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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)

girish

[1.21.0]

Update Synapse to 1.30.0
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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)

nebulon

[1.21.1]

girish

[1.5.3]

girish

[1.22.0]

Update Synapse to 1.31.0
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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)

girish

Element [1.5.4]

nebulon

[1.22.2]

Update Synapse to 1.32.0
Add a Synapse module for routing presence updates between users. (#9491)
Add an admin API to manage ratelimit for a specific user. (#9648)
Include request information in structured logging output. (#9654)
Add order_by to the admin API GET /_synapse/admin/v2/users. Contributed by @dklimpel. (#9691)
Replace the room_invite_state_types configuration setting with room_prejoin_state. (#9700)
Add experimental support for MSC3083: restricting room access via group membership. (#9717, #9735)
Update experimental support for Spaces: include m.room.create in the room state sent with room-invites. (#9710)
Synapse now requires Python 3.6 or later. It also requires Postgres 9.6 or later or SQLite 3.22 or later. (#9766)
Prevent synapse_forward_extremities and synapse_excess_extremity_events Prometheus metrics from initially reporting zero-values after startup. (#8926)
Fix recently added ratelimits to correctly honour the application service rate_limited flag. (#9711)
Fix longstanding bug which caused duplicate key value violates unique constraint "remote_media_cache_thumbnails_media_origin_media_id_thumbna_key" errors. (#9725)
Fix bug where sharded federation senders could get stuck repeatedly querying the DB in a loop, using lots of CPU. (#9770)
Fix duplicate logging of exceptions thrown during federation transaction processing. (#9780)

nebulon

[1.22.3]

Update Synapse to 1.32.1
Fix a regression in Synapse 1.32.0 which caused Synapse to report large numbers of Prometheus time series, potentially overwhelming Prometheus instances. (#9854)

nebulon

[1.22.4]

Update Synapse to 1.32.2
Fix a regression in Synapse 1.32.0 and 1.32.1 which caused LoggingContext errors in plugins. (#9857)

girish

Element [1.5.5]

nebulon

[1.23.0]

Update Synapse to 1.33.0
Update experimental support for MSC3083: restricting room access via group membership. (#9800, #9814)
Add experimental support for handling presence on a worker. (#9819, #9820, #9828, #9850)
Return a new template when an user attempts to renew their account multiple times with the same token, stating that their account is set to expire. This replaces the invalid token template that would previously be shown in this case. This change concerns the optional account validity feature. (#9832)
Fixes the OIDC SSO flow when using a public_baseurl value including a non-root URL path. (#9726)
Fix thumbnail generation for some sites with non-standard content types. Contributed by @rkfg. (#9788)
Add some sanity checks to identity server passed to 3PID bind/unbind endpoints. (#9802)
Limit the size of HTTP responses read over federation. (#9833)
Fix a bug which could cause Synapse to get stuck in a loop of resyncing device lists. (#9867)
Fix a long-standing bug where errors from federation did not propagate to the client. (#9868)

nebulon

[1.23.1]

Update Synapse to 1.33.1
Fix bug where /sync would break if using the latest version of attrs dependency, by pinning to a previous version. (#9937)

nebulon

[1.23.2]

Update Synapse to 1.33.2
This release fixes a denial of service attack (CVE-2021-29471) against Synapse's push rules implementation.

girish

Element [1.5.6]

girish

[1.24.0]

Update Synapse to 1.34.0
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Add support for DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>. (#9889)
Improve performance after joining a large room when presence is enabled. (#9910, #9916)
Support stable identifiers for MSC1772 Spaces. m.space.child events will now be taken into account when populating the experimental spaces summary response. Please see the upgrade notes if you have customised room_invite_state_types in your configuration. (#9915, #9966)
Improve performance of backfilling in large rooms. (#9935)

girish

Element [1.5.7]

girish

Element [1.5.8]

girish

Synapse [1.25.0]

Update Synapse to 1.35.0
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Add experimental support to allow a user who could join a restricted room to view it in the spaces summary. (#9922, #10007, #10038)
Reduce memory usage when joining very large rooms over federation. (#9958)
Add a configuration option which allows enabling opentracing by user id. (#9978)
Enable experimental support for MSC2946 (spaces summary API) and MSC3083 (restricted join rules) by default. (#10011)

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