Synapse v0.10.0-rc1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-08-21 // over 8 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ Also see v0.9.4-rc1 changelog, which has been amalgamated into this release.

    General:

    • โฌ†๏ธ Upgrade to Twisted 15 (PR #173)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Add support for serving and fetching encryption keys over federation. (PR #208)
    • ๐ŸŒฒ Add support for logging in with email address (PR #234)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Add support for new m.room.canonical_alias event. (PR #233)
    • Change synapse to treat user IDs case insensitively during registration and login. (If two users already exist with case insensitive matching user ids, synapse will continue to require them to specify their user ids exactly.)
    • Error if a user tries to register with an email already in use. (PR #211)
    • Add extra and improve existing caches (PR #212, #219, #226, #228)
    • Batch various storage request (PR #226, #228)
    • ๐ŸŒฒ Fix bug where we didn\'t correctly log the entity that triggered the request if the request came in via an application service (PR #230)
    • Fix bug where we needlessly regenerated the full list of rooms an AS is interested in. (PR #232)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Add support for AS\'s to use v2_alpha registration API (PR #210)

    ๐Ÿ”ง Configuration:

    • ๐Ÿ”ง Add --generate-keys that will generate any missing cert and key files in the configuration files. This is equivalent to running --generate-config on an existing configuration file. (PR #220)
    • ๐Ÿ”ง --generate-config now no longer requires a --server-name parameter when used on existing configuration files. (PR #220)
    • ๐Ÿ–จ Add --print-pidfile flag that controls the printing of the pid to stdout of the demonised process. (PR #213)

    Media Repository:

    • Fix bug where we picked a lower resolution image than requested. (PR #205)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Add support for specifying if a the media repository should dynamically thumbnail images or not. (PR #206)

    Metrics:

    • Add statistics from the reactor to the metrics API. (PR #224, #225)

    Demo Homeservers:

    • Fix starting the demo homeservers without rate-limiting enabled. (PR #182)
    • Fix enabling registration on demo homeservers (PR #223)