Synapse 0.34.1rc1 (2019-01-08)
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Features
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- Special-case a support user for use in verifying behaviour of a given server. The support user does not appear in user directory or monthly active user counts. ([\#4141](#4141), [\#4344](#4344))
- Support for serving .well-known files ([\#4262](#4262))
- Rework SAML2 authentication ([\#4265](#4265), [\#4267](#4267))
- SAML2 authentication: Initialise user display name from SAML2 data ([\#4272](#4272))
- Synapse can now have its conditional/extra dependencies installed by pip. This functionality can be used by using `pip install matrix-synapse[feature]`, where feature is a comma separated list with the possible values `email.enable_notifs`, `matrix-synapse-ldap3`, `postgres`, `resources.consent`, `saml2`, `url_preview`, and `test`. If you want to install all optional dependencies, you can use "all" instead. ([\#4298](#4298), [\#4325](#4325), [\#4327](#4327))
- Add routes for reading account data. ([\#4303](#4303))
- Add opt-in support for v2 rooms ([\#4307](#4307))
- Add a script to generate a clean config file ([\#4315](#4315))
- Return server data in /login response ([\#4319](#4319))

Bugfixes
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- Fix contains_url check to be consistent with other instances in code-base and check that value is an instance of string. ([\#3405](#3405))
- Fix CAS login when username is not valid in an MXID ([\#4264](#4264))
- Send CORS headers for /media/config ([\#4279](#4279))
- Add 'sandbox' to CSP for media reprository ([\#4284](#4284))
- Make the new landing page prettier. ([\#4294](#4294))
- Fix deleting E2E room keys when using old SQLite versions. ([\#4295](#4295))
- The metric synapse_admin_mau:current previously did not update when config.mau_stats_only was set to True ([\#4305](#4305))
- Fixed per-room account data filters ([\#4309](#4309))
- Fix indentation in default config ([\#4313](#4313))
- Fix synapse:latest docker upload ([\#4316](#4316))
- Fix test_metric.py compatibility with prometheus_client 0.5. Contributed by Maarten de Vries <maarten@de-vri.es>. ([\#4317](#4317))
- Avoid packaging _trial_temp directory in -py3 debian packages ([\#4326](#4326))
- Check jinja version for consent resource ([\#4327](#4327))
- fix NPE in /messages by checking if all events were filtered out ([\#4330](#4330))
- Fix `python -m synapse.config` on Python 3. ([\#4356](#4356))

Deprecations and Removals
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- Remove the deprecated v1/register API on Python 2. It was never ported to Python 3. ([\#4334](#4334))

Internal Changes
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- Getting URL previews of IP addresses no longer fails on Python 3. ([\#4215](#4215))
- drop undocumented dependency on dateutil ([\#4266](#4266))
- Update the example systemd config to use a virtualenv ([\#4273](#4273))
- Update link to kernel DCO guide ([\#4274](#4274))
- Make isort tox check print diff when it fails ([\#4283](#4283))
- Log room_id in Unknown room errors ([\#4297](#4297))
- Documentation improvements for coturn setup. Contributed by Krithin Sitaram. ([\#4333](#4333))
- Update pull request template to use absolute links ([\#4341](#4341))
- Update README to not lie about required restart when updating TLS certificates ([\#4343](#4343))
- Update debian packaging for compatibility with transitional package ([\#4349](#4349))
- Fix command hint to generate a config file when trying to start without a config file ([\#4353](#4353))
- Add better logging for unexpected errors while sending transactions ([\#4358](#4358))