Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc1 (2015-12-10)
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* Host the client APIs released as r0 by
https://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.0/client_server.html
on paths prefixed by ``/_matrix/client/r0``. (PR #430, PR #415, PR #400)
* Updates the client APIs to match r0 of the matrix specification.
* All APIs return events in the new event format, old APIs also include
the fields needed to parse the event using the old format for
compatibility. (PR #402)
* Search results are now given as a JSON array rather than
a JSON object (PR #405)
* Miscellaneous changes to search (PR #403, PR #406, PR #412)
* Filter JSON objects may now be passed as query parameters to ``/sync``
(PR #431)
* Fix implementation of ``/admin/whois`` (PR #418)
* Only include the rooms that user has left in ``/sync`` if the client
requests them in the filter (PR #423)
* Don't push for ``m.room.message`` by default (PR #411)
* Add API for setting per account user data (PR #392)
* Allow users to forget rooms (PR #385)
* Performance improvements and monitoring:
* Add per-request counters for CPU time spent on the main python thread.
(PR #421, PR #420)
* Add per-request counters for time spent in the database (PR #429)
* Make state updates in the C+S API idempotent (PR #416)
* Only fire ``user_joined_room`` if the user has actually joined. (PR #410)
* Reuse a single http client, rather than creating new ones (PR #413)