Changes in synapse v0.12.0 (2016-01-04)
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* Expose ``/login`` under ``r0`` (PR #459)
Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc3 (2015-12-23)
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* Allow guest accounts access to ``/sync`` (PR #455)
* Allow filters to include/exclude rooms at the room level
rather than just from the components of the sync for each
room. (PR #454)
* Include urls for room avatars in the response to ``/publicRooms`` (PR #453)
* Don't set a identicon as the avatar for a user when they register (PR #450)
* Add a ``display_name`` to third-party invites (PR #449)
* Send more information to the identity server for third-party invites so that
it can send richer messages to the invitee (PR #446)
* Cache the responses to ``/intialSync`` for 5 minutes. If a client
retries a request to ``/initialSync`` before the a response was computed
to the first request then the same response is used for both requests
(PR #457)
* Fix a bug where synapse would always request the signing keys of
remote servers even when the key was cached locally (PR #452)
* Fix 500 when pagination search results (PR #447)
* Fix a bug where synapse was leaking raw email address in third-party invites
(PR #448)
Changes in synapse v0.12.0-rc2 (2015-12-14)
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* Add caches for whether rooms have been forgotten by a user (PR #434)
* Remove instructions to use ``--process-dependency-link`` since all of the
dependencies of synapse are on PyPI (PR #436)
* Parallelise the processing of ``/sync`` requests (PR #437)
* Fix race updating presence in ``/events`` (PR #444)
* Fix bug back-populating search results (PR #441)
* Fix bug calculating state in ``/sync`` requests (PR #442)
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)
* Fixed a bug upgrading from older versions of synapse on postgresql (PR #417)