The existing `email.smtp_host` config option is used for two distinct
purposes: it is resolved into the IP address to connect to, and used to
(request via SNI and) validate the server's certificate if TLS is
enabled. This new option allows specifying a different name for the
second purpose.
This is especially helpful, if `email.smtp_host` isn't a global FQDN,
but something that resolves only locally (e.g. "localhost" to connect
through the loopback interface, or some other internally routed name),
that one cannot get a valid certificate for.
Alternatives would of course be to specify a global FQDN as
`email.smtp_host`, or to disable TLS entirely, both of which might be
undesirable, depending on the SMTP server configuration.
Another config option on my quest to a `*_path` variant for every
secret. This time it’s `macaroon_secret_key_path`.
Reading secrets from files has the security advantage of separating the secrets from the config. It also simplifies secrets management in Kubernetes. Also useful to NixOS users.
- Fetch the number of invites the provided user has sent after a given
timestamp
- Fetch the number of rooms the provided user has joined after a given
timestamp, regardless if they have left/been banned from the rooms
subsequently
- Get report IDs of event reports where the provided user was the sender
of the reported event
POST requests for account data, receipts and presence require the worker
to be configured as a stream writer. The regular expressions in the
default list don't assume any HTTP method, so if the worker is not a
stream writer, the request fails.
The stream writer section of the documentation lists the same regexps as
the one I'm removing, so people configuring stream writers can still
configure their routing properly.
More context:
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/17243#issuecomment-2493621645
Basically, if the client sets a special query param on `/sync` v2
instead of responding with `state` at the *start* of the timeline, we
instead respond with `state_after` at the *end* of the timeline.
We do this by using the `current_state_delta_stream` table, which is
actually reliable, rather than messing around with "state at" points on
the timeline.
c.f. MSC4222
Fixes#17823
While we're at it, makes a change where the redactions are sent as the
admin if the user is not a member of the server (otherwise these fail
with a "User must be our own" message).
Adds the option to load the Redis password from a file, instead of
giving it in the config directly. The code is similar to how it’s done
for `registration_shared_secret_path`. I changed the example in the
documentation to represent the best practice regarding the handling of
secrets.
Reading secrets from files has the security advantage of separating the
secrets from the config. It also simplifies secrets management in
Kubernetes.
Added a note in the documentation suggesting that users may set
`PYTHONMALLOC=malloc` when using `jemalloc`. This allows jemalloc to
track memory usage more accurately by bypassing Python's internal
small-object allocator (`pymalloc`), helping to ensure that
`cache_autotuning` functions as expected.
This doc change aims to provide more clarity for users configuring
jemalloc with Synapse.
Based on:
4ac783549c/synapse/metrics/jemalloc.py (L198-L201)
This was a note added in the PR to move to AGPL, which we failed to
remove before landing.
(The context for this was that we needed to decide if we were going to
change which debian repository we published too, but decided not to in
the end)
This is to address an issue in which `m.presence` results on initial
sync are not returning entries of users who are currently offline.
The original behaviour was from
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/1535
This change is useful for applications that use the
presence system for tracking user profile information/updates (e.g.
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/16992 or for profile status
messages).
This is gated behind a new configuration option to avoid performance
impact for applications that don't need this, as a pragmatic solution
for now.
Added RHEL/Rocky install instructions (PyPI). Instructions cover
versions 8 and 9 which are the only supported ones - except for RHEL7
which is now on extended life cycle support phase.
Large part of the guide is for installing Python 3.11 or 3.12. RHEL8
ships with Python 3.6 and RHEL9 ships with 3.9. Newer Python versions
can be installed easily as they don't interfere with OS software that
still relies on the default Python version.
I was first planning to add prerequisites part to the prerequisites
section and then install instructions on the top of the page but that
section is for pre-built packages so it just didn't sound right. So I
just dumped everything to the PyPI section of the page. But suggestions
to change are welcome.
I also didn't combine these with Fedora section. I haven't tested those
packages on RHEL and Fedora ships with Python 3.12 out-of-box.
Follows on from @H-Shay's great work at
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15344 and MSC4026.
Also enables its use for MSC3881, mainly as an easy but concrete example
of how to use it.
A simple change to update the docs where default values were missing.
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Co-authored-by: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
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