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filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API until a better solution is specced #6878

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We're in the middle of properly mitigating spam caused by malicious aliases being added to a room. However, until this work fully lands, we temporarily filter out all m.room.aliases events from /sync and /messages on the CS API, to remove abusive aliases. This is considered acceptable as m.room.aliases events were never a reliable record of the given alias->id mapping and were purely informational, and in their current state do more harm than good.

@richvdh richvdh changed the title filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API until MSC2261 lands filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API until a better solution is specced Feb 9, 2020
@richvdh richvdh force-pushed the matthew/remove_aliases branch from 6f34d2e to 79025d4 Compare February 9, 2020 23:57
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richvdh commented Feb 10, 2020

(I've rebased this on the release branch so that we can merge it in). (CI failures will hopefully be fixed by #6880)

@richvdh richvdh changed the base branch from develop to release-v1.10.0 February 10, 2020 00:02
@richvdh richvdh merged commit 8e64c5a into release-v1.10.0 Feb 10, 2020
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richvdh pushed a commit to matrix-org/sytest that referenced this pull request Feb 10, 2020
As matrix-org/synapse#6878 filters out m.room.aliases, we tweak the tests to no longer make assertions based on m.room.aliases state info from /sync.
richvdh added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 10, 2020
Synapse 1.10.0rc3 (2020-02-10)
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Features
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- Filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API to mitigate abuse while a better solution is specced. ([\#6878](#6878))

Internal Changes
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- Fix continuous integration failures with old versions of `pip`, which were introduced by a release of the `zipp` library. ([\#6880](#6880))
babolivier added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 12, 2020
Synapse 1.10.0 (2020-02-12)
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**WARNING to client developers**: As of this release Synapse validates `client_secret` parameters in the Client-Server API as per the spec. See [\#6766](#6766) for details.

Updates to the Docker image
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- Update the docker images to Alpine Linux 3.11. ([\#6897](#6897))

Synapse 1.10.0rc5 (2020-02-11)
==============================

Bugfixes
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- Fix the filtering introduced in 1.10.0rc3 to also apply to the state blocks returned by `/sync`. ([\#6884](#6884))

Synapse 1.10.0rc4 (2020-02-11)
==============================

This release candidate was built incorrectly and is superceded by 1.10.0rc5.

Synapse 1.10.0rc3 (2020-02-10)
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Features
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- Filter out `m.room.aliases` from the CS API to mitigate abuse while a better solution is specced. ([\#6878](#6878))

Internal Changes
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- Fix continuous integration failures with old versions of `pip`, which were introduced by a release of the `zipp` library. ([\#6880](#6880))

Synapse 1.10.0rc2 (2020-02-06)
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Bugfixes
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- Fix an issue with cross-signing where device signatures were not sent to remote servers. ([\#6844](#6844))
- Fix to the unknown remote device detection which was introduced in 1.10.rc1. ([\#6848](#6848))

Internal Changes
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- Detect unexpected sender keys on remote encrypted events and resync device lists. ([\#6850](#6850))

Synapse 1.10.0rc1 (2020-01-31)
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Features
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- Add experimental support for updated authorization rules for aliases events, from [MSC2260](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2260). ([\#6787](#6787), [\#6790](#6790), [\#6794](#6794))

Bugfixes
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- Warn if postgres database has a non-C locale, as that can cause issues when upgrading locales (e.g. due to upgrading OS). ([\#6734](#6734))
- Minor fixes to `PUT /_synapse/admin/v2/users` admin api. ([\#6761](#6761))
- Validate `client_secret` parameter using the regex provided by the Client-Server API, temporarily allowing `:` characters for older clients. The `:` character will be removed in a future release. ([\#6767](#6767))
- Fix persisting redaction events that have been redacted (or otherwise don't have a redacts key). ([\#6771](#6771))
- Fix outbound federation request metrics. ([\#6795](#6795))
- Fix bug where querying a remote user's device keys that weren't cached resulted in only returning a single device. ([\#6796](#6796))
- Fix race in federation sender worker that delayed sending of device updates. ([\#6799](#6799), [\#6800](#6800))
- Fix bug where Synapse didn't invalidate cache of remote users' devices when Synapse left a room. ([\#6801](#6801))
- Fix waking up other workers when remote server is detected to have come back online. ([\#6811](#6811))

Improved Documentation
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- Clarify documentation related to `user_dir` and `federation_reader` workers. ([\#6775](#6775))

Internal Changes
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- Record room versions in the `rooms` table. ([\#6729](#6729), [\#6788](#6788), [\#6810](#6810))
- Propagate cache invalidates from workers to other workers. ([\#6748](#6748))
- Remove some unnecessary admin handler abstraction methods. ([\#6751](#6751))
- Add some debugging for media storage providers. ([\#6757](#6757))
- Detect unknown remote devices and mark cache as stale. ([\#6776](#6776), [\#6819](#6819))
- Attempt to resync remote users' devices when detected as stale. ([\#6786](#6786))
- Delete current state from the database when server leaves a room. ([\#6792](#6792))
- When a client asks for a remote user's device keys check if the local cache for that user has been marked as potentially stale. ([\#6797](#6797))
- Add background update to clean out left rooms from current state. ([\#6802](#6802), [\#6816](#6816))
- Refactoring work in preparation for changing the event redaction algorithm. ([\#6803](#6803), [\#6805](#6805), [\#6806](#6806), [\#6807](#6807), [\#6820](#6820))
turt2live pushed a commit to t2bot/synapse that referenced this pull request Feb 27, 2020
babolivier pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2021
…specced (#6878)

* commit '8e64c5a24':
  filter out m.room.aliases from the CS API until a better solution is specced (#6878)
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