v0.25.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.25.0-rc1 (2017-11-14)

Features:

• Add is_public to groups table to allow for private groups (PR #2582)
• Add a route for determining who you are (PR #2668) Thanks to @turt2live!
• Add more features to the password providers (PR #2608, #2610, #2620, #2622, #2623, #2624, #2626, #2628, #2629)
• Add a hook for custom rest endpoints (PR #2627)
• Add API to update group room visibility (PR #2651)

Changes:

• Ignore tags when generating URL preview descriptions (PR #2576) Thanks to @maximevaillancourt!
• Register some /unstable endpoints in /r0 as well (PR #2579) Thanks to @krombel!
• Support /keys/upload on /r0 as well as /unstable (PR #2585)
• Front-end proxy: pass through auth header (PR #2586)
• Allow ASes to deactivate their own users (PR #2589)
• Remove refresh tokens (PR #2613)
• Automatically set default displayname on register (PR #2617)
• Log login requests (PR #2618)
• Always return is_public in the /groups/:group_id/rooms API (PR #2630)
• Avoid no-op media deletes (PR #2637) Thanks to @spantaleev!
• Fix various embarrassing typos around user_directory and add some doc. (PR #2643)
• Return whether a user is an admin within a group (PR #2647)
• Namespace visibility options for groups (PR #2657)
• Downcase UserIDs on registration (PR #2662)
• Cache failures when fetching URL previews (PR #2669)

Bug fixes:

• Fix port script (PR #2577)
• Fix error when running synapse with no logfile (PR #2581)
• Fix UI auth when deleting devices (PR #2591)
• Fix typo when checking if user is invited to group (PR #2599)
• Fix the port script to drop NUL values in all tables (PR #2611)
• Fix appservices being backlogged and not receiving new events due to a bug in notify_interested_services (PR #2631) Thanks to @xyzz!
• Fix updating rooms avatar/display name when modified by admin (PR #2636) Thanks to @farialima!
• Fix bug in state group storage (PR #2649)
• Fix 500 on invalid utf-8 in request (PR #2663)