Synapse 0.33.6

Features

• Adding the ability to change MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE for the docker container variables. (#3883)
• Report "python_version" in the phone home stats (#3894)
• Always LL ourselves if we're in a room (#3916)
• Include eventid in log lines when processing incoming federation transactions (#3959)
• Remove spurious check which made 'localhost' servers not work (#3964)

Bugfixes

• Fix problem when playing media from Chrome using direct URL (thanks @remjey!) (#3578)
• support registering regular users non-interactively with register_new_matrix_user script (#3836)
• Fix broken invite email links for self hosted riots (#3868)
• Don't ratelimit autojoins (#3879)
• Fix 500 error when deleting unknown room alias (#3889)
• Fix some b'abcd' noise in logs and metrics (#3892, #3895)
• When we join a room, always try the server we used for the alias lookup first, to avoid unresponsive and out-of-date servers. (#3899)
• Fix incorrect server-name indication for outgoing federation requests (#3907)
• Fix adding client IPs to the database failing on Python 3. (#3908)
• Fix bug where things occaisonally were not being timed out correctly. (#3910)
• Fix bug where outbound federation would stop talking to some servers when using workers (#3914)
• Fix some instances of ExpiringCache not expiring cache items (#3932, #3980)
• Fix out-of-bounds error when LLing yourself (#3936)
• Sending server notices regarding user consent now works on Python 3. (#3938)
• Fix exceptions from metrics handler (#3956)
• Fix error message for events with m.room.create missing from auth_events (#3960)
• Fix errors due to concurrent monthly_active_user upserts (#3961)
• Fix exceptions when processing incoming events over federation (#3968)
• Replaced all occurences of e.message with str(e). Contributed by Schnuffle (#3970)
• Fix lazy loaded sync in the presence of rejected state events (#3986)
• Fix error when logging incomplete HTTP requests (#3990)

Internal Changes

• Unit tests can now be run under PostgreSQL in Docker using test_postgresql.sh. (#3699)
• Speed up calculation of typing updates for replication (#3794)
• Remove documentation regarding installation on Cygwin, the use of WSL is recommended instead. (#3873)
• Fix typo in README, synaspse -> synapse (#3897)
• Increase the timeout when filling missing events in federation requests (#3903)
• Improve the logging when handling a federation transaction (#3904, #3966)
• Improve logging of outbound federation requests (#3906, #3909)
• Fix the docker image building on python 3 (#3911)
• Add a regression test for logging failed HTTP requests on Python 3. (#3912)
• Comments and interface cleanup for on_receive_pdu (#3924)
• Fix spurious exceptions when remote http client closes conncetion (#3925)
• Log exceptions thrown by background tasks (#3927)
• Add a cache to get_destination_retry_timings (#3933, #3991)
• Automate pushes to docker hub (#3946)
• Require attrs 16.0.0 or later (#3947)
• Fix incompatibility with python3 on alpine (#3948)
• Run the test suite on the oldest supported versions of our dependencies in CI. (#3952)
• CircleCI now only runs merged jobs on PRs, and commit jobs on develop, master, and release branches. (#3957)
• Fix docstrings and add tests for state store methods (#3958)
• fix docstring for FederationClient.get_state_for_room (#3963)
• Run notify_app_services as a bg process (#3965)
• Clarifications in FederationHandler (#3967)
• Further reduce the docker image size (#3972)
• Build py3 docker images for docker hub too (#3976)
• Updated the installation instructions to point to the matrix-synapse package on PyPI. (#3985)
• Disable USE_FROZEN_DICTS for unittests by default. (#3987)
• Remove unused Jenkins and development related files from the repo. (#3988)
• Improve stacktraces in certain exceptions in the logs (#3989)
• Pin to prometheus_client<0.4 to avoid renaming all of our metrics (#4002)