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+++ title = "Synapse 0.18.5 released!" path = "/blog/2016/12/19/synapse-0-18-5-released"

[taxonomies] author = ["Matthew Hodgson"] category = ["Tech"] +++

Hi folks,

We released synapse 0.18.5 on Friday.  This is mainly about fixing performance problems with the unread room counts and the public room directory; polishing the E2E endpoints based on beta feedback; and general minor bits and bobs.

Get it whilst it's (almost) hot from https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse!  Changelog follows:

Changes in synapse v0.18.5 (2016-12-16)

Bug fixes:

  • Fix federation /backfill returning events it shouldn't (PR #1700)
  • Fix crash in url preview (PR #1701)

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc3 (2016-12-13)

Features:

  • Add support for E2E for guests (PR #1653)
  • Add new API appservice specific public room list (PR #1676)
  • Add new room membership APIs (PR #1680)
Changes:
  • Enable guest access for private rooms by default (PR #653)
  • Limit the number of events that can be created on a given room concurrently (PR #1620)
  • Log the args that we have on UI auth completion (PR #1649)
  • Stop generating refresh_tokens (PR #1654)
  • Stop putting a time caveat on access tokens (PR #1656)
  • Remove unspecced GET endpoints for e2e keys (PR #1694)
Bug fixes:
  • Fix handling of 500 and 429's over federation (PR #1650)
  • Fix Content-Type header parsing (PR #1660)
  • Fix error when previewing sites that include unicode, thanks to @kyrias (PR #1664)
  • Fix some cases where we drop read receipts (PR #1678)
  • Fix bug where calls to /sync didn't correctly timeout (PR #1683)
  • Fix bug where E2E key query would fail if a single remote host failed (PR #1686)

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc2 (2016-11-24)

Bug fixes:

  • Don't send old events over federation, fixes bug in -rc1.

Changes in synapse v0.18.5-rc1 (2016-11-24)

Features:

  • Implement "event_fields" in filters (PR #1638)
Changes:
  • Use external ldap auth package (PR #1628)
  • Split out federation transaction sending to a worker (PR #1635)
  • Fail with a coherent error message if /sync?filter= is invalid (PR #1636)
  • More efficient notif count queries (PR #1644)