+++ title = "Synapse 1.8.0 released" path = "/blog/2020/01/09/synapse-1-8-0-released"

[taxonomies] author = ["Neil Johnson"] category = ["Releases"] +++

Synapse 1.8.0 has arrived, it contains a whole host of bug fixes and tweaks, most notably fixing some long standing problems with search.

More generally we are spending a lot of time improving the e2ee experience ahead of switching on e2ee by default, so watch this space.

Synapse 1.8.0 (2020-01-09)

Bugfixes

Fix GET request on /_synapse/admin/v2/users endpoint. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. (#6563)
Fix incorrect signing of responses from the key server implementation. (#6657)

Add v2 APIs for the send_join and send_leave federation endpoints (as described in MSC1802). (#6349)
Add a develop script to generate full SQL schemas. (#6394)
Add custom SAML username mapping functionality through an external provider plugin. (#6411)
Automatically delete empty groups/communities. (#6453)
Add option limit_profile_requests_to_users_who_share_rooms to prevent requirement of a local user sharing a room with another user to query their profile information. (#6523)
Add an export_signing_key script to extract the public part of signing keys when rotating them. (#6546)
Add experimental config option to specify multiple databases. (#6580)
Raise an error if someone tries to use the log_file config option. (#6626)

Prevent redacted events from being returned during message search. (#6377, #6522)
Prevent error on trying to search a upgraded room when the server is not in the predecessor room. (#6385)
Improve performance of looking up cross-signing keys. (#6486)
Fix race which occasionally caused deleted devices to reappear. (#6514)
Fix missing row in device_max_stream_id that could cause unable to decrypt errors after server restart. (#6555)
Fix a bug which meant that we did not send systemd notifications on startup if acme was enabled. (#6571)
Fix exception when fetching the matrix.org:ed25519:auto key. (#6625)
Fix bug where a moderator upgraded a room and became an admin in the new room. (#6633)
Fix an error which was thrown by the PresenceHandler _on_shutdown handler. (#6640)
Fix exceptions in the synchrotron worker log when events are rejected. (#6645)
Ensure that upgraded rooms are removed from the directory. (#6648)
Fix a bug causing Synapse not to fetch missing events when it believes it has every event in the room. (#6652)

Document the Room Shutdown Admin API. (#6541)
Reword sections of docs/federate.md that explained delegation at time of Synapse 1.0 transition. (#6601)
Added the section 'Configuration' in docs/turn-howto.md. (#6614)

Add experimental support for multiple physical databases and split out state storage to separate data store. (#6245, #6510, #6511, #6513, #6564, #6565)
Port sections of code base to async/await. (#6496, #6504, #6505, #6517, #6559, #6647, #6653)
Remove SnapshotCache in favour of ResponseCache. (#6506)
Silence mypy errors for files outside those specified. (#6512)
Clean up some logging when handling incoming events over federation. (#6515)
Test more folders against mypy. (#6534)
Update mypy to new version. (#6537)
Adjust the sytest blacklist for worker mode. (#6538)
Remove unused get_pagination_rows methods from EventSource classes. (#6557)
Clean up logs from the push notifier at startup. (#6558)
Improve diagnostics on database upgrade failure. (#6570)
Reduce the reconnect time when worker replication fails, to make it easier to catch up. (#6617)
Simplify http handling by removing redundant SynapseRequestFactory. (#6619)
Add a workaround for synapse raising exceptions when fetching the notary's own key from the notary. (#6620)
Automate generation of the sample log config. (#6627)
Simplify event creation code by removing redundant queries on the event_reference_hashes table. (#6629)
Fix errors when frozen_dicts are enabled. (#6642)