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title = "Synapse 1.65 released"
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date = "2022-08-17T15:44:53Z"
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updated = "2022-08-17T15:25:28Z"
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path = "/blog/2022/08/17/synapse-1-65-released"
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[taxonomies]
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author = ["Brendan Abolivier"]
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category = ["Releases"]
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Hey everyone! We've just released [Synapse
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1.65](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.65.0)! Let's have a
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peek at what's inside.
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## Private read receipts
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A feature that the more privacy-focused users of Matrix have been missing was
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the ability to hide read receipts from other users. Read receipts in rooms can
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tell a user which messages another user has read in a room. However, they can
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also be an unwelcome indicator that a user is currently reading a certain room,
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thus giving away the user's activity on Matrix at a given time.
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Hiding one's read receipts from other Matrix users is unfortunately not as
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straightforward as simply preventing a client from sharing read receipts with
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the server. This is because read receipts are also used by Matrix homeservers to
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calculate how much of a room a user has read, and generate notification counts
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for rooms accordingly.
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Synapse 1.65 introduces stable support for private read receipts. This feature,
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described by
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[MSC2285](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2285), allows
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clients to send a different type of read receipt to the server. This then tells
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the homeserver to use this piece of information to update the user's
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notification counts, but not to share it with other users.
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## Improved room management APIs for modules
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This version of Synapse includes two new module API methods to help Synapse
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modules interact and manage rooms. The first one,
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[`lookup_room_alias`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v1.65.0/synapse/module_api/__init__.py#L1455-L1477),
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allows modules to retrieve the room ID corresponding to a given room alias. This
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works both for local and remote aliases. The second one,
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[`create_room`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v1.65.0/synapse/module_api/__init__.py#L1479-L1528),
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allows modules to create new rooms on behalf of an existing user.
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The
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[`update_room_membership`](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v1.65.0/synapse/module_api/__init__.py#L925-L1017)
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method has also been updated in this release of Synapse to allow modules to join
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a room the server is not already in via federation. This can be done by using
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the new `remote_room_hosts` argument, which takes a list of homeservers to try
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to join via.
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## Everything else
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Synapse 1.65 stabilises the implementation of
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[MSC3827](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3827), which
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allows filtering public room searches on room types. This means it is now
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possible to search specifically for public spaces. For more information on this
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feature, see [the Synapse 1.63
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announcement](https://matrix.org/blog/2022/07/20/synapse-1-63-released).
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Additionally, Synapse 1.65 implements the new experimental error codes
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documented by
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[MSC3848](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3827). Once
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stabilised, these error codes will allow clients to show more specific errors to
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their users about why an event could not be sent.
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See the [full
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changelog](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.65.0) for a
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complete list of changes in this release.
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Synapse is a Free and Open Source Software project, and we'd like to extend our
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thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, including (in no particular
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order) [Beeper](https://www.beeper.com/),
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[andrewdoh](https://github.com/andrewdoh), [Julian-Samuel
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Gebühr](https://github.com/moan0s) and [Dirk
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Klimpel](https://github.com/dklimpel), as well as anyone helping us make Synapse
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better by sharing their feedback and reporting issues.
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