- Implements an admin API to lock an user without deactivating them. Based on [MSC3939](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3939). ([\#15870](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15870))
- Implements a task scheduler for resumable potentially long running tasks. ([\#15891](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15891))
- Allow specifying `client_secret_path` as alternative to `client_secret` for OIDC providers. This avoids leaking the client secret in the homeserver config. Contributed by @Ma27. ([\#16030](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16030))
- Allow customising the IdP display name, icon, and brand for SAML and CAS providers (in addition to OIDC provider). ([\#16094](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16094))
- Add an `admins` query parameter to the [List Accounts](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.91/admin_api/user_admin_api.html#list-accounts) [admin API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.91/usage/administration/admin_api/index.html), to include only admins or to exclude admins in user queries. ([\#16114](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16114))
### Bugfixes
- Fix long-standing bug where concurrent requests to change a user's push rules could cause a deadlock. Contributed by Nick @ Beeper (@fizzadar). ([\#16052](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16052))
- Fix a long-standing bu in `/sync` where timeout=0 does not skip caching, resulting in slow calls in cases where there are no new changes. Contributed by @PlasmaIntec. ([\#16080](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16080))
- Fix performance of state resolutions for large, old rooms that did not have the full auth chain persisted. ([\#16116](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16116))
- Filter out user agent references to the sliding sync proxy and rust-sdk from the user_daily_visits table to ensure that Element X can be represented fully. ([\#16124](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16124))
- User constent and 3-PID changes capability cannot be enabled when using experimental [MSC3861](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3861) support. ([\#16127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16127), [\#16134](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16134))
- Fix a rare race that could block new events from being sent for up to two minutes. Introduced in v1.90.0. ([\#16133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16133), [\#16169](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16169))
- Fix performance degredation when there are a lot of in-flight replication requests. ([\#16148](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16148))
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.87 where synapse would send an excessive amount of federation requests to servers which have been offline for a long time. Contributed by Nico. ([\#16156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16156), [\#16164](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16164))
### Improved Documentation
- Structured logging docs: add a link to explain the ELK stack ([\#16091](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16091))
- Fix database performance of read/write worker locks. ([\#16061](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16061))
- Fix building the nix development environment on MacOS systems. ([\#16063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16063))
- Override global statement timeout when creating indexes in Postgres. ([\#16085](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16085))
- Fix the type annotation on `run_db_interaction` in the Module API. ([\#16089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16089))
- Clean-up the presence code. ([\#16092](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16092))
- Run `pyupgrade` for Python 3.8+. ([\#16110](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16110))
- Rename pagination and purge locks and add comments to explain why they exist and how they work. ([\#16112](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16112))
- Attempt to fix the twisted trunk job. ([\#16115](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16115))
- Cache token introspection response from OIDC provider. ([\#16117](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16117))
- Add cache to `get_server_keys_json_for_remote`. ([\#16123](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16123))
- Add an admin endpoint to allow authorizing server to signal token revocations. ([\#16125](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16125))
- Add response time metrics for introspection requests for delegated auth. ([\#16131](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16131))
- MSC3861: allow impersonation by an admin user using `_oidc_admin_impersonate_user_id` query parameter. ([\#16132](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16132))
- Increase performance of read/write locks. ([\#16149](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16149))
- Raised the poetry-core version cap to 1.7.0. ([\#16152](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16152))
- Fix assertion in user directory unit tests. ([\#16157](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16157))
- Reduce scope of locks when paginating to alleviate DB contention. ([\#16159](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16159))
- Reduce DB contention on worker locks. ([\#16160](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16160))
- Task scheduler: mark task as active if we are scheduling as soon as possible. ([\#16165](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16165))
### Updates to locked dependencies
* Bump click from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7. ([\#16145](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16145))
* Bump gitpython from 3.1.31 to 3.1.32. ([\#16103](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16103))
* Bump ijson from 3.2.1 to 3.2.3. ([\#16143](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16143))
* Bump isort from 5.11.5 to 5.12.0. ([\#16108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16108))
* Bump log from 0.4.19 to 0.4.20. ([\#16109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16109))
* Bump pygithub from 1.59.0 to 1.59.1. ([\#16144](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16144))
* Bump sentry-sdk from 1.28.1 to 1.29.2. ([\#16142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16142))
* Bump serde from 1.0.183 to 1.0.184. ([\#16139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16139))
* Bump txredisapi from 1.4.9 to 1.4.10. ([\#16107](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16107))
* Bump types-bleach from 6.0.0.3 to 6.0.0.4. ([\#16106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16106))
* Bump types-pillow from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.2. ([\#16105](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16105))
* Bump types-pyopenssl from 23.2.0.1 to 23.2.0.2. ([\#16146](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16146))
# Synapse 1.91.0rc1 (2023-08-23)
### Features
- Implements an admin API to lock an user without deactivating them. Based on [MSC3939](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3939). ([\#15870](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15870))
- Allow specifying `client_secret_path` as alternative to `client_secret` for OIDC providers. This avoids leaking the client secret in the homeserver config. Contributed by @Ma27. ([\#16030](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16030))
- Allow customising the IdP display name, icon, and brand for SAML and CAS providers (in addition to OIDC provider). ([\#16094](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16094))
Fix a long-standing bu in `/sync` where timeout=0 does not skip caching, resulting in slow calls in cases where there are no new changes. Contributed by @PlasmaIntec.
Addan`admins`queryparametertothe[ListAccounts](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.91/admin_api/user_admin_api.html#list-accounts) [admin API](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.91/usage/administration/admin_api/index.html), to include only admins or to exclude admins in user queries.
Filter out user agent references to the sliding sync proxy and rust-sdk from the user_daily_visits table to ensure that Element X can be represented fully.
User constent and 3-PID changes capability cannot be enabled when using experimental [MSC3861](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3861) support.
User constent and 3-PID changes capability cannot be enabled when using experimental [MSC3861](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3861) support.
Fix a bug introduced in 1.87 where synapse would send an excessive amount of federation requests to servers which have been offline for a long time. Contributed by Nico.
Fix a bug introduced in 1.87 where synapse would send an excessive amount of federation requests to servers which have been offline for a long time. Contributed by Nico.