They are fundamentally different concepts, so should be represented as
such. Proto events are exchanged in /make_xxx calls over federation, and
made as "fledgling" events in /createRoom and general event sending.
*Building* events is a reasonably complex VERSION SPECIFIC process which
needs amongst other things, auth event providers, prev events, signing
keys, etc.
Requires https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrixserverlib/pull/379
Requires https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrixserverlib/pull/376
This has numerous upsides:
- Less type casting to `*Event` is required.
- Making Dendrite work with `PDU` interfaces means we can swap out Event
impls more easily.
- Tests which represent weird event shapes are easier to write.
Part of a series of refactors on GMSL.
Also slightly refactors the functions and methods to rely less on the
req/res pattern we had for polylith.
Returns `M_WRONG_ROOM_KEYS_VERSION` for some endpoints as per the spec
This removes `PerformError`, which was needed when we still had
polylith.
This removes quite a bunch of
```go
if err != nil {
return err
}
if err := res.Error; err != nil {
return err.JSONResponse()
}
```
Hopefully can be read commit by commit. [skip ci]
We only use it in a few places currently, enough to get things to
compile and run. We should be using it in much more places.
Similarly, in some places we cast []PDU back to []*Event, we need to not
do that. Likewise, in some places we cast PDU to *Event, we need to not
do that. For now though, hopefully this is a start.
Replaced with types.HeaderedEvent _for now_. In reality we want to move
them all to gmsl.Event and only use HeaderedEvent when we _need_ to
bundle the version/event ID with the event (seriailsation boundaries,
and even then only when we don't have the room version).
Requires https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrixserverlib/pull/373
Adds tests for `QueryRestrictedJoinAllowed`, `IsServerAllowed` and
`PerformRoomUpgrade`. Refactors the `QueryRoomVersionForRoom` method to
accept a string and return a `gmsl.RoomVersion` instead of req/resp
structs.
Adds some more caching for `GetStateEvent`
This should also fix#2912 by ignoring state events belonging to other
users.
As outlined in https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrixserverlib/pull/368
The main change Dendrite side is that `RoomVersion` no longer has any
methods on it. Instead, you need to bounce via `gmsl.GetRoomVersion`.
It's very interesting to see where exactly Dendrite cares about this.
For some places it's creating events (fine) but others are way more
specific. Those areas will need to migrate to GMSL at some point.
Bumps [nokogiri](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri) from 1.13.10
to 1.14.3.
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<h2>1.14.3 / 2023-04-11</h2>
<h3>Security</h3>
<ul>
<li>[CRuby] Vendored libxml2 is updated to address CVE-2023-29469,
CVE-2023-28484, and one other security-related issue. See <a
href="https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq">GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jqGHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq</a>
for more information.</li>
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<h3>Dependencies</h3>
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href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.10.4">v2.10.4</a>
from v2.10.3.</li>
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<h2>1.14.2 / 2023-02-13</h2>
<h3>Fixed</h3>
<ul>
<li>Calling <code>NodeSet#to_html</code> on an empty node set no longer
raises an encoding-related exception. This bug was introduced in v1.14.0
while fixing <a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2649">#2649</a>.
[<a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2784">#2784</a>]</li>
</ul>
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<h2>1.14.3 / 2023-04-11</h2>
<h3>Security</h3>
<ul>
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href="https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq">GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jqGHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq</a>
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<h2>1.14.2 / 2023-02-13</h2>
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raises an encoding-related exception. This bug was introduced in v1.14.0
while fixing <a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2649">#2649</a>.
[<a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2784">#2784</a>]</li>
</ul>
<h2>1.14.1 / 2023-01-30</h2>
<h3>Fixed</h3>
<ul>
<li>Serializing documents now works again with pseudo-IO objects that
don't support IO's encoding API (like rubyzip's
<code>Zip::OutputStream</code>). This was a regression in v1.14.0 due to
the fix for <a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/752">#752</a>
in <a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2434">#2434</a>,
and was not completely fixed by <a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2753">#2753</a>.
[<a
href="https://redirect.github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2773">#2773</a>]</li>
<li>[CRuby] Address compiler warnings about <code>void*</code> casting
and old-style C function definitions.</li>
</ul>
<h2>1.14.0 / 2023-01-12</h2>
<h3>Notable Changes</h3>
<h4>Ruby</h4>
<p>This release introduces native gem support for Ruby 3.2. (Also see
"Technical note" under "Changed" below.)</p>
<p>This release ends support for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ruby 2.6, for which <a
href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/">upstream support
ended 2022-04-12</a>.</li>
<li>JRuby 9.3, which is not fully compatible with Ruby 2.7+</li>
</ul>
<h4>Faster, more reliable installation: Native Gem for
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for the <code>aarch64-linux</code> platform, which should support AWS
Graviton and other ARM64 Linux platforms. Please note that glibc >=
2.29 is required for aarch64-linux systems, see <a
href="https://nokogiri.org/#supported-platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
for more information.</p>
<h4>Faster, more reliable installation: Native Gem for
<code>arm-linux</code> (aka <code>linux/arm/v7</code>)</h4>
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support for the <code>arm-linux</code> platform. Please note that glibc
>= 2.29 is required for arm-linux systems, see <a
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</details>
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Otherwise CI can fail with:
```
go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory.
'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
To build and install a command, use 'go install' with a version,
like 'go install example.com/cmd@latest'
For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.
```
This is the last part of unix socket support to talk to app servers, go
based app services already support unix sockets:
5a68173fe3
```
appservice:
# The address that the homeserver can use to connect to this appservice.
address: unix:///var/snap/matrix/current/whatsapp.socket
# The hostname and port where this appservice should listen.
hostname: /var/snap/matrix/current/whatsapp.socket
port: 0
```
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Signed-off-by: `Boris Rybalkin <ribalkin@gmail.com>`
Threepid seems to be pretty out of date, several missing endpoints.
Should also fix#3037, where we were still listening on the `/unstable`
prefix, while Element Web uses `/r0`
Adds some more checks in regards to power levels, uses a less heavy way
to get the membership of a user, avoids asking the database for the room
version, since it will be queried later. [skip ci]