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 Changes in synapse v0.27.0-rc1 (2018-03-14)
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-synctl no longer starts the main synapse when using ``-a`` option with workers.
-A new worker file should be added with ``worker_app: synapse.app.homeserver``.
+The common case for running Synapse is not to run separate workers, but for those that do, synctl no longer starts the main synapse when using ``-a`` option with workers. A new worker file should be added with ``worker_app: synapse.app.homeserver``.
 
 This release also begins the process of renaming a number of the metrics
 reported to prometheus. See `docs/metrics-howto.rst <docs/metrics-howto.rst#block-and-response-metrics-renamed-for-0-27-0>`_.
 
+Note, old metrics will be removed from the 0.28.0 release.
+
 Features:
 
 * Add ability for ASes to override message send time (PR #2754)