Allow configuring the set of workers to proxy outbound federation traffic through (`outbound_federation_restricted_to`).
This is useful when you have a worker setup with `federation_sender` instances responsible for sending outbound federation requests and want to make sure *all* outbound federation traffic goes through those instances. Before this change, the generic workers would still contact federation themselves for things like profile lookups, backfill, etc. This PR allows you to set more strict access controls/firewall for all workers and only allow the `federation_sender`'s to contact the outside world.
The original code is from @erikjohnston's branches which I've gotten in-shape to merge.
* Check required power levels earlier in createRoom handler.
- If a server was configured to reject the creation of rooms with E2EE
enabled (by specifying an unattainably high power level for
"m.room.encryption" in default_power_level_content_override), the 403
error was not being triggered until after the room was created and
before the "m.room.power_levels" was sent. This allowed a user to
access the partially-configured room and complete the setup of E2EE
and power levels manually.
- This change causes the power level overrides to be checked earlier and
the request to be rejected before the user gains access to the room.
- A new `_validate_room_config` method is added to contain checks that
should be run before a room is created.
- The new test case confirms that a user request is rejected by the new
validation method.
Signed-off-by: Grant McLean <grant@catalyst.net.nz>
* Add a changelog file.
* Formatting fix for black.
* Remove unneeded line from test.
---------
Signed-off-by: Grant McLean <grant@catalyst.net.nz>
Implements stable support for MSC3882; this involves updating Synapse's support to
match the MSC / the spec says.
Continue to support the unstable version to allow clients to transition.
If the previous read marker is pointing to an event that no longer exists
(e.g. due to retention) then assume that the newly given read marker
is newer.
To track changes in MSC2666:
- The change from `/mutual_rooms/{user_id}` to `/mutual_rooms?user_id={user_id}`.
- The addition of `next_batch_token` (and logic).
- Unstable flag now being `uk.half-shot.msc2666.query_mutual_rooms`.
- The error code when your own user is requested.
Adds an optional keyword argument to the /relations API which
will recurse a limited number of event relationships.
This will cause the API to return not just the events related to the
parent event, but also events related to those related to the parent
event, etc.
This is disabled by default behind an experimental configuration
flag and is currently implemented using prefixed parameters.
This moves `redacts` from being a top-level property to
a `content` property in a new room version.
MSC2176 (which was previously implemented) states to not
`redact` this property.
* Revert "Fix registering a device on an account with lots of devices (#15348)"
This reverts commit f0d8f66eaa.
* Revert "Delete stale non-e2e devices for users, take 3 (#15183)"
This reverts commit 78cdb72cd6.
Enables MSC3925 support by default, which:
* Includes the full edit event in the bundled aggregations of an
edited event.
* Stops modifying the original event's content to return the new
content from the edit event.
This is a backwards-incompatible change that is considered to be
"correct" by the spec.
It turns out that no clients rely on server-side aggregation of `m.annotation`
relationships: it's just not very useful as currently implemented.
It's also non-trivial to calculate.
I want to remove it from MSC2677, so to keep the implementation in line, let's
remove it here.
* Update mypy and mypy-zope
* Remove unused ignores
These used to suppress
```
synapse/storage/engines/__init__.py:28: error: "__new__" must return a
class instance (got "NoReturn") [misc]
```
and
```
synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py:1270: error: "BaseException" has no attribute "reasons" [attr-defined]
```
(note that we check `hasattr(e, "reasons")` above)
* Avoid empty body warnings, sometimes by marking methods as abstract
E.g.
```
tests/handlers/test_register.py:58: error: Missing return statement [empty-body]
tests/handlers/test_register.py:108: error: Missing return statement [empty-body]
```
* Suppress false positive about `JaegerConfig`
Complaint was
```
synapse/logging/opentracing.py:450: error: Function "Type[Config]" could always be true in boolean context [truthy-function]
```
* Fix not calling `is_state()`
Oops!
```
tests/rest/client/test_third_party_rules.py:428: error: Function "Callable[[], bool]" could always be true in boolean context [truthy-function]
```
* Suppress false positives from ParamSpecs
````
synapse/logging/opentracing.py:971: error: Argument 2 to "_custom_sync_async_decorator" has incompatible type "Callable[[Arg(Callable[P, R], 'func'), **P], _GeneratorContextManager[None]]"; expected "Callable[[Callable[P, R], **P], _GeneratorContextManager[None]]" [arg-type]
synapse/logging/opentracing.py:1017: error: Argument 2 to "_custom_sync_async_decorator" has incompatible type "Callable[[Arg(Callable[P, R], 'func'), **P], _GeneratorContextManager[None]]"; expected "Callable[[Callable[P, R], **P], _GeneratorContextManager[None]]" [arg-type]
````
* Drive-by improvement to `wrapping_logic` annotation
* Workaround false "unreachable" positives
See https://github.com/Shoobx/mypy-zope/issues/91
```
tests/http/test_proxyagent.py:626: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/test_proxyagent.py:762: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/test_proxyagent.py:826: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/test_proxyagent.py:838: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/test_proxyagent.py:845: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/federation/test_matrix_federation_agent.py:151: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/http/federation/test_matrix_federation_agent.py:452: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/logging/test_remote_handler.py:60: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/logging/test_remote_handler.py:93: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/logging/test_remote_handler.py:127: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
tests/logging/test_remote_handler.py:152: error: Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
```
* Changelog
* Tweak DBAPI2 Protocol to be accepted by mypy 1.0
Some extra context in:
- https://github.com/matrix-org/python-canonicaljson/pull/57
- https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/6002
- https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/common_issues.html#covariant-subtyping-of-mutable-protocol-members-is-rejected
* Pull in updated canonicaljson lib
so the protocol check just works
* Improve comments in opentracing
I tried to workaround the ignores but found it too much trouble.
I think the corresponding issue is
https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/12909. The mypy repo has a PR
claiming to fix this (https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/14677) which
might mean this gets resolved soon?
* Better annotation for INTERACTIVE_AUTH_CHECKERS
* Drive-by AUTH_TYPE annotation, to remove an ignore
* Allow `AbstractSet` in `StrCollection`
Or else frozensets are excluded. This will be useful in an upcoming
commit where I plan to change a function that accepts `List[str]` to
accept `StrCollection` instead.
* `rooms_to_exclude` -> `rooms_to_exclude_globally`
I am about to make use of this exclusion mechanism to exclude rooms for
a specific user and a specific sync. This rename helps to clarify the
distinction between the global config and the rooms to exclude for a
specific sync.
* Better function names for internal sync methods
* Track a list of excluded rooms on SyncResultBuilder
I plan to feed a list of partially stated rooms for this sync to ignore
* Exclude partial state rooms during eager sync
using the mechanism established in the previous commit
* Track un-partial-state stream in sync tokens
So that we can work out which rooms have become fully-stated during a
given sync period.
* Fix mutation of `@cached` return value
This was fouling up a complement test added alongside this PR.
Excluding a room would mean the set of forgotten rooms in the cache
would be extended. This means that room could be erroneously considered
forgotten in the future.
Introduced in #12310, Synapse 1.57.0. I don't think this had any
user-visible side effects (until now).
* SyncResultBuilder: track rooms to force as newly joined
Similar plan as before. We've omitted rooms from certain sync responses;
now we establish the mechanism to reintroduce them into future syncs.
* Read new field, to present rooms as newly joined
* Force un-partial-stated rooms to be newly-joined
for eager incremental syncs only, provided they're still fully stated
* Notify user stream listeners to wake up long polling syncs
* Changelog
* Typo fix
Co-authored-by: Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com>
* Unnecessary list cast
Co-authored-by: Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com>
* Rephrase comment
Co-authored-by: Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com>
* Another comment
Co-authored-by: Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fixup merge(?)
* Poke notifier when receiving un-partial-stated msg over replication
* Fixup merge whoops
Thanks MV :)
Co-authored-by: Mathieu Velen <mathieuv@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Mathieu Velten <mathieuv@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com>
* Change Documentation to have v10 as default room version
* Change Default Room version to 10
* Add changelog entry for default room version swap
* Add changelog entry for v10 default room version in docs
* Clarify doc changelog entry
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <david.m.robertson1@gmail.com>
* Improve Documentation changes.
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <david.m.robertson1@gmail.com>
* Update Changelog entry to have correct format
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <david.m.robertson1@gmail.com>
* Update Spec Version to 1.5
* Only need 1 changelog.
* Fix test.
* Update "Changed in" line
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <david.m.robertson1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <patrickc@matrix.org>
Two parts to this:
* Bundle the whole of the replacement with any edited events. This is backwards-compatible so I haven't put it behind a flag.
* Optionally, inhibit server-side replacement of edited events. This has scope to break things, so it is currently disabled by default.
* Fixes#12277 :Disable sending confirmation email when 3pid is disabled
* Fix test_add_email_if_disabled test case to reflect changes to enable_3pid_changes flag
* Add changelog file
* Rename newsfragment.
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Avoid an n+1 query problem and fetch the bundled aggregations for
m.reference relations in a single query instead of a query per event.
This applies similar logic for as was previously done for edits in
8b309adb43 (#11660; threads
in b65acead42 (#11752); and
annotations in 1799a54a54 (#14491).
Avoid an n+1 query problem and fetch the bundled aggregations for
m.annotation relations in a single query instead of a query per event.
This applies similar logic for as was previously done for edits in
8b309adb43 (#11660) and threads
in b65acead42 (#11752).
If configured an OIDC IdP can log a user's session out of
Synapse when they log out of the identity provider.
The IdP sends a request directly to Synapse (and must be
configured with an endpoint) when a user logs out.
* Introduce a test for the old behaviour which we want to restore
* Reintroduce the old behaviour in a simpler way
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* Use 1 credit instead of 2 for creating a room: be more lenient than before
Notably, the UI in Element Web was still broken after restoring to prior behaviour.
After discussion, we agreed that it would be sensible to increase the limit.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
This implements a fake OIDC server, which intercepts calls to the HTTP client.
Improves accuracy of tests by covering more internal methods.
One particular example was the ID token validation, which previously mocked.
This uncovered an incorrect dependency: Synapse actually requires at least
authlib 0.15.1, not 0.14.0.
When the last event in a thread is redacted we need to update
the threads table:
* Find the new latest event in the thread and store it into the table; or
* Remove the thread from the table if it is no longer a thread (i.e. all
events in the thread were redacted).
Fix MSC3030 `/timestamp_to_event` endpoint returning `outliers` that it has no idea whether are near a gap or not (and therefore unable to determine whether it's actually the closest event). The reason Synapse doesn't know whether an `outlier` is next to a gap is because our gap checks rely on entries in the `event_edges`, `event_forward_extremeties`, and `event_backward_extremities` tables which is [not the case for `outliers`](2c63cdcc3f/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md (outliers)).
Also fixes MSC3030 Complement `can_paginate_after_getting_remote_event_from_timestamp_to_event_endpoint` test flake. Although this acted flakey in Complement, if `sync_partial_state` raced and beat us before `/timestamp_to_event`, then even if we retried the failing `/context` request it wouldn't work until we made this Synapse change. With this PR, Synapse will never return an `outlier` event so that test will always go and ask over federation.
Fix https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13944
### Why did this fail before? Why was it flakey?
Sleuthing the server logs on the [CI failure](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/actions/runs/3149623842/jobs/5121449357#step:5:5805), it looks like `hs2:/timestamp_to_event` found `$NP6-oU7mIFVyhtKfGvfrEQX949hQX-T-gvuauG6eurU` as an `outlier` event locally. Then when we went and asked for it via `/context`, since it's an `outlier`, it was filtered out of the results -> `You don't have permission to access that event.`
This is reproducible when `sync_partial_state` races and persists `$NP6-oU7mIFVyhtKfGvfrEQX949hQX-T-gvuauG6eurU` as an `outlier` before we evaluate `get_event_for_timestamp(...)`. To consistently reproduce locally, just add a delay at the [start of `get_event_for_timestamp(...)`](cb20b885cb/synapse/handlers/room.py (L1470-L1496)) so it always runs after `sync_partial_state` completes.
```py
from twisted.internet import task as twisted_task
d = twisted_task.deferLater(self.hs.get_reactor(), 3.5)
await d
```
In a run where it passes, on `hs2`, `get_event_for_timestamp(...)` finds a different event locally which is next to a gap and we request from a closer one from `hs1` which gets backfilled. And since the backfilled event is not an `outlier`, it's returned as expected during `/context`.
With this PR, Synapse will never return an `outlier` event so that test will always go and ask over federation.
The callers either set a default limit or manually handle a None-limit
later on (by setting a default value).
Update the callers to always instantiate PaginationConfig with a default
limit and then assume the limit is non-None.
Stabilize the threads API (MSC3856) by supporting (only) the v1
path for the endpoint.
This also marks the API as safe for workers since it is a read-only
API.
Implement the /threads endpoint from MSC3856.
This is currently unstable and behind an experimental configuration
flag.
It includes a background update to backfill data, results from
the /threads endpoint will be partial until that finishes.
Fixes two related bugs:
* The handling of `[null]` for a `room_types` filter was incorrect.
* The ordering of arguments when providing both a network tuple
and room type field was incorrect.
Keep the old behavior (of including the original_event field) for any
requests to the /unstable version of the endpoint, but do not include
the field when the /v1 version is used.
This should avoid new clients from depending on this field, but will
not help with current dependencies.
MSC3316 declares that both /rooms/{roomId}/send and /rooms/{roomId}/state
should accept a ts parameter for appservices. This change expands support
to /state and adds tests.
This PR begins work on batching up events during the creation of a room. The PR splits out the creation and sending/persisting of the events. The first three events in the creation of the room-creating the room, joining the creator to the room, and the power levels event are sent sequentially, while the subsequent events are created and collected to be sent at the end of the function. This is currently done by appending them to a list and then iterating over the list to send, the next step (after this PR) would be to send and persist the collected events as a batch.
Since MSC3715 has passed FCP, the stable parameter can be used.
This currently falls back to the unstable parameter if the stable
parameter is not provided (and MSC3715 support is enabled in
the configuration).
This fixes a bug where the `/relations` API with `dir=f` would
skip the first item of each page (except the first page), causing
incomplete data to be returned to the client.
Part of #13019
This changes all the permission-related methods to rely on the Requester instead of the UserID. This is a first step towards enabling scoped access tokens at some point, since I expect the Requester to have scope-related informations in it.
It also changes methods which figure out the user/device/appservice out of the access token to return a Requester instead of something else. This avoids having store-related objects in the methods signatures.
This adds support for the stable identifiers of MSC2285 while
continuing to support the unstable identifiers behind the configuration
flag. These will be removed in a future version.
==============================
This RC reintroduces support for `account_threepid_delegates.email`, which was removed in 1.64.0rc1. It remains deprecated and will be removed altogether in a future release. ([\#13406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13406))
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Merge tag 'v1.64.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.64.0rc2 (2022-07-29)
==============================
This RC reintroduces support for `account_threepid_delegates.email`, which was removed in 1.64.0rc1. It remains deprecated and will be removed altogether in a future release. ([\#13406](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13406))
There is a corner in `_check_event_auth` (long known as "the weird corner") where, if we get an event with auth_events which don't match those we were expecting, we attempt to resolve the diffence between our state and the remote's with a state resolution.
This isn't specced, and there's general agreement we shouldn't be doing it.
However, it turns out that the faster-joins code was relying on it, so we need to introduce something similar (but rather simpler) for that.
* Drop support for delegating email validation
Delegating email validation to an IS is insecure (since it allows the owner of
the IS to do a password reset on your HS), and has long been deprecated. It
will now cause a config error at startup.
* Update unit test which checks for email verification
Give it an `email` config instead of a threepid delegate
* Remove unused method `requestEmailToken`
* Simplify config handling for email verification
Rather than an enum and a boolean, all we need here is a single bool, which
says whether we are or are not doing email verification.
* update docs
* changelog
* upgrade.md: fix typo
* update version number
this will be in 1.64, not 1.63
* update version number
this one too
Inspired by the room batch handler, this uses previous event inserts to
pre-populate prev events during room creation, reducing the number of
queries required to create a room.
Signed off by Nick @ Beeper (@Fizzadar)
* Rename test_fedclient to match its source file
* Require at least one destination to be truthy
* Explicitly validate user ID in profile endpoint GETs
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update worker docs to remove group endpoints.
* Removes an unused parameter to `ApplicationService`.
* Break dependency between media repo and groups.
* Avoid copying `m.room.related_groups` state events during room upgrades.
==============================
This release of Synapse adds a unique index to the `state_group_edges` table, in
order to prevent accidentally introducing duplicate information (for example,
because a database backup was restored multiple times). If your Synapse database
already has duplicate rows in this table, this could fail with an error and
require manual remediation.
Additionally, the signature of the `check_event_for_spam` module callback has changed.
The previous signature has been deprecated and remains working for now. Module authors
should update their modules to use the new signature where possible.
See [the upgrade notes](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1600)
for more details.
Features
--------
- Add an option allowing users to use their password to reauthenticate for privileged actions even though password login is disabled. ([\#12883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12883))
Bugfixes
--------
- Explicitly close `ijson` coroutines once we are done with them, instead of leaving the garbage collector to close them. ([\#12875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12875))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Improve URL previews by not including the content of media tags in the generated description. ([\#12887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12887))
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Merge tag 'v1.60.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.60.0rc2 (2022-05-27)
==============================
This release of Synapse adds a unique index to the `state_group_edges` table, in
order to prevent accidentally introducing duplicate information (for example,
because a database backup was restored multiple times). If your Synapse database
already has duplicate rows in this table, this could fail with an error and
require manual remediation.
Additionally, the signature of the `check_event_for_spam` module callback has changed.
The previous signature has been deprecated and remains working for now. Module authors
should update their modules to use the new signature where possible.
See [the upgrade notes](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/upgrade.md#upgrading-to-v1600)
for more details.
Features
--------
- Add an option allowing users to use their password to reauthenticate for privileged actions even though password login is disabled. ([\#12883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12883))
Bugfixes
--------
- Explicitly close `ijson` coroutines once we are done with them, instead of leaving the garbage collector to close them. ([\#12875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12875))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Improve URL previews by not including the content of media tags in the generated description. ([\#12887](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/12887))
Makes it so that groups/communities no longer exist from a user-POV. E.g. we remove:
* All API endpoints (including Client-Server, Server-Server, and admin).
* Documented configuration options (and the experimental flag, which is now unused).
* Special handling during room upgrades.
* The `groups` section of the `/sync` response.
Parse the `m.relates_to` event content field (which describes relations)
in a single place, this is used during:
* Event persistence.
* Validation of the Client-Server API.
* Fetching bundled aggregations.
* Processing of push rules.
Each of these separately implement the logic and each made slightly
different assumptions about what was valid. Some had minor / potential
bugs.
Fixes a regression from 8b309adb43 (#11660)
and b65acead42 (#11752) where events which
themselves were an edit or an annotation could have bundled aggregations calculated,
which is not allowed.
* Changes hidden read receipts to be a separate receipt type
(instead of a field on `m.read`).
* Updates the `/receipts` endpoint to accept `m.fully_read`.
* `m.login.jwt`, which was never specced and has been deprecated
since Synapse 1.16.0. (`org.matrix.login.jwt` can be used instead.)
* `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service`, which was
stabilized as part of the Matrix spec v1.2 release.
The `latest_event` field of the bundled aggregations for `m.thread` relations
did not include bundled aggregations itself. This resulted in clients needing to
immediately request the event from the server (and thus making it useless that
the latest event itself was serialized instead of just including an event ID).
When configuring the return values of mocks, prefer awaitables from
`make_awaitable` over `defer.succeed`. `Deferred`s are only awaitable
once, so it is inappropriate for a mock to return the same `Deferred`
multiple times.
Also update `run_in_background` to support functions that return
arbitrary awaitables.
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@element.io>
Consider the requester's ignored users when calculating the
bundled aggregations.
See #12285 / 4df10d3214
for corresponding changes for the `/relations` endpoint.
There are a bunch of places we call get_success on an immediate value, which is unnecessary. Let's rip them out, and remove the redundant functionality in get_success and friends.
