Additionally:
* Consistently use `freeze()` in test
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Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 6543 <6543@obermui.de>
==============================
Bugfixes
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- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.40.0 that caused Synapse to fail to process incoming federation traffic after handling a large amount of events in a v1 room. ([\#11806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11806))
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Merge tag 'v1.51.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.51.0rc2 (2022-01-24)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse 1.40.0 that caused Synapse to fail to process incoming federation traffic after handling a large amount of events in a v1 room. ([\#11806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11806))
* remove reference in comments to python3.6
* upgrade tox python env in script
* bump python version in example for completeness
* upgrade python version requirement in setup doc
* upgrade necessary python version in __init__.py
* upgrade python version in setup.py
* newsfragment
* drops refs to bionic and replace with focal
* bump refs to postgres 9.6 to 10
* fix hanging ci
* try installing tzdata first
* revert change made in b979f336
* ignore new random mypy error while debugging other error
* fix lint error for temporary workaround
* revert change to install list
* try passing env var
* export debian frontend var?
* move line and add comment
* bump pillow dependency
* bump lxml depenency
* install libjpeg-dev for pillow
* bump automat version to one compatible with py3.8
* add libwebp for pillow
* bump twisted trunk python version
* change suffix of newsfragment
* remove redundant python 3.7 checks
* lint
David Robertson