PostgreSQL may underestimate the number of distinct `room_id`s in
`event_search`, which can cause it to use table scans for queries for
multiple rooms.
Fix this by setting `n_distinct` on the column.
Resolves#14402.
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org>
When this background update did its last batch, it would try to update all the
events that had been inserted since the bgupdate started, which could cause a
table-scan. Make sure we limit the update correctly.
For forward compatibility, Synapse needs to ignore fields it does not
recognise instead of raising an error.
Fixes#14365.
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org>
==============================
Please note that, as announced in the release notes for Synapse 1.69.0, legacy Prometheus metric names are now disabled by default.
They will be removed altogether in Synapse 1.73.0.
If not already done, server administrators should update their dashboards and alerting rules to avoid using the deprecated metric names.
See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.71/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1710) for more details.
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Document the changes to monthly active user metrics due to deprecation of legacy Prometheus metric names. ([\#14358](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14358), [\#14360](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14360))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Disable legacy Prometheus metric names by default. They can still be re-enabled for now, but they will be removed altogether in Synapse 1.73.0. ([\#14353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14353))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Run unit tests against Python 3.11. ([\#13812](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13812))
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Merge tag 'v1.71.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.71.0rc2 (2022-11-04)
==============================
Please note that, as announced in the release notes for Synapse 1.69.0, legacy Prometheus metric names are now disabled by default.
They will be removed altogether in Synapse 1.73.0.
If not already done, server administrators should update their dashboards and alerting rules to avoid using the deprecated metric names.
See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.71/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1710) for more details.
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Document the changes to monthly active user metrics due to deprecation of legacy Prometheus metric names. ([\#14358](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14358), [\#14360](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14360))
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Disable legacy Prometheus metric names by default. They can still be re-enabled for now, but they will be removed altogether in Synapse 1.73.0. ([\#14353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14353))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Run unit tests against Python 3.11. ([\#13812](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13812))
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>
PostgreSQL 14 changed the behavior of `websearch_to_tsquery` to
improve some behaviour.
The tests were hitting those edge-cases about handling of hanging double
quotes. This fixes the tests to take into account the PostgreSQL version.
* Add workers settings to configuration manual
* Update `pusher_instances`
* update url to python logger
* update headlines
* update links after headline change
* remove link from `daemon process`
There is no docs in Synapse for this
* extend example for `federation_sender_instances` and `pusher_instances`
* more infos about stream writers
* add link to DAG
* update `pusher_instances`
* update `worker_listeners`
* update `stream_writers`
* Update `worker_name`
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <davidr@element.io>
1. `federation_client.timestamp_to_event(...)` now handles all `destination` looping and uses our generic `_try_destination_list(...)` helper.
2. Consistently handling `NotRetryingDestination` and `FederationDeniedError` across `get_pdu` , backfill, and the generic `_try_destination_list` which is used for many places we use this pattern.
3. `get_pdu(...)` now returns `PulledPduInfo` so we know which `destination` we ended up pulling the PDU from
Fixes check_avatar_size_and_mime_type() to successfully update avatars on homeservers running on non-default ports which it would mistakenly treat as remote homeserver while validating the avatar's size and mime type.
Signed-off-by: Ashish Kumar ashfame@users.noreply.github.com
Support a unified search query syntax which leverages more of the full-text
search of each database supported by Synapse.
Supports, with the same syntax across Postgresql 11+ and Sqlite:
- quoted "search terms"
- `AND`, `OR`, `-` (negation) operators
- Matching words based on their stem, e.g. searches for "dog" matches
documents containing "dogs".
This is achieved by
- If on postgresql 11+, pass the user input to `websearch_to_tsquery`
- If on sqlite, manually parse the query and transform it into the sqlite-specific
query syntax.
Note that postgresql 10, which is close to end-of-life, falls back to using
`phraseto_tsquery`, which only supports a subset of the features.
Multiple terms separated by a space are implicitly ANDed.
Note that:
1. There is no escaping of full-text syntax that might be supported by the database;
e.g. `NOT`, `NEAR`, `*` in sqlite. This runs the risk that people might discover this
as accidental functionality and depend on something we don't guarantee.
2. English text is assumed for stemming. To support other languages, either the target
language needs to be known at the time of indexing the message (via room metadata,
or otherwise), or a separate index for each language supported could be created.
Sqlite docs: https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#full_text_index_queries
Postgres docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/textsearch-controls.html
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.
* Return NOT_JSON if decode fails and defer set_timeline_upper_limit call until after check_valid_filter. Fixes#13661. Signed-off-by: Ryan Miguel <miguel.ryanj@gmail.com>.
* Reword changelog
Use a base template to create a cohesive feel across the HTML
templates provided by Synapse.
Adds basic styling to the base template for a more user-friendly
look and feel.
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).
* Show erasure status when listing users in the Admin API
* Use USING when joining erased_users
* Add changelog entry
* Revert "Use USING when joining erased_users"
This reverts commit 30bd2bf106.
* Make the erased check work on postgres
* Add a testcase for showing erased user status
* Appease the style linter
* Explicitly convert `erased` to bool to make SQLite consistent with Postgres
This also adds us an easy way in to fix the other accidentally integered columns.
* Move erasure status test to UsersListTestCase
* Include user erased status when fetching user info via the admin API
* Document the erase status in user_admin_api
* Appease the linter and mypy
* Signpost comments in tests
Co-authored-by: Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadeusz@sosnierz.com>
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <david.m.robertson1@gmail.com>
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.
* Fix `track_memory_usage` on poetry-core 1.3.x installations
The same kind of problem as discussed in #14085:
1. we defined an extra with an underscore
2. we look it up at runtime with an underscore
3. but poetry-core 1.3.x. installs it with a dash, causing (2) to fail.
Fix by using a dash everywhere.
* Changelog
Spawned while investigating https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13944
This way we might get some more context whenever an `403 Forbidden - body: {"errcode":"M_FORBIDDEN","error":"You don't have permission to access that event."}` error is produced.
`log_config.yaml`
```yaml
loggers:
synapse:
level: INFO
synapse.visibility:
level: DEBUG
```
This should fix a race where the event notification comes in over
replication before the state replication, leaving a window during
which a sync may get an incorrect list of rooms for the user.
While https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13635 stops us from doing the slow thing after we've already done it once, this PR stops us from doing one of the slow things in the first place.
Related to
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13622
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13635
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13676
Part of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13356
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13815 which tracks event signature failures.
With this PR, we avoid the call to the costly `_get_state_ids_after_missing_prev_event` because the signature failure will count as an attempt before and we filter events based on the backoff before calling `_get_state_ids_after_missing_prev_event` now.
For example, this will save us 156s out of the 185s total that this `matrix.org` `/messages` request. If you want to see the full Jaeger trace of this, you can drag and drop this `trace.json` into your own Jaeger, https://gist.github.com/MadLittleMods/4b12d0d0afe88c2f65ffcc907306b761
To explain this exact scenario around `/messages` -> backfill, we call `/backfill` and first check the signatures of the 100 events. We see bad signature for `$luA4l7QHhf_jadH3mI-AyFqho0U2Q-IXXUbGSMq6h6M` and `$zuOn2Rd2vsC7SUia3Hp3r6JSkSFKcc5j3QTTqW_0jDw` (both member events). Then we process the 98 events remaining that have valid signatures but one of the events references `$luA4l7QHhf_jadH3mI-AyFqho0U2Q-IXXUbGSMq6h6M` as a `prev_event`. So we have to do the whole `_get_state_ids_after_missing_prev_event` rigmarole which pulls in those same events which fail again because the signatures are still invalid.
- `backfill`
- `outgoing-federation-request` `/backfill`
- `_check_sigs_and_hash_and_fetch`
- `_check_sigs_and_hash_and_fetch_one` for each event received over backfill
- ❗ `$luA4l7QHhf_jadH3mI-AyFqho0U2Q-IXXUbGSMq6h6M` fails with `Signature on retrieved event was invalid.`: `unable to verify signature for sender domain xxx: 401: Failed to find any key to satisfy: _FetchKeyRequest(...)`
- ❗ `$zuOn2Rd2vsC7SUia3Hp3r6JSkSFKcc5j3QTTqW_0jDw` fails with `Signature on retrieved event was invalid.`: `unable to verify signature for sender domain xxx: 401: Failed to find any key to satisfy: _FetchKeyRequest(...)`
- `_process_pulled_events`
- `_process_pulled_event` for each validated event
- ❗ Event `$Q0iMdqtz3IJYfZQU2Xk2WjB5NDF8Gg8cFSYYyKQgKJ0` references `$luA4l7QHhf_jadH3mI-AyFqho0U2Q-IXXUbGSMq6h6M` as a `prev_event` which is missing so we try to get it
- `_get_state_ids_after_missing_prev_event`
- `outgoing-federation-request` `/state_ids`
- ❗ `get_pdu` for `$luA4l7QHhf_jadH3mI-AyFqho0U2Q-IXXUbGSMq6h6M` which fails the signature check again
- ❗ `get_pdu` for `$zuOn2Rd2vsC7SUia3Hp3r6JSkSFKcc5j3QTTqW_0jDw` which fails the signature check
The root node of a thread (and events related to it) are considered
"part of a thread" when validating receipts. This allows clients which
show the root node in both the main timeline and the threaded timeline
to easily send receipts in either.
Note that threaded notifications are not created for these events, these
events created notifications on the main timeline.
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.
**Before:**
```
WARNING - POST-11 - Unable to parse JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) (b'')
```
**After:**
```
WARNING - POST-11 - Unable to parse JSON from POST /_matrix/client/v3/join/%21ZlmJtelqFroDRJYZaq:hs1?server_name=hs1 response: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) (b'')
```
---
It's possible to figure out which endpoint these warnings were coming from before but you had to follow the request ID `POST-11` to the log line that says `Completed request [...]`. Including this key information next to the JSON parsing error makes it much easier to reason whether it matters or not.
```
2022-09-29T08:23:25.7875506Z synapse_main | 2022-09-29 08:21:10,336 - synapse.http.matrixfederationclient - 299 - INFO - POST-11 - {GET-O-13} [hs1] Completed request: 200 OK in 0.53 secs, got 450 bytes - GET matrix://hs1/_matrix/federation/v1/make_join/%21ohtKoQiXlPePSycXwp%3Ahs1/%40charlie%3Ahs2?ver=1&ver=2&ver=3&ver=4&ver=5&ver=6&ver=org.matrix.msc2176&ver=7&ver=8&ver=9&ver=org.matrix.msc3787&ver=10&ver=org.matrix.msc2716v4
```
---
As a note, having no `body` is normal for the `/join` endpoint and it can handle it.
0c853e0970/synapse/rest/client/room.py (L398-L403)
Alternatively we could remove these extra logs but they are probably more usually helpful to figure out what went wrong.
Fixes two related bugs:
* No edit information was bundled for events which aren't `m.room.message`.
* `m.new_content` was not applied for those events.
* Revert to prior build-system requirements
This reverts #14080.
* Use normalised extra name, which poetry-core 1.3 will generate anyway
* Changelog
* Upper bound build-system requirements
* Remove upgrade note; expand changelog entry a little.
* Fix typo in build-system comment
Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Attempt to parse any valid information from an oEmbed response
(instead of bailing at the first unexpected data). This should allow
for more partial oEmbed data to be returned, resulting in better /
more URL previews, even if those URL previews are only partial.
==============================
Please note that legacy Prometheus metric names are now deprecated and will be removed in Synapse 1.73.0.
Server administrators should update their dashboards and alerting rules to avoid using the deprecated metric names.
See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.69/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1690) for more details.
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Deprecate the `generate_short_term_login_token` method in favor of an async `create_login_token` method in the Module API. ([\#13842](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13842))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Ensure Synapse v1.69 works with upcoming database changes in v1.70. ([\#14045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14045))
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.68.0 where messages could not be sent in rooms with non-integer `notifications` power level. ([\#14073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14073))
- Temporarily pin build-system requirements to workaround an incompatibility with poetry-core 1.3.0. This will be reverted before the v1.69.0 release proper, see [\#14079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14079). ([\#14080](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14080))
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Merge tag 'v1.69.0rc2' into develop
Synapse 1.69.0rc2 (2022-10-06)
==============================
Please note that legacy Prometheus metric names are now deprecated and will be removed in Synapse 1.73.0.
Server administrators should update their dashboards and alerting rules to avoid using the deprecated metric names.
See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.69/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1690) for more details.
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- Deprecate the `generate_short_term_login_token` method in favor of an async `create_login_token` method in the Module API. ([\#13842](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13842))
Internal Changes
----------------
- Ensure Synapse v1.69 works with upcoming database changes in v1.70. ([\#14045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14045))
- Fix a bug introduced in Synapse v1.68.0 where messages could not be sent in rooms with non-integer `notifications` power level. ([\#14073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14073))
- Temporarily pin build-system requirements to workaround an incompatibility with poetry-core 1.3.0. This will be reverted before the v1.69.0 release proper, see [\#14079](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14079). ([\#14080](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14080))
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.
By getting the joined rooms before the current token we avoid any reading
history to confirm a user *was* in a room. We can then use any membership
change events, which we already fetch during sync, to determine the final
list of joined room IDs.
Applies the proper logic for unthreaded and threaded receipts to either
apply to all events in the room or only events in the same thread, respectively.
When retrieving counts of notifications segment the results based on the
thread ID, but choose whether to return them as individual threads or as
a single summed field by letting the client opt-in via a sync flag.
The summarization code is also updated to be per thread, instead of per
room.
Implements MSC2832 by sending application service access
tokens in the Authorization header.
The access token is also still sent as a query parameter until
the application service ecosystem has fully migrated to using
headers. In the future this could be made opt-in, or removed
completely.
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.
Instead of running a single large query, run a single query for
user-only lookups and additional queries for batches of user device
lookups.
Resolves#13580.
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org>
Spawned while working on [`get_users_in_room` mis-uses](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13958#discussion_r984074897) and thinking we could use `get_local_users_in_room` here but we can't.
From first glance, it seemed like this was only using local users from all of the `is_mine_id(user_id)` checks but I see that it does actually use remote users. Just making things a little more clear here what it does and mentions remote users so maybe that will be more obvious in the future.
* Update mypy and mypy-zope
* Unignore assigning to LogRecord attributes
Presumably https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/8064 makes this ok
Cherry-picked from #13521
* Remove unused ignores due to mypy ParamSpec fixes
https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/12668
Cherry-picked from #13521
* Remove additional unused ignores
* Fix new mypy complaints related to `assertGreater`
Presumably due to https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/8077
* Changelog
* Reword changelog
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
We move the expensive check of visibility to after calculating push actions, avoiding the expensive check for users who won't get pushed anyway.
I think this should have a big impact on rooms with large numbers of local users that have pushed disabled.
Fixes#13942. Introduced in #13575.
Basically, let's only get the ordered set of hosts out of the DB if we need an ordered set of hosts. Since we split the function up the caching won't be as good, but I think it will still be fine as e.g. multiple backfill requests for the same room will hit the cache.
There is no need to grab thousands of backfill points when we only need 5 to make the `/backfill` request with. We need to grab a few extra in case the first few aren't visible in the history.
Previously, we grabbed thousands of backfill points from the database, then sorted and filtered them in the app. Fetching the 4.6k backfill points for `#matrix:matrix.org` from the database takes ~50ms - ~570ms so it's not like this saves a lot of time 🤷. But it might save us more time now that `get_backfill_points_in_room`/`get_insertion_event_backward_extremities_in_room` are more complicated after https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13635
This PR moves the filtering and limiting to the SQL query so we just have less data to work with in the first place.
Part of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/13356
Sean Quah