This adds a counter `synapse_emails_sent_total` for emails sent. They
are broken down by `type`, which are `password_reset`, `registration`,
`add_threepid`, `notification` (matching the methods of `Mailer`).
We do this by adding support to the LRU cache for "extra indices" based
on the cached value. This allows us to efficiently map from room ID to
the cached events and only invalidate those.
List of users not to send out device list updates for when they register
new devices. This is useful to handle bot accounts.
This is undocumented as its mostly a hack to test on matrix.org.
Note: This will still send out device list updates if the device is
later updated, e.g. end to end keys are added.
This basically reverts a change that was in
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/16833, where we reduced the
batching.
The smaller batching can cause performance issues on busy servers and
databases.
Partially reverts #16796
This is causing errors of the form:
```
Error: Failed to CreateArtifact: Received non-retryable error: Failed request: (409) Conflict: an artifact with this name already exists on the workflow run
```
for the debs and wheels stages.
There were breaking changes that weren't included in the dependabot
changelog (:/):
https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact#breaking-changes
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During the migration the automated script to update the copyright
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Reinstate them.
Pulled out of #16803 since the drive-by cleanup was maybe not as
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Prior to this PR, if a request to create a public (public as in
published to the rooms directory) room violated the room list
publication rules set in the
[config](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#room_list_publication_rules),
the request to create the room was denied and the room was not created.
This PR changes the behavior such that when a request to create a room
published to the directory violates room list publication rules, the
room is still created but the room is not published to the directory.
The current query supports passing in a list of users, which generates a
query using `user_id = ANY(..)`. This is generates a less efficient
query plan that is notably slower than a simple `user_id = ?` condition.
Note: The new function is mostly a copy and paste and then a
simplification of the existing function.
The crux of the change is to try and make the queries simpler and pull
out fewer rows. Before, there were quite a few joins against subqueries,
which caused postgres to pull out more rows than necessary.
Instead, let's simplify the query and do some of the filtering out in
Python instead, letting Postgres do better optimizations now that it
doesn't have to deal with joins against subqueries.
Review note: this is a complete rewrite of the function, so not sure how
useful the diff is.
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In previous versions of authlib using `client_secret_basic` without a
`client_secret` would result in an invalid auth header. Since authlib
1.3 it throws an exception.
The configuration may be accepted in by very lax servers, so we don't
want to deny it outright. Instead, let's default the
`client_auth_method` to `none`, which does the right thing. If the
config specifies `client_auth_method` and no `client_secret` then that
is going to be bogus and we should reject it
Sometimes we fail to fetch events during backfill due to missing state,
and we often end up querying the same bad events periodically (as people
backpaginate). In such cases its likely we will continue to fail to get
the state, and therefore we should try *before* loading the state that
we have from the DB (as otherwise it's wasted DB and memory).
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There are two changes here:
1. Only pull out the required state when handling the request.
2. Change the get filtered state return type to check that we're only
querying state that was requested
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Instead of persisting outliers in a bunch of batches, let's just do them
all at once.
This is fine because all `_auth_and_persist_outliers_inner` is doing is
checking the auth rules for each event, which requires the events to be
topologically sorted by the auth graph.
The idea here being that the directory server shouldn't advertise rooms
to a requesting server is the requesting server would not be allowed to
join or participate in the room.
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Simplify code now that you can't request unlimited rooms
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Filter out rooms from federated requests that don't have the correct ACL
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Request a handful more when filtering ACLs so that we can try to avoid
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There are a couple of things we need to be careful of here:
1. The current python code does no validation when loading from the DB,
so we need to be careful to ignore such errors (at least on jki.re there
are some old events with internal metadata fields of the wrong type).
2. We want to be memory efficient, as we often have many hundreds of
thousands of events in the cache at a time.
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We remove these fields as they're just duplicating data the event
already stores, and (for reasons 🤫) I'd like to simplify
the class to only store simple types.
I'm not entirely convinced that we shouldn't instead add helper methods
to the event class to generate stream tokens, but I don't really think
that's where they belong either
This is an extra response parameter just added to MSC3981. In the
current impl, the recursion depth is always 3, so this just returns a
static 3 if the recurse parameter is supplied.
Previously, the response status of `HTMLResource` was hardcoded as
`200`. However, for proper redirection after the user verifies their
email, we require the status to be `302`. This PR addresses that issue
by using `code` as response status.
Added in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/16533, this workflow
was intended to be run once to add the version picker to all historical
versions of the https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse documentation
website.
Note that the latest version of the docs built from this repo now exist
at https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/.
The workflow has been run successfully and the version picker was added
to the documentation. Thus we can now delete this workflow.
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Note: Do not confuse this PR with
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9453. This PR was made
while we were populating this repo with "Dummy issues" after the
changeover from matrix-org/synapse to element-hq/synapse - therefore
referencing this PR may cause some confusion.
Closes:
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10397
- #10397
An administrator should know whether he wants to set a password or not.
There are many uses cases where a blank password is required.
- Use of only some users with SSO.
- Use of bots with password, users with SSO
* Add `ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY ...` for individual tables
We can't combine them into one file as it makes it likely to hit a deadlock
if Synapse is running, as it only takes one other transaction to access two
tables in a different order to the schema delta.
* Add notes
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* Re-introduce REPLICA IDENTITY test
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poetry-core 1.8.x includes a fix which properly moves the generate
synapse_rust.abi3.so file to the synapse directory when using an
editable install.
Without this change developers are left with a confusing experience
of the synapse.synapse_rust module not being found after installation.
Implement MSC3860 to follow redirects for federated media downloads.
Note that the Client-Server API doesn't support this (yet) since the media
repository in Synapse doesn't have a way of supporting redirects.
* Describe `insert_client_ip`
* Pull out client_ips and MAU tracking to BaseAuth
* Define HAS_AUTHLIB once in tests
sick of copypasting
* Track ips and token usage when delegating auth
* Test that we track MAU and user_ips
* Don't track `__oidc_admin`
Keeping track of a lower bound of stream ID where we've deleted everything below makes the queries much faster. Otherwise, every time we scan for rows to delete we'd re-scan across all the rows that have previously deleted (until the next table VACUUM).
If a worker reconnects to Redis we send out the current positions of all our streams. However, if we're also trying to send out a backlog of RDATA at the same time then we can end up sending a `POSITION` with the current token *before* we've sent all the RDATA before the current token.
This doesn't cause actual bugs as the receiving servers see the POSITION, fetch the relevant rows from the DB, and then ignore the old RDATA as they come in. However, this is inefficient so it'd be better if we didn't send out-of-order positions
* Fix the CI query that did not detect all cases of missing primary keys
* Add more missing REPLICA IDENTITY entries
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
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* Add Postgres replica identities to tables that don't have an implicit one
Fixes#16224
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* Move the delta to version 83 as we missed the boat for 82
* Add a test that all tables have a REPLICA IDENTITY
* Extend the test to include when indices are deleted
* isort
* black
* Fully qualify `oid` as it is a 'hidden attribute' in Postgres 11
* Update tests/storage/test_database.py
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add missed tables
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Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
If simple_{insert,upsert,update}_many_txn is called without any data
to modify then return instead of executing the query.
This matches the behavior of simple_{select,delete}_many_txn.
Fetch information needed for push rule evaluation in parallel.
Ideally this would use query pipelining, but this is not
available in psycopg2.
Due to the database thread pool this may result in little
to no parallelization.
Previously only Twisted's EPollReactor was compatible with the
reactor timing metric, notably not working when asyncio was used.
After this change, the following configurations support the reactor
timing metric:
* poll, epoll, or select reactors
* asyncio reactor with a poll, epoll, select, /dev/poll, or kqueue event loop.
The event persistence code used to handle multiple rooms
at a time, but was simplified to only ever be called with a
single room at a time (different rooms are now handled in
parallel). The code is still generic to multiple rooms causing
a lot of work that is unnecessary (e.g. unnecessary loops, and
partitioning data by room).
This strips out the ability to handle multiple rooms at once, greatly
simplifying the code.
Just to standardize on the normal helpers, it might also have
a slight perf improvement on PostgreSQL which will now use
`ANY (?)` instead of `IN (?, ?, ...)`.
* complement: enable dirty runs
* Add changelog
* Set a low connpool limit when running in Complement
Dirty runs can cause many containers to be running concurrently,
which seems to easily exhaust resources on the host. The increased
speedup from dirty runs also seems to use more db connections on
workers, which are misconfigured currently to have
`SUM(workers * cp_max) > max_connections`, causing
```
FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
```
which results in tests failing.
* Try p=2 concurrency to restrict slowness of servers which causes partial state join tests to flake
* Debug logging
* Only run flakey tests
* Only adjust connection pool limits in worker mode
* Move cp vars to somewhere where they get executed in CI
* Move cp values back to where they actually work
* Debug logging
* Try p=1 to see if this makes worker mode happier
* Remove debug logging
This is mostly useful for federated rooms where some users
would get stuck in the invite or knock state when the room
was purged from their homeserver.
This adds a module API which allows a module to update a user's
presence state/status message. This is useful for controlling presence
from an external system.
To fully control presence from the module the presence.enabled config
parameter gains a new state of "untracked" which disables internal tracking
of presence changes via user actions, etc. Only updates from the module will
be persisted and sent down sync properly).
Twisted trunk makes a change to the `TLSMemoryBIOFactory` where
the underlying protocol is changed from `TLSMemoryBIOProtocol` to
`BufferingTLSTransport` to improve performance of TLS code (see
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/11989).
In order to properly hook this code up in tests we need to pass the test
reactor's clock into `TLSMemoryBIOFactory` to avoid the global (trial)
reactor being used by default.
Twisted does something similar internally for tests:
157cd8e659/src/twisted/web/test/test_agent.py (L871-L874)
* Fix bug where a new writer advances their token too quickly
When starting a new writer (for e.g. persisting events), the
`MultiWriterIdGenerator` doesn't have a minimum token for it as there
are no rows matching that new writer in the DB.
This results in the the first stream ID it acquired being announced as
persisted *before* it actually finishes persisting, if another writer
gets and persists a subsequent stream ID. This is due to the logic of
setting the minimum persisted position to the minimum known position of
across all writers, and the new writer starts off not being considered.
* Fix sending out POSITIONs when our token advances without update
Broke in #14820
* For replication HTTP requests, only wait for minimal position
This could happen if the last rows in the account data stream were inserted into `account_data`. After a restart the max account ID would be calculated without looking at the `account_data` table, and so have an old ID.
If using the script remotely, there's no particularly convincing reason
to disable certificate verification, as this makes the connection
interceptible.
If on the other hand, the script is used locally (the most common use
case), you can simply target the HTTP listener and avoid TLS altogether.
This is what the script already attempts to do if passed a homeserver
configuration YAML file.
This splits thinsg into two queries, but most of the time we won't have
new event backwards extremities so this shouldn't actually add an extra
RTT for the majority of cases.
Note this removes the check for events with no prev events, but that was
part of MSC2716 work that has since been removed.
Synapse was incorrectly implemented with a knock_state_events
property on some APIs (instead of knock_room_state). This was
correct in Synapse 1.70.0, but *both* fields were sent to also be
compatible with Synapse versions expecting the wrong field.
Enough time has passed that only the correct field needs to be
included/handled.
This converts the media servlet URLs in the same way as
(most) of the rest of Synapse. This will give more flexibility
in the versions each endpoint exists under.
This avoids calling cursor_to_dict and then immediately
unpacking the values in the dict for other users. By not
creating the intermediate dictionary we can avoid allocating
the dictionary and strings for the keys, which should generally
be more performant.
Additionally this improves type hints by avoid Dict[str, Any]
dictionaries coming out of the database layer.
Co-authored-by: David Robertson <davidr@element.io>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <patrickc@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Assert that the return type of callables wrapped in @cached
and @cachedList are cachable (aka immutable).
This is because if a worker reaches ~100% CPU then everything starts
lagging and we hit the log line a lot. When at error we invoke sentry
and that has a lot of overhead, which then puts even more pressure on
the worker.
There are no known bugs in the message retention code, but
it is possible that there still exists race conditions. Additional
fixes will be made as reported.
This allows maturin >= 0.15 to build the properly named
shared library object.
For now the old configuration is also kept to allow for
older maturin installs to be used.
Also add restore of purge/shutdown rooms after a synapse restart.
Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Erik Johnston <erikj@matrix.org>
Refresh tokens were not correctly moved to the rehydrated
device (similar to how the access token is currently handled).
This resulted in invalid refresh tokens after rehydration.
Adds both the List-Unsubscribe (RFC2369) and List-Unsubscribe-Post (RFC8058)
headers to push notification emails, which together should:
* Show an "Unsubscribe" link in the MUA UI when viewing Synapse notification emails.
* Enable "one-click" unsubscribe (the user never leaves their MUA, which automatically
makes a POST request to the specified endpoint).
Using the new `TaskScheduler` meant that we'ed create lots of new
metrics (due to adding task ID to the desc of background process),
resulting in requests for metrics taking an increasing amount of CPU.
* Allow user_id to be optional for room deletion
* Add module API method to delete a room
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* Don't worry about the case block=True && requester_user_id is None
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Add a (long) timeout to when a "busy" device is considered not online.
This does *not* match MSC3026, but is a reasonable thing for an
implementation to do.
Expands tests for the (unstable) busy presence with multiple devices.
Tracks presence on an individual per-device basis and combine
the per-device state into a per-user state. This should help in
situations where a user has multiple devices with conflicting status
(e.g. one is syncing with unavailable and one is syncing with online).
The tie-breaking is done by priority:
BUSY > ONLINE > UNAVAILABLE > OFFLINE
* Fix rare bug that broke looping calls
We can't interact with the reactor from the main thread via looping
call.
Introduced in v1.90.0 / #15791.
* Newsfile
Refactoring to use both the user ID & the device ID when tracking
the currently syncing users in the presence handler.
This is done both locally and over replication. Note that the device
ID is discarded but will be used in a future change.
Refactoring to pass the device ID (in addition to the user ID) through
the presence handler (specifically the `user_syncing`, `set_state`,
and `bump_presence_active_time` methods and their replication
versions).
Simplify some of the presence code by reducing duplicated code between
worker & non-worker modes.
The main change is to push some of the logic from `user_syncing` into
`set_state`. This is done by passing whether the user is setting the presence
via a `/sync` with a new `is_sync` flag to `set_state`. If this is `true` some
additional logic is performed:
* Don't override `busy` presence.
* Update the `last_user_sync_ts`.
* Never update the status message.
* Properly update retry_last_ts when hitting the maximum retry interval
This was broken in 1.87 when the maximum retry interval got changed from
almost infinite to a week (and made configurable).
fixes#16101
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Werner <nicolas.werner@hotmail.de>
* Add changelog
* Change fix + add test
* Add comment
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Co-authored-by: Mathieu Velten <mathieuv@matrix.org>
This should only be called on HomeServer objects which are configured
to run background tasks, which is automatically (and properly) done via
the call to setup().
If we don't have all the auth events in a room then not all state events will have a chain cover index. Even so, we can still use the chain cover index on the events that do have it, rather than bailing and using the slower functions.
This situation should not arise for newly persisted rooms, as we check we have the full auth chain for each event, but can happen for existing rooms.
c.f. #15245
We were seeing serialization errors when taking out multiple read locks.
The transactions were retried, so isn't causing any failures.
Introduced in #15782.
* Fix the method signature of `run_db_interaction` on the module API
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
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Misc. clean-ups to:
* Use keyword arguments.
* Return early (reducing indentation) of some functions.
* Removing duplicated / unused code.
* Use wrap_as_background_process.
* Add a module API function to provide `call_later`
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* Add comments
* Update version number
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* Add a cache invalidation clean-up task
* Run the cache invalidation stream clean-up on the background worker
* Tune down
* call_later is in millis!
* Newsfile
Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
* fixup! Add a cache invalidation clean-up task
* Update synapse/storage/databases/main/cache.py
Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>
* Update synapse/storage/databases/main/cache.py
Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>
* MILLISEC -> MS
* Expand on comment
* Move and tweak comment about Postgres
* Use `wrap_as_background_process`
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Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>
For now this maintains compatible with old Synapses by falling back
to using transaction semantics on a per-access token. A future version
of Synapse will drop support for this.
Adds three new configuration variables:
* destination_min_retry_interval is identical to before (10mn).
* destination_retry_multiplier is now 2 instead of 5, the maximum value will
be reached slower.
* destination_max_retry_interval is one day instead of (essentially) infinity.
Capping this will cause destinations to continue to be retried sometimes instead
of being lost forever. The previous value was 2 ^ 62 milliseconds.
The location of the redacts field changes in room version 11. Ensure
it is copied to the *new* location for *old* room versions for
forwards-compatibility with clients.
Note that copying it to the *old* location for the *new* room version
was previously handled.
* Updates the rule ID.
* Use `event_property_is` instead of `event_match`.
This updates the implementation of MSC3958 to match the latest
text from the MSC.
The un_partial_stated_event_stream_sequence and
application_services_txn_id_seq were never properly configured
in the portdb script, resulting in an error on start-up.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Werner <n.werner@famedly.com>
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Werner <n.werner@famedly.com>
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Werner <89468146+nico-famedly@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hubert Chathi <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
And fix a bug in the implementation of the updated redaction
format (MSC2174) where the top-level redacts field was not
properly added for backwards-compatibility.
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.
Make it more obvious which Python version runs on a given Linux distribution so when we end up dropping support for a given Python version, we can more easily find the reference to the Python version and remove any references for the distribution. We don't want to be running tests or building packages on a distribution that no longer has a supported Python version.
This way, we can avoid another situation like when we dropped support for Python 3.7 but forgot to drop the Debian Buster references everywhere (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15893)
Previously, if you just followed the instructions per the docs, you just ran into an error:
```sh
$ poetry run synapse_worker --config-path homeserver_generic_worker1.yaml
Missing mandatory `server_name` config option.
```
**Before:**
```
Error retrieving alias
```
**After:**
```
Error retrieving alias #foo:bar -> 401 Unauthorized
```
*Spawning from creating the [manual testing strategy for the outbound federation proxy](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15773).*
Unix socket support for `federation` and `client` Listeners has existed now for a little while(since [1.81.0](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15353)), but there was one last hold out before it could be complete: HTTP Replication communication. This should finish it up. The Listeners would have always worked, but would have had no way to be talked to/at.
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Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <madlittlemods@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>
A lot of the functions have the same name in this space like `store_file`,
and we also do it multiple times for different reasons (main media repo,
other storage providers, thumbnails, etc) so it's good to differentiate
them so your head doesn't explode.
Follow-up to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15850
Tracing instrumentation to media `/upload` code paths to investigate https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/15841
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.
