This does two things, first it adds a config flag to ignore rooms for
the purposes of presence routing.
Secondly, it changes the caching behaviour to try and improve the cache
hit ratio. Previously, the size of the `do_users_share_a_room` cache
(which stores pairs of users) needs to `O(n²)` for the number of online
users, which is infeasible for large servers.
Instead, we call `get_users_in_room` for both the syncing and updated
users. This sounds more expensive, but a) we will already have cached
the syncing user's rooms, and b) we will only calculate the updated
user's rooms once (rather than once per syncing user).
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `last_active_granularity`, `sync_online_timeout` and `idle_timeout`
options to the `presence` config section, controlling the previously
hard-coded `LAST_ACTIVE_GRANULARITY`, `SYNC_ONLINE_TIMEOUT` and
`IDLE_TIMER` constants (which remain as the defaults).
This is mainly useful on deployments that ratelimit how often syncs can
affect presence (`rc_presence`): the sync timeout must exceed the
ratelimit interval or users flap offline between syncs, so tuning down
presence traffic currently requires squeezing under the fixed 30s limit.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After looking into it, just a couple of things to pick a bone at in the
old wording,
which I thought could be clarified for when I next come to look at this
again.
- the claim that there's a fundamental difference; I'd argue there isn't
really, it's just by convention
on some mainstream distros. So I have changed this to 'typically'
- statements that some distros fetch dependencies at build time
(probably does happen, but
traditional distros make a point of not doing this for the reasons you'd
expect).
- This was probably meant to be talking about Debian, but my observation
based on sample size of 3 is that some crates are packaged natively,
others are vendored in the respective application's source package (like
they do for us) and sometime they patch the bounds a bit
There could probably be room to talk about how distros vendoring
packages is a maintenance burden on them,
but I guess it's a bit moot as we would struggle to conform to wide
enough bounds to make everyone
happy (and anyway; I expect the distros that vendor packages have the
tooling to make this easy to
update and we do keep on top of security updates and release
frequently...)
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Signed-off-by: Olivier 'reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
The reason for querying this support was wanting support for SQLite's JSON operators, which are currently not present in the SQLite version found in Ubuntu's oldest supported LTS.
The JSON operators were used in some of the sticky events work (related: #19452).
Our ruling was that we should support Ubuntu oldest LTS equally to Debian oldstable, so support the oldest of the two versions from those.
That makes some kind of sense as it would be difficult to do otherwise without dropping support for that version of Ubuntu altogether, given if we kept publishing packages intended for use with Postgres, there's a risk that an innocent sysadmin would update their SQLite deployment without realising that it is no longer supported.
This was [discussed months ago
(private)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12RZKPk3a4__JUSH9wYHODo9rRyKzsHg6BSCAcmqmbOU/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.fcdvoc88dy5s)
and at [private](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12RZKPk3a4__JUSH9wYHODo9rRyKzsHg6BSCAcmqmbOU/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.u48ivjge4qpt).
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Signed-off-by: Olivier 'reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
Knowledge from @reivilibre in
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on 2025-12-15.
Spawning from me making Rust changes but nothing useful was printed
until I added `-v`,
```shell
$ poetry install --extras all
Installing dependencies from lock file
Package operations: 0 installs, 1 update, 0 removals
- Updating pyjwt (2.11.0 -> 2.12.0)
Installing the current project: matrix-synapse (1.154.0rc1)
Failed to install /home/eric/Documents/github/element/synapse
```
I also see `poetry run maturin develop` suggested but I'd prefer not to
need to install `maturin` as yet another system tool to manage myself.
If we get PUT for profile fields on an instance that isn't the profile updates stream writer, we'll route the request to be finished on the correct stream writer via http replication.
Added details how synapse syncs the picture claim when
update_profile_information setting is true. Addresses #17836
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Co-authored-by: Michael Hlas <3398654+mhlas7@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes: #19616
This caused 2+ people trouble now, so worth batting away with a
low-effort change if we can.
Only seen on macOS so far, but nothing stops SQLite being configured in
defensive mode by default on other platforms, so it is not necessarily
entirely specific to macOS.
We *could* also do this for Python < 3.12 but it'd be more effort and I
don't know if it's worth it.
(For context @kegsay says the interpreter with this problem was
installed through `pyenv install`.)
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Signed-off-by: Olivier 'reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
This moves the dev dependencies to PEP 735 dependency groups, to help us
move to standard project metadata, which will help us moving to `uv`
(#19566)
This requires poetry 2.2.0
It's pretty hard to remember the order of all of these ambiguous
numbers. I assume they're not totally labeled already to cut down on the
length when scanning with your eyes. This just adds a few hints of what
each grouping is.
Spawning from [staring at some Synapse
logs](https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-hosted/issues/10631) and
cross-referencing the Synapse source code over and over.
Fixes: #19540Fixes: #16290 (side effect of the proposed fix)
Closes: #12804 (side effect of the proposed fix)
Introduced in: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8932
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This PR is a relatively simple simplification of the profile change on
deactivation that appears to remove multiple bugs.
This PR's **primary motivating fix** is #19540: when a user is
deactivated and erased, they would be kept in the user directory. This
bug appears to have been here since #8932 (previously
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8932) (v1.26.0).
The root cause of this bug is that after removing the user from the user
directory, we would immediately update their displayname and avatar to
empty strings (one at a time), which re-inserts
the user into the user directory.
With this PR, we now delete the entire `profiles` row upon user erasure,
which is cleaner (from a 'your database goes back to zero after
deactivating and erasing a user' point of view) and
only needs one database operation (instead of doing displayname then
avatar).
With this PR, we also no longer send the 2 (deferred) `m.room.member`
`join` events to every room to propagate the displayname and avatar_url
changes.
This is good for two reasons:
- the user is about to get parted from those rooms anyway, so this
reduces the number of state events sent per room from 3 to 1. (More
efficient for us in the moment and leaves less litter in the room DAG.)
- it is possible for the displayname/avatar update to be sent **after**
the user parting, which seems as though it could trigger the user to be
re-joined to a public room.
(With that said, although this sounds vaguely familiar in my lossy
memory, I can't find a ticket that actually describes this bug, so this
might be fictional. Edit: #16290 seems to describe this, although the
title is misleading.)
Additionally, as a side effect of the proposed fix (deleting the
`profiles` row), this PR also now deletes custom profile fields upon
user erasure, which is a new feature/bugfix (not sure which) in its own
right.
I do not see a ticket that corresponds to this feature gap, possibly
because custom profile fields are still a niche feature without
mainstream support (to the best of my knowledge).
Tests are included for the primary bugfix and for the cleanup of custom
profile fields.
### `set_displayname` module API change
This change includes a minor _technically_-breaking change to the module
API.
The change concerns `set_displayname` which is exposed to the module API
with a `deactivation: bool = False` flag, matching the internal handler
method it wraps.
I suspect that this is a mistake caused by overly-faithfully piping
through the args from the wrapped method (this Module API was introduced
in
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/14629/changes#diff-0b449f6f95672437cf04f0b5512572b4a6a729d2759c438b7c206ea249619885R1592).
The linked PR did the same for `by_admin` originally before it was
changed.
The `deactivation` flag's only purpose is to be piped through to other
Module API callbacks when a module has registered to be notified about
profile changes.
My claim is that it makes no sense for the Module API to have this flag
because it is not the one doing the deactivation, thus it should never
be in a position to set this to `True`.
My proposed change keeps the flag (for function signature
compatibility), but turns it into a no-op (with a `ERROR` log when it's
set to True by the module).
The Module API callback notifying of the module-caused displayname
change will therefore now always have `deactivation = False`.
*Discussed in
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Signed-off-by: Olivier 'reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
Summary
- drop the `systemd` extra from `pyproject.toml` and the
`systemd-python` optional dependency
- this means we don't ship the journald log handler, so it clarifies the
docs how to install that in the venv
- ensure the Debian virtualenv build keeps shipping
`systemd-python>=231` in the venv, so the packaged log config can keep
using `systemd.journal.JournalHandler`
Context of this is the following:
> Today in my 'how hard would it be to move to uv' journey:
https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd/issues/167
>
> The gist of it is that uv really wants to create a universal lock
file, which means it needs to be able to resolve the package metadata,
even for packages locked for other platforms. In the case of
systemd-python, they use mesonpy as build backend, which doesn't
implement prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel, which means it needs to run
meson to be able to resolve the package metadata. And it will hard-fail
if libsystemd dev headers aren't available 😭
>
> [*message in
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Jason Robinson