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4bb07152c8 Support for profile updates over Sliding Sync (MSC4262) (#20003)
This PR implements support for profile updates over Sliding Sync:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4262. This pr
may be easier to review as a whole than commit by commit.

This builds on the legacy sync profile updates feature
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/19556, specifically the
profile updates stream it added.

Submitting for early review to get consensus on implementation. There
are some things we would like to add still, from spec, mainly:

* > Homeservers should only consider a profile field update "accepted"
by a client
> once the client returns with a new /sync request with the next /sync
token,
> NOT just after sending down the profile update. The client may never
receive
> response due to network conditions, or a bug in the client
implementation.
* > When a room enters this subset in this connection for the first
time, all requested
> fields from profiles of users in that room MAY be sent down. This
gives the client
> a base set of information for which future field updates can be
applied on top of.
> The homeserver MAY omit some fields and profiles if it believes that
the client has
> already received them, likewise repeat profiles MAY be sent down based
on homeserver
  > implementation.
* > Finally, if the list of fields expands to cover a new field ID,
those fields should
> be sent down for all users that are within the current room subset.
Future incremental
  > updates will then include changes to this field.
* Additionally, we would need to implement a lazy loading cache similar
to the legacy sync. (not part of MSC as such)

Depending on review these could either be added to this pr, or to keep
this pr from not growing too much, be added in a follow-up pr, as they
are more enhancement to this base sliding sync profile updates
functionality than a part of the core functionality.

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