Dendrite 0.13.8

Features

• The required Go version to build Dendrite is now 1.21
• Support for authenticated media (MSC3916) has been added
  • Note: You'll need a client that uses the org.matrix.msc3916.stable unstable feature announced in /versions for this to work.
• NATS can now connect to servers requiring authentication (contributed by paigeadelethompson)
• Updated dependencies
  • Internal NATS Server has been updated from v2.10.7 to v2.10.20 (contributed by neilalexander)

Fixes

• Fix parsing ?ts query param (contributed by tulir)
• Don't query the database if we could fetch all keys from cache
• Fix media DB potentially leaking connections
• Fixed a bug where we would return that an account exists if we encountered an unhandled error case
• Fixed an issues where edited message could appear twice in search results (contributed by adnull)
• Outgoing threepid HTTP requests now correctly close the returned body (contributed by testwill)
• Presence conflicts are handled better, reducing the amount of outgoing federation requests (contributed by jjj333-p)
• Internal NATS now uses SyncAlways which should improve resilience against crashes (contributed by neilalexander)
• Whitespaces in the X-Matrix header are now handled correctly
• /.well-known/matrix/server lookups now timeout after 30 seconds
• Purging rooms has seen a huge speed-up

What's Changed

• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.21.0 to 0.23.0 by @dependabot in #3365
• Take advantage of changes in recent Go versions by @0x1a8510f2 in #3361
• Blacklist sytests that require MSC3967 by @richvdh in #3384
• add DCO by @joshsimmons in #3395
• Fix parsing ?ts query param by @tulir in #3396
• Bump ws from 7.5.2 to 7.5.10 in /test/wasm by @dependabot in #3388
• Bump golang.org/x/image from 0.10.0 to 0.18.0 by @dependabot in #3390
• Bump rexml from 3.2.5 to 3.3.2 in /docs by @dependabot in #3398
• Don't bother hitting the DB if we got everything from cache by @S7evinK in #3376
• Fix media DB possibly leaking connections by @S7evinK in #3372
• Fix nil pointer derefernce issues by @S7evinK in #3379
• Fix: Edited messages appear twice in fulltext search by @adnull in #3363
• Bump go to 1.21 by @S7evinK in #3360
• Bump github.com/docker/docker from 24.0.9+incompatible to 25.0.6+incompatible by @dependabot in #3405
• Bump yggdrasil by @S7evinK in #3407
• fix: close resp body by @testwill in #3364
• Fixing Presence Conflicts by @jjj333-p in #3320
• Implement MSC3916 by @S7evinK in #3397
• cosmetics nginx sample config by @EvilOlaf in #3385
• Speed up purging rooms by @S7evinK in #3381
• Update NATS to 2.10.20, use SyncAlways by @neilalexander in #3418
• add option for credentials file for NATS; more info: https://docs.nat… by @paigeadelethompson in #3415
• Bump GMSL by @S7evinK in #3419
• Fix function signature, use default random boundary by @S7evinK in #3422
• Version 0.13.8 by @S7evinK in #3421

New Contributors

• @joshsimmons made their first contribution in #3395
• @adnull made their first contribution in #3363
• @testwill made their first contribution in #3364
• @jjj333-p made their first contribution in #3320
• @EvilOlaf made their first contribution in #3385
• @paigeadelethompson made their first contribution in #3415

Full Changelog: v0.13.7...v0.13.8