- Fixed every single clippy (default lints) and rustc warnings, including some that were performance related or potential safety issues / unsoundness
- Has dependabot and significantly updates all dependencies possible
- Uses proper argon2 crate instead of questionable rust-argon2 crate
- Improved and cleaned up logging (less noisy dead server logging, registration attempts, more useful troubleshooting logging, etc)
- Attempts and interest in removing extreme and unnecessary panics/unwraps/expects that can lead to denial of service or such (upstream and upstream contributors want this unusual behaviour for some reason)
- Merged and cleaned up upstream MRs that have been sitting for 6-12 months
- Configurable RocksDB logging (`LOG` files) with proper defaults (rotate, max size, verbosity, etc) to stop LOG files from accumulating so much
- Federated presence support and configurable local presence (via upstream MR)
- Concurrency support for key fetching for faster remote room joins and room joins that will error less frequently (via upstream MR)
- Enabled all non-officially-supported room versions as experimental so we can at least attempt to join them
- Configurable guest registration including forbidding guest registrations if no admin user is created yet, respects allow registration setting, and an optional override setting with a default of no guest registrations allowed.
- Explicit startup error/warning if your configuration allows open registration without a token or such like Synapse
- Improved RocksDB defaults to use new features that help with performance significantly, uses settings tailored to SSDs, and a conduwuit setting to tell RocksDB to use settings that are tailored to HDDs or slow spinning rust storage.
- conduwuit allows MXIDs with `+` in them (thanks to Ruma update)
- Revamped admin room infrastructure and commands (via upstream MR)
- Make spaces/hierarchy cache use cache_capacity_modifier instead of hardcoded small value
- Make PDU appending, building, etc asynchronous
- Add *optional* feature flag to use SHA256 key names for media instead of base64 to overcome filesystem file name length limitations (OS error file name too long) (via upstream MR)
- Add *optional* feature flag to enable zstd HTTP body compression
- Add support for querying both Matrix SRV records, the deprecated `_matrix` record and `_matrix-fed` record if necessary
- Add config option for device name federation with a privacy-friendly default (disabled)
- Add config option for federating `/publicRooms` endpoint (room directory) to other servers with a default disabled for privacy
- Add support for listening on a UNIX socket for performance and host security with proper default permissions (660)
- Add missing `destination` key to all `X-Matrix``Authorization` requests (spec compliance issue)
- Fix spec compliance issue with servers being able to fetch remote user profiles over federation for users who don't belong to our server (`/_matrix/federation/v1/query/profile`)
- Use aggressive build-time performance optimisations for release builds (1 codegen unit, no debug, fat LTO, etc, and optimise all crates with same)
- Raise various hardcoded timeouts in codebase that were way too short, making some things like room joins and client bugs error less or none at all than they should
- Add debug admin command to force update user device lists (could potentially resolve some E2EE flukes) (`ForceDeviceListUpdates`)
- Declare various missing Matrix versions and features at `/_matrix/client/versions`
- Add support for serving server and client well-known files from conduwuit using `well_known_client` and `well_known_server` options
- Add non-standard sliding sync proxy health check (?) endpoint at `/client/server.json` that some clients such as Element Web query using the `well_known_client` or `well_known_server` config options
- Send a User-Agent on all of our requests (`conduwuit/0.7.0-alpha+conduwuit-0.1.1`) which strangely was not done upstream since forever. Some providers consider no User-Agent suspicious and block said requests.
- Safer and cleaner shutdowns on both database side as we run cleanup on shutdown and exits database loop better (no potential hanging issues in database loop), overall cleaner shutdown logic
- Allow HEAD HTTP requests in CORS for clients (despite not being explicity mentioned in Matrix spec, HTTP spec says all HEAD requests need to behave the same as GET requests, Synapse supports HEAD requests)
- Prevent admin credential commands like reset password and deactivate user from modifying non-local users (https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/issues/377)
- Fixed spec compliance issue with room version 8 - 11 joins (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16717 / https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/1708)
- Add basic cache eviction for true destinations when requests fail if we use a cached destination (e.g. a server has modified their well-known and we're still connecting to the old destination)
- For all [`/report`](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.9/client-server-api/#post_matrixclientv3roomsroomidreporteventid) requests: check if the reported event ID belongs to the reported room ID, raise report reasoning character limit to 750, fix broken formatting, make a small delayed random response per spec suggestion on privacy, and check if the sender user is in the reported room.
- Return joined member count of rooms for push rules/conditions instead of a hardcoded value of 10
- Respect *most* client parameters for `/media/` requests (`allow_redirect` still needs work)
- Config option `ip_range_denylist` to support refusing to send requests (typically federation) to specific IP ranges, typically RFC 1918, non-routable, testnet, etc addresses like Synapse for security.
