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This change adds a note and a few lines of configuration settings for Apache users to disable ModSecurity for Synapse's virtual hosts. With ModSecurity enabled and running with its default settings, Matrix clients are unable to send chat messages through the Synapse installation. With this change, ModSecurity can be disabled only for the Synapse virtual hosts.
…Apache's mod_security2. (#8375)
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Synapse 1.21.0rc1 (2020-10-01) ============================== Features -------- - Require the user to confirm that their password should be reset after clicking the email confirmation link. ([\#8004](#8004)) - Add an admin API `GET /_synapse/admin/v1/event_reports` to read entries of table `event_reports`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8217](#8217)) - Consolidate the SSO error template across all configuration. ([\#8248](#8248), [\#8405](#8405)) - Add a configuration option to specify a whitelist of domains that a user can be redirected to after validating their email or phone number. ([\#8275](#8275), [\#8417](#8417)) - Add experimental support for sharding event persister. ([\#8294](#8294), [\#8387](#8387), [\#8396](#8396), [\#8419](#8419)) - Add the room topic and avatar to the room details admin API. ([\#8305](#8305)) - Add an admin API for querying rooms where a user is a member. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8306](#8306)) - Add `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` login type to allow appservices to login. ([\#8320](#8320)) - Add a configuration option that allows existing users to log in with OpenID Connect. Contributed by @BBBSnowball and @OmmyZhang. ([\#8345](#8345)) - Add prometheus metrics for replication requests. ([\#8406](#8406)) - Support passing additional single sign-on parameters to the client. ([\#8413](#8413)) - Add experimental reporting of metrics on expensive rooms for state-resolution. ([\#8420](#8420)) - Add experimental prometheus metric to track numbers of "large" rooms for state resolutiom. ([\#8425](#8425)) - Add prometheus metrics to track federation delays. ([\#8430](#8430)) Bugfixes -------- - Fix a bug in the media repository where remote thumbnails with the same size but different crop methods would overwrite each other. Contributed by @deepbluev7. ([\#7124](#7124)) - Fix inconsistent handling of non-existent push rules, and stop tracking the `enabled` state of removed push rules. ([\#7796](#7796)) - Fix a longstanding bug when storing a media file with an empty `upload_name`. ([\#7905](#7905)) - Fix messages not being sent over federation until an event is sent into the same room. ([\#8230](#8230), [\#8247](#8247), [\#8258](#8258), [\#8272](#8272), [\#8322](#8322)) - Fix a longstanding bug where files that could not be thumbnailed would result in an Internal Server Error. ([\#8236](#8236), [\#8435](#8435)) - Upgrade minimum version of `canonicaljson` to version 1.4.0, to fix an unicode encoding issue. ([\#8262](#8262)) - Fix longstanding bug which could lead to incomplete database upgrades on SQLite. ([\#8265](#8265)) - Fix stack overflow when stderr is redirected to the logging system, and the logging system encounters an error. ([\#8268](#8268)) - Fix a bug which cause the logging system to report errors, if `DEBUG` was enabled and no `context` filter was applied. ([\#8278](#8278)) - Fix edge case where push could get delayed for a user until a later event was pushed. ([\#8287](#8287)) - Fix fetching malformed events from remote servers. ([\#8324](#8324)) - Fix `UnboundLocalError` from occuring when appservices send a malformed register request. ([\#8329](#8329)) - Don't send push notifications to expired user accounts. ([\#8353](#8353)) - Fix a regression in v1.19.0 with reactivating users through the admin API. ([\#8362](#8362)) - Fix a bug where during device registration the length of the device name wasn't limited. ([\#8364](#8364)) - Include `guest_access` in the fields that are checked for null bytes when updating `room_stats_state`. Broke in v1.7.2. ([\#8373](#8373)) - Fix theoretical race condition where events are not sent down `/sync` if the synchrotron worker is restarted without restarting other workers. ([\#8374](#8374)) - Fix a bug which could cause errors in rooms with malformed membership events, on servers using sqlite. ([\#8385](#8385)) - Fix "Re-starting finished log context" warning when receiving an event we already had over federation. ([\#8398](#8398)) - Fix incorrect handling of timeouts on outgoing HTTP requests. ([\#8400](#8400)) - Fix a regression in v1.20.0 in the `synapse_port_db` script regarding the `ui_auth_sessions_ips` table. ([\#8410](#8410)) - Remove unnecessary 3PID registration check when resetting password via an email address. Bug introduced in v0.34.0rc2. ([\#8414](#8414)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Add `/_synapse/client` to the reverse proxy documentation. ([\#8227](#8227)) - Add note to the reverse proxy settings documentation about disabling Apache's mod_security2. Contributed by Julian Fietkau (@jfietkau). ([\#8375](#8375)) - Improve description of `server_name` config option in `homserver.yaml`. ([\#8415](#8415)) Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Drop support for `prometheus_client` older than 0.4.0. ([\#8426](#8426)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Fix tests on distros which disable TLSv1.0. Contributed by @danc86. ([\#8208](#8208)) - Simplify the distributor code to avoid unnecessary work. ([\#8216](#8216)) - Remove the `populate_stats_process_rooms_2` background job and restore functionality to `populate_stats_process_rooms`. ([\#8243](#8243)) - Clean up type hints for `PaginationConfig`. ([\#8250](#8250), [\#8282](#8282)) - Track the latest event for every destination and room for catch-up after federation outage. ([\#8256](#8256)) - Fix non-user visible bug in implementation of `MultiWriterIdGenerator.get_current_token_for_writer`. ([\#8257](#8257)) - Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library. ([\#8259](#8259)) - Add type hints to `synapse.util.async_helpers`. ([\#8260](#8260)) - Simplify tests that mock asynchronous functions. ([\#8261](#8261)) - Add type hints to `StreamToken` and `RoomStreamToken` classes. ([\#8279](#8279)) - Change `StreamToken.room_key` to be a `RoomStreamToken` instance. ([\#8281](#8281)) - Refactor notifier code to correctly use the max event stream position. ([\#8288](#8288)) - Use slotted classes where possible. ([\#8296](#8296)) - Support testing the local Synapse checkout against the [Complement homeserver test suite](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/). ([\#8317](#8317)) - Update outdated usages of `metaclass` to python 3 syntax. ([\#8326](#8326)) - Move lint-related dependencies to package-extra field, update CONTRIBUTING.md to utilise this. ([\#8330](#8330), [\#8377](#8377)) - Use the `admin_patterns` helper in additional locations. ([\#8331](#8331)) - Fix test logging to allow braces in log output. ([\#8335](#8335)) - Remove `__future__` imports related to Python 2 compatibility. ([\#8337](#8337)) - Simplify `super()` calls to Python 3 syntax. ([\#8344](#8344)) - Fix bad merge from `release-v1.20.0` branch to `develop`. ([\#8354](#8354)) - Factor out a `_send_dummy_event_for_room` method. ([\#8370](#8370)) - Improve logging of state resolution. ([\#8371](#8371)) - Add type annotations to `SimpleHttpClient`. ([\#8372](#8372)) - Refactor ID generators to use `async with` syntax. ([\#8383](#8383)) - Add `EventStreamPosition` type. ([\#8388](#8388)) - Create a mechanism for marking tests "logcontext clean". ([\#8399](#8399)) - A pair of tiny cleanups in the federation request code. ([\#8401](#8401)) - Add checks on startup that PostgreSQL sequences are consistent with their associated tables. ([\#8402](#8402)) - Do not include appservice users when calculating the total MAU for a server. ([\#8404](#8404)) - Typing fixes for `synapse.handlers.federation`. ([\#8422](#8422)) - Various refactors to simplify stream token handling. ([\#8423](#8423)) - Make stream token serializing/deserializing async. ([\#8427](#8427))
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Synapse 1.21.2 (2020-10-15) =========================== Debian packages and Docker images have been rebuilt using the latest versions of dependency libraries, including authlib 0.15.1. Please see bugfixes below. Security advisory ----------------- * HTML pages served via Synapse were vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. All server administrators are encouraged to upgrade. ([\#8444](matrix-org/synapse#8444)) ([CVE-2020-26891](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26891)) This fix was originally included in v1.21.0 but was missing a security advisory. This was reported by [Denis Kasak](https://github.com/dkasak). Bugfixes -------- - Fix rare bug where sending an event would fail due to a racey assertion. ([\#8530](matrix-org/synapse#8530)) - An updated version of the authlib dependency is included in the Docker and Debian images to fix an issue using OpenID Connect. See [\#8534](matrix-org/synapse#8534) for details. Synapse 1.21.1 (2020-10-13) =========================== This release fixes a regression in v1.21.0 that prevented debian packages from being built. It is otherwise identical to v1.21.0. Synapse 1.21.0 (2020-10-12) =========================== No significant changes since v1.21.0rc3. As [noted in v1.20.0](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/release-v1.21.0/CHANGES.md#synapse-1200-2020-09-22), a future release will drop support for accessing Synapse's [Admin API](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/master/docs/admin_api) under the `/_matrix/client/*` endpoint prefixes. At that point, the Admin API will only be accessible under `/_synapse/admin`. Synapse 1.21.0rc3 (2020-10-08) ============================== Bugfixes -------- - Fix duplication of events on high traffic servers, caused by PostgreSQL `could not serialize access due to concurrent update` errors. ([\#8456](matrix-org/synapse#8456)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Add Groovy Gorilla to the list of distributions we build `.deb`s for. ([\#8475](matrix-org/synapse#8475)) Synapse 1.21.0rc2 (2020-10-02) ============================== Features -------- - Convert additional templates from inline HTML to Jinja2 templates. ([\#8444](matrix-org/synapse#8444)) Bugfixes -------- - Fix a regression in v1.21.0rc1 which broke thumbnails of remote media. ([\#8438](matrix-org/synapse#8438)) - Do not expose the experimental `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` flow in the login API, which caused a compatibility problem with Element iOS. ([\#8440](matrix-org/synapse#8440)) - Fix malformed log line in new federation "catch up" logic. ([\#8442](matrix-org/synapse#8442)) - Fix DB query on startup for negative streams which caused long start up times. Introduced in [\#8374](matrix-org/synapse#8374). ([\#8447](matrix-org/synapse#8447)) Synapse 1.21.0rc1 (2020-10-01) ============================== Features -------- - Require the user to confirm that their password should be reset after clicking the email confirmation link. ([\#8004](matrix-org/synapse#8004)) - Add an admin API `GET /_synapse/admin/v1/event_reports` to read entries of table `event_reports`. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8217](matrix-org/synapse#8217)) - Consolidate the SSO error template across all configuration. ([\#8248](matrix-org/synapse#8248), [\#8405](matrix-org/synapse#8405)) - Add a configuration option to specify a whitelist of domains that a user can be redirected to after validating their email or phone number. ([\#8275](matrix-org/synapse#8275), [\#8417](matrix-org/synapse#8417)) - Add experimental support for sharding event persister. ([\#8294](matrix-org/synapse#8294), [\#8387](matrix-org/synapse#8387), [\#8396](matrix-org/synapse#8396), [\#8419](matrix-org/synapse#8419)) - Add the room topic and avatar to the room details admin API. ([\#8305](matrix-org/synapse#8305)) - Add an admin API for querying rooms where a user is a member. Contributed by @dklimpel. ([\#8306](matrix-org/synapse#8306)) - Add `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` login type to allow appservices to login. ([\#8320](matrix-org/synapse#8320)) - Add a configuration option that allows existing users to log in with OpenID Connect. Contributed by @BBBSnowball and @OmmyZhang. ([\#8345](matrix-org/synapse#8345)) - Add prometheus metrics for replication requests. ([\#8406](matrix-org/synapse#8406)) - Support passing additional single sign-on parameters to the client. ([\#8413](matrix-org/synapse#8413)) - Add experimental reporting of metrics on expensive rooms for state-resolution. ([\#8420](matrix-org/synapse#8420)) - Add experimental prometheus metric to track numbers of "large" rooms for state resolutiom. ([\#8425](matrix-org/synapse#8425)) - Add prometheus metrics to track federation delays. ([\#8430](matrix-org/synapse#8430)) Bugfixes -------- - Fix a bug in the media repository where remote thumbnails with the same size but different crop methods would overwrite each other. Contributed by @deepbluev7. ([\#7124](matrix-org/synapse#7124)) - Fix inconsistent handling of non-existent push rules, and stop tracking the `enabled` state of removed push rules. ([\#7796](matrix-org/synapse#7796)) - Fix a longstanding bug when storing a media file with an empty `upload_name`. ([\#7905](matrix-org/synapse#7905)) - Fix messages not being sent over federation until an event is sent into the same room. ([\#8230](matrix-org/synapse#8230), [\#8247](matrix-org/synapse#8247), [\#8258](matrix-org/synapse#8258), [\#8272](matrix-org/synapse#8272), [\#8322](matrix-org/synapse#8322)) - Fix a longstanding bug where files that could not be thumbnailed would result in an Internal Server Error. ([\#8236](matrix-org/synapse#8236), [\#8435](matrix-org/synapse#8435)) - Upgrade minimum version of `canonicaljson` to version 1.4.0, to fix an unicode encoding issue. ([\#8262](matrix-org/synapse#8262)) - Fix longstanding bug which could lead to incomplete database upgrades on SQLite. ([\#8265](matrix-org/synapse#8265)) - Fix stack overflow when stderr is redirected to the logging system, and the logging system encounters an error. ([\#8268](matrix-org/synapse#8268)) - Fix a bug which cause the logging system to report errors, if `DEBUG` was enabled and no `context` filter was applied. ([\#8278](matrix-org/synapse#8278)) - Fix edge case where push could get delayed for a user until a later event was pushed. ([\#8287](matrix-org/synapse#8287)) - Fix fetching malformed events from remote servers. ([\#8324](matrix-org/synapse#8324)) - Fix `UnboundLocalError` from occuring when appservices send a malformed register request. ([\#8329](matrix-org/synapse#8329)) - Don't send push notifications to expired user accounts. ([\#8353](matrix-org/synapse#8353)) - Fix a regression in v1.19.0 with reactivating users through the admin API. ([\#8362](matrix-org/synapse#8362)) - Fix a bug where during device registration the length of the device name wasn't limited. ([\#8364](matrix-org/synapse#8364)) - Include `guest_access` in the fields that are checked for null bytes when updating `room_stats_state`. Broke in v1.7.2. ([\#8373](matrix-org/synapse#8373)) - Fix theoretical race condition where events are not sent down `/sync` if the synchrotron worker is restarted without restarting other workers. ([\#8374](matrix-org/synapse#8374)) - Fix a bug which could cause errors in rooms with malformed membership events, on servers using sqlite. ([\#8385](matrix-org/synapse#8385)) - Fix "Re-starting finished log context" warning when receiving an event we already had over federation. ([\#8398](matrix-org/synapse#8398)) - Fix incorrect handling of timeouts on outgoing HTTP requests. ([\#8400](matrix-org/synapse#8400)) - Fix a regression in v1.20.0 in the `synapse_port_db` script regarding the `ui_auth_sessions_ips` table. ([\#8410](matrix-org/synapse#8410)) - Remove unnecessary 3PID registration check when resetting password via an email address. Bug introduced in v0.34.0rc2. ([\#8414](matrix-org/synapse#8414)) Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Add `/_synapse/client` to the reverse proxy documentation. ([\#8227](matrix-org/synapse#8227)) - Add note to the reverse proxy settings documentation about disabling Apache's mod_security2. Contributed by Julian Fietkau (@jfietkau). ([\#8375](matrix-org/synapse#8375)) - Improve description of `server_name` config option in `homserver.yaml`. ([\#8415](matrix-org/synapse#8415)) Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Drop support for `prometheus_client` older than 0.4.0. ([\#8426](matrix-org/synapse#8426)) Internal Changes ---------------- - Fix tests on distros which disable TLSv1.0. Contributed by @danc86. ([\#8208](matrix-org/synapse#8208)) - Simplify the distributor code to avoid unnecessary work. ([\#8216](matrix-org/synapse#8216)) - Remove the `populate_stats_process_rooms_2` background job and restore functionality to `populate_stats_process_rooms`. ([\#8243](matrix-org/synapse#8243)) - Clean up type hints for `PaginationConfig`. ([\#8250](matrix-org/synapse#8250), [\#8282](matrix-org/synapse#8282)) - Track the latest event for every destination and room for catch-up after federation outage. ([\#8256](matrix-org/synapse#8256)) - Fix non-user visible bug in implementation of `MultiWriterIdGenerator.get_current_token_for_writer`. ([\#8257](matrix-org/synapse#8257)) - Switch to the JSON implementation from the standard library. ([\#8259](matrix-org/synapse#8259)) - Add type hints to `synapse.util.async_helpers`. ([\#8260](matrix-org/synapse#8260)) - Simplify tests that mock asynchronous functions. ([\#8261](matrix-org/synapse#8261)) - Add type hints to `StreamToken` and `RoomStreamToken` classes. ([\#8279](matrix-org/synapse#8279)) - Change `StreamToken.room_key` to be a `RoomStreamToken` instance. ([\#8281](matrix-org/synapse#8281)) - Refactor notifier code to correctly use the max event stream position. ([\#8288](matrix-org/synapse#8288)) - Use slotted classes where possible. ([\#8296](matrix-org/synapse#8296)) - Support testing the local Synapse checkout against the [Complement homeserver test suite](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/). ([\#8317](matrix-org/synapse#8317)) - Update outdated usages of `metaclass` to python 3 syntax. ([\#8326](matrix-org/synapse#8326)) - Move lint-related dependencies to package-extra field, update CONTRIBUTING.md to utilise this. ([\#8330](matrix-org/synapse#8330), [\#8377](matrix-org/synapse#8377)) - Use the `admin_patterns` helper in additional locations. ([\#8331](matrix-org/synapse#8331)) - Fix test logging to allow braces in log output. ([\#8335](matrix-org/synapse#8335)) - Remove `__future__` imports related to Python 2 compatibility. ([\#8337](matrix-org/synapse#8337)) - Simplify `super()` calls to Python 3 syntax. ([\#8344](matrix-org/synapse#8344)) - Fix bad merge from `release-v1.20.0` branch to `develop`. ([\#8354](matrix-org/synapse#8354)) - Factor out a `_send_dummy_event_for_room` method. ([\#8370](matrix-org/synapse#8370)) - Improve logging of state resolution. ([\#8371](matrix-org/synapse#8371)) - Add type annotations to `SimpleHttpClient`. ([\#8372](matrix-org/synapse#8372)) - Refactor ID generators to use `async with` syntax. ([\#8383](matrix-org/synapse#8383)) - Add `EventStreamPosition` type. ([\#8388](matrix-org/synapse#8388)) - Create a mechanism for marking tests "logcontext clean". ([\#8399](matrix-org/synapse#8399)) - A pair of tiny cleanups in the federation request code. ([\#8401](matrix-org/synapse#8401)) - Add checks on startup that PostgreSQL sequences are consistent with their associated tables. ([\#8402](matrix-org/synapse#8402)) - Do not include appservice users when calculating the total MAU for a server. ([\#8404](matrix-org/synapse#8404)) - Typing fixes for `synapse.handlers.federation`. ([\#8422](matrix-org/synapse#8422)) - Various refactors to simplify stream token handling. ([\#8423](matrix-org/synapse#8423)) - Make stream token serializing/deserializing async. ([\#8427](matrix-org/synapse#8427))
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* commit '2983049a7': Factor out `_send_dummy_event_for_room` (#8370) Improve logging of state resolution (#8371) Fix bug which caused failure on join with malformed membership events (#8385) Use `async with` for ID gens (#8383) Don't push if an user account has expired (#8353) Do not check lint/test dependencies at runtime. (#8377) Add note to reverse_proxy.md about disabling Apache's mod_security2 (#8375) Changelog
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After installing and enabling mod_security2 on my Apache web server, I noticed that Synapse users were unable to send messages. It was still possible to create and modify rooms, but all clients would only show errors to the effect of "Unable to send message" whenever users tried to send anything.
Hence, this change adds a note and a few lines of configuration settings for Apache users to disable ModSecurity for Synapse's virtual hosts. I can confirm that with this change, Synapse is fully functional again even with ModSecurity enabled by default for other virtual hosts on the same server.
I am not proficient enough with ModSecurity to diagnose the exact setting or rule that causes the issue, but disabling it altogether for the Synapse virtual host is not an issue for my use case. My Synapse installation does not use federation and I have not tested whether the "*:8448" virtual host also requires this change to function, but I included it to be safe.
As provided here, the configuration change does not cause errors even if ModSecurity is disabled or not installed at all. It could therefore be added to the default configuration without causing issues, if the maintainers prefer.
Feel free to let me know if the wording needs adjustment, I am an ESL speaker.
Signed-off-by: Julian Fietkau github@julian-fietkau.de