Sydent 2.4.0 (2021-09-09)

This release drops compatibility with Python 3.5 and older. Python 3.6 and later is required to run Sydent from this version onwards.

Action required when upgrading: server administrators should run the e-mail address migration script.

Features

• Experimental support for MSC3288, receiving room_type for 3pid invites over the /store-invite API and using it in Jinja templates for Space invites. (#375)
• Add support for using Jinja2 in e-mail templates. Contributed by @H-Shay. (#376)
• Case-fold email addresses when binding to MXIDs or performing look-ups. Contributed by @H-Shay. (#374, #378, #379, #386)

Bugfixes

• Handle CORS for GetValidated3pidServlet. Endpoint /3pid/getValidated3pid returns valid CORS headers. (#342)
• Use the web_client_location parameter in default templates for both text and HTML emails. (#380)

Internal Changes

• Add /_trial_temp.lock and /sydent.pid to .gitignore. (#384)
• Reformat code using Black. Contributed by @H-Shay. (#344, #369)
• Configure Flake8 and resolve errors. (#345, #347)
• Add GitHub Actions for unit tests (Python 3.6 and 3.9), matrix_is_tester tests (Python 3.6 and 3.9), towncrier checks and black and flake8 codestyle checks. (#346, #348)
• Remove support for Python < 3.6. Contributed by @sunweaver. (#349, #356)
• Bump minimum supported version of Twisted to 18.4.0 and stop calling deprecated APIs. (#350)
• Replace deprecated logging.warn() method with logging.warning(). (#351)
• Reformat imports using isort. (#352, #353)
• Update .gitignore to only ignore sydent.conf and sydent.db if they occur in the project's base folder. (#354)
• Add type hints and validate with mypy. (#355, #357, #358, #360, #361, #367, #371)
• Convert inlineCallbacks to async/await. (#364, #365, #368, #372, #373)
• Use mock module from the standard library. (#370)
• Fix email templates to be valid python format strings. (#377)