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Features
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- Add support for opentracing. ([\#5544](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5544), [\#5712](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5712))
- Add ability to pull all locally stored events out of synapse that a particular user can see. ([\#5589](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5589))
- Add a basic admin command app to allow server operators to run Synapse admin commands separately from the main production instance. ([\#5597](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5597))
- Add `sender` and `origin_server_ts` fields to `m.replace`. ([\#5613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5613))
- Add default push rule to ignore reactions. ([\#5623](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5623))
- Include the original event when asking for its relations. ([\#5626](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5626))
- Implement `session_lifetime` configuration option, after which access tokens will expire. ([\#5660](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5660))
- Return "This account has been deactivated" when a deactivated user tries to login. ([\#5674](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5674))
- Enable aggregations support by default ([\#5714](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5714))

Bugfixes
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- Fix 'utime went backwards' errors on daemonization. ([\#5609](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5609))
- Various minor fixes to the federation request rate limiter. ([\#5621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5621))
- Forbid viewing relations on an event once it has been redacted. ([\#5629](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5629))
- Fix requests to the `/store_invite` endpoint of identity servers being sent in the wrong format. ([\#5638](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5638))
- Fix newly-registered users not being able to lookup their own profile without joining a room. ([\#5644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5644))
- Fix bug in #5626 that prevented the original_event field from actually having the contents of the original event in a call to `/relations`. ([\#5654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5654))
- Fix 3PID bind requests being sent to identity servers as `application/x-form-www-urlencoded` data, which is deprecated. ([\#5658](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5658))
- Fix some problems with authenticating redactions in recent room versions. ([\#5699](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5699), [\#5700](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5700), [\#5707](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5707))
- Ignore redactions of m.room.create events. ([\#5701](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5701))

Updates to the Docker image
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- Base Docker image on a newer Alpine Linux version (3.8 -> 3.10). ([\#5619](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5619))
- Add missing space in default logging file format generated by the Docker image. ([\#5620](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5620))

Improved Documentation
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- Add information about nginx normalisation to reverse_proxy.rst. Contributed by @skalarproduktraum - thanks! ([\#5397](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5397))
- --no-pep517 should be --no-use-pep517 in the documentation to setup the development environment. ([\#5651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5651))
- Improvements to Postgres setup instructions. Contributed by @Lrizika - thanks! ([\#5661](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5661))
- Minor tweaks to postgres documentation. ([\#5675](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5675))

Deprecations and Removals
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- Remove support for the `invite_3pid_guest` configuration setting. ([\#5625](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5625))

Internal Changes
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- Move logging code out of `synapse.util` and into `synapse.logging`. ([\#5606](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5606), [\#5617](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5617))
- Add a blacklist file to the repo to blacklist certain sytests from failing CI. ([\#5611](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5611))
- Make runtime errors surrounding password reset emails much clearer. ([\#5616](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5616))
- Remove dead code for persiting outgoing federation transactions. ([\#5622](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5622))
- Add `lint.sh` to the scripts-dev folder which will run all linting steps required by CI. ([\#5627](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5627))
- Move RegistrationHandler.get_or_create_user to test code. ([\#5628](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5628))
- Add some more common python virtual-environment paths to the black exclusion list. ([\#5630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5630))
- Some counter metrics exposed over Prometheus have been renamed, with the old names preserved for backwards compatibility and deprecated. See `docs/metrics-howto.rst` for details. ([\#5636](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5636))
- Unblacklist some user_directory sytests. ([\#5637](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5637))
- Factor out some redundant code in the login implementation. ([\#5639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5639))
- Update ModuleApi to avoid register(generate_token=True). ([\#5640](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5640))
- Remove access-token support from `RegistrationHandler.register`, and rename it. ([\#5641](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5641))
- Remove access-token support from `RegistrationStore.register`, and rename it. ([\#5642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5642))
- Improve logging for auto-join when a new user is created. ([\#5643](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5643))
- Remove unused and unnecessary check for FederationDeniedError in _exception_to_failure. ([\#5645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5645))
- Fix a small typo in a code comment. ([\#5655](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5655))
- Clean up exception handling around client access tokens. ([\#5656](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5656))
- Add a mechanism for per-test homeserver configuration in the unit tests. ([\#5657](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5657))
- Inline issue_access_token. ([\#5659](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5659))
- Update the sytest BuildKite configuration to checkout Synapse in `/src`. ([\#5664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5664))
- Add a `docker` type to the towncrier configuration. ([\#5673](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5673))
- Convert `synapse.federation.transport.server` to `async`. Might improve some stack traces. ([\#5689](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5689))
- Documentation for opentracing. ([\#5703](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5703))