Release Dendrite 0.13.8 · matrix-org/dendrite

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)

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

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