v0.14.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.14.0-rc1 (2016-03-14)

Features:

• Add event_id to response to state event PUT (PR #581)
• Allow guest users access to messages in rooms they have joined (PR #587)
• Add config for what state is included in a room invite (PR #598)
• Send the inviter's member event in room invite state (PR #607)
• Add error codes for malformed/bad JSON in /login (PR #608)
• Add support for changing the actions for default rules (PR #609)
• Add environment variable SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR, default it to 0.1 (PR #612)
• Add ability for alias creators to delete aliases (PR #614)
• Add profile information to invites (PR #624)

Changes:

• Enforce user_id exclusivity for AS registrations (PR #572)
• Make adding push rules idempotent (PR #587)
• Improve presence performance (PR #582, #586)
• Change presence semantics for last_active_ago (PR #582, #586)
• Don't allow m.room.create to be changed (PR #596)
• Add 800x600 to default list of valid thumbnail sizes (PR #616)
• Always include kicks and bans in full /sync (PR #625)
• Send history visibility on boundary changes (PR #626)
• Register endpoint now returns a refresh_token (PR #637)

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug where we returned incorrect state in /sync (PR #573)
• Always return a JSON object from push rule API (PR #606)
• Fix bug where registering without a user id sometimes failed (PR #610)
• Report size of ExpiringCache in cache size metrics (PR #611)
• Fix rejection of invites to empty rooms (PR #615)
• Fix usage of bcrypt to not use checkpw (PR #619)
• Pin pysaml2 dependency (PR #634)
• Fix bug in /sync where timeline order was incorrect for backfilled events
  (PR #635)