1.8.0-rc1 (2021-04-19)

Features

• Add provisioning endpoint to get Slack channel info (#571)
• Add teamSync.xyz.channels.allow_public option to disable public channel syncing (#577)

Bugfixes

• Autocreated public rooms will no longer be encrypted by default (#576)

Improved Documentation

• Mention the need for a classic app in the documentation. (#427)

Internal Changes

• Update to matrix-appservice-bridge 2.6.0-rc1 (#575)
• The unit/integration tests have been moved to the root level, and are not built by default. (#582)
• Regenerate package-lock.json to fix a build issue (#586)
• Config samples: Corrected rtm.logging to rtm.log_level
  rtm.log_level: "off" is not a valid value and should be "silent" (#587)
• Update to matrix-appservice-bridge 2.6.0 (#589)

1.7.0 (2021-02-11)

No changes since 1.7.0-rc1

Features

• Add logout user admin room command (#559)
• Ensure private channels are synchronised on startup. (#563)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a problem where automatically created rooms would not get an alias. (#544)
• Fix a bug where DMs from Slack are not persisted in the DB. (#558)

Internal Changes

• Stop the bridge from emitting "MaxListenersExceededWarning" warnings. (#556)
• Bump package versions (#557)
• Use improved encryption support from matrix-appservice-bridge (#564)

1.7.0-rc1 (2021-02-05)

Features

• Add logout user admin room command (#559)
• Ensure private channels are synchronised on startup. (#563)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a problem where automatically created rooms would not get an alias. (#544)
• Fix a bug where DMs from Slack are not persisted in the DB. (#558)

Internal Changes

• Stop the bridge from emitting "MaxListenersExceededWarning" warnings. (#556)
• Bump package versions (#557)
• Use improved encryption support from matrix-appservice-bridge (#564)

1.6.2

Bugfixes

• Fix metrics bug: Month has been off by one (e.g. January = 0) (#553)

Improved Documentation

• Clarify upgrade steps in documentation. Contributed by Cameron Otsuka. (#545)

1.6.1 (2020-11-06)

1.6.1 (2020-11-06)

Features

• Allow docker to reuse cache when building the image by copying only npm related file before running npm install (#531)

Bugfixes

• Hide typing notifications from puppeted users on Matrix (#528)
• Fix an issue where the bridge may send duplicate messages to Slack when encryption is enabled. (#539)

Improved Documentation

• Improve the installation docs and the sample config file (#389)
• Added missing encryption config to the schema and sample config. (#538)

1.6.0 (2020-10-02)

No significant changes since the previous RC.

1.6.0-rc2 (2020-10-01)

Bugfixes

• Fix bot responding to its own messages. (#527)

1.6.0-rc1 (2020-10-01)

Features

• New configuration option provisioning.channel_adl to manage which Slack channels may be bridged.
  New configuration option team_sync.*.allow_private to allow/deny bridging private channels. (#476)
• Support removing reactions from Slack and Matrix messages (#485)
• Add support for bridge message encryption. (#493)
• Add onboarding message for new users when puppeting is enabled (#506)
• Join puppet to Slack channel if they are not already joined when sending a message (#515)
• The help command now distinguishes positional and named parameters. (#520)
• Fixed a bug where Slack messages would not bridge if a mentioned channel lacked an alias (#525)

Bugfixes

• Ensure that the bridge still syncs created and deleted channels, as well as new slack users, when using the RTM API. (#477)
• Do not join the Slack bot to the Matrix side (#478)
• Reduce chance of duplicate messages arriving on Matrix when using puppeting (#482)
• Stop handling the deprecated events channel_join and channel_leave. We already handle the new event types. (#487)
• Update matrix-appservice-bridge dependency to version 2.0 (#491)
• Fix issue where a thread chain on Slack would not correctly chain replies on Matrix (#499)
• OAuth2 URLs no longer break when oauth2.redirect_prefix is missing a trailing slash (#504)
• Fix issue where generated OAuth2s would be malformed (#508)
• Bridge 👍️ and 👎️ reactions more accurately from Slack to Matrix by appending U+FE0F (Emoji-style variant) (#509)

Improved Documentation

• Add documenation to enable puppeting support (#505)
• Reformat feature documentation and include new features (#507)

Internal Changes

• Upgrade dependencies (#484, #521)
• Remove support for removing reactions removal for NeDB (#489)
• Migrate from TSLint to ESLint (#490)
• Fix plenty of ESLint warnings (#502)
• Be stricter about API responses and reduce linter warnings (#510)
• Remove code to deduplicate incoming Matrix events (#516)

1.5.0 (2020-09-01)

1.5.0

1.5.0-rc1 (2020-08-25)

Features

• Add disallow_direct_messages config option to selectively deny users the ability to DM bridged users. (#435)
• Bridge in all Slack members of a channel when connnecting it to a room. (#448)

Bugfixes

• Don't redact Matrix events as a result of the bridge deleting a Slack message. (#431)
• Print the correct appservice port on the console when using the one from the config (#440)
• Fixes the broken admin command "help oauth" (#445)
• The bridge will no longer register deleted Slack users on startup. (#448)
• Fix an issue where sometimes Slack media files would be bridged as a 'm.file' (#450)
• Stop Team Sync from calling Slack's API more rapidly than configured (#454)
• Fix NedbDatastore.getTeam when an error happened or the team doesn't exist (#455)
• Correctly handle TeamSync failures, which displays a warning but does start the bridge. This previously resulted in an uncaught Promise. (#456)
• Fix issue where slack messages would not properly thread together (#459)
• Rename unlink room command to unlink to make it callable.
  Allow link to be called with a team_id (#462)
• Don't automatically join new users to all public channels (#463)
• Fix issue where bridged Slack files fail silently or upload garbled data. (#466)
• Fix issue where Slack files would not be uploaded to Matrix (#470)

Improved Documentation

• Consistently suggest to use port 5858 for the appservice (#436)

Internal Changes

• Misc improvements to PostgreSQL datastore. Thanks @vitaly-t! (#429)
• Upgrade dependencies (#437)
• Rebrand: Replace mentions of Riot with Element (#438)
• Remove local buildkite files in favour of using the matrix-org/pipelines repo. (#442)
• Admin commands must be a string (#443)
• Add unit tests for AdminCommand (#444)
• Warn if the bot isn't in the admin room (#458)
• Improve event processing time by adding an index to the events table (#469)