MSC3589: Room version 9 as the default room version (#3589)
* Room version 9 as a default room version * Update statistics and notes about maturity * Adjust wording for Conduit * Update to stable linkpull/3739/head
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# MSC3589: Room version 9 as a default
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Enough time has passed to allow the public federation to upgrade their servers to support room
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version 9, though with some caveats (see "potential issues"). This proposal aims to make v9 the
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default room version.
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## Proposal
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The specification adopts v9 as the suggested default room version, making no changes to the stability
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of any room versions. As of writing, v6 is currently the suggested room version.
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Room version 9 is currently published here: https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/rooms/v9/
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## Potential issues
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Servers will be encouraged to update their config/internal defaults to use v9 instead of v6. This
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is considered a good problem to have.
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Note that servers are not required to honour the default room version due to it being a suggestion
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in the specification, however they might fall behind as other servers set their defaults accordingly.
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Some server implementations, like Synapse, support configurable default room versions: servers which
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have set this flag will not necessarily be affected by this change.
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As of writing (Jan 26, 2022), some prominent server implementations are only just getting support for
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the room version. Namely, Dendrite released a version with support about 2 months ago and Conduit is
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working on including Ruma's changes which landed also about 2 months ago.
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Though both Dendrite and Conduit (meaning Ruma) have not had the same amount of time as Synapse to
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reach maturity on v9-capable versions, both the Dendrite and Conduit communities appear to update to
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newer versions much more quickly. This implies, without statistics to back it up, that nearly all
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Dendrite servers out there will have upgraded and that a similar percentage of Conduit servers will
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upgrade once available.
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No major issues appear to be reported to Synapse or Dendrite with respect to v9, however Conduit
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has [reported](https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/merge_requests/257#note_814327701) that the auth
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rules for v9 might not be perfect. All of this indicates to the author that the implementation is at
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least sane and accomplishable, even if a bit difficult to incorporate.
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For completeness, some links:
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**Dendrite**:
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* Tracking issue: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues/2010
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* Library support: https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrixserverlib/pull/279
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* Release: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/commit/b4a007ecceafd2b93fee2e775b0a61283d4a3844
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* Testing: https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/pull/220
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**Conduit**:
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* Tracking issue: https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/issues/161
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* Library support: https://github.com/ruma/ruma/pull/771
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* Release: N/A
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* Testing: N/A
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## Alternatives
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None relevant.
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## Security considerations
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None relevant.
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## Unstable prefix
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None relevant - servers can already choose a different default room version legally. This MSC
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just formalizes v9 as the default.
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