Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).
Anyone know how to get a self-hosted synapse server updated to support all this?
For now, you need to run a sliding-sync proxy besides synapse. They’ll integrate it properly, but for now the focus was on getting it to work.
Yes, I’m confused by the released messaging. It feels like there may be a new server requirement. Search this page for Synapse https://element.io/blog/element-x-ignition/ to see the link to the guide.
The proxy is needed until sliding sync is finalised and merged into the spec and implemented into clients