synadm

New

• Added shadow-ban command by @Ascurius in https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm/pull/57
• Added support for localpart as <user_id> argument by @Ascurius in https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm/pull/59

Improved

• cli: fall back to str() instead of silence for human output by @Xiretza in https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm/pull/60

Notes

• Update instructions: https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm#update
• Full Changelog: https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm/compare/v0.33.1...v0.34

Improved

• Massive internal overhaul, linting, tidying up and refactoring, contributed by @kaiyou
• Improvements and fixes to README.md, contributed by @schwindp, @aaronraimist and @rht
• Output format "table" is now called "human" and decision on how the data responded by the API is best to be displayed is done much smarter, contributed by @kaiyou
• original "raw" (--raw) output format was renamed to "pprint", contributed by @kaiyou
• Configuration and defaults handling

New

• Batch mode deactivating all interactive prompts for better usage in scripts and command pipelines (–batch), contributed by @kaiyou
• HTTP timeout of API requests configurable
• Media Admin API support
• Make Room Admin API support, contributed by @rht
• Delete Group (community) API support, contributed by @aaronraimist
• Two new output formats available: yaml and json (pure unprettified json), contributed by @kaiyou
• All output formats now selectable via a single CLI switch "--output/-o" (-o json, -o yaml, -o pprint, -o human), contributed by @kaiyou
• Abbreviation of output formats using first letter of format name (-o j, -o y, -o p, -o h)
• Enable "Python requests" debugging via CLI switch (-vvv)

Fixed

• Textual Error responses of Synapse now showing in output, contributed by @rht
• Permission of config file on Posix compatible systems grants access to the current user/admin only

7 new commands and 7 other new features makes this release number 0.13+0.14=0.27 :-)

This release incorporates some security related patches:

• never state token in debug log file (~/.local/synadm/debug.log)
• or in debug console output (synadm -vv ...)
• leave a note about permission of config file (~/.config/synadm.yaml) in README

Full implementation of rooms API (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/rooms.md) and user admin API (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/rooms.md) is done - this is worth a release tag - 13 available commands makes v0.13 :-)

Find installation and usage instructions here: https://github.com/JOJ0/synadm

Catch me on #synadm:peek-a-boo.at or #matrix-dev:matrix.org for feedback and support. Thanks!