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+### list of features, bug fixes, etc that conduwuit does that upstream does not:
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+- Has a working CI/CD for tests, codebase warnings (rustc and clippy), caching, and build (still need to output artifacts with build variants)
+- Fixed every single clippy (default lints) and rustc warnings, including some that were performance related or potential safety issues / unsoundness
+- Has dependabot and significantly updates all dependencies possible
+- Uses upstream reqwest instead of super old fork (via upstream MR)
+- Uses proper argon2 crate instead of questionable rust-argon2 crate
+- Improved and cleaned up logging (less noisy dead server logging, registration attempts, more useful troubleshooting logging, etc)
+- Attempts and interest in removing extreme and unnecessary panics/unwraps/expects that can lead to denial of service or such (upstream and upstream contributors want this unusual behaviour for some reason)
+- Merged and cleaned up upstream MRs that have been sitting for 6-12 months
+- Using latest rust-rocksdb git for the latest RocksDB release which has various fixes, features, improvements, etc, including some regarding database corruption.
+- Configurable RocksDB logging (`LOG` files) with proper defaults (rotate, max size, verbosity, etc) to stop LOG files from accumulating so much
+- Federated presence support and configurable local presence (via upstream MR)
+- Concurrency support for key fetching for faster remote room joins and room joins that will error less frequently (via upstream MR)
+- Experimental room version 11 suppor (via upstream MR)
+- Enabled all non-officially-supported room versions as experimental so we can at least attempt to join them
+- Configurable guest registration including forbidding guest registrations if no admin user is created yet, respects allow registration setting, and an optional override setting with a default of no guest registrations allowed.
+- Explicit startup error/warning if your configuration allows open registration without a token or such like Synapse
+- Improved RocksDB defaults to use new features that help with performance significantly, uses settings tailored to SSDs, and a conduwuit setting to tell RocksDB to use settings that are tailored to HDDs or slow spinning rust storage.
+- Updated Ruma to almost latest version possible, and add some unstable MSCs (some still require an implementation though)
+- conduwuit allows MXIDs with `+` in them (thanks to Ruma update)
+- Revamped admin room infrastructure and commands (via upstream MR)
+- Make spaces/hierarchy cache use cache_capacity_modifier instead of hardcoded small value
+- Send missing push notifications on invitations (via upstream MR)
+- Make PDU appending, building, etc asynchronous
+- Add *optional* feature flag to use SHA256 key names for media instead of base64 to overcome filesystem file name length limitations (OS error file name too long) (via upstream MR) 
+- Add *optional* feature flag to enable zstd HTTP body compression
+- Add support for querying both Matrix SRV records, the deprecated `_matrix` record and `_matrix-fed` record if necessary
+- Add config option for device name federation with a privacy-friendly default (disabled)
+- Add config option for requiring authentication to the `/publicRooms` endpoint (room directory) with a default disabled for privacy
+- Add config option for federating `/publicRooms` endpoint (room directory) to other servers with a default disabled for privacy
+- Add support for listening on a UNIX socket for performance and host security with proper default permissions (660)
+- Add missing `destination` key to all `X-Matrix` `Authorization` requests (spec compliance issue)
+- Fix spec compliance issue with servers being able to fetch remote user profiles over federation for users who don't belong to our server (`/_matrix/federation/v1/query/profile`)
+- Use aggressive build-time performance optimisations for release builds (1 codegen unit, no debug, fat LTO, etc, and optimise all crates with same)
+- Raise various hardcoded timeouts in codebase that were way too short, making some things like room joins and client bugs error less or none at all than they should
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