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---
title: v1.17 Changelog
linkTitle: v1.17
type: docs
layout: changelog
outputs:
- html
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date: 2025-12-18
---
## Client-Server API
**Removed Endpoints**
- Remove legacy mentions, as per [MSC4210](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/issues/4210). ([#2186](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2186))
**Backwards Compatible Changes**
- Allow application services to masquerade as specific devices belonging to users, as per [MSC4326](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4326). ([#2221](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2221))
- Add the `m.oauth` authentication type for User-Interactive Authentication as per [MSC4312](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4312). ([#2234](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2234))
- Allow application services to manage devices and register users without the legacy authentication API, as per [MSC4190](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4190). ([#2267](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2267))
**Spec Clarifications**
- Push rule IDs are globally unique within their kind. ([#2214](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2214))
- Don't advertise `creator` field in description of room creation. ([#2215](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2215))
- `room_id` is required for peeking via `/_matrix/client/v3/events`. ([#2216](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2216))
- The `server-name` segment of MXC URIs is sanitised differently from the `media-id` segment. ([#2217](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2217))
- Add note to each endpoint that uses capability negotiation. ([#2223](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2223))
- Additional OpenGraph properties can be present in URL previews. ([#2225](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2225))
- Clarify the special casing of membership events and redactions in power levels. ([#2231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2231))
- `M_RESOURCE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` is now listed as a common error code. ([#2232](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2232))
- Add `m.login.terms` to enumeration of authentication types. ([#2233](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2233))
- Clarify how to use `state_after` ahead of declaring full support for its spec version. ([#2240](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2240))
- `device_one_time_keys_count` is only optional if no unclaimed one-time keys exist. ([#2245](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2245))
- Clarify that servers may choose not to use `M_USER_DEACTIVATED` at login time, for example for privacy reasons when they can't authenticate deactivated users. ([#2246](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2246))
- Usage of the `event_id_only` format for push notifications is not mandatory. ([#2255](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2255))
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- Fix various typos throughout the specification. ([#2224](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2224), [#2227](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2227), [#2250](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2250))
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## Server-Server API
No significant changes.
## Application Service API
**Backwards Compatible Changes**
- Allow application services to masquerade as specific devices belonging to users, as per [MSC4326](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4326). ([#2221](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2221))
- Allow application services to manage devices and register users without the legacy authentication API, as per [MSC4190](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4190). ([#2267](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2267))
**Spec Clarifications**
- Fix JSON formatting in the "Server admin style permissions" examples. ([#2213](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2213))
## Identity Service API
No significant changes.
## Push Gateway API
No significant changes.
## Room Versions
**Spec Clarifications**
- In room versions 8 through 12, clarify that "sufficient permission to invite users" on restricted joins also includes being a joined member of the room. ([#2220](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2220))
- In room versions 3 through 12, clarify that when you have the power to redact, it is possible to redact events that you don't have the power to send. ([#2249](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2249))
## Appendices
No significant changes.
## Internal Changes/Tooling
**Spec Clarifications**
- Swapped icon for X (fka. twitter) to updated logo in footer. ([#2219](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2219))
- Inline Olm & Megolm specifications. ([#2226](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2226), [#2241](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2241), [#2242](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2242))
- Silence failing redocly-cli rule. ([#2238](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2238))
- Use NPM Trusted Publishers for publishing `@matrix-org/spec` to npm. ([#2239](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2239))
- Add version picker in the navbar. ([#2256](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2256), [#2258](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2258), [#2259](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2259), [#2260](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2260), [#2261](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2261), [#2264](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2264), [#2268](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2268))
- Add a list of endpoints to the top of each spec page. ([#2262](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/2262))