diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 350f75fac7..c5b91a178a 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -25,8 +25,3 @@ updates:
     directory: "/" # Location of package manifests
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "cargo"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml
index 2d29d941e4..187c78eee4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml
@@ -15,9 +15,20 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   add-changelog:
+    name: Add Dependabot Changelog
     runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
     if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
     steps:
+      - name: 'Wait for status checks'
+        id: waitforstatuschecks
+        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-wait-for-status@v1.7"
+        with:
+          ignoreActions: "Add Dependabot Changelog" ## Note that these names are the human readable names use as status on commits, and show up as status checks on PRs.
+          checkInterval: 60
+          # waitForCheck: true
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
@@ -30,6 +41,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
 
       - name: Write, commit and push changelog
+        if: (steps.waitforstatuschecks.outputs.status == 'success' || steps.waitforstatuschecks.outputs.status == 'failure')
         run: |
           echo "${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}." > "changelog.d/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}".misc
           git add changelog.d
@@ -51,15 +63,15 @@ jobs:
       # I have tried and failed to find a way to trigger CI on the "merge ref" of the PR.
       # See git commit history for previous attempts. If anyone desperately wants to try
       # again in the future, make a matrix-bot account and use its access token to git push.
-      - name: Trigger CI
+#      - name: Trigger CI
         # Note: we use $GITHUB_REF here to run PR against the merge of this change with
         # develop; use github.event.pull_request.head.ref above to commit to the PR
         # branch.
-        run: |
-          echo "sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
-          gh api --method POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" /repos/realtyem/synapse-unraid/check-suites -f head_sha="${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
-        shell: bash
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+#        run: |
+#          echo "sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+#          gh api --method POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" /repos/realtyem/synapse-unraid/check-suites -f head_sha="${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+#        shell: bash
+#        env:
+#          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
   # THIS WORKFLOW HAS WRITE PERMISSIONS---do not add other jobs here unless they
   # are sufficiently locked down to dependabot only as above.
diff --git a/changelog.d/60.misc b/changelog.d/60.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e627d35cde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/60.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump towncrier from 21.9.0 to 22.8.0.
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 00e9435234..eca04d7d15 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 dev = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "furo", "hypothesis", "mypy", "pre-commit", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "six", "sphinx", "sphinx-notfound-page", "zope.interface"]
 docs = ["furo", "sphinx", "sphinx-notfound-page", "zope.interface"]
 tests = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "mypy", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "six", "zope.interface"]
-tests_no_zope = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "mypy", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "six"]
+tests-no-zope = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "mypy", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "six"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "Authlib"
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-unicode_backport = ["unicodedata2"]
+unicode-backport = ["unicodedata2"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "click"
@@ -407,9 +407,9 @@ python-versions = ">=3.6.1,<4.0"
 
 [package.extras]
 colors = ["colorama (>=0.4.3,<0.5.0)"]
-pipfile_deprecated_finder = ["pipreqs", "requirementslib"]
+pipfile-deprecated-finder = ["pipreqs", "requirementslib"]
 plugins = ["setuptools"]
-requirements_deprecated_finder = ["pip-api", "pipreqs"]
+requirements-deprecated-finder = ["pip-api", "pipreqs"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "jaeger-client"
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<1.27"
 
 [package.extras]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)", "win-inet-pton"]
-use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<5)"]
+use-chardet-on-py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<5)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "requests-toolbelt"
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ django = ["django (>=1.8)"]
 falcon = ["falcon (>=1.4)"]
 flask = ["blinker (>=1.1)", "flask (>=0.11)"]
 httpx = ["httpx (>=0.16.0)"]
-pure_eval = ["asttokens", "executing", "pure-eval"]
+pure-eval = ["asttokens", "executing", "pure-eval"]
 pyspark = ["pyspark (>=2.4.4)"]
 quart = ["blinker (>=1.1)", "quart (>=0.16.1)"]
 rq = ["rq (>=0.6)"]
@@ -1238,11 +1238,11 @@ python-versions = ">= 3.5"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "towncrier"
-version = "21.9.0"
+version = "22.8.0"
 description = "Building newsfiles for your project."
 category = "dev"
 optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 
 [package.dependencies]
 click = "*"
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ click-default-group = "*"
 incremental = "*"
 jinja2 = "*"
 setuptools = "*"
-tomli = {version = "*", markers = "python_version >= \"3.6\""}
+tomli = "*"
 
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["packaging"]
@@ -1332,20 +1332,20 @@ typing-extensions = ">=3.6.5"
 "zope.interface" = ">=4.4.2"
 
 [package.extras]
-all_non_platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
+all-non-platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
 conch = ["appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "pyasn1"]
-conch_nacl = ["PyNaCl", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "pyasn1"]
+conch-nacl = ["PyNaCl", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "pyasn1"]
 contextvars = ["contextvars (>=2.4,<3)"]
 dev = ["coverage (>=6b1,<7)", "pydoctor (>=21.9.0,<21.10.0)", "pyflakes (>=2.2,<3.0)", "python-subunit (>=1.4,<2.0)", "readthedocs-sphinx-ext (>=2.1,<3.0)", "sphinx (>=4.1.2,<6)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=0.5,<1.0)", "towncrier (>=19.2,<20.0)", "twistedchecker (>=0.7,<1.0)"]
-dev_release = ["pydoctor (>=21.9.0,<21.10.0)", "readthedocs-sphinx-ext (>=2.1,<3.0)", "sphinx (>=4.1.2,<6)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=0.5,<1.0)", "towncrier (>=19.2,<20.0)"]
+dev-release = ["pydoctor (>=21.9.0,<21.10.0)", "readthedocs-sphinx-ext (>=2.1,<3.0)", "sphinx (>=4.1.2,<6)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=0.5,<1.0)", "towncrier (>=19.2,<20.0)"]
 http2 = ["h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)"]
-macos_platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyobjc-core", "pyobjc-framework-CFNetwork", "pyobjc-framework-Cocoa", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
+macos-platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyobjc-core", "pyobjc-framework-CFNetwork", "pyobjc-framework-Cocoa", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
 mypy = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "PyNaCl", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "coverage (>=6b1,<7)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "mypy (==0.930)", "mypy-zope (==0.3.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pydoctor (>=21.9.0,<21.10.0)", "pyflakes (>=2.2,<3.0)", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "python-subunit (>=1.4,<2.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "readthedocs-sphinx-ext (>=2.1,<3.0)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)", "sphinx (>=4.1.2,<6)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=0.5,<1.0)", "towncrier (>=19.2,<20.0)", "twistedchecker (>=0.7,<1.0)", "types-pyOpenSSL", "types-setuptools"]
-osx_platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyobjc-core", "pyobjc-framework-CFNetwork", "pyobjc-framework-Cocoa", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
+osx-platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyobjc-core", "pyobjc-framework-CFNetwork", "pyobjc-framework-Cocoa", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
 serial = ["pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)"]
 test = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)"]
 tls = ["idna (>=2.4)", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
-windows_platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
+windows-platform = ["PyHamcrest (>=1.9.0)", "appdirs (>=1.4.0)", "bcrypt (>=3.0.0)", "contextvars (>=2.4,<3)", "cryptography (>=2.6)", "cython-test-exception-raiser (>=1.0.2,<2)", "h2 (>=3.0,<5.0)", "idna (>=2.4)", "priority (>=1.1.0,<2.0)", "pyasn1", "pyopenssl (>=16.0.0)", "pyserial (>=3.0)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "pywin32 (!=226)", "service-identity (>=18.1.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "twisted-iocpsupport"
@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ test = ["zope.i18nmessageid", "zope.testing", "zope.testrunner"]
 
 [extras]
 all = ["matrix-synapse-ldap3", "psycopg2", "psycopg2cffi", "psycopg2cffi-compat", "pysaml2", "authlib", "lxml", "sentry-sdk", "jaeger-client", "opentracing", "txredisapi", "hiredis", "Pympler"]
-cache_memory = ["Pympler"]
+cache-memory = ["Pympler"]
 jwt = ["authlib"]
 matrix-synapse-ldap3 = ["matrix-synapse-ldap3"]
 oidc = ["authlib"]
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ saml2 = ["pysaml2"]
 sentry = ["sentry-sdk"]
 systemd = ["systemd-python"]
 test = ["parameterized", "idna"]
-url_preview = ["lxml"]
+url-preview = ["lxml"]
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
@@ -2671,8 +2671,8 @@ tornado = [
     {file = "tornado-6.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:33c6e81d7bd55b468d2e793517c909b139960b6c790a60b7991b9b6b76fb9791"},
 ]
 towncrier = [
-    {file = "towncrier-21.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fc5a88a2a54988e3a8ed2b60d553599da8330f65722cc607c839614ed87e0f92"},
-    {file = "towncrier-21.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9cb6f45c16e1a1eec9d0e7651165e7be60cd0ab81d13a5c96ca97a498ae87f48"},
+    {file = "towncrier-22.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:3b780c3d966e1b26414830aec3d15000654b31e64e024f3e5fd128b4c6eb8f47"},
+    {file = "towncrier-22.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7d3839b033859b45fb55df82b74cfd702431933c0cc9f287a5a7ea3e05d042cb"},
 ]
 tqdm = [
     {file = "tqdm-4.63.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e643e071046f17139dea55b880dc9b33822ce21613b4a4f5ea57f202833dbc29"},