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Remove the custom Element Web welcome page

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Element Web redesigned its welcome page into a built-in component
(element-hq/element-web#33211, first released in spring 2026) and no
longer falls back to loading welcome.html. The custom page the playbook
installed had therefore silently stopped having any effect, and it was a
fork of an upstream file that upstream has deleted (its button icon
assets are already missing from current Element Web builds).

Remove the welcome.html shipping and the variables that only applied to
it (matrix_client_element_welcome_headline, _welcome_text,
_welcome_logo_link, _page_template_welcome_path), rejecting them in
validate_config.yml with pointers to the alternatives. Logo and
background customization keep working through Element Web's branding
options, which the new welcome page still honors. A fully custom page
can be self-hosted and wired via embedded_pages.welcome_url.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 2026-07-14
## The playbook no longer ships a custom welcome page for Element Web
Element Web [redesigned its welcome page](https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/pull/33211) (the screen shown at `/#/welcome` before logging in) into a built-in component and no longer loads a custom `welcome.html` file by default. Since the playbook upgraded to an Element Web version containing that change (spring 2026), the custom welcome page the playbook installed (and the variables customizing it) had silently stopped having any effect.
The playbook now embraces the new upstream behavior and no longer ships its own `welcome.html`. The following variables have been removed and the playbook will let you know if you're still using them: `matrix_client_element_welcome_headline`, `matrix_client_element_welcome_text`, `matrix_client_element_welcome_logo_link` and `matrix_client_element_page_template_welcome_path`.
Most welcome page customizations keep working, because they go through Element Web's branding configuration, which the new welcome page still honors:
- a custom logo, via `matrix_client_element_welcome_logo` (or `matrix_client_element_branding_auth_header_logo_url`)
- a custom background, via `matrix_client_element_branding_welcome_background_url`
If you need a fully custom welcome page, you can self-host an HTML page and point Element Web at it, like this:
```yaml
matrix_client_element_configuration_extension_json: |
{
"embedded_pages": {
"welcome_url": "https://example.com/my-welcome.html"
}
}
```
## BorgBackup now includes Synapse's local thumbnails
For Synapse servers, the built-in [BorgBackup](./docs/configuring-playbook-backup-borg.md) integration no longer excludes the media store's `local_thumbnails` directory from backups.