diff --git a/.buildkite/format_tap.py b/.buildkite/format_tap.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..94582f557145
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/format_tap.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import sys
+from tap.parser import Parser
+from tap.line import Result, Unknown, Diagnostic
+
+out = ["### TAP Output for " + sys.argv[2]]
+
+p = Parser()
+
+in_error = False
+
+for line in p.parse_file(sys.argv[1]):
+    if isinstance(line, Result):
+        if in_error:
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("</pre></code></details>")
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("----")
+            out.append("")
+        in_error = False
+
+        if not line.ok and not line.todo:
+            in_error = True
+
+            out.append("FAILURE Test #%d: ``%s``" % (line.number, line.description))
+            out.append("")
+            out.append("<details><summary>Show log</summary><code><pre>")
+
+    elif isinstance(line, Diagnostic) and in_error:
+        out.append(line.text)
+
+if out:
+    for line in out[:-3]:
+        print(line)
diff --git a/.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh b/.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh
index 2dc18c9cf673..26176d6465c3 100755
--- a/.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh
@@ -2,18 +2,17 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" == "dinsic" ]]; then
+if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" =~ ^(develop|master|dinsic|shhs|release-.*)$ ]]; then
     echo "Not merging forward, as this is a release branch"
     exit 0
 fi
 
 if [[ -z $BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH ]]; then
-     echo "Can't figure out what the PR number is! Assuming merge target is dinsic."
+    echo "Not a pull request, or hasn't had a PR opened yet..."
 
-    # It probably hasn't had a PR opened yet. Since all PRs for dinsic land on
-    # dinsic, we can probably assume it's based on it and will be merged into
-    # it.
-    GITBASE="dinsic"
+    # It probably hasn't had a PR opened yet. Since all PRs land on develop, we
+    # can probably assume it's based on it and will be merged into it.
+    GITBASE="develop"
 else
     # Get the reference, using the GitHub API
     GITBASE=$BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ git config --global user.name "A robot"
 
 # Fetch and merge. If it doesn't work, it will raise due to set -e.
 git fetch -u origin $GITBASE
-git merge --no-edit --no-commit origin/$GITBASE
+git merge --no-edit origin/$GITBASE
 
 # Show what we are after.
-git --no-pager show -s
\ No newline at end of file
+git --no-pager show -s
diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index 7c3e058f3935..aa89d74248e7 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ env:
   CODECOV_TOKEN: "2dd7eb9b-0eda-45fe-a47c-9b5ac040045f"
 
 steps:
+
   - command:
       - "python -m pip install tox"
       - "tox -e pep8"
@@ -182,60 +183,9 @@ steps:
         - exit_status: 2
           limit: 2
 
-  - label: "SyTest - :python: 2.7 / :postgres: 9.6 / Monolith"
-    agents:
-      queue: "medium"
-    env:
-      POSTGRES: "1"
-    command:
-      - "bash .buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh"
-      - "bash /synapse_sytest.sh"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:dinsic"
-          propagate-environment: true
-          always-pull: true
-          workdir: "/src"
-          entrypoint: "/bin/sh"
-          init: false
-          shell: ["-x", "-c"]
-          mount-buildkite-agent: false
-          volumes: ["./logs:/logs"]
-      - artifacts#v1.2.0:
-          upload: [ "logs/**/*.log", "logs/**/*.log.*", "logs/results.tap" ]
-      - matrix-org/annotate:
-          path: "logs/annotate.md"
-          style: "error"
-
-  - label: "SyTest - :python: 2.7 / :postgres: 9.6 / Workers"
-    agents:
-      queue: "xlarge"
-    env:
-      POSTGRES: "1"
-      WORKERS: "1"
-    command:
-      - "bash .buildkite/merge_base_branch.sh"
-      - "bash /synapse_sytest.sh"
-    plugins:
-      - docker#v3.0.1:
-          image: "matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:dinsic"
-          propagate-environment: true
-          always-pull: true
-          workdir: "/src"
-          entrypoint: "/bin/sh"
-          init: false
-          shell: ["-x", "-c"]
-          mount-buildkite-agent: false
-          volumes: ["./logs:/logs"]
-      - artifacts#v1.2.0:
-          upload: [ "logs/**/*.log", "logs/**/*.log.*", "logs/results.tap" ]
-      - matrix-org/annotate:
-          path: "logs/annotate.md"
-          style: "error"
-
   - label: "SyTest - :python: 3 / :postgres: 9.6 / Monolith"
     agents:
-      queue: "medium"
+      queue: "xlarge"
     env:
       POSTGRES: "1"
     command:
@@ -260,7 +210,7 @@ steps:
 
   - label: "SyTest - :python: 3 / :postgres: 9.6 / Workers"
     agents:
-      queue: "xlarge"
+      queue: "medium"
     env:
       POSTGRES: "1"
       WORKERS: "1"
diff --git a/.buildkite/synapse_sytest.sh b/.buildkite/synapse_sytest.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3011b88bb799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/synapse_sytest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Fetch sytest, and then run the tests for synapse. The entrypoint for the
+# sytest-synapse docker images.
+
+set -ex
+
+if [ -n "$BUILDKITE" ]
+then
+    SYNAPSE_DIR=`pwd`
+else
+    SYNAPSE_DIR="/src"
+fi
+
+# Attempt to find a sytest to use.
+# If /sytest exists, it means that a SyTest checkout has been mounted into the Docker image.
+if [ -d "/sytest" ]; then
+    # If the user has mounted in a SyTest checkout, use that.
+    echo "Using local sytests..."
+
+    # create ourselves a working directory and dos2unix some scripts therein
+    mkdir -p /work/jenkins
+    for i in install-deps.pl run-tests.pl tap-to-junit-xml.pl jenkins/prep_sytest_for_postgres.sh; do
+        dos2unix -n "/sytest/$i" "/work/$i"
+    done
+    ln -sf /sytest/tests /work
+    ln -sf /sytest/keys /work
+    SYTEST_LIB="/sytest/lib"
+else
+    if [ -n "BUILDKITE_BRANCH" ]
+    then
+        branch_name=$BUILDKITE_BRANCH
+    else
+        # Otherwise, try and find out what the branch that the Synapse checkout is using. Fall back to develop if it's not a branch.
+        branch_name="$(git --git-dir=/src/.git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)" || branch_name="develop"
+    fi
+
+    # Try and fetch the branch
+    echo "Trying to get same-named sytest branch..."
+    wget -q https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/archive/$branch_name.tar.gz -O sytest.tar.gz || {
+        # Probably a 404, fall back to develop
+        echo "Using develop instead..."
+        wget -q https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/archive/develop.tar.gz -O sytest.tar.gz
+    }
+
+    mkdir -p /work
+    tar -C /work --strip-components=1 -xf sytest.tar.gz
+    SYTEST_LIB="/work/lib"
+fi
+
+cd /work
+
+# PostgreSQL setup
+if [ -n "$POSTGRES" ]
+then
+    export PGUSER=postgres
+    export POSTGRES_DB_1=pg1
+    export POSTGRES_DB_2=pg2
+
+    # Start the database
+    su -c 'eatmydata /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/postgresql/data start' postgres
+
+    # Use the Jenkins script to write out the configuration for a PostgreSQL using Synapse
+    jenkins/prep_sytest_for_postgres.sh
+
+    # Make the test databases for the two Synapse servers that will be spun up
+    su -c 'psql -c "CREATE DATABASE pg1;"' postgres
+    su -c 'psql -c "CREATE DATABASE pg2;"' postgres
+
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$OFFLINE" ]; then
+    # if we're in offline mode, just put synapse into the virtualenv, and
+    # hope that the deps are up-to-date.
+    #
+    # (`pip install -e` likes to reinstall setuptools even if it's already installed,
+    # so we just run setup.py explicitly.)
+    #
+    (cd $SYNAPSE_DIR && /venv/bin/python setup.py -q develop)
+else
+    # We've already created the virtualenv, but lets double check we have all
+    # deps.
+    /venv/bin/pip install -q --upgrade --no-cache-dir -e $SYNAPSE_DIR
+    /venv/bin/pip install -q --upgrade --no-cache-dir \
+        lxml psycopg2 coverage codecov tap.py
+
+    # Make sure all Perl deps are installed -- this is done in the docker build
+    # so will only install packages added since the last Docker build
+    ./install-deps.pl
+fi
+
+
+# Run the tests
+>&2 echo "+++ Running tests"
+
+RUN_TESTS=(
+    perl -I "$SYTEST_LIB" ./run-tests.pl --python=/venv/bin/python --synapse-directory=$SYNAPSE_DIR --coverage -O tap --all
+)
+
+TEST_STATUS=0
+
+if [ -n "$WORKERS" ]; then
+    RUN_TESTS+=(-I Synapse::ViaHaproxy --dendron-binary=/pydron.py)
+else
+    RUN_TESTS+=(-I Synapse)
+fi
+
+"${RUN_TESTS[@]}" "$@" > results.tap || TEST_STATUS=$?
+
+if [ $TEST_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+    >&2 echo -e "run-tests \e[31mFAILED\e[0m: exit code $TEST_STATUS"
+else
+    >&2 echo -e "run-tests \e[32mPASSED\e[0m"
+fi
+
+>&2 echo "--- Copying assets"
+
+# Copy out the logs
+mkdir -p /logs
+cp results.tap /logs/results.tap
+rsync --ignore-missing-args  --min-size=1B -av server-0 server-1 /logs --include "*/" --include="*.log.*" --include="*.log" --exclude="*"
+
+# Upload coverage to codecov and upload files, if running on Buildkite
+if [ -n "$BUILDKITE" ]
+then
+    /venv/bin/coverage combine || true
+    /venv/bin/coverage xml || true
+    /venv/bin/codecov -X gcov -f coverage.xml
+
+    wget -O buildkite.tar.gz https://github.com/buildkite/agent/releases/download/v3.13.0/buildkite-agent-linux-amd64-3.13.0.tar.gz
+    tar xvf buildkite.tar.gz
+    chmod +x ./buildkite-agent
+
+    # Upload the files
+    ./buildkite-agent artifact upload "/logs/**/*.log*"
+    ./buildkite-agent artifact upload "/logs/results.tap"
+
+    if [ $TEST_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+        # Annotate, if failure
+        /venv/bin/python $SYNAPSE_DIR/.buildkite/format_tap.py /logs/results.tap "$BUILDKITE_LABEL" | ./buildkite-agent annotate --style="error" --context="$BUILDKITE_LABEL"
+    fi
+fi
+
+
+exit $TEST_STATUS
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4fd5ffa6b48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+version: 2
+jobs:
+  dockerhubuploadrelease:
+    machine: true
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run: docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --label gitsha1=${CIRCLE_SHA1} -t matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG} -t matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG}-py3 --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6 .
+      - run: docker login --username $DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME --password $DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD
+      - run: docker push matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG}
+      - run: docker push matrixdotorg/synapse:${CIRCLE_TAG}-py3
+  dockerhubuploadlatest:
+    machine: true
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run: docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --label gitsha1=${CIRCLE_SHA1} -t matrixdotorg/synapse:latest -t matrixdotorg/synapse:latest-py3 --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6 .
+      - run: docker login --username $DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME --password $DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD
+      - run: docker push matrixdotorg/synapse:latest
+      - run: docker push matrixdotorg/synapse:latest-py3
+
+workflows:
+  version: 2
+  build:
+    jobs:
+      - dockerhubuploadrelease:
+          filters:
+            tags:
+              only: /v[0-9].[0-9]+.[0-9]+.*/
+            branches:
+              ignore: /.*/
+      - dockerhubuploadlatest:
+          filters:
+            branches:
+              only: master
diff --git a/changelog.d/5459.misc b/changelog.d/5459.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..904e45f66b04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/5459.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SyTest has been moved to Buildkite.