Release 3.0.0b20

[UPDATED]

• Lots of dependencies (#1974)
  • discord.py to revision 8ccb98d395537b1c9acc187e1647dfdd07bb831b
  • Python compatibility to >=3.6,<3.8
  • aiohttp 3.3.2
  • Websockets 6.0
  • Other dependency versions can be seen in our setup.py

[CHANGED]

• [BREAKING] Use of redbot.core.commands module enforced (#1971)
• [BREAKING] config.Group.__call__() now mixes in defaults (#2018)
• [BREAKING] config.Group.get_raw now mixes in defaults to dicts (#2018)
• Owner commands can no longer be overridden by Permissions (#2053)
• Self-bot support removed (#2008)

[ADDED]

• Helpful task-based algorithms in utils (#1989)
• Warning to owner upon inaccurate system time detection (#2026)
• Output sanitation utilities (#1942)
• Thumbnail display for youtube tracks with toggle (#1998)

[ENHANCED]

• [p]eval has friendlier code-block stripping (#2017)
• cleanup's internals have been cleaned up (#2013)
• Update from launcher will use --user flag when necessary, thanks @retke (#2027)
• Using redgettext for string extraction to make docstrings translatable (#2023)
• Embeds in audio now respect the user's settings, thanks @Brramble (#2046)

[FIXED]

• #2015: Error when using [p]report in DM (#2016)
• Suppression of some ImportErrors in cogs (#1989)
• Help message display for [p]localblacklist/[p]localwhitelist (#2042)
• #1941: users triggering mass mentions through trivia session (#1942)
• Sub-command and -group decorators moved to the right place (#1818)
• All issues resulting from namespace packages (#2028)
• Missing translation files (#2028)
• #2033: Error loading audio when java -version output is unexpected (#2035)
• #1999: YouTube streamalert missing channel name when added by ID (#2047)
• #2003: Misleading message for common misuse of [p]streamalert twitch channel (#2048)

Release 3.0.0b19

[ENHANCED]

• Sentry client has been modified to use raven-aiohttp (#1967)
• [p]urban looks way more awesome, thanks @lionirdeadman (#1871)
• [p]reason now edits the most recent case when the case number is omitted, thanks @retke (#1979)
• [p]userinfo Will hides the Roles field when the user has no roles. (#1829)

[FIXED]

• #1943: error when unloading cogs without a module (#1984)
• Unwanted translation files being uploaded to Crowdin (#1849)
• #1975: passing floats as transactions to the bank broke stuff (#1976)
• Not being able to include "+" in a [p]lmgtfy search (#1991)
• #1932: Unable to load streams cog with mixer alerts added (#1994)
• #1978: Error in command [p]case (#1981)
• #1952: [p]addrole throwing an error on hierarchy issue (#1995)
• #1982: Core/install cog paths being added implicitly (#1983)
• #1997: Missing help string for [p]streamalert list (#2001)
• #1947: [p]cleanup after not deleting anything (#2004)

Release 3.0.0b18

Enhancements:
bank.withdraw_credits will now accept 0. This allows developers to more easily create stuff that's free. (#1937)
The bot will now use uvloop when available (#1935)

Bugfixes:
Fixed a bug with the JSON driver not being able to save ints (#1953)
Fixed a outdated help text on a dev command (#1944)
Fixed an error caused by the bot not being able to send a DM on help. (#1955)
Fixed an issue with the permissions cache (#1945)

Release 3.0.0b17

Warning:

As discussed in the Beta 16 release notes, the breaking changes of #1836 are now in effect. For more details see that Pull request.

Additions:
Autohelp changes. (#1836)
Allows the use of prefixes in install messages (#1869)
Added new flags (#1872)
Added checking for valid playlist files (#1891)
Audio now respects voice channel permissions (#1878)
The Economy leaderboards got a new look.(#1898)

Enhancements:
Embed colors are now applied to more commands (#1918)
Various changes to the Config JSON driver (#1855)
Made PyTest fixtures always available (#1858)
Show the Red version on the launcher (#1810)
Payday clarifications (#1892)
Clarified the reports help texts (#1860)
Clarified the streams help texts (#1837)
Clarified the admin help texts (#1906)
Stop the tmp directory from showing up (#1895)
Removed every reference for Python 3.5 (#1896)
Use our own checks instead of discord.py's (#1861)
Aliased Colour to color (#1916)
Improved the performance of Permissions (#1885)
Improved mod/admin role logic (#1914)
Warnings got a big update (#1867)
Reports now display the member's full username and discriminator. (#1913)
Made permissions more consistent (#1905)
Audio now has a more aggressive empty disconnect (#1925)

Bugfixes:
Fixed various typos (#1917)
Fixed a bug with modset (#1854)
Removed an outdated reference (#1856)
Fixed an example in the Config documentation (#1876)
Fixed an error in trying to grab past user/nicknames in userinfo (#1865)
Fixed unnecessary writes on context manage exit (#1859)
Fixed data not saving on playlist create (#1889)
Fixed cleanup messages cleaning up to many messages (#1864)
Fixed duplicate help messages on ignore (#1862)
Fixed DM usage in some commands (#1919)
Fixed the wrong reason being used on unbanning (#1842)
Fixed playlist queue duplicates (#1890)

Release 3.0.0b16

WARNING: Support for Python 3.5 has been DROPPED (#1721)

Note: discord.py has been pinned as a result of recent changes to its requirements. We intend to update with beta 17

A note for cog devs: Mark your command group functions with autohelp=True or autohelp=False in the decorator (if it applies to your cogs) as beta 17 is bringing a breaking change (see #1790)

Additions:

• Swap back to initial RPC library and hook into core commands (#1780)
• local whitelist/blacklist (#1776)

Enhancements:

• Added some tests (#1590)
• Audio: Empty channel disconnect setting (#1832)
• Command group automatic help (#1790)
• Add a requirements list to [p]cog info (#1827)
• Make hidden hidden and add disabled for info.json (#1828)
• Split available and installed cogs in [p]cog list (#1826)
• Refactor some commands for testing/RPC (#1691)

Bugfixes:

• Fix online user count in [p]serverinfo (#1844)
• Fix past nicks conversion for mod (#1840)
• Fix streams race condition (#1834)
• Catch another error on windows compiler failure (#1830)
• Send meaningful responses on conversion failure (#1817)
• Fix backup error (#1820)
• Patch issue with attachment grabbing (#1822)
• Fix formatter field pagination (#1813)
• Don't block on adding reactions (#1808)
• prevent self-casing the bot + feedback for heirarchy (#1777)
• Don't do 3rd party agreement without command args (#1821)
• Better name-as-prefix handling (#1823)
• Fix typo in load (#1814)
• Fix dm help set (#1806)
• Fix missing await (#1805)
• Cleanup quotes in cogs (#1782)
• Fixed issue with making YT Stream Embed (#1812)
• Add missing await for [p]set prefix (#1809)
• permissions canrun fix (#1787)
• fix several issues with fuzzy command search (#1788)
• Handle token being an empty string (#1794)
• Fix display of whitelist and blacklist members (#1789)
• decorator inheritence fix (#1786)
• Fixes issue preventing token reset from setup (#1771)
• CLI prefix args correctly display in the on_ready print (#1770)
• Hide help command from help (#1772)
• Use typing.TYPE_CHECKING instead of utils.TYPE_CHECKING (#1778)
• Announce ignore parameter modification (#1781)
• Check for empty queue in [p]skip (#1769)
• Permissions: Don't rely on load order to be consistent (#1760)
• Make bot send typing whilst loading cogs (#1756)
• Clean up some ugly auto-formatted strings (#1753)
• Use sys.exit() over exit() (#1755)
• Add a much-needed forward reference (#1763)
• Add notes about case sensitivity for selfrole (#1762)
• Restrict check for reactions on [p]now (#1752)
• Fix error on [p]set command when used in DM (#1748)
• Spelling, Grammar, and doc string fixes. (#1747)
• Use Embed.Empty for unset embed colour (#1750)

Release 3.0.0b15

Deprecation warning:

The minimum version of Red will be bumped from Python 3.5 to Python 3.6 on Beta release 16.

Additions:

• Added [p]helpset (#1694)
• Added Permissions cog (#1548)
• Add a setting for embed color (#1707)
• Add [p]repo info and short descriptions to [p]repo list (#1701)
• Add events for modlog cases (#1717)

Enhancements:

• Initial RPC library switch (#1634)
• Install docs have been changed to guide installing 3.6 (#1685)
• Add names/nicknames and current voice channel to [p]userinfo
• Fuzzy command search for [p]help (#1600)
• Tagline support for [p]help (#1705)
• Cog list is now pagified (#1662)
• Long docstrings are now pagified (#1722)
• The --dry-run flag has been implemented (#1648)
• Updated the cli flag selector in the launcher (#1696)
• Removed reactions from [p]ping (#1712)
• Optimize [p]backup to reduce file size (#1666)
• Help will use the bot's set color (#1706)
• Commands will silently fail if the user can't run them (#1725)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue with the help command when there is not docstring for the command or cog (#1645)
• Fixed an issue with errors when importing modules not being handled (#1655)
• Fixed a couple Downloader bugs (#1692, #1693)
• fix erroneous message when transferring with insufficient funds (#1698)
• Respect administrator and guildowner permissions (#1711)
• [p]llsetup fixes (#1656)
• Add checks to alias add/del (#1676)
• Only allow audio commands in servers (#1682)
• Fix downloader test failing on Windows (#1673)
• Fix a bug with [p]warn erroring if no valid reason is passed (#1672)
• Fix a misspelling in the Admin cog (#1715)
• Fix an issue with removing Mongo instances (#1710)
• Drop unnecessary channel from unmute server cases (#1695)
• Fixed an issue with choice of extras to install from the launcher (#1649)
• Fixed ctx.send_help not respecting embed setting (#1723)
• Fixed an issue occurring on bot shutdown (#1726)

Dev workflow changes:

• Update CONTRIBUTING.md with details on new dev workflow (#1659)
• Add a makefile for helping with style checking and reformatting (#1665)
• Add tox (#1641)
• [V3] Add pipenv files (#1642)
• Introduce black for code style (#1650, #1657, #1658)

Release 3.0.0b14

Additions:

• Added a --load-cogs cli flag (#1601)

Enhancements:

• Trivia has been updated to v1.1.1 (#1635)
• Check for embed_links permission in embed_requested (#1619)
• [p]ping has been moved to core_commands and now responds with a ping pong paddle reaction if it can add reactions (otherwise it will fall back to saying "Pong.") (#1618)
• Cleanup commands clean up after themselves (#1602)
• Cleanup now respects pinned messages by default (#1596)
• Stream alert messages are now tracked across bot restarts (#1630)
• The warning about using Python 3.6 on Windows has been dropped from the docs (#1622)
• Audio: Update queue and search to use menus (#1633)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue with unmuting (#1603)
• Fixed some outdated information (#1613)
• Marked 3.7 as unsupported (#1623)
• Fixed an issue with choosing a server to leave in [p]servers (#1617)
• Fixed the help for [p]help (#1606)
• Fix [p]reason when the modlog case has no moderator (#1604)
• Add a NoneType check on trying to normalize a string (#1632)

Breaking change:

• redbot.core.RedContext has been renamed and relocated to redbot.core.commands.Context (#1143)
• redbot.core.i18n.CogI18n has been renamed to redbot.core.i18n.Translator (#1143)

Note:
As of this release, changes have been added to prepare for a permissions cog. These changes do allow for third party permissions cogs to replace the core one.

Any cog named Permissions must either not have a function named, or implement a function named check_overrides as a coroutine that takes 2 arguments, (context and a level) and must return None, True or False

More documentation on this is coming soon

Release 3.0.0b13

Additions:
Added a new menu system for developers to use (#1566)
Added the option to reinstall red from the launcher (#1536)
Provided an extra method for working with Embeds (#1558)

Enhancements:
Audio now has a updated playlist mechanic with the ability to import v2 playlists (#1579)
Cleanup now supports cleaning users who have left the guild (#1561)

Bug fixes:
Fixed an issue with info and the recent PyPi change (#1581)
Fixed various grammar errors (#1539, #1582)
Fixed an issue where unmuting didn't work (#1568)
Fixed an issue whereby a zombie process would be left behind if Red died (#1575)
Fixed some issues with warnings (#1577)
Fixed numbering and leaving servers if the bot is a server owner (#1580, fun fact, bots can own a server if they are in less then 10 guilds!)
Fixed an issue with backing up data in the launcher on python 3.5.x (#1588)
Fixed various issues with reports (#1541)
Fixed an issue in SimpleEmbed (#1555)
Fixed files not having the right permissions (#1578)
Fixed an issue with non-existing sub-commands (#1565)

Breaking changes:

The following breaking changes have been planned for the upcoming releases.

Beta 14: The following imports need to replaced (PR #1143)

• redbot.core.RedContext has been renamed and relocated to redbot.core.commands.Context.
• redbot.core.i18n.CogI18n has been renamed to redbot.core.i18n.Translator.

Near future: Changes will be added to prepare for a permissions cog. These changes do allow for third party permissions cogs to replace the core one. (PR #1548)

Any cog named Permissions must either not have a function named, or implement a function named check_overrides as a coroutine that takes 2 arguments, (context and a level) and must return None, True or False

More documentation on this is coming soon

Release 3.0.0b12

Additions:

• Per-role payday payouts in Economy when the bank is NOT global (#1488)
• Added installation docs for Arch Linux (#1504)
• Added systemd docs for Linux (#1505)
• Added a new cog: Report (#1280, #1538)
• Playlist saving/recalling functionality in Audio with more to come, also bugfixes (#1528)

Enhancements:

• Add the credits name to payday output (#1496)
• Improve the boot sequence for Lavalink (#1498)
• Denying users the permission to use reactions on mute (#1495)
• Replaced various strings from guild to server to reflect Discord's UI (#1522, #1529, #1530)
• Add lavalink jar build to settings display (#1430)

Bug fixes:

• Fix an issue with the data converter on Python 3.5 (#1491)
• Fix issues with [p]set and [p]set nickname (#1494)
• Don't try to get cli flags in the launcher if no instances are found (#1497)
• Fixed an issue with removing a bot instance (#1535)
• Fixed typos (#1531, #1537)
• Fixed an issue with cleanup looping (#1533)
• Fixed an issue when converting from MongoDB to JSON (#1514)
• Made embedset appear in help (#1523)
• Supress a warning about PyNaCl missing (#1508)

Removals:

• Removed youtube-dl from the requirements (#1503)
• Removed old type tuple usage with Config (#1518)

Release 3.0.0b11

Additions:

• [p]backup has been added (#1471)
• Data conversion tool (#1293)

Enhancements:

• Instance backups can now be done on instances using MongoDB for storage (#1470)
• Embed toggling support for [p]contact, [p]dm, [p]cogs, the mod log, and [p]filter (#1467)
• Updated translations (#1490)
• Install messages for cogs will now be displayed (#1453)
• A minimum Python version can now be specified for cogs (#1455)
• Audio now has a voteskip mode and a DJ Role mode, as well as support for having a cost to queue songs (#1473)
• Settings displays for [p]set and [p]bankset (#1475)
• Added a --version flag (#1479)

Bug fixes:

• Instance setup will now warn if an instance already exists with a given name and prompt to confirm overwriting the old instance (#1469)
• Fixed a bug with [p]set token (#1449)
• Fixed a bug with [p]invite sending the wrong url (#1461)
• Fixed a bug with embed_requested (#1468)
• Fixed an issue with data import/export where the data was inaccessible because of incorrect key type (#1448)
• Fixed a text issue in [p]flip (#1489)
• Increased the timeout connecting to Lavalink (#1474)
• Fixed a TypeError related to the 'until' field of modlog cases (#1487)
• Fixed [p]imgur not working properly (#1485)
• Fixed a bug with [p]help cutting off characters (#1456)
• Fixed a bug with unloading cogs (#1458)
• Fixed a logic issue with loading cogs (#1460)