Major Release

Important

• Recommend all users to unblock and re-block all blocked users upon updating to this release.

Added

• Three new config vars:
  • enable_plugins (yes/no default yes)
    • When set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • error_color (color format, defaults discord red)
    • The color of error messages.
  • anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
    • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
    • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.
• Open threads in limbo now auto closes if the channel cannot be found. This check is done every time the bot restarts.
• Ability to disable new threads from getting created.
  • ?disable
• Ability to fully disable Modmail DM.
  • ?disable all
• To re-enable DM: ?enable, and to see the current status: ?isenable.
• This disabled Modmail interface is customizable with the following config vars:
  • disabled_new_thread_title
  • disabled_new_thread_response
  • disabled_new_thread_footer
  • disabled_current_thread_title
  • disabled_current_thread_response
  • disabled_current_thread_footer
• Ability to delete notes when providing their ID. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Ability to delete log entries. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Automatically delete notes command ?note when there are no attachments attached.
• Embed author links used to be inaccessible in many cases, now:
  • ?anonreply, ?reply, and ?note in the thread channel will link to the sender's profile.
  • ?reply and recipient's DM will also link the sender's profile.
  • ?anonreply in DM channel will link to the first channel of the main guild.
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganized plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages change.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, it's set to MAIN_COLOR now.
• Added ?plugins update for updating all installed plugins.
• Reintroduce flake8 and use bandit for security issues detection.
• Add travis checks for 3.6 in Linux and 3.7 for MacOS and Windows.
• Eval commands are logged in debug logs.
• Presence updates 30 minutes instead of 45 now.
• Fixed an assortment of problems to do with block.
• Existing aliases can be used when creating new aliases. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-devN.
• trigger_typing has been moved to core.utils.trigger_typing, the original location is deprecated.
• Simpler status and activity logic.
• New logging logic.

Dev Release

• Ability to delete notes when providing their ID. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Ability to delete log entries. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Existing aliases can be used when creating new aliases. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Dev Release

Nothing New.

Dev Release

Fixed

• Embed author links used to be inaccessible in many cases, now:
• ?anonreply, ?reply, and ?note in the thread channel will link to the sender's profile.
• ?reply and recipient's DM will also link the sender's profile.
• ?anonreply in DM channel will link to the first channel of the main guild.

Dev Release

Important

• Recommend all users to unblock and re-block all blocked users upon updating to this release.

Added

• Three new config vars:
  • enable_plugins (yes/no default yes)
    • When set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • error_color (color format, defaults discord red)
    • The color of error messages.
  • anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
    • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
    • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.
• Open threads in limbo now auto closes if the channel cannot be found. This check is done every time the bot restarts.

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Automatically delete notes command ?note when there's no attachments attached.
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganised plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages changes.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, its set to MAIN_COLOR now.
• Added ?plugins update for updating all installed plugins.
• Reintroduce flake8 and use bandit for security issues detection.
• Add travis checks for 3.6 in Linux and 3.7 for MacOS and Windows.
• Eval commands are logged in debug logs.
• Presence updates 30 minutes instead of 45 now.
• Fixed an assortment of problems to do with block.

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-devN.
• trigger_typing has been moved to core.utils.trigger_typing, original location is deprecated.
• Simpler status and activity logic.

Dev Release

Added

• anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
  • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.

Dev Release

Added

• Two new config vars:
  • ENABLE_PLUGINS (yes/no default yes), when set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • ERROR_COLOR (color format, defaults discord red), the color of error messages.

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganized plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages change.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, its set to MAIN_COLOR now.

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-dev.

Security Update

Important

• Supporter permission users used to be able to "hack" snippets to reveal all your config vars, including your token and MongoURI.
• Implemented some changes to address this bug:
  • All customizable variables used in snippets, close messages, etc, using the {} syntax, now forbids chaining 2 or more attributes and attributes that starts with _.
• It is advised to update to this version.
• If you felt your credentials have been leaked, consider changing your bot token / mongo uri.

Bug Fix

Fixed

• Can't set hex for main_color, recipient_color, etc.

Added

• Discord colors by default when addressing them by names.

Stable Release

Added

• Ability to change permission levels of individual commands.
  • See ?permissions override for more information.
• thread_move_notify and thread_move_response to notify recipients if a thread is moved. (Thanks to Flufster PR#360)
• IDs of messages sent to Modmail are now viewable. (Thanks to Flufster PR#360)

Fixed

• ?help <some sub command>, will return Perhaps you meant: <some sub command>, now it's fixed.
  • For example, ?help add used to return Perhaps you meant: add, now it wouldn't do this.
• Aliases and Permissions command names are always saved lowercase now.
• An improved Dockerfile.

Internal

• Use regex to parse Changes, Added, Fixed, etc and description.
• Adds PermissionLevel.INVALID when commands don't have a permission level.