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Redbot 3.3.10 (2020-07-09)

End-user changelog

Audio

  • Added information about internally managed jar to [p]audioset info (:issue:`3915`)
  • Updated to Lavaplayer 1.3.50
  • Twitch playback and YouTube searching should be functioning again.

Core Bot

Downloader

Filter

  • Added [p]filter list to show filtered words, and removed DMs when no subcommand was passed (:issue:`3973`)

Image

  • Updated instructions for obtaining and setting the GIPHY API key (:issue:`3994`)

Mod

  • Added option to delete messages within the passed amount of days with [p]tempban (:issue:`3958`)
  • Added the ability to permanently ban a temporary banned user with [p]hackban (:issue:`4025`)
  • Fixed the passed reason not being used when using [p]tempban (:issue:`3958`)
  • Fixed invite being sent with [p]tempban even when no invite was set (:issue:`3991`)
  • Prevented an issue whereby the author may lock him self out of using the bot via whitelists (:issue:`3903`)
  • Reduced the number of API calls made to the storage APIs (:issue:`3910`)

Permissions

Streams

Trivia Lists

Developer changelog

  • Added the utility functions map, find, and next to AsyncIter (:issue:`3921`, :issue:`3887`)
  • Updated deprecation times for APIToken, and loops being passed to various functions to the first minor release (represented by X in 3.X.0) after 2020-08-05 (:issue:`3608`)
  • Updated deprecation warnings for shared libs to reflect that they have been moved for an undefined time (:issue:`3608`)
  • Added new discord.com domain to INVITE_URL_RE common filter (:issue:`4012`)
  • Fixed incorrect role mention regex in MessagePredicate (:issue:`4030`)
  • Vendor the discord.ext.menus module (:issue:`4039`)

Documentation changes

Miscellaneous

  • Improved error responses for when Modlog and Autoban on mention spam were already disabled (:issue:`3951`, :issue:`3949`)
  • Clarified that [p]embedset user only affects commands executed in DMs (:issue:`3972`, :issue:`3953`)
  • Added link to Getting Started guide if the bot was not in any guilds (:issue:`3906`)
  • Fixed exceptions being ignored or not sent to log files in special cases (:issue:`3895`)
  • Added the option of using dots in the instance name when creating your instances (:issue:`3920`)
  • Added a confirmation when using hyphens in instance names to discourage the use of them (:issue:`3920`)
  • Fixed migration owner notifications being sent even when migration was not necessary (:issue:`3911`. :issue:`3909`)
  • Fixed commands being translated where they should not be (:issue:`3938`, :issue:`3919`)
  • Fixed grammar errors and added full stopts in core_commands.py (:issue:`4023`)

Redbot 3.3.9 (2020-06-12)

Thanks to all these amazing people that contributed to this release:

Read before updating:
1. Bot owners can no longer restrict access to some commands in Permissions cog using global permissions rules. Look at Permissions changelog <important-339-2> for full details.
2. There's been a change in behavior of warning messages. Look at Warnings changelog <important-339-1> for full details.

End-user changelog

Security

NOTE: If you can't update immediately, we recommend disabling the affected command until you can.

  • Mod - [p]tempban now properly respects Discord's hierarchy rules (:issue:`3957`)

Core Bot

  • [p]info command can now be used when bot doesn't have Embed Links permission (:issue:`3907`, :issue:`3102`)
  • Fixed ungraceful error that happened in [p]set custominfo when provided text was too long (:issue:`3923`)
  • Red's start up message now shows storage type (:issue:`3935`)

Audio

Filter

  • Fixed behavior of detecting quotes in commands for adding/removing filtered words (:issue:`3925`)

Permissions

  • Both global and server rules can no longer prevent guild owners from accessing commands for changing server rules. Bot owners can still use [p]command disable if they wish to completely disable any command in Permissions cog (:issue:`3955`, :issue:`3107`)

    Full list of affected commands:

    • [p]permissions acl getserver
    • [p]permissions acl setserver
    • [p]permissions acl updateserver
    • [p]permissions addserverrule
    • [p]permissions removeserverrule
    • [p]permissions setdefaultserverrule
    • [p]permissions clearserverrules
    • [p]permissions canrun
    • [p]permissions explain

Warnings

  • Warnings sent to users don't show the moderator who warned the user by default now. Newly added [p]warningset showmoderators command can be used to switch this behaviour (:issue:`3781`)
  • Warn channel functionality has been fixed (:issue:`3781`)

Developer changelog

Core Bot

  • Added bot.set_prefixes() <RedBase.set_prefixes()> method that allows developers to set global/server prefixes (:issue:`3890`)

Documentation changes

Miscellaneous

Redbot 3.3.8 (2020-05-29)

End-user changelog

Core Bot

  • Important fixes to how PostgreSQL data backend saves data in bulks (:issue:`3829`)
  • Fixed [p]localwhitelist and [p]localblacklist commands (:issue:`3857`)
  • Red now includes information on how to update when sending information about being out of date (:issue:`3744`)
  • Using backslashes in bot's username/nickname no longer causes issues (:issue:`3826`, :issue:`3825`)

Admin

Alias

  • Added pagination to [p]alias list and [p]alias global list to avoid errors for users with a lot of aliases (:issue:`3844`, :issue:`3834`)
  • [p]alias help should now work more reliably (:issue:`3864`)

Audio

  • Twitch playback is functional once again (:issue:`3873`)
  • Recent errors with YouTube playback should be resolved (:issue:`3873`)
  • Added new option (settable with [p]audioset lyrics) that makes Audio cog prefer (prioritize) tracks with lyrics (:issue:`3519`)
  • Added global daily (historical) queues (:issue:`3518`)
  • Added [p]audioset countrycode that allows to set the country code for spotify searches (:issue:`3528`)
  • Fixed [p]local search (:issue:`3528`, :issue:`3501`)
  • Local folders with special characters should work properly now (:issue:`3528`, :issue:`3467`)
  • Audio no longer fails to take the last spot in the voice channel with user limit (:issue:`3528`)
  • [p]local play no longer enqueues tracks from nested folders (:issue:`3528`)
  • Fixed [p]playlist dedupe not removing tracks (:issue:`3518`)
  • [p]disconnect now allows to disconnect if both DJ mode and voteskip aren't enabled (:issue:`3502`, :issue:`3485`)
  • Many UX improvements and fixes, including, among other things:
    • Creating playlists without explicitly passing -scope no longer causes errors (:issue:`3500`)
    • [p]playlist list now shows all accessible playlists if --scope flag isn't used (:issue:`3518`)
    • [p]remove now also accepts a track URL in addition to queue index (:issue:`3201`)
    • [p]playlist upload now accepts a playlist file uploaded in the message with a command (:issue:`3251`)
    • Commands now send friendly error messages for common errors like lost Lavalink connection or bot not connected to voice channel (:issue:`3503`, :issue:`3528`, :issue:`3353`, :issue:`3712`)

CustomCommands

  • [p]customcom create no longer allows spaces in custom command names (:issue:`3816`)

Mod

  • [p]userinfo now shows default avatar when no avatar is set (:issue:`3819`)

Modlog

Permissions

Warnings

Developer changelog

Important:
If you're using RPC, please see the full annoucement about current state of RPC in main Red server by clicking here.

Core Bot

  • Red now inherits from discord.ext.commands.AutoShardedBot for better compatibility with code expecting d.py bot (:issue:`3822`)
  • Libraries using pkg_resources (like humanize or google-api-python-client) that were installed through Downloader should now work properly (:issue:`3843`)
  • All bot owner IDs can now be found under bot.owner_ids attribute (:issue:`3793`)
    • Note: If you want to use this on bot startup (e.g. in cog's initialisation), you need to await bot.wait_until_red_ready() first

Documentation changes

Miscellaneous

Redbot 3.3.7 (2020-04-28)

This is a hotfix release fixing issue with generating messages for new cases in Modlog.

Redbot 3.3.6 (2020-04-27)

End-user changelog

Core Bot

  • Converting from and to Postgres driver with redbot-setup convert have been fixed (:issue:`3714`, :issue:`3115`)
  • Fixed big delays in commands that happened when the bot was owner-less (or if it only used co-owners feature) and command caller wasn't the owner (:issue:`3782`)
  • Various optimizations
    • Reduced calls to data backend when loading bot's commands (:issue:`3764`)
    • Reduced calls to data backend when showing help for cogs/commands (:issue:`3766`)
    • Improved performance for bots with big amount of guilds (:issue:`3767`)
    • Mod cog no longer fetches guild's bans every 60 seconds when handling unbanning for tempbans (:issue:`3783`)
    • Reduced the bot load for messages starting with a prefix when fuzzy search is disabled (:issue:`3718`)
    • Aliases in Alias cog are now cached for better performance (:issue:`3788`)

Core Commands

  • [p]set avatar now supports setting avatar using attachment (:issue:`3747`)
  • Added [p]set avatar remove subcommand for removing bot's avatar (:issue:`3757`)
  • Fixed list of ignored channels that is shown in [p]ignore/[p]unignore (:issue:`3746`)

Audio

  • Age-restricted tracks, live streams, and mix playlists from YouTube should work in Audio again (:issue:`3791`)
  • Soundcloud's sets and playlists with more than 50 tracks should work in Audio again (:issue:`3791`)

CustomCommands

  • Added [p]cc raw command that gives you the raw response of a custom command for ease of copy pasting (:issue:`3795`)

Modlog

Streams

Trivia

  • Fixed the error in [p]trivia stop that happened when there was no ongoing trivia session in the channel (:issue:`3774`)

Trivia Lists

  • Updated leagueoflegends list with new changes to League of Legends (b8ac70e)

Developer changelog

Utility Functions

  • Added redbot.core.utils.AsyncIter utility class which allows you to wrap regular iterable into async iterator yielding items and sleeping for delay seconds every steps items (:issue:`3767`, :issue:`3776`)
  • bold(), italics(), strikethrough(), and underline() now accept escape_formatting argument that can be used to disable escaping of markdown formatting in passed text (:issue:`3742`)

Documentation changes

  • Added document about updating Red <update_red> (:issue:`3790`)
  • pyenv instructions will now update pyenv if it's already installed (:issue:`3740`)
  • Updated Python version in pyenv instructions (:issue:`3740`)
  • Updated install docs to include Ubuntu 20.04 (:issue:`3792`)

Miscellaneous

Redbot 3.3.5 (2020-04-09)

Thanks to all these amazing people that contributed to this release:

End-user changelog

Core Bot

  • "Outdated" field no longer shows in [p]info when Red is up-to-date (:issue:`3730`)

Alias

  • Fixed regression in [p]alias add that caused it to reject commands containing arguments (:issue:`3734`)

Redbot 3.3.4 (2020-04-05)

Thanks to all these amazing people that contributed to this release:

End-user changelog

Core Bot

  • Fixed checks related to bank's global state that were used in commands in Bank, Economy and Trivia cogs (:issue:`3707`)

Alias

Developer changelog

Core Bot

  • Bump dependencies, including update to discord.py 1.3.3 (:issue:`3723`)

Utility Functions

  • redbot.core.utils.common_filters.filter_invites now filters discord.io/discord.li invites links (:issue:`3717`)
  • Fixed false-positives in redbot.core.utils.common_filters.filter_invites (:issue:`3717`)

Documentation changes

  • Versions of pre-requirements are now included in Windows install guide (:issue:`3708`)

Redbot 3.3.3 (2020-03-28)

End-user changelog

Core Bot

Core Commands

ModLog

  • Modlog's cases now keep last known username to prevent losing that information from case's message on edit (:issue:`3674`, :issue:`3443`)

CustomCom

  • Added [p]cc search command that allows users to search through created custom commands (:issue:`2573`)

Cleanup

  • Added [p]cleanup spam command that deletes duplicate messages from the last X messages and keeps only one copy (:issue:`3688`)
  • Removed regex support in [p]cleanup self (:issue:`3704`)

Downloader

  • [p]cog checkforupdates now includes information about cogs that can't be installed due to Red/Python version requirements (:issue:`3678`, :issue:`3448`)

General

Image

Mod

Permissions

  • Commands for setting default rules now error when user tries to deny access to command designated as being always available (:issue:`3504`, :issue:`3465`)

Streams

  • Fixed an error that happened when no game was set on Twitch stream (:issue:`3631`)
  • Preview picture for YouTube stream alerts is now bigger (:issue:`3689`, :issue:`3685`)
  • YouTube channels with a livestream that doesn't have any current viewer are now properly showing as streaming (:issue:`3690`)
  • Failures in Twitch API authentication are now logged (:issue:`3657`)

Trivia

Warnings

  • Sending warnings to warned user can now be disabled with [p]warnset toggledm command (:issue:`2929`, :issue:`2800`)
  • Added [p]warnset warnchannel command that allows to set a channel where warnings should be sent to instead of the channel command was called in (:issue:`2929`, :issue:`2800`)
  • Added [p]warnset togglechannel command that allows to disable sending warn message in guild channel (:issue:`2929`, :issue:`2800`)
  • [p]warn now tells the moderator when bot wasn't able to send the warning to the user (:issue:`3653`, :issue:`3633`)

Developer changelog

Core Bot

  • Deprecation warnings issued by Red now use correct stack level so that the cog developers can find the cause of them (:issue:`3644`)

Dev Cog

Documentation changes

  • Fixed install instructions for Mac in install_linux_mac (:issue:`3675`, :issue:`3436`)
  • Windows install instructions now use choco upgrade commands instead of choco install to ensure up-to-date packages (:issue:`3684`)

Miscellaneous

  • Core Bot - Command errors (i.e. command on cooldown, dm-only and guild-only commands, etc) can now be translated (:issue:`3665`, :issue:`2988`)
  • Core Bot - redbot-setup now prints link to Getting started guide at the end of the setup (:issue:`3027`)
  • Core Bot - Whitelist and blacklist commands now properly require passing at least one user (or role in case of local whitelist/blacklist) (:issue:`3652`, :issue:`3645`)
  • Downloader - Fix misleading error appearing when repo name is already taken in [p]repo add (:issue:`3695`)
  • Downloader - Improved error messages for unexpected errors in [p]repo add (:issue:`3656`)
  • Downloader - Prevent encoding errors from crashing [p]cog update (:issue:`3639`, :issue:`3637`)
  • Trivia - Non-finite numbers can no longer be passed to [p]triviaset timelimit, [p]triviaset stopafter and [p]triviaset payout (:issue:`3668`, :issue:`3583`)
  • Utility Functions - redbot.core.utils.menus.menu() now checks permissions before trying to clear reactions (:issue:`3589`, :issue:`3145`)

Redbot 3.3.2 (2020-02-28)

End-user changelog

Core Bot

  • Ignored guilds/channels and whitelist/blacklist are now cached for performance (:issue:`3472`)
  • Ignored guilds/channels have been moved from Mod cog to Core (:issue:`3472`)
  • [p]ignore channel command can now also ignore channel categories (:issue:`3472`)

Core Commands

  • Core cogs will now send bot mention prefix properly in places where discord doesn't render mentions (:issue:`3579`, :issue:`3591`, :issue:`3499`)
  • Fix a bug with [p]blacklist add that made it impossible to blacklist users that bot doesn't share a server with (:issue:`3472`, :issue:`3220`)
  • Improve user experience of [p]set game/listening/watching/ commands (:issue:`3562`)
  • Add [p]licenceinfo alias for [p]licenseinfo command to conform with non-American English (:issue:`3460`)

Admin

Alias

  • [p]alias help will now properly work in non-English locales (:issue:`3546`)

Audio

  • Users should be able to play age-restricted tracks from YouTube again (:issue:`3620`)

Economy

Downloader

Image

  • Fix load error for users that updated Red from version lower than 3.1 to version 3.2 or newer (:issue:`3617`)

Mod

  • [p]hackban and [p]unban commands support user mentions now (:issue:`3524`)
  • Ignored guilds/channels have been moved from Mod cog to Core (:issue:`3472`)

Streams

  • Fix stream alerts for Twitch (:issue:`3487`)
  • Significantly reduce the quota usage for YouTube stream alerts (:issue:`3237`)
  • Add [p]streamset timer command which can be used to control how often the cog checks for live streams (:issue:`3237`)

Trivia

  • Add better handling for errors in trivia session (:issue:`3606`)

Trivia Lists

Warnings

Developer changelog

Core Bot

  • Updated all our dependencies - we're using discord.py 1.3.2 now (:issue:`3609`)
  • Add traceback logging to task exception handling (:issue:`3517`)
  • Developers can now create a command from an async function wrapped in functools.partial (:issue:`3542`)
  • Bot will now show deprecation warnings in logs (:issue:`3527`, :issue:`3615`)
  • Subcommands of command group with invoke_without_command=True will again inherit this group's checks (:issue:`3614`)

Config

Utility Functions

  • Add clearer error when page is of a wrong type in redbot.core.utils.menus.menu() (:issue:`3571`)

Dev Cog

  • Allow for top-level await, async for and async with in [p]debug and [p]repl commands (:issue:`3508`)

Downloader

  • Downloader will now replace [p] with clean prefix same as it does in help command (:issue:`3592`)
  • Add schema validation to info.json file processing - it should now be easier to notice any issues with those files (:issue:`3533`, :issue:`3442`)

Documentation changes

Miscellaneous

Redbot 3.3.1 (2020-02-05)

Core Bot

  • Add a cli flag for setting a max size of message cache
  • Allow to edit prefix from command line using redbot --edit.
  • Some functions have been changed to no longer use deprecated asyncio functions

Core Commands

  • The short help text for dm has been made more useful
  • dm no longer allows owners to have the bot attempt to DM itself

Utils

  • Passing the event loop explicitly in utils is deprecated (Removal in 3.4)

Mod Cog

  • Hackban now works properly without being provided a number of days

Documentation Changes

  • Add -e flag to journalctl command in systemd guide so that it takes the user to the end of logs automatically.
  • Added section to install docs for CentOS 8
  • Improve usage of apt update in docs

Redbot 3.3.0 (2020-01-26)

Core Bot

  • The bot's description is now configurable.
  • We now use discord.py 1.3.1, this comes with added teams support.
  • The commands module has been slightly restructured to provide more useful data to developers.
  • Help is now self consistent in the extra formatting used.

Core Commands

  • Slowmode should no longer error on nonsensical time quantities.
  • Embed use can be configured per channel as well.

Documentation

  • We've made some small fixes to inaccurate instructions about installing with pyenv.
  • Notes about deprecating in 3.3 have been altered to 3.4 to match the intended timeframe.

Admin

  • Gives feedback when adding or removing a role doesn't make sense.

Audio

  • Playlist finding is more intuitive.
  • disconnect and repeat commands no longer interfere with eachother.

CustomCom

  • No longer errors when exiting an interactive menu.

Cleanup

  • A rare edge case involving messages which are deleted during cleanup and are the only message was fixed.

Downloader

  • Some user facing messages were improved.
  • Downloader's initialization can no longer time out at startup.

General

  • Roll command will no longer attempt to roll obscenely large amounts.

Mod

  • You can set a default amount of days to clean up when banning.
  • Ban and hackban now use that default.
  • Users can now optionally be DMed their ban reason.

Permissions

  • Now has stronger enforcement of prioritizing botwide settings.