Changelog

A human-readable list of changes between versions.

0.5.7

Changed Features

• Removed native UpgradeChat utils, and instead move them to an external dependancy.

• Change the eval command to not include globals, and include the VBU data in a vbu arg.

• Changed the shard manager to use sockets instead of redis

0.5.6

Bugs Fixed

• Fix error in creating a redis connection.

0.5.5

New Features

• Added a shard manager using redis.

0.5.4

Changed Features

• Remove caching from UpgradeChat utils.

Bugs Fixed

• Fix logger being undefined in UpgradeChat utils.

0.5.3

New Features

• Add voxelbotutils.TimeFormatter.

Changed Features

• The bot will now say its recommended shard count before trying to connect.

• The voxelbotutils.Bot.create_global_application_command(), voxelbotutils.Bot.create_guild_application_command(), voxelbotutils.Bot.bulk_create_global_application_commands(), and voxelbotutils.Bot.bulk_create_guild_application_command`s will now return instances of :class:`voxelbotutils.ApplicationCommand().

Bugs Fixed

• Temporarily fixed an issue where the bot wouldn’t start without installing web requirements.

• Fix the embed kwarg not being usable for some embeds.

0.5.2

New Features

• Allow a bot parameter in voxelbotutils.menus.Menu.create_cog().

Changed Features

• Message objects returned by the library will now be instances of voxelbotutils.ComponentMessage or voxelbotutils.ComponentWebhookMessage.

• Handle parameters to slash commands better instead of leaving them to D.py to be converted.

• Change the format on vbu’s loggers.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue where paginators wouldn’t expire cleanly.

0.5.1

Changed Features

• Allow select menus to be disabled

• Don’t add a “menu loading” message for paginators.

0.5.0

This update is mainly to deal with breaking changes for the settings menus.

Changed Features

• The settings menus have been entirely, incompatibly, redone.

0.4.0

This update is mainly to deal with breaking changes for the web utilities.

New Features

• Added the voxelbotutils.web.OauthGuild, voxelbotutils.web.OauthUser, and voxelbotutils.web.OauthMember classes.

• The discord.Message and discord.WebhookMessage objects have been replaced with subclasses that include message components.

• Added voxelbotutils.SelectMenu and related objects.

• Message objects now have enable_components and disable_components methods.

• voxelbotutils.InteractionMessageable now has a respond method that allows you to give a type 4 response to an interaction.

Changed Features

• Raise voxelbotutils.errors.NotBotSupport if the support guild cannot be fetched.

• If no scopes are given for voxelbotutils.Bot.get_invite_link(), the bot's config will be used.

• Messages have had wait_for_button_click removed in favour of discord.Client.wait_for().

• voxelbotutils.Paginator now uses buttons instead of reactions.

• voxelbotutils.Button instances will now allow a label to be empty if an emoji is set.

• Components will now give you a discord.PartialMessage instance if the message was not included in the interaction payload.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bug when checking for reactions in the settings menus.

• Fixed a bug in the stats command for Python versions 3.9+.

• Add a missing module in the custom command object.

• Fix bug where file content would not be read in the ev command.

• Fix AttributeError when getting user mentions in slash commands.

0.3.2

New Features

• Added voxelbotutils.MinimalBot.

• The bot’s startup logger line now includes the recommended number of shards that you should launch with.

• Added the voxelbotutils.web.is_logged_in() method.

• Add version command to the CLI args.

Changed Features

• If embeds are enabled, the footer of embeds will be changed to “currently live on Twitch” when the stream presence is set.

• If no permissions are given for voxelbotutils.Bot.get_invite_link(), the bot's config will be used.

• Add remove_reaction param to the voxelbotutils.Paginator.start() method.

• Made all voxelbotutils.Button parameters into kwargs, apart from name and custom ID, which are positional.

• Add voxelbotutils.ComponentHolder.add_component() and voxelbotutils.ComponentHolder.remove_component() methods.

• Add voxelbotutils.MessageComponents.boolean_buttons() voxelbotutils.MessageComponents.add_buttons_with_rows() methods.

Bugs Fixed

• Fix typo when creating website config.

• Fix the sharding information for when no arguments are set.

• Fix access token refreshing in voxelbotutils.UpgradeChat.

• Fix button clicks not working with ephemeral messages.

0.3.1

New Features

• Catch discord.ext.commands.ConversionError in the error handler.

Changed Features

• Set error text to be ephemeral when using slash commands.

• Allow bots to be created without a prefix (see BotConfig.default_prefix).

Bugs Fixed

• Fix command name in errors when using subcommands.

• Fix setting the presence when there are no shard IDs set.

• Fix casting for args in slash commands.

• Fix login URL redirect for websites.

• Fixed removeslashcommands command.

0.3.0

Initial changelog version.