6.3.0

Changes between 6.2.0 and 6.3.0

Module changes:

• Many modules ported to use requests package for stability and security.
• Weather location lookup is fixed.
• Confusing and unnecessary commands like .op were removed.
• Splitting of options in .choice is now more intuitive.
• Some edge cases in reddit post information were fixed.

Core changes:

• A check is added to warn about an obscure environment issue that can cause strange errors.
• Regex characters in the bot's nick no longer cause issues when a rule has the nickname added.
• Rate limiting is tweaked slightly, which should reduce the severity of the .commands flood bug until a proper solution is found.

API changes:

• The current topic of a channel is now available as the Channel object's topic attribute.
• sopel.web has been reworked as a wrapper around requests; it remains deprecated.

6.2.1

Changes between 6.1.1 and 6.2.0

Module changes:

• An error in excluding URLs from title display is fixed
• Case sensitivity issues in currency and dice commands are fixed
• Guards to require channel or private message are added to a number of commands, to avoid confusing errors
• A calculation bug in the countdown command is fixed.
• Misc minor bugfixes and improvements

Core changes:

• An occasional error with SSL connections on Python 3 is fixed
• On servers which support IRCv3 account extensions, the services account name can be used to authenticate the owner
• Numerous additional IRCv3 features are supported

API changes:

• bot.privileges is now deprecated in favor of bot.channels
• bot.channels contains more information about the channels the bot is in
• bot.users is now available with information about the users Sopel is aware of
• sopel.web is now deprecated in favor of the third-party requests library
• trigger.time is added with the current time, or server-time if the server supports it
• sopel.tools.events is now available as an enum of IRC numeric replies

6.2.0

Changes between 6.1.1 and 6.2.0

Module changes:

• An error in excluding URLs from title display is fixed
• Case sensitivity issues in currency and dice commands are fixed
• Guards to require channel or private message are added to a number of commands, to avoid confusing errors
• A calculation bug in the countdown command is fixed.
• Misc minor bugfixes and improvements

Core changes:

• An occasional error with SSL connections on Python 3 is fixed
• On servers which support IRCv3 account extensions, the services account name can be used to authenticate the owner
• Numerous additional IRCv3 features are supported

API changes:

• bot.privileges is now deprecated in favor of bot.channels
• bot.channels contains more information about the channels the bot is in
• bot.users is now available with information about the users Sopel is aware of
• sopel.web is now deprecated in favor of the third-party requests library
• trigger.time is added with the current time, or server-time if the server supports it
• sopel.tools.events is now available as an enum of IRC numeric replies

6.1.1

Changes between 6.1.0 and 6.1.1

If you are updating from a pre-6.0 version (i.e. Willie), there are backwards-
incompatible changes which you should be aware of. See
http://willie.dftba.net/willie_6.html for more information.

Core changes:

• A regression which caused the config wizard to be unusable is fixed.

6.1.0

Changes between 6.0.0 and 6.1.0

If you are updating from a pre-6.0 version (i.e. Willie), there are backwards-
incompatible changes which you should be aware of. See
http://willie.dftba.net/willie_6.html for more information.

Module changes:

• A regression which prevented the URL safety detection from working is fixed.
• Issues with some special characters in DuckDuckGo searches are fixed
• lxml is no longer required by any modules, greatly simplifying the install process
• Misc minor bugfixes and improvements

Core changes:

• A regression which disabled blocking functionality is fixed
• Examples are no longer mangled by the .help command, and show the correct prefix
• The listing from .commands is now separated by module
• Issues with reloading folder modules are fixed

API changes:

• ListAttribute configs can be set to a list or set, with the same effect
• The configure method of validated config attributes now takes the parent config and section name

6.0.0

Changes between 5.5.1 and 6.0.0

This release contains backwards-incompatible changes. See
http://willie.dftba.net/willie_6.html for more information.

This is the first release in which the bot will have a new name. Current tentative name is Sopel.

Module changes:

• chanlogs, rss, github, and radio modules are removed
• Default in admin module is now to join on invite from anyone; the old default of only joining on invite from admins can be configured
• Wikipedia module's per-channel default language configuration is deprecated; a database-backed option will be added in a future version
• .seen replies on action messages now display action messages differently
• .kick no longer truncates the message, and .kickban works properly

Core changes:

• Deprecated login configs have been removed, in favor of the new auth_* values
• Module reloading has been redone to enable modules to be installed from PyPI
• IRCv3 capability negotiation is updated for v3.2

API changes:

• Configuration has been entirely reworked. Old wizard functions and the get_list function are removed, but most other uses of the config should continue to work.
• The reorganization of willie.tools introduced in 5.3.0 is finalized; the old import locations no longer work.
• bot.msg is deprecated in favor of bot.say, which can now be used in un-triggered contexts with an additional recipient argument

6.0.0 Beta 0

Bugfixes minor and major, and IRCv3.2 CAP negotiation

5.5.1

Changes between 5.5.0 and 5.5.1

This release continues preparations for Willie 6. See http://sopel.chat/willie_6.html
Module changes (for users):

• The URL safety module correctly checks URLs
• The URL for the service used for .py and .wa is updated

6.0.0 Alpha 5

A number of bugfixes, plus new consistency in messaging functions

5.5.0

Changes between 5.4.1 and 5.5.0

This release conitnues preparations for Sopel 6. See http://sopel.chat/willie_6.html
API changes (for developers):

• The ability to import from the sopel package, rather than willie, is added to enable forward compatibility with the rename in 6.0.
• A version_info tuple, simmilar to Python's own sys.version_info, is added
• An error when setting a validated config attribute to None is fixed