- Add ``guild_ready_timeout`` parameter to :class:`Client` and subclasses to control timeouts when the ``GUILD_CREATE`` stream takes too long (:issue:`4112`)
- Add support for public user flags via :attr:`User.public_flags` and :class:`PublicUserFlags` (:issue:`3999`)
- Allow changing of channel types via :meth:`TextChannel.edit` to and from a news channel (:issue:`4121`)
- Add :meth:`Guild.edit_role_positions` to bulk edit role positions in a single API call (:issue:`2501`, :issue:`2143`)
- Add :meth:`Guild.change_voice_state` to change your voice state in a guild (:issue:`5088`)
- Add :meth:`PartialInviteGuild.is_icon_animated` for checking if the invite guild has animated icon (:issue:`4180`, :issue:`4181`)
- Add :meth:`PartialInviteGuild.icon_url_as` now supports ``static_format`` for consistency (:issue:`4180`, :issue:`4181`)
- Add support for ``user_ids`` in :meth:`Guild.query_members`
- Add support for pruning members by roles in :meth:`Guild.prune_members` (:issue:`4043`)
- |commands| Implement :func:`~ext.commands.before_invoke` and :func:`~ext.commands.after_invoke` decorators (:issue:`1986`, :issue:`2502`)
- |commands| Add a way to retrieve ``retry_after`` from a cooldown in a command via :meth:`Command.get_cooldown_retry_after <.ext.commands.Command.get_cooldown_retry_after>` (:issue:`5195`)
- |commands| Add a way to dynamically add and remove checks from a :class:`HelpCommand <.ext.commands.HelpCommand>` (:issue:`5197`)
- |tasks| Add :meth:`Loop.is_running <.ext.tasks.Loop.is_running>` method to the task objects (:issue:`2540`)
- |tasks| Allow usage of custom error handlers similar to the command extensions to tasks using :meth:`Loop.error <.ext.tasks.Loop.error>` decorator (:issue:`2621`)
Bug Fixes
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- Fix issue with :attr:`PartialEmoji.url` reads leading to a failure (:issue:`4015`, :issue:`4016`)
- Allow :meth:`abc.Messageable.history` to take a limit of ``1`` even if ``around`` is passed (:issue:`4019`)
- Fix :attr:`Guild.member_count` not updating in certain cases when a member has left the guild (:issue:`4021`)
- Fix the type of :attr:`Object.id` not being validated. For backwards compatibility ``str`` is still allowed but is converted to ``int`` (:issue:`4002`)
- Fix :meth:`Guild.edit` not allowing editing of notification settings (:issue:`4074`, :issue:`4047`)
- Fix crash when the guild widget contains channels that aren't in the payload (:issue:`4114`, :issue:`4115`)
- Close ffmpeg stdin handling from spawned processes with :class:`FFmpegOpusAudio` and :class:`FFmpegPCMAudio` (:issue:`4036`)
- Fix :func:`utils.escape_markdown` not escaping masked links (:issue:`4206`, :issue:`4207`)
- Fix reconnect loop due to failed handshake on region change (:issue:`4210`, :issue:`3996`)
- Fix :meth:`Guild.by_category` not returning empty categories (:issue:`4186`)
- Fix certain JPEG images not being identified as JPEG (:issue:`5143`)
- Fix a crash when an incomplete guild object is used when fetching reaction information (:issue:`5181`)
- Fix a timeout issue when fetching members using :meth:`Guild.query_members`
- Fix an issue with domain resolution in voice (:issue:`5188`, :issue:`5191`)
- Fix an issue where :attr:`PartialEmoji.id` could be a string (:issue:`4153`, :issue:`4152`)
- Fix regression where :attr:`Member.activities` would not clear.
- |commands| A :exc:`TypeError` is now raised when :obj:`typing.Optional` is used within :data:`commands.Greedy <.ext.commands.Greedy>` (:issue:`2253`, :issue:`5068`)
- |commands| :meth:`Bot.walk_commands <.ext.commands.Bot.walk_commands>` no longer yields duplicate commands due to aliases (:issue:`2591`)
- |commands| Fix regex characters not being escaped in :attr:`HelpCommand.clean_prefix <.ext.commands.HelpCommand.clean_prefix>` (:issue:`4058`, :issue:`4071`)
- |commands| Fix :meth:`Bot.get_command <.ext.commands.Bot.get_command>` from raising errors when a name only has whitespace (:issue:`5124`)
- |commands| Fix issue with :attr:`Context.subcommand_passed <.ext.commands.Context.subcommand_passed>` not functioning as expected (:issue:`5198`)
- |tasks| Task objects are no longer stored globally so two class instances can now start two separate tasks (:issue:`2294`)
- |tasks| Allow cancelling the loop within :meth:`before_loop <.ext.tasks.Loop.before_loop>` (:issue:`4082`)
Miscellaneous
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- The :attr:`Member.roles` cache introduced in v1.3 was reverted due to issues caused (:issue:`4087`, :issue:`4157`)
- :class:`Webhook` objects are now comparable and hashable (:issue:`4182`)
- Some more API requests got a ``reason`` parameter for audit logs (:issue:`5086`)
- :meth:`TextChannel.follow`
- :meth:`Message.pin` and :meth:`Message.unpin`
- :meth:`Webhook.delete` and :meth:`Webhook.edit`
- For performance reasons ``websockets`` has been dropped in favour of ``aiohttp.ws``.
- The blocking logging message now shows the stack trace of where the main thread was blocking
- The domain name was changed from ``discordapp.com`` to ``discord.com`` to prepare for the required domain migration
- Reduce memory usage when reconnecting due to stale references being held by the message cache (:issue:`5133`)
- Optimize :meth:`abc.GuildChannel.permissions_for` by not creating as many temporary objects (20-32% savings).
- |commands| Raise :exc:`~ext.commands.CommandRegistrationError` instead of :exc:`ClientException` when a duplicate error is registered (:issue:`4217`)
- |tasks| No longer handle :exc:`HTTPException` by default in the task reconnect loop (:issue:`5193`)
Rapptz
5 years ago