7.1.9

Changes between 7.1.8 and 7.1.9

Plugin changes

• search: replace deprecated git.io link in messaging [#2271]
• tell: fix exception when message is missing [#2264]

7.1.8

Changes between 7.1.7 and 7.1.8

Plugin changes

• isup: ensure compatibility with newer requests versions [#2235]
• reddit: handle image preview links [#2245]
• search: per tests of both back-ends, warn more consistently about multiple
  site: operators [#2254]
• translate: fix accepting language hints for Chinese [#2242]
• url:
  • bump user-agent [#2218]
  • tweak logging levels to better reflect severity [#2249]
• wikipedia: refine handling of sections with "hatnote" templates [#2225]
• xkcd: improve reliability of comic search [#2247]

Core changes

• Formatting tweaks in IRC logging output [#2250]
• Requirement tweaks to make sure installing on Python 3.4 still works
  (but if you're still using that, please update your Python)

API changes

• Fix/improve more documentation [#2251]

7.1.7

Changes between 7.1.6 and 7.1.7

Plugin changes

• adminchannel: fix a very old bug in NUH (hostmask) handling [#2221]
• reddit:
  • add flair text to submission output [#2209]
  • further improve link matching [#2208, #2216]
• wiktionary: correctly handle multi-paragraph etymologies [#2214]

Core changes

• Added an alert if the IRC server registers the bot as a client using a
  different nickname than what's set in core.nick [#2215]

7.1.6

Changes between 7.1.5 and 7.1.6

Plugin changes

• reddit: fix regression in shortlink (redd.it/<postID>) handling [#2201]
• url: fix tripping on HTML character entities like ' if running on
  Python 3.4+ [#2204]
• wikipedia: add mobile links to URL handling [#2201]

Core changes

• Detect UTF-8 locale on Windows [#2174]

API changes

• web.decode(): use Python's built-in HTML character entity decoder if
  available [#2204]
• Fix minor documentation error [#2196]

7.1.5

Changes between 7.1.4 and 7.1.5

Since 7.1.4 was released, an expiring TLS root certificate caused us some problems in the old CI system we're still using for Sopel 7.1.x to run tests against EOL versions of Python. Our workaround in #2192 (basically "Workaround 1" from this OpenSSL blog post) might be of use to anyone still running Sopel on an old system.

Core changes

• Fixed incorrect behavior during unrecognized SASL authentication [#2190]
• Ignore case when checking config sections for "defined" settings [#2193]

7.1.4

Changes between 7.1.3 and 7.1.4

Plugin changes

• reddit: prevent comment links from also displaying post info [#2176]

7.1.3

Changes between 7.1.2 and 7.1.3

Plugin changes

• announce: fix Python 3 compatibility [#2166]
• reddit: fix handling post links with parameters, e.g. sorting [#2163]
• reddit: silence PRAW update notices [#2171]
• tell: don't strip IRC formatting at message start [#2162]
• translate: better error handling in .mangle [#2160]
• wikipedia: skip messagebox template contents for cleaner snippets [#2159]
• wikipedia: improve handling of links to transcluded sections [#2168]

Core changes

• Fixed showing plugin information in sopel-plugins CLI tool even if loading
  the plugin fails [#2135]
• Stop warning about parse == bool configuration settings in 7.x [#2164]
  • This warning will return in Sopel 8.0, a major release which will be a
    more natural time for plugin maintainers to release compatibility updates.
• Fixed requests requirement on Python 3.3 [#2172]

7.1.2

Accidentally tagged to the wrong branch at first, but corrected before any package was published to PyPI.

Changes between 7.1.1 and 7.1.2

Plugin changes

• invite: handle invalid arguments better [#2151]
• translate: handle failed API requests better [#2153]
• wikipedia: warn if deprecated lang_per_channel setting is used [#2143]

Core changes

• Clarified documentation about owner and owner_account settings in core
  config section [#2112, #2125]

7.1.1

Changes between 7.1.0 and 7.1.1

Plugin changes

• safety: fixed loading bad-domains list on py2 [#2103]
• tell: fixed hard-coded verb when trying to .ask the bot [#2106]
• tld: fixed .tldcache clear command corrupting internal state [#2077]

Core changes

• Fixed BooleanAttribute with default=True [#2084]
• Ignore invalid URLs when triggering URL callbacks [#2086]
• Fixed infinite loop in WHO tracking on certain networks [#2091]
• Ignore problematic environment variables in tests [#2094]
• Improved MODE tracking even more [#2097, #2098]
• Updated, clarified, and expanded even more documentation [#2090,
  #2096, #2105, #2108]

7.1.0

Changes between 7.0.7 and 7.1.0

Admittedly a few months later than originally intended, Sopel 7.1.0 is ready
to go. We've focused on polish this time around, both in documentation and
features. Lots of little fixes add up to make something good—over 140 pull
requests were merged for this release.

We will now begin work on Sopel 8.0, focusing primarily on
modernization—dropping the end-of-life Python versions that 7.x still
supports—and on unbundling the core plugins so they can be updated separately.
None of these plans are new, but we figured a reminder was in order as it's
been some months since they last came up in Sopel 7.0's release notes!

As always, you can keep up with development and give us feedback on
[GitHub][sopel-github], [IRC][sopel-irc], or [Twitter][sopel-twitter].

Important note: Sopel's IRC channel has moved from freenode to Libera Chat
([#2072][]). You will find us in #sopel as always, but at a new network
address: irc.libera.chat. At least some of the old guard will remain on
freenode for the foreseeable future, to guide anyone running an older Sopel
version to the new channel (and encourage them to update Sopel, too).

Plugin changes

• Removed instagram plugin, as it was not possible to fix after changes to
  the site [[#2000][]]
• Merged etymology plugin functionality into wiktionary plugin [#1178,
  [#2064][]]
• admin:
  • reply on save [[#1913][]]
  • add .chanlist command to show Sopel's channel memberships [[#1961][]]
• adminchannel:
  • use TOPICLEN if server advertises it [[#1956][]]
  • allow non-op .topic in channels without mode +t [[#1981][]]
• announce: speed up by sending to multiple channels if the server supports it
  [[#1859][], [#2048][]]
• choose: safely handle formatted choices [[#1965][]]
• currency:
  • added thousands separator & better handling of small numbers [[#1988][]]
  • improved error handling [[#2053][]]
  • updated API endpoints [[#1988][], [#2060][], [#2074][]]
• emoticons: added .smirk command & action responses [[#1899][]]
• find: accept either / or | as delimiter, and format replacement text as
  bold so it's easier to see the correction [[#1993][], [#2014][],
  [#2066][]]
• find_updates:
  • prepare to handle unstable releases again [[#1955][]]
  • improve error handling [[#2052][], [#2056][]]
• ip: querying by nickname is no longer case-sensitive [[#1915][]]
• isup: be more specific about what's wrong if the site looks down [[#1940][],
  [#1950][], [#2063][]]
• meetbot: tweaked handling of path settings [[#1959][]]
• ping: added .ping command [[#1875][]]
• pronouns: now understands two-word aliases for the full pronoun groups
  [[#2069][]]
• reddit:
  • added handling for r/all and r/popular [[#1763][]]
  • fixed incorrect behavior in r/ and u/ handling [[#1889][]]
  • added basic handling for gallery view [[#1914][]]
  • fixed a floating-point issue [[#1987][]]
  • fixed grammar [[#2025][]]
• remind: added commands to count/forget reminders [[#2007][]]
• safety: switched away from obsolete list source [[#2012][]]
• tell: strip @ from the start of nicknames [[#1994][]]
• tld: rewritten to be more robust [[#1939][], [#1949][], [#1968][],
  [#1970][], [#1985][], [#2076][]]
• url:
  • tweaked to improve reliability of title fetching [[#1871][]]
  • added a setting to control automatic titles [[#1897][]]
  • adapted to upstream dependency changes [[#1989][]]
  • add .urlexclude/.urlallow commands [[#2028][]]
  • auto-title now ignores URLs in any other command [[#2028][]]
  • fixed showing an error when appropriate [[#2029][]]
• wikipedia:
  • can now fetch section snippets [#1163]
  • language preferences per-channel and per-nick are now stored in the
    database, and manageable with commands [[#1916][]]
• xkcd: show latest comic when base URL is linked [[#1858][]]
• Built-in plugins' output formats were checked for consistency [[#1937][]]
• Improved plugin documentation/help [[#1878][], [#1952][], [#1954][],
  [#2002][], [#2035][]]
• Updated some plugins to use new API features [[#1879][], [#1892][],
  [#1894][], [#1995][]]
• Minor code style fixes and cleanup [[#1856][], [#1880][], [#1910][],
  [#1953][], [#1960][]]

Core changes

• Sopel's outbound flooding protection is now configurable [[#1929][]]
• core.modes setting now only assumes + if no sign is included in its
  value [[#1941][]]
• Improved documentation of core configuration settings [[#1861][], [#1866][],
  [#2006][]]
• Documented use of environment variables to override parts of Sopel's
  configuration [[#1901][]]
  • Also fixed some broken functionality related to this feature [[#1882][],
    [#1900][]]
• Improved command-line error messages [[#2047][]]
• Unexpected settings in config files will now generate warnings [[#1973][]]
• Improved SASL handling [[#1928][], [#1971][], [#1976][], [#1977][]]
• Change/recover in-use nick; fix USER syntax [[#1930][]]
• Improved channel mode tracking [[#1980][]]
• Improved channel member tracking [[#1997][]]
• Reduced log spam from core MODE handling logic [[#1951][]]
• Refactored the Rule system [[#1873][], [#1894][], [#1904][], [#2011][]]
• Reworked IRC connection timeout management [[#2041][]]
• Fixed loading callables that should be ignored from plugins [[#1936][]]
• Streamlined how the bot generates help text for plugin commands [[#2071][]]
• Fixed signal handling (e.g. ^C) if bot is not connected [[#1893][]]
• Fixed crash if a plugin tries to sys.exit() [[#1943][]]
• Fixed crash if IRC backend is uninitialized and logging to a channel is
  enabled [[#2020][]]
• Improved scheduled job handling [[#1891][], [#1927][]]
• Improved test coverage [[#1983][], [#1984][]]
• Improved test infrastructure [[#1905][]]
• Minor code style fixes and refactoring [[#1864][], [#1890][], [#1933][],
  [#1942][], [#1969][], [#1998][], [#2005][], [#2023][]]

API changes

• Moved plugin decorators to sopel.plugin; sopel.module is now deprecated
  [[#1898][], [#1906][], [#1924][], [#1967][]]
  • Decorators that are new in Sopel 7.1 or later will appear only in
    sopel.plugin; sopel.module contains only a snapshot of what was
    available in Sopel 7.0 and will not be updated
  • The old sopel.module imports will be removed in Sopel 9.0
• The intent decorator is replaced by ctcp, and trigger objects now have
  a ctcp property [[#1975][]]
  • "Intents" were an IRCv3 spec idea that never took off, and the draft specs
    for them are now long abandoned
  • See [#1683][] for the full deprecation and removal plan
• sopel.tools functions related to command patterns/regex are now deprecated
  [[#1944][], [#2027][], [#2034][]]
• tools.get_input is now deprecated [[#1872][]]
• bot.(un)register_url_callback functions are deprecated [[#2049][]]
  • These are simply no longer necessary after the Rule system rewrite
• test_tools submodule is now deprecated [[#2003][]]
  • Sopel now provides a pytest plugin; use that instead
• The use of whitespace after $nick placeholders in plugin rules is now less
  confusing [[#1920][]]
• Sopel now explicitly supports running plugins' event handlers before/after
  core has processed the event [[#2018][]]
• Added more tools related to tools.time.seconds_to_human [[#2026][]]
• Added a warning when plugins use bot.memory['url_callbacks'] [[#2033][]]
• Added SopelIdentifierMemory class to tools [[#1938][]]
  • This offers a less error-prone alternative to using a plain SopelMemory,
    which often requires manually casting user input to the Identifier type
• New plugin.require_bot_privilege decorator and bot.has_channel_privilege
  method [[#1982][]]
• Added plugin.find and plugin.search decorators [[#1881][]]
• Added plugin.rule_lazy, plugin.find_lazy, and plugin.search_lazy
  decorators [[#2037][]]
  • These are for plugins to define rules that depend on the contents of
    Sopel's settings object (bot.config)
• bot.say now allows even more control over variable-length content via
  optional truncation and trailing parameters [[#1958][], [#2050][]]
• bot.trigger now has a plain attribute, containing the received line with
  formatting stripped [[#1918][]]
• Channel objects now contain information about channel modes [[#1980][]]
• Added a BooleanAttribute setting type [[#2044][], [#2059][]]
  • Use of ValidatedAttribute with parse=bool is now considered deprecated
    so we can remove the monkey-patching in a future release, and will raise a
    warning if used
• Added a SecretAttribute setting type, and is_secret parameter to
  ValidatedAttribute [[#1879][]]
• plugin.example now supports running plugin tests with [VCR.py][pypi-vcrpy]
  support [[#1853][]]
• bot.isupport will return an empty CHANMODES if unadvertised [[#2015][]]
• Make tools.time and tools.web submodules available with just from sopel import tools [[#1948][]]
• Added new optional warning_in and stack_frame parameters to the
  tools.deprecated decorator, which now outputs its warning via logging
  [[#1872][], [#2046][], [#2058][]]
• MockIRCServer methods now block by default [[#2065][]]
• Improved documentation for writing & testing plugins [[#1923][], [#1964][],
  [#2013][], [#2067][]]
• Improved documentation of various Sopel components:
  • bot [[#1857][]]
  • cli [[#1922][]]
  • coretasks [[#2001][]]
  • loader [[#2004][]]
  • plugins [[#1902][]]
• Tweaked documentation styles for easier readability [[#1932][]]
  • Note: We plan to change the documentation theme entirely for Sopel 8, to
    something much more modern

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