Release v4.0.0

[4.0.0] - 2026-06-04

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• remove CHANGELOG.md. it will be moved to releases
• remove setup file, as we want to go to NPM
• fix plugins directory path
• removed unused formatter for user messages logging
• remove botMsg.js, not useful anymore
• move to async config loader and unify conf + plugin parsing
• remove messages logging support from logger
• remove manybot.conf, config file will be separated
• remove update script, it is not needed anymore as we're going to NPM
• remove useless message logs from users
• remove useless message logs from users

✨ Features

• tags to import modules to avoid using relative paths

🐛 Bug Fixes

• add 755 permissions
• add shebang
• enable NODE_PATH resolution for plugin dependencies
• creates plugins directory if it doesn't exist
• load version from package.json using absolute path
• remove number parsing and now it becomes a string
• prevent message processing before full initialization
• remove '.js' on module names
• remove messageContext as we don't log user messages anymore
• replace relative imports with the new tags
• replace console.log in sigterm listener with logger.error
• config.js now reads manyplug.conf to get plugins list
• move PLUGINS from manybot.conf to manyplug.conf
• config.js now reads manyplug.conf to get plugins list
• move PLUGINS from manybot.conf to manyplug.conf

🛠 Other Changes

• 197578e Merge branch 'dev'
  creates only git tag, without touching package.json
• 8d9ff08 merge 'dev' into master
  fix rc version increment
  fetch tags before pushin
  remove conflicted tag (empty commit)
  remove conflicted tag
  reorganize context API and add shared utilities
  update pluginGuard context type to ctx
  unify plugin context into ctx
  change name in package.json
  turns npm package access to public
  ignores package
  add changelog only if sending to master
  attach package to release
  add step to build package
  add path trigger
  add complete message with hashes in 'other changes' section
  fix typo
  remove current changelog and overwrite with the new log
  remove duplicated git config
  set user settings before executing tag.js
  remove git tag and let npm version create it
  introduces a more organized changelog
  add changelog generator to rc
  improve version detection and RC logic
  fix referece error on runrc
  fix runRc to run npm version and generate changelog
  fix bump detection to detect major versions correctly
  remove deploy.sh script as we are using actions
  add github workflow to test, release and publish to NPM
  prepare package.json to be published to NPM
  improve tag script to work with github actions workflow
  remove english dedicated readme as our main is in english now
  remove unecessary information on readme to focus on contributions
  remove temporary version file
  add embeed color object
  simplify whatsapp client structure
  remove obsolete environment module, termux is not supported
  remove .env
  rename env file
  add current version
  new ASCII art and URLs + remove dependency on logger formatter
  remove unused format variables
  removed timestamps
  remove manyplug.conf from the repo, manyplug cli will create it automatically
  renamed devtools to .devtools
  remove examples
  remove man, we don't need it anymore, all the the docs will be in the website
  remove from repository, it is now on the website
  remove from repository, it is now on the website