Release 5.0.0 · Androz2091/discord-giveaways

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Discord.js v13 is now required to use Discord Giveaways.
Node.js v16 is now required (both by Discord Giveaways v5 and Discord.js v13).
The casing of thingID properties has been changed to thingId. (b2941bc)
The updateCountdownEvery property has been removed, as the embeds don't need updates (because we moved to Discord Timestamps). You can still use the new forceUpdateEvery option if you need to force edits of the embed at a specific interval. (5844ba5)
GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS intent is now required. (0cf4298)
lastChance.secondsBeforeLastChance option has been renamed to lastChance.threshold. (87d5eb4)
Giveaway#giveawayDuration getter has been renamed to Giveaway#duration. (67fcc9e)
Giveaway#channel getter has been removed. (235f9d1)
GiveawayStartOptions#time has been renamed to GiveawayStartOptions#duration. (a2f7025)
Discord Giveaways now uses Discord Timestamps instead of editing the message over and over. (fd471d4)
Giveaway#messages has received a lot of changes/improvements. Check them our here.
messages.timeRemaining has been replaced by messages.drawing for the timestamp change. (fd471d4)
messages.units object has been removed because of the timestamp change. (fd471d4)

New drops feature. (#224)
New Giveaway#pause() and Giveaway#unpause() methods. (#269 )
New newLastChance option for the Giveaway#edit() method. (cd49a75)
Add support for custom thumbnails in embeds. (a5b4f5e)
Add support for custom footer objects in embeds. (35ec38f)
Add support for thread channels. (#336)
New newLastChance option for edit method. (#336)
New noWinnerMessage option for end method. (299a32e)
New allowedMentions option for the start() method. (#318)
New way to access giveaway properties in messages. For example, you can now specify Congrats, you won the giveaway started by {this.hostedBy}!. (ca9a41a)
Add support for sending a embed instead of, or with the normal message for: start(winMessage), reroll(messages) and end(noWinnerMessage). (ca9a41a)

Remove useless requests to Discord. (0bbf272)
Giveaway#edit() method now updates the message once it's called. (b984859)
Embeds now use new description limit (4096 instead of 2048). (df438ad)
Embeds now use titles instead of authors. (a5b4f5e)
Better validation when receiving a reaction add event on a non-fetched guild. (a2d488c)
Default giveaway options don't use @everyone anymore, to prevent involuntary pings. (4330bd7)
Add intents validation. (025ae94)
Validation of options has been improved. (6b88f0c, c3c6c1d)
Last chance options are now merged with the default ones. (2ccaca6)
Add documentation and help to store BigInts values. (2a117c8)
Checking of ended giveaways (that needs to be deleted) is now done at runtime. (44dce74)
Support for BigInt's in JSON storage. (2a117c8)
Some fixes and additions related to typings. (#275, d0214ae, decbe4e, db9a38e, c78024f, d31a738)
New Apache - CouchDB example. (f3c49dc)
Default message for footer has been updated. (823dd8f)
Some improvements related to the documentation. (58e1871, #295, f2a994f, 2fec2e2, 68bb901, e0ee063, 04a4db4, 670e9c3, f0a6b79, 2d273de, 090add9, 405280a, 4a8de63, 37cc5ff, dbf9846, 3de35c4)
Some other fixes and improvements. (6962843, 58bd0d3, 73fe361, 2745869, ade29b2, 375099d, 08dc386, 9051bc1, be9ea30, 67381fd, fdc349a, f1ee342, aba4c64, dc05668)