7.0.0 RC2

This is a pre-release tag, intended to help verify the release process itself.

Assuming the build succeeds, it will also publish to PyPI, making available a near-final copy of Sopel 7.0 for use by developers in testing updates to their plugins.

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RC2 includes tweaks to the PyPI description (README) and database API backward compatibility.

7.0.0 RC1

This is a pre-release tag, intended to help verify the release process itself.

Assuming the build succeeds, it will also publish to PyPI, making available a near-final copy of Sopel 7.0 for use by developers in testing updates to their plugins.

6.6.9

Changes between 6.6.8 and 6.6.9

Module changes

• Also block changing core.owner_account setting in admin plugin [#1599]
• Fixed instagram parsing after changes to the website [#1608]
• tld plugin decodes HTML entities before output [#1612]
• Handle an error condition when querying ip module using nickname [#1631]

Core changes

• Fixed populating user & host in the bot's user database when NAMES reply
  arrives first [#1630]

6.6.8

Changes between 6.6.7 and 6.6.8

Module changes

• admin module no longer allows setting core.owner value [#1587]
  • Allowing any bot admin to change the owner opened Sopel to a
    privilege-escalation attack
  • Even with this patch, you still should add only users you really trust to
    the admins list, for obvious reasons

API changes

• Fixed some content & formatting errors in documentation [#1589]

6.6.7

Changes between 6.6.6 and 6.6.7

Fixing this bug, which was discovered after the previous release, serves to
exorcise the curse brought upon us by version 6.6.6.

Core changes

• Fixed incorrect MODE message parsing that could lead to Sopel thinking
  some users had higher channel privileges than they did [#1575]

6.6.6

Changes between 6.6.5 and 6.6.6

This slightly cursed version of Sopel is brought to you by the following happy
coincidences. When this release cycle began:

• 6.6.6 was the next patch version number
• Tax Day (in the U.S.) was just a few weeks off — the perfect release date

As it happens, the v6.6.6 GitHub milestone ended up with 13 closed
issues/PRs in total. We definitely didn't try to plan any of this. Promise.

Module changes

• Potential denial-of-service via repeated long output in the .py and .calc
  commands was mitigated [#1552]
• admin module's .set command no longer throws an exception if missing
  arguments [#1520]
• Fixed admin module's .mode command sending invalid raw line [#1549]
• Tweaked output-formatting code in the meetbot & reddit modules [#1516]
  • The most visible effect of this is that moderators' names will now appear
    green in reddit's output, like on the site, instead of the old brown/purple
• Updated example/test output for .ip command [#1523]

Core changes

• Flood protection delay is now capped at 2 seconds [#1552]
  • The flood delay penalty is calculated using the message length before
    truncation. Very long command output could thus "hang" the bot for many
    minutes at a time, meaning some modules could be used to DoS the bot.
  • Sopel 7 will add configuration for flood protection and perhaps reorganize
    the logic to reduce silly bugs like this. (See: #1518, #1559)
• Fixed a few cases where keyboard interrupt (Control + C) wasn't handled
  correctly [#1534, #1558]
• Fixed invalid MODE command sent during connection phase [#1544]

API changes

• Fixed a regression in testing modules by running them directly [#1529]
• Fixed that bot output methods (say, reply, etc.) would cause errors
  during tests if passed certain keyword arguments [#1538]

6.6.5

Changes between 6.6.4 and 6.6.5

Module changes

• Fixed url module not cleaning punctuation when auto-titling [#1515]
• Fixed url module's punctuation-cleaning on Python 2 [#1517]
• Fixed .redditor command with newer praw versions (4.0+) [#1506]
• Reloading modules now runs their shutdown() routines [#1412]

6.6.4

Changes between 6.6.3 and 6.6.4

Module changes

• Replaced help pastebin with clbin.com
  • ptpb.pw shut down due to abuse — see ptpb/pb#246 for more
  • More news on this front (reducing Sopel's dependence on specific pastebins)
    in a future release. Several ideas are under consideration.
• Cleaned up code in instagram and unicode modules
• Core modules now use bot.channels instead of deprecated bot.privileges

Core changes

• Privilege tracking now always updates both bot.channels & bot.privileges,
  where before some handlers only updated one or the other
  • This should have zero effect on behavior, but do report any observed.

6.6.3

Changes between 6.6.2 and 6.6.3

Module changes

• Fixed loading etymology module on Python 3.3
• Added Unicode support to calc module's .py output
• Correctly quote URL parameters in etymology and search modules

Core changes

• Added docstrings to the privilege level constants in sopel.module

6.6.2

Changes between 6.6.1 and 6.6.2

Module changes:

• wiktionary tries harder to get a valid result before erroring out

Core changes:

• Fixed an inconsistency between interpretations of the --config option in
  normal operation vs. wizard mode
• Requirement specifiers tightened up to reduce/prevent pip trying to install
  incompatible dependency versions (IPython, dnspython)
• SASL token is now split when required according to spec
• Multi-byte Unicode characters are now handled correctly when splitting lines