• Ability to delete notes when providing their ID. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Ability to delete log entries. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Existing aliases can be used when creating new aliases. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Nothing New.

Fixed

• Embed author links used to be inaccessible in many cases, now:
• ?anonreply, ?reply, and ?note in the thread channel will link to the sender's profile.
• ?reply and recipient's DM will also link the sender's profile.
• ?anonreply in DM channel will link to the first channel of the main guild.

Important

• Recommend all users to unblock and re-block all blocked users upon updating to this release.

Added

• Three new config vars:
  • enable_plugins (yes/no default yes)
    • When set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • error_color (color format, defaults discord red)
    • The color of error messages.
  • anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
    • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
    • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.
• Open threads in limbo now auto closes if the channel cannot be found. This check is done every time the bot restarts.

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Automatically delete notes command ?note when there's no attachments attached.
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganised plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages changes.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, its set to MAIN_COLOR now.
• Added ?plugins update for updating all installed plugins.
• Reintroduce flake8 and use bandit for security issues detection.
• Add travis checks for 3.6 in Linux and 3.7 for MacOS and Windows.
• Eval commands are logged in debug logs.
• Presence updates 30 minutes instead of 45 now.
• Fixed an assortment of problems to do with block.

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-devN.
• trigger_typing has been moved to core.utils.trigger_typing, original location is deprecated.
• Simpler status and activity logic.

Added

• anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
  • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.

Added

• Two new config vars:
  • ENABLE_PLUGINS (yes/no default yes), when set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • ERROR_COLOR (color format, defaults discord red), the color of error messages.

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganized plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages change.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, its set to MAIN_COLOR now.

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-dev.

Important

• Recommend all users to unblock and re-block all blocked users upon updating to this release.

Added

• Three new config vars:
  • enable_plugins (yes/no default yes)
    • When set to no, plugins will not be loaded into the bot.
  • error_color (color format, defaults discord red)
    • The color of error messages.
  • anon_reply_without_command (yes/no default no) (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
    • When set, all non-command messages sent to thread channels are forwarded to the recipient anonymously without the need of ?anonreply.
    • This config takes precedence over reply_without_command.
• ?logs responded [user] command, it will show all logs that the user has sent an reply. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#288)
  • user when not provided, defaults to the user who ran the command.
• Open threads in limbo now auto closes if the channel cannot be found. This check is done every time the bot restarts.
• Ability to disable new threads from getting created.
  • ?disable
• Ability to fully disable Modmail DM.
  • ?disable all
• To re-enable DM: ?enable, and to see the current status: ?isenable.
• This disabled Modmail interface is customizable with the following config vars:
  • disabled_new_thread_title
  • disabled_new_thread_response
  • disabled_new_thread_footer
  • disabled_current_thread_title
  • disabled_current_thread_response
  • disabled_current_thread_footer
• Ability to delete notes when providing their ID. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)
• Ability to delete log entries. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Changed

• ?contact no longer send the "thread created" message to where the command is ran, instead, it's now sent to the newly created thread channel. (Thanks to DAzVise)
• Automatically delete notes command ?note when there are no attachments attached.
• Embed author links used to be inaccessible in many cases, now:
  • ?anonreply, ?reply, and ?note in the thread channel will link to the sender's profile.
  • ?reply and recipient's DM will also link the sender's profile.
  • ?anonreply in DM channel will link to the first channel of the main guild.
• Plugins update (mostly internal).
  • git is no longer used to install plugins, it now downloads through zip files.
  • ?plugins enabled renamed to ?plugins loaded while enabled is still an alias to that command.
  • Reorganized plugins folder structure.
  • Logging / plugin-related messages change.
  • Updating one plugin will not update all other plugins (plugins are no longer separated by repos, but the plugin name itself).
• Help command is in alphabetical order grouped by permissions.
• Notes are no longer always blurple, it's set to MAIN_COLOR now.
• Added ?plugins update for updating all installed plugins.
• Reintroduce flake8 and use bandit for security issues detection.
• Add travis checks for 3.6 in Linux and 3.7 for MacOS and Windows.
• Eval commands are logged in debug logs.
• Presence updates 30 minutes instead of 45 now.
• Fixed an assortment of problems to do with block.
• Existing aliases can be used when creating new aliases. (Thanks to papiersnipper PR#402)

Internal

• Reworked config.get and config.set, it feeds through the converters before setting/getting.
  • To get/set the raw value, access through config[].
• Prerelease naming scheme is now x.x.x-devN.
• trigger_typing has been moved to core.utils.trigger_typing, the original location is deprecated.
• Simpler status and activity logic.
• New logging logic.

Important

• Supporter permission users used to be able to "hack" snippets to reveal all your config vars, including your token and MongoURI.
• Implemented some changes to address this bug:
  • All customizable variables used in snippets, close messages, etc, using the {} syntax, now forbids chaining 2 or more attributes and attributes that starts with _.
• It is advised to update to this version.
• If you felt your credentials have been leaked, consider changing your bot token / mongo uri.

Fixed

• Can't set hex for main_color, recipient_color, etc.

Added

• Discord colors by default when addressing them by names.

Added

• Ability to change permission levels of individual commands.
  • See ?permissions override for more information.
• thread_move_notify and thread_move_response to notify recipients if a thread is moved. (Thanks to Flufster PR#360)
• IDs of messages sent to Modmail are now viewable. (Thanks to Flufster PR#360)

Fixed

• ?help <some sub command>, will return Perhaps you meant: <some sub command>, now it's fixed.
  • For example, ?help add used to return Perhaps you meant: add, now it wouldn't do this.
• Aliases and Permissions command names are always saved lowercase now.
• An improved Dockerfile.

Internal

• Use regex to parse Changes, Added, Fixed, etc and description.
• Adds PermissionLevel.INVALID when commands don't have a permission level.

Fixed

• An issue when reading config_help.json for Windows users due to an encoding problem.

Breaking

• disable_recipient_thread_close is removed, a new configuration variable recipient_thread_close replaces it which defaults to False.
• Truthy and falsy values for binary configuration variables are now interpreted respectfully.
• LOG_URL_PREFIX cannot be set to "NONE" to specify no additional path in the future, "/" is the new method.

Added

• ?sfw, mark a thread as "safe for work", undos ?nsfw.
• New config variable, thread_auto_close_silently, when set to a truthy value, no message will be sent when thread is auto-closed.
• New configuration variable thread_self_closable_creation_footer — the footer when recipient_thread_close is enabled.
• Added a minimalistic version of requirements.txt (named requirements.min.txt) that contains only the absolute minimum of Modmail.
  • For users having trouble with pipenv or any other reason.
• Multi-step alias, see ?help alias add. Public beta testing, might be unstable.
• Misc commands without cogs are now displayed in ?help.
• ?help works for alias and snippets.
• ?config help <config-name> shows a help embed for the configuration.
• Support setting permissions for sub commands.
• Support numbers (1-5) as substitutes for Permission Level REGULAR - OWNER in ?perms sub commands.

Changes

• thread_auto_close_response has a configurable variable {timeout}.
• ?snippet is now the default command name instead of ?snippets (?snippets is still usable). This is to make this consistent with ?alias/?aliases.
• colorama is no longer a necessity, this is due to some unsupported OS.
• Changelog command can now take a version argument to jump straight to specified version.
• ?plugin enabled results are now sorted alphabetically.
• ?plugin registry results are now sorted alphabetically, helps user find plugins more easily.
• ?plugin registry page-number plugin registry can specify a page number for quick access.
• A reworked interface for ?snippet and ?alias.
  • Add an ?snippet raw <name> command for viewing the raw content of a snippet (escaped markdown).
  • Add an ?alias raw <name> command for viewing the raw content of a alias (escaped markdown).
• The placeholder channel for the streaming status changed to https://www.twitch.tv/discordmodmail/.
• Removed unclear rm alias for some remove commands.
• Paginate ?config options.
• All users configured with a permission level greater than REGULAR has access to the main Modmail category.
  • Category overrides also changes when a level is removed or added to a user or role.
• @everyone is now accepted for ?perms add.

Fixes

• ?notify no longer carries over to the next thread.
• discord.NotFound errors for on_raw_reaction_add.
• mod_typing and user_typing (user_typing is now by-design to show) will no longer show when user is blocked.
• Better ?block usage message.
• Resolves errors when message was sent by mods after thread is closed somehow.
• Recipient join/leave server messages are limited to only the guild set by GUILD_ID.
• When creating snippets and aliases, it now checks if another snippets/aliases with the same name exists.
• Was looking for config.json in the wrong directory.

Internal

• Removed supporting code for GitHub interaction.
• All default config values moved to core/config.py.
• config.cache is no longer accessible, use config['key'] for getting, config['key'] = value for setting, config.remove('key') for removing.
• Dynamic attribute for configs are removed, must use config['key'] or config.get('key').
• Removed helper functions info() and error() for formatting logging, it's formatted automatically now.
• Bumped discord.py version to 1.2.3.
• Use discord tasks for metadata loop.
• More debug based logging.
• Reduce redundancies in ?perms sub commands.
• paginator been split into EmbedPaginatorSession and MessagePaginatorSession, both subclassing PaginatorSession.

Added

• New commands, ?alias edit <name> <target> and ?snippets edit <name> <target>.
  • They can be used to edit aliases and snippets respectively.

Added

• New command, ?blocked whitelist <user>, this command prevents users from getting blocked by any means.

Changed

• Removed some aliases from ?oauth.

Fixed

• A lot of bugs with thread_auto_close 😅

Added

• Sponsors command that will list sponsors.
• An alert will now be sent to the log channel if a thread channel fails to create. This could be due to a variety of problems such as insufficient permissions or the category channel limit is met.
• Threads will close automatically after some time when thread_auto_close is set.
• Custom closing message can be set with thread_auto_close_response.

Breaking Changes

• Removed autoupdate functionality and the ?update command in favour of the Pull app.

Read more about updating your bot here

Changed

• Channel names now can contain unicode characters.
• Debug logs are now located in a unique file for each bot. (Internal change)
• Default cogs always appear first in the help command now.

Fixed

• Editing notes now works, minor bug with edit command is fixed.
• Bug in the ?oauth command where the response message fails to send when an ID is provided.
• Plugin requirement installation now works in virtual environments

Fixed

Fixed a bug with branches and ?plugin update.

Added

Branch support for ?plugin add and in registry. Typically for developers.

Added

Added a "Mutual servers" field to the genesis embed if:
a) The user is not in the main guild.
b) The user shares more than 1 server with the bot.

Changed

Notes taken with the ?note command are now automatically pinned within the thread channel.

Added

Added a 🛑 reaction to the paginators to delete the embed.

Fixed

?blocked is now paginated using reactions. This fixes #249