Changelog

This page keeps a detailed human friendly rendering of what’s new and changed in specific versions.

v2.0.0

This does not Show Changes with discord.py 2.0, for a list go to Migrating to 2.0

Bug Fixes

New Features

v1.7.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash involving guild uploaded stickers

• Fix DMChannel.permissions_for() not having Permissions.read_messages set.

v1.7.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix fail_if_not_exists causing certain message references to not be usable within abc.Messageable.send() and Message.reply() (GH-6726)

• Fix Guild.chunk() hanging when the user left the guild. (GH-6730)

• Fix loop sleeping after final iteration rather than before (GH-6744)

v1.7.1

Bug Fixes

• [ext.commands] Fix Cog.has_error_handler not working as intended.

v1.7.0

This version is mainly for improvements and bug fixes. This is more than likely the last major version in the 1.x series. Work after this will be spent on v2.0. As a result, this is the last version to support Python 3.5. Likewise, this is the last version to support user bots.

Development of v2.0 will have breaking changes and support for newer API features.

New Features

• Add support for stage channels via StageChannel (GH-6602, GH-6608)

• Add support for MessageReference.fail_if_not_exists (GH-6484)

  • By default, if the message you’re replying to doesn’t exist then the API errors out. This attribute tells the Discord API that it’s okay for that message to be missing.

• Add support for Discord’s new permission serialisation scheme.

• Add an easier way to move channels using abc.GuildChannel.move()

• Add Permissions.use_slash_commands

• Add Permissions.request_to_speak

• Add support for voice regions in voice channels via VoiceChannel.rtc_region (GH-6606)

• Add support for PartialEmoji.url_as() (GH-6341)

• Add MessageReference.jump_url (GH-6318)

• Add File.spoiler (GH-6317)

• Add support for passing roles to Guild.estimate_pruned_members() (GH-6538)

• Allow callable class factories to be used in abc.Connectable.play() (GH-6478)

• Add a way to get mutual guilds from the client’s cache via User.mutual_guilds (GH-2539, GH-6444)

• PartialMessage.edit() now returns a full Message upon success (GH-6309)

• Add RawMessageUpdateEvent.guild_id (GH-6489)

• AuditLogEntry is now hashable (GH-6495)

• Attachment is now hashable

• Add Attachment.content_type attribute (GH-6618)

• Add support for casting Attachment to str to get the URL.

• Add seed parameter for Colour.random (GH-6562)

  • This only seeds it for one call. If seeding for multiple calls is desirable, use random.seed().

• Add a utils.remove_markdown() helper function (GH-6573)

• Add support for passing scopes to utils.oauth_url() (GH-6568)

• [ext.commands] Add support for rgb CSS function as a parameter to ColourConverter (GH-6374)

• [ext.commands] Add support for converting StoreChannel via StoreChannelConverter (GH-6603)

• [ext.commands] Add support for stripping whitespace after the prefix is encountered using the strip_after_prefix Bot constructor parameter.

• [ext.commands] Add Context.invoked_parents to get the aliases a command’s parent was invoked with (GH-1874, GH-6462)

• [ext.commands] Add a converter for PartialMessage under ext.commands.PartialMessageConverter (GH-6308)

• [ext.commands] Add a converter for Guild under ext.commands.GuildConverter (GH-6016, GH-6365)

• [ext.commands] Add Command.has_error_handler

  • This is also adds Cog.has_error_handler

• [ext.commands] Allow callable types to act as a bucket key for cooldowns (GH-6563)

• [ext.commands] Add linesep keyword argument to Paginator (GH-5975)

• [ext.commands] Allow None to be passed to HelpCommand.verify_checks to only verify in a guild context (GH-2008, GH-6446)

• [ext.commands] Allow relative paths when loading extensions via a package keyword argument (GH-2465, GH-6445)

Bug Fixes

• Fix mentions not working if mention_author is passed in abc.Messageable.send() without Client.allowed_mentions set (GH-6192, GH-6458)

• Fix user created instances of CustomActivity triggering an error (GH-4049)

  • Note that currently, bot users still cannot set a custom activity due to a Discord limitation.

• Fix ZeroDivisionError being raised from VoiceClient.average_latency (GH-6430, GH-6436)

• Fix User.public_flags not updating upon edit (GH-6315)

• Fix Message.call sometimes causing attribute errors (GH-6390)

• Fix issue resending a file during request retries on newer versions of aiohttp (GH-6531)

• Raise an error when user_ids is empty in Guild.query_members()

• Fix __str__ magic method raising when a Guild is unavailable.

• Fix potential AttributeError when accessing VoiceChannel.members (GH-6602)

• Embed constructor parameters now implicitly convert to str (GH-6574)

• Ensure discord package is only run if executed as a script (GH-6483)

• [ext.commands] Fix irrelevant commands potentially being unloaded during cog unload due to failure.

• [ext.commands] Fix attribute errors when setting a cog to HelpCommand (GH-5154)

• [ext.commands] Fix Context.invoked_with being improperly reassigned during a reinvoke() (GH-6451, GH-6462)

• [ext.commands] Remove duplicates from HelpCommand.get_bot_mapping (GH-6316)

• [ext.commands] Properly handle positional-only parameters in bot command signatures (GH-6431)

• [ext.commands] Group signatures now properly show up in Command.signature (GH-6529, GH-6530)

Miscellaneous

• User endpoints and all userbot related functionality has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of the library.

• Permission class methods were updated to match the UI of the Discord client (GH-6476)

• _ and - characters are now stripped when making a new cog using the discord package (GH-6313)

v1.6.0

This version comes with support for replies and stickers.

New Features

• An entirely redesigned documentation. This was the cumulation of multiple months of effort.

  • There’s now a dark theme, feel free to navigate to the cog on the screen to change your setting, though this should be automatic.

• Add support for AppInfo.icon_url_as() and AppInfo.cover_image_url_as() (GH-5888)

• Add Colour.random() to get a random colour (GH-6067)

• Add support for stickers via Sticker (GH-5946)

• Add support for replying via Message.reply() (GH-6061)

  • This also comes with the AllowedMentions.replied_user setting.

  • abc.Messageable.send() can now accept a MessageReference.

  • MessageReference can now be constructed by users.

  • Message.to_reference() can now convert a message to a MessageReference.

• Add support for getting the replied to resolved message through MessageReference.resolved.

• Add support for role tags.

  • Guild.premium_subscriber_role to get the “Nitro Booster” role (if available).

  • Guild.self_role to get the bot’s own role (if available).

  • Role.tags to get the role’s tags.

  • Role.is_premium_subscriber() to check if a role is the “Nitro Booster” role.

  • Role.is_bot_managed() to check if a role is a bot role (i.e. the automatically created role for bots).

  • Role.is_integration() to check if a role is role created by an integration.

• Add Client.is_ws_ratelimited() to check if the websocket is rate limited.

  • ShardInfo.is_ws_ratelimited() is the equivalent for checking a specific shard.

• Add support for chunking an AsyncIterator through AsyncIterator.chunk() (GH-6100, GH-6082)

• Add PartialEmoji.created_at (GH-6128)

• Add support for editing and deleting webhook sent messages (GH-6058)

  • This adds WebhookMessage as well to power this behaviour.

• Add PartialMessage to allow working with a message via channel objects and just a message_id (GH-5905)

  • This is useful if you don’t want to incur an extra API call to fetch the message.

• Add Emoji.url_as() (GH-6162)

• Add support for Member.pending for the membership gating feature.

• Allow colour parameter to take int in Guild.create_role() (GH-6195)

• Add support for presences in Guild.query_members() (GH-2354)

• [ext.commands] Add support for description keyword argument in commands.Cog (GH-6028)

• [ext.tasks] Add support for calling the wrapped coroutine as a function via __call__.

Bug Fixes

• Raise DiscordServerError when reaching 503s repeatedly (GH-6044)

• Fix AttributeError when Client.fetch_template() is called (GH-5986)

• Fix errors when playing audio and moving to another channel (GH-5953)

• Fix AttributeError when voice channels disconnect too fast (GH-6039)

• Fix stale User references when the members intent is off.

• Fix on_user_update() not dispatching in certain cases when a member is not cached but the user somehow is.

• Fix Message.author being overwritten in certain cases during message update.

  • This would previously make it so Message.author is a User.

• Fix UnboundLocalError for editing public_updates_channel in Guild.edit() (GH-6093)

• Fix uninitialised CustomActivity.created_at (GH-6095)

• [ext.commands] Errors during cog unload no longer stops module cleanup (GH-6113)

• [ext.commands] Properly cleanup lingering commands when a conflicting alias is found when adding commands (GH-6217)

Miscellaneous

• ffmpeg spawned processes no longer open a window in Windows (GH-6038)

• Update dependencies to allow the library to work on Python 3.9+ without requiring build tools. (GH-5984, GH-5970)

• Fix docstring issue leading to a SyntaxError in 3.9 (GH-6153)

• Update Windows opus binaries from 1.2.1 to 1.3.1 (GH-6161)

• Allow Guild.create_role() to accept int as the colour parameter (GH-6195)

• [ext.commands] MessageConverter regex got updated to support www. prefixes (GH-6002)

• [ext.commands] UserConverter now fetches the API if an ID is passed and the user is not cached.

• [ext.commands] max_concurrency is now called before cooldowns (GH-6172)

v1.5.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix utils.escape_markdown() not escaping quotes properly (GH-5897)

• Fix Message not being hashable (GH-5901, GH-5866)

• Fix moving channels to the end of the channel list (GH-5923)

• Fix seemingly strange behaviour in __eq__ for PermissionOverwrite (GH-5929)

• Fix aliases showing up in __iter__ for Intents (GH-5945)

• Fix the bot disconnecting from voice when moving them to another channel (GH-5904)

• Fix attribute errors when chunking times out sometimes during delayed on_ready dispatching.

• Ensure that the bot’s own member is not evicted from the cache (GH-5949)

Miscellaneous

• Members are now loaded during GUILD_MEMBER_UPDATE events if MemberCacheFlags.joined is set. (GH-5930)

• [ext.commands] MemberConverter now properly lazily fetches members if not available from cache.

  • This is the same as having discord.Member as the type-hint.

• Guild.chunk() now allows concurrent calls without spamming the gateway with requests.

v1.5.0

This version came with forced breaking changes that Discord is requiring all bots to go through on October 7th. It is highly recommended to read the documentation on intents, A Primer to Gateway Intents.

API Changes

• Members and presences will no longer be retrieved due to an API change. See Privileged Intents for more info.

• As a consequence, fetching offline members is disabled if the members intent is not enabled.

New Features

• Support for gateway intents, passed via intents in Client using Intents.

• Add VoiceRegion.south_korea (GH-5233)

• Add support for __eq__ for Message (GH-5789)

• Add Colour.dark_theme() factory method (GH-1584)

• Add AllowedMentions.none() and AllowedMentions.all() (GH-5785)

• Add more concrete exceptions for 500 class errors under DiscordServerError (GH-5797)

• Implement VoiceProtocol to better intersect the voice flow.

• Add Guild.chunk() to fully chunk a guild.

• Add MemberCacheFlags to better control member cache. See Member Cache for more info.

• Add support for ActivityType.competing (GH-5823)

  • This seems currently unused API wise.

• Add support for message references, Message.reference (GH-5754, GH-5832)

• Add alias for ColourConverter under ColorConverter (GH-5773)

• Add alias for PublicUserFlags.verified_bot_developer under PublicUserFlags.early_verified_bot_developer (GH-5849)

• [ext.commands] Add support for require_var_positional for Command (GH-5793)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with Guild.by_category() not showing certain channels.

• Fix abc.GuildChannel.permissions_synced always being False (GH-5772)

• Fix handling of cloudflare bans on webhook related requests (GH-5221)

• Fix cases where a keep-alive thread would ack despite already dying (GH-5800)

• Fix cases where a Member reference would be stale when cache is disabled in message events (GH-5819)

• Fix allowed_mentions not being sent when sending a single file (GH-5835)

• Fix overwrites being ignored in abc.GuildChannel.edit() if {} is passed (GH-5756, GH-5757)

• [ext.commands] Fix exceptions being raised improperly in command invoke hooks (GH-5799)

• [ext.commands] Fix commands not being properly ejected during errors in a cog injection (GH-5804)

• [ext.commands] Fix cooldown timing ignoring edited timestamps.

• [ext.tasks] Fix tasks extending the next iteration on handled exceptions (GH-5762, GH-5763)

Miscellaneous

• Webhook requests are now logged (GH-5798)

• Remove caching layer from AutoShardedClient.shards. This was causing issues if queried before launching shards.

• Gateway rate limits are now handled.

• Warnings logged due to missed caches are now changed to DEBUG log level.

• Some strings are now explicitly interned to reduce memory usage.

• Usage of namedtuples has been reduced to avoid potential breaking changes in the future (GH-5834)

• [ext.commands] All BadArgument exceptions from the built-in converters now raise concrete exceptions to better tell them apart (GH-5748)

• [ext.tasks] Lazily fetch the event loop to prevent surprises when changing event loop policy (GH-5808)

v1.4.2

This is a maintenance release with backports from v1.5.0.

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with Guild.by_category() not showing certain channels.

• Fix abc.GuildChannel.permissions_synced always being False (GH-5772)

• Fix handling of cloudflare bans on webhook related requests (GH-5221)

• Fix cases where a keep-alive thread would ack despite already dying (GH-5800)

• Fix cases where a Member reference would be stale when cache is disabled in message events (GH-5819)

• Fix allowed_mentions not being sent when sending a single file (GH-5835)

• Fix overwrites being ignored in abc.GuildChannel.edit() if {} is passed (GH-5756, GH-5757)

• [ext.commands] Fix exceptions being raised improperly in command invoke hooks (GH-5799)

• [ext.commands] Fix commands not being properly ejected during errors in a cog injection (GH-5804)

• [ext.commands] Fix cooldown timing ignoring edited timestamps.

• [ext.tasks] Fix tasks extending the next iteration on handled exceptions (GH-5762, GH-5763)

Miscellaneous

• Remove caching layer from AutoShardedClient.shards. This was causing issues if queried before launching shards.

• [ext.tasks] Lazily fetch the event loop to prevent surprises when changing event loop policy (GH-5808)

v1.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Properly terminate the connection when Client.close() is called (GH-5207)

• Fix error being raised when clearing embed author or image when it was already cleared (GH-5210, GH-5212)

• Fix __path__ to allow editable extensions (GH-5213)

v1.4.0

Another version with a long development time. Features like Intents are slated to be released in a v1.5 release. Thank you for your patience!

New Features

• Add support for AllowedMentions to have more control over what gets mentioned.

  • This can be set globally through Client.allowed_mentions

  • This can also be set on a per message basis via abc.Messageable.send()

• AutoShardedClient has been completely redesigned from the ground up to better suit multi-process clusters (GH-2654)

  • Add ShardInfo which allows fetching specific information about a shard.

  • The ShardInfo allows for reconnecting and disconnecting of a specific shard as well.

  • Add AutoShardedClient.get_shard() and AutoShardedClient.shards to get information about shards.

  • Rework the entire connection flow to better facilitate the IDENTIFY rate limits.

  • Add a hook Client.before_identify_hook() to have better control over what happens before an IDENTIFY is done.

  • Add more shard related events such as on_shard_connect(), on_shard_disconnect() and on_shard_resumed().

• Add support for guild templates (GH-2652)

  • This adds Template to read a template’s information.

  • Client.fetch_template() can be used to fetch a template’s information from the API.

  • Client.create_guild() can now take an optional template to base the creation from.

  • Note that fetching a guild’s template is currently restricted for bot accounts.

• Add support for guild integrations (GH-2051, GH-1083)

  • Integration is used to read integration information.

  • IntegrationAccount is used to read integration account information.

  • Guild.integrations() will fetch all integrations in a guild.

  • Guild.create_integration() will create an integration.

  • Integration.edit() will edit an existing integration.

  • Integration.delete() will delete an integration.

  • Integration.sync() will sync an integration.

  • There is currently no support in the audit log for this.

• Add an alias for VerificationLevel.extreme under VerificationLevel.very_high (GH-2650)

• Add various grey to gray aliases for Colour (GH-5130)

• Added VoiceClient.latency and VoiceClient.average_latency (GH-2535)

• Add use_cached and spoiler parameters to Attachment.to_file() (GH-2577, GH-4095)

• Add position parameter support to Guild.create_category() (GH-2623)

• Allow passing int for the colour in Role.edit() (GH-4057)

• Add Embed.remove_author() to clear author information from an embed (GH-4068)

• Add the ability to clear images and thumbnails in embeds using Embed.Empty (GH-4053)

• Add Guild.max_video_channel_users (GH-4120)

• Add Guild.public_updates_channel (GH-4120)

• Add guild_ready_timeout parameter to Client and subclasses to control timeouts when the GUILD_CREATE stream takes too long (GH-4112)

• Add support for public user flags via User.public_flags and PublicUserFlags (GH-3999)

• Allow changing of channel types via TextChannel.edit() to and from a news channel (GH-4121)

• Add Guild.edit_role_positions() to bulk edit role positions in a single API call (GH-2501, GH-2143)

• Add Guild.change_voice_state() to change your voice state in a guild (GH-5088)

• Add PartialInviteGuild.is_icon_animated() for checking if the invite guild has animated icon (GH-4180, GH-4181)

• Add PartialInviteGuild.icon_url_as() now supports static_format for consistency (GH-4180, GH-4181)

• Add support for user_ids in Guild.query_members()

• Add support for pruning members by roles in Guild.prune_members() (GH-4043)

• [ext.commands] Implement before_invoke() and after_invoke() decorators (GH-1986, GH-2502)

• [ext.commands] Add a way to retrieve retry_after from a cooldown in a command via Command.get_cooldown_retry_after (GH-5195)

• [ext.commands] Add a way to dynamically add and remove checks from a HelpCommand (GH-5197)

• [ext.tasks] Add Loop.is_running method to the task objects (GH-2540)

• [ext.tasks] Allow usage of custom error handlers similar to the command extensions to tasks using Loop.error decorator (GH-2621)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with PartialEmoji.url reads leading to a failure (GH-4015, GH-4016)

• Allow abc.Messageable.history() to take a limit of 1 even if around is passed (GH-4019)

• Fix Guild.member_count not updating in certain cases when a member has left the guild (GH-4021)

• Fix the type of Object.id not being validated. For backwards compatibility str is still allowed but is converted to int (GH-4002)

• Fix Guild.edit() not allowing editing of notification settings (GH-4074, GH-4047)

• Fix crash when the guild widget contains channels that aren’t in the payload (GH-4114, GH-4115)

• Close ffmpeg stdin handling from spawned processes with FFmpegOpusAudio and FFmpegPCMAudio (GH-4036)

• Fix utils.escape_markdown() not escaping masked links (GH-4206, GH-4207)

• Fix reconnect loop due to failed handshake on region change (GH-4210, GH-3996)

• Fix Guild.by_category() not returning empty categories (GH-4186)

• Fix certain JPEG images not being identified as JPEG (GH-5143)

• Fix a crash when an incomplete guild object is used when fetching reaction information (GH-5181)

• Fix a timeout issue when fetching members using Guild.query_members()

• Fix an issue with domain resolution in voice (GH-5188, GH-5191)

• Fix an issue where PartialEmoji.id could be a string (GH-4153, GH-4152)

• Fix regression where Member.activities would not clear.

• [ext.commands] A TypeError is now raised when typing.Optional is used within commands.Greedy (GH-2253, GH-5068)

• [ext.commands] Bot.walk_commands no longer yields duplicate commands due to aliases (GH-2591)

• [ext.commands] Fix regex characters not being escaped in HelpCommand.clean_prefix (GH-4058, GH-4071)

• [ext.commands] Fix Bot.get_command from raising errors when a name only has whitespace (GH-5124)

• [ext.commands] Fix issue with Context.subcommand_passed not functioning as expected (GH-5198)

• [ext.tasks] Task objects are no longer stored globally so two class instances can now start two separate tasks (GH-2294)

• [ext.tasks] Allow cancelling the loop within before_loop (GH-4082)

Miscellaneous

• The Member.roles cache introduced in v1.3 was reverted due to issues caused (GH-4087, GH-4157)

• Webhook objects are now comparable and hashable (GH-4182)

• Some more API requests got a reason parameter for audit logs (GH-5086)

  • TextChannel.follow()

  • Message.pin() and Message.unpin()

  • Webhook.delete() and Webhook.edit()

• For performance reasons websockets has been dropped in favour of aiohttp.ws.

• The blocking logging message now shows the stack trace of where the main thread was blocking

• The domain name was changed from discordapp.com to discord.com to prepare for the required domain migration

• Reduce memory usage when reconnecting due to stale references being held by the message cache (GH-5133)

• Optimize abc.GuildChannel.permissions_for() by not creating as many temporary objects (20-32% savings).

• [ext.commands] Raise CommandRegistrationError instead of ClientException when a duplicate error is registered (GH-4217)

• [ext.tasks] No longer handle HTTPException by default in the task reconnect loop (GH-5193)

v1.3.4

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue with channel overwrites causing multiple issues including crashes (GH-5109)

v1.3.3

Bug Fixes

• Change default WS close to 4000 instead of 1000.

  • The previous close code caused sessions to be invalidated at a higher frequency than desired.

• Fix None appearing in Member.activities. (GH-2619)

v1.3.2

Another minor bug fix release.

Bug Fixes

• Higher the wait time during the GUILD_CREATE stream before on_ready is fired for AutoShardedClient.

• on_voice_state_update() now uses the inner member payload which should make it more reliable.

• Fix various Cloudflare handling errors (GH-2572, GH-2544)

• Fix crashes if Message.guild is Object instead of Guild.

• Fix Webhook.send() returning an empty string instead of None when wait=False.

• Fix invalid format specifier in webhook state (GH-2570)

• [ext.commands] Passing invalid permissions to permission related checks now raises TypeError.

v1.3.1

Minor bug fix release.

Bug Fixes

• Fix fetching invites in guilds that the user is not in.

• Fix the channel returned from Client.fetch_channel() raising when sending messages. (GH-2531)

Miscellaneous

• Fix compatibility warnings when using the Python 3.9 alpha.

• Change the unknown event logging from WARNING to DEBUG to reduce noise.

v1.3.0

This version comes with a lot of bug fixes and new features. It’s been in development for a lot longer than was anticipated!

New Features

• Add Guild.fetch_members() to fetch members from the HTTP API. (GH-2204)

• Add Guild.fetch_roles() to fetch roles from the HTTP API. (GH-2208)

• Add support for teams via Team when fetching with Client.application_info(). (GH-2239)

• Add support for suppressing embeds via Message.edit()

• Add support for guild subscriptions. See the Client documentation for more details.

• Add VoiceChannel.voice_states to get voice states without relying on member cache.

• Add Guild.query_members() to request members from the gateway.

• Add FFmpegOpusAudio and other voice improvements. (GH-2258)

• Add RawMessageUpdateEvent.channel_id for retrieving channel IDs during raw message updates. (GH-2301)

• Add RawReactionActionEvent.event_type to disambiguate between reaction addition and removal in reaction events.

• Add abc.GuildChannel.permissions_synced to query whether permissions are synced with the category. (GH-2300, GH-2324)

• Add MessageType.channel_follow_add message type for announcement channels being followed. (GH-2314)

• Add Message.is_system() to allow for quickly filtering through system messages.

• Add VoiceState.self_stream to indicate whether someone is streaming via Go Live. (GH-2343)

• Add Emoji.is_usable() to check if the client user can use an emoji. (GH-2349)

• Add VoiceRegion.europe and VoiceRegion.dubai. (GH-2358, GH-2490)

• Add TextChannel.follow() to follow a news channel. (GH-2367)

• Add Permissions.view_guild_insights permission. (GH-2415)

• Add support for new audit log types. See Audit Log Data for more information. (GH-2427)

  • Note that integration support is not finalized.

• Add Webhook.type to query the type of webhook (WebhookType). (GH-2441)

• Allow bulk editing of channel overwrites through abc.GuildChannel.edit(). (GH-2198)

• Add Activity.created_at to see when an activity was started. (GH-2446)

• Add support for xsalsa20_poly1305_lite encryption mode for voice. (GH-2463)

• Add RawReactionActionEvent.member to get the member who did the reaction. (GH-2443)

• Add support for new YouTube streaming via Streaming.platform and Streaming.game. (GH-2445)

• Add Guild.discovery_splash_url to get the discovery splash image asset. (GH-2482)

• Add Guild.rules_channel to get the rules channel of public guilds. (GH-2482)

  • It should be noted that this feature is restricted to those who are either in Server Discovery or planning to be there.

• Add support for message flags via Message.flags and MessageFlags. (GH-2433)

• Add User.system and Profile.system to know whether a user is an official Discord Trust and Safety account.

• Add Profile.team_user to check whether a user is a member of a team.

• Add Attachment.to_file() to easily convert attachments to File for sending.

• Add certain aliases to Permissions to match the UI better. (GH-2496)

  • Permissions.manage_permissions

  • Permissions.view_channel

  • Permissions.use_external_emojis

• Add support for passing keyword arguments when creating Permissions.

• Add support for custom activities via CustomActivity. (GH-2400)

  • Note that as of now, bots cannot send custom activities yet.

• Add support for on_invite_create() and on_invite_delete() events.

• Add support for clearing a specific reaction emoji from a message.

  • Message.clear_reaction() and Reaction.clear() methods.

  • on_raw_reaction_clear_emoji() and on_reaction_clear_emoji() events.

• Add utils.sleep_until() helper to sleep until a specific datetime. (GH-2517, GH-2519)

• [ext.commands] Add support for teams and Bot.owner_ids to have multiple bot owners. (GH-2239)

• [ext.commands] Add new BucketType.role bucket type. (GH-2201)

• [ext.commands] Expose Command.cog property publicly. (GH-2360)

• [ext.commands] Add non-decorator interface for adding checks to commands via Command.add_check and Command.remove_check. (GH-2411)

• [ext.commands] Add has_guild_permissions check. (GH-2460)

• [ext.commands] Add bot_has_guild_permissions check. (GH-2460)

• [ext.commands] Add predicate attribute to checks decorated with check().

• [ext.commands] Add check_any() check to logical OR multiple checks.

• [ext.commands] Add max_concurrency() to allow only a certain amount of users to use a command concurrently before waiting or erroring.

• [ext.commands] Add support for calling a Command as a regular function.

• [ext.tasks] Loop.add_exception_type now allows multiple exceptions to be set. (GH-2333)

• [ext.tasks] Add Loop.next_iteration property. (GH-2305)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with permission resolution sometimes failing for guilds with no owner.

• Tokens are now stripped upon use. (GH-2135)

• Passing in a name is no longer required for Emoji.edit(). (GH-2368)

• Fix issue with webhooks not re-raising after retries have run out. (GH-2272, GH-2380)

• Fix mismatch in URL handling in utils.escape_markdown(). (GH-2420)

• Fix issue with ports being read in little endian when they should be big endian in voice connections. (GH-2470)

• Fix Member.mentioned_in() not taking into consideration the message’s guild.

• Fix bug with moving channels when there are gaps in positions due to channel deletion and creation.

• Fix on_shard_ready() not triggering when fetch_offline_members is disabled. (GH-2504)

• Fix issue with large sharded bots taking too long to actually dispatch on_ready().

• Fix issue with fetching group DM based invites in Client.fetch_invite().

• Fix out of order files being sent in webhooks when there are 10 files.

• [ext.commands] Extensions that fail internally due to ImportError will no longer raise ExtensionNotFound. (GH-2244, GH-2275, GH-2291)

• [ext.commands] Updating the Paginator.suffix will not cause out of date calculations. (GH-2251)

• [ext.commands] Allow converters from custom extension packages. (GH-2369, GH-2374)

• [ext.commands] Fix issue with paginator prefix being None causing empty pages. (GH-2471)

• [ext.commands] Greedy now ignores parsing errors rather than propagating them.

• [ext.commands] Command.can_run now checks whether a command is disabled.

• [ext.commands] HelpCommand.clean_prefix now takes into consideration nickname mentions. (GH-2489)

• [ext.commands] Context.send_help now properly propagates to the HelpCommand.on_help_command_error handler.

Miscellaneous

• The library now fully supports Python 3.8 without warnings.

• Bump the dependency of websockets to 8.0 for those who can use it. (GH-2453)

• Due to Discord providing Member data in mentions, users will now be upgraded to Member more often if mentioned.

• utils.escape_markdown() now properly escapes new quote markdown.

• The message cache can now be disabled by passing None to max_messages in Client.

• The default message cache size has changed from 5000 to 1000 to accommodate small bots.

• Lower memory usage by only creating certain objects as needed in Role.

• There is now a sleep of 5 seconds before re-IDENTIFYing during a reconnect to prevent long loops of session invalidation.

• The rate limiting code now uses millisecond precision to have more granular rate limit handling.

  • Along with that, the rate limiting code now uses Discord’s response to wait. If you need to use the system clock again for whatever reason, consider passing assume_synced_clock in Client.

• The performance of Guild.default_role has been improved from O(N) to O(1). (GH-2375)

• The performance of Member.roles has improved due to usage of caching to avoid surprising performance traps.

• The GC is manually triggered during things that cause large deallocations (such as guild removal) to prevent memory fragmentation.

• There have been many changes to the documentation for fixes both for usability, correctness, and to fix some linter errors. Thanks to everyone who contributed to those.

• The loading of the opus module has been delayed which would make the result of opus.is_loaded() somewhat surprising.

• [ext.commands] Usernames prefixed with @ inside DMs will properly convert using the User converter. (GH-2498)

• [ext.tasks] The task sleeping time will now take into consideration the amount of time the task body has taken before sleeping. (GH-2516)

v1.2.5

Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug that caused crashes due to missing animated field in Emoji structures in reactions.

v1.2.4

Bug Fixes

• Fix a regression when Message.channel would be None.

• Fix a regression where Message.edited_at would not update during edits.

• Fix a crash that would trigger during message updates (GH-2265, GH-2287).

• Fix a bug when VoiceChannel.connect() would not return (GH-2274, GH-2372, GH-2373, GH-2377).

• Fix a crash relating to token-less webhooks (GH-2364).

• Fix issue where Guild.premium_subscription_count would be None due to a Discord bug. (GH-2331, GH-2376).

v1.2.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix an AttributeError when accessing Member.premium_since in on_member_update(). (GH-2213)

• Handle asyncio.CancelledError in abc.Messageable.typing() context manager. (GH-2218)

• Raise the max encoder bitrate to 512kbps to account for nitro boosting. (GH-2232)

• Properly propagate exceptions in Client.run(). (GH-2237)

• [ext.commands] Ensure cooldowns are properly copied when used in cog level command_attrs.

v1.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Audit log related attribute access have been fixed to not error out when they shouldn’t have.

v1.2.1

Bug Fixes

• User.avatar_url and related attributes no longer raise an error.

• More compatibility shims with the enum.Enum code.

v1.2.0

This update mainly brings performance improvements and various nitro boosting attributes (referred to in the API as “premium guilds”).

New Features

• Add Guild.premium_tier to query the guild’s current nitro boost level.

• Add Guild.emoji_limit, Guild.bitrate_limit, Guild.filesize_limit to query the new limits of a guild when taking into consideration boosting.

• Add Guild.premium_subscription_count to query how many members are boosting a guild.

• Add Member.premium_since to query since when a member has boosted a guild.

• Add Guild.premium_subscribers to query all the members currently boosting the guild.

• Add Guild.system_channel_flags to query the settings for a guild’s Guild.system_channel.

  • This includes a new type named SystemChannelFlags

• Add Emoji.available to query if an emoji can be used (within the guild or otherwise).

• Add support for animated icons in Guild.icon_url_as() and Guild.icon_url.

• Add Guild.is_icon_animated().

• Add support for the various new MessageType involving nitro boosting.

• Add VoiceRegion.india. (GH-2145)

• Add Embed.insert_field_at(). (GH-2178)

• Add a type attribute for all channels to their appropriate ChannelType. (GH-2185)

• Add Client.fetch_channel() to fetch a channel by ID via HTTP. (GH-2169)

• Add Guild.fetch_channels() to fetch all channels via HTTP. (GH-2169)

• [ext.tasks] Add Loop.stop to gracefully stop a task rather than cancelling.

• [ext.tasks] Add Loop.failed to query if a task had failed somehow.

• [ext.tasks] Add Loop.change_interval to change the sleep interval at runtime (GH-2158, GH-2162)

Bug Fixes

• Fix internal error when using Guild.prune_members().

• [ext.commands] Fix Command.invoked_subcommand being invalid in many cases.

• [ext.tasks] Reset iteration count when the loop terminates and is restarted.

• [ext.tasks] The decorator interface now works as expected when stacking (GH-2154)

Miscellaneous

• Improve performance of all Enum related code significantly.

  • This was done by replacing the enum.Enum code with an API compatible one.

  • This should not be a breaking change for most users due to duck-typing.

• Improve performance of message creation by about 1.5x.

• Improve performance of message editing by about 1.5-4x depending on payload size.

• Improve performance of attribute access on Member about by 2x.

• Improve performance of utils.get() by around 4-6x depending on usage.

• Improve performance of event parsing lookup by around 2.5x.

• Keyword arguments in Client.start() and Client.run() are now validated (GH-953, GH-2170)

• The Discord error code is now shown in the exception message for HTTPException.

• Internal tasks launched by the library will now have their own custom __repr__.

• All public facing types should now have a proper and more detailed __repr__.

• [ext.tasks] Errors are now logged via the standard logging module.

v1.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Webhooks do not overwrite data on retrying their HTTP requests (GH-2140)

Miscellaneous

• Add back signal handling to Client.run() due to issues some users had with proper cleanup.

v1.1.0

New Features

• There is a new extension dedicated to making background tasks easier.

  • You can check the documentation here: API Reference.

• Add Permissions.stream permission. (GH-2077)

• Add equality comparison and hash support to Asset

• Add compute_prune_members parameter to Guild.prune_members() (GH-2085)

• Add Client.cached_messages attribute to fetch the message cache (GH-2086)

• Add abc.GuildChannel.clone() to clone a guild channel. (GH-2093)

• Add delay keyword-only argument to Message.delete() (GH-2094)

• Add support for <:name:id> when adding reactions (GH-2095)

• Add Asset.read() to fetch the bytes content of an asset (GH-2107)

• Add Attachment.read() to fetch the bytes content of an attachment (GH-2118)

• Add support for voice kicking by passing None to Member.move_to().

discord.ext.commands

• Add new dm_only() check.

• Support callable converters in Greedy

• Add new MessageConverter.

  • This allows you to use Message as a type hint in functions.

• Allow passing cls in the group() decorator (GH-2061)

• Add Command.parents to fetch the parents of a command (GH-2104)

Bug Fixes

• Fix AttributeError when using __repr__ on Widget.

• Fix issue with abc.GuildChannel.overwrites returning None for keys.

• Remove incorrect legacy NSFW checks in e.g. TextChannel.is_nsfw().

• Fix UnboundLocalError when RequestsWebhookAdapter raises an error.

• Fix bug where updating your own user did not update your member instances.

• Tighten constraints of __eq__ in Spotify objects (GH-2113, GH-2117)

discord.ext.commands

• Fix lambda converters in a non-module context (e.g. eval).

• Use message creation time for reference time when computing cooldowns.

  • This prevents cooldowns from triggering during e.g. a RESUME session.

• Fix the default on_command_error() to work with new-style cogs (GH-2094)

• DM channels are now recognised as NSFW in is_nsfw() check.

• Fix race condition with help commands (GH-2123)

• Fix cog descriptions not showing in MinimalHelpCommand (GH-2139)

Miscellaneous

• Improve the performance of internal enum creation in the library by about 5x.

• Make the output of python -m discord --version a bit more useful.

• The loop cleanup facility has been rewritten again.

• The signal handling in Client.run() has been removed.

discord.ext.commands

• Custom exception classes are now used for all default checks in the library (GH-2101)

v1.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with speaking state being cast to int when it was invalid.

• Fix some issues with loop cleanup that some users experienced on Linux machines.

• Fix voice handshake race condition (GH-2056, GH-2063)