Errbot v5.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-04-23 // almost 7 years ago-
🔋 features:
- Add support for cascaded subcommands (cmd_sub1_sub2_sub3) (thx Jeremiah Lowin)
- 🔌 You can now use symbolic links for your plugins
- Telegram: send_stream_request support added (thx Alexandre Manhaes Savio)
- Callback to unhandled messages (thx tamarin)
- flows: New option to disable the next step hint (thx Aviv Laufer)
- 👍 IRC: Added Notice support (bot can listen to them)
- Slack: Original slack event message is attached to Message (Thx Bryan Shelton)
- 👍 Slack: Added reaction support and Message.extras['url'] (Thx Tomer Chachamu)
- 👍 Text backend: readline support (thx Robert Coup)
- ✅ Test backend: stream requests support (thx Thomas Lee)
🛠 fixes:
- When a templated cmd crashes, it was crashing in the handling of the error.
- Slack: no more crash if a message only contains attachments
- Slack: fix for some corner case links (Thx Tomer Chachamu)
- 🐎 Slack: fixed LRU for better performance on large teams
- Slack: fix for undefined key 'username' when the bot doesn't have one (thx Octavio Antonelli)
other:
- ✅ Tests: use conftest module to specify testbot fixture location (thx Pavel Savchenko)
- Python 3.6.x added to travis.
- ✅ Ported the yield tests to pytest 4.0
- ✂ Removed a deprecated dependency for the threadpool, now uses the standard one (thx Muri Nicanor)
💥 breaking / API cleanups:
- ✂ removed deprecated presence attributes (nick and occupant)
- ✂ removed deprecated type from messages.
- 🚚 utils.ValidationException has moved to errbot.ValidationException and is fully part of the API.
- {utils, errbot}.get_class_that_defined_method is now _bot.get_plugin_class_from_method
- 🚚 utils.utf8 has been removed, it was a leftover for python 2 compat.
- 🚚 utils.compat_str has been removed, it was a vestige for python 2 too.