Sopel

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Version 6.5.2

Larger than the usual “patch” release because it’s been so long since the last version and a number of bugs crept in. New maintainer (dgw) says hi.

To reduce the “dependency hell” of installing things that Sopel doesn’t need unless specific modules are used, the spellcheck and ipython modules will likely be removed from core and published separately in a future release (tentatively, Sopel 7).

Module changes

  • Added (restored) .bing command to search module, and fixed Bing results
  • Updated DDG ad filtering, and converted query URLs in search module to HTTPS
  • Fixed search module .suggest command using Google suggestions API
  • Fixed reddit and updated PRAW version requirement
  • reload module no longer tries to reload nonexistent modules when passed the name of a system package (e.g. “time” or “re”)
  • remind module will now give the reminder time in the correct timezone when using .at
  • wikipedia module ignores File: namespace links, and output from other Sopel bots’ wikipedia modules
  • Fixed retrieving xkcd comics by number
  • Fixed currency module (updated API URLs)
  • Tweaked url module’s title finder to reduce garbage from Gawker/Kinja sites
  • help module now filters out duplicate commands from its command list
  • Fixed wikipedia module’s handling of special characters like &
  • Prevent wikipedia module spewing an error if someone posts a link to an article that doesn’t exist
  • help module now sends the command list to ptpb.pw, as GitHub removed their anonymous Gist API
  • Switched calc module to use new backend service for .py command, to reduce outages
  • Added physical temperature limit to units module
  • Tweaked argument handling in pronouns module

Core changes

  • Logger bug squashed
  • Shutdown method handling fixed
  • Added documentation in a few places
  • Made finding the system SSL/TLS certificate trust store more robust
  • Modules with example tests no longer need to hack around pytest running their setup() routines
  • Corrected IPython dependency for ipython module (now installs with Sopel automatically)
  • Widened acceptable requests version range

API changes

  • Module shutdown() methods should fire correctly now
  • ListAttribute config values now return [] (empty list) when blank instead of [""] (empty string in list)
  • Updated documentation for (still deprecated) sopel.web (the documentation for post() included a nonexistent kwarg, headers)