Version 6.3.0

Module changes

• Many modules ported to use requests package for stability and security
• Weather location lookup is fixed
• Confusing and unnecessary commands like .op were removed
• Splitting of options in .choice is now more intuitive
• Some edge cases in reddit post information were fixed

Core changes

• A check is added to warn about an obscure environment issue that can cause strange errors
• Regex characters in the bot’s nick no longer cause issues when a rule has the nickname added
• Rate limiting is tweaked slightly, which should reduce the severity of the .commands flood bug until a proper solution is found

API changes

• The current topic of a channel is now available as the Channel object’s topic attribute
• sopel.web has been reworked as a wrapper around requests; it remains deprecated