Changelog

After long development and testing, we are excited to announce the release of Utilbot API and Web v6! This major update brings a host of new features, improvements, and optimizations to enhance your experience with Utilbot.

Besides our new Website (which is a complete rewrite, since the last rewrite from 2021!), we have also made significant changes to the bot itself.

We have updated to discord.js v15 (yes, even if it is still in development), we are also working on major improvements for the backend / database to finally bring even more new features.

In the near future we are rolling out the “Tags” feature, more on that later…

Updates

• Major updates to the backend, added new experimental features (more on that later…)

To make our link shortener (utilbot.link) more secure, changes to the vanity URLs of the guild leaderboards are necessary.

Specifically, this means the following:

• Vanity URLs now have the prefix /v in the path; a complete vanity URL will look like this: https://utilbot.link/v/utilbot
• Existing vanity URLs will remain in place for now, but do not rely on them as they may be removed on short notice

Updates

• Removed all music-related features / commands

New Features

• Giveaways: Asynchronous Handling (opt-in)

New Features

• Pomelo (new username system) support
• Message Quoting: /quote command

New Features

• Soundboard
• Logging: Experiment to use Audit Log Events for Logging

New Features

• We have added the first Context Menu Interaction! Try it out: Right-click on a User -> Apps -> Show User Info You will get a response with many useful information about the user.

With over 18.000 Additions and only 800 removals the new Version is now released. It has been a long time since the new Features were only available on Canary because we were waiting for discord.js to release v13. So heres a short Summary of all the Changes:

New Features

Globals

• Interactions: Interaction Support (Slash Commands, Message Components: Buttons and Select Menus)

General

• Help: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command and refactored the Help Pages. The old Help Command will still be available, but has a Note on it.
• Info: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Whois: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Stats: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.

Music

• Volume: Removed the Command and made a new one for more Filters.
• Play: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Queue: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Resume: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Pause: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Filter: New Command to manage Filters, such as the Volume of the player.
• Disconnect: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.

Moderators

• Clear: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• ClearThreads: Added the new Clear Threads Slash Command.
• Warn: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Kick: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• Ban: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.

Admins

• ChangePrefix: Replaced the Command with a Slash Command.
• ChangeLanguage: Removed the Language selection and migrated every guild to english.
• Warns: Removed the old Message-Based Commands and implemented one new Slash Commands.
• Rules: Removed the old Message-Based Commands and implemented one new Slash Commands.
• Teamlist: Removed the old Message-Based Commands and implemented one new Slash Commands.
• Log: Removed the old Message-Based Commands and implemented one new Slash Commands.
• Support: Added the new Support Threads feature.

Bug Fixes

• We have fixed many Bugs… It would be too many, to mention here…

New Features

• Gateway: The zlib compression is activated

Bug Fixes

• MOTD: The MOTD now loads normally again. We were hitting some rate limits, since we’ve activated sharding.

New Features

• Sharding: The bot is now sharding ready.
• Gateway: The bot now reports data to the gateway.

Bug Fixes

• ClearCommand: Command now uses the bulk-delete endpoint.
• HelpDMCommand: Response to the help command is sent correctly now.
• HelpDMCommand: Removed a deprecated method.
• HelpDMCommand: Fixed a typo in the command.

New Features

• CORE: Added migrations.
• VOICE: Added regions to node.

Bug Fixes

• CORE: Fixed database problems at startup.
• VOICE: Fixed the volume command.

New Features

• UT-62: Private Channel Creator (Generate Template).
• Added US voice nodes.
• Added automatic node choice based on the server region.
• The bot now deafens itself to save bandwidth.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the timestamp of a global ban was not added.

Bug Fixes

• Internal bug fixes.
• UT-37: Rule/Teamlist message is created when these functions are enabled via the web interface.
• UT-59: Fixed Clear command deleting one message too few.

Bug Fixes

• UT-61: Delete Rule/Teamlist message if the function is disabled via the web interface.

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes and dependency updates.

New Features

• Added the possibility to give an argument to the clear command. See clear command docs.

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes affecting the music player.

New Features

• Connection to v1 of the Utilbot backend gateway.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented many bug fixes.

New Features

• Connection to the Utilbot backend gateway.

Bug Fixes

• Implemented many bug fixes, including the “Member Edited” event and Join/Leave events.

New Features

• Added the first endpoint for the new web interface.

Bug Fixes

• Major bug fixes (too many to mention).
• Changed to TypeScript.

Bug Fixes

• Better organization of the code (it’s modular now, so the whole bot does not need to restart every time).

Bug Fixes

• Added whois command.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash during song playback in some cases.

New Features

• Poll feature.

Bug Fixes

• Changed behavior in the play / queue command.
• If a song is currently playing, !play now adds the searched song to the queue instead of starting it directly.
• !queue now also starts the queued song if no song was playing before.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a small bug in the !info command.

New Features

• Added multi-language support.
• Added German as language.
• Added English as language (not all strings were translated yet).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the song queue.

New Features

• Implemented the new voice backend Lavalink.