5.1.0

Added

• GitHub workflow for validation
• GitHub action extension to vscode suggestions
• Placeholder test npm script
• Explicit "UNLICENSED" tag and other details to package.json
• Source code button to help embed
• Report button to error embed

Changed

• All dependencies to latest versions
• lastUpdated date
• Package lockfile to version 3
• Project node version to 20
• Sorted package.json with npx sort-package-json
• TypeScript configuration to be standardized
• ESLint configuration to use @jstnmcbrd/eslint-config
• Re-linted whole project

Removed

• Node 18 requirement
• Redundant replaceCustomEmojis method - this functionality was added to discord.js in version 14.14.0
• VSCode Devcontainer setup

Fixed

• undici vulnerability (from discord.js)

5.0.1

Added

• New @typescript-eslint stylistic rules

Changed

• Improved grammar in the README
• @colors/colors version
• discord.js version
• @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin and @typescript-eslint/parser versions
• eslint version
• typescript version
• Eslint config to use consistent ESM version instead of default "latest"
• Eslint config to use new renamed configs
• Enforced new eslint rules
• Enforced new discord.js types
• Miscellaneous code tweaks - no functionality changes
• Wording in the README
• Package version number to 5.0.1
• lastUpdated date

Fixed

• Invite permissions
• Dependency vulnerabilities
• README saying "git pull" instead of "git clone"
• Inaccurate documentation comments
• cleverbot-free bad gateway error by updating to 2.0.1
• Broken API status link in README

5.0.0

Added

• TypeScript
• ESM support
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• TypeScript linting
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• CommandHandler builder class
• index.ts for command scripts
• New /invite command with automatic invite link generation
• Automatic deployed commands sync checking
• NPM package version number to /help embed
• Command mentions to all embeds that mention commands
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• EventHandler builder class
• Separate folder for event handler scripts
• index.ts for event scripts
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• Environment variable management using dotenv
• Example .env
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• Separate script for whitelist management
• Auto-generation for whitelist memory file
• Parallel promises for faster whitelist channel fetching/validating
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• Separate script for context management
• Automatic context generation for all whitelisted channels on startup
• Automatic context generation/deletion when whitelist is updated
• Parallel promises for faster context generation
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• Separate script for thinking management
• Automatic timeout for thinking storage
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• Separate script for activity management
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• New parameters script to store global parameters
• Default colors for all embeds to use
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• Separate script to abstract out the logger
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• .vscode settings and extensions and debugger setup
• devcontainer setup
• npm run commands script to deploy commands
• Node 18 .nvmrc and engine field in package.json
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• cleverbot-free API status to README
• Development section to README
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• JSDoc for most public functions and fields

Changed

• Moved all source code into ./src folder
• Reorganized and renamed most files
• Updated all dependencies to latest versions and resolved all security alerts
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• eslint to use new flat config (eslint.config.js instead of .eslintrc.json)
• Simplified eslint rules
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• /help replies and redundant /whitelist and /unwhitelist replies to be ephemeral
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• token field to be stored in environment variables instead of config.json memory file
• Memory files to be stored under user ID instead of username
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• Whitelist storage to be more efficient
• Whitelist to store channel objects instead of channel IDs
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• Context storage to be more efficient
• Context to store message objects instead of strings
• Improved context generation
• resumeConversations to use context instead of fetching messages manually
• Context length to be limited to 10 messages
• Context generation to not gather messages from before channel was whitelisted
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• deployCommands to use official client application command setter
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• Moved helper methods to new utils folder
• Replaced isFromUser() with isFromSelf()
• Replaced doesMentionUser() with doesMentionSelf()
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• Cleaned up and significantly reduced logging output
• Logging colors to use type-safe version
• Improved logging output coloration
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• Improved fields in package.json
• Project name to be lowercase (discord-cleverbot instead of Discord-Cleverbot)
• Cleaned up .gitignore
• README to be more concise
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• Embeds to use EmbedBuilders instead of raw objects
• Replaced string concatenation with template literals
• User/channel/command mentions to use discord.js mention formatters
• File path construction to use path.join
• Discord IDs to use Snowflake type insetad of basic strings
• All files to use camelCase
• Improved comments
• Imports to use standardized alphabetical ordering
• Promises to use async/await instead of .then().catch()
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• Typing speed from 6 char/sec to 8 char/sec

Removed

• config.json memory files
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• Redundant context generation when new message is received
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• Redundant reset option for deployCommands
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• Unnecessary GuildTyping and DMTyping GatewayIntentBits from the client

Fixed

• Bug where setTimeout methods would crash
• Bug where emoji replacement would replace innocent underscores and colons

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