v0.9.0-rc1

Welcome to the release candidate for Nostrum 0.9, code-named "Return to Flight".

NOTE: There is not an appup instruction for this release, there will be for Nostrum 0.9.

Breaking changes

• Removal of the non-functional Nostrum.Cache.ChannelCache module (see #555 for details)
• Removal of support for Elixir 1.13 (#544)

Deprecations

Features

• Support for Discord Polls
  • Landed by @jb3 in #534
• All channels types are now stored in the guild channels cache (not just text and voice)
  • Landed by @jb3 in #556
• Extra handling of user errors for lacking consumers
  • Landed by @jchristgit in #525
• Allow fallback to HTTP/1.1 if Discord needs to disable in future
  • Landed by @Th3-M4jor #522
• Add NoOp implementations for the rest of the caches
  • Landed by @Leastrio in #513

Documentation and debugging

• Check OTP version on startup and update deprecated Logger.warn/2 calls by @BrandtHill in #528
• Fix typos in intro.md by @dawedawe in #532
• Add missing word to state documentation by @jchristgit in #535
• Document StateMachineTranslator as internal by @jchristgit in #541

Fixes

• No longer crash if Discord leaks a struct to us over the ETF gateway, by @Th3-M4jor in #512
• Reconnect requests fixed by @Th3-M4jor in #510
• Util.get_all_shard_latencies is fixed by @Th3-M4jor in #507

New Contributors

• @dawedawe made their first contribution in #532

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-alpha2...v0.9.0-rc1