Improving support for Server Discovery and minor bugfixes.

Fixed

• Retry with null-discrim if channel could not be created. (GH #2934)
• Fix update notifications.
• Retrieve user from Discord API if user has left the server, resolving issues in ?block. (GH #2935, PR #2936)
• IDs in <member> commands work now.

Fix bugs from v3.8

Fixed

• Additional image uploads now render properly. (PR #2933)
• confirm_thread_creation no longer raises unnecessary errors. (GH #2931, PR #2933)
• Autotriggers no longer sends attachments back. (GH #2932)

QOL changes and bug fixes.

Added

• update_notifications configuration option to toggle bot autoupdate notifications. (GH #2896)
• ?fareply, anonymously reply with variables.
• anonymous_snippets config variable to toggle if snippets should be anonymous. (GH #2905)
• disable_updates config variable to control if the update command should be disabled or not.
• silent_alert_on_mention to alert mods silently. (GH #2907)
• Support for only the "Server Members" intent.

Improved

• Added command validation to autotrigger add/edit.
• GITHUB_TOKEN is now no longer required in Heroku setups.
• Clearer error messages on reply fails.

Fixed

• Mentioned competing as an activity type. (PR #2902)
• Level permissions were not checked if command permissions were set.
• Regex autotriggers were not working if term was in the middle of strings.
• ?blocked now no longers show blocks that have expired.
• Blocked roles will no longer trigger an error during unblock.
• Custom emojis are now supported in confirm_thread_creation_deny. (GH #2916)
• Finding linked messages in replies work now. (GH #2920, Jerrie-Aries)
• Sending files in threads (non-images) now work. (GH #2926)
• Deleting messages no longer shows a false error. (GH #2910, Jerrie-Aries)
• Display an error on Lottie stickers, instead of failing the send.
• ?perms get now shows role/user names. (PR #2927)

Internal

• Make use of git branch --show-current to retrieve branch instead of using prerelease version check.
• Use discord.py 1.6.0 from PyPi instead of the development clone.

Relax config_help validation

Fixed

• Notes in config help are now optional.

More bugfixing

Fixed

• Bot was not responding to union errors.
• ?block [reason] now works in threads.

Support larger server setups

Improved

• Role block will now work better with seperate server setups.

Fixed

• Bot not restarting after autoupdate on PM2.

Internal

• Removed unnecessary loggings.

More customisability!

Added

• Added update_channel_id to specify which channel autoupdate notifications were being sent to.
• Added show_timestamp to specify if timestamps should be displayed in message embeds. (GH #2885)

More permission level fixes

Fixed

• perms add/remove with permission levels should now work again. (GH #2892, PR #2893)

Improved

• Clearer plugin debug messages when plugins are disabled

Improved user experience, bugfixes!

Added

• Added thread_contact_silently to allow opening threads silently by default. (PR #2887)

Fixed

• Permission levels were not respected.
• perms remove was not working.
• logs and block would not recognise users in a seperate server setup.
• Custom emojis were not working with confirm_thread_creation.

Internal

• Optimised perms get, bot should respond faster now.

Improvements to niche users!

Added

• Added updating github fork if GITHUB_TOKEN was provided

Fixed

• Skip blocked roles check if user is not in main guild