v1.8.0

🚀 Release Notes v1.8.0

🎯 Features

Tourney Admin Timeout Permission

• Tourney Admins are automatically granted the Timeout Members permission when !starttourney is run and it is revoked when !endtourney is run

Auto Team Detection

• When a ticket's match number is incorrect or missing, the bot now fuzzy matches the team name against all teams in the Matcherino bracket to automatically identify the correct match

/convert-time Command

• /convert-time generates all 9 Discord timestamp formats from a user-provided date, time, and timezone

🔒 Security & Monitoring

• /hacked and !hacked now send a DM to the flagged user informing them they have been timed out on the Remaining 7 server and how to contact staff to recover their account

🤖 GitHub Actions

• Added Ruff linting and formatting workflow triggering on push and PRs to dev and main
• Claude files (.claude/, CLAUDE.md) removed from repo tracking and added to .gitignore

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Heartbeat blocked by synchronous Matcherino API calls: fetch_ticket_context and find_match_by_team_name now run via run_in_executor to prevent blocking the event loop during the 60-second match refresher task
• Tourney winner incorrectly announced: Fixed logic error that caused the consolation match winner to be announced as the tournament winner

📝 Documentation

• Updated README and all help commands to reflect current feature set
• Updated .env variable names to DEV_TOKEN, PROD_TOKEN, and BOT_MODE

Full Changelog: v1.7.5...v1.8.0

v1.7.5

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.5

🎯 Features

• /daily 5-message requirement now resets in sync with the 24-hour cooldown instead of at 00:00 UTC
• Messages sent in economy-commands and bot-commands no longer count toward the /daily message requirement
• Bot now automatically detects and reposts the active support panel on startup, preventing "Interaction Failed" errors after a restart

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Milestone messages deleting instead of updating: Semi-final, final, and winner announcements now edit in-place when bracket teams update, ensuring there is never a gap in the updates channel

Full Changelog: v1.7.4...v1.7.5

v1.7.4

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.4

🎯 Features

Budget System Fixes

• /set-budget (Admin only) allows manual adjustment of the current remaining redemption budget
• Redemption actions now correctly refund token value or reduce budget by the item's dollar value
• Users cannot redeem items if the remaining budget is too low
• Budget resets to $50 automatically at the start of each month

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Support transcript logs pinging staff unnecessarily: Transcript logs now follow the updated format and no longer send unnecessary staff pings

Full Changelog: v1.7.3...v1.7.4

v1.7.3

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.3

🎯 Features

General Support Ticket System

• /support-panel (Admin/Moderator only) posts a support panel where members select a category to open a private ticket
• 4 ticket categories: Report an Issue, Server Support, Staff Application, Server Partnership
• One open ticket per category per user — closed or deleted tickets don't block new ones
• !close / !c closes a ticket and posts Delete/Reopen buttons
• !reopen reopens a closed ticket
• !delete / !del deletes the ticket, DMs the opener a transcript, and logs it to the archive channel
• Restricted to Admin and Moderator roles, independent of tourney staff permissions

Full Changelog: v1.7.2...v1.7.3

v1.7.2

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.2

🎯 Features

Automated Milestone Announcements

• Bot now automatically detects and broadcasts Semi-Finalists, Finalists, and Winners without manual staff input

Sticky Messaging System

• Live support redirection sticky in #general, #brawl-chat, and #tourney-chat — moves to the bottom after every user message to keep help requests funneled correctly
• SA tournaments automatically post Spanish translations of redirection sticky messages
• Active ticket channels feature a match info embed that repositions itself to the bottom every minute for easy access

Other Changes

• Tournament progress panel in the admin channel auto-refreshes every 5 minutes with a persistent bracket health overview

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• !starttourney not resetting start timestamp: Fixed so tournament duration reporting accurately reflects the current event
• Duplicate progress panels on startup: Resolved a race condition between /set-matcherino and !starttourney that caused redundant panels to generate

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.7.2

v1.7.1

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.1

🎯 Features

Live Progress Dashboard

• Auto-refreshing tournament panel updates every 5 minutes with a real-time overview of bracket health

Other Changes

• Bottleneck report now displays visual match numbers aligned with the Matcherino bracket UI instead of internal API IDs
• Added sticky warning messages in key channels to redirect users toward the ticket system for tournament issues

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Tournament stuck on "Finals in progress": Fixed completion status logic so a 100% completion rate correctly triggers a "Tournament Over" signal

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1

v1.7.0

🚀 Release Notes v1.7.0

🎯 Features

Tournament Progress Tracking

• /tourney-progress displays a diagnostic report of bracket completion, dominant rounds, and lagging matches
• Smart "active" detection now identifies any match with two real teams as active, preventing matches from being hidden by obscure status names

⚡ Integrations

• Bracket-wide scan pulls live data from Matcherino to power the progress report

Full Changelog: v1.6.4...v1.7.0

v1.6.4

🚀 Release Notes v1.6.4

🎯 Features

South America Tournament Support

• !starttourney SA starts the tournament in SA mode, automatically locking the Spanish channel and posting a redirect message pointing users to the main support channel
• !endtourney now restores send permissions to the Spanish channel as a fail-safe regardless of which region was active at startup

Automated Ticket Translation

• Bot detects non-English input in the "Issue" field during ticket creation
• If a non-English language is detected, an "English Translation" field is dynamically added to the initial ticket embed

⚡ Integrations

• Translation detection leverages existing langdetect and deep-translator libraries

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.6.4

v1.6.3

🚀 Release Notes v1.6.3

🎯 Features

Automated Results Scraping

• /hall-of-fame now scrapes live prize pool totals and tournament names directly from the Matcherino website using beautifulsoup4
• Captures metadata not available through standard API endpoints, ensuring Hall of Fame results match the live website exactly

⚡ Integrations

• Added beautifulsoup4 to requirements for Matcherino web scraping

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Tourney Admins unable to see slash commands in ticket channels: Resolved a permission inheritance bug preventing Tourney Admins from seeing or using slash commands in private ticket channels
• /set-ticket-match unintentionally renaming channels: Fixed a logic error that caused the channel to be renamed when only metadata updates were intended

Full Changelog: v1.6.2...v1.6.3

v1.6.2

🚀 Release Notes v1.6.2

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Live refresher overwriting unrelated match embeds: The 1-minute refresher now only updates the embed for the ticket's own match from the channel topic, no longer overwriting /match-info messages for other matches in the same channel

📝 Documentation

• /tourney-admin-help now documents all four Matcherino tools — /set-matcherino, /match-info, /match-history, and /set-ticket-match

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.6.2