Changes in 0.11.0-rc1 (2018-08-23)

• The bridge now depends on matrix-appservice-bridge 1.6.0a

New features & improvements:

• Cache modes internally #630
• Replace nicks with user pill mentions #650 #658
• Kick users if we fail to create an IRC client for them on join (aka ILINE kicks) #639
• SASL support #643
• Add err_nononreg so we can announce PMs that failed #645
• Formatting of replies #647

Bug Fixes:

• Fix invalidchar nick #655
• Don't answer any msgtypes other than text in an admin room. #642
• Fix provisoner leaving users on unlink #649

Metrics:

• Metrics for MatrixHandler - Iline Kicks #644
• Idle connection metrics #651
• QueuePool.waitingItems should use it's internal queue size #656

Misc:

• Section out tests, linting and coverage into seperate stages for Travis #657