This is a celebration release for the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot enacted against King James of England and Scotland in 1605.
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Image done by @Lakelezz

Thanks to the following for their contributions:

• acdenisSK
• Bond-009
• Erk
• Lakelezz
• Proximyst
• perryprog
• zeyla

Known issues

Systems with OpenSSL 1.x.x installed will not be able to compile Serenity as it depends on an older version of OpenSSL (0.9.x). To circumvent this, you need to add a patch section to your Cargo.toml for ishitatsuyuki's fork, which is compatible with 1.x.x, like so:

[patch.crates-io]
openssl = { git = "https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/rust-openssl", branch = "0.9.x" }

Upgrade Path

Discord no longer considers channels with the prefix nsfw- in their name as NSFW. Per c:75fb5c04, the utils::is_nsfw has been deprecated. Instead, the is_nsfw methods on the channel structs (as in GuildChannel::is_nfsw) are to be used for checking their nsfw-ness.

Added

• [general/contributing] Add guideline about maximum characters per line (@Lakelezz) c:12534348
• [cache] Add a write-lock configuration option (@Erk-) c:b2362dbb c:41ff44ba
• [framework] Prefix-only command (@Lakelezz) c:6a68f68e
• [framework] Add an option to disable bypassing checks for owners (@Lakelezz) c:c5285ae1
• [framework] Add a method for trimming the current argument (@acdenisSK, @Lakelezz) c:3b050f49 c:e763d80b
• [model] Parse the id out of any mention (@acdenisSK) c:d529cf79
• [utils] Add function to neutralise mentions (@Lakelezz) c:867a7447

Fixed

• [client] Compile the client without cache feature (@Erk-) c:176fde29
• [framework] Compile the framework without cache feature (@Bond-009) c:9f834b2b
• [framework] Fix Default Command to inherit group-options (@Lakelezz) c:e32f9b57
• [model] Fix NSFW checks (@Lakelezz) c:75fb5c04
• [http/docs] Fix dead links (@Erk-) c:9d141bfc

Misc.

• [voice] Don't log event deserialization failures (@zeyla) c:08511dae
• [voice] Remove unused variable (@Proximyst) c:69931fe3
• [http] Remove inconsistent braces (@Proximyst) c:ccfa7fdc
• [cache/http] Change to UNIX line endings (@Erk-) c:8e401f03
• [docs] Typo fixes (@perryprog) c:9865d9cc
• [framework] Simplify code by removing negation (@Lakelezz) c:093a1bab
• [travis] Add travis_wait to extend build-time (@Lakelezz) c:5b6574c3