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0.6.4

Release notes for Sentinel 0.6.4

November 28, 2025

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What's New

This update brings exciting new features including Twitch clips tracking, voice event logging, enhanced reminders, AutoMod improvements, and significant dashboard enhancements to Sentinel.


🎉 New Features

Twitch Clips Tracking

  • Automatic Clip Notifications: Automatically detects and posts new Twitch clips from your tracked channels to Discord
  • Rich Embeds: Beautiful embeds with clip thumbnails, view counts, duration, and creator information
  • Flexible Channel Options: Post clips to the same channel as live streams or choose a separate channel
  • Custom Templates: Customize clip notifications with message templates using variables like {url}, {title}, {creator_name}, {view_count}, and {login}
  • Smart Duplicate Prevention: Intelligent caching prevents reposting clips after bot restarts

Voice Event Logging

  • Voice Channel Tracking: New moderation log event types for voice channel activity
  • Event Types: Track voice joins, leaves, and moves between channels
  • Dashboard Configuration: Enable or disable specific voice event types from the moderation logs settings

Enhanced Reminders System

  • Channel-Specific Reminders: Send reminders to specific channels instead of just DMs
  • Reminder Management: New /remind cancel command to cancel specific reminders and /remind clear to remove all active reminders
  • Improved Reliability: Better error handling, retry logic, and duplicate prevention

AutoMod Enhancements

  • Unicode Normalization: Detects filtered words even when using special characters (Zalgo text, combining characters, etc.)
  • Dashboard Management: Manage blocklisted words and invite whitelists directly from the dashboard
  • Invite Caching: Faster invite checking with intelligent caching to reduce API calls

Dashboard Improvements

  • Documentation Page: New comprehensive documentation accessible from the dashboard navigation
  • Visual Updates: New favicon and logo, improved header design, and better visual consistency
  • Better UX: More compact layout, improved form interactions, and enhanced user feedback

🐛 Bug Fixes

Commands & Interactions

  • Fixed duplicate command executions in ModerationCog and RemindersCog
  • Improved interaction timeout handling to prevent command failures
  • Better error recovery for failed operations with proper retry logic

Dashboard

  • Fixed logo display and sizing issues
  • Improved form field visibility and interaction
  • Better handling of large numbers and database values in tables
  • Enhanced error messages and user feedback

General

  • Improved handling of edge cases in various commands
  • Better permission checking and user feedback in moderation commands

⚡ Performance Improvements

  • Invite Caching: Reduced API calls with 5-minute TTL cache for invite resolution
  • Database Queries: Enhanced BIGINT and Decimal handling for better precision and performance
  • Task Management: Improved reminder task lifecycle management to prevent duplicate instances
  • Memory Efficiency: Automatic cleanup of interaction tracking to prevent memory issues

🔧 Improvements

Moderation

  • Tempban Command: Improved reliability, error handling, and response consistency
  • Server Info Command: Now supports viewing info for any server with optional server ID parameter and up-to-date feature fetching

Reminders

  • Enhanced interaction response handling to prevent timeouts
  • Better channel existence checking and user retrieval
  • Improved reminder listing logic to support multiple data formats

AutoMod

  • Enhanced filter loading and error handling
  • Improved bulk message deletion with better rate limit handling
  • Better cache management with forced reloads when filters are updated

Dashboard

  • Updated navigation links and routing (documentation route changed to /documentation)
  • Improved table layouts with better mobile support
  • Enhanced JSON serialization for database queries
  • Better visual hierarchy and spacing throughout

📋 Summary

This release introduces major new features including Twitch clips tracking and voice event logging, along with a comprehensive overhaul of the reminders system. AutoMod has been significantly enhanced with Unicode normalization and dashboard management tools. The dashboard received visual updates, a new documentation page, and various UX improvements. All changes are backward compatible with automatic database migrations.


Note: All changes are backward compatible. No action required from users. Twitch clips and voice event logging are disabled by default and can be enabled in the dashboard.