V2.6.0

[IAmTomahawkx]

This release has various additions and bug fixes for the core lib and the eventsub + pubsub exts.

These release notes are simply a brief. To view the full changelog, visit https://twitchio.dev/en/latest/changelog.html

General additions:

• Added shield mode support to PartialUser and eventsub
• Added followed streams support to PartialUser
• Added shoutout support to PartialUser and eventsub
• Added type arg to Client.fetch_streams
• Added support for ciso8601 when installed
• Added speed flag to install available c-based speedups: pip install twitchio[speed]
• Added support for follows V2 in eventsub. This is the main way to subscribe to follow events now.
• Added auth_fail_hook and reconnect_hook to PubSubPool

Bug fixes:

• PartialUser.fetch_bits_leaderboard not handling started_at arg properly.
• Fix auto-reconnect logic of IRC websocket
• implicitly remove newlines in chat messages
• fixed RECONNECT event in pubsub websocket

Deprecations:

• EventSubClient.subscribe_channel_follows. Use EventSubClient.subscribe_channel_follows_v2

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This discussion was created from the release V2.6.0.