This issue tracks the development of version 5 of the library.

For each work item, issues/prs/branches as well as their assignees are listed below.

Other maintainers, feel free to add additional work items as you go.

• Obsoleting CommandsNext and SlashCommands in favor of DSharpPlus.Commands - @OoLunar, Add new extension: DSharpPlus.Commands #1680 , Commands Processor Cleanup #2075
  • Obsoleting SlashCommands - @OoLunar , Add new extension: DSharpPlus.Commands #1680
  • Obsoleting CommandsNext:
    • text command support
    • help command support
    • overload support
  • 2025 Commands Rework #2179
• Obsoleting VoiceNext - @akiraveliara , voice-rewrite branch
  • DAVE v1 core support
  • support implicitly transcoding audio with FFMPEG
• Obsoleting Lavalink, in favor of Lavalink4NET
• Nullability-annotating the libraries - in progress
• Cleaning up code readability
• Updating Rest
  • modernizing internal infrastructure - @akiraveliara, @Plerx2493, consolidate and improve internal rest infrastructure #1624
  • nullability-annotating the rest client - internals @akiraveliara, @Plerx2493, consolidate and improve internal rest infrastructure #1624, externals required
• Updating the Gateway - @akiraveliara the events part of v5 extensions and events design #1820 , add sharding support to DiscordClient #1971 , rework gateway compression #2000 , rework event handling and rework how extensions are set up #2045
• Implementing more reliable and more maintainable caching - first attempt in Cache rework #1647
• Enabling OAuth2 usage
• audit logs - @Plerx2493, Auditlog cleanup and update #1586
• Entity overhaul v5 Entity overhaul #1653
  • correctly representing partial entities
• extensions - v5 extensions and events design #1820
• client initialization - v5 extensions and events design #1820 , @akiraveliara build DiscordClient on top of IOC #1908
  • sharded client support - @akiraveliara add sharding support to DiscordClient #1971
• Monetization support - @Plerx2493 Monetization support #1998
• Http interactions support @Plerx2493 HTTP Interactions #1999
• webhook events support - @VelvetToroyashi , @Plerx2493 , @akiraveliara support webhook events #2145
• analyzer - DSharpPlus Analyzer #2096, @Instellate Create an analyzer for DSharpPlus #2154
• scalable permissions for 128-bit and beyond - @akiraveliara , upgrade permissions to 128-bit with ability to scale indefinitely #2152
• redesigning interactivity
  • stateful interactivity: impl package DSharpPlus.Interactivity.Stateful - Redesigning Interactivity #2153
    • DSharpPlus.Commands integration - @OoLunar
    • DSharpPlus.Interactivity integration
  • stateless interactivity: impl package DSharpPlus.Interactivity.Stateless
    • DSharpPlus.Interactivity integration