Marie/Rose News

Rose update! - Commands that target users (like /info) now work with URLs too; eg, /info t.me/MissRose_bot. This should make it easier to use with some clients that now copy urls instead of usernames. - Ensure that urls and usernames are properly escaped in mentions, so we dont get any accidental promotion. - Fix a bug with {replytag} not working as expected in topic groups. - Improve Rose's lock system to use the new granular telegram permissions system from the latest telegram update. When locking, rose should now use the granular media locks! - Improve stopping of multi-word filters in some cases where quotes can be implied. Should simplify a common issue people have been having when removing filters. - Fixed some typos in the help, and improved some strings in fbans. - Updated translations. - Rose now speaks Bulgarian 🇧🇬! Big thank you to everyone who contributed. - Other small bug fixes and improvements. Enjoy! :) And as usual; remember to donate, or help translate!

Happy new year everyone! 🥳 Two years ago, I announced that Rose had reached 63 million users. So it seems only fitting that today, I announce that Rose has grown to over 400 million total users, across over 9 million chats. Thats gives Rose over 50M monthly active users - nearly 10% of telegrams monthly users! And all of this is done for free. So I'd like to say a big thank you to all the generous donators (both on GitHub and PayPal!), and all the volunteer admins in the support chat. We couldn't do it without you! Here's to another great year, looking forward to the milestones it brings! 😄

Happy holidays everyone! ⛄🎉

Minor Rose update! This is a small update to clean up and simplify the action topics feature we introduced recently, taking into account the new default "general" topic. Welcomes/CAPTCHA/antiraid/fedbans etc now all work fine without an action topic, and will simply default to the general topic if nothing is specified. Also: - Small bugfixes and improvements. - Updated translations. - Rose now supports Filipino🇵🇭! Thank you to everyone who worked hard on translating Rose to make this available. If you'd like to translate your own language, come join us on crowdin!

New Rose update! - Rose now supports topics! Telegram's latest update added a new way to manage large groups, splitting them into smaller "topic" chats. These can now be used along with Rose. To make sure that all the features keep working, it is recommended you set Roses "action topic", which allows rose to determine where to send her welcome messages, fedbans, and antiraid notifications. See the help on topics for more info. - You can now create, rename, close, and delete topics through Rose! See the help on topics for more info. - Introducing the new /disableadmin command, which makes sure that disabled commands cant be used by admins as well as users. - Lots of small bugfixes and improvements. - Updated translations. Please make sure to update your languages! Enjoy! And remember to donate to support Rose :)

Wanted to give everyone some good news. For the last couple of hours, Rose has been running on a brand new server. And no-one even noticed the switch. 😄 That's right - following Wednesday's stressful failed migration, I went down a rabbit hole of reading, learning, and testing out new things, to understand exactly what went wrong. I wanted to be sure I had all the knowledge necessary to avoid the issues I had, such that any future migrations could be done with as little downtime as possible. Which I would say has been a success. What a relief! Enjoy! And if you'd like to support Rose, now would be a great time to donate - as you all know, Rose is run by volunteers, and all donations go straight to server fees. And those aren't cheap 😅. Thank you!

I've recovered Rose, and she's been working fine for the last hour now. People should be good to use her again. No data has been lost. The issue was caused by unexpected behaviour from the migration, which resulted in the server running out of storage. I'll keep investigating how best to proceed with the migration without any more downtime. Thank you for understanding!

Hey everyone! Looks like Rose is currently down. We are aware, and Paul will get into it to get her back as early as possible. Stay tuned and as soon as Rose is back online we'll let you know. As always, thank you all for your patience and sorry for the inconveniences!

Migration is well on the way, and I think everything is stable enough for the chats to be unlocked. Data is in the process of being copied to the new server, and its all looks good so far, no nasty surprises. We'll have to wait a day or two for all the data to be properly replicated to the new server, at which point I'll be able to finish up the last bit of the migration and fully move Rose over; but that shouldn't take too much time. Thank you for your patience, this has been a new migration process for me to run through so has been quite stressful - very happy to see it all working as planned! 😄 Very comforting to know that in the future, migrations will only need a few minutes of downtime, rather than a couple of hours!

Migration starting now! I will aim to keep rose online for the vast majority, but will need to do some small downtimes. Hopefully everything goes smoothly :)

This is a reminder that the server migration will be starting in one hour. However, I will be trying some fancy new settings, which should hopefully allow us to keep Rose online and operational for the majority of the switchover, rather than the expected 3 hours of downtime. Hooray! :D

We are planning on going forward with the server upgrade this Wednesday evening (October 12th) at 6pm UTC (or 7PM GMT, UK time). There will be approximately 3 hours of downtime (depending on various factors) during which Rose will be completely unavailable. We recommend locking your groups before the upgrade, to avoid spam during the downtime. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience! And if you have any further questions, please ask in the support chat.

On another note: It is now that time of year where I'm going to need to do some server maintenance for some important infrastructure upgrades - the database is now outgrowing the server. Turns out, 360 million+ users requires a lot of storage! This also means there will be quite an increase in cost; so if you'd like to show your support and help keep Rose alive, please donate! My tentative date for this is Wednesday 12th of October, at 7PM GMT. This will require some downtime, so Rose will be unavailable for a couple of hours. More details to follow closer to the date!

New Rose update! This is a combination of lots of smaller improvements that people have been requesting for a while now, so it's good to get them ticked off! - Added a new module named "Clean service", which allows you to control which service messages to delete, with much greater control. Pins, calls, joins, leaves - you choose! Check the /help for more information. - Blocklists, locks, warns, ban, mute, and kick reasons now all support markdown, buttons, and fillings. This should make it easier to provide buttons and resources as part of your bot integrations! - FBans now also support markdown (but no fillings/buttons, as these dont make as much sense in this context). - You can now use the {replytag} filling in filters for Rose to reply to the user that the filter is replying to. This is very similar to what notes already do! - Antiflood now comes with a new setting, called /clearflood. This allows you to set Rose to delete the flood messages that were sent. - Antiflood strings have been reworked to ban when a user reaches the limit, rather than exceeds. A small, but important distinction! Also, the Nth message no longer gets deleted; only the following messages get deleted (unless you've enabled clearflood!). - Lots of improvements to the help; fixed some typos, added new examples, and made some clarifications! - Lots of bugfixes and improvements. - Updated translations. Enjoy! And remember to donate to support Rose :)

Small Rose update! - New locktypes! emoji to stop all emoji, and emojicustom to stop Telegram's recently added custom emoji, which can be spammy, or contain NSFW content. - The /locktypes command has been redesigned to show an explanation of each type of lock! Should make it easier for users to understand what each one does now. - More improvements to url allowlist matching. Hopefully should be even more accurate now. - Updated translations. Enjoy! :)

New Rose update: - User-only filters! Limit your filters so that only users can trigger them (not admins!). This can be done simply by adding {user} to your filter text. For example: /filter test Only users can see this {user} If an admin wants to force rose to reply, they can use the "force" keyword; for example:test force will force rose to reply to the test note. - The anonchannel lock now supports allowlists; you can allowlist a channel ID/username to allow them to speak, while still having other locks/blocklists/antiflood trigger on them. Much safer than approving channels completely! - The command lock also supports allowlists! This might be useful if you want to stop all commands, except for a select few; for example, you might want to /allowlist /rules to let users check the rules. - Allowlists have been improved for the matching to be more predictable. Let us know if you're seeing strange behaviour with the new format, and we can see how to fix your lists! - Log channels now log join requests and join approvals. - Fbans also work with join requests. - Using /info on an anonymous channel will now show whether they are approved, to make it consistent with how it works on regular users. - Lots of minor bugfixes, improvements, and updates. - Updated translations. Enjoy! And remember to donate to support Rose :)

Rose update: - Added a new {nonotif} filling to notes/filters/welcomes etc, which stops the message from sending a notification in the chat. This is a feature which has often been requested for welcome messages in the past, to reduce notifications to users! - Blocklisting filenames is now more powerful; blocklist file:*.jpg to blocklist all jpg files, while still allowing users to mention filenames! This is fully backwards compatible, so existing file blocks will still work. - The {protect} filling to stop forwards/screenshots is now available everywhere that supports fillings. - New locks: stickerpremium and stickeranimated. As named, they can be used to block premium and animated stickers. - The /pinned and /donate messages now reply to the replied-to message, if available. - Backend improvements and bugfixes. - Updated translations. Enjoy! And if you'd like to help support us, please donate!

New Rose update! - You can now add and remove multiple blocklists or filters with a single command! To do so, just wrap the list of names with (), and separate each one with commas. For example: /filter (one, two, three) test will add filters "one", "two", and "three". /blocklist (hi, hey, hello) will blocklist "hi", "hey", and "hello". Simple! - /info now shows whether a user is approved in the current chat, as well as mute/ban durations. - Log channels now show the full name of the user affected by an action. - When anonadmin is enabled, log channels now show the title of the anonymous admin that performed an action instead of the chat name. - Fixed a bug where setting the floodmode to mute 1m would mute forever. - Fixed a bug where rose would send errors trying to reply to a deleted antiflood message. - Allow /fstat to be used even on users rose hasn't seen yet. - Backend improvements. - Updated translations. This is the last warning for Malayalam, Tamil, and Khmer languages - these will be removed in the next update if they are not updated on crowdin. Enjoy!

This has now been fixed - telegram have removed the incorrect claims. Thank you for your patience!