Changelog - Version 5.7.21 (2026-08-24)

Version Information

• Updated version from 5.7.20 to 5.7.21
• Fix: Twitch poll EventSub notices now reach chat

Bug Fixes

• Polls started and ended with no Specter chat notice
  • EventSub already subscribed to channel.poll.begin and channel.poll.end, but the chat handler looked for poll.start while the EventSub path passed poll.begin, so the start message and halfway reminder never ran.
  • The halfway timer treated an integer second count as a timedelta, then tried to cancel a nested routine that did not exist on poll end (NameError).
  • Poll results were written to poll_option_1…poll_option_5, which are not the real columns (poll_option_one…). That SQL error aborted poll-end handling before chat was sent.
  • Fix: Match poll.begin, schedule the halfway reminder from integer seconds, keep the routine so poll end can cancel it, write option titles and vote counts to the real columns, and send chat even if storing results fails.
• Poll EventSub did not match Twitch’s poll payloads
  • Specter subscribed to channel.poll.begin and channel.poll.end only. Twitch also sends channel.poll.progress while votes come in.
  • Poll end uses ended_at and status (completed / archived / terminated), not ends_at.
  • Fix: Subscribe to all three poll topics. Begin chat lists the options. Progress standings are logged always and announced in chat at most once every 30 seconds. End chat names the winner, or the leader if the poll was ended early. poll_results now stores vote counts, bits/channel-point votes, started_at, and ended_at.

Technical Details

• handel_twitch_poll accepts poll.begin (and still accepts poll.start) plus poll.progress and poll.end.
• Helpers: parse_twitch_poll_event, parse_twitch_poll_time, format_poll_standings, format_poll_duration, save_poll_results.
• poll_results updates use poll_option_one…poll_option_five plus the matching _results columns.

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