:ddevs_halloween: October 2025 Developer News

Hey Discord Developers! 👋

Welcome to our October 2025 edition of Developer News. Let's dive into the latest platform updates and upcoming events!

🤖 Bot & API Updates

• Modal Components: We finally did it! We've expanded components for modals! All select menus (User, Role, Mentionable, Channel) are now fully supported in modals. We've also added new TextDisplay and Label components. Learn more about our new modal components in the changelog.
• Per Guild Bot Profiles: Bots can now set banner, avatar, and bio fields for each guild they are a member of using the modify current member route.

🎮 Social SDK Updates

• Discord Social SDK 1.6 introduces new features like guild channel sorting and upcoming authorization flow support, API improvements with a safer current user method and message caching, enhances voice communications, and fixes various bugs including privacy settings and connectivity issues. Check out the full changelog for Social SDK 1.6.
• Server-Side Provisional Account API: We've introduced a new endpoint for creating provisional accounts in server-side games. This streamlines the account creation process for your users. Check out our Using Provisional Accounts guide to implement this feature in your game.
• New Webhooks: We've introduced new webhooks for LOBBY_MESSAGE_* and GAME_DIRECT_MESSAGE_* events that allow you to intercept lobby and direct messages for asynchronous moderation. Visit our Webhook Events documentation to learn more about these new events.

👀 Upcoming Platform Changes To Watch

• Rate Limit on Requesting ALL Guild Members Opcode: We've introduced rate limits when requesting all guild members to improve platform stability. Learn more.
• Deprecating Non-E2EE Voice Calls: We're phasing out non-end-to-end encrypted voice calls. Review the deprecation timeline and migration guide to ensure your integrations continue to work!
• Voice & Video Transport Codes Deprecation: This is a reminder that deprecated transport codes will be rolling off over the next 1-2 months. Please update your implementations accordingly. Learn more.

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📅 Upcoming Events.

Fall 2025 Platform Updates Event

Join us for a comprehensive recap of recent developer platform updates and get a preview of what we're working on next!
- Date: October 9th, 12pm PDT
- RSVP here

Building Games with the Social SDK

Learn how to use lobbies, invites, and Rich Presence together in your game to connect players to their friends! We'll cover creating lobbies, inviting players through Discord, and exposing lobbies and joining through Rich Presence.
- Date: October 16th, 12pm PDT
- RSVP here

happy building!
- The Discord Developer Team