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- feature: Updated `DownloaderExceptionMonitor` and `ItemValidationMonitor` to inherit from `BaseStatMonitor` (`PR334 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/pull/334>`_, `PR#335 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/pull/335>`_)
- feature: Updated Slack action to use `slack-sdk <https://pypi.org/project/slack-sdk/>`_ as library in replacement of deprecated `slackclient <https://pypi.org/project/slackclient/>`_ (`PR#313 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/issues/313>`_)
- feature: Added new action to allow to send notification to Discord channels (`PR348 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/pull/348>`_)
- feature: Added Python 3.10 support (`PR349 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/pull/349>`_)
- feature: Added new action to allow to send email notifications using SMTP server (`PR345 <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/pull/345>`_)
- misc: small bug fixes and documentation improvements that can be checked in the `milestone summary <https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/milestone/13?closed=1>`_.