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Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
	start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
	seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
  * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
	* reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
	* made server.reconnect_wait configurable
	* added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
	debugging

Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
	* reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
	* reworking the config system key names
	* on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
	* new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
	* new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
   	bot's language at runtime.
	* various other fixes
	* New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
	familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
	currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
	supported, of course. Example plugin now:
	  def MyPlugin < Plugin
		  def foo(m, params)
			  m.reply "bar"
			end

			def complexfoo(m, params)
			  m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
			end
		end
		plugin = MyPlugin.new
		# simple map
		plugin.map 'foo'

    # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
		# parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
		plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
		# this means :foo is an optional parameter
		plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
    # you can also gobble up into an array
		plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
    # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
		plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}


Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
	get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
	* Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
	old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)

Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
	* fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
	* fix tube plugin's html parsing

Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

	* Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
	that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
	according to bot config.

Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
	* New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
	* New feature: karmastats

Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
  and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
  bar"
  * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
  plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
  keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
  keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
  interfere with other plugin commands.

Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Fixes to the NickServ plugin

Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Keyword searching

Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * fixed insult plugin
  * fixed excuse plugin

Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * searching for urls in the url plugin
  * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>

Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
  working so I guess it changed again since then
  * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free

Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
  * Misc other fixes
  * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
    went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
  * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.

Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004  Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>

  * Fixes for ruby 1.8

0.9.8
* new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
  UK TV programmes.

0.9.7
* various plugin updates
* fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
* channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
  changes and related information

0.9.6
* changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
* freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
* fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
* status command returns some bot status
* fortune plugin
* using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
  allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
  supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
  0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
* roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
* new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
  respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
  start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
* hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types

0.9.5
* plugin object registry
  This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
  default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
  them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
  the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
  for example:
    blah = Hash.new
    blah[:foo] = "fum"
    @registry[:blah] = blah
  then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
  can access the blah object as it was, with:
    blah = @registry[:blah]
  The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
  well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
  configuration. 

  If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
  strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
  example (in your plugin):
    def initialize
      class << @registry
        def store(val)
          val
        end
        def restore(val)
          val
        end
      end
    end
  Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
  (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
  Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.

  The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
  useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
  hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
* Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
  password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
  plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
  owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
  or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
  known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
  bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
  password.
* karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
  your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
* The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
  common lookups.
* New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
  quit(QuitMessage):   Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
  nick(NickMessage):   Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
  topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
* A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
  PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
* New plugins:
  seen: the usual "seen" stuff: 
        rbot: seen giblet?
        giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
  cal:  calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
  math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
        rbot: math 2+2
        rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
        rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
        (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
        original infobot math module)
  slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
  url:  stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
  weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
           code you asked for so you don't have to :)
* New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
  just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
  all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
* random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
  file
* keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
  imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
  rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
  keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
  file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
  imported and merged into the database.
  static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
  alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
  you wish.
* fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
  split unnecessarily.

0.9.4
* Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
  <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
* Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
  worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
  not intended and should be fixed now
* Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
  between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
  in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
  the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and 
  "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
  This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
  lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
  configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
  "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
  The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
* support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
  in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
  ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
  Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
  to respond:
              rbot: version
              |version
              !version
              =>version
* bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
* Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
  which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
  rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
  can be added on the fly.
* made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http

0.9.3

* fix quit messages
* new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
  the config file.
* fixes to a few other buglets
* new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
  folks who love bb :-)
* fixes to various plugins
* Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
  DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
  Fix bug joining channels with keys

0.9.2

* better "connect failure" error message
* better option parsing, and --debug option
* access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
  ./rbot.rb --help
  ./rbot.rb --help core
  ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
* Fix broken help from last point release
* Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
  true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
  method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
  should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
* New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
* New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
* Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
  kicker
* fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.

0.9.1

* Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.

0.9

* Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
  bot: foo is bar\?
* rdoc documentation!
* fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
  form of "foo" (lost the .)
* fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)

0.8

* Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
  configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
  tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
  else.
* change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
  it's BSD friendly!
* allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
* slap plugin (contributed by oct)
* renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
  (thanks Kero)

0.7.1
* Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
  files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.

0.7

* Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
* Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
* fix searchquote regexp
* conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
  which is for master auth.

0.6

* Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
* now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
  messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
* minor bugfixes
* more language breadth
* Addressing works better now
* Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
  autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5
* dice plugin fixes

0.5

* Initial release