1 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
4 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
5 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
6 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
7 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
8 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
11 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
13 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
14 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
15 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
16 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
17 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
18 @socket.select not having a timeout.
20 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
22 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
24 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
26 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
27 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
28 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
30 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
32 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
33 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
34 serve normally without excessive delays.
36 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
38 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
39 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
40 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
41 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
42 stage if they cache the parse result.
44 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
46 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
47 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
49 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
51 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
53 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
55 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
56 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
57 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
58 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
59 * Language stuff: italian translations
60 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
61 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
62 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
65 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
67 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
68 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
69 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
70 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
72 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
74 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
75 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
77 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
79 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
81 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
82 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
84 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
86 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
87 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
88 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
89 internal cleanups while we're at it.
91 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
93 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
94 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
95 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
96 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
97 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
99 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
101 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
102 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
103 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
104 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
105 remind :user [about] *stuff
107 remind me about washing my teeth
109 remind me washing my teeth
110 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
111 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
112 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
113 :defaults hash for the message map options.
114 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
115 Not permitted by default.
117 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
119 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
121 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
123 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
125 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
126 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
127 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
128 handled specifically.
130 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
132 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
134 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
135 It's a RuntimeError now.
136 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
137 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
138 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
139 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
140 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
141 equality test when checking for the username during login.
142 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
145 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
147 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
149 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
151 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
152 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
153 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
154 have permission to do what they asked for.
155 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
156 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
157 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
158 like this as default.
160 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
162 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
163 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
164 in the first channel in the list of channels.
165 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
166 username=, not name=.
167 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
168 status and number of users.
170 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
172 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
173 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
174 to kick a user from a channel
175 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
176 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
177 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
178 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
179 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
180 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
182 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
184 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
185 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
186 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
187 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
188 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
189 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
190 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
191 connections to be implemented more easily
192 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
193 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
194 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
196 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
197 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
198 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
199 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
200 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
201 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
202 command-path-based mechanism.
204 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
207 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
208 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
209 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
210 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
211 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
212 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
213 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
214 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
216 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
218 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
219 * Fixed trap() for win32
221 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
223 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
224 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
226 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
228 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
230 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
232 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
233 * Threat (US threat level :P)
234 * bash (bash.org quotes)
236 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
238 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
239 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
240 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
241 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
242 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
244 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
246 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
248 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
250 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
252 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
254 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
256 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
257 * quit message for restart
259 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
261 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
263 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
267 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
269 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
271 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
273 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
274 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
275 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
276 * finish fixing the httputil
278 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
280 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
281 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
283 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
285 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
286 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
287 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
288 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
289 values whenever it's queried.
290 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
291 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
292 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
295 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
297 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
299 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
301 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
302 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
305 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
307 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
308 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
309 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
311 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
313 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
314 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
315 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
317 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
320 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
322 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
323 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
324 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
325 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
327 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
329 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
330 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
331 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
332 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
334 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
336 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
337 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
338 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
339 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
340 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
341 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
342 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
345 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
347 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
348 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
349 * reworking the config system key names
350 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
351 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
352 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
353 bot's language at runtime.
354 * various other fixes
355 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
356 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
357 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
358 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
359 def MyPlugin < Plugin
364 def complexfoo(m, params)
365 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
368 plugin = MyPlugin.new
372 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
373 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
374 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
375 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
376 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
377 # you can also gobble up into an array
378 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
379 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
380 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
383 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
385 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
386 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
387 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
388 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
390 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
392 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
393 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
394 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
396 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
398 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
399 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
400 according to bot config.
402 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
404 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
405 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
406 * New feature: karmastats
408 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
410 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
411 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
413 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
414 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
415 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
416 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
417 interfere with other plugin commands.
419 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
421 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
423 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
427 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
429 * fixed insult plugin
430 * fixed excuse plugin
432 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
434 * searching for urls in the url plugin
435 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
437 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
439 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
440 working so I guess it changed again since then
441 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
443 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
445 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
447 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
448 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
449 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
451 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
456 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
460 * various plugin updates
461 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
462 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
463 changes and related information
466 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
467 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
468 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
469 * status command returns some bot status
471 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
472 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
473 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
474 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
475 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
476 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
477 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
478 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
479 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
482 * plugin object registry
483 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
484 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
485 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
486 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
490 @registry[:blah] = blah
491 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
492 can access the blah object as it was, with:
493 blah = @registry[:blah]
494 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
495 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
498 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
499 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
500 example (in your plugin):
511 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
512 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
513 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
515 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
516 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
517 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
518 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
519 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
520 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
521 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
522 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
523 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
524 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
526 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
527 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
528 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
530 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
531 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
532 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
533 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
534 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
535 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
537 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
539 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
540 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
541 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
543 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
544 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
545 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
546 original infobot math module)
547 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
548 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
549 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
550 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
551 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
552 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
553 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
554 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
556 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
557 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
558 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
559 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
560 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
561 imported and merged into the database.
562 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
563 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
565 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
569 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
570 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
571 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
572 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
573 not intended and should be fixed now
574 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
575 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
576 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
577 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
578 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
579 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
580 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
581 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
582 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
583 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
584 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
585 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
586 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
587 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
593 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
594 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
595 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
596 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
597 can be added on the fly.
598 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
603 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
605 * fixes to a few other buglets
606 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
607 folks who love bb :-)
608 * fixes to various plugins
609 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
610 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
611 Fix bug joining channels with keys
615 * better "connect failure" error message
616 * better option parsing, and --debug option
617 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
619 ./rbot.rb --help core
620 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
621 * Fix broken help from last point release
622 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
623 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
624 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
625 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
626 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
627 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
628 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
630 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
634 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
638 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
640 * rdoc documentation!
641 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
642 form of "foo" (lost the .)
643 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
647 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
648 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
649 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
651 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
653 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
654 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
655 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
659 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
660 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
664 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
665 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
666 * fix searchquote regexp
667 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
668 which is for master auth.
672 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
673 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
674 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
676 * more language breadth
677 * Addressing works better now
678 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
679 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5