1 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
4 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
5 * New feature: karmastats
7 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
9 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
10 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
12 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
13 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
14 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
15 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
16 interfere with other plugin commands.
18 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
20 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
22 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
26 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
31 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
33 * searching for urls in the url plugin
34 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
36 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
38 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
39 working so I guess it changed again since then
40 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
42 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
44 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
46 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
47 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
48 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
50 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
55 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
59 * various plugin updates
60 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
61 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
62 changes and related information
65 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
66 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
67 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
68 * status command returns some bot status
70 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
71 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
72 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
73 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
74 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
75 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
76 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
77 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
78 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
81 * plugin object registry
82 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
83 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
84 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
85 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
89 @registry[:blah] = blah
90 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
91 can access the blah object as it was, with:
92 blah = @registry[:blah]
93 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
94 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
97 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
98 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
99 example (in your plugin):
110 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
111 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
112 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
114 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
115 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
116 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
117 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
118 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
119 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
120 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
121 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
122 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
123 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
125 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
126 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
127 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
129 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
130 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
131 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
132 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
133 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
134 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
136 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
138 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
139 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
140 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
142 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
143 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
144 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
145 original infobot math module)
146 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
147 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
148 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
149 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
150 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
151 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
152 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
153 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
155 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
156 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
157 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
158 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
159 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
160 imported and merged into the database.
161 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
162 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
164 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
168 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
169 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
170 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
171 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
172 not intended and should be fixed now
173 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
174 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
175 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
176 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
177 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
178 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
179 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
180 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
181 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
182 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
183 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
184 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
185 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
186 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
192 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
193 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
194 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
195 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
196 can be added on the fly.
197 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
202 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
204 * fixes to a few other buglets
205 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
206 folks who love bb :-)
207 * fixes to various plugins
208 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
209 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
210 Fix bug joining channels with keys
214 * better "connect failure" error message
215 * better option parsing, and --debug option
216 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
218 ./rbot.rb --help core
219 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
220 * Fix broken help from last point release
221 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
222 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
223 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
224 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
225 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
226 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
227 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
229 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
233 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
237 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
239 * rdoc documentation!
240 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
241 form of "foo" (lost the .)
242 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
246 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
247 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
248 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
250 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
252 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
253 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
254 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
258 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
259 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
263 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
264 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
265 * fix searchquote regexp
266 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
267 which is for master auth.
271 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
272 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
273 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
275 * more language breadth
276 * Addressing works better now
277 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
278 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5