1 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
4 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
5 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
7 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
9 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
10 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
11 serve normally without excessive delays.
13 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
15 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
16 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
17 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
18 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
19 stage if they cache the parse result.
21 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
23 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
24 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
26 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
28 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
30 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
32 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
33 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
34 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
35 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
36 * Language stuff: italian translations
37 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
38 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
39 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
42 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
44 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
45 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
46 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
47 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
49 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
51 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
52 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
54 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
56 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
58 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
59 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
61 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
63 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
64 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
65 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
66 internal cleanups while we're at it.
68 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
70 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
71 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
72 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
73 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
74 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
76 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
78 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
79 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
80 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
81 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
82 remind :user [about] *stuff
84 remind me about washing my teeth
86 remind me washing my teeth
87 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
88 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
89 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
90 :defaults hash for the message map options.
91 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
92 Not permitted by default.
94 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
96 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
98 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
100 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
102 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
103 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
104 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
105 handled specifically.
107 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
109 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
111 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
112 It's a RuntimeError now.
113 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
114 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
115 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
116 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
117 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
118 equality test when checking for the username during login.
119 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
122 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
124 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
126 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
128 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
129 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
130 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
131 have permission to do what they asked for.
132 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
133 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
134 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
135 like this as default.
137 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
139 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
140 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
141 in the first channel in the list of channels.
142 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
143 username=, not name=.
144 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
145 status and number of users.
147 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
149 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
150 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
151 to kick a user from a channel
152 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
153 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
154 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
155 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
156 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
157 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
159 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
161 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
162 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
163 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
164 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
165 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
166 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
167 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
168 connections to be implemented more easily
169 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
170 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
171 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
173 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
174 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
175 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
176 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
177 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
178 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
179 command-path-based mechanism.
181 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
184 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
185 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
186 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
187 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
188 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
189 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
190 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
191 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
193 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
195 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
196 * Fixed trap() for win32
198 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
200 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
201 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
203 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
205 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
207 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
209 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
210 * Threat (US threat level :P)
211 * bash (bash.org quotes)
213 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
215 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
216 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
217 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
218 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
219 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
221 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
223 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
225 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
227 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
229 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
231 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
233 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
234 * quit message for restart
236 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
238 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
240 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
244 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
246 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
248 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
250 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
251 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
252 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
253 * finish fixing the httputil
255 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
257 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
258 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
260 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
262 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
263 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
264 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
265 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
266 values whenever it's queried.
267 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
268 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
269 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
272 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
274 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
276 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
278 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
279 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
282 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
284 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
285 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
286 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
288 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
290 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
291 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
292 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
294 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
297 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
299 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
300 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
301 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
302 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
304 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
306 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
307 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
308 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
309 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
311 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
313 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
314 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
315 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
316 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
317 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
318 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
319 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
322 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
324 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
325 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
326 * reworking the config system key names
327 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
328 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
329 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
330 bot's language at runtime.
331 * various other fixes
332 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
333 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
334 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
335 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
336 def MyPlugin < Plugin
341 def complexfoo(m, params)
342 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
345 plugin = MyPlugin.new
349 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
350 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
351 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
352 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
353 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
354 # you can also gobble up into an array
355 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
356 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
357 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
360 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
362 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
363 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
364 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
365 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
367 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
369 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
370 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
371 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
373 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
375 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
376 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
377 according to bot config.
379 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
381 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
382 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
383 * New feature: karmastats
385 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
387 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
388 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
390 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
391 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
392 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
393 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
394 interfere with other plugin commands.
396 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
398 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
400 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
404 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
406 * fixed insult plugin
407 * fixed excuse plugin
409 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
411 * searching for urls in the url plugin
412 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
414 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
416 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
417 working so I guess it changed again since then
418 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
420 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
422 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
424 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
425 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
426 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
428 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
433 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
437 * various plugin updates
438 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
439 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
440 changes and related information
443 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
444 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
445 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
446 * status command returns some bot status
448 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
449 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
450 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
451 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
452 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
453 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
454 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
455 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
456 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
459 * plugin object registry
460 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
461 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
462 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
463 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
467 @registry[:blah] = blah
468 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
469 can access the blah object as it was, with:
470 blah = @registry[:blah]
471 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
472 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
475 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
476 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
477 example (in your plugin):
488 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
489 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
490 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
492 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
493 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
494 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
495 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
496 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
497 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
498 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
499 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
500 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
501 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
503 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
504 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
505 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
507 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
508 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
509 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
510 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
511 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
512 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
514 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
516 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
517 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
518 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
520 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
521 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
522 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
523 original infobot math module)
524 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
525 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
526 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
527 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
528 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
529 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
530 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
531 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
533 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
534 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
535 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
536 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
537 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
538 imported and merged into the database.
539 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
540 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
542 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
546 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
547 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
548 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
549 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
550 not intended and should be fixed now
551 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
552 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
553 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
554 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
555 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
556 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
557 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
558 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
559 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
560 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
561 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
562 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
563 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
564 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
570 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
571 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
572 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
573 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
574 can be added on the fly.
575 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
580 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
582 * fixes to a few other buglets
583 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
584 folks who love bb :-)
585 * fixes to various plugins
586 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
587 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
588 Fix bug joining channels with keys
592 * better "connect failure" error message
593 * better option parsing, and --debug option
594 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
596 ./rbot.rb --help core
597 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
598 * Fix broken help from last point release
599 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
600 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
601 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
602 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
603 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
604 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
605 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
607 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
611 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
615 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
617 * rdoc documentation!
618 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
619 form of "foo" (lost the .)
620 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
624 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
625 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
626 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
628 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
630 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
631 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
632 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
636 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
637 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
641 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
642 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
643 * fix searchquote regexp
644 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
645 which is for master auth.
649 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
650 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
651 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
653 * more language breadth
654 * Addressing works better now
655 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
656 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5