1 2007-02-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Timers: failing timer actions don't prevent the global timer ticker
4 from functioning properly.
5 * Shiritori plugin: new word game, contributed by Yaohan Chen
6 <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>. People take turns to continue a chain of
7 words by saying words that begin with the final letter(s) of the
10 2007-02-18 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
12 * Plugin: Provide a plugin.header file with boilerplate plugin
13 title/author/copyright/license information. Authors of new plugins are
14 encouraged to use it. Many existing plugins have been changed to
16 * NickServ plugin: delegate #identified() to other plugins after
17 successfull identification. Also provide #identified?() method to test
18 if the bot has successfully identified. Not perfect yet (gets reset
21 2007-02-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
23 * Plugin: new unreplied() method to handle PRIVMSGs which have not
25 * Regexp: more regexp madness. BasicUserMessage and derivate classes
26 now have a new method parse_channel_list() to parse list of channel
29 2007-02-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
31 * Remote Service Provider: from an idea by halorgium <rbot@spork.in>,
32 initial steps towards a DRb-based remote service provider for rbot.
33 When complete, it will give plugins the ability to listen to
34 'messages' from remote clients connected to the bot, allowing for such
35 things as svn notification without RSS polling, remote control of
36 the bot, or even (why not?) botnets.
37 * Remote Service Provider: BotModules can now include the
38 RemoteBotModule interface that provides them with the remote_map()
39 method that works just like the map() method, but for remote commands
40 * Remote Service Provider: Remote clients can now login remotely
41 before executing commands. This in fact integrates the remote access
42 auth security with the User/BotUser used on IRC itself.
44 2007-02-08 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
46 * Languages: Japanese support with language files, salutations, larts
47 and praises, thanks to hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
49 2007-02-05 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
51 * sendmsg improvements: the bot sendmsg() method and all the methods
52 that rely on it (say(), notice(), and message methods such as reply())
53 now accept an option hash to customize its behaviour.
54 * :newlines, which can be set to either :split or :join,
55 depending on whether newlines in messages should be used as
56 split-points, or should be be replaced by some string (defined
57 in the :join_with option)
58 * :max_lines, which determines the maximum number of lines to be
59 sent by each messages. Last line is truncated (see next
60 options). Set to nil to have no limits.
61 * :overlong, which determines the behaviour when overlong lines
62 are to be sent; possible values are :split or :truncate.
63 * If :overlong is set to :split, :split_at determines the
64 string/regexp to split at; default is /\s+/, other usual
65 choice could be /\s+\|\s+/.
66 * If :overlong is set to :split, the :purge_split option
67 determines whether the :split_at expression should be removed
68 from the next lines (defaults to true).
69 * If :overlong is set to :truncate, the value of the option
70 :truncate_text is replaced at the end of the truncated line
71 * LinkBot plugin: initial commit of a plugin to handle messages from
72 eggdrops and other bots that act as cross-network channel links.
73 Suggested by hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
76 2007-02-03 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
78 * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
79 When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
80 capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
81 assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
82 regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
83 the requirement should be in the form
84 [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
87 :regexp => /some regexp/,
88 :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
90 and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
91 If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
92 value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
93 regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
94 /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
95 When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
96 to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
97 necessary to have single spaces.
99 2007-02-02 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
101 * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements
102 hash) are now embedded in the regular expression matcher rather than
103 being cheked separately afterwards.
105 2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
107 * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
108 now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
111 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
113 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
114 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
115 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
116 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
117 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
119 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
121 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
122 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
123 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
124 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
125 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
126 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
129 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
131 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
132 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
133 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
134 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
135 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
136 @socket.select not having a timeout.
138 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
140 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
142 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
144 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
145 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
146 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
148 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
150 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
151 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
152 serve normally without excessive delays.
154 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
156 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
157 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
158 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
159 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
160 stage if they cache the parse result.
162 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
164 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
165 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
167 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
169 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
171 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
173 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
174 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
175 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
176 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
177 * Language stuff: italian translations
178 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
179 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
180 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
183 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
185 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
186 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
187 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
188 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
190 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
192 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
193 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
195 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
197 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
199 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
200 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
202 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
204 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
205 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
206 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
207 internal cleanups while we're at it.
209 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
211 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
212 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
213 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
214 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
215 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
217 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
219 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
220 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
221 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
222 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
223 remind :user [about] *stuff
225 remind me about washing my teeth
227 remind me washing my teeth
228 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
229 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
230 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
231 :defaults hash for the message map options.
232 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
233 Not permitted by default.
235 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
237 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
239 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
241 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
243 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
244 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
245 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
246 handled specifically.
248 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
250 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
252 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
253 It's a RuntimeError now.
254 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
255 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
256 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
257 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
258 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
259 equality test when checking for the username during login.
260 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
263 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
265 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
267 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
269 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
270 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
271 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
272 have permission to do what they asked for.
273 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
274 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
275 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
276 like this as default.
278 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
280 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
281 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
282 in the first channel in the list of channels.
283 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
284 username=, not name=.
285 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
286 status and number of users.
288 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
290 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
291 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
292 to kick a user from a channel
293 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
294 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
295 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
296 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
297 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
298 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
300 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
302 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
303 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
304 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
305 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
306 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
307 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
308 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
309 connections to be implemented more easily
310 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
311 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
312 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
314 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
315 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
316 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
317 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
318 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
319 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
320 command-path-based mechanism.
322 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
325 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
326 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
327 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
328 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
329 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
330 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
331 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
332 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
334 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
336 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
337 * Fixed trap() for win32
339 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
341 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
342 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
344 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
346 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
348 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
350 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
351 * Threat (US threat level :P)
352 * bash (bash.org quotes)
354 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
356 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
357 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
358 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
359 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
360 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
362 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
364 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
366 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
368 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
370 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
372 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
374 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
375 * quit message for restart
377 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
379 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
381 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
385 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
387 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
389 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
391 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
392 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
393 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
394 * finish fixing the httputil
396 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
398 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
399 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
401 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
403 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
404 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
405 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
406 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
407 values whenever it's queried.
408 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
409 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
410 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
413 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
415 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
417 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
419 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
420 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
423 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
425 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
426 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
427 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
429 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
431 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
432 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
433 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
435 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
438 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
440 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
441 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
442 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
443 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
445 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
447 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
448 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
449 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
450 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
452 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
454 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
455 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
456 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
457 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
458 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
459 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
460 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
463 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
465 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
466 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
467 * reworking the config system key names
468 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
469 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
470 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
471 bot's language at runtime.
472 * various other fixes
473 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
474 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
475 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
476 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
477 def MyPlugin < Plugin
482 def complexfoo(m, params)
483 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
486 plugin = MyPlugin.new
490 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
491 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
492 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
493 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
494 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
495 # you can also gobble up into an array
496 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
497 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
498 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
501 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
503 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
504 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
505 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
506 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
508 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
510 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
511 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
512 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
514 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
516 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
517 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
518 according to bot config.
520 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
522 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
523 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
524 * New feature: karmastats
526 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
528 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
529 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
531 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
532 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
533 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
534 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
535 interfere with other plugin commands.
537 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
539 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
541 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
545 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
547 * fixed insult plugin
548 * fixed excuse plugin
550 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
552 * searching for urls in the url plugin
553 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
555 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
557 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
558 working so I guess it changed again since then
559 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
561 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
563 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
565 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
566 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
567 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
569 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
574 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
578 * various plugin updates
579 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
580 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
581 changes and related information
584 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
585 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
586 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
587 * status command returns some bot status
589 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
590 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
591 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
592 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
593 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
594 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
595 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
596 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
597 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
600 * plugin object registry
601 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
602 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
603 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
604 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
608 @registry[:blah] = blah
609 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
610 can access the blah object as it was, with:
611 blah = @registry[:blah]
612 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
613 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
616 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
617 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
618 example (in your plugin):
629 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
630 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
631 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
633 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
634 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
635 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
636 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
637 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
638 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
639 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
640 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
641 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
642 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
644 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
645 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
646 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
648 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
649 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
650 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
651 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
652 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
653 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
655 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
657 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
658 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
659 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
661 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
662 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
663 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
664 original infobot math module)
665 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
666 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
667 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
668 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
669 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
670 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
671 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
672 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
674 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
675 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
676 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
677 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
678 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
679 imported and merged into the database.
680 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
681 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
683 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
687 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
688 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
689 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
690 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
691 not intended and should be fixed now
692 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
693 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
694 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
695 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
696 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
697 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
698 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
699 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
700 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
701 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
702 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
703 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
704 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
705 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
711 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
712 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
713 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
714 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
715 can be added on the fly.
716 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
721 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
723 * fixes to a few other buglets
724 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
725 folks who love bb :-)
726 * fixes to various plugins
727 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
728 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
729 Fix bug joining channels with keys
733 * better "connect failure" error message
734 * better option parsing, and --debug option
735 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
737 ./rbot.rb --help core
738 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
739 * Fix broken help from last point release
740 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
741 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
742 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
743 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
744 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
745 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
746 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
748 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
752 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
756 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
758 * rdoc documentation!
759 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
760 form of "foo" (lost the .)
761 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
765 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
766 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
767 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
769 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
771 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
772 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
773 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
777 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
778 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
782 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
783 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
784 * fix searchquote regexp
785 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
786 which is for master auth.
790 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
791 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
792 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
794 * more language breadth
795 * Addressing works better now
796 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
797 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5