1 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
4 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
6 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
8 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
10 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
12 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
13 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
14 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
15 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
16 * Language stuff: italian translations
17 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
18 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
19 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
22 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
24 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
25 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
26 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
27 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
29 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
31 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
32 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
34 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
36 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
38 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
39 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
41 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
43 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
44 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
45 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
46 internal cleanups while we're at it.
48 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
50 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
51 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
52 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
53 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
54 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
56 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
58 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
59 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
60 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
61 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
62 remind :user [about] *stuff
64 remind me about washing my teeth
66 remind me washing my teeth
67 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
68 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
69 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
70 :defaults hash for the message map options.
71 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
72 Not permitted by default.
74 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
76 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
78 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
80 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
82 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
83 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
84 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
87 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
89 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
91 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
92 It's a RuntimeError now.
93 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
94 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
95 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
96 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
97 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
98 equality test when checking for the username during login.
99 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
102 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
104 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
106 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
108 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
109 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
110 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
111 have permission to do what they asked for.
112 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
113 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
114 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
115 like this as default.
117 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
119 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
120 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
121 in the first channel in the list of channels.
122 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
123 username=, not name=.
124 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
125 status and number of users.
127 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
129 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
130 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
131 to kick a user from a channel
132 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
133 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
134 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
135 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
136 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
137 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
139 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
141 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
142 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
143 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
144 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
145 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
146 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
147 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
148 connections to be implemented more easily
149 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
150 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
151 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
153 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
154 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
155 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
156 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
157 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
158 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
159 command-path-based mechanism.
161 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
164 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
165 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
166 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
167 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
168 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
169 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
170 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
171 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
173 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
175 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
176 * Fixed trap() for win32
178 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
180 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
181 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
183 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
185 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
187 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
189 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
190 * Threat (US threat level :P)
191 * bash (bash.org quotes)
193 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
195 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
196 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
197 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
198 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
199 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
201 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
203 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
205 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
207 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
209 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
211 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
213 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
214 * quit message for restart
216 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
218 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
220 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
224 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
226 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
228 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
230 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
231 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
232 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
233 * finish fixing the httputil
235 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
237 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
238 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
240 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
242 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
243 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
244 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
245 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
246 values whenever it's queried.
247 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
248 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
249 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
252 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
254 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
256 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
258 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
259 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
262 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
264 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
265 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
266 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
268 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
270 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
271 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
272 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
274 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
277 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
279 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
280 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
281 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
282 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
284 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
286 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
287 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
288 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
289 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
291 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
293 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
294 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
295 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
296 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
297 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
298 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
299 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
302 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
304 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
305 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
306 * reworking the config system key names
307 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
308 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
309 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
310 bot's language at runtime.
311 * various other fixes
312 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
313 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
314 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
315 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
316 def MyPlugin < Plugin
321 def complexfoo(m, params)
322 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
325 plugin = MyPlugin.new
329 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
330 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
331 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
332 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
333 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
334 # you can also gobble up into an array
335 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
336 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
337 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
340 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
342 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
343 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
344 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
345 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
347 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
349 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
350 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
351 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
353 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
355 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
356 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
357 according to bot config.
359 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
361 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
362 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
363 * New feature: karmastats
365 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
367 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
368 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
370 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
371 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
372 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
373 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
374 interfere with other plugin commands.
376 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
378 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
380 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
384 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
386 * fixed insult plugin
387 * fixed excuse plugin
389 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
391 * searching for urls in the url plugin
392 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
394 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
396 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
397 working so I guess it changed again since then
398 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
400 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
402 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
404 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
405 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
406 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
408 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
413 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
417 * various plugin updates
418 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
419 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
420 changes and related information
423 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
424 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
425 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
426 * status command returns some bot status
428 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
429 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
430 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
431 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
432 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
433 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
434 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
435 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
436 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
439 * plugin object registry
440 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
441 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
442 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
443 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
447 @registry[:blah] = blah
448 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
449 can access the blah object as it was, with:
450 blah = @registry[:blah]
451 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
452 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
455 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
456 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
457 example (in your plugin):
468 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
469 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
470 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
472 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
473 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
474 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
475 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
476 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
477 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
478 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
479 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
480 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
481 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
483 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
484 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
485 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
487 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
488 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
489 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
490 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
491 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
492 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
494 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
496 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
497 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
498 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
500 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
501 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
502 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
503 original infobot math module)
504 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
505 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
506 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
507 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
508 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
509 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
510 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
511 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
513 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
514 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
515 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
516 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
517 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
518 imported and merged into the database.
519 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
520 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
522 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
526 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
527 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
528 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
529 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
530 not intended and should be fixed now
531 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
532 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
533 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
534 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
535 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
536 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
537 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
538 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
539 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
540 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
541 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
542 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
543 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
544 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
550 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
551 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
552 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
553 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
554 can be added on the fly.
555 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
560 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
562 * fixes to a few other buglets
563 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
564 folks who love bb :-)
565 * fixes to various plugins
566 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
567 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
568 Fix bug joining channels with keys
572 * better "connect failure" error message
573 * better option parsing, and --debug option
574 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
576 ./rbot.rb --help core
577 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
578 * Fix broken help from last point release
579 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
580 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
581 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
582 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
583 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
584 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
585 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
587 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
591 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
595 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
597 * rdoc documentation!
598 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
599 form of "foo" (lost the .)
600 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
604 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
605 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
606 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
608 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
610 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
611 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
612 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
616 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
617 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
621 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
622 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
623 * fix searchquote regexp
624 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
625 which is for master auth.
629 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
630 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
631 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
633 * more language breadth
634 * Addressing works better now
635 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
636 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5