1 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
4 * quit message for restart
6 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
8 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
10 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
14 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
16 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
18 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
20 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
21 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
22 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
23 * finish fixing the httputil
25 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
27 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
28 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
30 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
32 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
33 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
34 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
35 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
36 values whenever it's queried.
37 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
38 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
39 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
42 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
44 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
46 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
48 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
49 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
52 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
54 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
55 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
56 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
58 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
60 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
61 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
62 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
64 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
67 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
69 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
70 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
71 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
72 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
74 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
76 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
77 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
78 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
79 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
81 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
83 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
84 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
85 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
86 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
87 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
88 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
89 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
92 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
94 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
95 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
96 * reworking the config system key names
97 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
98 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
99 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
100 bot's language at runtime.
101 * various other fixes
102 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
103 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
104 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
105 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
106 def MyPlugin < Plugin
111 def complexfoo(m, params)
112 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
115 plugin = MyPlugin.new
119 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
120 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
121 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
122 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
123 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
124 # you can also gobble up into an array
125 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
126 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
127 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
130 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
132 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
133 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
134 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
135 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
137 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
139 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
140 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
141 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
143 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
145 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
146 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
147 according to bot config.
149 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
151 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
152 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
153 * New feature: karmastats
155 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
157 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
158 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
160 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
161 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
162 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
163 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
164 interfere with other plugin commands.
166 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
168 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
170 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
174 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
176 * fixed insult plugin
177 * fixed excuse plugin
179 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
181 * searching for urls in the url plugin
182 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
184 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
186 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
187 working so I guess it changed again since then
188 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
190 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
192 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
194 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
195 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
196 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
198 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
203 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
207 * various plugin updates
208 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
209 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
210 changes and related information
213 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
214 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
215 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
216 * status command returns some bot status
218 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
219 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
220 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
221 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
222 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
223 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
224 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
225 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
226 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
229 * plugin object registry
230 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
231 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
232 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
233 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
237 @registry[:blah] = blah
238 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
239 can access the blah object as it was, with:
240 blah = @registry[:blah]
241 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
242 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
245 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
246 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
247 example (in your plugin):
258 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
259 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
260 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
262 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
263 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
264 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
265 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
266 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
267 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
268 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
269 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
270 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
271 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
273 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
274 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
275 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
277 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
278 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
279 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
280 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
281 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
282 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
284 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
286 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
287 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
288 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
290 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
291 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
292 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
293 original infobot math module)
294 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
295 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
296 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
297 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
298 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
299 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
300 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
301 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
303 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
304 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
305 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
306 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
307 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
308 imported and merged into the database.
309 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
310 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
312 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
316 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
317 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
318 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
319 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
320 not intended and should be fixed now
321 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
322 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
323 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
324 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
325 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
326 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
327 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
328 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
329 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
330 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
331 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
332 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
333 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
334 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
340 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
341 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
342 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
343 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
344 can be added on the fly.
345 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
350 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
352 * fixes to a few other buglets
353 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
354 folks who love bb :-)
355 * fixes to various plugins
356 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
357 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
358 Fix bug joining channels with keys
362 * better "connect failure" error message
363 * better option parsing, and --debug option
364 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
366 ./rbot.rb --help core
367 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
368 * Fix broken help from last point release
369 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
370 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
371 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
372 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
373 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
374 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
375 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
377 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
381 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
385 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
387 * rdoc documentation!
388 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
389 form of "foo" (lost the .)
390 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
394 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
395 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
396 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
398 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
400 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
401 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
402 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
406 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
407 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
411 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
412 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
413 * fix searchquote regexp
414 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
415 which is for master auth.
419 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
420 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
421 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
423 * more language breadth
424 * Addressing works better now
425 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
426 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5