1 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
4 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
5 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
6 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
7 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
9 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
11 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
12 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
13 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
14 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
15 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
16 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
19 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
21 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
22 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
23 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
24 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
25 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
26 @socket.select not having a timeout.
28 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
30 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
32 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
34 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
35 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
36 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
38 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
40 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
41 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
42 serve normally without excessive delays.
44 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
46 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
47 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
48 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
49 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
50 stage if they cache the parse result.
52 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
54 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
55 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
57 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
59 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
61 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
63 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
64 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
65 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
66 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
67 * Language stuff: italian translations
68 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
69 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
70 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
73 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
75 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
76 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
77 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
78 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
80 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
82 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
83 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
85 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
87 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
89 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
90 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
92 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
94 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
95 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
96 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
97 internal cleanups while we're at it.
99 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
101 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
102 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
103 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
104 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
105 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
107 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
109 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
110 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
111 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
112 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
113 remind :user [about] *stuff
115 remind me about washing my teeth
117 remind me washing my teeth
118 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
119 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
120 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
121 :defaults hash for the message map options.
122 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
123 Not permitted by default.
125 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
127 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
129 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
131 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
133 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
134 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
135 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
136 handled specifically.
138 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
140 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
142 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
143 It's a RuntimeError now.
144 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
145 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
146 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
147 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
148 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
149 equality test when checking for the username during login.
150 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
153 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
155 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
157 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
159 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
160 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
161 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
162 have permission to do what they asked for.
163 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
164 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
165 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
166 like this as default.
168 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
170 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
171 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
172 in the first channel in the list of channels.
173 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
174 username=, not name=.
175 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
176 status and number of users.
178 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
180 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
181 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
182 to kick a user from a channel
183 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
184 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
185 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
186 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
187 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
188 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
190 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
192 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
193 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
194 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
195 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
196 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
197 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
198 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
199 connections to be implemented more easily
200 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
201 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
202 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
204 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
205 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
206 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
207 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
208 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
209 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
210 command-path-based mechanism.
212 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
215 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
216 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
217 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
218 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
219 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
220 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
221 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
222 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
224 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
226 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
227 * Fixed trap() for win32
229 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
231 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
232 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
234 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
236 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
238 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
240 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
241 * Threat (US threat level :P)
242 * bash (bash.org quotes)
244 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
246 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
247 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
248 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
249 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
250 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
252 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
254 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
256 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
258 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
260 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
262 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
264 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
265 * quit message for restart
267 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
269 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
271 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
275 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
277 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
279 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
281 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
282 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
283 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
284 * finish fixing the httputil
286 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
288 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
289 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
291 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
293 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
294 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
295 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
296 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
297 values whenever it's queried.
298 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
299 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
300 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
303 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
305 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
307 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
309 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
310 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
313 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
315 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
316 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
317 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
319 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
321 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
322 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
323 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
325 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
328 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
330 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
331 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
332 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
333 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
335 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
337 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
338 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
339 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
340 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
342 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
344 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
345 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
346 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
347 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
348 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
349 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
350 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
353 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
355 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
356 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
357 * reworking the config system key names
358 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
359 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
360 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
361 bot's language at runtime.
362 * various other fixes
363 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
364 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
365 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
366 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
367 def MyPlugin < Plugin
372 def complexfoo(m, params)
373 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
376 plugin = MyPlugin.new
380 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
381 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
382 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
383 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
384 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
385 # you can also gobble up into an array
386 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
387 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
388 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
391 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
393 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
394 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
395 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
396 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
398 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
400 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
401 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
402 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
404 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
406 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
407 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
408 according to bot config.
410 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
412 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
413 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
414 * New feature: karmastats
416 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
418 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
419 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
421 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
422 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
423 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
424 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
425 interfere with other plugin commands.
427 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
429 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
431 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
435 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
437 * fixed insult plugin
438 * fixed excuse plugin
440 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
442 * searching for urls in the url plugin
443 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
445 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
447 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
448 working so I guess it changed again since then
449 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
451 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
453 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
455 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
456 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
457 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
459 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
464 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
468 * various plugin updates
469 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
470 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
471 changes and related information
474 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
475 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
476 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
477 * status command returns some bot status
479 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
480 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
481 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
482 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
483 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
484 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
485 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
486 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
487 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
490 * plugin object registry
491 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
492 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
493 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
494 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
498 @registry[:blah] = blah
499 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
500 can access the blah object as it was, with:
501 blah = @registry[:blah]
502 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
503 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
506 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
507 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
508 example (in your plugin):
519 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
520 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
521 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
523 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
524 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
525 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
526 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
527 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
528 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
529 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
530 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
531 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
532 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
534 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
535 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
536 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
538 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
539 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
540 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
541 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
542 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
543 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
545 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
547 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
548 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
549 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
551 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
552 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
553 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
554 original infobot math module)
555 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
556 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
557 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
558 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
559 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
560 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
561 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
562 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
564 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
565 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
566 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
567 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
568 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
569 imported and merged into the database.
570 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
571 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
573 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
577 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
578 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
579 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
580 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
581 not intended and should be fixed now
582 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
583 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
584 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
585 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
586 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
587 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
588 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
589 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
590 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
591 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
592 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
593 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
594 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
595 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
601 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
602 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
603 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
604 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
605 can be added on the fly.
606 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
611 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
613 * fixes to a few other buglets
614 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
615 folks who love bb :-)
616 * fixes to various plugins
617 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
618 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
619 Fix bug joining channels with keys
623 * better "connect failure" error message
624 * better option parsing, and --debug option
625 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
627 ./rbot.rb --help core
628 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
629 * Fix broken help from last point release
630 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
631 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
632 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
633 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
634 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
635 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
636 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
638 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
642 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
646 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
648 * rdoc documentation!
649 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
650 form of "foo" (lost the .)
651 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
655 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
656 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
657 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
659 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
661 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
662 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
663 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
667 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
668 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
672 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
673 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
674 * fix searchquote regexp
675 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
676 which is for master auth.
680 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
681 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
682 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
684 * more language breadth
685 * Addressing works better now
686 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
687 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5