1 2007-02-05 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * sendmsg improvements: the bot sendmsg() method and all the methods
4 that rely on it (say(), notice(), and message methods such as reply())
5 now accept an option hash to customize its behaviour.
6 * :newlines, which can be set to either :split or :join,
7 depending on whether newlines in messages should be used as
8 split-points, or should be be replaced by some string (defined
9 in the :join_with option)
10 * :max_lines, which determines the maximum number of lines to be
11 sent by each messages. Last line is truncated (see next
12 options). Set to nil to have no limits.
13 * :overlong, which determines the behaviour when overlong lines
14 are to be sent; possible values are :split or :truncate.
15 * If :overlong is set to :split, :split_at determines the
16 string/regexp to split at; default is /\s+/, other usual
17 choice could be /\s+\|\s+/.
18 * If :overlong is set to :split, the :purge_split option
19 determines whether the :split_at expression should be removed
20 from the next lines (defaults to true).
21 * If :overlong is set to :truncate, the value of the option
22 :truncate_text is replaced at the end of the truncated line
24 2007-02-03 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
26 * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
27 When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
28 capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
29 assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
30 regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
31 the requirement should be in the form
32 [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
35 :regexp => /some regexp/,
36 :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
38 and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
39 If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
40 value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
41 regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
42 /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
43 When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
44 to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
45 necessary to have single spaces.
47 2007-02-02 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
49 * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements
50 hash) are now embedded in the regular expression matcher rather than
51 being cheked separately afterwards.
53 2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
55 * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
56 now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
59 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
61 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
62 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
63 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
64 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
65 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
67 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
69 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
70 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
71 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
72 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
73 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
74 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
77 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
79 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
80 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
81 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
82 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
83 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
84 @socket.select not having a timeout.
86 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
88 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
90 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
92 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
93 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
94 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
96 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
98 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
99 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
100 serve normally without excessive delays.
102 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
104 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
105 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
106 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
107 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
108 stage if they cache the parse result.
110 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
112 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
113 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
115 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
117 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
119 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
121 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
122 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
123 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
124 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
125 * Language stuff: italian translations
126 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
127 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
128 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
131 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
133 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
134 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
135 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
136 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
138 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
140 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
141 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
143 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
145 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
147 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
148 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
150 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
152 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
153 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
154 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
155 internal cleanups while we're at it.
157 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
159 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
160 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
161 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
162 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
163 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
165 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
167 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
168 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
169 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
170 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
171 remind :user [about] *stuff
173 remind me about washing my teeth
175 remind me washing my teeth
176 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
177 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
178 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
179 :defaults hash for the message map options.
180 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
181 Not permitted by default.
183 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
185 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
187 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
189 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
191 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
192 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
193 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
194 handled specifically.
196 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
198 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
200 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
201 It's a RuntimeError now.
202 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
203 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
204 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
205 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
206 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
207 equality test when checking for the username during login.
208 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
211 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
213 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
215 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
217 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
218 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
219 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
220 have permission to do what they asked for.
221 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
222 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
223 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
224 like this as default.
226 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
228 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
229 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
230 in the first channel in the list of channels.
231 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
232 username=, not name=.
233 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
234 status and number of users.
236 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
238 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
239 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
240 to kick a user from a channel
241 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
242 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
243 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
244 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
245 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
246 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
248 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
250 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
251 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
252 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
253 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
254 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
255 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
256 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
257 connections to be implemented more easily
258 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
259 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
260 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
262 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
263 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
264 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
265 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
266 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
267 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
268 command-path-based mechanism.
270 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
273 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
274 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
275 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
276 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
277 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
278 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
279 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
280 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
282 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
284 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
285 * Fixed trap() for win32
287 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
289 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
290 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
292 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
294 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
296 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
298 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
299 * Threat (US threat level :P)
300 * bash (bash.org quotes)
302 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
304 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
305 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
306 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
307 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
308 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
310 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
312 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
314 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
316 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
318 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
320 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
322 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
323 * quit message for restart
325 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
327 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
329 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
333 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
335 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
337 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
339 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
340 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
341 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
342 * finish fixing the httputil
344 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
346 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
347 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
349 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
351 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
352 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
353 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
354 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
355 values whenever it's queried.
356 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
357 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
358 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
361 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
363 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
365 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
367 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
368 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
371 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
373 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
374 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
375 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
377 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
379 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
380 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
381 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
383 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
386 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
388 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
389 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
390 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
391 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
393 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
395 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
396 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
397 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
398 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
400 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
402 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
403 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
404 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
405 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
406 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
407 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
408 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
411 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
413 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
414 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
415 * reworking the config system key names
416 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
417 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
418 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
419 bot's language at runtime.
420 * various other fixes
421 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
422 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
423 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
424 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
425 def MyPlugin < Plugin
430 def complexfoo(m, params)
431 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
434 plugin = MyPlugin.new
438 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
439 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
440 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
441 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
442 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
443 # you can also gobble up into an array
444 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
445 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
446 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
449 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
451 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
452 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
453 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
454 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
456 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
458 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
459 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
460 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
462 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
464 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
465 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
466 according to bot config.
468 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
470 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
471 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
472 * New feature: karmastats
474 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
476 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
477 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
479 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
480 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
481 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
482 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
483 interfere with other plugin commands.
485 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
487 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
489 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
493 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
495 * fixed insult plugin
496 * fixed excuse plugin
498 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
500 * searching for urls in the url plugin
501 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
503 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
505 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
506 working so I guess it changed again since then
507 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
509 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
511 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
513 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
514 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
515 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
517 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
522 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
526 * various plugin updates
527 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
528 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
529 changes and related information
532 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
533 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
534 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
535 * status command returns some bot status
537 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
538 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
539 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
540 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
541 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
542 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
543 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
544 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
545 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
548 * plugin object registry
549 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
550 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
551 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
552 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
556 @registry[:blah] = blah
557 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
558 can access the blah object as it was, with:
559 blah = @registry[:blah]
560 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
561 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
564 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
565 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
566 example (in your plugin):
577 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
578 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
579 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
581 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
582 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
583 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
584 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
585 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
586 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
587 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
588 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
589 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
590 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
592 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
593 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
594 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
596 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
597 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
598 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
599 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
600 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
601 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
603 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
605 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
606 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
607 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
609 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
610 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
611 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
612 original infobot math module)
613 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
614 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
615 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
616 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
617 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
618 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
619 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
620 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
622 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
623 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
624 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
625 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
626 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
627 imported and merged into the database.
628 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
629 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
631 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
635 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
636 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
637 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
638 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
639 not intended and should be fixed now
640 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
641 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
642 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
643 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
644 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
645 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
646 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
647 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
648 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
649 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
650 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
651 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
652 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
653 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
659 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
660 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
661 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
662 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
663 can be added on the fly.
664 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
669 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
671 * fixes to a few other buglets
672 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
673 folks who love bb :-)
674 * fixes to various plugins
675 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
676 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
677 Fix bug joining channels with keys
681 * better "connect failure" error message
682 * better option parsing, and --debug option
683 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
685 ./rbot.rb --help core
686 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
687 * Fix broken help from last point release
688 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
689 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
690 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
691 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
692 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
693 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
694 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
696 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
700 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
704 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
706 * rdoc documentation!
707 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
708 form of "foo" (lost the .)
709 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
713 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
714 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
715 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
717 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
719 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
720 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
721 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
725 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
726 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
730 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
731 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
732 * fix searchquote regexp
733 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
734 which is for master auth.
738 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
739 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
740 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
742 * more language breadth
743 * Addressing works better now
744 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
745 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5