1 2007-02-18 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Plugin: Provide a plugin.header file with boilerplate plugin
4 title/author/copyright/license information. Authors of new plugins are
5 encouraged to use it. Many existing plugins have been changed to
7 * NickServ plugin: delegate #identified() to other plugins after
8 successfull identification. Also provide #identified?() method to test
9 if the bot has successfully identified. Not perfect yet (gets reset
12 2007-02-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
14 * Plugin: new unreplied() method to handle PRIVMSGs which have not
16 * Regexp: more regexp madness. BasicUserMessage and derivate classes
17 now have a new method parse_channel_list() to parse list of channel
20 2007-02-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
22 * Remote Service Provider: from an idea by halorgium <rbot@spork.in>,
23 initial steps towards a DRb-based remote service provider for rbot.
24 When complete, it will give plugins the ability to listen to
25 'messages' from remote clients connected to the bot, allowing for such
26 things as svn notification without RSS polling, remote control of
27 the bot, or even (why not?) botnets.
28 * Remote Service Provider: BotModules can now include the
29 RemoteBotModule interface that provides them with the remote_map()
30 method that works just like the map() method, but for remote commands
31 * Remote Service Provider: Remote clients can now login remotely
32 before executing commands. This in fact integrates the remote access
33 auth security with the User/BotUser used on IRC itself.
35 2007-02-08 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
37 * Languages: Japanese support with language files, salutations, larts
38 and praises, thanks to hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
40 2007-02-05 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
42 * sendmsg improvements: the bot sendmsg() method and all the methods
43 that rely on it (say(), notice(), and message methods such as reply())
44 now accept an option hash to customize its behaviour.
45 * :newlines, which can be set to either :split or :join,
46 depending on whether newlines in messages should be used as
47 split-points, or should be be replaced by some string (defined
48 in the :join_with option)
49 * :max_lines, which determines the maximum number of lines to be
50 sent by each messages. Last line is truncated (see next
51 options). Set to nil to have no limits.
52 * :overlong, which determines the behaviour when overlong lines
53 are to be sent; possible values are :split or :truncate.
54 * If :overlong is set to :split, :split_at determines the
55 string/regexp to split at; default is /\s+/, other usual
56 choice could be /\s+\|\s+/.
57 * If :overlong is set to :split, the :purge_split option
58 determines whether the :split_at expression should be removed
59 from the next lines (defaults to true).
60 * If :overlong is set to :truncate, the value of the option
61 :truncate_text is replaced at the end of the truncated line
62 * LinkBot plugin: initial commit of a plugin to handle messages from
63 eggdrops and other bots that act as cross-network channel links.
64 Suggested by hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
67 2007-02-03 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
69 * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
70 When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
71 capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
72 assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
73 regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
74 the requirement should be in the form
75 [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
78 :regexp => /some regexp/,
79 :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
81 and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
82 If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
83 value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
84 regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
85 /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
86 When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
87 to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
88 necessary to have single spaces.
90 2007-02-02 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
92 * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements
93 hash) are now embedded in the regular expression matcher rather than
94 being cheked separately afterwards.
96 2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
98 * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
99 now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
102 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
104 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
105 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
106 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
107 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
108 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
110 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
112 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
113 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
114 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
115 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
116 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
117 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
120 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
122 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
123 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
124 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
125 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
126 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
127 @socket.select not having a timeout.
129 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
131 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
133 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
135 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
136 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
137 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
139 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
141 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
142 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
143 serve normally without excessive delays.
145 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
147 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
148 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
149 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
150 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
151 stage if they cache the parse result.
153 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
155 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
156 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
158 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
160 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
162 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
164 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
165 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
166 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
167 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
168 * Language stuff: italian translations
169 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
170 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
171 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
174 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
176 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
177 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
178 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
179 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
181 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
183 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
184 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
186 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
188 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
190 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
191 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
193 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
195 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
196 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
197 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
198 internal cleanups while we're at it.
200 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
202 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
203 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
204 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
205 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
206 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
208 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
210 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
211 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
212 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
213 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
214 remind :user [about] *stuff
216 remind me about washing my teeth
218 remind me washing my teeth
219 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
220 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
221 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
222 :defaults hash for the message map options.
223 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
224 Not permitted by default.
226 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
228 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
230 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
232 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
234 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
235 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
236 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
237 handled specifically.
239 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
241 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
243 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
244 It's a RuntimeError now.
245 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
246 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
247 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
248 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
249 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
250 equality test when checking for the username during login.
251 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
254 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
256 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
258 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
260 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
261 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
262 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
263 have permission to do what they asked for.
264 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
265 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
266 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
267 like this as default.
269 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
271 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
272 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
273 in the first channel in the list of channels.
274 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
275 username=, not name=.
276 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
277 status and number of users.
279 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
281 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
282 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
283 to kick a user from a channel
284 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
285 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
286 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
287 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
288 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
289 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
291 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
293 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
294 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
295 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
296 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
297 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
298 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
299 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
300 connections to be implemented more easily
301 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
302 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
303 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
305 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
306 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
307 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
308 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
309 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
310 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
311 command-path-based mechanism.
313 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
316 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
317 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
318 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
319 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
320 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
321 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
322 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
323 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
325 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
327 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
328 * Fixed trap() for win32
330 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
332 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
333 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
335 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
337 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
339 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
341 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
342 * Threat (US threat level :P)
343 * bash (bash.org quotes)
345 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
347 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
348 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
349 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
350 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
351 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
353 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
355 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
357 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
359 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
361 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
363 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
365 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
366 * quit message for restart
368 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
370 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
372 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
376 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
378 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
380 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
382 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
383 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
384 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
385 * finish fixing the httputil
387 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
389 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
390 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
392 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
394 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
395 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
396 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
397 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
398 values whenever it's queried.
399 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
400 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
401 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
404 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
406 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
408 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
410 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
411 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
414 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
416 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
417 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
418 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
420 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
422 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
423 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
424 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
426 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
429 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
431 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
432 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
433 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
434 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
436 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
438 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
439 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
440 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
441 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
443 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
445 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
446 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
447 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
448 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
449 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
450 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
451 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
454 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
456 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
457 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
458 * reworking the config system key names
459 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
460 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
461 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
462 bot's language at runtime.
463 * various other fixes
464 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
465 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
466 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
467 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
468 def MyPlugin < Plugin
473 def complexfoo(m, params)
474 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
477 plugin = MyPlugin.new
481 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
482 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
483 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
484 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
485 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
486 # you can also gobble up into an array
487 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
488 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
489 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
492 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
494 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
495 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
496 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
497 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
499 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
501 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
502 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
503 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
505 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
507 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
508 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
509 according to bot config.
511 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
513 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
514 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
515 * New feature: karmastats
517 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
519 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
520 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
522 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
523 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
524 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
525 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
526 interfere with other plugin commands.
528 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
530 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
532 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
536 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
538 * fixed insult plugin
539 * fixed excuse plugin
541 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
543 * searching for urls in the url plugin
544 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
546 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
548 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
549 working so I guess it changed again since then
550 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
552 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
554 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
556 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
557 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
558 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
560 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
565 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
569 * various plugin updates
570 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
571 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
572 changes and related information
575 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
576 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
577 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
578 * status command returns some bot status
580 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
581 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
582 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
583 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
584 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
585 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
586 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
587 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
588 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
591 * plugin object registry
592 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
593 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
594 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
595 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
599 @registry[:blah] = blah
600 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
601 can access the blah object as it was, with:
602 blah = @registry[:blah]
603 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
604 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
607 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
608 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
609 example (in your plugin):
620 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
621 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
622 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
624 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
625 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
626 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
627 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
628 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
629 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
630 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
631 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
632 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
633 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
635 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
636 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
637 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
639 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
640 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
641 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
642 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
643 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
644 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
646 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
648 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
649 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
650 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
652 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
653 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
654 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
655 original infobot math module)
656 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
657 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
658 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
659 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
660 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
661 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
662 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
663 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
665 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
666 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
667 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
668 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
669 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
670 imported and merged into the database.
671 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
672 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
674 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
678 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
679 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
680 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
681 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
682 not intended and should be fixed now
683 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
684 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
685 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
686 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
687 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
688 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
689 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
690 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
691 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
692 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
693 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
694 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
695 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
696 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
702 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
703 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
704 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
705 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
706 can be added on the fly.
707 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
712 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
714 * fixes to a few other buglets
715 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
716 folks who love bb :-)
717 * fixes to various plugins
718 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
719 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
720 Fix bug joining channels with keys
724 * better "connect failure" error message
725 * better option parsing, and --debug option
726 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
728 ./rbot.rb --help core
729 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
730 * Fix broken help from last point release
731 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
732 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
733 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
734 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
735 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
736 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
737 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
739 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
743 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
747 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
749 * rdoc documentation!
750 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
751 form of "foo" (lost the .)
752 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
756 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
757 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
758 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
760 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
762 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
763 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
764 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
768 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
769 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
773 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
774 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
775 * fix searchquote regexp
776 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
777 which is for master auth.
781 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
782 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
783 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
785 * more language breadth
786 * Addressing works better now
787 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
788 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5