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