1 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
4 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
6 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
7 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
8 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
9 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
10 interfere with other plugin commands.
12 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
14 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
16 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
20 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
25 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
27 * searching for urls in the url plugin
28 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
30 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
32 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
33 working so I guess it changed again since then
34 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
36 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
38 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
40 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
41 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
42 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
44 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
49 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
53 * various plugin updates
54 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
55 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
56 changes and related information
59 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
60 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
61 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
62 * status command returns some bot status
64 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
65 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
66 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
67 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
68 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
69 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
70 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
71 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
72 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
75 * plugin object registry
76 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
77 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
78 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
79 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
83 @registry[:blah] = blah
84 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
85 can access the blah object as it was, with:
86 blah = @registry[:blah]
87 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
88 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
91 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
92 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
93 example (in your plugin):
104 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
105 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
106 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
108 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
109 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
110 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
111 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
112 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
113 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
114 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
115 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
116 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
117 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
119 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
120 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
121 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
123 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
124 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
125 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
126 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
127 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
128 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
130 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
132 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
133 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
134 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
136 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
137 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
138 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
139 original infobot math module)
140 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
141 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
142 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
143 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
144 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
145 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
146 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
147 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
149 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
150 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
151 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
152 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
153 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
154 imported and merged into the database.
155 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
156 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
158 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
162 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
163 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
164 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
165 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
166 not intended and should be fixed now
167 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
168 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
169 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
170 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
171 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
172 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
173 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
174 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
175 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
176 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
177 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
178 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
179 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
180 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
186 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
187 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
188 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
189 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
190 can be added on the fly.
191 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
196 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
198 * fixes to a few other buglets
199 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
200 folks who love bb :-)
201 * fixes to various plugins
202 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
203 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
204 Fix bug joining channels with keys
208 * better "connect failure" error message
209 * better option parsing, and --debug option
210 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
212 ./rbot.rb --help core
213 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
214 * Fix broken help from last point release
215 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
216 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
217 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
218 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
219 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
220 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
221 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
223 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
227 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
231 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
233 * rdoc documentation!
234 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
235 form of "foo" (lost the .)
236 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
240 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
241 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
242 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
244 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
246 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
247 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
248 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
252 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
253 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
257 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
258 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
259 * fix searchquote regexp
260 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
261 which is for master auth.
265 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
266 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
267 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
269 * more language breadth
270 * Addressing works better now
271 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
272 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5