1 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
4 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
5 serve normally without excessive delays.
7 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
9 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
10 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
11 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
12 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
13 stage if they cache the parse result.
15 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
17 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
18 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
20 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
22 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
24 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
26 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
27 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
28 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
29 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
30 * Language stuff: italian translations
31 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
32 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
33 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
36 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
38 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
39 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
40 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
41 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
43 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
45 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
46 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
48 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
50 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
52 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
53 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
55 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
57 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
58 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
59 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
60 internal cleanups while we're at it.
62 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
64 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
65 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
66 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
67 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
68 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
70 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
72 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
73 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
74 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
75 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
76 remind :user [about] *stuff
78 remind me about washing my teeth
80 remind me washing my teeth
81 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
82 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
83 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
84 :defaults hash for the message map options.
85 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
86 Not permitted by default.
88 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
90 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
92 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
94 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
96 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
97 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
98 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
101 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
103 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
105 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
106 It's a RuntimeError now.
107 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
108 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
109 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
110 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
111 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
112 equality test when checking for the username during login.
113 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
116 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
118 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
120 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
122 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
123 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
124 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
125 have permission to do what they asked for.
126 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
127 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
128 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
129 like this as default.
131 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
133 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
134 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
135 in the first channel in the list of channels.
136 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
137 username=, not name=.
138 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
139 status and number of users.
141 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
143 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
144 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
145 to kick a user from a channel
146 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
147 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
148 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
149 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
150 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
151 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
153 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
155 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
156 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
157 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
158 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
159 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
160 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
161 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
162 connections to be implemented more easily
163 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
164 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
165 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
167 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
168 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
169 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
170 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
171 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
172 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
173 command-path-based mechanism.
175 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
178 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
179 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
180 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
181 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
182 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
183 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
184 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
185 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
187 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
189 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
190 * Fixed trap() for win32
192 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
194 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
195 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
197 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
199 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
201 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
203 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
204 * Threat (US threat level :P)
205 * bash (bash.org quotes)
207 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
209 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
210 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
211 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
212 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
213 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
215 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
217 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
219 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
221 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
223 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
225 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
227 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
228 * quit message for restart
230 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
232 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
234 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
238 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
240 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
242 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
244 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
245 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
246 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
247 * finish fixing the httputil
249 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
251 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
252 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
254 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
256 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
257 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
258 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
259 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
260 values whenever it's queried.
261 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
262 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
263 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
266 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
268 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
270 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
272 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
273 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
276 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
278 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
279 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
280 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
282 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
284 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
285 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
286 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
288 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
291 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
293 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
294 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
295 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
296 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
298 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
300 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
301 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
302 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
303 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
305 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
307 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
308 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
309 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
310 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
311 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
312 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
313 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
316 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
318 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
319 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
320 * reworking the config system key names
321 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
322 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
323 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
324 bot's language at runtime.
325 * various other fixes
326 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
327 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
328 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
329 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
330 def MyPlugin < Plugin
335 def complexfoo(m, params)
336 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
339 plugin = MyPlugin.new
343 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
344 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
345 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
346 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
347 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
348 # you can also gobble up into an array
349 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
350 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
351 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
354 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
356 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
357 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
358 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
359 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
361 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
363 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
364 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
365 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
367 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
369 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
370 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
371 according to bot config.
373 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
375 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
376 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
377 * New feature: karmastats
379 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
381 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
382 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
384 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
385 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
386 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
387 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
388 interfere with other plugin commands.
390 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
392 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
394 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
398 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
400 * fixed insult plugin
401 * fixed excuse plugin
403 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
405 * searching for urls in the url plugin
406 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
408 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
410 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
411 working so I guess it changed again since then
412 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
414 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
416 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
418 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
419 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
420 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
422 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
427 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
431 * various plugin updates
432 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
433 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
434 changes and related information
437 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
438 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
439 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
440 * status command returns some bot status
442 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
443 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
444 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
445 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
446 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
447 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
448 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
449 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
450 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
453 * plugin object registry
454 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
455 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
456 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
457 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
461 @registry[:blah] = blah
462 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
463 can access the blah object as it was, with:
464 blah = @registry[:blah]
465 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
466 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
469 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
470 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
471 example (in your plugin):
482 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
483 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
484 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
486 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
487 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
488 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
489 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
490 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
491 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
492 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
493 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
494 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
495 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
497 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
498 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
499 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
501 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
502 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
503 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
504 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
505 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
506 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
508 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
510 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
511 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
512 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
514 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
515 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
516 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
517 original infobot math module)
518 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
519 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
520 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
521 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
522 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
523 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
524 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
525 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
527 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
528 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
529 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
530 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
531 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
532 imported and merged into the database.
533 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
534 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
536 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
540 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
541 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
542 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
543 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
544 not intended and should be fixed now
545 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
546 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
547 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
548 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
549 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
550 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
551 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
552 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
553 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
554 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
555 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
556 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
557 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
558 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
564 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
565 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
566 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
567 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
568 can be added on the fly.
569 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
574 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
576 * fixes to a few other buglets
577 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
578 folks who love bb :-)
579 * fixes to various plugins
580 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
581 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
582 Fix bug joining channels with keys
586 * better "connect failure" error message
587 * better option parsing, and --debug option
588 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
590 ./rbot.rb --help core
591 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
592 * Fix broken help from last point release
593 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
594 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
595 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
596 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
597 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
598 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
599 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
601 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
605 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
609 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
611 * rdoc documentation!
612 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
613 form of "foo" (lost the .)
614 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
618 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
619 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
620 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
622 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
624 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
625 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
626 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
630 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
631 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
635 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
636 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
637 * fix searchquote regexp
638 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
639 which is for master auth.
643 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
644 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
645 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
647 * more language breadth
648 * Addressing works better now
649 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
650 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5