1 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
4 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
5 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
6 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
7 stage if they cache the parse result.
9 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
11 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
12 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
14 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
16 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
18 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
20 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
21 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
22 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
23 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
24 * Language stuff: italian translations
25 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
26 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
27 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
30 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
32 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
33 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
34 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
35 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
37 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
39 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
40 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
42 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
44 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
46 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
47 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
49 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
51 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
52 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
53 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
54 internal cleanups while we're at it.
56 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
58 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
59 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
60 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
61 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
62 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
64 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
66 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
67 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
68 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
69 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
70 remind :user [about] *stuff
72 remind me about washing my teeth
74 remind me washing my teeth
75 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
76 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
77 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
78 :defaults hash for the message map options.
79 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
80 Not permitted by default.
82 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
84 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
86 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
88 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
90 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
91 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
92 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
95 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
97 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
99 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
100 It's a RuntimeError now.
101 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
102 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
103 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
104 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
105 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
106 equality test when checking for the username during login.
107 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
110 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
112 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
114 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
116 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
117 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
118 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
119 have permission to do what they asked for.
120 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
121 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
122 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
123 like this as default.
125 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
127 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
128 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
129 in the first channel in the list of channels.
130 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
131 username=, not name=.
132 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
133 status and number of users.
135 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
137 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
138 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
139 to kick a user from a channel
140 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
141 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
142 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
143 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
144 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
145 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
147 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
149 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
150 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
151 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
152 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
153 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
154 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
155 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
156 connections to be implemented more easily
157 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
158 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
159 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
161 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
162 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
163 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
164 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
165 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
166 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
167 command-path-based mechanism.
169 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
172 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
173 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
174 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
175 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
176 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
177 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
178 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
179 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
181 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
183 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
184 * Fixed trap() for win32
186 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
188 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
189 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
191 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
193 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
195 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
197 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
198 * Threat (US threat level :P)
199 * bash (bash.org quotes)
201 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
203 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
204 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
205 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
206 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
207 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
209 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
211 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
213 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
215 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
217 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
219 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
221 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
222 * quit message for restart
224 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
226 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
228 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
232 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
234 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
236 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
238 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
239 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
240 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
241 * finish fixing the httputil
243 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
245 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
246 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
248 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
250 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
251 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
252 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
253 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
254 values whenever it's queried.
255 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
256 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
257 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
260 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
262 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
264 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
266 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
267 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
270 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
272 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
273 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
274 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
276 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
278 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
279 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
280 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
282 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
285 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
287 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
288 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
289 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
290 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
292 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
294 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
295 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
296 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
297 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
299 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
301 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
302 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
303 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
304 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
305 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
306 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
307 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
310 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
312 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
313 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
314 * reworking the config system key names
315 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
316 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
317 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
318 bot's language at runtime.
319 * various other fixes
320 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
321 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
322 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
323 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
324 def MyPlugin < Plugin
329 def complexfoo(m, params)
330 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
333 plugin = MyPlugin.new
337 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
338 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
339 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
340 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
341 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
342 # you can also gobble up into an array
343 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
344 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
345 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
348 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
350 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
351 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
352 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
353 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
355 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
357 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
358 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
359 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
361 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
363 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
364 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
365 according to bot config.
367 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
369 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
370 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
371 * New feature: karmastats
373 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
375 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
376 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
378 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
379 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
380 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
381 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
382 interfere with other plugin commands.
384 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
386 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
388 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
392 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
394 * fixed insult plugin
395 * fixed excuse plugin
397 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
399 * searching for urls in the url plugin
400 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
402 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
404 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
405 working so I guess it changed again since then
406 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
408 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
410 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
412 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
413 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
414 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
416 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
421 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
425 * various plugin updates
426 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
427 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
428 changes and related information
431 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
432 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
433 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
434 * status command returns some bot status
436 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
437 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
438 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
439 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
440 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
441 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
442 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
443 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
444 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
447 * plugin object registry
448 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
449 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
450 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
451 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
455 @registry[:blah] = blah
456 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
457 can access the blah object as it was, with:
458 blah = @registry[:blah]
459 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
460 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
463 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
464 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
465 example (in your plugin):
476 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
477 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
478 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
480 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
481 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
482 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
483 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
484 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
485 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
486 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
487 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
488 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
489 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
491 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
492 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
493 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
495 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
496 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
497 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
498 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
499 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
500 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
502 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
504 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
505 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
506 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
508 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
509 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
510 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
511 original infobot math module)
512 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
513 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
514 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
515 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
516 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
517 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
518 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
519 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
521 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
522 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
523 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
524 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
525 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
526 imported and merged into the database.
527 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
528 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
530 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
534 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
535 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
536 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
537 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
538 not intended and should be fixed now
539 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
540 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
541 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
542 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
543 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
544 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
545 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
546 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
547 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
548 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
549 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
550 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
551 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
552 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
558 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
559 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
560 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
561 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
562 can be added on the fly.
563 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
568 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
570 * fixes to a few other buglets
571 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
572 folks who love bb :-)
573 * fixes to various plugins
574 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
575 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
576 Fix bug joining channels with keys
580 * better "connect failure" error message
581 * better option parsing, and --debug option
582 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
584 ./rbot.rb --help core
585 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
586 * Fix broken help from last point release
587 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
588 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
589 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
590 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
591 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
592 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
593 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
595 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
599 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
603 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
605 * rdoc documentation!
606 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
607 form of "foo" (lost the .)
608 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
612 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
613 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
614 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
616 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
618 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
619 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
620 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
624 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
625 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
629 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
630 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
631 * fix searchquote regexp
632 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
633 which is for master auth.
637 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
638 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
639 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
641 * more language breadth
642 * Addressing works better now
643 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
644 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5