1 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
6 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
8 * searching for urls in the url plugin
9 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
11 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
13 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
14 working so I guess it changed again since then
15 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
17 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
19 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
21 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
22 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
23 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
25 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
30 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
34 * various plugin updates
35 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
36 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
37 changes and related information
40 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
41 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
42 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
43 * status command returns some bot status
45 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
46 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
47 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
48 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
49 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
50 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
51 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
52 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
53 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
56 * plugin object registry
57 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
58 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
59 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
60 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
64 @registry[:blah] = blah
65 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
66 can access the blah object as it was, with:
67 blah = @registry[:blah]
68 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
69 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
72 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
73 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
74 example (in your plugin):
85 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
86 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
87 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
89 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
90 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
91 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
92 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
93 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
94 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
95 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
96 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
97 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
98 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
100 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
101 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
102 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
104 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
105 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
106 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
107 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
108 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
109 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
111 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
113 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
114 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
115 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
117 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
118 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
119 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
120 original infobot math module)
121 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
122 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
123 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
124 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
125 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
126 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
127 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
128 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
130 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
131 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
132 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
133 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
134 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
135 imported and merged into the database.
136 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
137 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
139 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
143 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
144 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
145 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
146 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
147 not intended and should be fixed now
148 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
149 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
150 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
151 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
152 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
153 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
154 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
155 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
156 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
157 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
158 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
159 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
160 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
161 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
167 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
168 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
169 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
170 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
171 can be added on the fly.
172 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
177 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
179 * fixes to a few other buglets
180 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
181 folks who love bb :-)
182 * fixes to various plugins
183 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
184 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
185 Fix bug joining channels with keys
189 * better "connect failure" error message
190 * better option parsing, and --debug option
191 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
193 ./rbot.rb --help core
194 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
195 * Fix broken help from last point release
196 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
197 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
198 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
199 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
200 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
201 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
202 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
204 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
208 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
212 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
214 * rdoc documentation!
215 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
216 form of "foo" (lost the .)
217 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
221 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
222 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
223 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
225 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
227 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
228 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
229 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
233 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
234 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
238 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
239 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
240 * fix searchquote regexp
241 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
242 which is for master auth.
246 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
247 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
248 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
250 * more language breadth
251 * Addressing works better now
252 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
253 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5