1 2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
4 now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
7 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
9 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
10 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
11 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
12 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
13 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
15 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
17 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
18 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
19 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
20 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
21 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
22 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
25 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
27 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
28 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
29 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
30 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
31 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
32 @socket.select not having a timeout.
34 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
36 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
38 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
40 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
41 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
42 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
44 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
46 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
47 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
48 serve normally without excessive delays.
50 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
52 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
53 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
54 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
55 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
56 stage if they cache the parse result.
58 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
60 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
61 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
63 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
65 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
67 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
69 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
70 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
71 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
72 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
73 * Language stuff: italian translations
74 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
75 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
76 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
79 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
81 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
82 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
83 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
84 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
86 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
88 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
89 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
91 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
93 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
95 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
96 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
98 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
100 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
101 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
102 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
103 internal cleanups while we're at it.
105 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
107 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
108 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
109 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
110 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
111 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
113 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
115 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
116 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
117 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
118 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
119 remind :user [about] *stuff
121 remind me about washing my teeth
123 remind me washing my teeth
124 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
125 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
126 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
127 :defaults hash for the message map options.
128 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
129 Not permitted by default.
131 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
133 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
135 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
137 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
139 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
140 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
141 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
142 handled specifically.
144 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
146 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
148 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
149 It's a RuntimeError now.
150 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
151 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
152 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
153 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
154 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
155 equality test when checking for the username during login.
156 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
159 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
161 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
163 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
165 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
166 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
167 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
168 have permission to do what they asked for.
169 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
170 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
171 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
172 like this as default.
174 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
176 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
177 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
178 in the first channel in the list of channels.
179 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
180 username=, not name=.
181 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
182 status and number of users.
184 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
186 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
187 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
188 to kick a user from a channel
189 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
190 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
191 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
192 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
193 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
194 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
196 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
198 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
199 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
200 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
201 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
202 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
203 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
204 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
205 connections to be implemented more easily
206 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
207 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
208 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
210 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
211 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
212 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
213 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
214 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
215 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
216 command-path-based mechanism.
218 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
221 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
222 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
223 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
224 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
225 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
226 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
227 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
228 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
230 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
232 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
233 * Fixed trap() for win32
235 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
237 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
238 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
240 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
242 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
244 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
246 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
247 * Threat (US threat level :P)
248 * bash (bash.org quotes)
250 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
252 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
253 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
254 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
255 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
256 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
258 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
260 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
262 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
264 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
266 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
268 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
270 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
271 * quit message for restart
273 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
275 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
277 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
281 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
283 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
285 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
287 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
288 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
289 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
290 * finish fixing the httputil
292 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
294 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
295 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
297 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
299 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
300 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
301 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
302 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
303 values whenever it's queried.
304 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
305 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
306 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
309 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
311 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
313 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
315 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
316 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
319 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
321 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
322 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
323 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
325 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
327 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
328 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
329 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
331 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
334 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
336 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
337 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
338 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
339 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
341 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
343 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
344 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
345 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
346 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
348 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
350 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
351 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
352 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
353 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
354 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
355 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
356 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
359 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
361 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
362 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
363 * reworking the config system key names
364 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
365 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
366 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
367 bot's language at runtime.
368 * various other fixes
369 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
370 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
371 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
372 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
373 def MyPlugin < Plugin
378 def complexfoo(m, params)
379 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
382 plugin = MyPlugin.new
386 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
387 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
388 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
389 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
390 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
391 # you can also gobble up into an array
392 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
393 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
394 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
397 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
399 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
400 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
401 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
402 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
404 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
406 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
407 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
408 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
410 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
412 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
413 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
414 according to bot config.
416 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
418 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
419 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
420 * New feature: karmastats
422 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
424 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
425 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
427 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
428 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
429 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
430 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
431 interfere with other plugin commands.
433 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
435 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
437 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
441 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
443 * fixed insult plugin
444 * fixed excuse plugin
446 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
448 * searching for urls in the url plugin
449 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
451 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
453 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
454 working so I guess it changed again since then
455 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
457 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
459 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
461 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
462 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
463 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
465 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
470 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
474 * various plugin updates
475 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
476 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
477 changes and related information
480 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
481 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
482 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
483 * status command returns some bot status
485 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
486 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
487 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
488 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
489 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
490 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
491 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
492 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
493 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
496 * plugin object registry
497 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
498 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
499 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
500 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
504 @registry[:blah] = blah
505 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
506 can access the blah object as it was, with:
507 blah = @registry[:blah]
508 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
509 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
512 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
513 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
514 example (in your plugin):
525 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
526 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
527 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
529 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
530 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
531 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
532 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
533 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
534 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
535 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
536 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
537 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
538 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
540 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
541 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
542 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
544 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
545 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
546 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
547 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
548 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
549 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
551 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
553 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
554 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
555 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
557 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
558 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
559 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
560 original infobot math module)
561 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
562 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
563 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
564 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
565 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
566 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
567 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
568 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
570 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
571 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
572 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
573 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
574 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
575 imported and merged into the database.
576 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
577 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
579 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
583 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
584 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
585 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
586 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
587 not intended and should be fixed now
588 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
589 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
590 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
591 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
592 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
593 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
594 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
595 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
596 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
597 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
598 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
599 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
600 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
601 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
607 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
608 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
609 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
610 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
611 can be added on the fly.
612 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
617 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
619 * fixes to a few other buglets
620 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
621 folks who love bb :-)
622 * fixes to various plugins
623 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
624 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
625 Fix bug joining channels with keys
629 * better "connect failure" error message
630 * better option parsing, and --debug option
631 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
633 ./rbot.rb --help core
634 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
635 * Fix broken help from last point release
636 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
637 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
638 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
639 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
640 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
641 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
642 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
644 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
648 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
652 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
654 * rdoc documentation!
655 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
656 form of "foo" (lost the .)
657 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
661 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
662 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
663 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
665 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
667 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
668 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
669 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
673 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
674 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
678 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
679 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
680 * fix searchquote regexp
681 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
682 which is for master auth.
686 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
687 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
688 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
690 * more language breadth
691 * Addressing works better now
692 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
693 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5