1 2007-02-03 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
4 When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
5 capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
6 assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
7 regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
8 the requirement should be in the form
9 [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
12 :regexp => /some regexp/,
13 :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
15 and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
16 If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
17 value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
18 regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
19 /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
20 When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
21 to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
22 necessary to have single spaces.
24 2007-02-02 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
26 * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements
27 hash) are now embedded in the regular expression matcher rather than
28 being cheked separately afterwards.
30 2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
32 * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
33 now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
36 2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
38 * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
39 any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
40 @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
41 where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
42 created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
44 2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
46 * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
47 their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
48 operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
49 of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
50 the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
51 before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
54 2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
56 * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
57 the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
58 PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
59 PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
60 doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
61 @socket.select not having a timeout.
63 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
65 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
67 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
69 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
70 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
71 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
73 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
75 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
76 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
77 serve normally without excessive delays.
79 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
81 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
82 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
83 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
84 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
85 stage if they cache the parse result.
87 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
89 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
90 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
92 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
94 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
96 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
98 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
99 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
100 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
101 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
102 * Language stuff: italian translations
103 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
104 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
105 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
108 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
110 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
111 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
112 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
113 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
115 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
117 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
118 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
120 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
122 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
124 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
125 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
127 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
129 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
130 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
131 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
132 internal cleanups while we're at it.
134 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
136 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
137 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
138 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
139 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
140 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
142 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
144 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
145 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
146 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
147 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
148 remind :user [about] *stuff
150 remind me about washing my teeth
152 remind me washing my teeth
153 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
154 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
155 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
156 :defaults hash for the message map options.
157 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
158 Not permitted by default.
160 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
162 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
164 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
166 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
168 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
169 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
170 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
171 handled specifically.
173 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
175 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
177 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
178 It's a RuntimeError now.
179 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
180 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
181 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
182 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
183 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
184 equality test when checking for the username during login.
185 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
188 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
190 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
192 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
194 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
195 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
196 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
197 have permission to do what they asked for.
198 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
199 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
200 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
201 like this as default.
203 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
205 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
206 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
207 in the first channel in the list of channels.
208 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
209 username=, not name=.
210 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
211 status and number of users.
213 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
215 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
216 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
217 to kick a user from a channel
218 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
219 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
220 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
221 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
222 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
223 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
225 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
227 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
228 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
229 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
230 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
231 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
232 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
233 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
234 connections to be implemented more easily
235 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
236 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
237 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
239 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
240 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
241 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
242 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
243 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
244 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
245 command-path-based mechanism.
247 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
250 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
251 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
252 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
253 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
254 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
255 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
256 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
257 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
259 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
261 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
262 * Fixed trap() for win32
264 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
266 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
267 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
269 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
271 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
273 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
275 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
276 * Threat (US threat level :P)
277 * bash (bash.org quotes)
279 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
281 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
282 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
283 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
284 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
285 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
287 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
289 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
291 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
293 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
295 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
297 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
299 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
300 * quit message for restart
302 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
304 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
306 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
310 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
312 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
314 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
316 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
317 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
318 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
319 * finish fixing the httputil
321 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
323 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
324 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
326 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
328 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
329 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
330 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
331 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
332 values whenever it's queried.
333 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
334 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
335 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
338 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
340 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
342 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
344 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
345 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
348 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
350 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
351 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
352 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
354 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
356 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
357 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
358 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
360 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
363 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
365 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
366 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
367 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
368 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
370 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
372 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
373 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
374 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
375 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
377 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
379 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
380 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
381 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
382 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
383 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
384 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
385 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
388 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
390 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
391 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
392 * reworking the config system key names
393 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
394 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
395 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
396 bot's language at runtime.
397 * various other fixes
398 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
399 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
400 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
401 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
402 def MyPlugin < Plugin
407 def complexfoo(m, params)
408 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
411 plugin = MyPlugin.new
415 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
416 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
417 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
418 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
419 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
420 # you can also gobble up into an array
421 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
422 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
423 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
426 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
428 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
429 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
430 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
431 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
433 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
435 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
436 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
437 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
439 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
441 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
442 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
443 according to bot config.
445 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
447 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
448 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
449 * New feature: karmastats
451 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
453 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
454 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
456 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
457 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
458 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
459 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
460 interfere with other plugin commands.
462 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
464 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
466 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
470 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
472 * fixed insult plugin
473 * fixed excuse plugin
475 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
477 * searching for urls in the url plugin
478 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
480 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
482 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
483 working so I guess it changed again since then
484 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
486 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
488 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
490 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
491 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
492 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
494 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
499 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
503 * various plugin updates
504 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
505 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
506 changes and related information
509 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
510 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
511 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
512 * status command returns some bot status
514 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
515 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
516 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
517 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
518 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
519 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
520 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
521 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
522 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
525 * plugin object registry
526 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
527 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
528 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
529 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
533 @registry[:blah] = blah
534 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
535 can access the blah object as it was, with:
536 blah = @registry[:blah]
537 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
538 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
541 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
542 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
543 example (in your plugin):
554 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
555 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
556 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
558 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
559 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
560 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
561 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
562 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
563 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
564 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
565 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
566 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
567 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
569 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
570 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
571 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
573 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
574 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
575 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
576 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
577 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
578 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
580 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
582 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
583 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
584 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
586 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
587 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
588 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
589 original infobot math module)
590 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
591 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
592 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
593 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
594 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
595 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
596 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
597 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
599 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
600 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
601 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
602 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
603 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
604 imported and merged into the database.
605 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
606 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
608 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
612 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
613 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
614 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
615 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
616 not intended and should be fixed now
617 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
618 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
619 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
620 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
621 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
622 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
623 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
624 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
625 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
626 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
627 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
628 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
629 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
630 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
636 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
637 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
638 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
639 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
640 can be added on the fly.
641 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
646 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
648 * fixes to a few other buglets
649 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
650 folks who love bb :-)
651 * fixes to various plugins
652 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
653 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
654 Fix bug joining channels with keys
658 * better "connect failure" error message
659 * better option parsing, and --debug option
660 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
662 ./rbot.rb --help core
663 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
664 * Fix broken help from last point release
665 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
666 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
667 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
668 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
669 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
670 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
671 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
673 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
677 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
681 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
683 * rdoc documentation!
684 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
685 form of "foo" (lost the .)
686 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
690 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
691 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
692 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
694 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
696 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
697 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
698 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
702 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
703 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
707 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
708 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
709 * fix searchquote regexp
710 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
711 which is for master auth.
715 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
716 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
717 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
719 * more language breadth
720 * Addressing works better now
721 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
722 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5