1 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
5 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
6 It's a RuntimeError now.
7 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
8 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
10 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
12 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
14 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
16 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
17 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
18 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
19 have permission to do what they asked for.
20 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
21 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
22 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
25 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
27 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
28 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
29 in the first channel in the list of channels.
30 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
32 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
33 status and number of users.
35 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
37 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
38 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
39 to kick a user from a channel
40 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
41 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
42 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
43 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
44 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
45 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
47 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
49 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
50 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
51 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
52 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
53 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
54 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
55 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
56 connections to be implemented more easily
57 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
58 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
59 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
61 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
62 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
63 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
64 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
65 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
66 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
67 command-path-based mechanism.
69 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
72 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
73 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
74 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
75 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
76 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
77 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
78 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
79 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
81 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
83 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
84 * Fixed trap() for win32
86 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
88 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
89 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
91 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
93 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
95 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
97 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
98 * Threat (US threat level :P)
99 * bash (bash.org quotes)
101 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
103 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
104 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
105 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
106 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
107 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
109 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
111 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
113 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
115 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
117 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
119 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
121 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
122 * quit message for restart
124 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
126 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
128 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
132 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
134 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
136 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
138 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
139 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
140 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
141 * finish fixing the httputil
143 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
145 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
146 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
148 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
150 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
151 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
152 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
153 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
154 values whenever it's queried.
155 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
156 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
157 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
160 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
162 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
164 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
166 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
167 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
170 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
172 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
173 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
174 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
176 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
178 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
179 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
180 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
182 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
185 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
187 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
188 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
189 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
190 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
192 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
194 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
195 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
196 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
197 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
199 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
201 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
202 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
203 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
204 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
205 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
206 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
207 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
210 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
212 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
213 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
214 * reworking the config system key names
215 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
216 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
217 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
218 bot's language at runtime.
219 * various other fixes
220 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
221 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
222 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
223 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
224 def MyPlugin < Plugin
229 def complexfoo(m, params)
230 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
233 plugin = MyPlugin.new
237 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
238 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
239 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
240 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
241 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
242 # you can also gobble up into an array
243 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
244 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
245 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
248 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
250 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
251 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
252 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
253 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
255 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
257 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
258 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
259 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
261 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
263 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
264 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
265 according to bot config.
267 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
269 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
270 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
271 * New feature: karmastats
273 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
275 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
276 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
278 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
279 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
280 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
281 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
282 interfere with other plugin commands.
284 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
286 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
288 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
292 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
294 * fixed insult plugin
295 * fixed excuse plugin
297 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
299 * searching for urls in the url plugin
300 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
302 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
304 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
305 working so I guess it changed again since then
306 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
308 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
310 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
312 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
313 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
314 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
316 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
321 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
325 * various plugin updates
326 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
327 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
328 changes and related information
331 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
332 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
333 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
334 * status command returns some bot status
336 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
337 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
338 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
339 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
340 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
341 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
342 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
343 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
344 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
347 * plugin object registry
348 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
349 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
350 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
351 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
355 @registry[:blah] = blah
356 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
357 can access the blah object as it was, with:
358 blah = @registry[:blah]
359 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
360 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
363 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
364 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
365 example (in your plugin):
376 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
377 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
378 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
380 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
381 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
382 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
383 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
384 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
385 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
386 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
387 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
388 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
389 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
391 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
392 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
393 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
395 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
396 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
397 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
398 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
399 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
400 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
402 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
404 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
405 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
406 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
408 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
409 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
410 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
411 original infobot math module)
412 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
413 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
414 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
415 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
416 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
417 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
418 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
419 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
421 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
422 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
423 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
424 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
425 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
426 imported and merged into the database.
427 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
428 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
430 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
434 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
435 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
436 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
437 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
438 not intended and should be fixed now
439 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
440 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
441 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
442 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
443 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
444 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
445 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
446 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
447 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
448 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
449 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
450 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
451 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
452 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
458 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
459 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
460 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
461 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
462 can be added on the fly.
463 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
468 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
470 * fixes to a few other buglets
471 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
472 folks who love bb :-)
473 * fixes to various plugins
474 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
475 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
476 Fix bug joining channels with keys
480 * better "connect failure" error message
481 * better option parsing, and --debug option
482 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
484 ./rbot.rb --help core
485 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
486 * Fix broken help from last point release
487 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
488 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
489 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
490 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
491 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
492 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
493 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
495 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
499 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
503 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
505 * rdoc documentation!
506 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
507 form of "foo" (lost the .)
508 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
512 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
513 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
514 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
516 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
518 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
519 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
520 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
524 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
525 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
529 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
530 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
531 * fix searchquote regexp
532 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
533 which is for master auth.
537 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
538 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
539 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
541 * more language breadth
542 * Addressing works better now
543 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
544 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5