1 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
4 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
5 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
6 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
7 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
9 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
11 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
13 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
15 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
17 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
19 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
21 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
22 * quit message for restart
24 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
26 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
28 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
32 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
34 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
36 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
38 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
39 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
40 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
41 * finish fixing the httputil
43 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
45 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
46 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
48 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
50 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
51 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
52 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
53 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
54 values whenever it's queried.
55 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
56 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
57 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
60 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
62 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
64 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
66 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
67 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
70 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
72 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
73 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
74 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
76 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
78 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
79 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
80 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
82 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
85 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
87 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
88 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
89 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
90 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
92 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
94 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
95 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
96 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
97 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
99 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
101 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
102 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
103 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
104 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
105 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
106 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
107 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
110 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
112 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
113 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
114 * reworking the config system key names
115 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
116 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
117 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
118 bot's language at runtime.
119 * various other fixes
120 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
121 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
122 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
123 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
124 def MyPlugin < Plugin
129 def complexfoo(m, params)
130 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
133 plugin = MyPlugin.new
137 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
138 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
139 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
140 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
141 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
142 # you can also gobble up into an array
143 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
144 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
145 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
148 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
150 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
151 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
152 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
153 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
155 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
157 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
158 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
159 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
161 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
163 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
164 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
165 according to bot config.
167 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
169 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
170 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
171 * New feature: karmastats
173 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
175 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
176 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
178 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
179 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
180 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
181 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
182 interfere with other plugin commands.
184 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
186 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
188 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
192 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
194 * fixed insult plugin
195 * fixed excuse plugin
197 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
199 * searching for urls in the url plugin
200 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
202 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
204 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
205 working so I guess it changed again since then
206 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
208 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
210 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
212 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
213 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
214 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
216 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
221 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
225 * various plugin updates
226 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
227 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
228 changes and related information
231 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
232 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
233 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
234 * status command returns some bot status
236 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
237 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
238 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
239 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
240 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
241 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
242 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
243 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
244 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
247 * plugin object registry
248 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
249 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
250 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
251 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
255 @registry[:blah] = blah
256 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
257 can access the blah object as it was, with:
258 blah = @registry[:blah]
259 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
260 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
263 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
264 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
265 example (in your plugin):
276 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
277 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
278 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
280 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
281 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
282 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
283 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
284 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
285 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
286 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
287 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
288 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
289 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
291 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
292 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
293 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
295 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
296 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
297 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
298 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
299 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
300 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
302 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
304 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
305 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
306 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
308 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
309 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
310 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
311 original infobot math module)
312 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
313 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
314 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
315 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
316 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
317 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
318 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
319 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
321 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
322 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
323 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
324 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
325 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
326 imported and merged into the database.
327 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
328 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
330 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
334 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
335 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
336 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
337 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
338 not intended and should be fixed now
339 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
340 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
341 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
342 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
343 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
344 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
345 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
346 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
347 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
348 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
349 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
350 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
351 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
352 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
358 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
359 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
360 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
361 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
362 can be added on the fly.
363 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
368 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
370 * fixes to a few other buglets
371 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
372 folks who love bb :-)
373 * fixes to various plugins
374 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
375 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
376 Fix bug joining channels with keys
380 * better "connect failure" error message
381 * better option parsing, and --debug option
382 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
384 ./rbot.rb --help core
385 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
386 * Fix broken help from last point release
387 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
388 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
389 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
390 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
391 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
392 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
393 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
395 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
399 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
403 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
405 * rdoc documentation!
406 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
407 form of "foo" (lost the .)
408 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
412 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
413 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
414 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
416 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
418 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
419 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
420 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
424 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
425 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
429 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
430 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
431 * fix searchquote regexp
432 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
433 which is for master auth.
437 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
438 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
439 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
441 * more language breadth
442 * Addressing works better now
443 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
444 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5