1 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
4 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
5 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
7 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
10 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
12 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
13 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
14 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
15 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
17 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
19 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
20 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
21 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
22 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
24 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
26 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
27 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
28 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
29 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
30 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
31 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
32 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
35 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
37 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
38 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
39 * reworking the config system key names
40 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
41 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
42 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
43 bot's language at runtime.
45 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
46 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
47 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
48 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
54 def complexfoo(m, params)
55 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
62 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
63 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
64 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
65 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
66 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
67 # you can also gobble up into an array
68 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
69 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
70 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
73 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
75 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
76 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
77 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
78 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
80 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
82 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
83 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
84 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
86 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
88 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
89 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
90 according to bot config.
92 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
94 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
95 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
96 * New feature: karmastats
98 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
100 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
101 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
103 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
104 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
105 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
106 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
107 interfere with other plugin commands.
109 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
111 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
113 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
117 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
119 * fixed insult plugin
120 * fixed excuse plugin
122 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
124 * searching for urls in the url plugin
125 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
127 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
129 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
130 working so I guess it changed again since then
131 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
133 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
135 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
137 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
138 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
139 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
141 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
146 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
150 * various plugin updates
151 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
152 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
153 changes and related information
156 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
157 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
158 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
159 * status command returns some bot status
161 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
162 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
163 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
164 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
165 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
166 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
167 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
168 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
169 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
172 * plugin object registry
173 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
174 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
175 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
176 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
180 @registry[:blah] = blah
181 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
182 can access the blah object as it was, with:
183 blah = @registry[:blah]
184 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
185 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
188 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
189 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
190 example (in your plugin):
201 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
202 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
203 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
205 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
206 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
207 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
208 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
209 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
210 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
211 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
212 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
213 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
214 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
216 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
217 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
218 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
220 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
221 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
222 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
223 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
224 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
225 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
227 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
229 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
230 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
231 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
233 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
234 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
235 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
236 original infobot math module)
237 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
238 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
239 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
240 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
241 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
242 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
243 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
244 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
246 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
247 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
248 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
249 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
250 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
251 imported and merged into the database.
252 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
253 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
255 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
259 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
260 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
261 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
262 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
263 not intended and should be fixed now
264 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
265 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
266 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
267 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
268 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
269 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
270 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
271 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
272 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
273 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
274 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
275 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
276 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
277 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
283 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
284 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
285 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
286 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
287 can be added on the fly.
288 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
293 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
295 * fixes to a few other buglets
296 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
297 folks who love bb :-)
298 * fixes to various plugins
299 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
300 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
301 Fix bug joining channels with keys
305 * better "connect failure" error message
306 * better option parsing, and --debug option
307 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
309 ./rbot.rb --help core
310 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
311 * Fix broken help from last point release
312 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
313 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
314 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
315 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
316 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
317 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
318 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
320 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
324 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
328 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
330 * rdoc documentation!
331 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
332 form of "foo" (lost the .)
333 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
337 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
338 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
339 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
341 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
343 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
344 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
345 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
349 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
350 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
354 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
355 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
356 * fix searchquote regexp
357 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
358 which is for master auth.
362 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
363 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
364 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
366 * more language breadth
367 * Addressing works better now
368 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
369 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5