1 2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
3 * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
5 2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
7 * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
8 helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
9 around the correct one that you can't miss it.
11 2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
13 * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
14 This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
15 serve normally without excessive delays.
17 2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
19 * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
20 which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
21 from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
22 result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
23 stage if they cache the parse result.
25 2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
27 * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
28 last-modified and etag HTTP headers
30 2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
32 * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
34 2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
36 * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
37 fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
38 is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
39 previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
40 * Language stuff: italian translations
41 * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
42 block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
43 be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
46 2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
48 * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
49 <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
50 * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
51 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
53 2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
55 * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
56 plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
58 2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
60 * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
62 * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
63 which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
65 2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
67 * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
68 is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
69 you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
70 internal cleanups while we're at it.
72 2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
74 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
75 m.replies the result of the evaluation.
76 * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
77 you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
78 auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
80 2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
82 * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
83 need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
84 substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
85 map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
86 remind :user [about] *stuff
88 remind me about washing my teeth
90 remind me washing my teeth
91 It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
92 be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
93 multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
94 :defaults hash for the message map options.
95 * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
96 Not permitted by default.
98 2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
100 * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
102 2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
104 * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
106 * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
107 raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
108 #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
109 handled specifically.
111 2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
113 * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
115 * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
116 It's a RuntimeError now.
117 * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
118 * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
119 * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
120 auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
121 * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
122 equality test when checking for the username during login.
123 * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
126 2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
128 * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
130 2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
132 * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
133 * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
134 * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
135 have permission to do what they asked for.
136 * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
137 method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
138 talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
139 like this as default.
141 2006-08-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
143 * Fix a bug in new IRC Framework: the list of channels a quitting user was
144 on was not built correctly, causing an exception when the user was not
145 in the first channel in the list of channels.
146 * Fix a bug in new Auth Framework: BotUser's name is changed via
147 username=, not name=.
148 * New HalfLife 2 plugin from ocr: queries online servers for online
149 status and number of users.
151 2006-08-07 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
153 * Add kick method to kernel: plugins can now use
154 @bot.kick channel, user, reason
155 to kick a user from a channel
156 * RSS plugin: fix rewatch_rss method
157 * RSS plugin: the different ways to represent channels before and
158 after the New IRC Framework was causing strange problems such as
159 watched feed not being listed as such, undeletable watches, double
160 watches etc. Fix this by checking both for the Channel objects and
161 their to_s form when checking for watches or deleting them.
163 2006-08-06 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
165 * Updating the ChangeLog again: describe the new stuff in trunk which
166 will be made available in the next release. Use Gnu style for new
167 changelog entries (yyyy-mm-dd name <email address>\n<tab> ...):
168 there's a macro for this since at least Vim 6.x and higher, called by
169 <Leader>o (default leader: slash (\))
170 * New IRC Framework: Server, Channels, User, Netmasks etc are all
171 proper Ruby objects. The better organization will allow multi-server
172 connections to be implemented more easily
173 * Modularize core: split the internal functionality from what can be
174 implemented as botmodules (which work just the same as plugins). Move
175 Configuration, Basics and Auth out of the 'kernel' into core
177 * New Auth Framework: BotUsers are now Ruby objects with attached
178 PermissionSets which define what the BotUser can do, by channel if
179 necessary. The new framework allows very fine-grained control while
180 still being very easy to manage for elementary usage. BotUser data can
181 be exported and imported, but no backwards compatibility has been
182 implemented yet. Most plugins still have to be updated to the new
183 command-path-based mechanism.
185 Sun Aug 06 17:33:55 BST 2006 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
188 * Changes: Lots of new and updated plugins, including one to poll RSS feeds.
189 A first step towards a better auth system (total revamp due in 0.9.11).
190 Improvements to network and server code which should provide greater
191 stability. A new message queueing mechanism with bitrate throttling. A new
192 logging framework for debugging and tracing the activities of the bot. A
193 new split-db registry system for better performance and transactional
194 usage of bdb for resilience. More integration with Nickserv where
195 available including optional automatic ghost-killing.
197 Wed Sep 07 20:16:46 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
199 * Fixed quit, broke it last commit
200 * Fixed trap() for win32
202 Sun Aug 21 13:29:55 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
204 * fix for bug in quakenet plugin (trac #14)
205 * multiple fixes for unescaped bot nick in regexp's (trac #13)
207 Fri Aug 12 20:51:38 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
209 * fix up autoop plugin a bit
211 Thu Aug 11 00:13:11 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
213 * Added two plugins from Robin Kearney <robin@riviera.org.uk>
214 * Threat (US threat level :P)
215 * bash (bash.org quotes)
217 Thu Aug 11 00:04:31 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
219 * Patches from "Alexey I. Froloff" <raorn@altlinux.ru>
220 * Do not use "/home/#{Etc.getlogin}/" for default home directory, use
221 "#{Etc.getpwnam(Etc.getlogin).dir}/" instead.
222 * Do not try to load same plugin from different locations. Added ability
223 to disable system-wide plugins - create PLUGIN.rb.disabled in user's
225 * For example, to disable freshmeat plugin installed in /usr/share/rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb one can create empty file ~/.rbot/plugins/freshmeat.rb.disabled
227 Mon Aug 08 23:08:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
229 * new markov plugin for random inane chat
231 Sun Aug 07 18:20:24 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
233 * stop insult plugin being used to insult the bot
235 Sun Aug 07 17:53:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
237 * workaround for people without YAML::load_file
238 * quit message for restart
240 Sun Aug 07 15:11:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
242 * fix address_prefix, broken in 0.9.9, reported by ruskie.
244 Sat Aug 06 00:54:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
248 Fri Aug 05 23:55:20 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
250 * few more tweaks preparing to release 0.9.9
252 Thu Aug 04 23:03:30 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
254 * Improved ircd recognition of rfc2812.rb
255 * de-string'd, de-cap'd rfc2812.rb, looks less shouty now
256 * moved the Q auth stuff (for quakenet) into a new qauth plugin (untested!)
257 * finish fixing the httputil
259 Thu Aug 04 00:11:52 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
261 * Tweaked the debug() stuff a bit. Need to do this more cleanly really
262 * Added a fair bit of documentation for some of the new features
264 Wed Aug 03 15:25:07 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
266 * Added french language file (TODO most of the plugins just talk english)
267 * The way the Enum configs were set up, it wasn't possible to add language
268 files to rbot at runtime (the directory was only scanned at startup). Now
269 you can set a values Proc, which is called to return a list of allowed
270 values whenever it's queried.
271 * Added Config module for determining where we were installed.
272 Unfortunately rubygems is a total whore in this regard, and I hope the
273 current hackery I have to do to support it becomes redundant in the
276 Wed Aug 03 00:31:41 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
278 * Added Rakefile, tweaked gemspec
280 Tue Aug 02 16:27:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
282 * Fixed the new http.proxy* settings, they work!
283 * Fixed a bug with auth-checking for the config module
286 Sun Jul 31 02:20:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
288 * Updated docgen to generate rdoc again with the new repo structure
289 * added new restart command to the core bot, quits irc and reexecs the
290 bot, to pick up new code/libraries etc.
292 Sat Jul 30 22:33:36 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
294 * Config items are now objects, various types are available.
295 * The config wizard will now use registered config items if :wizard is set
296 to true for those items. It will ask questions in the order they were
298 * The config module now works for doing runtime configuration.
301 Sat Jul 30 01:19:32 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
303 * config module for configuring the running bot via IRC
304 * BotConfig.register method for various modules and any plugin to register
305 bot configuration which the new config module will expose for them.
306 * various other tweaks as I continue to refactor..
308 Fri Jul 29 13:07:56 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
310 * Moved some stuff out of util.rb into the plugins that actually need
311 them. Those methods didn't belong in util as they were plugin-specific.
312 * moved a few more plugins to use map() where appropriate
313 * made the url plugin only store unique urls
315 Thu Jul 28 23:45:26 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
317 * Reworked the Timer module. The Timer now has a smart thread manager to
318 start/stop the tick() thread. This means the timer isn't called every 0.1
319 seconds to see what needs doing, which is much more efficient
320 * reworked the ircsocket queue mechanism to use a Timer
321 * reworked the nickserv plugin to use maps
322 * made server.reconnect_wait configurable
323 * added Class tracing mechanism to bin/rbot, use --trace Classname for
326 Tue Jul 26 14:41:34 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
328 * Prevent multiple plugin registrations of the same name
329 * reworking the config system to use yaml for persistence
330 * reworking the config system key names
331 * on first startup, the bot will prompt for the essential startup config
332 * new config module for configuring the bot at runtime
333 * new config module includes new configurables, for example changing the
334 bot's language at runtime.
335 * various other fixes
336 * New way of mapping plugins to strings, using maps. These may be
337 familiar to rails users. This is to reduce the amount of regexps plugins
338 currently need to do to parse arguments. The old method (privmsg) is still
339 supported, of course. Example plugin now:
340 def MyPlugin < Plugin
345 def complexfoo(m, params)
346 m.reply "qux! (#{params[:bar]} #{params[:baz]})"
349 plugin = MyPlugin.new
353 # this will match "rbot: foo somestring otherstring" and pass the
354 # parameters as a hash using the names in the map.
355 plugin.map 'foo :bar :baz', :action => 'complexfoo'
356 # this means :foo is an optional parameter
357 plugin.map 'foo :foo', :defaults => {:foo => 'bar'}
358 # you can also gobble up into an array
359 plugin.map 'foo *bar' # params[:bar] will be an array of string elements
360 # and you can validate, here the first param must be a number
361 plugin.map 'foo :bar', :requirements => {:foo => /^\d+$/}
364 Sat Jul 23 01:39:08 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
366 * Changed BotConfig to use yaml storage, method syntax instead of hash for
367 get/set, to allow more flexibility and encapsulation
368 * Added convenience method Message.okay (m.okay is the same as the
369 old-style @bot.okay m.replyto)
371 Wed Jul 20 23:30:01 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
373 * Move some core plugins to use the new httputil
374 * fix wserver's redirection handling for relative (i.e. broken) redirects
375 * fix tube plugin's html parsing
377 Wed Jul 20 01:18:06 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
379 * Add new httputil object to the bot object, to be used by plugins etc
380 that wish to make http requests. It sets up all the proxies etc for them
381 according to bot config.
383 Sat Jul 16 02:23:13 BST 2005 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
385 * Apply most of Rene's patch and fix various plugins.
386 * New plugin: autoop (auto ops via hostmask)
387 * New feature: karmastats
389 Wed Oct 13 16:16:31 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
391 * Fix bug with quotes plugin where it gets confused and sees both a quote
392 and a keyword, both plugins are triggered by, for example "addquote foo is
394 * fixed this by implementing the "has_responded" flag on a message. When a
395 plugin replied to a message (or it manually sets m.replied to true), the
396 keywords plugin will honour that flag and not examine the message for
397 keywords. This flag can also be checked by listen plugins that don't want to
398 interfere with other plugin commands.
400 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
402 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
404 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
408 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
410 * fixed insult plugin
411 * fixed excuse plugin
413 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
415 * searching for urls in the url plugin
416 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
418 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
420 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
421 working so I guess it changed again since then
422 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
424 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
426 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
428 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
429 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
430 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
432 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
437 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
441 * various plugin updates
442 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
443 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
444 changes and related information
447 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
448 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
449 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
450 * status command returns some bot status
452 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
453 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
454 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
455 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
456 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
457 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
458 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
459 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
460 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
463 * plugin object registry
464 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
465 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
466 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
467 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
471 @registry[:blah] = blah
472 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
473 can access the blah object as it was, with:
474 blah = @registry[:blah]
475 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
476 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
479 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
480 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
481 example (in your plugin):
492 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
493 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
494 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
496 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
497 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
498 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
499 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
500 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
501 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
502 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
503 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
504 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
505 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
507 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
508 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
509 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
511 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
512 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
513 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
514 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
515 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
516 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
518 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
520 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
521 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
522 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
524 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
525 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
526 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
527 original infobot math module)
528 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
529 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
530 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
531 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
532 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
533 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
534 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
535 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
537 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
538 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
539 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
540 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
541 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
542 imported and merged into the database.
543 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
544 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
546 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
550 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
551 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
552 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
553 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
554 not intended and should be fixed now
555 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
556 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
557 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
558 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
559 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
560 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
561 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
562 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
563 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
564 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
565 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
566 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
567 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
568 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
574 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
575 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
576 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
577 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
578 can be added on the fly.
579 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
584 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
586 * fixes to a few other buglets
587 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
588 folks who love bb :-)
589 * fixes to various plugins
590 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
591 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
592 Fix bug joining channels with keys
596 * better "connect failure" error message
597 * better option parsing, and --debug option
598 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
600 ./rbot.rb --help core
601 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
602 * Fix broken help from last point release
603 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
604 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
605 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
606 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
607 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
608 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
609 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
611 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
615 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
619 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
621 * rdoc documentation!
622 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
623 form of "foo" (lost the .)
624 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
628 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
629 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
630 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
632 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
634 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
635 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
636 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
640 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
641 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
645 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
646 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
647 * fix searchquote regexp
648 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
649 which is for master auth.
653 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
654 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
655 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
657 * more language breadth
658 * Addressing works better now
659 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
660 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5