+2007-04-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Basic class extensions: Module#define_structure() method. Syntax:
+ define_structure :SomeName, :attr_a, :attr_b
+ is equivalent to
+ SomeName = Struct.new("SomeName", :attr_a, :attr_b)
+ except that the new Struct is not created if it already exists and the
+ attributes list is the same.
+
+2007-03-31 Dmitry Kim <dmitry.kim@gmail.com>
+
+ * HttpUtil: major rework. get_response() method now respects
+ caching (can be turned off via options) and supports different HTTP
+ methods (GET (default), HEAD and POST) and ranged requests. get() and
+ head() methods are now just a thin wrappers around get_request().
+ Semantics for user-supplied &block has been made consistent across
+ these methods.
+ * HttpUtil: get_cached() method has been removed (obsoleted by new
+ get()). post() method has been added. get_partial() method for ranged
+ requests has been added. Net::HTTPResponse partial_body() method has
+ been removed (mostly because it won't play well with future HTTP
+ encodings support), please use get_partial() or get_request() instead.
+ * Utils: http_get() method has been removed (long obsoleted by
+ HttpUtil)
+ * different plugins: modified to accomodate for HttpUtil changes.
+
+2007-03-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * HttpUtil: new get_response method to follow redirects and get an
+ Net::HTTPResponse object with an open connection, allowing partial
+ body retrieval.
+ * HttpUtil: extend Net::HTTPResponse with a #partial_body() method. The
+ method take an argument (max bytes to download) and an optional block;
+ the method yields all the partial content that it's being downloaded,
+ instead of the single chunks yield by #read_body().
+ * url plugin: use the new HttpUtil methods.
+ * url plugin: do not block while trying to get link info.
+
+2007-03-14 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Socket filtering: socket data, both input and output, can now be
+ filtered. This is used for example to transcode all input and output
+ so that messages are internally managed as UTF-8. By default, the bot
+ will try cp1252 (Windows Western European) encoding for non-UTF-8
+ strings. Thanks to jsn (Dmitry Kim <dmitry.kim@gmail.com>).
+
+2007-03-10 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * IRC settings: ability to change the IRC name for the bot. Thanks to
+ jsn (Dmitry Kim <dmitry.kim@gmail.com>).
+ * Plugin: allow customization of the plugin load path. Thanks to
+ jsn (Dmitry Kim <dmitry.kim@gmail.com>).
+
+2007-02-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Timers: failing timer actions don't prevent the global timer ticker
+ from functioning properly.
+ * Shiritori plugin: new word game, contributed by Yaohan Chen
+ <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>. People take turns to continue a chain of
+ words by saying words that begin with the final letter(s) of the
+ previous word.
+ * IRC messages are not UTF-8: Most of the string processing across
+ rbot is done against IRC messages, which do not have a well-defined
+ encoding. Although many clients are now using UTF-8, there is no
+ guarantee that an arbitrary string received from IRC will be UTF-8
+ encoded. We have to force ASCII (byte-wise/charset agnostic) matching
+ because otherwise some strings can give problems: in particular, for
+ example, the bytesequence "\340\350\354\362\371" (that is the aeiou
+ vowels, each with a grave accent) will cause the string to be
+ considered up to the "\354" (i with grave accent) only: so either the
+ rest of the message is ignored, or the matching fails.
+
+2007-02-18 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Plugin: Provide a plugin.header file with boilerplate plugin
+ title/author/copyright/license information. Authors of new plugins are
+ encouraged to use it. Many existing plugins have been changed to
+ follow the same spec.
+ * NickServ plugin: delegate #identified() to other plugins after
+ successfull identification. Also provide #identified?() method to test
+ if the bot has successfully identified. Not perfect yet (gets reset
+ after a rescan.)
+
+2007-02-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Plugin: new unreplied() method to handle PRIVMSGs which have not
+ been replied to.
+ * Regexp: more regexp madness. BasicUserMessage and derivate classes
+ now have a new method parse_channel_list() to parse list of channel
+ names.
+
+2007-02-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Remote Service Provider: from an idea by halorgium <rbot@spork.in>,
+ initial steps towards a DRb-based remote service provider for rbot.
+ When complete, it will give plugins the ability to listen to
+ 'messages' from remote clients connected to the bot, allowing for such
+ things as svn notification without RSS polling, remote control of
+ the bot, or even (why not?) botnets.
+ * Remote Service Provider: BotModules can now include the
+ RemoteBotModule interface that provides them with the remote_map()
+ method that works just like the map() method, but for remote commands
+ * Remote Service Provider: Remote clients can now login remotely
+ before executing commands. This in fact integrates the remote access
+ auth security with the User/BotUser used on IRC itself.
+
+2007-02-08 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Languages: Japanese support with language files, salutations, larts
+ and praises, thanks to hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
+
+2007-02-05 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * sendmsg improvements: the bot sendmsg() method and all the methods
+ that rely on it (say(), notice(), and message methods such as reply())
+ now accept an option hash to customize its behaviour.
+ * :newlines, which can be set to either :split or :join,
+ depending on whether newlines in messages should be used as
+ split-points, or should be be replaced by some string (defined
+ in the :join_with option)
+ * :max_lines, which determines the maximum number of lines to be
+ sent by each messages. Last line is truncated (see next
+ options). Set to nil to have no limits.
+ * :overlong, which determines the behaviour when overlong lines
+ are to be sent; possible values are :split or :truncate.
+ * If :overlong is set to :split, :split_at determines the
+ string/regexp to split at; default is /\s+/, other usual
+ choice could be /\s+\|\s+/.
+ * If :overlong is set to :split, the :purge_split option
+ determines whether the :split_at expression should be removed
+ from the next lines (defaults to true).
+ * If :overlong is set to :truncate, the value of the option
+ :truncate_text is replaced at the end of the truncated line
+ * LinkBot plugin: initial commit of a plugin to handle messages from
+ eggdrops and other bots that act as cross-network channel links.
+ Suggested by hagabaka (Yaohan Chen <yaohan.chen@gmail.com>)
+
+
+2007-02-03 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Plugin message mapper: Enhancements to the :requirements option.
+ When the requirement of a parameter is a regular expression with
+ capturing groups /(...)/, the corresponding map parameters will be
+ assigned (by default) the first non-nil capture instead of the whole
+ regular expression. If a specific capture group is desired instead,
+ the requirement should be in the form
+ [/some regexp/, integer_index_of_the_desired_group]
+ or in the form
+ {
+ :regexp => /some regexp/,
+ :index => integer_index_of_the_desired_group
+ }
+ and a nil index will still give the default behavior.
+ If you want the whole regular expression to be the matched parameter
+ value, there are three options: use an index of 0, wrap the whole
+ regular expression in a capturing group, or use non-capturing groups
+ /(?:...)/. The latter is preferred because it's much faster.
+ When exploiting the capturing groups feature, please try to remember
+ to use /\s+/ instead of plain spaces / /, unless it's absolutely
+ necessary to have single spaces.
+
+2007-02-02 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Plugin message mapper: Requirements (as set by the :requirements
+ hash) are now embedded in the regular expression matcher rather than
+ being cheked separately afterwards.
+
+2007-01-30 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * New IRC Framework: Server methods to retrieve a Channel or User are
+ now more robust to empty or nil nicks and channel names passed as
+ parameters.
+
+2007-01-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Timer rescheduling: it is now possible to reschedule the period
+ any particular Action is taken by issuing the command
+ @bot.timer.reschedule(handle, new_period)
+ where +handle+ is a timer handle returned by the @bot.timer.add() that
+ created the action, and new_period is the new period for the Action.
+
+2007-01-23 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Reduced saving: the salut, lart, and quotes plugin now only save
+ their datafiles if anything changed since last time. This speeds up
+ operations such as saving and rescanning; it also allow hand-editing
+ of the data files while the bot is running, since a rescan will load
+ the changed data files without overwriting them with a useless save
+ before. Of course this only works if there are no pending changes in
+ the running bot.
+
+2007-01-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Server timeout: rework the server timeout code. Instead of PINGing
+ the server unconditionally every server.ping_timeout seconds, we only
+ PING it if we don't receive anything in the user-chosen timeout (lazy
+ PING). The code rewrite also seems to have fixed the "bot stalling
+ doing nothing" problem, which seemed to have been a consequence of
+ @socket.select not having a timeout.
+
+2006-11-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * SSL support: patch from Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
+
+2006-10-28 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * A-Z game: try to guess the word the bot is thinking of: every miss
+ helps by reducing the range of allowed words, until it's so small
+ around the correct one that you can't miss it.
+
+2006-10-27 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Flood protection: first attempt at penalty-based flood protection.
+ This should make rbot much less prone to Excess Floods *and* still
+ serve normally without excessive delays.
+
+2006-10-25 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * HttpUtil: Strings returned by get_cached now have a cached? method
+ which returns true or false depending on whether the result was taken
+ from the cache or not; this can be exploited by plugins that parse the
+ result in some particular way, since they can now skip the parsing
+ stage if they cache the parse result.
+
+2006-10-24 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * HttpUtil: initial implementation of proper caching based on
+ last-modified and etag HTTP headers
+
+2006-10-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Salut plugin: handles (multilingual) salutations (hello/goodbye)
+
+2006-10-15 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Language stuff: plugins can now handle language changes in a natural
+ fashion. lart is the first plugin to make use of this. NOTE: this
+ is not (yet) backwards compatible: the old larts/praises files from
+ previous rbot setups have to be renamed manually
+ * Language stuff: italian translations
+ * Utils.safe_save(filename): allows 'safe' saving of a file: it needs a
+ block, to which it will yield a temporary file on which operations can
+ be carried out. When the block returns, the tempfile will be renamed to
+ the given filename
+
+2006-09-21 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * New Auth Framework: restore backwards compatibility: 'auth
+ <masterpassword>' and 'login owner <masterpassword>' both work.
+ * Topic plugin: cleanups. Implement 'topic undo'. 'topic undo' after a
+ 'topic undo' undoes the last undo.
+
+2006-09-09 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * New Auth Framework: rbot was opping anyone who asked for it (opme
+ plugin). Fixed, and cleaned up.
+
+2006-09-01 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * New Auth Framework: document and fine tune permissions view the auth
+ core botmodule.
+ * Version: when run from a svn checkout, the bot now tries to report
+ which svn revision it's at, and if there are local changes
+
+2006-08-31 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Nickserv plugin: bot will now try to inform nickserv when password
+ is changed. Moreover it's not necessary to specify the nick anymore if
+ you want to change the password for the current bot nick. Also do some
+ internal cleanups while we're at it.
+
+2006-08-29 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) echo functions. Just like eval, but
+ m.replies the result of the evaluation.
+ * New Auth Framework: config keys now have their own permissions. So
+ you can allow people to view or edit only some of the config values.
+ auth.password defaults to false. Still needs some work.
+
+2006-08-26 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Plugin message mapper: new implementation. Multi-word parameters now
+ need not be the last, and it is possible to retrieve the entire
+ substring with preserved whitespace by using to_s. Also, parts of the
+ map string can be bracketed to make them optional. Examples:
+ remind :user [about] *stuff
+ will respond to
+ remind me about washing my teeth
+ and also to
+ remind me washing my teeth
+ It is possible to have parameters in brackets, in which case they will
+ be optional too, and default to nil or [] (resp. single- and
+ multi-word parameters) unless an alternative is provided in the
+ :defaults hash for the message map options.
+ * Script plugin: new (UNSAFE!) eval function. Not documented in help.
+ Not permitted by default.
+
+2006-08-25 Mark Kretschmann <markey@web.de>
+
+ * Added quiz plugin, a multiplayer trivia quiz game.
+
+2006-08-20 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Topic plugin: fix a bug that prevented it from loading
+ correctly.
+ * New IRC Framework: make sure that NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs do not
+ raise an exception when the target is in one of the special forms
+ #<mask> or $<mask>. Needs some work, though, since this case should be
+ handled specifically.
+
+2006-08-17 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Fix help: It got broken while rearranging the plugin stuff, now it's
+ properly fixed.
+ * New Auth Framework: forgot to create the InvalidPassword exception.
+ It's a RuntimeError now.
+ * Fix help: this time for real (or so I hope).
+ * New IRC Framework: topic plugin now works correctly.
+ * New Auth Framework: nickserv plugin now defaults to false for its
+ auth, so that only owner can do stuff with it
+ * New Auth Framework: fix horrible typo, assignment instead of
+ equality test when checking for the username during login.
+ * Keywords plugin: tell and forget work again without 'keyword' before
+ them.
+
+2006-08-12 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * Subregistry: force prefix to be a String with to_s
+
+2006-08-11 Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
+
+ * AutoOp plugin: adapted to the new IRC framework.
+ * AutoOp plugin: trigger autoop on nick change too.
+ * New Auth Framework: allow? method now informs a user when they don't
+ have permission to do what they asked for.
+ * New nickreply and nickokay methods: they act like the old reply
+ method, but include the nick of the user the bot is replying to when
+ talking in public. The usual reply method can be configured to act
+ like this as default.
+
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