+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
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