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+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)