1 Mon Oct 11 00:37:52 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
3 * Fixes to the NickServ plugin
5 Sat Oct 09 23:23:24 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
9 Fri Oct 08 00:40:07 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
14 Thu Oct 07 23:28:05 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
16 * searching for urls in the url plugin
17 * roshambo (rock/paper/scissors) plugin from Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
19 Sat Apr 17 20:56:50 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
21 * Oh, found new tv plugin in my inbox from ages ago, but it's still not
22 working so I guess it changed again since then
23 * New eightball plugin from Daniel Free
25 Sat Apr 17 20:44:43 BST 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
27 * Fixed the babelfish parser so translate works again.
29 * Note some plugins are broken (excuse,insult) because the server they use
30 went away. I don't know of a replacement right now.
31 * tv plugin seems broken, perhaps the html changed.
33 Thu Jan 15 21:37:38 GMT 2004 Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>
38 * new plugin from Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, allows you to search and list
42 * various plugin updates
43 * fix (again) for C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
44 * channel topic patch from Peter Suschlik, gives plugin better access to topic
45 changes and related information
48 * changes to layout of slashdot plugin output
49 * freshmeat plugin, show latest updates or search
50 * fix to C to F temp conversion in weather plugin
51 * status command returns some bot status
53 * using BDB::Btree everywhere now, instead of BDB::Hash, because the Btree api
54 allows me to set my own key comparison function. This is needed to keep
55 supporting case insensitivity (vital for IRC), which was sadly broken in
56 0.9.5 :( All existing dbs will be upgraded automatically.
57 * roulette plugin - play russian roulette :) also keeps game stats.
58 * new config option, NO_KEYWORD_ADDRESS. If set to "true", the bot will always
59 respond to keywords it knows even when not addressed and the message doesn't
60 start with '. Message must end with "?" however.
61 * hopefully fixed welcome message parsing from certain server types
64 * plugin object registry
65 This provides persistant storage for plugins via a hash interface. The
66 default mode is an object store, so you can store ruby objects and reference
67 them with hash keys. This is because the default store/restore methods of
68 the plugins' RegistryAccessor are calls to Marshal.dump and Marshal.restore,
72 @registry[:blah] = blah
73 then, even after the bot is shut down and disconnected, on the next run you
74 can access the blah object as it was, with:
75 blah = @registry[:blah]
76 The registry can of course be used to store simple strings, fixnums, etc as
77 well, and should be useful to store or cache plugin data or dynamic plugin
80 If you don't need to store objects, and strictly want a persistant hash of
81 strings, you can override the store/restore methods to suit your needs, for
82 example (in your plugin):
93 Your plugins section of the registry is private, it has its own namespace
94 (derived from the plugin's class name, so change it and lose your data).
95 Calls to registry.each etc, will only iterate over your namespace.
97 The nickserv and karma plugins use the new registry and should serve as a
98 useful example. Basic usage of the registry is simple, just treat it as a
99 hash, with values that never die (unless you delete() them).
100 * Change to the nickserv plugin. The old method of putting the nickserv
101 password in rbot.conf was useless for multiple nicks or easy updates. The
102 plugin now uses the plugin registry to store passwords for any nicks it
103 owns. The plugin can be told to register the current nick (supply a password
104 or it'll generate one), identify for the current nick (if the password is
105 known), and can be told the passwords for other nicks. If NickServ asks the
106 bot to identify, it will automatically do so if it knows the appropriate
108 * karma plugin now uses the plugin registry, it should automatically import
109 your existing, stored karma data into the registry.
110 * The babelfish plugin now caches results in the bot registry to speed up
112 * New message types and plugin methods to grab them,
113 quit(QuitMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) quits IRC
114 nick(NickMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes Nick
115 topic(TopicMessage): Called when a user (or the bot) changes a channel topic
116 * A plugin's listen() method will now receive any kind of Message, e.g.
117 PrivMessage, NoticeMessage, NickMessage, JoinMessage, etc
119 seen: the usual "seen" stuff:
121 giblet was last seen xxx ago doing xxx
122 cal: calls the unix cal program to display a calendar
123 math: evaluates mathematical expressions:
125 rbot: math 4 to the power of 8
126 rbot: math ((232+432) - 4) / 2
127 (ported from infobot. Thanks to Kevin Lenzo, who wrote the
128 original infobot math module)
129 slashdot: displays latest headlines or searches for articles
130 url: stores urls mentioned in channels for regurgitation later
131 weather: grabs and parses METAR weather data, will remember the last weather
132 code you asked for so you don't have to :)
133 * New utility function, Util.http_get(url) for getting remote data via http,
134 just dumps response.body into a string and returns it, or nil if anything at
135 all goes wrong. Useful for simple plugins.
136 * random quit messages if none specified, messages set in language description
138 * keywords are now stored in bdb databases - your old keywords.rbot will be
139 imported. Static keywords (fact packs) are also stored in bdb databases, and
140 rbot will automatically convert any text .fact file dropped in the confdir's
141 keywords subdirectory, at startup, into a bdb file. If both a db and a text
142 file exist of the same name (except the extension), the text file will be
143 imported and merged into the database.
144 static keywords will be looked up in each factpack db in turn, in
145 alphabetical filename order - so you can prioritise using the filename if
147 * fixed a bug with autsplitting long sent lines, the last line was often being
151 * Massive cleanup of rfc2812.rb, contributed by Lars Christensen
152 <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>, gets rid of a lot of regexps
153 * Fixed bug reading static keyword files - "foo <=is=> bar" may not have
154 worked for a couple of releases, only "foo<=is=>bar" was working - this was
155 not intended and should be fixed now
156 * Experimental send queue, to prevent the bot from flooding out, the delay
157 between sending messages to the server defaults to 2s, but is configurable
158 in conf.rbot, set SENDQ_DELAY (0 to disable queueing). You can also set/get
159 the value from the bot, "rbot: options get sendq_delay", and
160 "rbot: options set sendq_delay 1.5", if you have sufficient auth for "config"
161 This is a bursting sendq, most ircd's allow bursts of up to 5
162 lines, with non-burst limits of 512 bytes/2 seconds. To set the burst limit,
163 configure SENDQ_BURST in conf.rbot, or do the same kind of stuff with
164 "rbot: options set sendq_burst 2", etc.
165 The defaults are 2s/4 burst, which seem to work okay for me.
166 * support for multiple, customisable, addressing prefixes. Set ADDRESS_PREFIX
167 in conf.rbot to a space separate list of addressing prefixes, e.g
168 ADDRESS_PREFIX = | ! =>
169 Would mean that all of the following in channel messages would cause the bot
175 * bb plugin removed, bb is nearly over and it doesn't work 100% anyway
176 * Two plugins from brailsmt (from #ruby-lang on openprojects), a stats plugin
177 which monitors usage of 1-word sentences, and lart, which allows you to ask
178 rbot to lart people - with an optional reason - larts are user-definable and
179 can be added on the fly.
180 * made google.rb work for people with 1.6 ruby's net/http
185 * new plugin for handling nickserv-protected nicks, use NICKSERV_PASSWORD in
187 * fixes to a few other buglets
188 * new plugin to grab bigbrother headlines, still buggy and only useful for UK
189 folks who love bb :-)
190 * fixes to various plugins
191 * Patch from akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
192 DNS plugin: Use resolv-replace if found, do lookup in new thread
193 Fix bug joining channels with keys
197 * better "connect failure" error message
198 * better option parsing, and --debug option
199 * access to bot's online help via commandline, eg:
201 ./rbot.rb --help core
202 ./rbot.rb --help "core save"
203 * Fix broken help from last point release
204 * Plugin API modification and cleanup. You no longer need to set @listen to
205 true in order to get all NOTICE and PRIVMSGs, you just need to define the
206 method. The method is now called listen(), renamed from listener(). This
207 should be the last time the plugin api is changed incompatibly.
208 * New plugin method kick(). Use it to see kicks (duh :))
209 * New plugin methods join(), part(). Obvious uses.
210 * Example plugin autorejoin.rb, uses kick event to rejoin channel and insult
212 * fix bug in remind plugins "remind me no more" recognition.
216 * Fix welcome message recognition for certain IRCd's.
220 * Allow keyword definitions which end in '?', like this:
222 * rdoc documentation!
223 * fixed broken address regexp, "rbot: .foo" was being treated as an addressed
224 form of "foo" (lost the .)
225 * fix stupid bug in last release (looking for wrong default conf dir)
229 * Tarball layout change. modules all in rbot/ now, and the rbot/ default
230 configuration moved to rbotconf/. This lets the thing run from an unpacked
231 tarball while also being ready to run with the modules installed somewhere
233 * change hashbang to /usr/bin/env ruby, in order to use PATH looking for ruby,
235 * allow "botnick : foo" style addressing, and even "botnick... foo"
236 * slap plugin (contributed by oct)
237 * renamed bot.send to bot.sendmsg, I didn't really want to override send() ;D
241 * Made sane for packagers. Looks in the right places for plugins and language
242 files now, so extra effort shouldn't be needed there.
246 * Fixed "nick taken on join" bug
247 * Dice plugin patch from David Dorward
248 * fix searchquote regexp
249 * conf.rbot: PASSWORD -> SERVER_PASSWORD, to prevent confusion with PASSWD,
250 which is for master auth.
254 * Fixed addquote (was incrementing quote ID twice)
255 * now strips colour/bold escapes from incoming messages (rbot was ignoring
256 messages addressed using a bolded colon, for example).
258 * more language breadth
259 * Addressing works better now
260 * Can autojoin channels with keys, conf.rbot line is:
261 autojoin_channels #chan1, #chan2, #chan3 key, #chan4 key, #chan5