NEWS

   1 (-*- text -*-)
   2 User Visible Changes In Bobot++
   3
   4 IMPORTANT NOTES:
   5   As of version 1.98 unknown_lamer is the new maintainer.  Also as of
   6   version 1.98, you must have Guile 1.5.6+ or 1.6.x in order to
   7   compile scripting support.
   8
   9 =====================================================================
  10 ====== The News =====================================================
  11 =====================================================================
  12
  13 Version 2.1.8:
  14 - Scripting
  15   + Hooks
  16     * Added bot:protection/[none|ban|kick|deop] and bot:aop/[yes|no]
  17       constants to the Scheme scripting interface
  18     * hooks/timer argument is now zero padded instead of space padded
  19       (e.g. "11:01" instead of "11: 1")
  20     * hooks/disconnect is now called when the bot is disconnected from the
  21       server unintentionally (network connection timeout, server died,
  22       etc.)
  23     * hooks/action is now passed the user's nick instead of the full
  24       address like all other hooks
  25   + Message Sending
  26     * Implemented bot:notice
  27     * bot:msg and bot:say may both send to channels and users (instead
  28       of bot:msg for users and bot:say for channels)
  29     * Renamed bot:send-CTCP to bot:send-ctcp
  30     * Added bot:send-ctcp-reply to send a ctcp-reply
  31   + Misc
  32     * Added (bobotpp bot) module that modules may use to gain access
  33       to the bobot++ functions
  34   + Debugging
  35     * The debugging evaluator is now enabled when --debug is passed to
  36       the bot
  37     * New command line option: --debug-scripts enabled the debugging
  38       evaluator while running everything else normally
  39     * Merged error handling patch from Dale Smith. This adds detailed
  40       errors and backtraces when --debug/--debug-scripts is passed to
  41       Bobot++.
  42 - Documentation
  43   + Merged documentation patch from Dale Smith (thanks)
  44 - Misc
  45   + NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs are now sent correctly if they contain an
  46     embedded newline
  47   + Max nick length is now configurable via 'maxnicklength' option in
  48     bot.conf (defaults to 9)
  49
  50
  51 Version 2.1.7:
  52 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
  53 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
  54
  55 Version 2.1.6:
  56 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
  57   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
  58   it a lot of work)
  59 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
  60   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
  61
  62 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  63 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  64   Friend of the bot
  65 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  66 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  67 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
  68   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
  69   the time the buffer would overflow)
  70 - Misc. Bugfixes
  71
  72 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  73 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  74 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  75   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  76 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  77   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  78   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  79   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  80   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  81   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  82 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  83   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  84   above to run it.
  85
  86 Version 2.1.3: Something
  87 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  88 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  89 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  90 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  91 integer)
  92 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  93 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  94 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  95
  96 Version 2.1.2: Llama
  97
  98 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  99   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
 100   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
 101   for match-not-channel).
 102 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
 103   should no longer occur
 104 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
 105   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
 106   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
 107   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
 108   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
 109   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
 110 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
 111   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
 112   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
 113 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
 114
 115 Version 2.1.1: foom
 116
 117 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
 118   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
 119   not case sensitive.
 120 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
 121   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
 122   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
 123   name for your hooks.
 124 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
 125   started to work on DCC).
 126 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
 127   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
 128 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
 129   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
 130   message.
 131 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
 132   person at address TO
 133 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 134   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 135   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 136   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 137   will be more send hooks added later.
 138 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 139   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 140   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 141   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 142   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 143   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 144   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 145   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 146
 147 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 148 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 149   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 150   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 151   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 152   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 153   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 154   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 155 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 156   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 157   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 158   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 159   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 160   use them).
 161 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 162   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 163   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 164   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 165   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 166   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 167 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 168   load it if you want to use its functions.
 169 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 170 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 171   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 172 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 173   the objects from garbage collection)
 174
 175
 176 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 177 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 178   before I took over (not much)
 179 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 180
 181 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 182 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 183   --enable-scripting=no
 184 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 185 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 186   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 187   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 188
 189 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 190 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 191 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 192 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 193   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 194 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 195 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 196 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 197   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 198   first in the list!
 199
 200
 201 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 202               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 203               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 204               list of all available commands.
 205
 206 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 207               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 208               flexible.