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   + Message Sending
  24     * Implemented bot:notice
  25   + Misc
  26     * Added (bobotpp bot) module that modules may use to gain access
  27       to the bobot++ functions
  28     * bot:msg and bot:say may both send to channels and users (instead
  29       of bot:msg for users and bot:say for channels)
  30     * Renamed bot:send-CTCP to bot:send-ctcp
  31     * Added bot:send-ctcp-reply to send a ctcp-reply
  32   + Debugging
  33     * The debugging evaluator is now enabled when --debug is passed to the bot
  34 - Documentation
  35   + Merged documentation patch from Dale Smith (thanks)
  36 - Misc
  37   + NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs are now sent correctly if they contain an
  38     embedded newline
  39   + Max nick length is now configurable via 'maxnicklength' option in
  40     bot.conf (defaults to 9)
  41
  42
  43 Version 2.1.7:
  44 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
  45 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
  46
  47 Version 2.1.6:
  48 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
  49   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
  50   it a lot of work)
  51 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
  52   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
  53
  54 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  55 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  56   Friend of the bot
  57 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  58 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  59 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
  60   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
  61   the time the buffer would overflow)
  62 - Misc. Bugfixes
  63
  64 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  65 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  66 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  67   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  68 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  69   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  70   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  71   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  72   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  73   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  74 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  75   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  76   above to run it.
  77
  78 Version 2.1.3: Something
  79 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  80 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  81 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  82 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  83 integer)
  84 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  85 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  86 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  87
  88 Version 2.1.2: Llama
  89
  90 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  91   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
  92   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
  93   for match-not-channel).
  94 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
  95   should no longer occur
  96 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
  97   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
  98   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
  99   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
 100   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
 101   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
 102 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
 103   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
 104   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
 105 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
 106
 107 Version 2.1.1: foom
 108
 109 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
 110   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
 111   not case sensitive.
 112 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
 113   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
 114   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
 115   name for your hooks.
 116 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
 117   started to work on DCC).
 118 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
 119   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
 120 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
 121   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
 122   message.
 123 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
 124   person at address TO
 125 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 126   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 127   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 128   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 129   will be more send hooks added later.
 130 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 131   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 132   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 133   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 134   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 135   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 136   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 137   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 138
 139 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 140 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 141   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 142   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 143   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 144   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 145   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 146   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 147 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 148   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 149   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 150   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 151   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 152   use them).
 153 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 154   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 155   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 156   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 157   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 158   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 159 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 160   load it if you want to use its functions.
 161 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 162 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 163   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 164 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 165   the objects from garbage collection)
 166
 167
 168 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 169 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 170   before I took over (not much)
 171 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 172
 173 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 174 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 175   --enable-scripting=no
 176 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 177 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 178   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 179   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 180
 181 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 182 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 183 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 184 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 185   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 186 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 187 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 188 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 189   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 190   first in the list!
 191
 192
 193 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 194               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 195               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 196               list of all available commands.
 197
 198 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 199               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 200               flexible.