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