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   As of version 2.2.0 no new updates are promised. I am splitting out
  10   the Parser and a few other well written bits and using them from
  11   Scheme to implement most of the Bobot++ functionality in pure
  12   Scheme. The time spent maintaining this not terribly good C++ (a
  13   good bit of which is my fault due to my inexperience when I began
  14   maintaing Bobot++) is a waste to me now. I would rather be hacking
  15   on a Lisp program instead.
  16
  17   I will still accept patches, and may fix bugs if I have time (and
  18   people report them). I may finish the manual since the scripting
  19   section is all that remains, and that will apply to the new bot as
  20   well.
  21
  22 =====================================================================
  23 ====== The News =====================================================
  24 =====================================================================
  25
  26 Version 2.3.0:
  27
  28 Version 2.2.3 (2008-11-12):
  29 - Building with Guile in a non-standard location now works
  30 - Building without Guile now works again
  31 - Building with GCC 4.x now works
  32   + GCC prior to 4.x's libc headers exported the libc symbols from
  33     both :: and std:: leading to a few unqualified libc calls sneaking
  34     into Bobot++'s source
  35 - All uses of the long deprecated GH API have been removed
  36   + Building against libguile 1.8 built with --disable-deprecated now
  37     works
  38   + Building against Guile 1.6 likely no longer works
  39   + However, building against guile-vm libguile does work and Bobot++
  40     is the first application built this way
  41 - This will be the last of the 2.2.x series; a 2.3.x series /might/ be
  42   started to enhance the scripting interface and finish the manual
  43
  44 Version 2.2.2 (2006-06-28):
  45 - No longer segfaults when loading bobot-utils.scm
  46 - bot:match-to-me produces a valid regexp again
  47 - scripts/uname now properly uses (ice-9 rdelim) instead of redelim
  48 - bot:load now loads files properly
  49
  50 Version 2.2.1 (2006-06-28):
  51 - If the log directory does not exist the bot creates it
  52 - If there are lines with only whitespace on them in the config file
  53   and error message is no longer printed to the log
  54
  55 Version 2.2.0 (2006-05-24):
  56 - Scripting
  57   + Hooks
  58     * hooks/disconnect now takes an additonal argument that specifies
  59       whether the disconnect was intentional or not.
  60     * Added hooks/send/who
  61     * Added hooks/send/whois
  62   + The deprecated scripting procedure and hook names are now in a
  63     `begin-deprecated' block. If your guile is built without
  64     deprecated feature support, they will not be available.
  65   + Renamed Functions
  66     * bot:send-ctcp was renamed to bot:ctcp
  67     * bot:send-ctcp-reply was renamed to bot:ctcp-reply
  68   + New Functions
  69     * bot:who (send WHO request)
  70     * bot:whois (send WHOIS request)
  71   + New Constants
  72     * bot:shit/none, bot:shit/no-op, bot:shit/no-join,
  73       bot:shit/no-deban shit list constants
  74 - Documention
  75   + Reorganized a few sections
  76   + Every hook is now documented
  77   + Using bot section is now much more usable
  78   + Every config file is now documented
  79 - The code was cleaned up a bit
  80
  81 Version 2.1.8:
  82 - Scripting
  83   + Hooks
  84     * Added bot:protection/[none|ban|kick|deop] and bot:aop/[yes|no]
  85       constants to the Scheme scripting interface
  86     * hooks/timer argument is now zero padded instead of space padded
  87       (e.g. "11:01" instead of "11: 1")
  88     * hooks/disconnect is now called when the bot is disconnected from the
  89       server unintentionally (network connection timeout, server died,
  90       etc.)
  91     * hooks/action is now passed the user's nick instead of the full
  92       address like all other hooks
  93   + Message Sending
  94     * Implemented bot:notice
  95     * bot:msg and bot:say may both send to channels and users (instead
  96       of bot:msg for users and bot:say for channels)
  97     * Renamed bot:send-CTCP to bot:send-ctcp
  98     * Added bot:send-ctcp-reply to send a ctcp-reply
  99   + Misc
 100     * Added (bobotpp bot) module that modules may use to gain access
 101       to the bobot++ functions
 102   + Debugging
 103     * The debugging evaluator is now enabled when --debug is passed to
 104       the bot
 105     * New command line option: --debug-scripts enables the debugging
 106       evaluator while running everything else normally
 107     * Merged error handling patch from Dale Smith. This adds detailed
 108       errors and backtraces when --debug/--debug-scripts is passed to
 109       Bobot++.
 110 - Documentation
 111   + Merged documentation patch from Dale Smith (thanks)
 112 - Misc
 113   + NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs are now sent correctly if they contain an
 114     embedded newline
 115   + Max nick length is now configurable via 'maxnicklength' option in
 116     bot.conf (defaults to 9)
 117 - The bot now builds with --disable-scripting again (this is my fault,
 118   I haven't built without it in a long time)
 119
 120
 121 Version 2.1.7:
 122 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
 123 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
 124
 125 Version 2.1.6:
 126 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
 127   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
 128   it a lot of work)
 129 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
 130   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
 131
 132 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
 133 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
 134   Friend of the bot
 135 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
 136 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
 137 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
 138   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
 139   the time the buffer would overflow)
 140 - Misc. Bugfixes
 141
 142 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
 143 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
 144 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
 145   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
 146 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
 147   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
 148   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
 149   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
 150   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
 151   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
 152 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
 153   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
 154   above to run it.
 155
 156 Version 2.1.3: Something
 157 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
 158 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
 159 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
 160 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
 161 integer)
 162 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
 163 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
 164 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
 165
 166 Version 2.1.2: Llama
 167
 168 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
 169   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
 170   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
 171   for match-not-channel).
 172 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
 173   should no longer occur
 174 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
 175   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
 176   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
 177   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
 178   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
 179   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
 180 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
 181   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
 182   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
 183 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
 184
 185 Version 2.1.1: foom
 186
 187 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
 188   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
 189   not case sensitive.
 190 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
 191   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
 192   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
 193   name for your hooks.
 194 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
 195   started to work on DCC).
 196 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
 197   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
 198 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
 199   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
 200   message.
 201 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
 202   person at address TO
 203 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 204   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 205   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 206   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 207   will be more send hooks added later.
 208 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 209   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 210   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 211   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 212   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 213   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 214   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 215   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 216
 217 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 218 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 219   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 220   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 221   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 222   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 223   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 224   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 225 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 226   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 227   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 228   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 229   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 230   use them).
 231 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 232   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 233   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 234   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 235   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 236   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 237 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 238   load it if you want to use its functions.
 239 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 240 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 241   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 242 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 243   the objects from garbage collection)
 244
 245
 246 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 247 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 248   before I took over (not much)
 249 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 250
 251 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 252 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 253   --enable-scripting=no
 254 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 255 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 256   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 257   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 258
 259 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 260 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 261 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 262 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 263   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 264 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 265 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 266 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 267   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 268   first in the list!
 269
 270
 271 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 272               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 273               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 274               list of all available commands.
 275
 276 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 277               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 278               flexible.