NEWS

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