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