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 2.1.6:
  14 - The String class has been removed and replaced by std::string
  15 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
  16   few bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
  17
  18 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  19 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  20   Friend of the bot
  21 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  22 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  23 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
  24   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
  25   the time the buffer would overflow)
  26 - Misc. Bugfixes
  27
  28 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  29 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  30 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  31   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  32 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  33   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  34   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  35   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  36   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  37   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  38 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  39   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  40   above to run it.
  41
  42 Version 2.1.3: Something
  43 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  44 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  45 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  46 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  47 integer)
  48 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  49 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  50 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  51
  52 Version 2.1.2: Llama
  53
  54 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  55   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
  56   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
  57   for match-not-channel).
  58 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
  59   should no longer occur
  60 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
  61   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
  62   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
  63   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
  64   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
  65   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
  66 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
  67   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
  68   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
  69 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
  70
  71 Version 2.1.1: foom
  72
  73 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
  74   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
  75   not case sensitive.
  76 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
  77   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
  78   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
  79   name for your hooks.
  80 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
  81   started to work on DCC).
  82 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
  83   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
  84 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
  85   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
  86   message.
  87 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
  88   person at address TO
  89 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
  90   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
  91   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
  92   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
  93   will be more send hooks added later.
  94 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
  95   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
  96   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
  97   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
  98   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
  99   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 100   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 101   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 102
 103 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 104 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 105   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 106   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 107   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 108   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 109   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 110   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 111 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 112   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 113   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 114   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 115   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 116   use them).
 117 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 118   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 119   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 120   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 121   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 122   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 123 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 124   load it if you want to use its functions.
 125 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 126 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 127   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 128 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 129   the objects from garbage collection)
 130
 131
 132 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 133 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 134   before I took over (not much)
 135 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 136
 137 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 138 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 139   --enable-scripting=no
 140 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 141 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 142   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 143   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 144
 145 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 146 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 147 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 148 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 149   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 150 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 151 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 152 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 153   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 154   first in the list!
 155
 156
 157 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 158               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 159               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 160               list of all available commands.
 161
 162 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 163               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 164               flexible.