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 =====================================================================
  10 ====== The News =====================================================
  11 =====================================================================
  12
  13 Version 2.1.8:
  14 - Added bot:protection/[none|ban|kick|deop] and bot:aop/[yes|no]
  15   constants to the Scheme scripting interface
  16
  17 Version 2.1.7:
  18 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
  19 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
  20
  21 Version 2.1.6:
  22 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
  23   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
  24   it a lot of work)
  25 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
  26   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
  27
  28 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  29 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  30   Friend of the bot
  31 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  32 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  33 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
  34   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
  35   the time the buffer would overflow)
  36 - Misc. Bugfixes
  37
  38 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  39 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  40 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  41   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  42 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  43   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  44   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  45   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  46   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  47   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  48 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  49   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  50   above to run it.
  51
  52 Version 2.1.3: Something
  53 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  54 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  55 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  56 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  57 integer)
  58 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  59 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  60 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  61
  62 Version 2.1.2: Llama
  63
  64 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  65   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
  66   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
  67   for match-not-channel).
  68 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
  69   should no longer occur
  70 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
  71   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
  72   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
  73   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
  74   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
  75   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
  76 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
  77   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
  78   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
  79 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
  80
  81 Version 2.1.1: foom
  82
  83 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
  84   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
  85   not case sensitive.
  86 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
  87   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
  88   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
  89   name for your hooks.
  90 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
  91   started to work on DCC).
  92 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
  93   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
  94 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
  95   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
  96   message.
  97 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
  98   person at address TO
  99 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 100   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 101   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 102   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 103   will be more send hooks added later.
 104 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 105   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 106   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 107   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 108   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 109   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 110   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 111   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 112
 113 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 114 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 115   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 116   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 117   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 118   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 119   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 120   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 121 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 122   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 123   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 124   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 125   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 126   use them).
 127 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 128   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 129   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 130   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 131   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 132   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 133 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 134   load it if you want to use its functions.
 135 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 136 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 137   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 138 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 139   the objects from garbage collection)
 140
 141
 142 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 143 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 144   before I took over (not much)
 145 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 146
 147 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 148 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 149   --enable-scripting=no
 150 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 151 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 152   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 153   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 154
 155 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 156 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 157 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 158 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 159   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 160 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 161 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 162 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 163   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 164   first in the list!
 165
 166
 167 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 168               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 169               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 170               list of all available commands.
 171
 172 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 173               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 174               flexible.