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