Limnoria/ChangeLog

2004-09-30 Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.80.0pre3!
	
	* Removed the tinyurl shrinking code from the URL plugin and put
	it in the ShrinkUrl plugin, and added the ability to use ln-s.net
	as different URL shrinker as well.

	* Added an outFilter to the ShrinkUrl plugin that will shrink any
	outgoing URL that is longer than the minimum length.
	
	* Added a Freenode plugin as proof-of-concept; the bot can now
	use CAPAB IDENTIFY-MSG to ignore users that aren't identified.
	
	* Added the ability for the Seen plugin to match nicks with
	wildcards.
	
	* Added a showLinks configuration option to the RSS plugin to
	show links during announcements (and another such variable for
	non-announcements).
	
	* Added the spellit and hebrew filters to the Filter plugin.
	
	* Added the ability to log to separate directories to
	ChannelLogger.

	* Added the option to Lookup.add to add lookups that don't reply
	with the key.

	* Added "at" and "until" commands to the Time plugin; they're not
	perfect, and they don't parse nearly enough times, but they're
	somewhat tolerable for now.
	
	* Added a Sourceforge.stats command.

	* Added single-letter commands to the Words plugin when a hangman
	game is active.

	* Added a configuration variable determining the maximum length
	of replies internally, so they can't suck up as much CPU as they
	would otherwise.

	* Added a configuration variable determining the maximum nesting
	depth allowed, so exceedingly nested commands will be stopped
	before they're executed.

	* Added configuration variables concerning the formats used by
	the central and plugin logging facilities.

	* Added a configuration variable determining the quote characters
	used by the bot to quote literal strings.

	* Added support for line-wrapping the registry configuration
	file.
	
	* Moved supybot.reply.{brackets,pipeSyntax} to
	supybot.commands.nested.

	* Fixed a longstanding bug with the bot "forgetting"
	channel-specific configuration variables if they weren't
	exercised during the duration of the bot's uptime.
	
	* Fixed renames so they're finally persistent.
	
	* Fixed a bug having to do with Note and unsent notes.
	
	* Fixed several bugs in the interaction of Infobot with other
	plugins.
	
	* Added commands.wrap, the new method for wrapping commands and
	handling type validation errors consistently throughout the bot.
	
	* Upgraded many of the outside projects we include to their
	newest versions.

	
2004-09-17 James Vega <jamessan@users.sf.net>

	* Version 0.80.0pre2!

	* Added supybot.plugins.Google.colorfulSnarfer, which determines
	whether the word 'google' in the bot's output will be made colorful
	(like Google's logo).

	* Added the Time plugin, to hold all of our Time related commands.

	* Added max() and min() to Math.calc.
	
	* Added Unix.pid, which allows the Owner to retrieve the pid of the
	bot's process.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Sourceforge.enableSpecificTrackerCommands,
	which enables the rfe, bug, and patch commands.

	* Added Topic.topic, which returns the current topic of the channel.

	* Updated conf.Databases to use a more sane database ordering and
	include anydbm.

	* Updated various plugins to use our new-style database abstraction.
	Plugin databases using this new-style will be named Plugin.dbtype.db.

2004-09-12 Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.80.0pre1!
	
	* Added the facility to supporting several different database
	implementations in a plugin, allowing the user to specify which
	databases are supported as well as in what order of preference.

	* Added the Insult plugin, for colorful, creative insults.

	* Added the UrbanDict plugin, for defining words based on
	UrbanDictionary.com.

	* Added the Observer plugin, for watching a channel for regexps
	and running commands when the bot sees such regexps.

	* Moved Http.geekquote to a new Geekquote plugin, added a command
	for using qdb.us, and added a snarfer.

	* Added a SuperIgnore plugin, a good example of an inFilter and a
	way to completely, totally ignore people.

	* Changed the name of the Network plugin to Internet.

	* Added a new Network plugin, and moved some commands from Owner,
	Misc, and Relay to it.
	
	* Added CTCP flood protection.

	* Added a supybot.plugins.Karma.allowUnaddressedKarma
	configuration variable, for allowing karma increments/decrements
	similar to Infobot.

	* Added supybot.reply.whenAddressedBy.nicks, to allow users to
	specify a list of nicks to which the bot will respond as if they
	were its own nick.

	* Added the ability to support multiple-word karma
	increments/decrements.
	
	* Changed Owner.rename to be handled persistently; now renames
	work across restarts of the bot or reloads of a plugin.
	
	* Changed Misc.last to include a timestamp for when the message
	was sent.
	
	* Added the Channel.alert command, to send all currently
	connected ops on a channel a message.
	
	* Changed the MoobotFactoids plugin to allow commands to be
	nested in factoids definitions and searches.
	
	* Removed the futurama command in favor of adding a
	futurama.supyfact file to supybot-data.
	
	* Improved the Http.kernel command, showing more kernel types.
	
	* Added a new contributors command and a way of storing
	contributors and their contributions in a plugin.
	
	* Changed the name of Anonymous.action to Anonymous.do, to be
	more consistent with "say" and other bots (MozBot, iirc).

	* Added the ability for channel bans and ignores and global
	ignores to have expiration times.

	* Added invalid command flood protection.

	* Changed RSS' headlines output to bold the separators in order
	to make it easier to distinguish the headlines.

	* Added a --no-network option to supybot-wizard.
	
	* Added several attributes to IrcMsg objects as they pass through
	the bot; currently we tag them with receivedAt, receivedBy, and
	receivedOn.
	
	* Added RichReplyMethods.errorInvalid, a nice helper method for
	sending errors about invalid values.
	
	* Changed the --nonetwork and --noplugins options to test/test.py
	to --no-network and --no-plugins.
	
	* Changed plugins.makeChannelFilename, swapping the order of the
	channel and filename arguments and making the channel optional.
	
	* Changed the first argument to callbacks.Privmsg.callCommand to
	be a name rather than a method, for greater justice.
	
	* Added a new mechanism for ordering plugins (subclasses of
	callbacks.Privmsg) which is much more flexible than a simple
	priority system.

	
2004-09-06 James Vega <jamessan@users.sf.net>

	* Version 0.79.9999!

	* Added stripFormatting option to ChannelLogger plugin, which
	determines whether non-printable formatting characters are logged.

	* Added Sourceforge.patches command to complement the current bugs
	and rfes commands.

	* Added abs() to Math.calc.

	* Improved the interface for Config.list. Now groups and values
	are listed, with groups being denoted by a leading @.

	* Improved Config.config such that the user can specify the entire
	config variable name (conf.supybot....).

	* Fixed a bug where ChannelLogger wouldn't log ignored nicks.

	* Fixed an incorrect path in INSTALL.

	* Fixed some missing imports in Unix's configure method.

	* Fixed a bug where an owner could publically retrieve a private
	configuration variable.

	* Fixed an exception when trying to remove non-existent Heralds.

	* Fixed an exception in RSS.getHeadlines.

	* Fixed a couple bugs in Poll, when retrieving the Poll id.

	* Fixed a problem with trying to use socket.inet_pton under
	Windows; Python doesn't build their Win32 port with IPV6 support,
	so we have to brute-force IPV6 detection.

	* Fixed a few bugs with how Infobot handled the SQLite db.

	* Fixed others/convertcore.py so that liter-based units are
	properly capitalized (L not l) and use 1000 as the conversion rate
	for MB, KB, etc. since MiB, KiB, etc. are also known units.

	* Fixed a bug where Infobot would confirm an unaddressed factoid
	definition.

	* Fixed a problem where Google.stats didn't keep track of all
	searches.


2004-08-31 Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.79.999!

	* Added the ability to send long fortunes line-by-line rather
	than all in one (or several) messages; it will do this if
	supybot.reply.oneToOne is set to False.

	* Added many configuration variables to the Unix plugin, allowing
	configurable commands and options to those commands.

	* Changed the output of Config.list to show groups with a
	preceding @, rather than use the --groups option.

	* Changed the Google.stats (formerly Google.info) command to be
	persistent, using the registry to record old values for the
	number of searches made and the number of seconds Google has
	spent searching for the bot.

	* Added module __revision__ logging to our exception logs, for
	more information in bug reports.

	* Fixed a bug with asyncoreDrivers' handling of reconnects; it
	would not reconnect when commanded to if it had reconnected
	before.

	* Fixed several bugs where the bot was testing nicks for
	equivalence without first normalizing them, leading to some false
	negatives.

	* Fixed a bug with the handling of
	supybot.reply.withNoticeWhenPrivate so all private messages
	really are replied to with a notice.

	* Fixed Http.geekquote to match the current bash.org layout.
	Also, made sure all ids are valid ids before requesting a quote
	(apparently bash.org is returning a certain quote for all invalid
	ids).

	* Fixed a bad regular expression in the Ebay plugin which could
	cause the bot to suck up 100% CPU for a signficant (perhaps
	practically infinite) amount of time.

	* Fixed a bug where the bot would sometimes reconnect to a
	network after being told to disconnect.

	* Fixed an uncaught exception in Owner.connect when the user
	forgets the network name


2004-08-30  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.79.99!  We're getting asymptotically closer to
	0.80.0!

	* Added Anonymous.action, to anonymously perform actions in a
	specified channel.

	* Added a Karma.clear, so channel ops can clear the karma for a
	given name.

	* Added a Topic.redo, to redo the last undo.

	* Added supybot.protocols.irc.umodes, to allow the bot to set
	user modes upon connecting to a network.

	* Fixed numerous bugs involved with disconnecting, reconnecting,
	and using multiple networks.

	* Fixed a bug that would prevent the bot from quitting except via
	multiple Ctrl-Cs.

	* Fixed some mis-interaction between the Karma plugin and the
	Infobot plugin.

	* Fixed RSS's announcements.

	* Fixed bug in Later whereby no more than one message could be
	queued for a nick.

	* Fixed Services.configure, as well as several bugs in Services
	which sometimes prevented the bot from identifying.

	* Fixed bugs in the Poll module that caused the list and poll
	commands not to work.

	* Fixed the ebay snarfer.

	* Fixed exception raised by some CTCP messages when the URL
	plugin was loaded.

	* Fixed Debian.version.

	* Fixed Amazon's use of unicode.


2004-08-27  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.79.9!

	* Added Infobot, a plugin to emulate Infobot.

	* Added Anonymous, a plugin for anonymously saying things to a
	channel.

	* Added Tail, a plugin which will tail logfiles and send the
	new lines to a configurable list of targets.

	* Added NickCapture, a plugin which tries to recapture a nick
	that's being used by someone else, both by watching for QUITs
	with that nick and by checking via ISON for that nick.

	* Changed the behavior of "seen" with the --user switch instead to
	be a separated command, Seen.user.

	* Changed the behavior of "seen" with no arguments instead to be
	a separate command, Seen.last.

	* Moved the connect and disconnect commands from the Relay plugin
	to the Owner plugin, so a Supybot can be on multiple networks
	without ever loading the Relay plugin.

	* Added relay bot detection to the Relay plugin.  Now, rather
	than get involved in a loop with another relay bot, a Supybot
	will (if it has ops) rain down its wrath upon the offender.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Quotes.requireRegistration, which
	determines whether a user need be registered to add Quotes to
	the Quotes database.

	* Added supybot.plugins.RSS.showLinks, which determines whether
	the bot will show links to the RSS headlines along with the
	normally displayed titles.

	* Removed supybot.reply.withPrivateNotice and split it into two
	separate configuration variables, supybot.reply.withNotice and
	supybot.reply.inPrivate.

	* Added supybot.log.stdout.wrap, to allow optional (defaulting to
	True) wrapping of stdout logs.

	* Added supybot.databases.plugins.channelSpecific, a value that
	determines whether the database used for channel-based plugins
	will be a channel-specific database or a global database.  This
	value, ironically enough, is channel-specific -- channels can
	each individually decide to be "part of the Borg" or to "be their
	own channel."  The default, of course, is for databases to be
	channel-specific.

	* Changed the way channel databases are handled; instead of
	generating #channel-<name> files, instead we create a subdirectory
	of the data directory named #channel, and then stick all the files
	in there.  It's a much cleaner way to do things, in our opinion.

	* Added several configuration variables to the Status plugin to
	determine how verbose the cpu command is.  These are, of course,
	channel-specific.

	* Added a configuration variable to the Dunno plugin,
	supybot.plugins.Dunno.prefixNick, which determines whether the
	bot will prefix the nick of the user giving an invalid command to
	its "dunno" response.  Formerly, it never would; the default for
	this variable, however, is True, because that's how the rest of
	Supybot works.

	* Added Owner.rename, a command for renaming commands in other
	plugins.

	* Added Config.channel, for getting/setting channel configuration
	variables.

	* Fixed the problem with channels with dots or colons in them
	raising exceptions whenever the registry was accessed.

	* Changed Fun.eightball to provide a similar answer for a question
	asked multiple times.

	* Changed Fun.roulette to use a 6-barrel revolver.

	* Changed Bugzilla to use the registry, rather than a custom
	flatfile database format.

	* Added the KeepAlive plugin, to send useless keepalive messages
	to someone every some period.  It's mostly just because we
	noticed that MozBot had one, and we couldn't allow ourselves to
	be outdone.

	* Changed the URL plugin to use flatfiles rather than SQLite
	database.  Also reduced the functionality of the last command by
	removing some options that no one ever really used, and removed
	the random command (who uses that anyway?)

	* Changed the Words plugin not to use SQLite.  We lose the
	anagram command, but crossword and hangman become much easier to
	use, since all the user has to do is put a words file in
	data/words.

	* Changed the Relay plugin to rely only on the registry, allowing
	it to start and join all networks and channels with no user/owner
	interaction at all.  Also, removed the Relay.say and
	Relay.reconnect commands, since both can be accomplished easily
	using the Relay.command command in combination with
	Owner.reconnect and Anonymous.say commands.

	* Added supybot.reply.withNoticeWhenPrivate, to make the bot
	reply with a notice when it privately messages a user -- this
	generally means that the user's client won't open a query window,
	which may be nice.  Do note that users can override this setting
	via the user registry variable of the same name.

	* Added supybot.nick.alternates, which allows a list of alternate
	nicks to try, in order, if the primary nick (supybot.nick) is
	taken.  Also added a nick-perturbation function that will change
	supybot.nick if there are no alternates or if they're all taken
	as well.  As a result, removed supybot.nickmods.

	* Changed ChannelLogger to log channels to logs/ChannelLogger,
	rather than simply logs.

	* Added the ChannelRelay plugin, to relay messages between two
	channels.  This might be useful for people who want to forward
	CVS update messages from one channel (such as #commits) to
	another.

	* Added Channel.mode, to set modes in the channel, Channel.limit,
	to set the channel limit, Channel.moderate and
	Channel.unmoderate, to set +m and -m, respectively, and
	Channel.key to set or unset the channel keyword.

	* Added a new plugin, Format, which offers several commands for
	formatting strings on IRC.  Moved several commands from to it
	from the Utilities plugin.

	* Improved the functionality of RSS.announce.  Calling it with
	no arguments now lists the currently announced feeds.  Removing
	feeds is done by specifying the --remove option.

	* Added a reconnect command to the Owner plugin.

	* Added aol and rainbow filters to the Filter plugin.

	* Added Nickometer plugin, a translation of Infobot's Nickometer.

	* Added multiple recipient support for notes.

	* Added BadWords.list, to list the bad words currently being
	censored by the bot.

	* Changed Misc.help to allow plugins to specify their own help,
	and added help for several of the more confusing plugins.

	* Added Dunno.stats, to return the number of dunnos in the
	database.

	* Added the Currency plugin, to perform currency conversions.

	* Added conf.supybot.plugins.Karma.allowSelfRating, which
	determines whether users are allowed to adjust the karma of their
	current nick.

	* Added --nolimit option to Misc.last, which causes it to return
	all matches that are in the history.

	* Added conf.supybot.plugins.Herald.defaultHerald, which provides
	a default herald to use for unregistered users.  Herald.default
	was also added as a friendly interface to managing the
	defaultHerald.

	* Added Weather.wunder, which uses wunderground.com to report the
	current weather status.

	* Changed supybot.defaultCapabilities to be a space-separated
	list rather than a comma-separated list.  Also added a check to
	make sure -owner was in supybot.defaultCapabilities, and to
	require a command-line option to allow it not to be present.

	* Added Sourceforge.fight, which returns the list of specified
	projects and their bug/rfe count in sorted order, least to most.

	* Added Utilities.reply for replying to a person with text.  Like
	echo, but it prepends the nick like the bot normally does.

	* Changed Utilities.success to accept an optional <text> argument
	for text to be appended to the success message.

	* Changed User.{addhostmask,removehostmask,register,unregister}
	to allow owner users to do what they will with their users.  You
	can now add hostmasks, remove hostmasks, register users, and
	unregister users willy-nilly.

	* Changed and moved several configuration variables.
	supybot.{throttleTime,maxHistoryLength,pingServer,pingInterval}
	all moved to supybot.protocols.irc; supybot.httpPeekSize moved to
	supybot.protocols.http; supybot.threadAllCommands moved to
	supybot.debug.threadAllCommands, and probably a few others I
	forgot to mention.

	* Added Http.zipinfo, which returns a veritable plethora of
	information about the supplied zip code.

	* Added a configuration variable for every plugin, "public", that
	determines whether the plugin is considered public (i.e., whether
	it will show up in the list command when the list command isn't
	given the --private option).

	* Added Misc.author, a command for finding out which author
	claims a particular plugin.

	* Added Topic configuration supybot.plugins.Topic.format template
	string allowing full customization of the Topic items.

	* Added Topic.lock and Topic.unlock, for locking and unlocking
	the topic (setting +t or -t, respectively)

	* Added Topic.restore, for restoring the topic to the last-sent
	topic.  Useful for when people change your carefully crafted
	topic by means other than the bot.

	* Changed supybot.brackets so you can now provide the empty
	string, which means you cannot do nesting of commands.

	* Added Utilities.last, which replies with the last string
	given to it.  This is useful for sequencing commands and then
	replying with the output of the last commnad.

	* Updated RSS.info to accept a feed name as well as a url.

	* Added a signal handler for SIGTERM, so you folks killing your
	bots uncleanly won't have as many bugs :)

	* Added a signal handler for SIGHUP that reloads the bot's
	various configuration files.

	* Added a new configuration variable, supybot.pidFile, which
	determines what file the bot should write its PID to.  The
	default is not to write the PID file at all.

	* Added a comma argument to utils.commaAndify, which specifies the
	character to use in place of the comma.


2004-04-16  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.77.2!

	* Fixed numerous bugs, high and low, big and small and
	in-between.  Definitely worthy of a release.

	* Added supybot.plugins.ChannelLogger.includeNetworkName, so the
	logs aren't strangified when relaying between channels.

	* Added a --capability option to User.list, to allow people to
	list all the users possessing a certain capability.  The main
	reason this was added is so jemfinch can tell who owns which
	Supybots on #supybot :)

	* Added Utilities.success, mostly for making aliases such that
	they can respond with success if no errors were encountered in
	any nested commands.

	* Changed the name of the new filter, colorstrip, to be
	stripcolor.  Better now than after it was highly established :)

	* Added configuration variables
	supybot.plugins.Services.NickServ.password (which replaces the
	old supybot.plugins.Services.password) for specifying the
	NickServ password, as well as
	supybot.plugins.Services.ChanServ.{op,halfop,voice}, which
	determine what the bot should request of ChanServ when it
	identifies or joins a channel.  These latter variables are, of
	course, channel variables.

	* Added configuration variable
	supybot.plugins.Babelfish.languages (which replaces the old
	supybot.plugins.Babelfish.disabledLanguages) for specifying
	which languages will be translated/spoken.

	* Fixed bug #863601, plugin BadWords fails on color codes.

	* Replaced Sourceforge.{rfe,bug} with Sourceforge.tracker, which
	can query any tracker type (not just RFEs and bugs) and responds
	with more information, a la trackerSnarfer.

	* Added supybot.log.individualPluginLogfiles, which determines
	whether plugin logs will be logged to their individual logfiles
	in addition to the misc.log logfile.

	* Added supybot.plugins.WordStats.ignoreQueries, which, when
	true, makes the bot ignore queries (and not increment its word
	statistics).

	* Added the LogToIrc plugin, for sending logs to an IRC
	channel or nick.  Useful for traceback notification and whatnot.

	* Changed supybot.log.timestampFormat to specially handle the
	empty string -- if it's set to the empty string, it will log
	times in seconds-since-epoch format.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Weather.convert, which determines whether
	or not Weather.{weather,cnn,ham} will convert temperature to the
	configured temperatureUnit.

	* Changed User.setpassword not to require the <old password> to
	be correct if the requesting user has the owner capability (and
	isn't the owner himself).

	* Added ircutils.strip{Bold,Reverse,Underline,Formatting}, which
	will remove the specified formatting or all forms of formatting
	in the case of stripFormatting.


2004-04-09  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.77.1!

	* Added supybot.reply.errorWithNotice to make the bot give its
	error messages in a notice.

	* Added Filter.colorstrip, an outfilter that strips all color
	codes from messages.

	* Added supybot.plugins.BadWords.{replaceMethod, nastyChars,
	simpleReplacement, requireWordBoundaries}; see the associated
	help strings to find out what they do.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Babelfish.disabledLanguages, to disable
	certain languages from being translated/spoken.

	* Added supybot.reply.maximumMores, to give users the ability to
	set the maximum number of "more" chunks replies will generate.

	* Added supybot.reply.truncate, to turn off the normal chunking
	of replies that later can be retrieved with the more command.
	Setting this variable to On means that no chunks will ever be
	created.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Enforcer.takeRevengeOnOps, which makes
	the bot even take revenge on #channel,ops who try to violate the
	channel configuration.  Of course, such people can change the
	channel configuration to their bidding, but it's a decent
	protection against errant botscripts or something.

	* Added supybot.plugins.Channels.alwaysRejoin, to make the bot
	always rejoin when it's kicked.

	* Added supybot.databases.users.hash, allowing those running bots
	to specify the default hashed/unhashed state of user passwords in
	the config file.

	* Added Debian.bug, which retrieve bug info from Debian's BTS.

	* Changed Relay.names to Relay.nicks, to be consistent with
	Channel.nicks.

	* Added supybot.brackets, a configuration variable for specifying
	which set of matching brackets to use for nested commands.  Valid
	values are [] (the default), {}, <>, and ().

	* Added a configuration variable to ChannelLogger, timestamp,
	which determines whether the bot will timestamp its logfiles.
	This is a channel-specific variable, of course.

	* Updated ChannelLogger not to log messages starting with
	[nolog], in order to allow private information to remain private.

	* Added a configuration variable to ChannelLogger,
	flushImmediately, to cause all channel logs to be flushed every
	time they're modified, for those people who like to read the logs
	through tail -f or something similar.

	* Updated WordStats to allow removing of tracked words.

	* Updated Seen.seen to accept no arguments and return the last
	message spoken by anyone.

	* Updated the Herald plugin to use the standard substitute until
	we get it updated to use commands as heralds instead of plain
	strings.

	* Updated echo to use the standard substitute on its reply.

	* Updated Network.whois so that it can now retrieve
	information on all domains.

	* Updated the Weather plugin to be retrieve weather from either
	hamweather.net or cnn.com.  Also added
	supybot.plugins.Weather.{command,temperatureUnit} so that you can
	specify which command (Weather.cnn or Weather.ham) to use when
	Weather.weather is called and in which unit (C, F, K) to report
	the weather.

	* Updated standard replies (such as supybot.replies.success, etc.)
	to use the standard substitute (such as $nick, $who, $channel,
	etc.) in their text.

	* Fixed snarfers to respect lobotomies.

	* Fixed Admin.join not to add the channel to the supybot.channels
	registry entry if joining the channel wasn't successful.

2004-02-20  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.77.0!

	* Changed the format of the user and channel databases to
	something much more readable and user-editable.  Be sure, if
	you're upgrading, to run tools/ircdbConvert.py on your user and
	channel databases *BEFORE* installing the new version.

	* Updated almost every document we have, and added a
	GETTING_STARTED document.  Yay!

	* Added several new options for Channel.kban: --exact, --nick,
	--user, --host, for more flexibility in determining what the
	banmask is.

	* Added a Scheduler plugin for scheduling events to occur at
	specific times.

	* Added a Herald plugin for announcing to the channel the arrival
	of certain users.

	* Changed the reply method of the irc object given to plugins not
	to require a msg object.

	* Added inter-factoid references for MoobotFactoids.  Simply
	define a factoid as "see <factoid-key>" (and nothing else) and it
	will automatically go pick up the value for that factoid and
	display it in its place.  Sort of a "symlink" for MoobotFactoids.

	* Added the ability to reply to factoids without the "whatis" in
	the Factoids plugin.  Now, you can use "@foo" instead of "@whatis
	foo".

	* Added --{from,to} and --sent options to Note.sent.

	* Changed Note.get to simply be "note".  Instead of "note get
	145", you should use "note 145".

	* Changed channel capabilities to use a comma to separate the
	channel from the capability instead of a period.  This is because
	channels can include periods (but not commas) and since we now
	allow "plugin.command" capabilities, there's no way to know
	whether a given dot is separating the channel from the capability
	or the plugin from the command.

	* Removed Admin.setprefixchar, since it's unneeded with the new
	configuration.

	* Removed Status.bestuptime, since it was buggy and no one felt
	like maintaining it.

	* Added Http.cyborg, a fun little command for getting cyborg
	abbreviations for names.

	* Added Sourceforge.totalbugs and Sourceforge.totalrfes

	* Removed Owner.{set,unset} since they matter not.

	* Made the smileys and frowns configurable in ChannelDB.

	* Added a vast array of new configurables -- check out the various
	config commands in Configurable plugins to see.

	* Added better error reporting for Admin.join, explaining to the
	user if the bot can't join the channel.

	* Added a title-snarfer to the URL plugin.

	* Added Relay.command, a command for sending commands to the bot
	on a different network.

	* Added Bugzilla.search, a new command for searching a bugzilla
	installation

	* Added an INVITE handler in Admin, allowing users with the admin
	capability to INVITE the bot to a channel.  There's also a config
	variable, alwaysJoinOnInvite, that will cause the bot to join
	a channel whenever someone invites it to a channel, not just users
	with the admin capability.

	* Added conf.requireChannelCommandsToBeSentInChannel for requiring
	all channel-related commands to be sent in the channel.

	* Added conf.followIdentificationThroughNickChanges for having the
	bot update user's identified hostmask when they change nicks.

	* Added conf.replyWhenNotAddressed, a configuration variable for
	having the bot always attempt to parse a message as a command.

	* Added conf.replyWhenAddressedByNick, a configuration variable
	for having the bot *not* respond when addressed by his nick.

	* Added conf.replyWithNickPrefix, a configuration variable for
	having the bot not prefix the nick of the person giving a command
	to the reply.

	* Changed all "zegrep" stuff to "zgrep -e" stuff, since zegrep is
	on fewer platforms than zgrep.

2003-12-12 Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.76.1!  The birthday release!

	* Fixed a bug in irclib.py that could cause the bot to loop,
	connecting and disconnecting from the server because it didn't
	think the server responded to its PING.

	* Fixed a bug in the Services implementation that could cause
	the bot to continually loop, connecting and disconnecting from the
	server.

	* Fixed Misc.help to follow the same default plugin rules that the
	rest of the bot follows.

	* Added better error reporting to Admin.join, so the various error
	conditions that might make the bot incapable of joining a channel
	will be reported.

	* Updated RootWarner to be configurable, offering each channel the
	ability to define whether or not people who IRC as root will be
	warned, what that warning will be, and whether or not they should
	be kicked.

	* Added a configurable 'topic-sync' to the Relay plugin to
	determine whether the topics of the two channels should be kept
	synchronized.

	* Added Lookup.search for searching the various loaded lookups.

	* Added Topic.reorder, a new command for reordering the topics in a
        specific manner.

	* Added Topic.list, a new command for listing the topics in a
	channel (mostly in order to help out with Topic.reorder :))

	* Added Http.extension, a new command to retrieve file extension
	information from filext.com.

	* Updated Todo.remove to allow removing multiple taskids

	* Updated Relay.whois to include a user's away status and identified
        state, if the server supports it.

	* Added utils.sorted, which does what list.sorted will do when 2.4
	is released.

	* Added ircutils.isCtcp, for determining whether or not a message
	is a CTCP message.

2003-12-6  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@supybot.org>

	* Version 0.76.0!

	* Added a "trusted" capability that defaults to off (-trusted) and
	is required for Utilities.re (with which it's possible to DoS the
	bot) and for the new Math.icalc (with which it is trivially
	possible to DoS the bot).

	* Added Math.icalc, a new command for doing integer arithmetic.
	It requires the "trusted" capability.

	* Added the Fun.ping command, because MozBot has it.

	* Added Note.unsend command, to allow users to "unsend" notes
	they've sent but whose recipient has not yet read.

	* Added Channel.{deop,devoice,dehalfop,kick}.

	* Added Http.size and Http.doctype and Http.headers to retrieve
	various meta-information on URLs.

	* Added a ranking to ChannelDB.wordstats.

	* Added Karma.most for determining various "mosts" in the Karma
	database.

	* Added User.list command to list registered users.

	* Added 'roulette' command to Fun plugin.

	* Added a Channel.lobotomies command to list the channels in which
	the bot is lobotomized.

	* Added a swap function to Math.rpn.

	* Changed the name of User.changeusername to User.changename.

	* Changed the logging infrastructure significantly; each plugin
	now has its own logger (and thus logfile), in addition to being
	logged in the main logfile.

	* Fixed bug in which the bot wouldn't rejoin channels after a
	reconnect.  Thank the Lord for tcpkill :)

	* Fixed Http.freshmeat for projects with a space in their names.

	* Changed RSS so RSS feed commands may be added while the bot is
	running, and so added RSS feed commands are in the RSS plugin.

	* Changed Lookup so added lookups are added in the Lookup plugin
	itself so there's no dependency on Alias, and so loaded lookups
	can be seen via 'list Lookup'.

	* Fixed bug #850931 as well as several other minor bugs in
	Utilities.re.

	* Fixed bug #851254, Factoids.whatis didn't work on numeric keys.

	* Added the ability to turn on/off the showing of ids in FunDB
	excuse/insult/praise/lart.

	* Added the to= keyword argument to the various reply functions to
	you can specify a target to send the message to.

	* Changed socketDrivers to allow more time (10x more, to be exact)
	for connecting to the network than for the normal read.

	* Fixed a bug in Http.weather that would cause an ugly error
	message for a command like "weather hell".

	* Added the number of strings to the Fun.object output.

	* Fixed bug in RSS.configure; no aliases could be added.

	* Changed Alias.freeze to Alias.lock.

	* Fixed sorting in Status' uptime database.

	* Updated the Gameknot tests for expired games, and updated the
	Gameknot plugin to handle such links in its snarfer.

	* Added a 'server' attribute to Irc objects to unify the way to
	access such information.

	* Added revision command for finding out the revision of the files
	in a running bot; also added __revision__ strings so CVS would be
	happy to keep such information for us :)

	* Fixed bug #848475 -- bad error message from regexp-expecting
	commands.

	* Stopped listing the plugin dispatcher command in the list of
	commands for that plugin.

	* Fixed bug in Gameknot.gkstats when retrieving the stats for
	users who haven't yet played a game.

	* Added a numUsers() method to ircdb.UsersDB (ircdb.users).

2003-11-18  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@users.sf.net>

	* Changed commands so that plugins no longer have to make sure
	that their commands are unique within the bot.  Ambiguous commands
	will reply with an error message and instruct the user to
	disambiguate the command by prefixing with the appropriate plugin
	name.. Many commands that formerly contained the plugin name (or a
	portion thereof) have had it removed, and many plugins have had
	their names changed so prefixing a command with the plugin name is
	less bulky.  Rather than list each individual example, you can
	read the plugin documentation posted at ***TODO***

	* Renamed numerous plugins: OwnerCommands became Owner,
	AdminCommands became Admin, ChannelCommands became Channel,
	MiscCommands became Misc, UserCommands became User, URLSnarfer
	became URL, Notes became Note, FunCommands became Fun, IMDB became
	Movies, and Aliases became Alias.

	* Made aliases persistent across reloads/bot restarts.  You should
	probably change your botscripts not to add the aliases onStart, but
	(assuming those aliases don't change) it should still work fine.

	* Added the ability for users to specify that their passwords
	should be hashed on disk.

	* Added MoobotFactoids plugin for moobot-style factoids (which are
	meant to mimic blootbot-style factoids).  People used to
	traditional IRC bot factoids plugins will probably find this
	plugin more to their taste than Factoids.

	* Added Ebay plugin for snarfing eBay URLs as well as getting info on
	certain auctions.

	* Added monitoring of occurrences of certain words on a per-user
	basis, adding two new commands to ChannelDB (addword and
	wordstats).

	* Added Bugzilla module for accessing various data in Bugzilla
	pages.

	* Added QuoteGrabs module which allows people to grab interesting
	quotes from other people and store them in the bot for later retrieval
	(also optionally have the bot randomly snarf quotes).

	* Added a "change" command to change factoid values in the Factoids
	plugin.

	* Added Dunno plugin as an optional replacement for the boring 'no
	such command' response.

	* Changed FundB to allow accessing excuses, larts, and praises by
	id.

	* Added substitutions for 'me' and 'my' in insult/praise/lart.

	* Added 'change' and 'old' commands for News.

	* Added ASPN Python Cookbook URL snarfer.

	* Moved karma out of ChannelDB and into its own Karma plugin.

	* Moved uptime-related commands to from FunDB to the Status plugin.

	* Renamed the Network.internic command to whois, since we can now fix
	ambiguity by prefixing the plugin name.

	* Removed the "googlesite" function.

	* Removed "dictserver" command in favor of using the Configurable
	framework with the Dict plugin instead.

	* Removed TwistedCommands plugin to the sandbox; the one command
	it provided (dict) is now better provided in the Dict plugin.

	* Removed the Moobot plugin (the commands were moved to the Fun
	plugin or dropped entirely).

	* Removed all example strings from plugins.  To be replaced with an
	automated process later.

	* Converted several plugins to the new Configurable plugin type
	Plugins modified include Bugzilla, ChannelDB, Dict, Ebay,
	Enforcer, Gameknot, Google, Python, Relay, and URL (formerly
	URLSnarfer).

	* Changed ChannelDB database to use integer user ids instead of text
	usernames.

	* Changed Http.geekquote to use multiline geekquotes (and removed
	the option to do so, since it's now the default).

	* Added a --id switch to geekquote to pick a specific geekquote.

	* Changed most commands in News to require the 'news' capability.

	* Changed Relay.names output to show (and sort by) status in the
	channel.

	* Removed 'relaycolor' command in favor of Configurable framework.

	* Added total memory usage to 'cpustats' output for several *nix
	platforms.

	* Removed the total percentage of CPU time from 'cpustats'.  Not
	only was it inaccurate, but we needed the room for memory stats.

	* Changed Topic.shuffle to ensure that the topic is actually
	shuffled.

	* Changed all commands which take an index (various Topic and
	Factoids commands) to index from 1 instead of 0.

	* Fixed several bugs in Unix.spell whereby the bot could be
	frozen.

	* Changed the name of the "bug" command in the AdminCommands
	plugin to "reportbug" instead.

	* Added QUIT stat-keeping to ChannelDB.

	* Removed the OwnerCommands.say command; it wasn't useful enough,
	and is so easily written that anyone can have it back if they want
	it.

	* Changed OwnerCommands.load (and reload) to be case-insensitive,
	so "load funcommands" works just as well as "load FunCommands".

	* Changed the keyword parameter "needed" to privmsgs.getArgs to be
	"required" instead.  It just sounds better, works with "optional"
	better, and we won't get an opportunity later to change it.

	* Updated IrcObjectProxy.reply to allow a "notice" boolean keyword
	to determine whether or not to reply via a notice.

	* Added privmsgs.urlSnarfer, a wrapper around snarfer methods that
	handles both the threading and the limiting of replies so loops
	between two snarfing bots can't happen.

	* Added structures.PersistentDictionary for dictionaries that
	should be saved to a file in repr()ed form.

	* Added structures.TwoWayDictionary for dictionaries that should
	map keys to values and vice versa.

	* Added a curry function to fix.py for doing currying (if you
	don't know what it is, don't worry about it :))

	* Added utils.depluralize to do the opposite of utils.pluralize.

	* Added utils.safeEval for safe evaluation of Python data
	structures (lists, dictionaries, tuples, numbers, strings, etc.,
	but no operations on them).

	* Added utils.saltHash for handling the hashing of passwords with
	a salt.

	* Added plugins.standardSubstitute to do standard substitutions
	for things like $who, $nick, $channel, etc.

	* Added plugins.Configurable, a plugin mixin that allows easy
	specification and persistence of configurable data on a global and
	per-channel basis.

	* Fixed plugins.ChannelDBHandler (and added plugins.DBHandler) to
	be threadsafe, so threaded plugins could still use a database, and
	non-threaded database-using plugins could still receive the
	results of a threaded command.

	* Removed ircutils.privmsgPayload and ircutils.shrinkList, both of
	which existed prior to the addition of more, and aren't needed
	anymore.


2003-10-12  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@users.sf.net>

	* Version 0.73.1!

	* Fixed a bug in Math.{calc,rpn} where certain functions
	("degrees" in particular) that didn't like complex arguments would
	fail on numbers on which they shouldn't.

	* Added an optional "key" argument to ChannelCommands.cycle.

	* Fixed bolding in supybot-wizard.py.

	* Fixed handling of the secure flag by ircdb.IrcUser.setAuth;
	previously it didn't prevent someone with an unmatched hostmask
	from identifying.

	* Fixed imports in the DCC plugin.

	* Fixed a bug where the bot would not reply to nick-addressed
	messages on a channel if his nick wasn't entirely lowercased.

	* Fixed the Relay plugin to relay topic changes; an oversight not
	caught earlier because supybot has for a long time managed our
	topics.

	* Fixed a bug in the Services plugin where the bot would ghost
	himself if his nick didn't match in case the nick given.

	* Added the ability for PrivmsgCommandAndRegexp to have regexps
	that are called *after* callbacks.addressed has been called on the
	message -- see ChannelDB.{increase,decrease}Karma for an example.

	* Fixed bug in supybot-wizard.py where plugins without configure
	functions would raise an uncaught exception.

	* Fixed debincoming to work since the removal of baseplugin; it
	was missing an import.

	* Fixed MiscCommands.doPrivmsg to send an IrcObjectProxyRegexp to
	the replyWhenNotCommand function.

	* Fixed debversion to display the correct output when no matching
	packages were found.

	* Fixed ChannelDB to import conf; karma didn't work otherwise.

	* Fixed a bug in the Enforcer plugin that would cause the bot to
	ban everyone from the channel whenever ChanServ deopped someone.

	* Changed the "whois" command in the Network plugin to "internic"
	instead.

2003-10-05  Jeremy Fincher  <jemfinch@users.sf.net>

	* Version 0.73.0!

	* Added the News plugin, news handling for channels.

	* Changed the initial character of anti capabilities to '-'
	instead of '!'.  '!' can be the initial character in a channel
	name, and so any command using getChannel and accepting a
	capability as its first argument (several in ChannelCommands) will
	have difficulties (the channel then *must* be specified since
	getChannel will consider !capability to be a channel name).  Note
	that this means you'll need to either remove and re-create or edit
	your config files to change ! to - in capabilities.

	* Removed the "cvsup" command; it's been useless since we had a
	global install, and can only serve to confuse.

	* Added a "private" command to MiscCommands to allow users to
	specify that a response should be made in private.

	* Added a "secure" flag to user database records that *requires*
	that one of the user's hostmasks match if the user is to be
	recognized.  This flag may be set with the "setsecure" command.

	* Added a convert command to the Math plugin.  More conversions
	are necessary, if anyone's interested in doing it.  The available
	units are available via the "units" command.

	* Fixed the pydoc command to allow access to standard Python
	modules that are shared libraries rather than pure Python code.

	* Added a "Python" plugin and moved FunCommands.{pydoc,zen} to
	it.

	* Fixed the supybot- scripts to use optparse so they now
	accept many command line options (but most importantly, the --help
	option :))

	* Added a debincoming command to the Debian plugin; it searches
	the available packages at http://incoming.debian.org/

	* Moved the "bug" command from MiscCommands to AdminCommands in
	order to prevent possible abuse.

	* Changed ChannelDB.seen to default to using nicks; a --user
	option can be passed to use the old behavior.  Note that this
	means you'll have to update your ChannelDB database; use this
	SQL statement to do so:
	    CREATE TABLE nick_seen (
	    name TEXT UNIQUE ON CONFLICT REPLACE,
	    last_seen TIMESTAMP,
	    last_msg TEXT
	    );