Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 14:32:54 -0800
From: Robey Pointer
Reply-To: eggdrop@sodre.net
To: eggdrop@sodre.net, eggdrop-devel@sodre.net, operlist@rocza.kei.com
Subject: %Eggdrop release: eggdrop 2.0
After several months of work, I'm finally ready to release eggdrop 2.0,
the final "this time I really mean final" version. There are some bug
fixes over the 1.1 release, plus many new features. The full list can
be found in the UPDATES file.
This is *definetly* the LAST eggdrop release I will do.
Microsoft has graciously donated FTP space for me, so the main site is
now: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/pub/eggdrop/eggdrop2.0.tar.gz
It may take a day for it to show up there (my uploads don't get put into
the right place until someone moves them). The mirrors will generally
have it about 24 hours after that. The web site is:
http://www.valuserve.com/~robey/eggdrop
with mirrors at:
http://www.texas.net/~barron/eggdrop
http://www.kindercare.com/~piker/eggdrop/
The web sites will store a version locally until Microsoft picks it up.
(This means you can go there NOW and get a copy, but it may be slow.)
Here are the most notable feature changes from 1.1 to 2.0:
* The userfile has been migrated into a distributed LDAP database.
When you first start the 2.0 bot it will convert the old text-based
userfile into an LDAP database which can be served to anyone. This
outdates the old "share-bot" system
* A full-featured MUD has been added ('.mud'). A botnet may be linked
into a pMOCK mud with '.plink' -- each botnet channel appears as a
different room on the mud.
* To appease opers, the bot will do a sequence of '/stats o' requests
and '/links' requests to maintain a list of opers online. Every 5
minutes it will send a PRIVMSG to all opers saying "This is an
eggdrop 2.0 bot." Opers not wishing to receive these notices should
put all eggdrop bots on /IGNORE.
* Windows/NT, Macintosh, and USRobotics Pilot ports completed.
* 'Robey' is hard-coded into the "owner" variable, read-only, for
security reasons.
* When opered, eggdrop will periodically send a random /KILL message
with the reason "clone bot" or "don't tell ME to shut up, BIATCH!"
This is to help make the bot hard to detect.
* The file system may double as an FTP server or web server.
* The exectuable is now only 26k on my Linux system. The rest exists
as a shared library which is downloaded from the eggdrop archive
right before starting up.
* All IRC communications are compressed with gzip. You will need a
gzip-capable IRC client to understand anything the bot says or
does on a channel. Currently eggdrop is the only gzip-compatible
IRC client.
* New config file setting 'set esp 1' will turn on advanced detection
of channel trouble-makers. Bashers and evil ones are detected and
banned before they actually join the channel.
* A color-scheme, incidentally completely incompatible with the ones
used by mirc and pirch, was added. Each color change is preceded
by the text "CoLoRcHaNgE:" and followed with "".
By default all info lines are displayed in blinking green.
* On Dalnet, if your bot's nickname is less than 31 characters, it
will fill in random characters until it is 31 characters long, to
appease Dalnet purists.
* Emacs c-lisp script language support was added, along with the
full emacs feature support. From an X client, to begin an emacs
session with your bot, do '.emacs [filename]'. Eggdrop should
no longer be considered a "bot". Instead, it is "the Eggdrop/
Emacs Operating System".
* '.whom' bug for isolated partylines was fixed (patch by Imoq)
* lots of other little changes
Robey
--
| Marge: Homer, that's not God, that's just a
Robey Pointer | waffle that Bart tossed up there!
robey@netscape.com | Homer: God, I know I shouldn't eat thee,
| but... *munch!* mmmmm, sacrelicious!
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