Version 4.1.0
Module changes
- Admin-only
.set
command can now set non-existent config values
- The meetbot
.endmeeting
command now works properly
- Significant improvements made to RSS module
- The database structure for storing RSS feeds has been modified. The module
will attempt to migrate old data.
- Command syntax has changed in multiple ways
.rss
help is now available with more detailed information on usage.
- Module is overall better-behaved and less buggy
- Traceback can now be attached to a GitHub issue from Willie’s logs
- GitHub module no longer puts “IRC” tag on issues it creates
- A
.listactions
command is added to allow actions to be listed before the
end of a meeting
- Dice now limits itself to 1000 dice, and output is cleaned up
- Willie now joins channels when invited
- Reddit module no longer gives an error if the submitter’s account has been
deleted
- A new
.comments
feature allows optional comments on meetings, e.g. from
those muted in the channel
.xkcd
is more robust, and can now access the nth-latest comic
- calc module now uses an internal calculator, rather than the discontinued
iGoogle calculator
Core changes
- Memory lock and unlock no longer cause errors
- Debugging target no longer needs to be a channel
- Whitespace can now be used in the command prefix
- Line numbers are given when modules fail to load
- Error messages are more consistent across core and modules
- Willie now retries joining channels if it fails initially
- SQLite is now the default and recommended database type
- MySQL remains supported; support may be dropped in a later version
MySQLdb
is no longer listed as a recommended dependency
- IRCv3 is now largely supported
- Willie can now authenticate with SASL
API changes
- Modules can now provide a
shutdown()
function to clean up when the bot is
quitting or the module is reloading
web.get
and web.post
can be told to limit how much they read from a URL,
to prevent malicious use
- A new
@unblockable
decorator allows callables to be run even when triggered
by otherwise blocked users
- Willie can now connect over IPv6
- If the channel given to
bot.join
contains a space, the part after the space
will be used as the password
- IRCv3 is now largely supported
- Modules can now request capabilities from the server.
- Message tags, if enabled, can be read from
trigger.tags