4.6.1

Changes between 4.6.0 and 4.6.1

This release starts preparations for Willie 5. See http://willie.dftba.net/willie_5.html
for more information.

Module changes (for users):

• Fix regression in table creations and erroneously changed column names

Core changes (for users):

• Fix regression in db update function

API changes (for developers):

• Correctly print out deprecation warnings

4.6.0

Changes between 4.5.1 and 4.6.0

This release starts preparations for Willie 5. See http://willie.dftba.net/willie_5.html for more information.

Module Changes (for users):

• The ^ operator in .calc is now equivalent to **
• .dice, .tr, and .addtrace give meaningful errors when no argument is given
• A number of database issues were fixed (more will be fixed in Willie 5)
• A number of Python 3-related issues were fixed.
• Malicious URLs are now detected with VirusTotal and malwaredomains
• .weather no longer shows pressure

Core changes (for users):

• The config wizard no longer configures the database, instead automatically creating a sqlite db
• MySQL and Postgres databases are deprecated; only sqlite will be supported in Willie 5
• Logging channel and level can be configured with logging_channel and logging_level in the config
• A --version switch was added to the willie command, to show the version in use
• Corrupt PID files will no longer prevent the bot from starting
• Non-ASCII values no longer crash the config wizard

API changes (for developers):

• Numerous functions were added to the db to ease the transition to Willie 5
• tools.Nick has been renamed tools.Identifier. Nick will be removed in Willie 5
• willie.web functions now specify a meaningful default user agent
• web.post now supports dicts as the payload, and can optionally return headers
• config.get was added as an alias to config.parser.get
• Callables can now handle more than one event by stacking decorators

4.5.1

Changes between 4.5.0 and 4.5.1

Module Changes (for users):

• Version checking module no longer causes an error at startup
• URL handling modules no longer repeat themselves after being reloaded
• .isup now adds a .com TLD if none is used
• IPython integration now works with older versions of IPython

4.5.0

Changes between 4.4.1 and 4.5.0

Module Changes (for users):

• Willie will now alert the owner at startup, and every 24 hours, when a new version is available
• .calc will now time out on excessively long calculations, and is less likely to error out
• .help now works properly for command aliases
• .help will now output multi-line help in multiple messages, rather than all at once
• A new .uptime command tells how long the bot has been running
• .length can now handle astronomical units
• Absolute vote counts are no longer shown in reddit output
• Using .setlocation without a location will no longer set your location to Italy
• Time units for .in are now case-insensitive
• .duck no longer gives a long, unrelated URL

Core changes (for users):

• Scheduled tasks now work properly under Python 3
• Willie no longer accepts partial matches for admin status

API Changes (for developers):

• Setting attributes on the bot object now works as expected
• The status code is now returned from web.get as _http_status in the headers
• web.get now attempts to decode based on headers, rather than assuming utf-8
• web.iri_to_uri is now available to decode internationalized domain names
• A willie.formatting module is now available to simplify IRC bold, underline and color formatting

4.4.1

Changes between 4.4.0 and 4.4.1

Module Changes (for users):

• RSS no longer checks for malformed XML
• Starting RSS manually after bot restart is no longer needed
• Youtube video search properly handles spaces
• The .at command defaults to UTC if user's timezone is not set

Core changes (for users):

• Ping timeout handling is working again
• bind_host configuration option is working again

4.4.0

Module Changes (for users):

• .cur behaves better when bad arguments are given
• Fixed numerous unicode errors
• Added a command to open an IPython console within the module context
• Added mass units and millimeters to the units module
• GitHub pull requests now get extended URL info
• .weather now displays wind in m/s instead of kts
• A security issue involving improperly named channel logs was fixed
• Misc bugfixes

Core changes (for users):

• Channel joins at bot startup can be rate limited with the throttle_joins option in the [core] config section to work around server limits
• Added the ability for SASL login where the nickname and username are different
• Improved loop protection and rate limiting
• Fixed multiple Python 3 errors
• Enable logging the bot in to Authserv at startup
• Added support for Postgres as the database backend
• SSL cert location detection now works on Debian-based systems
• Misc bugfixes

API Changes (for developers):

• Unicode in command decorators now works properly
• web.get now decodes the result from UTF-8, with a dont_decode argument to disable

4.3.0

Module Changes (for users):

• A new channel logging module is added
• Misc bugfixes, especially when running with Python 3

Core changes (for users):

• Fixed a regression that caused numerous errors in willie.web
• Misc bugfixes

API Changes (for developers):

• Nick instances now have an is_nick attribute, which is True when the value is a valid nickname (as opposed to a channel)

4.2.1

Module Changes (for users):

• A new .cur command can convert a number of currencies, including Bitcoin
• .c can now understand a comma used as a radix point (rather than a period)
• .w can now look in the Wikipedia for a specified (or configurable default) language
• Timezones are now more user-friendly, and used more consistently across modules
• Misc bugfixes

Core Changes (for users):

• willie.web now verifies HTTPS connections properly
• The SQLite database file respects use of ~ in the configured filename
• Willie can now run in Python 3
• Willie now depends on python-backports.ssl_match_hostname (see README.rst for installation instructions)
• Misc bugfixes

API Changes (for developers):

• trigger.is_privmsg is added for an easy way to see if a trigger was created in a private or channel message
• get_timezone and format_time are added to tools to make displaying time according to user/channel format easier
• Added bot.notice and an optinal notice parameter for bot.reply for easier sending of IRC NOTICE messages

4.2.0

Module Changes (for users):

• A new .cur command can convert a number of currencies, including Bitcoin
• .c can now understand a comma used as a radix point (rather than a period)
• .w can now look in the Wikipedia for a specified (or configurable default) language
• Timezones are now more user-friendly, and used more consistently across modules
• Misc bugfixes

Core Changes (for users):

• willie.web now verifies HTTPS connections properly
• The SQLite database file respects use of ~ in the configured filename
• Willie can now run in Python 3
• Willie now depends on python-backports.ssl_match_hostname (see README.rst for installation instructions)
• Misc bugfixes

API Changes (for developers):

• trigger.is_privmsg is added for an easy way to see if a trigger was created in a private or channel message
• get_timezone and format_time are added to tools to make displaying time according to user/channel format easier
• Added bot.notice and an optinal notice parameter for bot.reply for easier sending of IRC NOTICE messages

4.1.0

Module Changes (for users):

• 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 (for users):

• 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 (for developers):

• 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