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News

• 7th Jan 08 - Using Butler

  I started a new part of the manual - Using Butler. It highlights some plugins included by default and how to use them.

• 1st Jan 08 - Butler 1.9.0 released

  I'm proud to announce Butler 1.9.0, which marks the first beta release of the upcomming butler 2.

• 12th Dec 07 - Remote server

  And the second last step stone to go beta is here: remote connections (via telnet e.g.) to butler are now possible.
  In other news: another user of butler, Raxx, made me aware of a shortcomming in butler which made tutorial step 3 not work. I fixed that one too.

• 8th Dec 07 - Rev#500 & ISUPPORT

  So, finally I added ISUPPORT processing to butler. That meant I had to change quite a few bits of the parser as it has to recompile the regular expression to comply with the parameters given in ISUPPORT. This should allow butler to run on a broader set of servers without specific parsesets as long as they provide an ISUPPORT command.
  This commit also marks yet another milestone: we reached revision 500! It's also almost exactly 3 months since I started version 2 of butler.

• 7th Dec 07 - Butler 1.8.3

  I released Butler 1.8.3 today. I strongly recommend everybody to update to this version as 1.8.2 had a bug in the access framework. If you use previous versions, create a new bot, the structures are not completly compatible.
  Just copy your own plugins somewhere save and then delete the existing bots.

• 1st Dec 07 - Services

  Butler now has services. You may wonder why services. Services are something between ordinal libraries acquired via 'require' and plugins. The idea of services is to provide infrastructure shared along plugins. For example the first service added is 'strings', it enables your plugins to use random strings like for acknowledgment or rejection of an order. Another example would be the log service (soon to come) which provides an interface to logged data. It could be used by a plugin to search the logs, by a 'seen' plugin or a quotes plugin.

• 28th Nov 07 - Third alpha released

  Over a month, but butler isn't dead, don't worry. I was just a bit lazy texting news. Butler 1.8.2 brings a lot of changes and news, most prominent probably mappings and a much improved plugin to manage users, roles and privileges. I will put the NEWS and CHANGELOG online tomorrow.

• 27th Oct 07 - Second alpha released

  Butler ran stable and most API changes are done. There are still some left, but I think I'll get them all until the next release, so the next one will finally be a beta version.

• 26th Oct 07 - New website, finally

  I spent last week-end to rework the website and today I had the time to do the last few things. Nice side-effect: it should also work on IE mostly without special tweaking.

• 7th Oct 07 - Non-SVN alpha

  I released the alpha version as a public gem and tarball.
  Alpha mostly due to some changes to the API in planning and insufficient testing.