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

4.0.1

Bugfix release for version 4.0.

• Fix issues with message splitting
• Fix minor issue in setup procedure which precluded packaging for some Linux distros
• Minor code cleanup

Known issues:

• The lock() and unlock() methods of the WIllieMemory class do not work.

v4.0.0

Changes between 3.2.0 and 4.0.0

Module changes

• The following modules have been moved to the willie-extras repository:
  • ai
  • bucket
  • fuckingweather
  • nws
  • roulette
  • twit
  • slap
  • oblique
• The information of the last URL seen in a channel can now be replayed with
  .title
• The YouTube module was reworked to use the YouTube JSON API
• The IP module is now independent of 3rd party services, and requires a local
  copy of the (free) GeoLite database. If such database is not installed,
  Willie will download it automatically.
• .commands now gives better output (no more truncated output due to message
  length limit)
• Added a unit conversion module
• Better handling for non-Unicode page titles in the URL titler
• Removed bing support from search
• Various minor improvements and bugfixes across all modules

Core changes

• Module discovery was reworked. Willie will now try to load additional modules
  from ~/.willie/modules by default, if installed.
• The home directory, usually ~/.willie, can now be configured by adding
  homedir under [core]
• The location of PID files can now be configured by adding pid_dir under
  [core]
• Willie can now be run as a systemd service
• Case sensitivity in nick blocking is fixed
• Better handling of ping timeouts (connection problems)
• Major code cleanup

API changes

• Improved Unicode UTF-8 support across all codepaths
• Triggers, and the appropriate attributes thereof, are now unicode objects
• Decorators were introduced for setting attributes on callables, available in
  willie.module
• The NOLIMIT return value was moved from the Willie class to
  willie.module
• Callables with the same name in different modules no longer override each
  other
• willie.channels is now properly maintained
• trigger.isvoice can now be used to determine if a user has voice privileges
• Added the max_messages parameter for willie.msg() and willie.say(). See
  documentation for details.
• Added interval callable support (see documentation for details)
• Numerous minor features, and stability and usability fixes

v3.2.0

Changes between 3.1.2 and 3.2.0

• tools.Nick class added for RFC-compliant nickname comparison and storage
• Returning willie.NOLIMIT from a callable ignores the rate limit for that
  call
• get_list() added to ConfigSection. Will reliably return a list from a
  config attribute.
• A number of bugs regarding admin and operator lists were fixed
• Unusual mode changes no longer cause errors
• Times shown by .t, .in, etc. all now use formats set by .settimeformat
• sed feature can use backslashed slashes in substitutions
• Weather module was rewritten, and now uses Yahoo! Weather
• Numerous stability and usability fixes