RK 2002-03-23 Implemented aliases, and allowed contraction of aliases.
RK 2002-04-24 DONETELL tag coloured as 'tell'
Adjusted how the CPU usage was shown in .stats
Guest users can no-longer use .request
Corrected spelling mistake in .userinfo
Changed how updated versions are sent to salmon.
RK 2002-04-25 You're-being-spoken-about highlighting added. If somebody
says something in the current group that contains your
username or one of your aliases, their name is highlighted
at the beginning of the line. .set colour nick to change.
RK 2002-04-26 Added the ability to give .who a group to limit the list to,
and added the alias .gwho for users of other talkers who
are easily confused.
Changed default nick highlight to BrWhite from BrWrite :)
Using .set colour on its own now lists the current values.
RK 2002-04-27 Added emoted shouts, using !: or !;
RK 2002-04-30 Masters are now told when a user connects/disconnects
invisibly.
Added prompts. If your client supports them, you can turn
them on using .set prompts on
Added some crude telnet negotiation munching.
RK 2002-05-01 Added .pemote (with a shorthand ::) and made the space on
remoted whispers get munched if the first character was
punctuation.
Added munching of punctuation to .emote, too.
Added pemoted shouts with !::
Implemented .login - It's a bit of a bodge, so people need
to experiment.
RK 2002-05-02 Added initial group at the login line, in the format:
username@group password
Message sent to all users when a .warn is issued now
capitalises the warnee's name as they're logged on, rather
than how the warner typed it.
Changed *lots* of bits to enable some form of CLIENT mode.
RK 2002-05-03 .name now changes the prompt to reflect their new name
straight away.
.set on its own no-longer says "unknown command."
.name can now be used to change the case of a user's name.
Added comments, via .comment and .comments
Added background colours, and simplified the colouring
stuff generally.
Enabled infinite idling, as a config option.
Forcing somebody no-longer affects their current idle time.
Added .idle command.
RK 2002-05-09 Fixed environment calculation so it doesn't leave a zombie.
Should hopefully be able to cope better with \n in packets.
Done some little bits to hopefully reduce CPU time usage.
Wrapping is now done before colouring to avoid apparently
silly things being wrapped when they shouldn't.
Your own name is no-longer highlighted when you .emote
Generally tidied up the message formatting.
RK 2002-05-14 Added multitells, and .reply
Fixed the read function to cope better with things that
send characters one at a time, rather than line at a time.
Implemented remote echo.
RK 2002-06-19 Too many changes to fully mention - speed ups, censors etc.
RK 2002-06-20 Added automatic age calculation for .info
Added .showlog command for masters
Added talker name to .stats and .who
RK 2002-06-28 Speed up secs() function by using cached value.
Rewrote .who - now much quicker, and gives more info.
New connections now have CR turned on by default.
Speed up normal talk formating.
You're no-longer told which group somebody connected in if
it is the same group as you.
Lists! .help list, for more information.
Fixed wrap indent value for .info
Lockable groups, invitations.
RK 2002-06-30 Fixed .groups formating.
.lists now has two lists, one for locked, and one for
unlocked.
.info's list of users is now formatted into columns.
.lists' list of lists is now in alphabetaical order.
RK 2002-07-01 You no-longer see your own connection message when you
connect. :)
Added happy-birthday thingies 'cause I was bored.
Added nick highlighting to lists.
You now get told when you whisper to a list you're not
a member of.
RK 2002-07-02 .who/.gwho is now sorted nicely.
You can now use .set info to change some of your .info
Moved things around in .info to make a little more sense.
A user's list subscriptions is now sorted in .info
RK 2002-07-05 Lists can now have hyphens in their names.
Fixed bug with .who when there were invisible users.
Wording of the .who/.gwho header is now more sensible.
Certian strange people complained that "> foo moo" didn't
work as they expected. Now it does.
Masters are treated as owners on lists they subscribe to.
.examine now tells you how idle somebody is, even if they're
marked "very idle"
Implemented .idlers for Rick.
Users who are idle now get square brackets in .look
RK 2002-07-06 Rewrote .lists to be slightly nicer.
RK 2002-07-07 .list pause and unpause implemented
.evict from groups implemented, with E priv.
RK 2002-07-12 You can no-longer .name people to invalid names.
Extensive priviledge logging changes.
.banuser now suffixes the reason with the user's real name,
not what they're logged in with currently.
Added log rotation.
You can now use certain commands at the login prompt.
Windows/Cygwin so I can do stuff on my laptop.
RK 2002-07-15 Now shows you your settings when you log on.
You can now turn off shouts, connection messages and lists
by using .set [shouts|messages|lists] [on|off]
Lots of under-the-bonet changes.
RK 2002-07-19 Locked groups are now unlocked when the last user leaves it.
You can nolonger log into a locked group using the intial
group function.
Tracking of locked groups and invitations is now done using
the "right way" rather than the "very wrong way."
RK 2002-07-20 Did the same for < as on 2002-07-05
Added .query for usernames, @groups and %lists.
">@ " and "<@ " now send to your current group (to escape
.query)
RK 2002-07-24 Added banning of hosts
Rewrote command parser - much quicker now.
RK 2002-07-26 User database fields are now properly escaped when saved!
The new parser now checks if you're allowed to execute a
command ;-)
Upgraded LVM to Lua 4.0.1.
RK 2002-07-29 Tweaked nick name contraction expansion.
RK 2002-08-05 New build system, more portable.
RK 2002-08-06 Frobbed tell and remote. You can now use contractions of
group names, and will error if you include a groupname
twice in multitells.
.shout now has a usage message.
.invite now accepts multiple users.
New .motd command that displays the message of the day.
RK 2002-08-10 Added .ignore and .unignore
RK 2002-08-11 Re-arranged fields in .list info to be more easily read.
Users from hosts that cannot be reverse resolved may now
log on as guests.
You can no longer force guest users off with *
.look can now take a group name to look in.
When a master merges a group, a sensible message is sent.
A user is now told when you ignore/unignore them, unless
you suffix "silently" to the command.
RK 2002-08-13 .wake can now take username contractions.
Updated command names to make them easier to read in .help
Fixed some grammatical errors in talker messages.
RK 2002-08-15 Much faster selectory, general optimisations here and here.
Fixed a possible security hole.
RK 2002-08-28 Added "Talk Bytes" to .info, which keeps track of the number
of bytes that a user has spoken in a group.
Stopped prompts using colour during a .query, even if the
terminal type was set to "Dumb".
.PEmote now has a usage message, and you can now pemote
inside a query without escapeing from it.
Multitells can now have spaces between entries, so the form:
>@public, -ogg, bob, cheese Hello!
are now possible. If there is a space, it must appear
after the comma and not before.
Group names can no-longer have commas in them in order to
make the above possible.
Some general tidying around the place.
RK 2002-08-29 Optimised a real CPU time eater: the colouring system.
Made the data send/read bits in .stats use prettyBytes().
RK 2002-08-30 Made a few little optimisations here and there.
Few misc. changes that I can't remember.
RK 2002-09-08 If a guest connects, it says they're a guest.
RK 2002-09-09 Did some tidying in .list info
Added memory usage of currently existing objects in .stats
Lists now expire after 4 weeks, unless made permanent by a
master.
RK 2002-09-19 Connections can now generate a beep.
RK 2002-02-23 Idle users are now displayed in .list info with the use of
square brackets, and people who have the list paused with
round brackets.
RK 2002-09-24 A user can now only have 5 non-permenant lists.
Rewrote .ungag to be cleaner, and fixed a problem where you
could ungag yourself.
RK 2002-09-27 Commands now only start with one dot - if two dots are seen,
it is considered a say.
RK 2002-10-05 Removed caching from reverse resolver, 'cause it was broken.
Some bits to make it more Debian package friendly.
RK 2002-10-08 Added "Bot" restriction - bots log on invisibly, and are not
visible in .who and .groups - use .bots to list them.
RK 2002-10-14 Added ability to change a user's account name, and rename
lists.
RK 2002-10-17 Added .set colour listname
RK 2002-10-29 Removed .reply, as it's nolonger there.
Fixed Z priv anti-idling
RK 2002-11-01 New more secure password storing. Old style passwords
should get automatically upgraded as they are used.
RK 2002-12-15 Fixed .login to accept new-style passwords.
RK 2003-01-22 .Alert now gets logged
RK 2003-03-13 Folded in nutta's .set width patch
RK 2003-03-19 Added customisable quit messages, and nutta's automatic
terminal width detection code.
RK 2003-03-25 Most fields in .info now have view permissions. If the
first character is *, then only registered users can
see it. If the first character is !, only masters can
see it.
RK 2003-07-04 You can now disable wrapping with .Set Wrap
Wrap width saved when you disconnect.
RK 2003-07-18 Documented .set lists, shouts and messages :)
Merged Kinnison's .set strip patch, for people who can't
cope with the sensible way of doing things.
New .lwho command - like .gwho, exept for lists.
RK 2003-07-19 Added BIRTHDAY! message to unidling.
.who, gwho, lwho now has a * column, to indicate people
whose username differs from their account name.
Added .LastOn command to tell you when a person, or
all the members of a list, were last seen.
Automatically created users done via external
authenticators now get their name truncated if it is
more than 10 characters long, rather than just
refusing to let them on.
RK 2003-07-20 New .Guest command for Masters to allow easy-logging on
of guest users.
You can now use .NameSelf to recapitalise your name.
RK 2003-07-21 .Invite can now take a multi-user specification.