News

News - Last revised: April 16, 2003

What's new? First, read the following documents:

> - Compilation and Installation of Eggdrop
> - Readme
> - Frequently Asked Questions
> - Botnet Sharing and Linking
> - UPDATES1.6
> - Eggdrop Tcl Commands

All of these documents combined will help fill you in on the latest changes to Eggdrop in version 1.6.x.

A lot of things have changed in this version, so at a minimum, read the UPDATES1.6 text file. UPDATES shows what's been added and fixed along the way.

If you are upgrading from a pre-1.6 version of Eggdrop:

> 1. Before you start the bot for the first time, BACKUP your userfile.
> 2. DON'T USE YOUR OLD CONFIG FILE. MAKE A NEW ONE!

Changes made to Eggdrop 1.6.x from Eggdrop1.4.x:

!Channels

> Support for IRCnet !channels was added to Eggdrop. This might still be a bit buggy. We appreciate bug reports!

+/-nodesynch

> This new channel setting replaces the old 'allow-desync' config file setting. It is useful if you use some type of ChanServ or if you don't care about your channel being desynched.

Asynchronous Dns Module

> Eggdrop 1.6 is shipped with a new module, the dns module. It replaces those old dns-lookups performed by Eggdrop which could halt the whole bot during a timeout. We also added a new Tcl command, 'dnslookup', so scripts can now use DNS functions asynchronously, too. See Dns Module for more information.

Compress Module

> A new module called compress was introduced to Eggdrop. It provides gzip support to Eggdrop via Tcl commands and enables compressed userfile transfer. See Compress Module for more information.

IPv6 Support

> Eggdrop now supports version 6 of the IP protocol. See IPv6 for information about how to enable Eggdrop's support for IPv6.

Share Module

> The share module has a new setting now (override-bots) which allows hub bots to override the leaf bots' bot settings (botaddress, telnet port, and password). Please note that this won't work with a version 1.4 or below bot. See Share Module for more information.

Transfer / Filesys Modules

> The filesys and transfer modules have changed completely. Both can now handle unlimited filename lengths and description sizes. Incomplete downloads from the bot can also now be resumed. The db format of the filesys module was changed to remove the limits imposed by the old format. There's nothing special for you to do, as the old db is automatically converted to the new format when you first access it. You won't be able to downgrade to older versions after this, so you may want to make a backup first. See Transfer Module and Filesys Module for more information.

Uptime Module

> This module reports uptime statistics to http://uptime.eggheads.org. Go look and see what your uptime is! It takes about 9 hours to show up, so if your bot isn't listed, try again later. See Uptime Module for more information.

DCC Commands

> - ".nick" was renamed to ".handle". ".nick" will still be kept up to version 1.8.

> - ".chnick" was renamed to ".chhandle". ".chnick" will still be kept up to version 1.8.

> - ".binds" now supports wildcards.

> - ".halfop" and ".dehalfop" have been added.

> - The 'optimise' file system command was renamed to 'optimize'. The old command will still be kept up to version 1.8.

> - ".modules" now works locally as well as remotely.

> - Eggdrop now counts all of the traffic which it generates and receives through IRC, botnet, scripts, and dcc. You can access these statistics via the dcc command ".traffic". Please note that the counter gets reset every time a restart is done.

Channel Modes

> Support for IRCnet negative limits and DALnet's +R, +M, and +c channel modes has been added. Eggdrop now also supports halfops (+h).

Config Files

> - To support longer nicknames, as some IRC servers do, a new 'nick-len' setting was added.

> - Eggdrop uses strftime now to support different logfile suffixes. The new config file setting is 'logfile-suffix'.

> - A new 'pidfile' setting was added to allow you to specify the name of Eggdrop's pid file.

> - The 'strict-servernames' setting was removed.

Penalty Calculation

> Eggdrop calculates penalty points on IRCnet now, so it won't flood itself off anymore.

Tcl Commands

> - The 'chnick' command was renamed to 'chhandle'. The use of 'chnick' is deprecated. 'chnick' is still accessible if you load compat.tcl.

> - All three commands to add data to the queues (puthelp, putserv and putquick) now support the '-next' parameter which pushes data to the front of the queue.

> - A command to calculate md5 checksums, 'md5', was added.

> - To support the new asynch dns module, the command 'dnslookup' was added.

> - Four new commands regarding exempts/invites were added: stickexempt, unstickexempt, stickinvite, and unstickinvite.

> - A new 'wasop' command was added to check if a user had op before a mode change.

> - 'washalfop', 'ishalfop', and 'botishalfop' have been added.

> - Three new Tcl commands were added as part of the compress module: compressfile, uncompressfile, and iscompressed.

> - A new command to check whether the bot's nick is juped was added (isjuped).

> - The fileresend command was added to support mIRC's dcc resume feature.

> - A new bind type called 'NEED' was added which triggers when the bot needs op, unban, limit, key, or invite.

> - LOST and TOUT bind types were added.

> - Two new commands, 'channame2dname' and 'chandname2name', were added to allow scripts to support !channels.

> - A new evnt type, loaded, was added.

> - The 'setudef', 'renudef', and 'deludef' commands were added to allow for user-defined channel settings.

> - A 'traffic' command was added which returns a list of sublists containing information about the bot's traffic usage in bytes.

> - The CTCP bind type now supports wildcards.

> - The 'channel get' command was added to allow channel settings to be easily retrieved.

> - A 'handlen' variable was added (set to the value of the HANDLEN define in eggdrop.h. 'nick-len' was also renamed to 'nicklen' (the old variable will remain until version 1.8.

> - The 'server' variable now contains the server's realname instead of its serverlist entry regardless of the 'strict-servernames' setting.

> - The 'serveraddress' variable was added, which contains the server's serverlist address and port.

> - The 'onchan', 'botonchan', 'botisvoice', 'botisop', 'onchansplit', 'isop', 'isvoice', and 'handonchan' commands no longer require an argument.

> For more information about changed or added Tcl commands, see Eggdrop Tcl Commands.

Traffic Accounting

> Eggdrop now counts all of the traffic which it generates and receives through IRC, the botnet, scripts, and dcc. You can access these statistics via the dcc command '.traffic'. Please note that the counter gets reset every time a restart is done.

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