rbot 0.9.12 is out!

Get it now!

Packaged as a Ruby gem, a gzipped tarball, and a zip file.

Fixes! Fixes! Fixes! Well, not just fixes: although bug squashing and other tweaks make up most of the changes between this version of your favourite Ruby IRC bot and the previous, two new features also managed to see the light in this release:

nick recovery

the bot will now try to recover the nick it's supposed to have

log rotation

finally, the long-standing request to have automatic log rotation in the bot has been fulfilled: the name IRC logs can now include (at your option) time information from the last message. Archival of past logs is left as an excerice to the reader.

Remember, extending rbot is easy and a lot of fun:

• reactions and inline scripts allow you to quickly define new ways to have the bot interact with users
• for more complex stuff, new plugins can easily be written and added at runtime: rbot exposes a powerful yet simple API just for that