tclscripts-BlackTools-TCL/BlackTools/README/CHANGELOG.txt

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                  BlackTools - The Ultimate Channel Control Script
                            One TCL. One smart Eggdrop
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+++ Change Log 2.5.3 (summary)
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**** GENERAL CHANGES
- All protections supports now addition of exceptions and customization of the ban method on each word.
- More major code changes for better and faster performance.
--- Other new commands have been added.
---- Fixed some ipv6 bugs.

**** SEEN
- Code fixes and enhancements.
-- Upgraded with a global seen search method.

**** EXEMPT
- Adds a ban exempt to the list of exempts, with optional comment and exempt period of time.

**** FOR
- This is a new command that will allow multiple eggdrops to execute simultaneously the same command.

**** NICKSERV
- Implementated a new login method that will allow the eggdrop identifying with Nickserv.

**** ANTISPAM
- You can now add/list/del words to be exempted.

**** BAN/UNBAN
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** SECUREMODE
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** BLACK COMMAND
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** BACKCHAN
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** BADCHAN
- Added a badchan scan flood protection setting with role of protecting the eggdrop from massjoin actions by stopping the on join scan of users for a period of time.


+++ Change Log 2.5.2 (summary)
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**** GENERAL CHANGES
- Major coding changes for better and faster performance.
-- Added a helpful information system to show, after each info request from BlackTools manual, some important TIPS about how to use this script.
--- All major protections supports now addition of exceptions and customization of the ban method on each word.
----- The bot now understands some CIDR notation and dnslookup bans.
------ All protections and ban methods recognize webirc hostmask like: mibbit.com, kiwiirc.com, irccloud.com.

**** IDLE
- Code fixes and enhancements.
-- Minor bugs fixed.

**** SECUREMODE
- Added multiple random code messages for a better security.

**** ANTIJOINFLOOD
- Recoded and combined antijoinflood with antijoinpartquit in only one protection.

**** TOPWORDS
- Upgraded to show more statistical informations about: smiles, actions, questions, etc.

**** NOTES
- Automated abuse system to report directly to the BOSS OWNER.
-- Possibility for owners to decide whether they want to receive notes or not.
 
**** SILENCE
- Added a personal protection for the bot against ctcp, notice, msg & ctcr using the server silence command.

**** AWAYACTION
- warn-ban-kick
-- Changed the output method of showing the adverts.

**** BANLIST CLEANER
- Implementated an automatic banlist clean system to remove a certain number of bans when the channel banlist is full.

**** BANS DISTICTIONS
- Added (global) to distinguish local bans from global ones.

**** CONSECUTIVE LETTERS PROTECT
- Added a new protection againts chars/consecutive repeated letters.

**** REPORT SYSTEM
- Added a flood protection settings against those who abuse the use of command.
-- Added the possibility that the report to be sent in eggdrop's PRIVMSG.

**** BADCHAN
- Code fixes and enhancements.
-- Added extra option ShowBadChan-bwait and words to be exempted.
--- Minor bugs fixed.

**** BADNICK
- Added extra an option badnick-bmethod.
-- You can now add words to be exempted.

**** BADIDENT
- Added possibility of being able to modify the banmask method.
--- You can now add words to be exempted.

**** INVITEBAN 
- Added exception for Undernet Official Bot *X*.

**** QUOTE
- Minor text fixes: spelling and grammar mistakes.
-- Minor bugs fixed.

**** CP SYSTEM
- Some major bugs fixed.

**** SEEN
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** XTOOLS
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** LINK SYSTEM
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** BADREALNAME
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** ADD/ADDUSER/USERLIST
- Minor bugs fixed.
-- Removed the adduser command and included all it's functions to the add command.

**** COUNT
- Reintroduced count module, but only as informative thing and how to use it.

**** ANTISPAM
- Added exception from on-join message for all users with access.

**** ANTISPAM
- Minor bugs fixed.

**** STATS
- Reintroduced the statistics for ban commands used by each user with access.


+++ Change Log 2.5.1 (summary)
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**** MULTI-CHANNEL SUPPORT
-- Fixed some differences of eggdrop bantimes.
-- All options/settings are now case sensitive.

**** ANUNT
--- Changed the output method of showing the adverts.

**** BACKCHAN
-- Minor text fixes: spelling and grammar mistakes and some differences of bantimes.
--- Removed nextback-chan option.

**** BADCHAN
-- Added extra option 'ShowBadChan' - who sends a message to all users with OP (@/&)
   about the banned user and the forbidden channels on which that was found.

**** BADIDENT
-- Added possibility of being able to modify the banmask method.

**** IDLE 
-- Added anti-idle option for halfop users.

**** INVITEBAN 
-- Added exception for Undernet Official Bot *X*.

**** LIMIT 
-- Fixed some error regarding the way on how the eggdrop sets the channel limit.

**** OMSG 
-- This is a new command that will allow you to send specified messages to all
   users with OP (@/&) from a channel..

**** QUOTE
-- Minor text fixes: spelling and grammar mistakes.
--- Changed the output method of showing the quotes.

**** TROLL
-- Minor text fixes: spelling and grammar mistakes.
--- Added extra option 'ShowTroll' - once activated, makes the eggdrop to display a
    notice message list of current trolls of the day, when users with access joins
    the channel (the list is reset everyday at midnight).

**** VOICEME
-- Added extra option 'NoLogged' - once activated, will allow the command
  /msg botnick voiceme <#chan> to be used and by users without a CService Username.


+++ Change Log 2.5 (summary)
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**** MULTI-CHANNEL SUPPORT
-- Intelligent IRC channel management, every channel manager can now customise this 
   script and its component settings to his liking (add/remove users, activate or 
   disable desired commands, protections or modules).

**** FLEXIBILE AND EASY OF USE
-- Now 100% flexible to be configured via channel.
---- Possibility of being able to modify, directly into the eggdrop config file
     (eggdrop.conf) without having to log on to the shell machine to do that.
     (i.e. nickname, realname, homechan, chanserv, chanserv username, chanserv
     password, etc.)
---- All the warn/kick/ban reasons are highly customizable. 
---- Every channel manager can set different settings for each channel, add or 
     remove anything as want easily.

**** ANUNT
-- A new and better version of ANUNT/ADVERT module that will display, one by one
   in order, announcements/ads on a channel over a certain amount of time, but ONLY
   if the channel is active.

**** AUTOINVITE 
-- This new autoinvite, is a new personal channel setting, the first of it's kind. 
---- When turned on and banned, this engine makes the eggdrop to remove your ban and
     invite you to that channel, saving you the trouble of doing by yourself.

**** AUTOTOPIC
-- This new autotopic makes your eggdrop to reset the topic to the channel TOPIC and
   URL every time is changed by someone.
---- If the channel is idle, the topic will not be reset during that time
     (idle = no users joining).
---- The old topic module was removed from this version with all system functions,
     except the '.r' command for refreshing topic manually.

**** BACKCHAN 
-- This system is the old well-known ChanReport system but now renamed in BackChan
   and in a new and better version.
---- When enabled, will give the option for every channel to have a back-channel,
     in which eggdrop will say the bans given by him to the mainchannel..                 

**** BADCHAN 
-- The new badchan system will perform scans not only on users are joining channels,
   but also while they are still on the channel where badchan is enabled. 
---- Now the badchans list supports wildcards.

**** BADHOST
-- This is a new protection module that bans users who use IPs/vhosts containing
   specified bad words. 
---- This new system module supports wildcards.

**** BAN/UNBAN SYSTEM
-- The new BlackTools version brings also a new and very well-implemented ban system 
   which performs accurate and efficient searches through global banlist and every
   channel banlists for a better management and an easier removal/unban.

**** BANSTATS
-- A new system module that will allow the eggdrop to keep statistics of each kick
   and ban given on a specified channel.

**** CHANLINK
-- This new system allows synchronization of all protections modules on 2 or more
   channels at the same time.
---- Once enabled, the eggdrop will add the same ban from a given channel
     simultaneously to all other channels and vice versa.
---- Works only between linked channels, not the others.

*** GAG
-- A new and better version of gag module that will silence/mute a user for a period
   of time (cannot write on channel). 
---- If you do not specify a period will be used a default value.

**** GUESTNICK
-- A system module that, once activated, sends a predefined message to all users
   who join a channel and whose nick contains words defined in the eggdrop's database.

**** IDLE
-- A new and better version of the well-known IDLE module that will not allow users
   with op (@) or voice (+v) to idle.

**** NICKFLOOD
-- A new protection module that bans users for changing their nicknames too often
   within a certain period of time.

**** NOTE
-- Note module system where users can send messages to each other or save personal notes. 
---- Also, eggdrop will send notes to global owner(s) to inform them every time is abused 
     (banned or can't join a channel).

**** QUOTE
-- Perfect navigational system through the pages of every module which has this option
   and a quote support system module.

**** SECUREMODE
-- This is a protection module made to prevent join/part flood from botnets (users with
   access are ignored in this checks). This module is made specifically for Undernet.
-- It only works with channel modes +Dm and based on a system that generates a unique
   code for each user who joins the channel, which needs to be confirmed only once
   (first time join) if they wish to be allowed to join in the channel.
---- This system comes packed with an extra option that, once enabled, will generate
     the unique code for each user who joins the channel and every time re-joins, which
     needs to be confirmed every time.

**** SEENLASTMSG
-- This new engine is a seen module extra info, who shows the specified nick what 
   their last message was to that channel.

**** SEENREPLY
-- This new engine is a seen module extra info that will make the eggdrop send a info
   message to user who has just been searched with .seen command.
---- The message includes information about the person who searched for them, as well
     as the date, time or channel where the .seen command was used.

**** SHOWURL 
-- Will append the channel URL to the ban reason.

**** SHOWID
-- Will append a ID number of each ban from the eggdrop banlist to the ban reason.
---- Also now the bans can be removed using this ID number too.

**** TIMER
-- Timer module system which allows owners to start timers to execute certain processes 
   (proc) and in case you want to kill/stop a timer you can do this through this module too. 
---- Also provides and a list of active timers running.

**** TOPWORDS
-- This is a new system module which will record users activity from a channel, like: 
   number of written words, lines, letters, etc.
---- This new engine comes packed with AccessOnly, an extra option that restricts its
     operation only to users who owns access to eggdrop."
---- If this extra option is not enabled, the TopWords module will work for all channel
     users (both for those with access and for others)."

**** VOICEME
-- A new system module which, once activated, will give users without access to the
   eggdrop, but logged with *X* the Undernet Service Bot, the ability to have voice
   (+v) simply sending a command to the eggdrop.
--- This system comes packed with an extra option that, once activated, will allow
    the command to be used ONLY when mode +m is set on the channel.

**** WGET TCL
-- Now you can you to upload files that match the pattern *.tcl from a url inside your 
   eggdrop's scripts directory.

**** XONLY
-- A new system module that allows a complete channel administration via Undernet's
   official bot.
---- The eggdrop will perform all BlackToolS commands through *X*, even if is not an op (@).


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