Perlbot 1.9.6

Perlbot 1.9.6 is created to provide you with many useful features. It is actually an IRC bot written in Perl. It depends on Net:IRC and its goals are simplicity and modularity.

Perlbot is a totally modular bot. All functionality is provided by Plugins which use a standard, simple API. The two most common levels of functionality are encompassed by the "Core" and "Basic" sets of plugins.
A growing suite of integrated web services is also a feature that sets Perlbot apart. With integrated browsing and searching of channel logs via the web and XML web-published bot statistics, Perlbot makes lots of information readily available.

Enhancements:

• New Config API, new Logging API, cleanups
• More robust access to config data.
• New logging facilities. Allows logging to arbitrary targets, like files, databases, xml, etc.Provides for generic searching.
• All code uses 'strict' and compiles cleanly with -w
• Nicer debugging output.Prints PID and calling package/sub on each line.
• Feedback-agent copy edited and cleaned up
• New PluginConfig class allows moving plugin config data into the main config file while keeping the syntax the same as before webserver does authentication.
• Added pluginreport.pl to miscscripts.
  
• Plugins use 'base' and 'fields' instead of ISA and ad-hoc hash keys
• Plugins:
• • LogServer: 'allowsearchengines' option (yes/no) allows or prohibits search engines crawling the logs produced by this plugin.
  • UserAdmin: new 'addadmin' and 'removeadmin' commands
  • Host: uses Net:DNS to do DNS lookups
  • Infobot: won't reply twice by accident now
  • PriceWatch: works with new site HTML
  • Weather: changed to use Weather:Underground since Geo:Weather is having issues