Releases

2.1.3 - June 13, 2018

Bugfix & feature release that includes:

Bugfixes:

• Will is now robust against slack disconnects, and automatically handles reconnects, thanks to Ashex!
• Will also now doesn't respond to every single message when he joins a new channel. Please send your thank-you cards to Ashex.
• Makes will more robust at handling incorrect channel names in slack, thanks to reist.
• Properly renames SLACK_DEFAULT_ROOM to SLACK_DEFAULT_CHANNEL (with backwards-compatability) thanks (again!) to reist.
• Enable/disable backends from generate_will_project now properly puts the comment outside the strong. Thanks to phiro69 for the report.

New features:

• Adds support for slack attachments, thanks to Ashex
• Reminders now notify the person making the reminder, thanks to unicolet.
• generate_will_project now supports a --backends flag, thanks to wontonst.
• Will now explicitly notes if he's automagically using REDIS_URL to find the redis backend.

2.1.2 - March 30, 2018

Bugfix release that includes:

• Fixes python 2 compatability (str instead of basestring) for the HipChat adapter, thanks to wontonst.

2.1.1 - March 22, 2018

Bugfix release that includes:

• Fixes slack reconnect issues, thanks to @mattcl. Props to @cmachine for also submitting a fix.
• Saying "G" will no longer give you a picture of a pug, using the default settings. This is both tragic, and necessary. (Actual fix: adjusted default fuziness settings. If you have the fuzzy backend on, and were seeing the rather hilarious/annoying #327, set FUZZY_MINIMUM_MATCH_CONFIDENCE = 91 in your config.py)
• Programmer help is working again, thanks to @acommasplice.
• Fixes word game to work in python 3 thanks to @netjunki, and ptomkiel-oktawave's report.
• Fixes up chat room rosters in HipChat with rosters > 1000 rooms, thanks to @ostracon
• Fixes get_room_from_message, thanks to @TaunoTinits's fix and ptomkiel-oktawave's report.
• Fixes an error that could occur on incoming webhooks on hipchat. Thanks to ptomkiel-oktawave and others for a report.
• Fixes Will incorrectly talking to the main slack room, when he's directly addressed in 1-1 with something he doesn't know how to do. Thanks to netjunki for the report!

2.1.0 - November 28, 2017

Planned release that includes:

• Automatic docker hub builds thanks to @mike-love
• Upgrades to use base markdownify package, as the proposed changes have been merged and released.
• New fabric commands to manage docker builds and releases.

2.0.2 - November 22, 2017

Bugfix release that fixes:

• Will once again joins all hipchat rooms HIPCHAT_ROOMS was not specified. Thanks to vissree for finding and reporting this bug!

2.0.1 - November 21, 2017

Same release as 2.0.1, removes beta tag.

2.0.1beta4 - November 20, 2017

Bugfix release that fixes:

• color parameter wasn't working properly in Slack.
• Fixes up slack escaping, to support <slack formatted|https://example.com> links. Thanks to @netjunki for the report on this and the above.

Minor features: * Adds a new start_thread parameter to say() and reply() to allow Will to start slack threads.

2.0.1beta3 - November 13, 2017

Bugfix release that fixes:

• High CPU in some setups, thanks to mattcl for the report and debuggging!
• Updates to markdownify fork 0.4.1.

2.0.1beta2 - November 9, 2017

Bugfix release that fixes:

• Fixes scheduled_say breakage.
• Improves reminder plugins to capture and naturally handle "to"s, thanks to wontonst.
• Gets docker builds working, thanks to mike-love.

2.0.1beta1 - November 7, 2017

TL;DR: Slack, Rocket.chat, and Shell support, and you can write full chatterbots with Will now!

This is a huge rewrite of will, adding pluggable backends for chat systems, Will's internal brains, pub-sub, and encryption.

A huge number of really smart people gave their thoughts and suggestions throughout the process, not least @hobson, @woohgit, @netjunki, @sivy, @antgel, @shadow7412, @brandonsturgeon, @pepedocs, @tophsic, and @mike-love.

Read all about what and why here: What's new in Will 2,

And when you're ready to upgrade, here's the upgrade guide. (Spoiler: pip install -U will).

High-level, here's what's new:

• Slack support
• CLI/Shell backend
• Rocket.chat support, thanks to antgel.
• Will's brains have been abstracted - you can now add custom analysis, generation, and execution backends to build everything from a straight regex-bot to a full chatterbot.
• Pluggable I/O backends, which is how all of the above were done, and which means adding new platforms is pretty simple.
• Pluggable storage backends.
• Pluggable pubsub backends.
• Built-in encryption for storage and pub/sub (with pluggable backends as well.)
• Lots more intelligence around required settings and verification, to make first starting and debugging Will easier.
• Full Python 3 support. (Don't worry, 2.x isn't going anywhere.)
• New @will gif me command. Because it can't all be serious. :)

This release also changes a few bits of behavior, to be consistent:

• self.reply() finally no longer requires you to tediously pass the message back to it. It's also smart, and backwards compatable with existing plugins.
• admin_only is explicitly flagged for deprecation and removal, to be replaced by the ACL system introduced in 2015 (largely, this is because having two different access control systems is crazy and painful.) Switching is as easy as adding ACL = {'admins': ['steven', 'will']} to your config.py and find/replacing admin_only=True with `acl=['admins',] in your codebase. For now, Will handles backwards compatibility by mapping the old settings into the new places, but he won't forever. Thanks for updating, and making ongoing maintenence simpler!
• If no ACLs are specified and users try to perform restricted commands, they'll be allowed as before, but Will will complain to the console. A new DISABLE_ACL setting has been added to turn off the complaining.
• You can pass in channel= or room= when specifying a custom reply location. If both are passed in, Will uses channel.

There are a couple internal backwards-incompatible changes:

• RosterMixin has been renamed HipChatRosterMixin and moved to will.backends.io_adapters.hipchat. This change should not affect you unless you were specifically importing RosterMixin in your own plugins - everything in WillPlugin has been automatically routed to the right place, in a backwards-compatible way.
• Room and RoomMixin have similarly become HipChatRoom and HipChatRoomMixin and moved towill.backends.io_adapters.hipchat`.

As this is a big update, please report any bugs you see (no matter how small) to the github issue tracker. Thanks in advance for making Will even better!

1.0.2 - October 24, 2017

Fixes and features in this release:

• Makes passing the room= option much easier (you can just use the room's name now,) thanks to wontonst.
• Adds support for jinja custom_filters in the @rendered_template decorator, thanks to chillipeper.

1.0.1 - October 10, 2017

Fixes and features in this release:

• Fixes what time plugin to not require World Weather's old API, thanks to woohgit.
• Adds Docker support, thanks to mike-love.
• Adds Python 3 support, thanks to tenzer.

1.0.0 - September 29, 2017

This is the end of major feature development for the hipchat-only version of Will. Future development will be on 2.x, and while backwards compatability will be aimed for, it's not 100% guaranteed.

Fixes and features in this release:

• Makes ACLs be case-insensitive, thanks to woohgit.
• Adds Hipchat card support, also thanks to woohgit.
• Gets Chatoms random topics working again, thanks to bykof.
• Environment overrides for PLUGINS and PLUGIN_BLACKLIST (semicolon separated) are now possible, thanks to mark-adams.

0.9.5 - June 23, 2017

Quick bugfix release before the big changeover to 1.0, pluggable backends (Slack support), and more.

• Fixed: @will image me actually works again thanks to antgel.

0.9.4 - April 25, 2017

New releases and movement again! Exciting things in the pipeline for will, and that's starting with a long-awaited release. Thanks to everyone who both submitted code, and had saint-like patience with it being merged in.

• New: self.append() and self.pop() methods to support list storage, thanks to woohgit.
• Fixed: @will image me works again (but requires a google API key - see config.py, thanks to shadow7412.
• Fixed: @will pugs thankfully works again, thanks to gordol.
• Improvement: @will help <plugin> now gives plugin-specific help, thanks to tophsic.
• Improvement: Blacklisted modules aren't even attempted to be imported, thanks to BrianGallew.
• Improvement: File storage engine expires properly, thanks to BrianGallew.
• Improvement: Zombie users no longer cause will trouble, thanks to BrianGallew.
• Improvement: Will now no longer gets stuck if organizations have more than 2000(!) hipchat rooms, courtesy of woparry and danbourke.
• Improvement: V2 API calls for multiple rooms now properly uses max-results and doesn't hang, thanks to chillipeper.
• Improvement: Much-improved test runners, and proper case for Bitbucket, thanks to mark-adams.
• Improvement: _available_rooms is now populated with Room objects, regardless of whether you use V1 or V2, thanks to jcdyer.
• Improvement: Output logging now includes timestamps by default, thanks to pepedocs.
• Improvement: Upgraded to hiredis > 0.2 to get windows builds working, thanks to Regner.
• Improvement: Updated to the new pagerduty docs, thanks to woohgit.
• Improvement: Generation script doesn't make a duplicate hi response, thanks to brandonsturgeon and derek-adair.

0.9.3 - September 11, 2015

Thanks for your patience on this long-delayed release! Here's what's new:

• New: Will watches bitbucket, and alerts on downtime, thanks to mvanbaak.
• New: @will urban dictionary ______, thanks to Ironykins.
• New: 1-1 messages now support HTML, thanks to AndrewBurdyug and brandonsturgeon
• Improvement: Batch-getting of rooms, thanks to charlax.
• Improvement: Better handling of uptime check edge cases, thanks to woohgit.
• Improvement: Proper docs for installing redis on ubuntu/debian, thanks to kenden.
• Improvement: Pulled an extraneous doc page, thanks to woohgit.
• Improvement: Fixes to the route doc syntax, thanks to brandonsturgeon.
• Improvement: Docs now fit the new mkdocs format, thanks to d0ugal.
• Improvement: New travis.yml setup for easier travis running, and plugged my CircleCI builds into the github repo. All future PRs should automatically have tests run!

0.9.2 - June 5, 2015

• Fixes bug that caused will not to join all rooms if ROOMS was missing. Thanks to camilonova for the report!

0.9.1 - May 30, 2015

• Fixes bug that affected @wills - thanks to woohgit for the report!

0.9 - May 29, 2015

• BREAKING: Module change. New will.plugins.fun module. Existing will installs will need to add it to your config.py to keep the fun!
• New: Support for Pagerduty workflows, thanks to woohgit. This is really tremendous stuff. Check out the docs here!
• New: Pluggable storage backends, with support for couchbase and local file storage, in addition to redis. Many thanks to borgstrom
• New: ACL functionality, thanks to woohgit. Backwards-compatable, even!
• New: Made will a little more fun, thanks to camilonova. Hint: it involves the world's most meme-friendly dog.
• New: Will can now construct google poems, thanks to AirbornePorcine. Truly, his creativity knows no bounds.
• Improvement: Moved stuff like that into a new "fun" module. Dry, anti-fun people can now disable it more easily. ;)
• Improvement: "What time is it" now outputs time zones, thanks to woohgit.
• Improvement: No more rate-limit problems on the v2 token, thanks to grundprinzip.
• Improvement: Messages are now .strip()ed before being compared, to handle frozen-fingered-typos. Thanks, woohgit!
• Fix: Typo in the docs gone. Thanks, woohgit.
• Fix: Bugs in proxy support are fixed, thanks to dmuntean.

0.8.2 - April 24, 2015

• Fixes an odd remaining bug with @randomly, thanks to camilonova's continued debugging.

0.8.1 - April 23, 2015

• Moves version plugin into admin, so it just works for most users.

0.8 - April 23, 2015

• What happens when life gets busy and we go a full month and a half between will releases? Lots and lots:
• New: All-new @will who is in this room? command, thanks to puug.
• New: Will now can shorten links via bitly @will bitly http://example.com, thanks to keNzi.
• New: Will now supports a PROXY_URL setting, for getting around funky firewalls, thanks to dmuntean.
• New: @will version command to check version number, thanks to woohgit.
• New: Awesome new remind ___ to ___ at ___, thanks to woohgit.
• New: Will now keeps an eye on hipchat's uptime as well, thanks to netjunki.
• Fix: a breaking bug in the @randomly decorator, thanks to a report by camilonova.
• Support: Handles a breaking change in the hipchat API, thanks to brandonsturgeon.
• Support: Updates to v2 of the underquoted API, thanks jessamynsmith.
• Support: Updated to the new WorldWeatherOnline endpoint, since they had DDOS problems, thanks to woohgit.
• Improvement: The most important kind of PRs. Spelling fixes. Many thanks to jquast.
• Improvement: self.save() now accepts an expire value, thanks to netjunki.
• Improvement: PEP8 passes for the whole codebase, with flake8 added to automated tests.

0.7.3 - March 3, 2015

• Fixed a breaking bug to world time, thanks to woohgit.

0.7.2 - February 27, 2015

• Improved handling when .reply() is called incorrectly, thanks to a report by dothak
• Fixed the annoying "github's ok" on first launch.
• Restored Python 2.6 compatability thanks to the report and patience of JPerkster.
• Lots of code cleanup toward pep8.

0.7.1 - February 5, 2015

• Improved talkbackbot regex, suggested by PrideRage.

0.7.0 - February 4, 2015

• Adds a port of the awesome talkbackbot, thanks to jessamynsmith, who super-kindly ported it at my request!
• Oh, yeah. That port also includes the first proper tests in will, and a pretty solid pattern for testing plugins. Woo! More huge thanks to jessamynsmith.

0.6.9 - January 30, 2015

• Fixed copypasta error caught by the keen eye of dpoirier.

0.6.8 - January 30, 2015

• Will now supports templates directories within plugins. Just put a templates directory in the plugin's module, and it will be detected. Thanks to sivy for the idea and willingness to get it done!

0.6.7 - January 29, 2015

• Addition of .get_user_by_nick() method, to look up users by nick, thanks to sivy.
• Bugfix to ALLOW_INSECURE_HIPCHAT_SERVER when specified in config.py, thanks to sivy.

0.6.6 - January 29, 2015

• New room.history attribute with a room's history, thanks to PrideRage
• New setting: ALLOW_INSECURE_HIPCHAT_SERVER, which will disable SSL checks (you're on your own), thanks to sivy.
• Adds support for V2 of the WorldWeatherOnline API (used for world times, weather) thanks to woohgit.
• Adds new release and doc deploy scripts, so the github releases are kept up to date. Thanks to crccheck for noticing and reporting they were stale!

0.6.5 - January 23, 2015

• Removes mkdocs from the production requirements.txt to fix a Jinja version problem. Thanks to the report from PrideRage.

0.6.4 - January 19, 2015

• Switches to bottle to cherrypy over gevent, which should solve lingering gevent DNS threading issues, thanks to wohali.
• Support for @will, @WILL, @wIll, thanks to neronmoon

0.6.3 - December 30, 2014

• Better error handling for weirdly formatted messages.
• Better generated README, thanks to bsvetchine.

0.6.2 - September 23, 2014

• Bugfix on generate_will_project, thanks to the report by MattyDub.

0.6.1 - September 23, 2014

• Freezes apscheduler to < 3.0, since its API was backwards incompatibile.

0.6.0 - September 17, 2014

• Methods in a single class now share a common instance, thanks to amckinley.
• Redis connections are now pooled (which should help with "max clients exceeded" errors), thanks to carsongee.
• Preliminary travis ci support, thanks to pcurry.
• More gramatically correct documentation by hobson.

0.5.7 - September 3, 2014

• Improvements to setup.py to be robust a variety of linux/unixes by hobson.

0.5.6 - August 26, 2014

• Fix for 1-1 bootstrapping bug, thanks to adamcin.

0.5.5 - August 25, 2014

• Full html support in 1-1 chats, thanks to adamcin.

0.5.4 - July 22, 2014

• Upgrades bottle to 0.12.6 to fix security bug.

0.5.3 - July 11, 2014

• @randomly functions now can run on the 59th minute, thanks to tomokas.
• Bad merge that duplicated help.py fixed by netjunki.
• "global name 'params' is not defined" bug fixed by amckinley.

0.5.1 - July 2, 2014

• New HIPCHAT_SERVER setting to support beta HipChat Server, thanks to mrgrue.

0.5 Omnibus - June 27, 2014

• Big, big release, with backwards-incompatble changes. Please read all the notes on this one!
• All-new config and environment setup, including an all-new config.py for plugin configuration, and all non-sensitive settings.
• Much, much improved bootstrapping code that validates settings, gives helpful output, and generally helps you get will running.
• Documentation! Real-live documentation!
• Breaking: WILL_TOKEN has been renamed WILL_HIPCHAT_V1_TOKEN.
• New @require_settings decorator for plugins to request validation that needed settings are present.
• Will now has a concept of modules (groups of plugins), and groups help output according.

0.4.10 - June 6, 2014

• Brand-new admin_only argument to hear() and respond_to(), thanks to rbp. If a user is not in WILL_ADMINS, they won't be able to run any admin_only=True plugins. Default for WILL_ADMINS is all users to retain backwards-compatibility.
• All commands in the storage.py plugin are now admin-only.
• help now only responds to direct asks, allowing other plugins to handle "help me with x", thanks to bfhenderson

0.4.9 - May 28, 2014

• Passing a room to a .say() now works properly, thanks to rbp.
• New optional WILL_LOGLEVEL setting, thanks to dpoirier.

0.4.8 - May 21, 2014

• Will now ignores all previously sent messages properly, by passing in bot as the resource instead of an ugly time hack, thanks to dpoirier.

0.4.7 - May 15, 2014

• Will now prints a helpful message if one of your WILL_ROOMS is wrong, and continues starting, instead of crashing in a fiery ball, thanks to crccheck.

0.4.6 - May 5, 2014

• @route decorators now honor all bottle arguments, most helpfully method!

0.4.5 - May 2, 2014

• Awesome new help system by quixeybrian.
• "@will help" now only displays functions with docstrings, and formats them nicely.
• Old help (regexes and all) is available at "@will programmer help"

0.4.4 - April 22, 2014

• Removes the dependence on the v1 token (though it still helps with rate-limiting), thanks to bfhenderson.
• Much friendlier error message on an invalid API key, thanks to adamgilman.

0.4.3 - ~ April 1, 2014

• Support for hundreds of users and rooms without hitting the API limit.
• get_all_users use of the bulk API added by quixeybrian. Thanks also to jbeluch and jdrukman for nudges in the right direction.
• The start of some useful comments - the meat of will was hacked out by one person over a handful of days and it looks that way. Slowly but surely making this codebase more friendly to other contributions!
• Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file thanks to michaeljoseph.
• Proper releases in the docs, and an updated AUTHORS file. If you see something awry, send a PR!

0.4 - ~ March 2014

• Ye olden past before we started keeping this list. All contributions by GreenKahuna. Will did everything that's not in the release list above. That's called lazy retconning release lists!

• Make sure nothing from the readme is missed.