3.4.0 (Burgundy)

Added

• Support for censored words (e.g. to avoid sending banned words to a server)

Changed

• urbandict plugin now limits Urban Dictionary definitions to 300 characters
• ticker plugin now includes a Yahoo! Finance link in .stock responses
• movies plugin now prioritizes exact title matches

Fixed

• ticker was switched to use Twelve Data instead of IEX, as IEX API keys are no longer free
• weather plugin now correctly calculates Celcius temperatures
• Various bugs around channel mode tracking (currently only used for detecting if colors are disallowed)

3.3.2

Fixed

• Mobile Twitter link detection
• Provide a more descriptive error when searching by ID (movies plugin)
• Updated dependencies (of which Twisted had a CVE that did not affect Cardinal) out of an abundance of caution

Changed

• Up to 6 stocks are allowed in ticker plugin config
• Market cap rank is included in crypto lookups
• Bump default Wikipedia snippet length to 250 characters

3.3.1

Fixed

• Multiple versions of a plugin could run simultaneously if Cardinal experienced a disconnection (#195)
• ticker plugin no longer triggers on holidays -- thanks @ForeverEndeavor! (#194)
• github plugin correctly recognizes pull request URLs
• dice plugin had no limits which could result in memory exhaustion

3.3.0 (Chili)

Added

• Cryptocurrency plugin (.crypto) for fetching cryptocurrency prices
• Last.fm now playing (.np) now opportunistically looks up a YouTube music video
• Initial support for channel tracking, as well as stripping formatting characters from channels which ban them

Fixed

• .help command was not returning output
• Some Wikpiedia pages did not return summaries (#187)
• Case sensitivity bug in seen plugin
• Weather plugin broken with Yahoo API deprecation -- thanks @obviyus! (#192)

Changed

• .setw hint added to .weather when missing a location
• ticker plugin output changed a little, and company names are now included
• Music icons now included next to YT music video titles -- thanks @dkim286! (#190)

3.2.1

Added

• Twitter URL handling plugin
• imgur URL handling plugin
• random plugin (dice rolling)
• .tell command to seen plugin for messaging offline users
• .search command for searching IMDb (returns multiple results which can be selected)

Changed

• Ability to change
• ticker plugin attempts to be more resilient to missing API data
• Generic URL handling can now be disabled in the urls plugin (it will only rely on other plugins to handle URLs)

3.2.0 (Vermilion)

Added

• Added Wolfram Alpha plugin
• Added movies (OMDb/IMDb) and TV (TVmaze) plugins
• entrypoint syntax in a plugin.py file, removing need for a setup function

Changed

• Urban Dictionary plugin now shows upvotes and downvotes
• "Natural language" syntax to Cardinal now requires a full command (Cardinal: .ping) and supports @regex commands
• Weather plugin now uses km/h abbreviation instead of kph
• Plugins can now use entrypoint = PluginClass instead of defining a setup() function which is now deprecated (#186)

Deprecated

• setup() function in lieu of new entrypoint module attribute - this will be removed in 4.0 (#186)

Fixed

• Plugins which raised an Exception from their constructor were not able to be reloaded
• Urban Dictionary, Github, Youtube, and Last.fm plugins now thread their HTTP calls to improve performance
• sed plugin now handles empty replacement patterns (e.g. s/foobar//)
• Wikipedia plugin now handles various edge cases, such as disambiguation pages, better (#185)
• Edge cases around event callback registration, particularly when wrapped in @defer.inlineCallbacks

3.1.1

Added

• ticker plugin now allows predictions to be made in USD in addition to percentages

Fixed

• ticker plugin works again (AlphaVantage replaced with IEX Cloud)
• Various bugs with certain results from the wikipedia plugin (#185)

Changed

• google plugin now allows configuring the number of results shown

3.1.0 (Saffron)

Added

• util.is_action and util.parse_action for determining if a message is a /me message

Fixed

• Quits without messages were not logged correctly
• Handling of /me messages in sed (#180)
• Handling of /me messages in seen (#184)
• Cardinal configuration was not loaded correctly, causing failures to connect
• Issues with internal handling (e.g. self.nickname not getting updated and failures to log channel messages)
• .seen did not work if nick case did not match

Changed

• Error replies from the server are now logged as warnings (#183)
• mIRC formatting removed in .seen command to fix issues with +c channel modes (#182)
• sed plugin no longer sends corrections if the pattern does not apply (#181)
• .info response updated, including removal of plugin reload counter

3.0.0 (Carmine)

Added

• 8ball plugin (#138) -- thanks @target111!
• seen plugin (#170) -- thanks @jsmailes!
• sed plugin to correct previously sent message
• ticker plugin which periodically sends stock information
• Ability to issue commands to server on connection (#120)
• Ability to save a weather location in weather plugin (.setw <location>)
• Ability to automatically rejoin channels Cardinal is kicked from to the join_on_invite plugin
• Full asynchronous plugin support
• Formatting API in the cardinal.util module
• Asynchronous sleep method in the cardinal.util module
• Lightweight JSON database API for plugins
• Channel blacklist for plugins in the Cardinal config file
• Setting of botmode (+B) when joining compatible IRC servers

Changed

• Switched Cardinal from Python 2 to Python 3
• Admin configuration now allows for any combination of nick, ident and host to identify admins
• Made remind plugin asynchronous instead of thread-based
• Made URLs plugin asynchronous by deferring HTTP requests to a thread
• Docker container name now defaults to cardinal

Removed

• Ability to specify configuration from the command line
• Ability to specify Cardinal configuration in YAML instead of JSON
• Ability to specify plugin configuration in YAML instead of JSON
• Broken calculator plugin
• Broken .compare command in Last.fm plugin
• notes plugin due to lack of interest and use

Fixed

• Google plugin did not work
• Event registration occurred only on initial load of plugins, not reloads
• Various other minor fixes

Security

• Updated Twisted away from a version with CVEs out of an abundance of caution

2.3.0 (Lipstick)

Security

• Update Twisted to a version without CVEs

Added

• realname and username configuration options (#108) -- thanks @Katorone!

Fixed

• YouTube plugin credentials fixed (accidental rotation, sorry!) (#45)
• Docker container will now restart unless it was manually stopped (e.g. on server reboot)
• Various erroneous class members have been converted to instance members