GOZERBOT 0.8.1-BETA released

[Bart Thate]

working to a new 0.8.1 release we make a BETA available to be tested
by interested users.

new features:

* ssl connections are now supported
* third party software included into gozerbot:
o feedparser (used by RSS) .. makes atom feeds possible
o simplejson (used by COLLECTIVE)
o BeautifulSoup (used to parse webpages)
* renewed RSS plugin
* renewed collective plugin
* renewed webserver plugin .. new webserver API
* tcp.py notification plugin as well as a totcp.py client program

if you are using one of these features please test this BETA.

the BETA can be downloaded from http://gozerbot.org and problems with
it can be reported on http://dev.gozerbot.org or email me at
(e-mail address removed)

about gozerbot:

Requirements

* a shell
* python 2.4 or higher
* if you want to remotely install plugins: the gnupg module
* if you want mysql support: the py-MySQLdb module
* if you want jabber support: the xmpppy module

Why gozerbot?

* provide both IRC and Jabber support
* user management by userhost .. bot will not respond if it
doesn't know you (see /docs/USER/)
* fleet .. use more than one bot in a program (list of bots) (see /
docs/FLEET/)
* use the bot through dcc chat
* fetch rss feeds (see /docs/RSS/)
* remember items
* relaying between bots (see /docs/RELAY/)
* program your own plugins (see /docs/PROGRAMPLUGIN/)
* run the builtin webserver (see /docs/WEBSERVER/)
* query other bots webserver via irc (see /docs/COLLECTIVE/)
* serve as a udp <-> irc or jabber gateway (see /docs/UDP)
* mysql and sqlite support

the gozerbot development team