1.15.0 - August 7 2016

Changes

• 1.15.0 2016-08-07
  • Add a new contructor option, forceCase, which will force-lowercase your
    triggers during parse time, enabling authors to use uppercase letters in
    triggers without it being a syntax error. Do note however that Unicode
    case folding can become an issue with certain symbols. (Bugs #143 and #69).
  • Fix a bug where inline redirects, like {@ hello} would fail to match their
    trigger due to the presence of a space between the @ and text (bug #145).
  • Add a non-fatal warning at parse time if it's detected that you used an
    @Redirect command in conjunction with a -Reply or *Condition. In such
    cases, the redirect "wins" and preempts the others, which may be surprising
    behavior, and RiveScript will warn you about this now (bug #58).
  • Prevent errors from arising when the user's history object is invalid, for
    example if somebody manually overrode the __history__ user
    variable (PR #151).
  • Fix a bug in the write() function where -Replies were being written when
    a trigger actually had no reply (resulting in a single-character -
    command which raises an error when re-parsed) (PR #141).
  • Add more documentation to the rs.Promise function, including a full
    example of how to use the replyAsync() method (bug #144).

1.14.0 - July 9 2016

Changes

• 1.14.0 2016-07-09
  • Add a new API function: getUserTopicTriggers returns a list of triggers
    available from a user's current topic, including triggers that came from
    topics inherited/included by their topic (PR #138).
  • Change how the parser handles inline comments (// appearing on the same
    line as RiveScript code). Previously, it required at least one space to
    be present on either side of the // characters. Now, it only requires a
    space before the //.
  • Add new examples: using RiveScript as a router, and a link to a plugin for
    using RiveScript with Hubot.
  • Add a new ASCII logo to the header output of shell.js and shell.coffee

      .   .       
     .:...::      RiveScript Interpreter (JavaScript)
    .::   ::.     Library Version: v1.14.0
 ..:;;. ' .;;:..  
    .  '''  .     Type '/quit' to quit.
     :;,:,;:      Type '/help' for more options.
     :     :

1.13.0 - June 14 2016

Changes

• 1.13.0 2016-06-14
  • Fix the <call> tags not being executed on the left side of conditionals,
    so that <call>test</call> == true => Success types of conditions should
    work (bug #107).
  • Fix trigger regexp processing so that if a {weight} tag contains a space
    before or after it (or: a space between {weight} and the rest of the
    trigger text), the spaces are also stripped so that matching isn't broken
    for that trigger (bug #102).
  • Rename the old async-object example to second-reply to lessen confusion
    between it and async-reply (bug #123).
  • Fix the _ wildcard not being able to match Unicode letters (bug #118).
  • Add initialMatch() to the API, which is like lastMatch() but it returns
    the original trigger that the user matched instead of a redirected trigger
    (PR #127).

1.12.2 - May 16 2016

Changes

• 1.12.2 2016-05-16
  • Call the error handler on loadDirectory() when the directory doesn't exist
    or isn't a directory (bug #117).
  • Include the dist/ directory on npm for easy web browser embedding using
    npmcdn.

1.12.1 - May 5 2016

Changes

• 1.12.1 2016-05-05
  • Fix the <call>...</call> regular expression to match line break characters
    and preserve them in the argument list sent to an object macro (bug #108).

1.12.0 - April 17 2016

Changes

• 1.12.0 2016-04-17
  • Fix the stringify() function to also escape newlines on conditionals.
  • Various fixes to "pipe syntax" for arrays, optionals and alternations;
    having a "blank" entry separated by pipes (e.g. a trailing or leading pipe)
    would cause matching issues. These have been fixed and a syntax error is
    given if this is detected at parsing time.
  • Added additional documentation for the usage of deparse() and related
    functions to the eg/deparse directory.

1.10.0 - March 30 2016

Changes

• 1.10.0 2016-03-30
  • Fix a bug where ! local concat settings wouldn't apply to the first
    continuation of a conditional (bug #88)
  • Add the ability to override certain common error messages with custom text,
    for the cases where a trigger wasn't matched, when a trigger was matched
    but no reply was given, when an object macro wasn't found, and when deep
    recursion errors arise (bug #90)
  • Fix a bug where the <@> syntax for a redirect fails when <star1> is
    undefined (bug #92)
  • Fix the stringify() function to escape newline characters so that the
    resulting code doesn't have syntax errors when reloading it (bug #95)
  • Fix some triggers in the default example brain to account for substitution
    on the bot's previous reply (bug #87)
  • Add command line arguments to shell.js and shell.coffee: use --debug
    to enable verbose debug logging and --utf8 to enable UTF-8 mode.

Release 1.8.0 - March 18 2016

Changes

• 1.8.0 2016-03-18
  • Update the way the args array works in JavaScript object macros: it now
    uses a shell-style array where quoted strings come in as one array element,
    even if it contains spaces.
  • Update all internal user variable getting/setting to use the public
    setUservar() and getUservar() methods, enabling developers to override
    the implementation of these functions.
  • Fix a bug when looking for %Previous tags, so that if the current topic
    has no %Previous trigger RiveScript won't bother looking for them.

Release 1.6.0 - March 8 2016

Changes

• 1.6.0 2016-03-08
  • Update the deparse() and stringify() functions to include the source
    code of JavaScript object macros in the output.
  • Update the loadDirectory() function to load RiveScript files recursively.

Release 1.4.0 - Feb 11 2016

Changes

• 1.4.0 2016-02-11
  • Add support for asynchronous object macros (using promises via RSVP.js),
    and the accompanying replyAsync() function and example code.
  • Add ability to use an array in a reply element as a shortcut for random
    text: - (@myArray) translates to - {random}my|array|content{/random}.