I'm preparing another release of AkariXB, my Jabber/XMPP bot, in a few weeks.

Some of the main changes are:

• Ability to greet users in chatrooms, talk to the rooms at random intervals, and react to room messages that match custom regular expressions.
• Room configuration can specify whether the bot can talk in each room, and for what purposes.
• String syntax will be checked for valid %substitutions% and {a|b|c} choices, where needed.
• The list of chatrooms now uses a proper table with more information, and room configuration is clearer.

If you want to test it, the source code for can be cloned from the development repository, at gitlab.com/akarixb/akarixb-dev. 🤖