release/v19.8.5
The Mycroft Christmas release comes with a small bag of goodies this year, even if I won't be doing any rhyming like I did last year.
We've had 25 releases this year (unless this release is messed up somehow that's how we'll end). These 25 releases include the code contributions from no less than 41 community members (just on mycroft-core).
Settingsmeta stability #2370, #2433
The biggest thing in this release is an attempt to stabilize the settings upload. This will make sure that the skills page on Mycroft Home is populated as soon as the device is paired. It also tries to guarantee that the skills manifest is uploaded before any new changes to the settingsmeta are pushed making modifying skills easier.
Upgrade python dependency on Red Hat #2412
@maxbachmann replaced the old python34 package with the generic python package installing a more modern python version on Red Hat systems. Many thanks for that!
Allow Gui to connect again #2416
This is a quick work-around allowing the gui to connect to core over the enclosure bus again. A change in the recently upgraded tornado made this fail.
Allow showing DEBUG in CLI #2421
The cli now always disregards the DEBUG message filter, relying solely on the log level setting.
Fix Hotword selection when precise development models are activated #2418
The recent update of hotword config loading included a bug where the settings from different places wasn't merged correctly. This fix handles the merging properly.
Support for Porcupine hotword engine #2139, #2424
@alumae submitted a PR to allow the usage of the porcupine hotword engine by picovoice. Many thanks for this awesome feature.
Langauge parsing
- Handle extracting number from strings with %, many thanks @ChanceNCounter #2413
- Clean up time resolution code, also @ChanceNCounter! #2432
Documentation
- Readthedocs generation code was cleaned up #2399
- Typo fix, thanks @PFischbeck for spotting and fixing #2427