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Release 0.8.9
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This release includes major changes to the organization of Skills. Now mycroft-core no longer contains any implemented skills. The Mycroft Skill Manager (msm) is now officially part of mycroft-core, and it is used to automatically retrieve and update the "default skills" down Github at run time.
Skill system
- All skills removed from mycroft-core, now auto-downloaded using 'git' #546
- Auto-reload of Skills fixes #671, #677, #660
- Getting out of requirements hell :) #666
- Moving msm into core # 663 #661
- Removed support for /opt/mycroft/third_party
Audio recording fixes #647
- The wake-up notification sound is now played synchronously, preventing it from being caught in the recorded audio
- The minimum recorded phrase must be at least 0.5 seconds (instead of 0.1), and must be continuously quiet for that duration
- The silence threshold is reset every time we begin listening for a wakeword
- The silence threshold adjusts upward to just above the ambient sound while waiting for the wake-word
Configuration system
- Remote configuration can now be overridden by the local mycroft.conf files. The load priority of configurations is now defined as: DEFAULT (from source code), REMOTE (from home.mycroft.ai), SYSTEM (from /usr/mycroft/mycroft.conf), USER (from ~/.mycroft/mycroft.conf) #652
- Added ability to document JSON configuration files. All mycroft.conf configuration settings are now documented. #654
- Added ability to specify log-level and to ignore logging of specific messages using mycroft.conf
CLI improvements: #649
- The chat history section now wraps long text strings
- Redesigned the section title to combine the header and underscore lines into a single line to save screen space
- Recolored several screen elements to make more sense. The query and the chat history now retain the cyan color, etc.
- The screen fully refreshes periodically, cleaning up garbage that might have accumulated from outside text being written to the terminal
- The mic meter no longer wraps around the screen when level numbers are too long
- Added log filtering commands to the CLI. So you can do things like:
:filter DEBUG (filters out any lines containing "DEBUG")
:filter remove DEBUG (stop filtering "DEBUG")
:filter "not this" (filters out any log lines containing "not this")
:filter list (displays active filters)
:filter clear (removes all filters) - Added a ~/.mycroft-cli.conf configuration file. It currently contains the last-used filters.
- The mycroft.sh scripts were firing up the "fancy" CLI in the background and logging it constantly. This resulted in huge log files because of the constantly updated microphone level indicator.
Misc
- The web page in the wifi setup now allows you to show the password characters #478
- Added and reformatted many comments using Google-style docstrings. These will be used for automatic documentation generation and are also used by development IDEs.