v19.8.4

This release comes with many small updates and more excitingly a couple of new contributors

Geolocation API #2393

The API is now prepared for the comming update of the mycroft backend offering a geolocation api. This will enable retrieving coordinates from names of places.

dev_setup.sh update #2388, #2390, #2401, #2403, #2406, #2414

• The dev_setup.sh os install instructions has been separated into separate functions to make the script a bit more easy to read. In addition to this the installer for Arch Linux and certain versions of Debian has been fixed. In addition a --clean option now exists allowing to wipe Mycroft from the system. Big thanks to @gbaptista, @maxbachmann for helping out with this.

msk 0.3.14

The latest release of msk adds License selections and the option to add a manifest.yml at skill creation time. And some splashes of color to make it more readable.

Python 3.8 #2391, #2400

Python 3.8 is now included in the Travis tests and is running the mycroft stack nicely.

Handle missing .intent files #2411

@domcross added a fallback to the en-us folder in case the .intent file doesn't exist. This allows skills that aren't fully translated to be loaded. Many thanks.

Language improvements

• Improve dutch language functions, thanks @mikewoudenberg #2385
• Speed up extract_number, thanks @maxbachmann #2402
• make time output more natural, thanks @maxbachmann #2386

Misc

• Fix simple audio backend Mimetype lookup when http request fails #2389
• Fix usage of Ctrl+C in the simple cli #2409
• Speed up the SSML tests, big thanks to @maxbachmann for this. #2405
• Clean up python2 remnants, big thanks to @maxbachmann for this. #2396
• Use flake8 instead of pycodestyle in travis. Thanks @cclauss #2251
• Update adapt to 0.3.4 #2394
• Simplify setting a custom wakeword #2395