1.8.0 ===== * No changes since 1.8.0-beta.2. Please see the development releases below for the full list of features in this release. 1.8.0-beta.2 ============ * Use app-launcher platform capability to perform entity linking of Freedesktop App IDs [#142] 1.8.0-beta.1 ============ * No changes from previous release. 1.8.0-alpha.2 ============= * The dialogue loop was refactored to add support for the new kind of multi-turn dialogues introduced in ThingTalk this cycle. This support is still experimental [#141]. * Misc bug fixes [#139]. * Updated dependencies [#140]. 1.8.0-alpha.1 ============= * Updated dependencies to the latest version of the Almond platform [#135, #136]. 1.7.5 ===== * Add support for user-preferred default measurement units. This allows the user to issue a command that is ambiguous w.r.t. the unit (e.g. `set the termostat to NUMBER_0 degrees`) and have the correct unit chosen from the user's preferences [#138]. Contributors: Lim Swee Kiat 1.7.4 ===== * Reduce logging verbosity [#133] * New Translation: Spanish [#137] Contributors: Rubén Mur Monclús 1.7.3 ===== * Fixed resolving home/work locations again [#131] * Misc bug fixes [#132] 1.7.2 ===== * Fixed setting home/work locations [#130] * Return the nearest location if the location name is ambiguous [#130] 1.7.1 ===== * Fixed the welcome screen to use better commands (that actually work) [#127] 1.7.0 ===== * Misc bug fixes [#126] Please see the previous release notes for the full list of changes and new features in this release series. 1.7.0-beta.2 ============ * The data collection consent prompt has been improved [#119, #123] * Configuration of OAuth devices is now disabled in almond-server, because it doesn't work [#123] * Misc bug fixes [#123, #124] * Translation Updates: Italian [#121, #125] 1.7.0-beta.1 ============ * Added support for referring to devices by name [#119] * Fallback no longer displays suggestions, as they are too unreliable [#111] * Improved replies to sound better with voice [Lim Swee-Kiat; #118] * Fixed support for async questions [Lim Swee-Kiat; #118] * Build system fixes and dependency updates [#115, #116, #117] 1.6.1 ===== * Slot filling of entities now uses display names instead of IDs, which improves usability [#87, #110] * Improved error handling of network failures when talking to the user [#105] * Fixed bug with remote programs that do not return a result [#107] * Misc fixes [#108, #109] 1.6.0 ===== No changes. Please see the beta version release notes for the full list of changes and new features in this release. 1.6.0-beta.1 ============ * Version was bumped to 1.6 (skipping the 1.5 series) to match the rest of the Almond platform (thingengine-core, almond-cloud, almond-cmdline) * Added experimental support for contextual inference: tracking of contexts, passing contexts to the server [#83] * Implemented support for unresolved locations [#94, #95] * Impleemnted support for relative time values (morning, evening) [Ricky Grannis-Vu; #103] * Added a link to register a Matrix account when there is no Matrix account (because users might not have the account in the first place) [#89] * Added support for `#[confirm]` annotations to decide whether an action is safe or not [#102] * The wording of anonymous mode error messages was improved [#102] * Fixed displaying of contact names in permission requests [#91] * Fixed builtin location functions [#92] * Updated to use the new thingtalk and thingengine-core APIs [#98, #99, #100] * Updated dependencies [#90, #104] 1.4.0 ===== * Confirmations were changed to confirm earlier if the parser is not confident on a certain user input [#20, #67] * All handling of easter eggs was removed, and now lives in thingengine-core as a builtin function [#74] * The semantic analyzer after parsing was updated to use ThingTalk 1.7, which provides direct support for bookkeeping commands [#77] * Added a Stop command: same as Cancel, but quiet [#26, #81] * Added support for new output types in ThingTalk (map, sound effect). This requires additional support in the platform, and will fallback to plain text otherwise [#82] * The initialization dialog was improved to provide more suggestions and explain how Almond should be used [#76] * Misc bug fixes [#72, #69 (nice), #75, #78, #79] * Updated dependencies 1.3.1 ===== * Updated dependencies 1.3.0 ===== * Almond now fails with a generic message if a builtin device is not configured [#56] * Library users can now provide customizable hooks to apply permissions, log commands and policies, and modify programs and policies before they are sent to thingengine-core. This interface is experimental, and likely to change in the future. [#58] * It is now possible to suppress the welcome message in anonymous mode [#59] * The library was updated to work with thingengine-core 1.3.0, which changes how messaging devices are aggregated * Library users can now provide a custom "platform data" object in addition to each command from the user; this can be used to provide additional information about usernames named in the command, to resolve them as contacts [#60] * Almond now uses the statistics module from the platform, rather than thingengine-core, and falls back to no statistics at all if the module is not provided [#61] * Misc bug fixes and cleanups [#62] * Updated dependencies 1.2.2 ===== * Updated dependencies 1.2.1 ===== * Misc bug fixes 1.2.0 ===== * Quotes have been removed from example commands, as the platform fully supports unquoted commands now * Added experimental support for multi-user operation, using speaker id. This feature is still in development, expect changes in the future. * Updated to use the new thingpedia-client library, and make use of the latest Thingpedia API * Updated the ThingTalk library, bringing many bug fixes * Misc bug fixes [#27, #37] * Improved test coverage * Build system/CI fixes 1.1.0 ===== * Entity linking (converting from natural language entity names to their API-specific identifiers) is now performed client-side [#22] * Results from queries are now revealed incrementally, with a "More..." button [#17, #31] * It is now possible to run Almond without Comma, if Comma is disabled at the platform level [#30] * Spotify is now marked as a safe action * Safe (auto-confirmed) actions now describe what they are doing to the user before they do it. * Misc bug fixes * Build system/CI fixes 1.0.3 ===== * Build system fixes 1.0.2 ===== * Improved handling of devices that cannot be configured * Improved handling of passwords * Generators were replaced with native async functions * Fixed bug #23, #18, #19 * Build system/CI fixes 1.0.1 ===== * Bug fixes 1.0.0 ===== * First public release