v21.2.2

Features

• Improve confidence calculation for Common Query. This provides a better mechanism for determining which Common Query Skill returned the best answer. (#2986) by @ken-mycroft
• Add 'utterances' to message emitted to skill intent handler. Allows intent handlers to access all possible transcriptions and makes message.data consistent with converse. (#2997) by @NeonDaniel
• Extended the idea of the Voight Kampff CriteriaWaiter (#3002) by @chrisveilleux. This introduces three new tools for use in Voight Kampff test Steps:
  • VoightKampffMessageMatcher: checks for the specified message type.
  • VoightKampffCriteriaMatcher: checks not only the message type, but also that the payload data matches the given critiera.
  • VoightKampffDialogMatcher: checks for the specified dialog output.
• Reduce duplication of Padatious matching during low priority fallbacks (#3003) by @Joanguitar
• Add an option to change the format of log output (#3016) by @goldyfruit
• Add ESpeak TTS configuration options (#3020) by @Genei180
  ➔ See the Mycroft documentation for more information
• Initial Azerbaijani language support (#3021) by @saymantech-co
• Install pip for the python version specified by argument in dev_setup.sh (#3042) by @HFabi

Bugfixes

• Release GUI on Skill shutdown or reload (#2979) by @krisgesling
• Fix messages clearing in the InterceptAllBusClient (#2990) by @chrisveilleux
• Fix pulseaudio daemon failing to start in CI (#2992) by @krisgesling
• Patch dependencies that use the deprecated use_2to3 (#2996) by @krisgesling
• Alter AVX test to accomodate aarch64 (#3000) by @el-tocino
• Fixed an error with message formatting in a ValueError message (#3001) by @chrisveilleux
• Fixed formatting error in skill loader log message (#3010) by @chrisveilleux
• Fix setup process for installs without Precise (#3012) by @in03
• Fix mycroft-config set using pre-XDG path (#3015) by @goldyfruit
• Fix race condition in GUI namespace insertion (#3022) by @krisgesling
• Check if GUI is connected rather than maintain list of platforms (#3025) by @krisgesling
• Fix config priority issue in XDG changes (#3033) by @forslund
• Remove incorrectly added args in GUIWebsocketHandler methods (#3036) by @krisgesling
• Update Gentoo libffi dependency reference (#3039) by @rooky-c3bo

Other changes

• Refactor/shellcheck bin (#3019) by @forslund
• Upgrade websocket-client to 1.2.1 (#2879) by @PureTryOut
• Update key names in adapt keyword registration message (#2963) by @forslund
• Voight Kampff: Only stop Mycroft services if running in CI. This allows for faster development workflow when running Voight Kampff tests locally. (#2975) by @krisgesling
• Add warning for anyone loading GoogleTTS. This module uses the Google Translate TTS API and is not intended for production usage. (#2985) by @krisgesling
• Bump pillow from 8.2.0 to 8.3.2 (#2995) by @dependabot[bot]
• Update link for Hub to point to official Github version (#3028) by @krisgesling
• Do not create configs folders until writing (#3045) by @forslund

Big shout out and thanks to our Community Contributors for this release:
🎉 @el-tocino
🎉 @forslund
🎉 @Genei180
🎉 @goldyfruit
🎉 @HFabi
🎉 @in03
🎉 @Joanguitar
🎉 @NeonDaniel
🎉 @PureTryOut
🎉 @rooky-c3bo
🎉 @saymantech-co