v20.08 - It has to be Spring somewhere

Features:

• Allow override of platform animations like talking and thinking to prevent interrupting existing content #2657
• Add more detailed Track Status to Common Play Skill. Provides distinct status codes for different layers of media handling #2674

Bugfixes:

• Fix ValueError on check of file modification date - do not check if list of files is empty #2662
• Fix fresh MSM initialization with no internet connection - adds a missing argument #2677
• A recent change allowed default Skills to update even if the autoupdate flag was set to false. This ensures that flag is respected. #2680

Removal of deprecated items:

• pyee.EventEmitter and our own ThreadedEventEmitter converted to new Emitters available in pyee #2667
• Hardcoded recording timeouts should now be configured in mycroft.conf #2668
• skills.converse.error will no longer be emitted, please use skills.converse.response instead #2669
• Internal startListening signal will no longer be checked #2670
• DialogLoader class removed in favor of new load_dialogs function #2671
• get_http and remove_last_slash string utils have been removed #2672
• Audio utils that had previously been moved from mycroft.util have had their references removed. This includes mycroft.util.is_speaking, mycroft.util.wait_while_speaking, and mycroft.util.stop_speaking. The methods should be called from their new module mycroft.audio #2678
• The imp package has been completely replaced with importlib. This was located in the Audio service loading and loading of the old integration test environment #2679. Audioservice submodules names are now prepended with "audioservice_" to prevent module naming collisions #2684