v21.2.0

Features

• Allow overridden converse methods to accept messages (#2813) by @NeonAndrii
• Add Skill API (#1822) by @forslund
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• Add skill_id to converse error msg (#2827) by @krisgesling
• Install Alpine deps to a virtual meta package (#2841) by @PureTryOut
• Add optional paramater to voc_match for exact matching (#2858) by @JarbasAl and @krisgesling
• Upgrade Lingua Franca to v0.4.1 (#2890) by @ChanceNCounter and @krisgesling
• Replace hardcoded use of /tmp directory (#2892) by @dzekem and @krisgesling

Bugfixes

• Fix dev_setup.sh max cores detection (#2857) by @forslund
• Sync curated cache with dict of cached sentences (#2870) by @forslund
• Remove example entries in blacklisted_skills config (#2844) by @krisgesling
• Fix loading Mimic phonemes from cache (#2871) by @forslund
• Fix replacement of existing Skill loader in queue (#2899) by @krisgesling

Tests

• Add tests for get_response (#2838) by @forslund
• Old skill tester: Fix Padatious setup and fallback intents (#2894) by @forslund

Other changes

• Remove log pollution (#2840) by @DiegoAsterio
• Remove duplicated Padatious code (#2843) by @JarbasAl
• Remove intent-service backwards compatibilities (#2849) by @forslund
• Consolidate TTS cache logic (#2853) by @chrisveilleux
• Remove stray print (#2856) by @forslund
• Utilize the mycroft-messagebus-client module (#2863) by @forslund
• The phoneme needs to be converted to a list before being passed on. (#2865) by @chrisveilleux
• Upgrade pillow from 7.1.2 to 8.1.1 (#2868) by @dependabot[bot]
• Move TTS cache curation to TextToSpeechCache (#2869) by @forslund
• Upgrade pyyaml from 5.1.2 to 5.4 (#2873) by @dependabot[bot]
• Upgrade requests to 2.25.1 (#2783) by @PureTryOut
• Update Readthedocs config to handle mycroft-messagebus-client (#2887) by @forslund
• Bump core version and MSM for v21.02 (#2907) by @krisgesling

Deprecations

• Support for Python 3.5 has been deprecated as it has reached EOL.