This is a big release, the result of more than one year of effort to develop new technology in how we build virtual assistants. This release is too big to list all features individually, so here are the highlights:
This release is a stepping stone towards Almond 2.0, the first general purpose release with the new technology. The release will be available to local Almond users (almond-server, almond-gnome) using the unstable delivery channels (dockerhub latest tag, and nightly builds of the flatpak). It will be available on our development Almond server, https://almond-dev.stanford.edu for Almond developers and testers. At a later time, when we can ensure no regressions compared with the current Almond 1.8, we will also release it on the stable channels and at https://almond.stanford.edu.
The following components are no longer part of Almond:
The following modules are part of this release:
The release will happen when all release-blocking bugs have been either fixed or postponed.
Bugs are release-blocking if they are marked with the "Almond 1.99" milestone.
Date | Milestone | Releases | Notes |
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9/ 1 | Feature Freeze | - thingtalk: 1.11.0-beta.5 | |
- thingpedia: 2.8.0-beta.5 | |||
- genie-toolkit: 0.7.0-beta.6 | |||
- genienlp: 0.4.0.b1 | |||
- thingpedia-cli: 0.5.0-beta.2 | |||
- almond-cloud: 1.99.0-beta.1 | |||
- almond-gnome: 1.99.0-beta.1 | |||
- almond-server: 1.99.0-beta.1 | |||
9/5 | Release Candidate | - almond-cloud: 1.99.0-rc1 | |
- almond-gnome: 1.99.0-rc1 | |||
- almond-server: 1.99.0-rc1 | |||
- other modules as needed | |||
9/14 | New Stable Release | - all modules | May be delayed |
9/21 | .1 bugfix Release | - as needed | |
10/5 | .2 bugfix Release | - as needed |