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Had an issue raised that maps that use additional ':' in the value, can have problems
For example the key:value pair of url:http://github.io
Would result in key as 'url', but value as 'http'
This fix means value will be http://github.io
Thanks Michel !

Nothing will be added to this release other than critical defects stopping v1.0.0 release on 1st Oct

Webchat broken due to typo, now fixed

In the final stages of prep for 1.0.0, the main focus of work is trawling through pylint output and fixing up as many as possible

Pylint code quality now stands at 9.55/10 which I think is pretty good, but hoping to push on in the next few days and get it above 9.8

Number of minor fixes and additional unit tests to help some users also added

An issue has been discovered in template and parser node loading. If a node fails to pre-instantiate using standard Python class loading, then the loading of all remaining nodes fails and the parser is left with only the nodes loaded to that point.

This manifests itself in strange errors, with grammars no longer working that previously worked.

The issue was discovered when python-dateutil was added to requirements.txt several 10s of releases ago, but I did not make it clear this had been added or that it was a python dependency.

All users should either carry out

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
or
pip3 install python-dateutil

This release contains a small number of defect fixes but also introduces the last feature ahead of 1.0.0 release

initial_question, default_response and exit_response all have the corresponding srai options, initial_question_srai, default_response_srai and exit_response_srai. Which allow a more dynamic text response instead of the static response defined in Bot config.

Focus moves to documentation ahead of 1.0.0 release