1.0 Alpha 1

This is the initial (alpha) release of ChatterBot 1.0. There is a large number of improvements in this release and there are many changes that are not backwards compatible.

Features

• Unit conversion adapter (a huge thanks to @manoelrui) #1300
• Add a created_at time to statements #1393 #1394
• Add create method to storage adapters #1400

Maintenance

• Remove dependency on factory-boy #1389
• Add CONVERSATION_LABEL_MAX_LENGTH constant #1392
• Log Django test output to stdout #1395

Backwards incompatible changes

• Require chatbot parameter for training classes #1330
• Combine Django API view with example view #1322
• Drop support for Django 1.8 and add support for 2.0 #1338
• Remove database parameter from storage adapters in favor of database_uri #1325
• Dropping support for Python 2.7 #1332
• Remove modules included in Python 3 from dev-requirements.txt #1369
• Allow multiple order_by values to be passed to filter method #1396
• Replace SQLStorageAdapter.create with SQLStorageAdapter.create_database #1397
• Remove Conversation and Response objects to simplify data representations #1391
• Replace the extra_data attribute with tags #1402
• process_response no longer takes a conversation parameter #1404
• Move get_statement method to storage adapter to match mongo adapter #1405
• Remove conversation parameter from the get_response and process_input methods #1413
• Merge the MultiAdapter code into the ChatBot class #1418
• Remove set_trainer method and trainer attribute from the ChatBot class #1420