Merge branch 'main' into 8569-drop-py36-support

.github/PULL_REQUEST_AUTOMATIC_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+:auto_rickshaw: This PR should be merged automatically once it has been approved. If it doesn't happen:
+- [ ] Handle merge conflicts
+- [ ] Fix build errors
+
+
+:bulb: It has been opened automatically after changes were merged in a feature branch.

.github/workflows/ci-docs-tests.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
         python-version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION }}
 
     - name: Set up Node 12.x 🦙
-      uses: actions/setup-node@v2.2.0
+      uses: actions/setup-node@v2.3.0
       with:
         node-version: '12.x'
 

.github/workflows/ci-model-regression-on-schedule.yml

@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Notify Slack of Failure 😱
         if: failure()  && steps.issue-exists.outputs.result == 'false'
-        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@f3635935f58910a6d6951b73efe9037c960c8c04  # v3
+        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@e74cd4e48f4452e8158dc4f8bcfc780ae6203364  # v3
         with:
           status: custom
           fields: workflow,job,commit,repo,ref,author,took
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Notify Slack when Performance Drops 💬
         if: steps.performance.outputs.is_dropped == 'true' && steps.issue-exists.outputs.result == 'false'
-        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@f3635935f58910a6d6951b73efe9037c960c8c04 #v3
+        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@e74cd4e48f4452e8158dc4f8bcfc780ae6203364 #v3
         with:
           status: custom
           fields: workflow,job,commit,repo,ref,author,took

.github/workflows/documentation.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
         python-version: 3.7
 
     - name: Set up Node 12.x 🦙
-      uses: actions/setup-node@v2.2.0
+      uses: actions/setup-node@v2.3.0
       with:
         node-version: '12.x'
 

CHANGELOG.mdx

@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/tree/main/changelog/ . -->
 
 
 ### Bugfixes
-- [#7089](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/7089): Fix [ConveRTTokenizer](components.mdx#converttokenizer) failing because of wrong model URL by making the `model_url` parameter of `ConveRTTokenizer` mandatory.
+- [#7089](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/7089): Fix `ConveRTTokenizer` failing because of wrong model URL by making the `model_url` parameter of `ConveRTTokenizer` mandatory.
 
   Since the ConveRT model was taken [offline](https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/issues/6806), we can no longer use
   the earlier public URL of the model. Additionally, since the licence for the model is unknown,
@@ -2362,7 +2362,7 @@ https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/tree/main/changelog/ . -->
 
 * [#5006](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5006): Channel `hangouts` for Rasa integration with Google Hangouts Chat is now supported out-of-the-box.
 
-* [#5389](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5389): Add an optional path to a specific directory to download and cache the pre-trained model weights for [HFTransformersNLP](./components.mdx#hftransformersnlp).
+* [#5389](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5389): Add an optional path to a specific directory to download and cache the pre-trained model weights for `HFTransformersNLP`.
 
 * [#5422](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5422): Add options `tensorboard_log_directory` and `tensorboard_log_level` to `EmbeddingIntentClassifier`,
   `DIETClasifier`, `ResponseSelector`, `EmbeddingPolicy` and `TEDPolicy`.
@@ -2529,10 +2529,10 @@ https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/tree/main/changelog/ . -->
 
 * [#5187](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5187): Integrate language models from HuggingFace's [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) Library.
 
-  Add a new NLP component [HFTransformersNLP](./components.mdx#hftransformersnlp) which tokenizes and featurizes incoming messages using a specified
+  Add a new NLP component `HFTransformersNLP` which tokenizes and featurizes incoming messages using a specified
   pre-trained model with the Transformers library as the backend.
-  Add [LanguageModelTokenizer](./components.mdx#languagemodeltokenizer) and [LanguageModelFeaturizer](./components.mdx#languagemodelfeaturizer) which use the information from
-  [HFTransformersNLP](./components.mdx#hftransformersnlp) and sets them correctly for message object.
+  Add `LanguageModelTokenizer` and [LanguageModelFeaturizer](./components.mdx#languagemodelfeaturizer) which use the information from
+  `HFTransformersNLP` and sets them correctly for message object.
   Language models currently supported: BERT, OpenAIGPT, GPT-2, XLNet, DistilBert, RoBERTa.
 
 * [#5225](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5225): Added a new CLI command `rasa export` to publish tracker events from a persistent

changelog/6487.removal.md

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+Remove backwards compatibility code with Rasa Open Source 1.x, Rasa Enterprise 0.35, and other outdated
+backwards compatibility code in `rasa.cli.x`, `rasa.core.utils`, `rasa.model_testing`, `rasa.model_training`
+and `rasa.shared.core.events`.

changelog/8879.removal.md

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+Removed the deprecated dialogue policy state featurizers: `BinarySingleStateFeature` and `LabelTokenizerSingleStateFeaturizer`.
+
+Removed the deprecated method `encode_all_actions` of `SingleStateFeaturizer`. Use `encode_all_labels` instead.

changelog/8881.removal.md

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+Follow through on deprecation warnings and remove code, tests, and docs for `ConveRTTokenizer`, `LanguageModelTokenizer` and `HFTransformersNLP`.

changelog/8929.improvement.md

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+Added optional flag to convert intent ID hashes from integer to string in the `KafkaEventBroker`.

changelog/9135.misc.md

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+Remove `MessageProcessor` logic when determining whether to predict another action in `rasa.core.test` module.
+Adapt `MessageProcessor.predict_next_action()` method to raise `ActionLimitReached` exception instead.