Merge branch 'dev' into feat/pipeline1-handler-trio

Author: JarbasAl

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.2.4a1](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-core/tree/2.2.4a1) (2026-06-28)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-core/compare/2.2.3a1...2.2.4a1)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- fix: lift ovos-spec-tools upper bound \(spec-tools 1.x\) [\#790](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-core/pull/790) ([JarbasAl](https://github.com/JarbasAl))
+
 ## [2.2.3a1](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-core/tree/2.2.3a1) (2026-06-27)
 
 [Full Changelog](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-core/compare/2.2.2a1...2.2.3a1)

ovos_core/version.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # START_VERSION_BLOCK
 VERSION_MAJOR = 2
 VERSION_MINOR = 2
-VERSION_BUILD = 3
+VERSION_BUILD = 4
 VERSION_ALPHA = 1
 # END_VERSION_BLOCK
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "ovos-config>=0.0.13,<3.0.0",
     "ovos-workshop>=8.3.0a1,<10.0.0",
     "rapidfuzz>=3.6,<4.0",
-    "ovos-spec-tools[langcodes]>=0.17.3a1,<1.0.0",
+    "ovos-spec-tools[langcodes]>=0.17.3a1",
 ]
 
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