Release 2.16.0

🕢 Deployments now support multiple schedules 🕐

With today’s release, we’re excited to roll out initial support for using multiple schedules with Deployments! You can now use multiple schedules in the following ways:

• Specifying schedules in a Deployment YAML file
• Creating Python-based Deployments with the Deployment class
• New CLI commands: prefect deployment schedule <create, delete, pause, resume, ls, clear>
• New UI components aware of multiple schedules

Coming soon, we’ll round out support for multiple schedules in other areas, such as:

• When running a flow with flow.serve() and flow.deploy()
• When using prefect deploy

The easiest way to get started with multiple schedules is to try out the new CLI commands:

$ prefect deployment schedule ls happy-flow/my-deployment
                       Deployment Schedules
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                                   ┃ Schedule        ┃ Active ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ c7d3ddc4-9a5a-4dec-bd59-eed282ae55d5 │ cron: 0 0 1 * 1 │ True   │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴────────┘

$ prefect deployment schedule create happy-flow/my-deployment --interval 60
Created deployment schedule!

$ prefect deployment schedule ls happy-flow/my-deployment
                         Deployment Schedules
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID                                   ┃ Schedule           ┃ Active ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ 3638ed58-cab2-4462-a680-2f92fcf6c797 │ interval: 0:01:00s │ True   │
│ c7d3ddc4-9a5a-4dec-bd59-eed282ae55d5 │ cron: 0 0 1 * 1    │ True   │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────┴────────┘

Enhancements

• Add support for deploying to a process work pool using flow.deploy and deploy — #12017
• Add support for multiple schedules to Prefect server and CLI — #11971
• Add CLI command to read runs in a work queue — #11989

Fixes

• Update the text for the CLI command deployment run --help so it renders for more args — #11960
• Fix Flow.with_options logic for retries, retry_delay_seconds, flow_run_name — #12020
• Fix memory leaks related to cancellation scopes and async contextvar usage — #12019
• Revert the recent change that runs on the main thread while we investigate a concurrency issue — #12054
• Add a more readable error if Docker is not running — #12045

Documentation

• Improve language and formatting in Profiles and Configuration guide — #11996
• Improves docs formatting consistency and adds some minor content updates — #12004
• Updates formatting for guide: creating-interactive-workflows.md — #11991
• Add import statement for wait_for_flow_run — #11999
• Add deep dive on overriding job variables — #12033
• Remove extraneous trailing quotation marks in concepts/artifacts docs — #12040
• Add links to overriding job variables guide — #12043
• Update scheduling docs to include information about multiple schedules — #12064

Experimental

• Only allow using Task.submit() for autonomous task submission — #12025

Contributors

• @NodeJSmith

• @hamzamogni made their first contribution in #12000
• @eladm26 made their first contribution in #12045

Full release notes: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/main/RELEASE-NOTES.md