v2.8.0

[2.8.0] - 2026-10-29

Bug Fixes

• core: Field() without default no longer makes a parameter optional (0ba531d)
• core: Discard object from serialized set on serialization exception (#300) (5e54d36)
• deps: Update vulnerable dependencies flagged by Dependabot (850c179)
• filewatcher: Use reentrant locks to avoid finalizer self-deadlock (68a6add)
• filter: Make regex and in/not in operators work in job filters (6014234)
• graph: The cached objects of a run follow the run (10f0fa3)
• grid: Ignore duplicate grid search values with a warning (53132b0)
• launchers: Move OutputCaptureHandler out of test code (c01f7f1)
• logs: Fold progress bars across web log polls, show stderr first (8a50f08)
• logs: Render logs as a terminal (cursor up of nested progress bars) (a8399a4)
• monitor: Follow the process of a relaunched job (e128e70)
• objects: Prefer importing top-level modules over their recorded file path (#293) (8d547b5)
• remote: Read job information from the experiment, not the whole list (28abc64)
• remote: Read the service logs locally and do not sync their directory (99227d4)
• remote: Deduplicate the throttled notifications per entity, not per event type (f00f319)
• remote: Keep the job counts of the cached experiments up to date (c91aeb6)
• remote: Use psutil to check stale cache owners (ec8908f)
• serialization: Keep objects.jsonl consistent after a failed write (a2ee67c)
• services: Start without waiting for the sync, stop at any time, do not store the state (298d489)
• ssh: Apply the job events to the jobs the UIs display (c9cea9c)
• tests: Make the faulthandler hang watchdog opt-in (8ca536c)
• tokens: Do not miss a release while a job waits for a token (cfb3764)
• webui: Tell a loading experiment list from an empty one (c49ef69)
• webui: Stop requesting the graph again for every job received (422ef49)
• webui: Show and copy the remote job path for SSH workspaces (ecf4b04)
• webui: Copy the job id on click, the job folder on shift-click; toasts at the top right (01bb3ff)- Skip progress reporting if running outside an experimaestro task (579bcae)
• Implement getstate for Identifier pickling (22e3c0c)
• Stray job deletion, job updates in the web UI, killing re-attached jobs (c564ae8)
• Same experiment status and CO2 in the TUI and the web UI (972f06f)
• Stop leaking watcher threads and zombie job processes (9fe1fe6)
• DELETED is no longer an alias of MISSING_OUTPUTS (48fd524)
• Raise error if invalid keys are passed (and ruff) (176ee9d)
• Add networkx dependency, and fix dag complexity (ebac83d)
• Atomic writes for files shared between processes (c582ebd)

Build

• webui: Rebuild (ffd0776)- Require Python 3.11 or later (0e0f6c8)

CI

• Test on Python 3.11 to 3.15 (ddb75d5)
• Cache Playwright browsers in the UI browser job (bcdc5db)

Documentation

• cli: Fix the state filter example, document reconnection and filter completion (2062440)
• experiment: Refer to experimaestro run instead of run-experiment (9fb8ac3)- Add contributing guidelines requiring pre-commit (fb7a369)
• Fix RTD icon (7bf01d4)
• Use python 3.11 (7b247e4)
• Remove references to the workspace database and stale commands (3c16e48)
• Point README to stable docs and show documented version (4ae4453)
• Show documented version as a badge on the home page (fc952d6)

Features

• cli: Remote (SSH) workspaces for all commands (4529773)
• cli: Inspect shortcut, remote jobs through the state provider (#307) (d2f248a)
• dag: Stack similar nodes based on configs and graph (003832d)
• experiment: Add python_path to make modules importable in task workers (#292) (49db410)
• graph: Progress of running jobs and init task style (8311c85)
• logs: Read remote logs by blocks, load earlier lines on scroll (ea442bb)
• remote: Report the methods an older remote server lacks (881f346)
• remote: Trace the requests on both sides (fc33890)
• remote: Reconnect automatically when the SSH connection drops (3c5f68d)
• sphinx: Link Config.C(...) usages in code blocks with sphinx-codeautolink (ccacfa2)
• ssh: Configurable timeout for the remote server to start (380be0d)
• ui: Search and sort the experiments, with the TUI keys in the web UI (5f9527e)
• ui: Only send the events of the watched experiments (b18812d)
• webui: Shared filter DSL, experiment kill/delete and job grouping (d05e983)
• webui: Bulk orphan actions with confirmation (9f7039e)
• webui: Services without a running experiment, shared start/stop (d270242)
• webui: Semantic URLs with browser history (a51fb78)
• webui: Link the Services, Actions and Orphans views to the docs (4345289)
• webui: More compact tables, sort controls and full-page graph (2f02bec)
• webui: Tab icon showing the conductor's hand (901d984)
• webui: Show the starting and running services on every page (47d0724)
• webui: Auto-complete the job filter (044dfe0)- Warn loudly if unrecognized keys are found in configurations (25ab777)
• Add a DAG drawing tool (87af6fc)
• New dag cli command with docs (3c385b0)
• Inspect params tool (fbc941d)
• Add param inspector in the monitoring TUI (39a151f)
• Shared job status order between the TUI and the web UI (e74f196)
• Experiment tags, experiment grouping and hidden job tags (b63ff85)

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Collapse generated files in diffs (91b5a51)
• Untrack dev notes (ed39f33)
• Update pre-commit hooks, format Python in Markdown (1e32c4a)
• Updated demo (1fa16ca)
• Updated demo (750c66d)

Performance

• cli: Do not load the scheduler when starting the command line (9b5d4cb)
• remote: Send experiment summaries in the list (782dfe7)
• services: List sub-services without recreating the services (fd531ec)
• webui: Request the jobs of the shown experiment, off the event loop (7df95f4)
• webui: Read the experiments when the server starts (09c0be9)- Lazy imports to speed up the command line start (912173a)

Refactor

• cli: Reorganize the command line by what commands act on (53f98d8)
• dag: Integrate the DAG view into the web UI (0379379)
• dynamic-outputs: Read task outputs on the scheduler loop (75a031b)
• launchers: Remove OAR support (da62ece)
• scheduler: Track pending work in the experiment (6ceb307)
• scheduler: Run job completion work as hooks (c569a03)
• scheduler: Wait on tracked work instead of counters (9290566)- Dag can load from remote workspaces (9ef71ea)
• Share kill/delete and folder sizes between the TUI, web UI and CLI (9af4918)
• Use builtin generics and PEP 604 unions (ruff UP rules) (697466c)

Testing

• inspect: Generate a sample workspace instead of local fixtures (5cb11b9)
• services: Wait on the inner service start in the SSH starting-state test (a25ccb6)
• ui: Failing tests for the UI feedback (logs, copy, relaunch, graph, toasts) (bcd1fb3)- UI feature tests shared by the TUI and the web UI (6bc879e)
• Write the reschedule test files atomically (5bf3f96)

Merge

• SSH reconnection into the todo branch (fcddfcb)

Security

• Upgraded packages (227084e)