create a list of Notebook features in Kubeflow 1.7

[jbottum]

/kind feature

Why you need this feature:
We need a list of features in 1.7 for the blog post and powerpoint presentation

Describe the solution you'd like:
The Notebook WG Team will provide a list of features and highlight breaking changes and top features.

@kimwnasptd

[kimwnasptd]

Hey @jbottum, sending here a first draft of the features/fixes list. @DomFleischmann this is also what we can use when cutting the final v1.7.0 tag in this repo, as release notes.

There are more PRs/commits that I didn't reference here, since I didn't want to just bump the full list of commits as the whole release notes. These are the most important IMHO. Will need to add the authors of the PRs in the release notes but we can do it at the end, before publishing the release.

What's new

• Add support for command and args in PodDefault #6542
• Extend PodDefaults for support for imagePullSecrets #6600
• add support of initContainers and sideCars in poddefault #6749
• jwa: Support for showing Notebooks from all namespaces #6706
• web-apps: Add support for all-namespaces in the Volumes and TensorBoards web apps #6778
• Sorting support for JWA #6742
• Sorting support for VWA and TWA #6743
• Filtering support for the web apps #6754
• jwa(front): Add details page functionalities & unit tests #6822
• jwa(front): Add YAML tab to Notebook details page #6790
• jwa(front): Add LOGS tab to the notebook details page #6779
• jwa: Add EVENTS tab to Notebook details page #6782
• VWA: Create Volume details page #6788
• vwa(front): Add YAML tab to Volume details page #6823
• jwa(front): Rework the create page #6826
• jwa(front): Link to VWA details page #6857
• web-apps(front): Sort events & conditions tables by date #6858
• Support Pod Defaults in Tensorboard Web App (#6924) #6971
• Support Pod Defaults in Tensorboard controller #6874
• Extend Docker Publish workflows to be triggered on Version change #6849

What's fixed

• Fix notebook culling #6659
• [vwa-datetime] Showing dates in main page uniformly in VWA #6683
• tensorboard-controller: Fix tensorboard endless restarts #6722
• web-apps: Ensure in-flight requests are cancelled  #6718
• fix setting readOnly on gpus #6735
• jwa(front): Auto update mount path #6875
• rstudio: Update version to properly handle X-Forwarded headers #6890
• vwa(front): Prevent PVCs from being deleted when there is a corresponding notebook #6962
• Fix the logout button to work with the recent version of oidc-authservice #6964
• [wa-actual-links-in-tables] Make links in our table component actual links #6864
• centraldashboard: Add support for apps in new windows #6750
• [wa-age-column-improvements] Improvements in the web app's age column #6694
• Fix the bug of ResourceQuota removal #6188
• centraldashboard: Support dynamic logout URL #6945

Code health

• crud-web-apps: Apply ng lint #6580
• Fix ng lint #6586
• Bump Jupyter web app to Python 3.8. #6562
• web-apps: Common code for all-namespaces #6730
• Upgrade @angular/material in WAs #6763
• jwa(front): Use new Editor component #6775
• jwa(front): Fix unit tests #6804
• twa(front): Fix unit tests #6824
• web-apps(front): Enable source maps in WAs #6787
• vwa(front): Add UI tests with Cypress #6862
• web-apps(front): Install prettier and create a frontend workflow #6853
• vwa(front): Add formatting/linting to VWA's frontend workflow #6852
• centraldashboard-angular(front): Add library.js, source-maps & ESLint #6846
• Implement a culling controller for Notebooks #6807
• jwa(front): Add UI tests with Cypress #6891
• twa(front): Add UI tests with Cypress #6896
• Update KF manifests and gh-action workflows to use the tag=latest #6854
• Fix workflows for publishing images only when PR is merged #6842
• profile-controller: Extend tests for using images of each PR #6820
• Fix the logout button to work with the recent version of oidc-authservice #6609

[kimwnasptd]

As I mentioned in the release team meeting one of the themes that we targeted with @orfeas-k and @elenzio9 was to work on how we expose information in the web apps. In KF 1.7 users will get:

1. Sorting/filtering support in all the main tables of the apps
2. Details pages for each notebook and volume
   • Users will also be able to navigate from one detail page to the other, by clicking object links (i.e. clicking on a mounted volume of a notebook will take you to the details page of that volume)
   • There will be logs, events, yaml info for each of these objects

Next steps for this effort will be to start working on allowing users to edit the objects themselves, now that we have such pages #6707 (comment).

[kimwnasptd]

We also put a lot of effort with @apo-ger in this release to rework the GH Actions.

Now we are at the point where the actions:

1. Build the images in each PR, of the affected components
2. Deploy the manifests of the components
3. Use the images that we just built in the deployed manifests

This means that in this release we are always testing that images can be deployed in each PR. Next steps here are to actually have more powerful integration tests, that will be using the deployed images. This is good because we are getting very close to testing in an environment similar to the final deployed stack

[kimwnasptd]

Then another great effort in this release was from @surajkota where he put cycles and extended the whole TensorBoard stack we have, both the CRD and the web app, to allow use of PodDefaults (links above).

This will help us re-use the same mechanisms throughout the PodDefaults mechanism across the stack. And PodDefaults themselves got a boost in this release by supporting more use-cases (links above)

[kimwnasptd]

Lastly, I think we should definitely highlight the effort for ppc64le support that @lehrig organized in #6684

It's really great to see efforts that will help Kubeflow getting more adoption in other platforms!

[lehrig]

Lastly, I think we should definitely highlight the effort for ppc64le support that @lehrig organized in #6684

It's really great to see efforts that will help Kubeflow getting more adoption in other platforms!

Maybe something like this?

Enabled multi-arch builds for main Kubeflow components and KServe, adding ppc64le as supported processor architecture. See Phase 1 of #6684.

[juliusvonkohout]

/close

[google-oss-prow]

@juliusvonkohout: Closing this issue.

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