RELEASE.md

Current Version (Still in Development)

Major Features and Improvements

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Documentation Updates

1.8.13

Major Features and Improvements

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• Add support for task-level retry policy when compiling pipeline to IR #7875

For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Depends on google-cloud-storage>=2.2.1,<3 #7502
• Accepts typing-extensions>=4,<5 in addition to typing-extensions>=3.7.4,<4 #7801
• Fixes 'ComponentStore' object has no attribute 'uri_search_template'. #8002

Documentation Updates

1.8.12

Major Features and Improvements

• Enable pip installation from custom PyPI repository #7470
• Support getting pipeline status in exit handler. #7483

Breaking Changes

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For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• No longer require KFP client for kfp components build #7410
• Require google-api-core>=1.31.5, >=2.3.2 #7377

Documentation Updates

2.0.0-alpha.1

Major Features and Improvements

Breaking Changes

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For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Depends on kfp-server-api>=2.0.0a0, <3 #7427

Documentation Updates

2.0.0-alpha.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Support passing parameters in v2 using google.protobuf.Value #6804.
• Implement experimental v2 @component component #6825
• Add load_component_from_* for v2 #6822
• Merge v2 experimental change back to v2 namespace #6890
• Add ImporterSpec v2 #6917
• Add add set_env_variable for Pipeline task #6919
• Add metadata field for importer #7112
• Add in filter to list_pipeline_versions SDK method #7223
• Add enable_job method to client #7239
• Support getting pipeline status in exit handler. #7309
• Support KFP v2 API in kfp.client #7411

Breaking Changes

• Remove sdk/python/kfp/v2/google directory for v2, including google client and custom job #6886
• APIs imported from the v1 namespace are no longer supported by the v2 compiler. #6890
• Deprecate v2 compatible mode in v1 compiler. #6958
• Drop support for python 3.6 #7303
• Deprecate v1 code to deprecated folder #7291
• Disable output_component_file temporarily for v2 early release #7390

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For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix importer ignoring reimport setting, and switch to Protobuf.Value for import uri #6827
• Fix display name support for groups #6832
• Fix regression on optional inputs #6905 #6937
• Depends on google-auth>=1.6.1,<3 #6939
• Change otherwise to else in yaml #6952
• Avoid pydantic bug on Union type #6957
• Fix bug for if and concat placeholders #6978
• Fix bug for resourceSpec #6979
• Fix regression on nested loops #6990
• Fix bug for input/outputspec and positional arguments #6980
• Fix importer not using correct output artifact type #7235
• Add verify_ssl for Kubeflow client #7174
• Depends on typing-extensions>=3.7.4,<5; python_version<"3.9" #7288
• Depends on google-api-core>=1.31.5, >=2.3.2 #7377
• Fix bug that required KFP API server for kfp components build command to work #7430
• Pass default value for inputs and remove deprecated items in v1 #7405

Documentation Updates

1.8.11

Major Features and Improvements

• kfp.Client uses namespace from initialization if set for the instance context #7056
• Add importer_spec metadata to v1 #7180

Breaking Changes

• Fix breaking change in Argo 3.0, to define TTL for workflows. Makes SDK incompatible with KFP pre-1.7 versions #7141

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For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Remove redundant check in set_gpu_limit #6866
• Fix create_runtime_artifact not covering all types. #7168
• Depend on absl-py>=0.9,<2 #7172

Documentation Updates

1.8.10

Major Features and Improvements

• Improve CLI experience for archiving experiments, managing recurring runs and listing resources #6934

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Visualizations and metrics do not work with data_passing_methods. #6882
• Fix a warning message. #6911
• Refresh access token only when it expires. #6941
• Fix bug in checking values in _param_values. #6965

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1.8.9

Major Features and Improvements

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Make Artifact type be compatible with any sub-artifact types bidirectionally #6859

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1.8.8

Major Features and Improvements

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix cloud scheduler's job name #6844
• Add deprecation warnings for v2 #6851

Documentation Updates

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1.8.7

Major Features and Improvements

• Add optional support to specify description for pipeline version #6472.
• New v2 experimental compiler #6803.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix the the specified 'mlpipeline-ui-metadata','mlpipeline-metrics' path is overrided by default value #6796
• Fix placeholder mapping error in v2. #6794
• Add OnTransientError to allowed retry policies #6808
• Add optional filter argument to list methods of KFP client #6748
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.13,<0.2.0 #6803

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1.8.6

Major Features and Improvements

• Add functions to sdk client to delete and disable jobs #6754

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Require base and target images for components built using kfp components build CLI command to be unique #6731
• Try to use apt-get python3-pip when pip does not exist in containers used by v2 lightweight components #6737
• Implement LoopArgument and LoopArgumentVariable v2. #6755
• Implement Pipeline task settings for v2 dsl. #6746

Documentation Updates

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1.8.5

Major Features and Improvements

• Add v2 placeholder variables #6693
• Add a new command in KFP's CLI, components, that enables users to manage and build v2 components in a container with Docker #6417
• Add load_component_from_spec for SDK v1 which brings back the ability to build components directly in python, using ComponentSpec #6690

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix executor getting None as value when float 0 is passed in. #6682
• Fix function-based components not preserving the namespace of GCPC artifact types. #6702
• Fix dsl. prefix in component I/O type annotation breaking component at runtime. #6714
• Update v2 yaml format #6661
• Implement v2 PipelineTask #6713
• Fix type_utils #6719
• Depends on typing-extensions>=3.7.4,<4; python_version<"3.9" #6683
• Depends on click>=7.1.2,<9 #6691
• Depends on cloudpickle>=2.0.0,<3 #6703
• Depends on typer>=0.3.2,<1.0 #6417

Documentation Updates

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1.8.4

Major Features and Improvements

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Support artifact types under google namespace #6648
• Fix a couple of bugs that affect nested loops and conditions in v2. #6643
• Add IfPresentPlaceholder and ConcatPlaceholder for v2 ComponentSpec.#6639

Documentation Updates

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1.8.3

Major Features and Improvements

• Support URI templates with ComponentStore. #6515

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix duplicate function for list_pipeline_versions(). #6594
• Support re-use of PVC with VolumeOp. #6582
• When namespace file is missing, remove stack trace so it doesn't look like an error #6590
• Local runner supports additional docker options. #6599
• Fix the error that kfp v1 and v2 compiler failed to provide unique name for ops of the same component. #6600

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1.8.2

Major Features and Improvements

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix component decorator could result in invalid component if install_kfp_package=False. #6527)
• v2 compiler to throw no task defined error. #6545
• Improve output parameter type checking in V2 SDK. #6566
• Use Annotated rather than Union for Input and Output. #6573
• Depends on typing-extensions>=3.10.0.2,<4. #6573

Documentation Updates

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1.8.1

Major Features and Improvements

• Support container environment variable in v2. #6515

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Define PipelineParameterChannel and PipelineArtifactChannel in v2. #6470
• Remove dead code on importer check in v1. #6508
• Fix issue where dict, list, bool typed input parameters don't accept constant values or pipeline inputs. #6523
• Fix passing in "" to a str parameter causes the parameter to receive it as None instead. #6533
• Get short name of complex input/output types to ensure we can map to appropriate de|serializer. #6504
• Fix Optional type hint causing executor to ignore user inputs for parameters. #6541
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.10,<0.2.0 #6515
• Depends on kubernetes>=8.0.0,<19. #6532

Documentation Updates

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1.8.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Add "--detail" option to kfp run get. #6404
• Support set_display_name in v2. #6471

Breaking Changes

• Revert: "Add description to upload_pipeline_version in kfp" #6468

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix bug in PodSpec that overwrites nodeSelector #6512
• Add Alpha feature notice for local client #6462
• Import mock from stdlib and drop dependency. #6456
• Update yapf config and move it to sdk folder. #6467
• Fix typing issues. #6480
• Load v1 and v2 component yaml into v2 ComponentSpec and convert v1 component spec to v2 component spec #6497
• Format all Python files under SDK folder. #6501

Documentation Updates

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1.7.2

Major Features and Improvements

• Add support to specify description for pipeline version #6395.
• Add support for schema_version in pipeline #6366
• Add support for enabling service account for cloud scheduler in google client #6013

Breaking Changes

• kfp.componentsno longer imports everything from kfp.components. For instance, load_component_from_* methods are available only from kfp.components, but not from kfp.components.
• No more '_path' suffix striping from v2 components.

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Refactor and move v2 related code to under the v2 namespace #6358
• Fix importer not taking output from upstream #6439
• Clean up the unused arg in AIPlatformCient docstring #6406
• Add BaseModel data classes and pipeline saving #6372

Documentation Updates

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1.7.1

Major Features and Improvements

• Surfaces Kubernetes configuration in container builder #6095

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Relaxes the requirement that component inputs/outputs must appear on the command line. #6268
• Fixed the compiler bug for legacy outputs mlpipeline-ui-metadata and mlpipeline-metrics. #6325
• Raises error on using importer in v2 compatible mode. #6330
• Raises error on missing pipeline name in v2 compatible mode. #6332
• Raises warning on container component without command. #6335
• Fixed the issue that SlicedClassificationMetrics, HTML, and Markdown type are not exposed in dsl package. #6343
• Fixed the issue that pip may not be available in lightweight component base image. #6359

Documentation Updates

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