TensorBoard 2.8.0

The 2.8 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.8.

Features

• Histograms
  • TensorFlow 2 tf.summary.histogram API is now fully compatible with TPUs (#5356, #5392, #5404, #5409, #5415, #5443)
• Text
  • Add checkbox to enable or disable markdown rendering (#5378)
• Time Series
  • Add more horizontal space by restyling resize bar (#5390)
  • Preserve run regex filter string in URL (#5412)
  • Collapse some chart groups by default (#5408)
  • Introduce "Alphabetical" tooltip sort and make it the default (#5442)
  • Allow card width to be customized (#5496)
• Mesh
  • Allow camera properties to be specified in config (#5452)
• Misc
  • Better support for cloud file systems by conditionally importing tensorflow_io (#5491)

Bug fixes

• Time Series
  • Fix line chart dark mode bug (#5305)
  • Fix scalars/image/histogram button toggle issues (#5398)
  • Fix subtle SVG chart update issue (#5423)
  • Dark mode fix for collapsible groups (#5426)
  • Font fix for collapsible groups (#5429)
  • Optimize paints triggered by mouse movements (#5461)
  • Improve fallback to SVG charts when WebGL context can't be created (#5465)
  • Improve management of WebGL contexts by freeing them more frequently (#5465)
  • Fix subtle settings bugs (#5458)
  • Fix bug with run selector expander disappearing (#5503)
• Documentation and Examples
  • Update scalars_and_keras demo notebook to use learning_rate instead of lr (#5363)
  • Fix example_basic plugin (#5366)
• Misc
  • Successfully load in Safari and iOS browsers (#5495)
  • Allow tensorboard to be run with Python 3.10 (#5490) - thanks @simonkrenger
  • Update tests for Python 3.11 compatibility (#5380) - thanks @tirkarthi

TensorBoard.dev updates

• Support delete of multiple experiments at the same time (#5471)