TFX 1.11.0 Release

Major Features and Improvements

• This is the last version that supports TensorFlow 1.15.x. TF 1.15.x support
  will be removed in the next version. Please check the
  TF2 migration guide to migrate
  to TF2.

• Artifact/Channel properties now support the new MLMD PROTO property type.

• Supports environment variables in the placeholder expression.
  This placeholder can be used to generate beam_pipeline_args
  dynamically.

Breaking Changes

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For Pipeline Authors

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For Component Authors

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Moved tflite-support related dependencies from [examples] to a separate
  [tflite-support] extra.
• Moved flax related dependencies from [examples] to a separate [flax]
  extra.
• Statistics gen and Schema gen now crash on empty input examples and statistics respectively.
• Importer will now check that an existing artifact has the same type as the intended output before reusing the existing artifact.
• Importer will now use the most recently created artifact when reusing an existing artifact instead of the one with the highest ID.
• Proto placeholder now works with proto files that have non-trivial transitive dependencies.
• Adding tutorials for recommenders and ranking

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.8.0)	Comments
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.10.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.9.0
tflite-support	~=0.4.2	>=0.1.0a1,<0.2.1	Update to a TF-2.10 compatible version.
google-cloud-aiplatform	>=1.6.2,<1.18	>=1.6.2,<2	Added to help pip dependency resolution.
ml-metadata	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.42.0	~=0.41.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.42.0	~=0.41.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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