Zingg 0.7.0

Highlights

Performance

• Upgraded GraphFrames 0.10.0 → 0.11.0 (#1335) — bumps the graph-processing library used for blocking/clustering to pick up upstream fixes and performance improvements.
• Updated Docker base image to apache/spark:3.5.5-python3 (#1336)

Error Handling & Telemetry

• Proper error propagation across config loading and preprocessing (#1329) — root-cause exceptions are now chained into ZinggClientException/ZinggException instead of being swallowed, so users see the real underlying cause.
• Fixed MatchTypes.getByName exception type — now throws a specific IllegalArgumentException instead of a generic checked Exception.
• Fixed missing telemetry fields (#1342) — dataFormat, outputFormat, numTotalFields, numMatchFields, and stopWords are now correctly captured.

Code Cleanup

• Removed stale unused name field from Matcher and Linker (#1344)
• Refactored SparkClient constructors (#1318) — added overloads accepting a zFactoryClassName string for easier custom-factory instantiation.

Testing Infrastructure

• Split Spark test session into Lite and Heavy profiles (#1348) — most tests run on a 1G lightweight session while memory-intensive tests get 8G, speeding up CI.
• Consolidated perf test workflows into one reusable GitHub Actions workflow (#1346, #1334, #1331) — reduced duplication and added performance plotting.

Notebooks

• Modularized and reorganized Databricks and Fabric notebooks (#1321, #1324, #1325, #1316) — split into numbered, single-purpose notebooks for easier stage-by-stage execution and debugging.

Documentation

• Corrected the explain config documentation (#1328).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed labeler truncating field values in vertical display (#1361).

See the full commit-level changelog below for every PR included in this release.

What's Changed

• Update FebrlExample notebook to add DOCS_DIR construction by @padam-prakash in #1316
• Refactor SparkClient constructors by @padam-prakash in #1318
• updated databricks notebooks by @LOGANBLUE1 in #1321
• review and changed the databricks notebooks by @LOGANBLUE1 in #1324
• reviewed and added notebooks by @LOGANBLUE1 in #1325
• correct the explain config by @LOGANBLUE1 in #1328
• aded proper error propagation by @LOGANBLUE1 in #1329
• Fix perf runner json by @Chandanydv1234 in #1331
• Updates the Docker base image to apache/spark:3.5.5-python3. by @Chandanydv1234 in #1336
• simplify workflows and integrate performance plotting by @Chandanydv1234 in #1334
• Consolidate perf test workflows into a single reusable workflow by @Chandanydv1234 in #1346
• Remove stale unused name field from Matcher and Linker (#682) by @Chandanydv1234 in #1344
• Upgrade GraphFrames to 0.11.0 by @Chandanydv1234 in #1335
• Changing test infrastructure to have different values for spark environment so that memory during test runs can be optimal by @Chandanydv1234 in #1348
• Fix: dataFormat/outputFormat/numTotalFields/numMatchFields/stopWords missing from telemetry by @siddhik719 in #1342
• Fix labeler truncating field values in vertical display by @Chandanydv1234 in #1361

New Contributors

• @siddhik719 made their first contribution in #1342

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0