Major features and improvements

• Kedro commands now work from any subdirectory within a Kedro project.
• Kedro CLI now provides a better error message when project commands are run outside of a project i.e. kedro run
• Added the --telemetry flag to kedro new, allowing the user to register consent to have user analytics collected at the same time as the project is created.
• Improved the performance of Pipeline object creation and summing.
• Improved suggestions to resume failed pipeline runs.
• Dropped the dependency on toposort in favour of the built-in graphlib module.
• Cookiecutter errors are shown in short format without the --verbose flag.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Updated kedro pipeline create and kedro pipeline delete to read the base environment from the project settings.
• Updated CLI command kedro catalog resolve to read credentials properly.
• Changed the path of where pipeline tests generated with kedro pipeline create from <project root>/src/tests/pipelines/<pipeline name> to <project root>/tests/pipelines/<pipeline name>.
• Updated .gitignore to prevent pushing Mlflow local runs folder to a remote forge when using mlflow and git.
• Fixed error handling message for malformed yaml/json files in OmegaConfigLoader.
• Fixed a bug in node-creation allowing self-dependencies when using transcoding, that is datasets named like name@format.
• Improved error message when passing wrong value to node.

Breaking changes to the API

• Methods _is_project and _find_kedro_project have been moved to kedro.utils. We recommend not using private methods in your code, but if you do, please update your code to use the new location.

Documentation changes

• Added missing description for merge_strategy argument in OmegaConfigLoader.
• Added documentation on best practices for testing nodes and pipelines.
• Clarified docs around using custom resolvers without a full Kedro project.

Community contributions

Many thanks to the following Kedroids for contributing PRs to this release:

• ondrejzacha
• Puneet