Release 0.17.1

Major features and improvements

• Added env and extra_params to reload_kedro() line magic.
• Extended the pipeline() API to allow strings and sets of strings as inputs and outputs, to specify when a dataset name remains the same (not namespaced).
• Added the ability to add custom prompts with regexp validator for starters by repurposing default_config.yml as prompts.yml.
• Added the env and extra_params arguments to register_config_loader hook.
• Refactored the way settings are loaded. You will now be able to run:

from kedro.framework.project import settings

print(settings.CONF_ROOT)

Bug fixes and other changes

• The version of a packaged modular pipeline now defaults to the version of the project package.
• Added fix to prevent new lines being added to pandas CSV datasets.
• Fixed issue with loading a versioned SparkDataSet in the interactive workflow.
• Kedro CLI now checks pyproject.toml for a tool.kedro section before treating the project as a Kedro project.
• Added fix to DataCatalog::shallow_copy now it should copy layers.
• kedro pipeline pull now uses pip download for protocols that are not supported by fsspec.
• Cleaned up documentation to fix broken links and rewrite permanently redirected ones.
• Added a jsonschema schema definition for the Kedro 0.17 catalog.
• kedro install now waits on Windows until all the requirements are installed.
• Exposed --to-outputs option in the CLI, throughout the codebase, and as part of hooks specifications.
• Fixed a bug where ParquetDataSet wasn't creating parent directories on the fly.
• Updated documentation.

Breaking changes to the API

• This release has broken the kedro ipython and kedro jupyter workflows. To fix this, follow the instructions in the migration guide below.

Note: If you're using the ipython extension instead, you will not encounter this problem.

Migration guide

You will have to update the file <your_project>/.ipython/profile_default/startup/00-kedro-init.py in order to make kedro ipython and/or kedro jupyter work. Add the following line before the KedroSession is created:

configure_project(metadata.package_name)  # to add

session = KedroSession.create(metadata.package_name, path)

Make sure that the associated import is provided in the same place as others in the file:

from kedro.framework.project import configure_project  # to add
from kedro.framework.session import KedroSession

Thanks for supporting contributions

Mariana Silva, Kiyohito Kunii, noklam, Ivan Doroshenko, Zain Patel, Deepyaman Datta, Sam Hiscox, Pascal Brokmeier