Release 0.17.7

Major features and improvements

• pipeline now accepts tags and a collection of Nodes and/or Pipelines rather than just a single Pipeline object. pipeline should be used in preference to Pipeline when creating a Kedro pipeline.
• pandas.SQLTableDataSet and pandas.SQLQueryDataSet now only open one connection per database, at instantiation time (therefore at catalog creation time), rather than one per load/save operation.
• Added new command group, micropkg, to replace kedro pipeline pull and kedro pipeline package with kedro micropkg pull and kedro micropkg package for Kedro 0.18.0. kedro micropkg package saves packages to project/dist while kedro pipeline package saves packages to project/src/dist.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Added tutorial documentation for experiment tracking.
• Added Plotly dataset documentation.
• Added the upper limit pandas<1.4 to maintain compatibility with xlrd~=1.0.
• Bumped the Pillow minimum version requirement to 9.0 (Python 3.7+ only) following CVE-2022-22817.
• Fixed PickleDataSet to be copyable and hence work with the parallel runner.
• Upgraded pip-tools, which is used by kedro build-reqs, to 6.5 (Python 3.7+ only). This pip-tools version is compatible with pip>=21.2, including the most recent releases of pip. Python 3.6 users should continue to use pip-tools 6.4 and pip<22.
• Added astro-iris as alias for astro-airlow-iris, so that old tutorials can still be followed.
• Added details about Kedro's Technical Steering Committee and governance model.

Upcoming deprecations for Kedro 0.18.0

• kedro pipeline pull and kedro pipeline package will be deprecated. Please use kedro micropkg instead.