Hi <!channel>, we are excited to announce that Kedro

0.18.9

is out! K

TLDR: In this release, we added support for a

metadata

attribute in datasets, introduced a new

kedro.logging.RichHandler

that is more flexible and configurable, and fixed some bugs with

OmegaConfigLoader

. We also added substantial improvements to our deployment docs, and we keep making progress towards following modern Python packaging standards.

Kedro 0.18.9 is a non-breaking release in the 0.18.x series, which means you can upgrade with:

pip install kedro==0.18.9

or

conda/mamba/micromamba install -c conda-forge kedro=0.18.9

🚀 Major Features and improvements •

kedro run --params

now updates interpolated parameters correctly when using

OmegaConfigLoader

. • Added

metadata

attribute to

<http://kedro.io|kedro.io>

datasets. This is ignored by Kedro, but may be consumed by users or external plugins. • Added

kedro.logging.RichHandler

. This replaces the default

rich.logging.RichHandler

and is more flexible, user can turn off the

rich

traceback if needed. 🪲 Bug fixes and other changes •

OmegaConfigLoader

will return a

dict

instead of

DictConfig

. •

OmegaConfigLoader

does not show a

MissingConfigError

when the config files exist but are empty. ✍️ Documentation changes • Added documentation for collaborative experiment tracking within Kedro-Viz. • Revised section on deployment to better organise content and reflect how recently docs have been updated. • Minor improvements to fix typos and revise docs to align with engineering changes. ⚠️ Breaking changes to the API •

kedro package

does not produce

.egg

files anymore, and now relies exclusively on

.whl

files. While this is technically a breaking change, we included it anyway because

.egg

files have long been deprecated and we hope not many users are relying on them. 💌 Community contributions • Many thanks to tomasvanpottelbergh and debugger24 for contributing PRs to this release! We welcome every community contribution, large or small. See what we're working on now and report bugs or suggest future features. Until next time, The Kedro Team 💛