Hi @channel, we are excited to announce 📣 kedro-plugins release ! K kedro-datasets-6.0.0 🚀 Major features and improvements - Supported passing

database

to

ibis.TableDataset

for load and save operations. - Added functionality to save pandas DataFrames directly to Snowflake, facilitating seamless

.csv

ingestion. - Added Python 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11 support for

snowflake.SnowflakeTableDataset

. - Enabled connection sharing between

ibis.FileDataset

and

ibis.TableDataset

instances, thereby allowing nodes to save data loaded by one to the other (as long as they share the same connection configuration). - Added

databricks.ExternalTableDataset

and

safetensors.SafetensorsDataset

to experimental datasets. 🪲 Bug fixes and other changes - Made

pandas.GBQTableDataset

lazy and pickleable. - Made

pandas.GBQQueryDataset

pickleable. - Implemented Snowflake's local testing framework for testing purposes. - Improved the dependency management for Spark-based datasets by refactoring the Spark and Databricks utility functions used across the datasets. - Deprecated

tracking.MetricsDataset

and

tracking.JSONDataset

. - Moved

kedro-catalog

JSON schemas from Kedro core to

kedro-datasets

. ⚠️ Breaking Changes - Demoted

video.VideoDataset

from core to experimental dataset. - Removed file handling capabilities from

ibis.TableDataset

. Use

ibis.FileDataset

to load and save files with an Ibis backend instead. kedro-airflow-0.9.2 🚀 Major features and improvements • Removed support for Python 3.8 kedro-docker-0.6.2 🚀 Major features and improvements • Added support for Python 3.13 • Removed support for python 3.8 • Switch dependency management to

uv

. kedro-telemetry-0.6.2 🚀 Major features and improvements • Removed support for Python 3.8 • Added support for Python 3.13 Thanks a lot to our community contributors ✨ - • Felix Scherz • @Minura Punchihewa • @Thomas d'Hooghe • @Mark Druffel • @Chris Schopp 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 💛