Release 0.17.2

Major features and improvements

• Added support for compress_pickle backend to PickleDataSet.
• Enabled loading pipelines without creating a KedroContext instance:

from kedro.framework.project import pipelines

print(pipelines)

• Projects generated with kedro>=0.17.2:
  • should define pipelines in pipeline_registry.py rather than hooks.py.
  • when run as a package, will behave the same as kedro run

Bug fixes and other changes

• If settings.py is not importable, the errors will be surfaced earlier in the process, rather than at runtime.

Minor breaking changes to the API

• kedro pipeline list and kedro pipeline describe no longer accept redundant --env parameter.
• from kedro.framework.cli.cli import cli no longer includes the new and starter commands.

Upcoming deprecations for Kedro 0.18.0

• kedro.framework.context.KedroContext.run will be removed in release 0.18.0.

Thanks for supporting contributions

Sasaki Takeru