Release 0.18.12

Major features and improvements

• Added dataset factories feature which uses pattern matching to reduce the number of catalog entries.
• Activated all built-in resolvers by default for OmegaConfigLoader except for oc.env.
• Added kedro catalog rank CLI command that ranks dataset factories in the catalog by matching priority.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Consolidated dependencies and optional dependencies in pyproject.toml.
• Made validation of unique node outputs much faster.
• Updated kedro catalog list to show datasets generated with factories.

Documentation changes

• Recommended ruff as the linter and removed mentions of pylint, isort, flake8.

Community contributions

Thanks to Laíza Milena Scheid Parizotto and Chris Schopp.

Breaking changes to the API

Upcoming deprecations for Kedro 0.19.0

• ConfigLoader and TemplatedConfigLoader will be deprecated. Please use OmegaConfigLoader instead.