Ray Libraries

Ray Data

🎉 New Features:

• Added read_hudi (#46273)

💫 Enhancements:

• Improved performance of DelegatingBlockBuilder (#48509)
• Improved memory accounting of pandas blocks (#46939)

🔨 Fixes:

• Fixed bug where you can’t specify a schema with write_parquet (#48630)
• Fixed bug where to_pandas errors if your dataset contains Arrow and pandas blocks (#48583)
• Fixed bug where map_groups doesn’t work with pandas data (#48287)
• Fixed bug where write_parquet errors if your data contains nullable fields (#48478)
• Fixed bug where “Iteration Blocked Time” charts looks incorrect (#48618)
• Fixed bug where unique fails with null values (#48750)
• Fixed bug where “Rows Outputted” is 0 in the Data dashboard (#48745)
• Fixed bug where methods like drop_columns cause spilling (#48140)
• Fixed bug where async map tasks hang (#48861)

🗑️ Deprecations:

• Deprecated read_parquet_bulk #48691
• Deprecated iter_tf_batches #48693
• Deprecated meta_provider parameter of read functions (#48690)
• Deprecated to_torch (#48692)

Ray Train

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix StartTracebackWithWorkerRank serialization (#48548)

📖 Documentation:

• Add example for fine-tuning Llama3.1 with AWS Trainium (#48768)

Ray Tune

🔨 Fixes:

• Remove the clear_checkpoint function during Trial restoration error handling. (#48532)

Ray Serve

🎉 New Features:

• Initial version of local_testing_mode (#48477)

💫 Enhancements:

• Handle multiple changed objects per LongPollHost.listen_for_change RPC (#48803)
• Add more nuanced checks for http proxy status errors (#47896)
• Improve replica access log messages to include HTTP status info and better resemble standard log format (#48819)
• Propagate replica constructor error to deployment status message and print num retries left (#48531)

🔨 Fixes:

• Pending requests that are cancelled before they were assigned to a replica now also return a serve.RequestCancelledError (#48496)

RLlib

💫 Enhancements:

• Release test enhancements. (#45803, #48681)
• Make opencv-python-headless default over opencv-python (#48776)
• Reverse learner queue behavior of IMPALA/APPO (consume oldest batches first, instead of newest, BUT drop oldest batches if queue full). (#48702)

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix torch scheduler stepping and reporting. (#48125)
• Fix accumulation of results over n training_step calls within same iteration (new API stack). (#48136)
• Various other fixes: #48563, #48314, #48698, #48869.

📖 Documentation:

• Upgrade examples script overview page (new API stack). (#48526)
• Enable RLlib + Serve example in CI and translate to new API stack. (#48687)

🏗 Architecture refactoring:

• Switch new API stack on by default, APPO, IMPALA, BC, MARWIL, and CQL. (#48516, #48599)
• Various APPO enhancements (new API stack): Circular buffer (#48798), minor loss math fixes (#48800), target network update logic (#48802), smaller cleanups (#48844).
• Remove rllib_contrib from repo. (#48565)

Ray Core and Ray Clusters

Ray Core

🎉 New Features:

• [Core] uv runtime env support (#48479, #48486, #48611, #48619, #48632, #48634, #48637, #48670, #48731)
• [Core] GCS FT with redis sentinel (#47335)

💫 Enhancements:

• [CompiledGraphs] Refine schedule visualization (#48594)

🔨 Fixes:

• [CompiledGraphs] Don't persist input_nodes in _CollectiveOperation to avoid wrong understanding about DAGs (#48463)
• [Core] Fix Ascend NPU discovery to support 8+ cards per node (#48543)
• [Core] Make Placement Group Wildcard and Indexed Resource Assignments Consistent (#48088)
• [Core] Stop the GRPC server before Shut down the Object Store (#48572)

Ray Clusters

🔨 Fixes:

• [KubeRay]: Fix ConnectionError on Autoscaler CR lookups in K8s clusters with custom DNS for Kubernetes API. (#48541)

Dashboard

💫 Enhancements:

• Add global UTC timezone button in navbar with local storage (#48510)
• Add memory graphs optimized for OOM debugging (#48530)
• Improve tasks/actors metric naming and add graph for running tasks (#48528)
  add actor pid to dashboard (#48791)

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix Placement Group Table table cells overflow (#47323)
• Fix Rows Outputted being zero on Ray Data Dashboard (#48745)
• fix confusing dataset operator name (#48805)

Thanks

Thanks to all those who contributed to this release!
@rynewang, @rickyyx, @bveeramani, @marwan116, @simonsays1980, @dayshah, @dentiny, @KepingYan, @mimiliaogo, @kevin85421, @SeaOfOcean, @stephanie-wang, @mohitjain2504, @azayz, @xushiyan, @richardliaw, @can-anyscale, @xingyu-long, @kanwang, @aslonnie, @MortalHappiness, @jjyao, @SumanthRH, @matthewdeng, @alexeykudinkin, @sven1977, @raulchen, @andrewsykim, @zcin, @nadongjun, @hongpeng-guo, @miguelteixeiraa, @saihaj, @khluu, @ArturNiederfahrenhorst, @ryanaoleary, @ltbringer, @pcmoritz, @JoshKarpel, @akyang-anyscale, @frances720, @BeingGod, @edoakes, @Bye-legumes, @Superskyyy, @liuxsh9, @MengjinYan, @ruisearch42, @scottjlee, @angelinalg