prefect 0.5.1

It Takes a Village

on Python PyPI

0.5.1

Released April 4, 2019

Features

• API reference documentation is now versioned - #270
• Add S3ResultHandler for handling results to / from S3 buckets - #879
• Add ability to use Cached states across flow runs in Cloud - #885

Enhancements

• Bump to latest version of pytest (4.3) - #814
• Client.deploy accepts optional build kwarg for avoiding building Flow environment - #876
• Bump distributed to 1.26.1 for enhanced security features - #878
• Local secrets automatically attempt to load secrets as JSON - #883
• Add task logger to context for easily creating custom logs during task runs - #884

Task Library

• Add ParseRSSFeed for parsing a remote RSS feed - #856
• Add tasks for working with Docker containers and imaged - #864
• Add task for creating a BigQuery table - #895

Fixes

• Only checkpoint tasks if running in cloud - #839, #854
• Adjusted small flake8 issues for names, imports, and comparisons - #849
• Fix bug preventing flow.run from properly using cached tasks - #861
• Fix tempfile usage in flow.visualize so that it runs on Windows machines - #858
• Fix issue caused by Python 3.5.2 bug for Python 3.5.2 compatibility - #857
• Fix issue in which GCSResultHandler was not pickleable - #879
• Fix issue with automatically converting callables and dicts to tasks - #894

Breaking Changes

• Change the call signature of Dict task from run(**task_results) to run(keys, values) - #894

Contributors

• ColCarroll
• dhirschfeld
• BasPH
• Miloš Garunović
• Nash Taylor