wandb 0.28.2

v0.28.2

on Python PyPI

What's Changed

Notable Changes

The wandb sync --clean command now exits with code 1 and prints a hint to use wandb clean, which is the replacement.
wandb login now verifies credentials by default. This can be disabled with wandb login --no-verify or programmatically with wandb.login(verify=False).

Added

• Added support for gzip compression of filestream requests, reducing network traffic when logging metrics. It is currently opt-in and requires server support: set x_file_stream_no_gzip=False in wandb.Settings to enable it. Compression will become the default in a future release (@dmitryduev in #12262)
• Added a --term-timeout flag to wandb agent (@nathancy-wandb in #12246)
• Added run.sync_dir (@timoffex in #12319)

Changed

• The new wandb clean command replaces wandb sync --clean (@timoffex in #12238)
• Hardened argument handling in wandb launch for the local-process resource so that job-supplied values are always shell-quoted (@nicholaspun-wandb in #12220)
• The launch agent now restricts a job's git source URL to https/ssh remotes and pins git's protocol allowlist when fetching it and updating submodules (@nicholaspun-wandb in #12221)
• Response parsing is now faster for many wandb.Api operations, including artifact and registry queries (@tonyyli-wandb in #12213)
• wandb.init() now reports the error it was retrying (such as a network error) when it times out, instead of a generic timeout message. The init_timeout setting now also bounds the backend's retries during run initialization (@skhanna-cw in #12216)
• wandb.Api().create_run_queue(), wandb.Api().create_custom_chart(), and wandb.Api().upsert_run_queue() now raise WandbApiFailedError when the operation fails on the backend. (@jacobromero in #12307)
• Paginated artifact and registry query methods (Api.artifacts(), Api.artifact_collections(), Api.registries(), Registries.collections(), Registries.versions(), Collections.versions(), Registry.collections(), Registry.versions(), Project.collections()) now perform client-side validation of pagination arguments before attempting to fetch any results (@tonyyli-wandb in #12101)
• Ordered registry search now scopes per-registry collection and version queries to the current registry's internal id for more reliable pagination and filtering (@ibindlish in #12188)

Deprecated

• wandb sync --sync-tensorboard is deprecated and will be removed in a later release (@timoffex in #12419)

Removed

• Releases no longer include 32-bit Windows (win32) wheels; use 64-bit Python on Windows (@dmitryduev in #12267)

Fixed

• Registry search registries(order=...).collections(order=...).versions() now returns artifact versions in registry and/or collection order. (@ibindlish in #12154)
• macOS x86_64 wheels now contain x86_64 builds of the wandb-xpu binary and the Rust parquet library, which previously shipped as arm64 and could not run or be loaded on Intel Macs (@dmitryduev in #12267)
• wandb.login(verify=True) and wandb login --verify now verify federated identity (identity token) credentials, which were previously not verified (@dmitryduev in #12294)
• wandb login and wandb verify no longer update the system host settings when failing to login (@jacobromero in #12332)
• wandb verify now reports a failed check instead of crashing when an operation still fails after retries (@dmitryduev in #12360)
• Calling Sweeps agent with a custom WANDB_DIR will now respect it when dumping JSON output (@kelu-wandb in #12344)
• Fixed wandb.Api(overrides={"base_url": ...}) failing to authenticate with federated identity (identity token) credentials when the specified server was not the default one, such as a dedicated cloud deployment, unless WANDB_BASE_URL was also set (@dmitryduev in #12340)
• When using federated identity, the identity token file is now re-read for each access token exchange instead of once at startup, so short-lived identity tokens re-minted to the same path keep working for runs that outlive them (@dmitryduev in #12341)
• When using federated identity, requests now fail immediately with the server's error message when the server rejects the identity token exchange, such as for an invalid or expired identity token. Previously, the rejected exchange was retried until requests timed out with a generic error (@dmitryduev in #12366)
• wandb login validates api keys prior to saving to the .netrc file (@jacobromero in #12347)
• The global_step metric created when syncing TensorBoard files is no longer prefixed, like train/global_step, so that it is easier to compare training and validation metrics (@timoffex in #12372)
• The TensorBoard integration now produces fewer W&B steps by merging data for the same global_step into one W&B step when possible (@timoffex in #12414)
• wandb sync no longer hangs on a run that set its name, tags, or notes after starting (@dmitryduev in #12380)
• wandb login no longer removes or corrupts credentials belonging to other machines in your .netrc file (@dmitryduev in #12386)
• Log messages captured from Python loggers no longer add blank lines to a run's logs (@dmitryduev in #12387)
• del run.summary[key] now removes metrics that were logged as nested values, which it previously ignored (@dmitryduev in #12389)

Security

• Debug logs no longer contain CoreWeave cluster credentials (@dmitryduev in #12385)
• wandb docker and wandb docker-run no longer pass your API key on the command line, where other users of the same machine could read it (@dmitryduev in #12443)