clearml-docs/docs/release_notes/ver_1_8.md

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title: Version 1.8
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### ClearML SDK 1.8.1

**New Features and Improvements**
* Raise error on failed uploads [ClearML GitHub issue #810](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/819)
* Add hyperdataset examples [ClearML GitHub PR #823](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/commit/f6b9efe54e1246adba4036c56bc6e8a0bdb99948)
* Change `report_event_flush_threshold` default to 100
* Add `ModelInfo.weights_object()` to store callback access to the actual model object being stored (valid for both 
pre/post save calls, otherwise `None`)
* Support `num_workers` in dataset operation
* Support max connections setting for Azure storage using the `sdk.azure.storage.max_connection` configuration option

**Bug Fixes**
* Fix clearml logger default level cannot be changed [ClearML GitHub issue #741](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/741)
* Fix Hydra doesn't get overridden information from ClearML [ClearML GitHub issue #751](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/751)
* Fix `StorageManager.list(“s3://..”, with_metadata=True)` doesn't work
* Fix `ModelsList.keys()` is missing
* Fix `CLEARML_DEFERRED_TASK_INIT=1` doesn't work
* Fix default API method does not work when set in configuration

### ClearML SDK 1.8.0

**New Features and Improvements**
* Add tarfile member sanitization to `extractall()`[ClearML GitHub PR #803](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/pull/803)
* Add `Task.delete_artifacts()` with `raise_on_errors` argument [ClearML GitHub issue #805](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/805)
* Add CI/CD example [ClearML GitHub PR #815](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/pull/815)
* Limit number of `_serialize` requests when adding list of links with `add_external_files()` [ClearML GitHub issue #813](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/issues/813)
* Add support for connecting Enum values as parameters
* Improve Colab integration (store entire colab, not history)
* Add `clearml.browser_login` to authenticate browser online sessions such as Colab, Jupyter Notebooks etc.
* Remove `import_bind` from stack trace of import errors
* Add `sdk.development.worker.report_event_flush_threshold` configuration option to control the number of events to trigger a report
* Return stub object from `Task.init()` if no `clearml.conf` file is found
* Improve manual model uploading example
* Remove deprecated demo server

**Bug Fixes**
* Fix passing `compression=ZIP_STORED` (or 0) to `Dataset.upload()` uses `ZIP_DEFLATED` and overrides the user-supplied 
argument [ClearML GitHub PR #812](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/pull/812)
* Fix `unique_selector` is not applied properly on batches after the first batch. Remove default selector value since 
it does not work for all event types (and we always specify it anyway)
* Fix `clearml-init` colab detection
* Fix cloning pipelines run with `start_locally()` doesn't work
* Fix if project has a default output uri there is no way to disable it in development mode (manual), allow passing 
`output_uri=False` to disable it
* Fix git remote repository detection when remote is not "origin"
* Fix reported images might not all be reported when waiting to complete the task
* Fix `Dataset.get_local_copy()` deletes the source archive if it is stored locally
* Fix too many parts will cause preview to inflate Task object beyond its 16MB limit - set a total limit of 320kbs
* Fix media preview is created instead of a table preview
* Fix `task.update_output_model()` should always upload local models to a remote server
* Fix broken pip package might mess up requirements detection