clearml-docs/docs/release_notes/clearml_agent/ver_0_17.md

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title: Version 0.17
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### ClearML Agent 0.17.2

**Features**

- Add virtual environment caching:
  * Supports venv caching both in standard and docker mode.
  * Configurable using the `agent.venvs_cache` configuration section.
  * Disabled by default, enable [here](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent/blob/205f9dd81620fcec5aa155991afbbf711f3cd648/docs/clearml.conf#L101).
- Add support for `--services-mode` with venvs.
- Add `agent.force_git_ssh_user` configuration value (default `git`, see [here](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent/blob/205f9dd81620fcec5aa155991afbbf711f3cd648/docs/clearml.conf#L29)) 
  ([clearml-agent GitHub Issue 42](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent/issues/42)).
- Add `agent.ignore_requested_python_version` configuration option for multi Python environments (default `false`).
- Add `agent.enable_task_env` configuration option to set the OS environment based on the Environment section of the Task (default `false`, see 
  [here](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent/blob/205f9dd81620fcec5aa155991afbbf711f3cd648/docs/clearml.conf#L151)).
- K8s glue:
	* Add support for detecting and deleting k8s pods that fail to start.
	* Allow providing namespace in k8s glue and k8s glue example.
	* Add base-pod-number parameter to k8s glue and example.
- Change `agent.default_docker.image` to `nvidia/cuda:10.1-cudnn7-runtime-ubuntu18.04` (see [here](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent/blob/8a46dc6b03860bc1cc022fd19e86bf4524986a0e/docs/clearml.conf#L144)).
- Use shared git cache for multiple agents on the same machine.
- Upgrade pynvml add detect CUDA version from driver level.
- Update agent and services docker files.
- Update documentation.

**Bug Fixes**

- Fix `docker --network` returns `None`.
- Fix docker mode without venvs cache dir.
- Fix applying git diff on a newly added file.
- Fix environment variables `CLEARML_WEB_HOST`/`CLEARML_FILES_HOST` not passed to running tasks (or updated on the config object).
- Fix `--detached` command line option not supported on Windows (ignore and issue warning).
- Fix file not found error (errno 2) interpreted as aborted (i.e. `Ctrl-C`).
- Fix `from clearml` runtime diff patching.
- Fix cache to take cuda version into account.
- Fix CPU mode.
- Fix multi instances on Windows.
- Fix conda support for `git+http` links.
- Fix k8s glue does not pass docker environment variables, remove deprecated flags.

### ClearML Agent 0.17.0

* Renamed `trains-agent` as `clearml-agent` (see [clearml-agent](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-agent) in GitHub).