clearml-docs/docs/release_notes/ver_1_5.md

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Version 1.5

ClearML Agent 1.5.1

New Features and Improvements

• Upgrade requirements for attrs, jsonschema, pyparsing, six, and pyjwt ClearML Agent GitHub issue #129
• Add default output URI selection to clearml-agent init
• Add agent.disable_task_docker_override configuration option to disable docker override specified in executing tasks
• Add CLEARML_AGENT_FORCE_SYSTEM_SITE_PACKAGES env var (default true) to allow overriding default system_site_packages: true behavior when running tasks in containers (docker mode and k8s-glue)

Bug Fixes

• Fix using deprecated types validator argument raises an error (deprecated even before jsonschema 3.0.0 and unsupported since 4.0.0)
• Fix pip support allowing multiple pip version constraints (by default, one for < Python 3.10 and one for >= Python 3.10)

ClearML Agent 1.5.0

New Features and Improvements

• Add option to crash agent on exception using agent.crash_on_exception configuration setting ClearML Agent GitHub issue #122
• Improve venv cache disabled message
• Upgrade packages for better Python 3.10 support
• Remove future package dependency (Python 2 is not supported for clearml-agent)
• Change default pip version used to pip<21 for better Python 3.10 support
• Add support for operator != in package version (mostly for better PyTorch resolving)
• Add support for PyTorch new extra_index_url repo (find the correct index url based on the cuda version, and let pip do the rest)
• Make venv caching the default behavior
• Add support for CLEARML_AGENT_DOCKER_ARGS_HIDE_ENV environment variable (see agent.hide_docker_command_env_vars config option)
• Ping executing tasks to make sure the server does not consider them stale (set using the agent.task_ping_interval_sec configuration option, defaults to every 120 seconds)

Bug Fixes

• Fix docker extra arguments showing up in configuration printout
• Fix an issue with running on Python 3.10 / 3.11
• Fix cached git token prevents cloning repository (using agent.enable_git_ask_pass forcing the agent to use GIT_ASKPASS for user/password when cloning/fetching repositories)
• Fix setting CLEARML_API_DEFAULT_REQ_METHOD raises an error
• Fix get_task_session() may cause an old copy of the APIClient to be used containing a reference to the previous session
• K8s Glue
  • Fix agent.system_site_packages is not turned on by default in k8s glue
  • Make sure git_user/pass is passed to the task pod
  • Remove support for kubectl run

ClearML SDK 1.5.0

New Features and Improvements

• Add support for single value metric reporting ClearML GitHub issue ClearML GitHub issue #400
• Add support for specifying parameter sections in PipelineDecorator ClearML GitHub issue #629
• Add support for parallel uploads and downloads (upload / download and zip / unzip of artifacts)
• Add support for specifying execution details (repository, branch, commit, packages, image) in PipelineDecorator
• Bump PyJWT version due to "Key confusion through non-blocklisted public key formats" vulnerability
• Add support for AWS Session Token (using boto3's aws_session_token argument)

Bug Fixes

• Fix Task.get_projects() retrieves only the first 500 results ClearML GitHub issue #612
• Fix failure to delete artifacts stored in Azure ClearML GitHub issue #660
• Fix Process Pool hangs at exit ClearML GitHub issue #674
• Fix number of unpacked values when syncing a dataset ClearML GitHub issue #682
• Fix FastAI DeprecationWarning ClearML GitHub PR #683
• Fix StorageManager.download_folder() crash
• Fix pipelines can't handle None return value
• Fix pre-existing pipeline raises an exception
• Fix deprecation warning in the image_reporting example
• Fix patches are kept binded after Task.close() is called
• Fix running pipeline code remotely without first running it locally (i.e. no configuration on the Task)
• Fix local task execution with empty working directory
• Fix permission check fails when using local storage folder that does not exist
• Fix pipeline add_function_step breaks in remote execution
• Fix wrong mimetype used for any file or folder uploaded to S3 using StorageManager
• Add missing default default_cache_manager_size in configuration files

ClearML Server 1.5.0

New Features and Improvements

• Redesign UI tables info panel:
  • Redesign experiment status banner
  • Display all experiment tabs in single line
  • Move experiment action buttons to the top right
• Add UI adherence to user specified plot dimensions ClearML GitHub issue #587
• Add row highlight to experiment textual comparison UI ClearML GitHub issue #581
• Add UI "Delete" action for Pipelines
• Add UI indicator for task and pipeline progress
• Add UI API credentials label "Edit" action
• Add option to create queues on-the-fly when enqueuing tasks in UI
• Add "Number of Workers" column to UI queues table
• Add pipeline results to UI dashboard search

Bug Fixes

• Fix UI experiment debug samples disappearing after refresh ClearML Server GitHub issue #136
• Fix deleting tasks sometimes raises errors ClearML GitHub issue #632
• Fix only partial task log shown when running on ES with multiple shards
• Fix move task to trash is not thread-safe
• Fix UI Project overview metric snapshot not showing
• Fix no progress indicator when performing off-screen selection in UI experiments table
• Fix removing long pipeline tags doesn't work
• Fix UI experiment scalar comparison graph titles are cropped with no available tooltips
• Fix UI model table status column filters incorrectly when multiple statuses are selected.
• Fix unreadable plot data causes UI to crash
• Fix UI project cards displaying incorrect task counts
• Fix hover over system tags doesn't display full tag name
• Fix .txt file debug sample previews are unreadable
• Fix UI table/info-panel toggle doesn't update when clicking project breadcrumbs
• Fix UI experiment debug samples leave artifacts when empty