RELEASE.md

Current Version (Still in Development)

Major Features and Improvements

• Dropped python 3.8 support.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

For Component Authors

Deprecations

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed a synchronization bug in google_cloud_ai_platform tuner.
• Print best tuning trials only from the chief worker of google_cloud_ai_platform tuner.
• Add a kpf dependency in the docker-image extra packages.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.14.0)	Comments
keras-tuner	>=1.0.4,<2,!=1.4.0,!=1.4.1	>=1.0.4,<2
packaging	>=20,<21	>=22
attrs	19.3.0,<22	19.3.0,<24
google-cloud-bigquery	>=2.26.0,<3	>=3,<4
tensorflow-hub	>=0.9.0,<0.14	>=0.15.0,<0.16

Documentation Updates

Version 1.14.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added python 3.10 support.
• Support TypedDict as a native output annotation for @component. OutputDict is still supported but it is recommended to use TypedDict instead.

Breaking Changes

• Placeholder (and _PlaceholderOperator) are no longer Jsonable.
• Optimize MLMD register type to one call in most time instead of two calls.

For Pipeline Authors

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For Component Authors

• Replace "tf_estimator" with "tfma_eval" as the identifier for tfma EvalSavedModel. "tf_estimator" is now serves as the identifier for the normal estimator model with any signature (by default 'serving').

Deprecations

• For @component return type annotation, it is recommended to use a python native TypedDict instead.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Apply latest TFX image vulnerability resolutions (base OS and software updates)

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.13.0)	Comments
tensorflow-hub	>=0.9.0,<0.14	>=0.9.0,<0.13
pyarrow	>=10,<11	>=6,<7
apache-beam	>=2.40,<3	>=2.47,<3
scikit-learn	>=1.0,<2	>=0.23,<0.24
google-api-core	<3	<1.33
google-cloud-aiplatform	>=1.6.2,<2	>=1.6.2,<1.18
tflite-support	>=0.4.3,<0.4.5	>=0.4.2,<0.4.3
pyyaml	>=6,<7	>=3.12,<6	Issue with installation of PyYaml 5.4.1. (yaml/pyyaml#724)
tensorflow	>=2.13,<2.14	>=2.12,<2.13
tensorflowjs	>=4.5,<5	>=3.6.0,<4

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.13.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Supported setting the container image at a component level for Kubeflow V2 Dag Runner.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• Conditional can be used from tfx.dsl.Cond (Given from tfx import v1 as tfx).
• Dummy channel for testing can be constructed by tfx.testing.Channel(artifact_type).
• placeholder.Placeholder.placeholders_involved() was replaced with placeholder.Placeholder.traverse().
• placeholder.Predicate.dependent_channels() was replaced with channel_utils.get_dependent_channels(Placeholder).
• placeholder.Predicate.encode_with_keys(...) was replaced with channel_utils.encode_placeholder_with_channels(Placeholder, ...).
• placeholder.Predicate.from_comparison() removed (was deprecated)
• enable external_pipeline_artifact_query for querying artifact within one pipeline
• Support InputArtifact[List[Artifact]] annotation in Python function custom component

For Component Authors

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Deprecations

• Deprecate python 3.7 support

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Support to task type "workerpool1" of CLUSTER_SPEC in Vertex AI training's service according to the changes of task type in Tuner component.
• Propagates unexpected import failures in the public v1 module.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.12.0)	Comments
click	>=7,<9	>=7,<8
ml-metadata	~=1.13.1	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
protobuf	>=3.13,<4	>=3.20.3,<5	To support TF 2.12
struct2tensor	~=0.44.0	~=0.43.0	Synced release train
tensorflow	~=2.12.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.11.0
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.44.0	~=0.43.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

• Added page for TFX-Addons

Version 1.12.0

Major Features and Improvements

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Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• ExampleValidator and DistributionValidator now support custom validations.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.11.0)	Comments
tensorflow	~=2.11.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.10.0
tensorflow-decision-forests	>=1.0.1,<2	==1.0.1	Make it compatible with more TF versions.
ml-metadata	~=1.12.0	~=1.11.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.43.0	~=0.42.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.12.0	~=1.11.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.43.0	~=0.42.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.12.0	~=1.11.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.12.0	~=1.11.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.11.0

Major Features and Improvements

• This is the last version that supports TensorFlow 1.15.x. TF 1.15.x support will be removed in the next version. Please check the TF2 migration guide to migrate to TF2.

• Artifact/Channel properties now support the new MLMD PROTO property type.

• Supports environment variables in the placeholder expression. This placeholder can be used to generate beam_pipeline_args dynamically.

• Update the TFMA Colab to utilize the DataFrame API to render metrics.

Breaking Changes

• Custom artifact types in kubeflow will encode artifact.TYPE_NAME as the schema title for the artifact instead of the class import path.

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Moved tflite-support related dependencies from [examples] to a separate [tflite-support] extra.
• Moved flax related dependencies from [examples] to a separate [flax] extra.
• Statistics gen and Schema gen now crash on empty input examples and statistics respectively.
• Importer will now check that an existing artifact has the same type as the intended output before reusing the existing artifact.
• Importer will now use the most recently created artifact when reusing an existing artifact instead of the one with the highest ID.
• Proto placeholder now works with proto files that have non-trivial transitive dependencies.
• Adding tutorials for recommenders and ranking

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.10.0)	Comments
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.10.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.9.0
tflite-support	~=0.4.2	>=0.1.0a1,<0.2.1	Update to a TF-2.10 compatible version.
google-cloud-aiplatform	>=1.6.2,<1.18	>=1.6.2,<2	Added to help pip dependency resolution.
ml-metadata	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.42.0	~=0.41.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.42.0	~=0.41.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.11.0	~=1.10.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.10.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Saved tuner results in pandas records formatted JSON.
• TFX Transform now supports tf.SequenceExample natively. The native path can be activated by providing TensorRepresentations in the Schema.
• TFX Transform now supports reading raw and materializing transformed data in Apache Parquet format.
• ExampleDiff outputs statistics on the matching process, and optional counts of paired feature values.
• Allow lists and dicts to be passed into decorator components as parameters.

Breaking Changes

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For Component Authors

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Type hint on BaseComponent.inputs and BaseComponent.outputs corrected to be Channel subclasses.
• Added input_optional parameter to ChannelParameter. This allows component authors to declare that even if a channel is optional, if it is provided during pipeline definition time, then it must have resolved inputs during run time.
• Allow latest apache-airflow 2.x versions.
• Output artifacts from multiple invocations of the same component are given unique names, avoiding duplication errors, especially in the InteractiveContext.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.9.0)	Comments
google-api-core	<1.33	N/A	Added to help pip dependency resolution. google-api-core was already a transitive dependency.
apache-beam[gcp]	>=2.40,<3	>=2.38,<3	Synced release train
attrs	>=19.3.0,<22	>=19.3.0,<21	Allow more recent versions
pyarrow	>=6,<7	>=1,<6	Synced release train
ml-metadata	~=1.10.0	~=1.9.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.41.0	~=0.40.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.10.0	~=1.9.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.41.0	~=0.40.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.10.1	~=1.9.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.10.1	~=1.9.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.9.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added Json value artifact.
• Added example for using ExampleDiff.
• Allow lists and dicts to be consumed and produced by decorator components as input and output JsonValue artifacts.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

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Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.8.0)	Comments
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.9.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.8.0
tensorflow-ranking	~=0.5.0	~=0.3.0	Required for TF 2.9
typing-extensions	>=3.10.0.2,<5	N/A	For typing utilities
ml-metadata	~=1.9.0	~=1.8.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.40.0	~=0.39.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.9.0	~=1.8.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.40.0	~=0.39.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-serving-api	>=1.15,<3 or ~=2.9.0	>=1.15,<3 or ~=2.8.0
tensorflow-transform	~=1.9.0	~=1.8.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.9.0	~=1.8.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.8.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added experimental exit_handler support for KubeflowDagRunner.
• Enabled custom labels to be submitted to CAIP training jobs.
• Enabled custom resource-setting (vCPU and RAM) for containers orchestrating on Vertex AI.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• LatestBlessedModelStrategy gracefully handles the case where there are no blessed model at all (e.g. first run).
• Fix that the resolver with custom ResolverStrategy (assume correctly packaged) fails.
• Fixed ElwcBigQueryExampleGen data serializiation error that was causing an assertion failure on Beam.
• Added dark mode styling support for InteractiveContext notebook formatters.
• (Python 3.9+) Supports list and dict in type definition of execution properties.
• Populate Artifact proto name field when name is set on the Artifact python object.
• Temporarily capped apache-airflow version to 2.2.x to avoid dependency conflict. We will rollback this change once kfp releases a new version.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with apache-airflow 2.3.0 that is failing with "unexpected keyword argument 'default_args'".
• StatisticsGen will raise an error if unsupported StatsOptions (i.e., generators or experimental_slice_functions) are passed.
• Fixed a bug in the Artifact attribute setter that was causing the corresponding getter not to return a value for properties of type JSON_VALUE.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.7.0)	Comments
apache-beam[gcp]	>=2.38,<3	>=2.36,<3	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.7.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added support for list-type Placeholder.
• Added support for function-based custom component with beam pipeline.

Breaking Changes

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For Component Authors

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Deprecations

• Removed the already-deprecated components.ImporterNode, should use v1.dsl.Importer instead.
• Deprecated Channel property setters. Use constructor argument instead.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed the cluster spec error in CAIP Tuner on Vertex when num_parallel_trials = 1
• Replaced deprecated assertDictContainsSubset with assertLessEqual(itemsA, itemsB).
• Updating Keras tutorial to make better use of Keras, and better feature engineering.
• Merges KFP UI Metadata file if it already exists. Now components can produce their own UI results and it will be merged with existing visualization.
• Switch Transform component to always use sketch when computing top-k stats.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.6.0)	Comments
apache-beam[gcp]	~=2.36	~=2.35	Synced release train
google-cloud-aiplatform	>=1.6.2,<2	>=1.5.0,<2
ml-metadata	~=1.7.0	~=1.6.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.38.0	~=0.37.0	Synced release train
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.8.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.7.0
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.7.0	~=1.6.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-decision-forests	==0.2.4	==0.2.1
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.38.0	~=0.37.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-serving-api	>=1.15,<3 or ~=2.8.0	>=1.15,<3 or ~=2.7.0
tensorflow-transform	~=1.7.0	~=1.6.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.7.0	~=1.6.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.6.2

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Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

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Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.6.0)	Comments
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.7.0 or ~=2.8.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.7.0

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.6.1

Major Features and Improvements

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Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed Pusher issue that didn't copy files other than saved_model.pb.

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.6.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added experimental support for TensorFlow Decision Forests models.
• Added Boolean type value artifacts.
• Function components defined with @component may now have optional/nullable primitive type return values when Optional[T] is used in the return type OutputDict.
• Supported endpoint overwrite for CAIP Tuner. Users can use the keras-tuner module or any tuner that implements the keras_tuner.Tuner interface for (parallel) tuning on Vertex.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Pusher now copies the saved_model.pb file at last to prevent loading SavedModel on invalid (partially available) directory state.
• Always disable caching for exit handlers in Kubeflow V2 runner to reflect latest status of dependent dag.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.5.0)	Comments
tensorflow	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.7.0	>=1.15.2,<2 or ~=2.7.0
numpy	~=1.16	>=1.16,<1.20
apache-beam[gcp]	~=2.35	~=2.34
kfp	~=1.8.5	>=1.6.1,<1.8.2,!=1.7.2
absl-py	>=0.9,<2	>=0.9,<0.13
tfx-bsl	~=1.6.0	~=1.5.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.6.0	~=1.5.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.6.0	~=1.5.0	Synced release train
ml-metadata	~=1.6.0	~=1.5.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.37.0	~=0.36.0	Synced release train
struct2tensor	~=0.37.0	~=0.36.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.5.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added support for partial pipeline run. Users can now run a subset of nodes in a pipeline while reusing artifacts generated in previous pipeline runs. This is supported in LocalDagRunner and BeamDagRunner, and is exposed via the TfxRunner API.
• Add dependency of tensorflow-io to unblock using S3 storage.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Increased docker timeout to 5 minutes for image building in CLI.
• Fixed KeyError when multiple Examples artifacts were used in Transform without materialization.
• Fixed error where Vertex Endpoints of the same name is not deduped
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.34,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,!=2.6.*,<2.8.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving-api>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,!=2.6.*,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.5.0,<1.6.0.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.36.0,<0.37.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.5.0,<1.6.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.36.0,<0.37.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.5.0,<1.6.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.5.0,<1.6.0.

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.4.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Supported endpoint overwrite for CAIP BulkInferrer.
• Added support for outputting and encoding tf.RaggedTensors in TFX Transform component.
• Added conditional for TFX running on KFPv2 (Vertex).
• Supported component level beam pipeline args for Vertex (KFPV2DagRunner).
• Support exit handler for TFX running on KFPv2 (Vertex).
• Added RangeConfig for QueryBasedExampleGen to select date using query pattern.
• Added support for union of Channels as input to standard TFX components. Users can use channel.union() to combine multiple Channels and use as input to these compnents. Artfacts resolved from these channels are expected to have the same type, and passed to components in no particular order.

Breaking Changes

• Calling TfxRunner.run(pipeline) with the Pipeline IR proto will no longer be supported. Please switch to TfxRunner.run_with_ir(pipeline) instead. If you are calling TfxRunner.run(pipeline) with the Pipeline object, this change should not affect you.

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Deprecations

• Deprecated python3.6 support.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Depends on google-cloud-aiplatform>=1.5.0,<2.
• Depends on pyarrow>=1,<6.
• Fixed FileBasedExampleGen driver for Kubeflow v2 (Vertex). Driver can update exec_properties for its executor now, which enables {SPAN} feature.
• example_gen.utils.dict_to_example now accepts Numpy types
• Updated pytest to include v6.x
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.33,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.4.0,<1.5.0.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.35.0,<0.36.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.4.0,<1.5.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.35.0,<0.36.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.4.0,<1.5.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.4.0,<1.5.0.

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.3.3

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,<2.7.

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.3.2

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed endless waiting for Vertex Trainer.

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Version 1.3.1

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed Vertex Pusher by passing enable_vertex flag for deploying model.

Documentation Updates

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Version 1.3.0

Major Features and Improvements

• TFX CLI now supports runtime parameter on Kubeflow, Vertex, and Airflow. Use it with '--runtime_parameter=<parameter_name>=<parameter_value>' flag. In the case of multiple runtime parameters, format is as follows: '--runtime_parameter=<parameter_name>=<parameter_value> --runtime_parameter =<parameter_name>=<parameter_value>'
• Added Manual node in the experimental orchestrator.
• Placeholders support index access and JSON serialization for list type execution properties.
• Added ImportSchemaGen which is a dedicated component to import a pre-defined schema file. ImportSchemaGen will replace Importer with simpler syntax and less constraints. You have to pass the file path to the schema file instead of the parent directory unlike Importer.
• Updated GCP Vertex Client to support EncryptionSpec and Cloud Labels.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

• The import name of KerasTuner has been changed from kerastuner to keras_tuner. The import name of kerastuner is still supported. A warning will occur when import from kerastuner, but does not affect the usage.
• Upcoming deprecation - TFX 1.3.0 will be the last release to support Python 3.6. Starting with TFX 1.4.0 Python 3.6 will no longer be supported.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• The default job name for Google Cloud AI Training jobs was changed from 'tfx_YYYYmmddHHMMSS' to 'tfx_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_xxxxxxxx', where 'xxxxxxxx' is a random 8 digit hexadecimal string.
• Fix component to raise error if its input required channel (specified from ComponentSpec) has no artifacts in it.
• Fixed an issue where ClientOptions with regional endpoint was incorrectly left out in Vertex AI pusher.
• CLI now hides passed flags from user python files in "--pipeline-path". This will prevent errors when user python file tries reading and parsing flags.
• Fixed missing type information marker file 'py.typed'.
• Fixed handling of artifacts with no PROPERTIES in scripts/run_component.py
• Fixed passing non-string execution properties and artifact properties in scripts/run_component.py* Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.32,<3.
• Depends on google-cloud-bigquery>=1.28.0,<3.
• Depends on jinja2>=2.7.3,<4, i.e. now supports Jinja 3.x.
• Depends on keras-tuner>=1.0.4,<2.
• Depends on kfp>=1.6.1,!=1.7.2,<1.8.2 in [kfp] extra.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=>=0.1.10,<0.2.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.3.0,<1.4.0.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.34.0,<0.35.0.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.3.0,<1.4.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.34.1,<0.35.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving-api>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.3.0,<1.4.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.3.0,<1.4.0.
• Depends on 'google-cloud-aiplatform>=0.5.0,<2'.

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Version 1.2.1

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Added support for a custom metadata-ui-json filename in KubeflowDagRunner.
• Fixed missing type information marker file 'py.typed'.

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Version 1.2.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added RuntimeParam support for Trainer's custom_config.
• TFX Trainer and Pusher now support Vertex, which can be enabled with ENABLE_VERTEX_KEY key in custom_config.

Breaking Changes

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed the issue that kfp_pod_name is not generated as an execution property for Kubeflow Pipelines.
• Fixed issue when InputValuePlaceholder is used as component parameter in container based component.
• Depends on kubernetes>=10.0.1,<13
• CsvToExample now supports multi-line strings.
• tfx.benchmarks package was removed from the Python TFX wheel. This package is used only for benchmarking and not useful for end users.
• Fixed the issue for fairness_indicator_thresholds support of Evaluator.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.31,<3.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.8,<0.2.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.2.0,<1.3.0.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.33.0,<0.34.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.2.0,<1.3.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.33.0,<0.34.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.2.0,<1.3.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.2.0,<1.3.0.

Documentation Updates

• N/A

Version 1.1.x (skipped)

To maintain version consistency among TFX Family libraries we skipped the 1.1.x release for TFX library.

Version 1.0.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added tfx.v1 Public APIs, please refer to API doc for details.
• Transform component now computes pre-transform and post-transform statistics and stores them in new, indvidual outputs ('pre_transform_schema', 'pre_transform_stats', 'post_transform_schema', 'post_transform_stats', 'post_transform_anomalies'). This can be disabled by setting disable_statistics=True in the Transform component.
• BERT cola and mrpc examples now demonstrate how to calculate statistics for NLP features.
• TFX CLI now supports Vertex Pipelines. use it with --engine=vertex flag.
• Telemetry: Only first-party tfx component's executor telemetry will be collected. All other executors will be recorded as third_party_executor. For labels longer than 63, keep first 63 characters (instead of last 63 characters before).
• Supports text type (use proto json string format) RuntimeParam for protos.
• Combined/moved taxi's runtime_parameter, kubeflow_local and kubleflow_gcp example pipelines into one penguin_pipeline_kubeflow example
• Transform component now supports passing stats_options_updater_fn directly as well as through the module file.
• Placeholders support accessing artifact property and custom property.
• Removed the extra node information in IR for KubeflowDagRunner, to reduce size of generated IR.

Breaking Changes

• Removed unneccessary default values for required component input Channels.
• The _PropertyDictWrapper internal wrapper for component.inputs and component.outputs was removed: component.inputs and component.outputs are now unwrapped dictionaries, and the attribute accessor syntax (e.g. components.outputs.output_name) is no longer supported. Please use the dictionary indexing syntax (e.g. components.outputs['output_name']) instead.

For Pipeline Authors

• N/A

For Component Authors

• Apache Beam support is migrated from TFX Base Components and Executors to dedicated Beam Components and Executors. BaseExecutor will no longer embed beam_pipeline_args. Custom executors for Beam powered components should now extend BaseBeamExecutor instead of BaseExecutor.

Deprecations

• Deprecated nested RuntimeParam for Proto, Please use text type (proto json string) RuntimeParam instead of Proto dict with nested RuntimeParam in it.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Forces keyword arguments for AirflowComponent to make it compatible with Apache Airflow 2.1.0 and later.
• Fixed issue where passing analyzer_cache to tfx.components.Transform before there are any Transform cache artifacts published would fail.
• Included type information according to PEP-561. However, protobuf generated files don't have type information, and you might need to ignore errors from them. For example, if you are using mypy, see the related doc.
• Removed six dependency.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.29,<3.
• Depends on google-cloud-bigquery>=1.28.0,<2.21
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.0.0,<1.1.0.
• Depends on protobuf>=3.13,<4.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.31.0,<0.32.0.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.0.0,<1.1.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-hub>=0.9.0,<0.13.
• Depends on tensorflowjs>=3.6.0,<4.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.31.0,<0.32.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving-api>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.0.0,<1.1.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.0.0,<1.1.0.

Documentation Updates

• Update the Guide of TFX to adopt 1.0 API.
• TFT and TFDV component documentation now describes how to configure pre-transform and post-transform statistics, which can be used for validating text features.

Version 0.30.2

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• N/A

For Component Authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Update resolver query in TFX -> KFP IR compiler with vertex placeholder syntax.

Documentation Updates

• N/A

Version 0.30.1

Major Features and Improvements

• TFX CLI now supports Vertex Pipelines. use it with --engine=vertex flag.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• N/A

For Component Authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fix resolver artifact filter in TFX -> KFP IR compiler with OP filter syntax.
• Forces keyword arguments for AirflowComponent to make it compatible with Apache Airflow 2.1.0 and later.

Documentation Updates

• N/A

Version 0.30.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Upgraded TFX to KFP compiler to use KFP IR schema version 2.0.0.
• InfraValidator can now produce a SavedModel with warmup requests. This feature is enabled by setting RequestSpec.make_warmup = True. The SavedModel will be stored in the InfraBlessing artifact (blessing output of InfraValidator).
• Pusher's model input is now optional, and infra_blessing can be used instead to push the SavedModel with warmup requests, produced by an InfraValidator. Note that InfraValidator does not always create a SavedModel, and the producer InfraValidator must be configured with RequestSpec.make_warmup = True in order to be pushed by a Pusher.
• Support is added for the JSON_VALUE artifact property type, allowing storage of JSON-compatible objects as artifact metadata.
• Support is added for the KFP v2 artifact metadata field when executing using the KFP v2 container entrypoint.
• InfraValidator for Kubernetes now can override Pod manifest to customize annotations and environment variables.
• Allow Beam pipeline args to be extended by specifying beam_pipeline_args per component.
• Support string RuntimeParameters on Airflow.
• User code specified through the module_file argument for the Evaluator, Transform, Trainer and Tuner components is now packaged as a pip wheel for execution. For Evaluator and Transform, these wheel packages are now installed on remote Apache Beam workers.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• CLI usage with kubeflow changed significantly. You MUST use the new:
• --build-image to build a container image when updating a pipeline with kubeflow engine.
• --build-target-image flag in CLI is changed to --build-image without any container image argument. TFX will auto detect the image specified in the KubeflowDagRunnerConfig class instance. For example,

  tfx pipeline create --pipeline-path=runner.py --endpoint=xxx --build-image
  tfx pipeline update --pipeline-path=runner.py --endpoint=xxx --build-image

• --package-path and --skaffold_cmd flags were deleted. The compiled path can be specified when creating a KubeflowDagRunner class instance. TFX CLI doesn't depend on skaffold any more and use Docker SDK directly.
• Specify the container image for KubeflowDagRunner in the KubeflowDagRunnerConfig directly instead of reading it from an environment variable. CLI will not set KUBEFLOW_TFX_IMAGE environment variable any more. See example.
• Default orchestration engine of CLI was changed to local orchestrator from beam orchestrator. You can still use beam orchestrator with --engine=beam flag.
• Trainer now uses GenericExecutor as default. To use the previous Estimator based Trainer, please set custom_executor_spec to trainer.executor.Executor.
• Changed the pattern spec supported for QueryBasedDriver:
  • @span_begin_timestamp: Start of span interval, Timestamp in seconds.
  • @span_end_timestamp: End of span interval, Timestamp in seconds.
  • @span_yyyymmdd_utc: STRING with format, e.g., '20180114', corresponding to the span interval begin in UTC.
• Removed the already deprecated compile() method on Kubeflow V2 Dag Runner.
• Removed project_id argument from KubeflowV2DagRunnerConfig which is not used and meaningless if not used with GCP.
• Removed config from LocalDagRunner's constructor, and dropped pipeline proto support from LocalDagRunner's run function.
• Removed input parameter in ExampleGen constructor and external_input in dsl_utils, which were called as deprecated in TFX 0.23.
• Changed the storage type of span and version custom property in Examples artifact from string to int.
• ResolverStrategy.resolve_artifacts() method signature has changed to take ml_metadata.MetadataStore object as the first argument.
• Artifacts param is deprecated/ignored in Channel constructor.
• Removed matching_channel_name from Channel's constructor.
• Deleted all usages of instance_name, which was deprecated in version 0.25.0. Please use .with_id() method of components.
• Removed output channel overwrite functionality from all official components.
• Transform will use the native TF2 implementation of tf.transform unless TF2 behaviors are explicitly disabled. The previous behaviour can still be obtained by setting force_tf_compat_v1=True.

For Component Authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• RuntimeParameter usage for module_file and user-defined function paths is marked experimental.
• LatestArtifactsResolver, LatestBlessedModelResolver, SpansResolver are renamed to LatestArtifactStrategy, LatestBlessedModelStrategy, SpanRangeStrategy respectively.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• GCP compute project in BigQuery Pusher executor can be specified.
• New extra dependencies for convenience.
  • tfx[airflow] installs all Apache Airflow orchestrator dependencies.
  • tfx[kfp] installs all Kubeflow Pipelines orchestrator dependencies.
  • tfx[tf-ranking] installs packages for TensorFlow Ranking. NOTE: TensorFlow Ranking only compatible with TF >= 2.0.
• Depends on google-cloud-bigquery>=1.28.0,<3. (This was already installed as a transitive dependency from the first release of TFX.)
• Depends on google-cloud-aiplatform>=0.5.0,<0.8.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.
• Depends on portpicker>=1.3.1,<2.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.30.0,<0.31.0.

Documentation Updates

• N/A

Version 0.29.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added a simple query based driver that supports Span spec and static_range.
• Added e2e rolling window example/test for Span Resolver.
• Performance improvement in Transform by avoiding excess encodings and decodings when it materializes transformed examples or generates statistics (both enabled by default).
• Added an accessor (.data_view_decode_fn) to the decoder function wrapped in the DataView in Trainer FnArgs.data_accessor.
• Expanded the penguin example pipeline with instructions for using JAX/Flax in addition to TensorFlow/Keras to write and train the model. The support for JAX/Flax in TFX is still experimental.
• Updated CloudTuner KFP e2e example running on Google Cloud Platform with distributed tuning and GPU distributed training for each trial.

Breaking Changes

• Starting in this version, following artifacts will be stored in new format, but artifacts produced by older versions can be read in a backwards compatible way:
  • Change split sub-folder format to 'Split-<split_name>', this applies to all artifacts that contain splits. Old format '<split_name>' can still be loaded by TFX.
  • Change Model artifact's sub-folder name to 'Format-TFMA' for eval model and 'Format-Serving' for serving model. Old Model artifact format ('eval_model_dir'/'serving_model_dir') can still be loaded by TFX.
  • Change ExampleStatistics artifact payload to binary proto FeatureStats.pb file. Old payload format (tfrecord stats_tfrecord file) can still be loaded by TFX.
  • Change ExampleAnomalies artifact payload to binary proto SchemaDiff.pb file. Old payload format (text proto anomalies.pbtxt file) is deprecated as TFX doesn't have downstream components that take ExampleAnomalies artifact.

For Pipeline Authors

• CLI requires Apache Airflow 1.10.14 or later. If you are using an older version of airflow, you can still copy runner definition to the DAG directory manually and run using airflow UIs.

For Component Authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• Deprecated input/output compatibility aliases for Transform and StatisticsGen.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• The tfx_version custom property of output artifacts is now set by the default publisher to the TFX SDK version.
• Depends on absl-py>=0.9,<0.13.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.7,<0.2.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.
• Depends on packaging>=20,<21.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.29.0,<0.30.0.

Documentation Updates

• Simplified Apache Spark and Flink example deployment scripts by using Beam's SparkRunner and FlinkRunner classes.
• Upgraded example Apache Flink deployment to Flink 1.12.1.
• Upgraded example Apache Spark deployment to Spark 2.4.7.
• Added the "TFX Python function component" notebook tutorial.

Version 0.28.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Publically released TFX docker image in tensorflow/tfx will use GPU compatible based TensorFlow images from Deep Learning Containers. This allow these images to be used with GPU out of box.
• Added an example pipeline for a ranking model (using tensorflow_ranking) at tfx/examples/ranking. More documentation will be available in future releases.
• Added a spans_resolver that can resolve spans based on range_config.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• Custom arg key in google_cloud_ai_platform.tuner.executor is renamed to ai_platform_tuning_args from ai_platform_training_args, to better distinguish usage with Trainer.

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• Deprecated input/output compatibility aliases for Transform and SchemaGen.

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Change Bigquery ML Pusher to publish the model to the user specified project instead of the default project from run time context.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.28,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.28.0,<0.29.0.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.6,<0.2.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.28.0,<0.29.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.28.0,<0.29.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.28.0,<0.29.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.28.0,<0.29.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.28.1,<0.29.0.

Documentation Updates

• Published a migration instruction for legacy custom launcher developers.

Version 0.27.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Updated the tfx.components.evaluator.Evaluator component to support TFMA's "model-agnostic" evaluation. The model channel is now optional when constructing the component, which is useful when the examples channel provides tf.Examples containing both the labels and pre-computed model predictions, i.e. "model-agnostic" evaluation.
• Supports different types of quantizations on TFLite conversion using TFLITE_REWRITER by setting quantization_optimizations, quantization_supported_types and quantization_enable_full_integer. Flag definitions can be found here: Post-traning quantization.
• Added automatic population of tfdv.StatsOptions.vocab_paths when computing statistics within the Transform component.

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• enable_quantization from TFLITE_REWRITER is removed and setting quantization_optimizations = [tf.lite.Optimize.DEFAULT] will perform the same type of quantization, dynamic range quantization. Users of the TFLITE_REWRITER who do not enable quantization should be uneffected.
• Default value for infer_feature_shape for SchemaGen changed from False to True, as indicated in previous release log. The inferred schema might change if you do not specify infer_feature_shape. It might leads to changes of the type of input features in Transform and Trainer code.

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• Pipeline information is not be stored on the local filesystem anymore using Kubeflow Pipelines orchestration with CLI. Instead, CLI will always use the latest version of the pipeline in the Kubeflow Pipeline cluster. All operations will be executed based on the information on the Kubeflow Pipeline cluster. There might be some left files on ${HOME}/tfx/kubeflow or ${HOME}/kubeflow but those will not be used any more.
• The tfx.components.common_nodes.importer_node.ImporterNode class has been moved to tfx.dsl.components.common.importer.Importer, with its old module path kept as a deprecated alias, which will be removed in a future version.
• The tfx.components.common_nodes.resolver_node.ResolverNode class has been moved to tfx.dsl.components.common.resolver.Resolver, with its old module path kept as a deprecated alias, which will be removed in a future version.
• The tfx.dsl.resolvers.BaseResolver class has been moved to tfx.dsl.components.common.resolver.ResolverStrategy, with its old module path kept as a deprecated alias, which will be removed in a future version.
• Deprecated input/output compatibility aliases for ExampleValidator, Evaluator, Trainer and Pusher.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Add error condition checks to BulkInferrer's output_example_spec. Previously, when the output_example_spec did not include the correct spec definitions, the BulkInferrer would fail silently and output examples without predictions.
• InfraValidator supports using alternative TensorFlow Serving image in case deployed environment cannot reach the public internet (nor the docker hub). Such alternative image should behave the same as official tensorflow/serving image such as the same model volume path, serving port, etc.
• Executor in tfx.extensions.google_cloud_ai_platform.pusher.executor supported regional endpoint and machine_type.
• Starting from this version, proto files which are used to generate component-level configs are included in the tfx package directly.
• The tfx.dsl.io.fileio.NotFoundError exception unifies handling of not- found errors across different filesystem plugin backends.
• Fixes the serialization of zero-valued default when using RuntimeParameter on Kubeflow.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.27,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.27.0,<0.28.0.
• Depends on numpy>=1.16,<1.20.
• Depends on pyarrow>=1,<3.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.5,<0.2 in test and image.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.27.0,<0.28.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.27.0,<0.28.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving-api>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.27.0,<0.28.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.27.0,<0.28.0.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.26.4

• This a bug fix only version.

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.25,!=2.26,<2.29.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.26.1,<0.27.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.26.3

• This a bug fix only version.

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Automatic autoreload of underlying modules a single _ModuleFinder registered per module.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.26.1

• This a bug fix only version

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• The tfx.version attribute was restored.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.26.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Supported output examples artifact for BulkInferrer which can be used to link with downstream training.
• TFX Transform switched to a (notably) faster and more accurate implementation of tft.quantiles analyzer.
• Added native TF 2 implementation of Transform. The default behavior will continue to use Tensorflow's compat.v1 APIs. This can be overriden by passing force_tf_compat_v1=False and enabling TF 2 behaviors. The default behavior for TF 2 will be switched to the new native implementation in a future release.
• Added support for passing a callable to set pre/post transform statistic generation options.
• In addition to the "tfx" pip package, a dependency-light distribution of the core pipeline authoring functionality of TFX is now available as the "ml-pipelines-sdk" pip package. This package does not include first-party TFX components. The "tfx" pip package is still the recommended installation path for TFX.
• Migrated LocalDagRunner to the new IR stack.

Breaking changes

• Wheel package building for TFX has changed, and users need to follow the [new TFX package build instructions] (https://github.com/tensorflow/tfx/blob/master/package_build/README.md) to build wheels for TFX.

For pipeline authors

• Added BigQueryToElwcExampleGen to take a query as input and generate ExampleListWithContext (ELWC) examples.

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• TrainerFnArgs is deprecated by FnArgs.
• Deprecated DockerComponentConfig class: user should set a DockerPlatformConfig proto in platform_config using with_platform_config() API instead.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Official TFX container image's entrypoint is changed so the image can be used as a custom worker for Dataflow.
• In the published TFX container image, wheel files are now used to install TFX, and the TFX source code has been moved to /tfx/src.
• Added a skeleton of CLI support for Kubeflow V2 runner, and implemented support for pipeline operations.
• Added an experimental template to use with Kubeflow V2 runner.
• Added sanitization of user-specified pipeline name in Kubeflow V2 runner.
• Migrated deployment_config in Kubeflow V2 runner from Any proto message to Struct, to ensure compatibility across different copies of the proto libraries.
• The tfx.dsl.io.fileio filesystem handler will delegate to tensorflow.io.gfile for any unknown filesystem schemes if TensorFlow is installed.
• Skipped ephemeral package when the beam flag 'worker_harness_container_image' is set.
• The tfx.dsl.io.makedirs call now succeeds if the directory already exists.
• Fixed the component entrypoint, so that it creates the parent directory for the output metadata file before trying to write the data.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.25,!=2.26,<3.
• Depends on keras-tuner>=1,<1.0.2.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.3,<0.2.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.26.0,<0.27.0.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.4.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.26,<0.27.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.26,<0.27.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.4.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.26,<0.27.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.26.1,<0.27.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.25.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Supported multiple artifacts for Transform's input example and output transformed example channels.

• Added support for processing specific spans in file-based ExampleGen with range configuration.

• Added ContainerExecutableSpec in portable IR to support container components portable orchestrator.

• Added Placeholder utility library. Placeholder can be used to represent not-yet-available value at pipeline authoring time.

• Added support for the tfx.dsl.io.fileio pluggable filesystem interface, with initial support for local files and the Tensorflow GFile filesystem implementation.

• SDK and example code now uses tfx.dsl.io.fileio instead of tf.io.gfile when possible for filesystem I/O implementation portability.

• From this release TFX will also be hosting nightly packages on https://pypi-nightly.tensorflow.org. To install the nightly package use the following command:

  pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi-nightly.tensorflow.org/simple tfx
  

  Note: These nightly packages are unstable and breakages are likely to happen. The fix could often take a week or more depending on the complexity involved for the wheels to be available on the PyPI cloud service. You can always use the stable version of TFX available on PyPI by running the command

  pip install tfx
  

• Added CloudTuner KFP e2e example running on Google Cloud Platform with distributed tuning.

• Migrated BigQueryExampleGen to the new ReadFromBigQuery on all runners.

• Introduced Kubeflow V2 DAG runner, which is based on Kubeflow IR spec. Same as KubeflowDagRunner it will compile the DSL pipeline into a payload but not trigger the execution locally.

• Added compile time check for schema mismatch in Kubeflow V2 runner.

• Added 'penguin' example. Penguin example uses Palmer Penguins dataset and classify penguin species using four numeric features.

• Iris e2e examples are replaced by penguin examples.

• TFX BeamDagRunner is migrated to use the tech stack built on top of IR. While this is no-op to users, it is a major step towards supporting more flexible TFX DSL semetic. Please refer to the RFC of IR to learn more details.

• Supports forward compatibility when evolving TFX artifact types, which allows jobs of old release and new release run with the same MLMD instance.

• Graduated the portable/beam_dag_runner.py to beam/beam_dag_runner.py

Breaking changes

• Moved the directory that CLI stores pipeline information from ${HOME}/${ORCHESTRATOR} to ${HOME}/tfx/${ORCHESTRATOR}. For example, "/kubeflow" was changed to "/tfx/kubeflow". This directory is used to store pipeline information including pipeline ids in the Kubeflow Pipelines cluster which are needed to create runs or update pipelines. These files will be moved automatically when it is first used and no separate action is needed. See https://github.com/tensorflow/tfx/blob/master/docs/guide/cli.md for the detail.

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• Modules under tfx.components.base have been deprecated and moved to tfx.dsl.components.base in preparation for releasing a pipeline authoring package without explicit Tensorflow dependency.
• Deprecated setting instance_name at pipeline node level. Instead, users are encouraged to set id explicitly of any pipeline node through newly added APIs.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Added the LocalDagRunner to allow local pipeline execution without using Apache Beam. This functionality is in development.
• Introduced dependency to tensorflow-cloud Python package, with intention to separate out Google Cloud Platform specific extensions.
• Depends on mmh>=2.2,<3 in container image for potential performance improvement for Beam based hashes.
• New extra dependencies [examples] is required to use codes inside tfx/examples.
• Fixed the run_component script.
• Stopped depending on WTForms.
• Fixed an issue with Transform cache and beam 2.24-2.25 in an interactive notebook that caused it to fail.
• Scripts - run_component - Added a way to output artifact properties.
• Fixed an issue resulting in incorrect cache miss to ExampleGen when no beam_pipeline_args is provided.
• Changed schema as an optional input channel of Trainer as schema can be accessed from TFT graph too.
• Fixed an issue during recording of a component's execution where "missing or modified key in exec_properties" was raised from MLMD when exec_properties both omitted an existing property and added a new property.
• Supported users to set id of pipeline nodes directly.
• Added a new template, 'penguin' which is simple subset of penguin examples, and uses the same Palmer Penguins dataset. The new template focused on easy ingestion of user's own data.
• Changed default data path for the taxi template from tfx-template/data to tfx-template/data/taxi.
• Fixed a bug which crashes the pusher when infra validation did not pass.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.25,<3.
• Depends on attrs>=19.3.0,<21.
• Depends on kfp-pipeline-spec>=0.1.2,<0.2.
• Depends on kfp>=1.1.0,<2.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.25,<0.26.
• Depends on tensorflow-cloud>=0.1,<0.2.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.25,<0.26.
• Depends on tensorflow-hub>=0.9.0,<0.10.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.25,<0.26.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.25,<0.26.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.25,<0.26.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.24.1

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Fixes issues where custom property access of a missing property created an invalid MLMD Artifact protobuf message.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.24.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Use TFXIO and batched extractors by default in Evaluator.
• Supported custom split configuration for ExampleGen and its downstream components. Instead of hardcoded 'train' and 'eval' splits, TFX components now can process the custom splits generated by ExampleGen. For details, please refer to ExampleGen doc
• Added python 3.8 support.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Supported CAIP Runtime 2.2 for online prediction pusher.
• Used 'python -m ' style for container entrypoints.
• Stopped depending on google-resumable-media.
• Stopped depending on Werkzeug.
• Depends on absl-py>=0.9,<0.11.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.24,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.24,<0.25.
• Depends on protobuf>=3.12.2,<4.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.24.1,<0.25.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.24.3,<0.25.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.24.1,<0.25.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.24.1,<0.25.

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Deprecations

• Deprecated python 3.5 support.

Version 0.23.1

• This is a bug fix version (to resolve impossible dependency conflicts).

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Stopped depending on google-resumable-media.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.24,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.23.1,<0.24.

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Deprecations

• Deprecated Python 3.5 support.

Version 0.23.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added TFX DSL IR compiler that encodes a TFX pipeline into a DSL proto.
• Supported feature based split partition in ExampleGen.
• Added the ConcatPlaceholder to tfx.dsl.component.experimental.placeholders.
• Changed Span information as a property of ExampleGen's output artifact. Deprecated ExampleGen input (external) artifact.
• Added ModelRun artifact for Trainer for storing training related files, e.g., Tensorboard logs. Trainer's Model artifact now only contain pure models (check tfx/utils/path_utils.py for details).
• Added support for tf.train.SequenceExample in ExampleGen:
  • ImportExampleGen now supports tf.train.SequenceExample importing.
  • base_example_gen_executor now supports tf.train.SequenceExample as output payload format, which can be utilized by custom ExampleGen.
• Added Tuner component and its integration with Google Cloud Platform as the execution and hyperparemeter optimization backend.
• Switched Transform component to use the new TFXIO code path. Users may potentially notice large performance improvement.
• Added support for primitive artifacts to InputValuePlaceholder.
• Supported multiple artifacts for Trainer and Tuner's input example Channel.
• Supported split configuration for Trainer and Tuner.
• Supported split configuration for Evaluator.
• Supported split configuration for StatisticsGen, SchemaGen and ExampleValidator. SchemaGen will now use all splits to generate schema instead of just using train split. ExampleValidator will now validate all splits against given schema instead of just validating eval split.
• Component authors now can create a TFXIO instance to get access to the data through tfx.components.util.tfxio_utils. As TFX is going to support more data payload formats and data container formats, using tfxio_utils is encouraged to avoid dealing directly with each combination. TFXIO is the interface of Standardized TFX Inputs.
• Added experimental BaseStubExecutor and StubComponentLauncher to test TFX pipelines.
• Added experimental TFX Pipeline Recorder to record output artifacts of the pipeline.
• Supported multiple artifacts in an output Channel to match a certain input Channel's artifact count. This enables Transform component to process multiple artifacts.
• Transform component's transformed examples output is now optional (enabled by default). This can be disabled by specifying parameter materialize=False when constructing the component.
• Supported Version spec in input config for file based ExampleGen.
• Added custom config to Transform component and made it available to pre-processing fn.
• Supported custom extractors in Evaluator.
• Deprecated tensorflow dependency from MLMD python client.
• Supported Date spec in input config for file based ExampleGen.
• Enabled analyzer cache optimization in the Transform component:
  • specify analyzer_cache to use the cache generated from a previous run.
  • specify parameter disable_analyzer_cache=True (False by default) to disable cache (won't generate cache output).
• Added support for width modifiers in Span and Version specs for file based ExampleGen.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Added Tuner component to Iris e2e example.
• Relaxed the rule that output artifact uris must be newly created. This is a temporary workaround to make retry work. We will introduce a more comprehensive solution for idempotent execution.
• Made evaluator output optional (while still recommended) for pusher.
• Moved BigQueryExampleGen to tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query.
• Moved BigQuery ML Pusher to tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query.pusher.
• Removed Tuner from custom_components/ as it's supported under components/ now.
• Added support of non tf.train.Example protos as internal data payload format by ImportExampleGen.
• Used thread local storage for label_utils.scoped_labels() to make it thread safe.
• Requires Bazel to build TFX source code.
• Upgraded python version in TFX docker images to 3.7. Older version of python (2.7/3.5/3.6) is not available anymore in tensorflow/tfx images on docker hub. Virtualenv is not used anymore.
• Stopped requiring avro-python3.
• Depends on absl-py>=0.7,<0.9.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.23,<3.
• Depends on pyarrow>=0.17,<0.18.
• Depends on attrs>=19.3.0,<20.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.23,<0.24.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.2,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,<3.
  • Note: Dependency like tensorflow-transform might impose a narrower range of tensorflow.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.23,<0.24.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.23,<0.24.
• Depends on tensorflow-serving-api>=1.15,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.23,<0.24.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.23,<0.24.
• Added execution_result_pb2.ExecutorOutput as an Optional return value of BaseExecutor. This change is backward compatible to all existing executors.
• Added executor_output_uri and stateful_working_dir to Executor's context.

Breaking changes

• Changed the URIs of the value artifacts to point to files.
• De-duplicated the tfx.dsl.component.experimental.executor_specs.CommandLineArgumentType union type in favor of tfx.dsl.component.experimental.placeholders.CommandLineArgumentType

For pipeline authors

• Moved BigQueryExampleGen to tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query. The previous module path from tfx.components is not available anymore. This is a breaking change.
• Moved BigQuery ML Pusher to tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query.pusher. The previous module path from tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query_ml is not available anymore.
• Updated beam pipeline args, users now need to set both direct_running_mode and direct_num_workers explicitly for multi-processing.
• Added required 'output_data_format' execution property to FileBaseExampleGen.
• Changed ExampleGen to take a string as input source directly instead of a Channel of external artifact:
  • Previously deprecated input_base Channel is changed to string type instead of Channel. This is a breaking change, users should pass string directly to input_base.
• Fully removed csv_input and tfrecord_input in dsl_utils. This is a breaking change, users should pass string directly to input_base.

For component authors

• Changed GetInputSourceToExamplePTransform interface by removing input_dict. This is a breaking change, custom ExampleGens need to follow the interface change.
• Changed ExampleGen to take a string as input source directly instead of a Channel of external artifact:
  • input Channel is deprecated. The use of input is valid but should change to string type input_base ASAP.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Deprecations

• ExternalArtifact and external_input function are deprecated. The use of external_input with ExampleGen input is still valid but should change to use input_base ASAP.
• Note: We plan to remove Python 3.5 support after this release.

Version 0.22.2

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Reuse Examples artifact type introduced in TFX 0.23 to allow older release jobs running together with TFX 0.23+ release.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.22.1

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Depends on 'tensorflowjs>=2.0.1.post1,<3' for [all] dependency.
• Fixed the name of the usage telemetry when tfx templates are used.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.22.2,<0.23.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.22.2,<0.23.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.22.1,<0.23.0.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.22.1,<0.23.0.

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Deprecations

• N/A

Version 0.22.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Introduced experimental Python function component decorator (@component decorator under tfx.dsl.component.experimental.decorators) allowing Python function-based component definition.
• Added the experimental TemplatedExecutorContainerSpec executor class that supports structural placeholders (not Jinja placeholders).
• Added the experimental function "create_container_component" that simplifies creating container-based components.
• Implemented a TFJS rewriter.
• Added the scripts/run_component.py script which makes it easy to run the component code and executor code. (Similar to scripts/run_executor.py)
• Added support for container component execution to BeamDagRunner.
• Introduced experimental generic Artifact types for ML workflows.
• Added support for float execution properties.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Migrated BigQueryExampleGen to the new (experimental) ReadFromBigQuery PTramsform when not using Dataflow runner.
• Enhanced add_downstream_node / add_upstream_node to apply symmetric changes when being called. This method enables task-based dependencies by enforcing execution order for synchronous pipelines on supported platforms. Currently, the supported platforms are Airflow, Beam, and Kubeflow Pipelines. Note that this API call should be considered experimental, and may not work with asynchronous pipelines, sub-pipelines and pipelines with conditional nodes.
• Added the container-based sample pipeline (download, filter, print)
• Removed the incomplete cifar10 example.
• Removed python-snappy from [all] extra dependency list.
• Tests depends on apache-airflow>=1.10.10,<2;
• Removed test dependency to tzlocal.
• Fixes unintentional overriding of user-specified setup.py file for Dataflow jobs when running on KFP container.
• Made ComponentSpec().inputs and .outputs behave more like real dictionaries.
• Depends on kerastuner>=1,<2.
• Depends on pyyaml>=3.12,<6.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.21,<3.
• Depends on grpcio>=2.18.1,<3.
• Depends on kubernetes>=10.0.1,<12.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15,!=2.0.*,<3.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.22.0,<0.23.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.22.1,<0.23.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.22.0,<0.23.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.22.0,<0.23.0.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.22.0,<0.23.0.
• Depends on 'tensorflowjs>=2.0.1.post1,<3' for [all] dependency.
• Fixed a bug in io_utils.copy_dir which prevent it to work correctly for nested sub-directories.

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• Changed custom config for the Do function of Trainer and Pusher to accept a JSON-serialized dict instead of a dict object. This also impacts all the Do functions under tfx.extensions.google_cloud_ai_platform and tfx.extensions.google_cloud_big_query_ml. Note that this breaking change occurs at the signature of the executor's Do function. Therefore, if the user did not customize the Do function, and the compile time SDK version is aligned with the run time SDK version, previous pipelines should still work as intended. If the user is using a custom component with customized Do function, custom_config should be assumed to be a JSON-serialized string from next release.
• For users of BigQueryExampleGen, --temp_location is now a required Beam argument, even for DirectRunner. Previously this argument was only required for DataflowRunner. Note that the specified value of --temp_location should point to a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
• Revert current per-component cache API (with enable_cache, which was only available in tfx>=0.21.3,<0.22), in preparing for a future redesign.

For component authors

• Converted the BaseNode class attributes to the constructor parameters. This won't affect any components derived from BaseComponent.
• Changed the encoding of the Integer and Float artifacts to be more portable.

Documentation updates

• Added concept guides for understanding TFX pipelines and components.
• Added guides to building Python function-based components and container-based components.
• Added BulkInferrer component and TFX CLI documentation to the table of contents.

Deprecations

• Deprecating Py2 support

Version 0.21.5

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Reuse Examples artifact type introduced in TFX 0.23 to allow older release jobs running together with TFX 0.23+ release.
• Removed python-snappy from [all] extra dependency list.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.21.4

Major Features and Improvements

• N/A

Bug fixes and other changes

• Fixed InfraValidator signal handling bug on BeamDagRunner.
• Dropped "Type" suffix from primitive type artifact names (Integer, Float, String, Bytes).

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.21.3

Major Features and Improvements

• Added run/pipeline link when creating runs/pipelines on KFP through TFX CLI.
• Added support for ValueArtifact, whose attribute value allows users to access the content of the underlying file directly in the executor. Support Bytes/Integer/String/Float type. Note: interactive resolution does not support this for now.
• Added InfraValidator component that is used as an early warning layer before pushing a model into production.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Starting this version, TFX will only release python3 packages.
• Replaced relative import with absolute import in generated templates.
• Added a native keras model in the taxi template and the template now uses generic Trainer.
• Added support of TF 2.1 runtime configuration for AI Platform Prediction Pusher.
• Added support for using ML Metadata ArtifactType messages as Artifact classes.
• Changed CLI behavior to create new versions of pipelines instead of delete and create new ones when pipelines are updated for KFP. (Requires kfp >= 0.3.0)
• Added ability to enable quantization in tflite rewriter.
• Added k8s pod labels when the pipeline is executed via KubeflowDagRunner for better usage telemetry.
• Parameterized the GCP taxi pipeline sample for easily ramping up to full taxi dataset.
• Added support for hyphens(dash) in addition to underscores in CLI flags. Underscores will be supported as well.
• Fixed ill-formed underscore in the markdown visualization when running on KFP.
• Enabled per-component control for caching with enable_cache argument in each component.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.21.2

Major Features and Improvements

• Updated StatisticsGen to optionally consume a schema Artifact.
• Added support for configuring the StatisticsGen component via serializable parts of StatsOptions.
• Added Keras guide doc.
• Changed Iris model_to_estimator e2e example to use generic Trainer.
• Demonstrated how TFLite is supported in TFX by extending MNIST example pipeline to also train a TFLite model.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Fix the behavior of Trainer Tensorboard visualization when caching is used.
• Added component documentation and guide on using TFLite in TFX.
• Relaxed the PyYaml dependency.

Deprecations

• Model Validator (its functionality is now provided by the Evaluator).

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.21.1

Major Features and Improvements

• Pipelines compiled using KubeflowDagRunner now defaults to using the gRPC-based MLMD server deployed in Kubeflow Pipelines clusters when performing operations on pipeline metadata.
• Added tfx model rewriting and tflite rewriter.
• Added LatestBlessedModelResolver as an experimental feature which gets the latest model that was blessed by model validator.
• The specific Artifact subclass that was serialized (if defined in the deserializing environment) will be used when deserializing Artifacts and when reading Artifacts from ML Metadata (previously, objects of the generic tfx.types.artifact.Artifact class were created in some cases).
• Updated Evaluator's executor to support model validation.
• Introduced awareness of chief worker to Trainer's executor, in case running in distributed training cluster.
• Added a Chicago Taxi example with native Keras.
• Updated TFLite converter to work with TF2.
• Enabled filtering by artifact producer and output key in ResolverNode.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Added --skaffold_cmd flag when updating a pipeline for kubeflow in CLI.
• Changed python_version to 3.7 when using TF 1.15 and later for Cloud AI Platform Prediction.
• Added 'tfx_runner' label for CAIP, BQML and Dataflow jobs submitted from TFX components.
• Fixed the Taxi Colab notebook.
• Adopted the generic trainer executor when using CAIP Training.
• Depends on 'tensorflow-data-validation>=0.21.4,<0.22'.
• Depends on 'tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.21.4,<0.22'.
• Depends on 'tensorflow-transform>=0.21.2,<0.22'.
• Fixed misleading logs in Taxi pipeline portable Beam example.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

• Remove "NOT_BLESSED" artifact.
• Change constants ARTIFACT_PROPERTY_BLESSED_MODEL_* to ARTIFACT_PROPERTY_BASELINE_MODEL_*.

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.21.0

Major Features and Improvements

• TFX version 0.21.0 will be the last version of TFX supporting Python 2.
• Added experimental cli option template, which can be used to scaffold a new pipeline from TFX templates. Currently the taxi template is provided and more templates would be added in future versions.
• Added support for RuntimeParameters to allow users can specify templated values at runtime. This is currently only supported in Kubeflow Pipelines. Currently, only attributes in ComponentSpec.PARAMETERS and the URI of external artifacts can be parameterized (component inputs / outputs can not yet be parameterized). See tfx/examples/chicago_taxi_pipeline/taxi_pipeline_runtime_parameter.py for example usage.
• Users can access the parameterized pipeline root when defining the pipeline by using the pipeline.ROOT_PARAMETER placeholder in KubeflowDagRunner.
• Users can pass appropriately encoded Python dict objects to specify protobuf parameters in ComponentSpec.PARAMETERS; these will be decoded into the proper protobuf type. Users can avoid manually constructing complex nested protobuf messages in the component interface.
• Added support in Trainer for using other model artifacts. This enables scenarios such as warm-starting.
• Updated trainer executor to pass through custom config to the user module.
• Artifact type-specific properties can be defined through overriding the PROPERTIES dictionary of a types.artifact.Artifact subclass.
• Added new example of chicago_taxi_pipeline on Google Cloud Bigquery ML.
• Added support for multi-core processing in the Flink and Spark Chicago Taxi PortableRunner example.
• Added a metadata adapter in Kubeflow to support logging the Argo pod ID as an execution property.
• Added a prototype Tuner component and an end-to-end iris example.
• Created new generic trainer executor for non estimator based model, e.g., native Keras.
• Updated to support passing tfma.EvalConfig in evaluator when calling TFMA.
• Added an iris example with native Keras.
• Added an MNIST example with native Keras.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Switched the default behavior of KubeflowDagRunner to not mounting GCP secret.
• Fixed "invalid spec: spec.arguments.parameters[6].name 'pipeline-root' is not unique" error when the user include pipeline.ROOT_PARAMETER and run pipeline on KFP.
• Added support for an hparams artifact as an input to Trainer in preparation for tuner support.
• Refactored common dependencies in the TFX dockerfile to a base image to improve the reliability of image building process.
• Fixes missing Tensorboard link in KubeflowDagRunner.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.17,<2.18
• Depends on ml-metadata>=0.21,<0.22.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.21,<0.22.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.21,<0.22.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.21,<0.22.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=0.21,<0.22.
• Depends on pyarrow>=0.14,<0.15.
• Removed tf.compat.v1 usage for iris and cifar10 examples.
• CSVExampleGen: started using the CSV decoding utilities in tfx-bsl (tfx-bsl>=0.15.2)
• Fixed problems with Airflow tutorial notebooks.
• Added performance improvements for the Transform Component (for statistics generation).
• Raised exceptions when container building fails.
• Enhanced custom slack component by adding a kubeflow example.
• Allowed windows style paths in Transform component cache.
• Fixed bug in CLI (--engine=kubeflow) which uses hard coded obsolete image (TFX 0.14.0) as the base image.
• Fixed bug in CLI (--engine=kubeflow) which could not handle skaffold response when an already built image is reused.
• Allowed users to specify the region to use when serving with AI Platform.
• Allowed users to give deterministic job id to AI Platform Training job.
• System-managed artifact properties ("name", "state", "pipeline_name" and "producer_component") are now stored as ML Metadata artifact custom properties.
• Fixed loading trainer and transformation functions from python module files without the .py extension.
• Fixed some ill-formed visualization when running on KFP.
• Removed system info from artifact properties and use channels to hold info for generating MLMD queries.
• Rely on MLMD context for inter-component artifact resolution and execution publishing.
• Added pipeline level context and component run level context.
• Included test data for examples/chicago_taxi_pipeline in package.
• Changed BaseComponentLauncher to require the user to pass in an ML Metadata connection object instead of a ML Metadata connection config.
• Capped version of Tensorflow runtime used in Google Cloud integration to 1.15.
• Updated Chicago Taxi example dependencies to Beam 2.17.0, Flink 1.9.1, Spark 2.4.4.
• Fixed an issue where build_ephemeral_package() used an incorrect path to locate the tfx directory.
• The ImporterNode now allows specification of general artifact properties.
• Added 'tfx_executor', 'tfx_version' and 'tfx_py_version' labels for CAIP, BQML and Dataflow jobs submitted from TFX components.
• Use '_' instead of '/' in feature names of several examples to avoid potential clash with namescope separator.

Deprecations

• N/A

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• Standard artifact TYPE_NAME strings were reconciled to match their class names in types.standard_artifacts.
• The "split" property on multiple artifacts has been replaced with the JSON-encoded "split_names" property on a single grouped artifact.
• The execution caching mechanism was changed to rely on ML Metadata pipeline context. Existing cached executions will not be reused when running on this version of TFX for the first time.
• The "split" property on multiple artifacts has been replaced with the JSON-encoded "split_names" property on a single grouped artifact.

For component authors

• Artifact type name strings to the types.artifact.Artifact and types.channel.Channel classes are no longer supported; usage here should be replaced with references to the artifact subclasses defined in types.standard_artfacts.* or to custom subclasses of types.artifact.Artifact.

Documentation updates

• N/A

Version 0.15.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Offered unified CLI for tfx pipeline actions on various orchestrators including Apache Airflow, Apache Beam and Kubeflow.
• Polished experimental interactive notebook execution and visualizations so they are ready for use.
• Added BulkInferrer component to TFX pipeline, and corresponding offline inference taxi pipeline.
• Introduced ImporterNode as a special TFX node to register external resource into MLMD so that downstream nodes can use as input artifacts. An example taxi_pipeline_importer.py enabled by ImporterNode was added to showcase the user journey of user-provided schema (issue #571).
• Added experimental support for TFMA fairness indicator thresholds.
• Demonstrated DirectRunner multi-core processing in Chicago Taxi example, including Airflow and Beam.
• Introduced PipelineConfig and BaseComponentConfig to control the platform specific settings for pipelines and components.
• Added a custom Executor of Pusher to push model to BigQuery ML for serving.
• Added KubernetesComponentLauncher to support launch ExecutorContainerSpec in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Made model validator executor forward compatible with TFMA change.
• Added Iris flowers classification example.
• Added support for serialization and deserialization of components.
• Made component launcher extensible to support launching components on multiple platforms.
• Simplified component package names.
• Introduced BaseNode as the base class of any node in a TFX pipeline DAG.
• Added docker component launcher to launch container component.
• Added support for specifying pipeline root in runtime when run on KubeflowDagRunner. A default value can be provided when constructing the TFX pipeline.
• Added basic span support in ExampleGen to ingest file based data sources that can be updated regularly by upstream.
• Branched serving examples under chicago_taxi_pipeline/ from chicago_taxi/ example.
• Supported beam arg 'direct_num_workers' for multi-processing on local.
• Improved naming of standard component inputs and outputs.
• Improved visualization functionality in the experimental TFX notebook interface.
• Allowed users to specify output file format when compiling TFX pipelines using KubeflowDagRunner.
• Introduced ResolverNode as a special TFX node to resolve input artifacts for downstream nodes. ResolverNode is a convenient way to wrap TFX Resolver, a logical unit for resolving input artifacts.
• Added cifar-10 example to demonstrate image classification.
• Added container builder feature in the CLI tool for container-based custom python components. This is specifically for the Kubeflow orchestration engine, which requires containers built with the custom python code.
• Demonstrated DirectRunner multi-core processing in Chicago Taxi example, including Airflow and Beam.
• Added Kubeflow artifact visualization of inputs, outputs and execution properties for components using a Markdown file. Added Tensorboard to Trainer components as well.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Bumped test dependency to kfp (Kubeflow Pipelines SDK) to be at version 0.1.31.2.
• Fixed trainer executor to correctly make transform_output optional.
• Updated Chicago Taxi example dependency tensorflow to version >=1.14.0.
• Updated Chicago Taxi example dependencies tensorflow-data-validation, tensorflow-metadata, tensorflow-model-analysis, tensorflow-serving-api, and tensorflow-transform to version >=0.14.
• Updated Chicago Taxi example dependencies to Beam 2.14.0, Flink 1.8.1, Spark 2.4.3.
• Adopted new recommended way to access component inputs/outputs as component.outputs['output_name'] (previously, the syntax was component.outputs.output_name).
• Updated Iris example to skip transform and use Keras model.
• Fixed the check for input artifact existence in base driver.
• Fixed bug in AI Platform Pusher that prevents pushes after first model, and not being marked as default.
• Replaced all usage of deprecated tensorflow.logging with absl.logging.
• Used special user agent for all HTTP requests through googleapiclient and apitools.
• Transform component updated to use tf.compat.v1 according to the TF 2.0 upgrading procedure.
• TFX updated to use tf.compat.v1 according to the TF 2.0 upgrading procedure.
• Added Kubeflow local example pipeline that executes components in-cluster.
• Fixed a bug that prevents updating execution type.
• Fixed a bug in model validator driver that reads across pipeline boundaries when resolving latest blessed model.
• Depended on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.16,<3
• Depended on ml-metadata>=0.15,<0.16
• Depended on tensorflow>=1.15,<3
• Depended on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.15,<0.16
• Depended on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.15.2,<0.16
• Depended on tensorflow-transform>=0.15,<0.16
• Depended on 'tfx_bsl>=0.15.1,<0.16'
• Made launcher return execution information, containing populated inputs, outputs, and execution id.
• Updated the default configuration for accessing MLMD from pipelines running in Kubeflow.
• Updated Airflow developer tutorial
• CSVExampleGen: started using the CSV decoding utilities in tfx-bsl (tfx-bsl>=0.15.2)
• Added documentation for Fairness Indicators.

Deprecations

• Deprecated component_type in favor of type.
• Deprecated component_id in favor of id.
• Move beam_pipeline_args out of additional_pipeline_args as top level pipeline param
• Deprecated chicago_taxi folder, beam setup scripts and serving examples are moved to chicago_taxi_pipeline folder.

Breaking changes

• Moved beam setup scripts from examples/chicago_taxi/ to examples/chicago_taxi_pipeline/
• Moved interactive notebook classes into tfx.orchestration.experimental namespace.
• Starting from 1.15, package tensorflow comes with GPU support. Users won't need to choose between tensorflow and tensorflow-gpu. If any GPU devices are available, processes spawned by all TFX components will try to utilize them; note that in rare cases, this may exhaust the memory of the device(s).
• Caveat: tensorflow 2.0.0 is an exception and does not have GPU support. If tensorflow-gpu 2.0.0 is installed before installing tfx, it will be replaced with tensorflow 2.0.0. Re-install tensorflow-gpu 2.0.0 if needed.
• Caveat: MLMD schema auto-upgrade is now disabled by default. For users who upgrades from 0.13 and do not want to lose the data in MLMD, please refer to MLMD documentation for guide to upgrade or downgrade MLMD database. Users who upgraded from TFX 0.14 should not be affected since there is not schema change between these two versions.

For pipeline authors

• Deprecated the usage of tf.contrib.training.HParams in Trainer as it is deprecated in TF 2.0. User module relying on member method of that class will not be supported. Dot style property access will be the only supported style from now on.
• Any SavedModel produced by tf.Transform <=0.14 using any tf.contrib ops (or tf.Transform ops that used tf.contrib ops such as tft.quantiles, tft.bucketize, etc.) cannot be loaded with TF 2.0 since the contrib library has been removed in 2.0. Please refer to this issue.

For component authors

• N/A

Documentation updates

• Added conceptual info on Artifacts to guide/index.md

Version 0.14.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added support for Google Cloud ML Engine Training and Serving as extension.
• Supported pre-split input for ExampleGen components
• Added ImportExampleGen component for importing tfrecord files with TF Example data format
• Added a generic ExampleGen component to reduce the work of custom ExampleGen
• Released Python 3 type hints and added support for Python 3.6 and 3.7.
• Added an Airflow integration test for chicago_taxi_simple example.
• Updated tfx docker image to use Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04.
• Added example for how to define and add a custom component.
• Added PrestoExampleGen component.
• Added Parquet executor for ExampleGen component.
• Added Avro executor for ExampleGen component.
• Enables Kubeflow Pipelines users to specify arbitrary ContainerOp decorators that can be applied to each pipeline step.
• Added scripts and instructions for running the TFX Chicago Taxi example on Spark (via Apache Beam).
• Introduced a new mechanism of artifact info passing between components that relies solely on ML Metadata.
• Unified driver and execution logging to go through tf.logging.
• Added support for Beam as an orchestrator.
• Introduced the experimental InteractiveContext environment for iterative notebook development, as well as an example Chicago Taxi notebook in this environment with TFDV / TFMA examples.
• Enabled Transform and Trainer components to specify user defined function (UDF) module by Python module path in addition to path to a module file.
• Enable ImportExampleGen component for Kubeflow.
• Enabled SchemaGen to infer feature shape.
• Enabled metadata logging and pipeline caching capability for KubeflowRunner.
• Used custom container for AI Platform Trainer extension.
• Introduced ExecutorSpec, which generalizes the representation of executors to include both Python classes and containers.
• Supported run context for metadata tracking of tfx pipeline.

Deprecations

• Deprecated 'metadata_db_root' in favor of passing in metadata_connection_config directly.
• airflow_runner.AirflowDAGRunner is renamed to airflow_dag_runner.AirflowDagRunner.
• runner.KubeflowRunner is renamed to kubeflow_dag_runner.KubeflowDagRunner.
• The "input" and "output" exec_properties fields for ExampleGen executors have been renamed to "input_config" and "output_config", respectively.
• Declared 'cmle_training_args' on trainer and 'cmle_serving_args' on pusher deprecated. User should use the trainer/pusher executors in tfx.extensions.google_cloud_ai_platform module instead.
• Moved tfx.orchestration.gcp.cmle_runner to tfx.extensions.google_cloud_ai_platform.runner.
• Deprecated csv_input and tfrecord_input, use external_input instead.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Updated components and code samples to use tft.TFTransformOutput ( introduced in tensorflow_transform 0.8). This avoids directly accessing the DatasetSchema object which may be removed in tensorflow_transform 0.14 or 0.15.
• Fixed issue #113 to have consistent type of train_files and eval_files passed to trainer user module.
• Fixed issue #185 preventing the Airflow UI from visualizing the component's subdag operators and logs.
• Fixed issue #201 to make GCP credentials optional.
• Bumped dependency to kfp (Kubeflow Pipelines SDK) to be at version at least 0.1.18.
• Updated code example to
  • use 'tf.data.TFRecordDataset' instead of the deprecated function 'tf.TFRecordReader'
  • add test to train, evaluate and export.
• Component definition streamlined with explicit ComponentSpec and new style for defining component classes.
• TFX now depends on pyarrow>=0.14.0,<0.15.0 (through its dependency on tensorflow-data-validation).
• Introduced 'examples' to the Trainer component API. It's recommended to use this field instead of 'transformed_examples' going forward.
• Trainer can now run without the 'transform_output' input.
• Added check for duplicated component ids within a pipeline.
• String representations for Channel and Artifact (TfxType) classes were improved.
• Updated workshop/setup/setup_demo.sh to fix version incompatibilities
• Updated workshop by adding note and instructions to fix issue with GCC version when starting airflow webserver.
• Prepared support for analyzer cache optimization in transform executor.
• Fixed issue #463 correcting syntax in SCHEMA_EMPTY message.
• Added an explicit check that pipeline name cannot exceed 63 characters.
• SchemaGen takes a new argument, infer_feature_shape to indicate whether to infer shape of features in schema. Current default value is False, but we plan to remove default value for it in future.
• Depended on 'click>=7.0,<8'
• Depended on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.14,<3
• Depended on ml-metadata>=-1.14.0,<0.15
• Depended on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.14.1,<0.15
• Depended on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.14.0,<0.15
• Depended on tensorflow-transform>=0.14.0,<0.15

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• The "outputs" argument, which is used to override the automatically- generated output Channels for each component class has been removed; the equivalent overriding functionality is now available by specifying optional keyword arguments (see each component class definition for details).
• The optional arguments "executor" and "unique_name" of component classes have been uniformly renamed to "executor_spec" and "instance_name", respectively.
• The "driver" optional argument of component classes is no longer available: users who need to override the driver for a component should subclass the component and override the DRIVER_CLASS field.
• The example_gen.component.ExampleGen class has been refactored into the example_gen.component._QueryBasedExampleGen and example_gen.component.FileBasedExampleGen classes.
• pipeline_root passed to pipeline.Pipeline is now the root to the running pipeline instead of root of all pipelines.

For component authors

• Component class definitions have been simplified; existing custom components need to:
  • specify a ComponentSpec contract and conform to new class definition style (see base_component.BaseComponent)
  • specify EXECUTOR_SPEC=ExecutorClassSpec(MyExecutor) in the component definition to replace executor=MyExecutor from component constructor.
• Artifact definitions for standard TFX components have moved from using string type names into being concrete Artifact classes (see each official TFX component's ComponentSpec definition in types.standard_component_specs and the definition of built-in Artifact types in types.standard_artifacts).
• The base_component.ComponentOutputs class has been renamed to base_component._PropertyDictWrapper.
• The tfx.utils.types.TfxType class has been renamed to tfx.types.Artifact.
• The tfx.utils.channel.Channel class has been moved to tfx.types.Channel.
• The "static_artifact_collection" argument to types.Channel has been renamed to "artifacts".
• ArtifactType for artifacts will have two new properties: pipeline_name and producer_component.
• The ARTIFACT_STATE_* constants were consolidated into the types.artifacts.ArtifactState enum class.

Version 0.13.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Adds support for Python 3.5
• Initial version of following orchestration platform supported:
  • Kubeflow
• Added TensorFlow Model Analysis Colab example
• Supported split ratio for ExampleGen components
• Supported running a single executor independently

Bug fixes and other changes

• Fixes issue #43 that prevent new execution in some scenarios
• Fixes issue #47 that causes ImportError on chicago_taxi execution on dataflow
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.12,<3
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=0.13.1,<0.14
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.13.2,<0.14
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=0.13,<0.14
• Deprecations:
  • PipelineDecorator is deprecated. Please construct a pipeline directly from a list of components instead.
• Increased verbosity of logging to container stdout when running under Kubeflow Pipelines.
• Updated developer tutorial to support Python 3.5+

Breaking changes

• Examples code are moved from 'examples' to 'tfx/examples': this ensures that PyPi package contains only one top level python module 'tfx'.

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A

Things to notice for upgrading

• Multiprocessing on Mac OS >= 10.13 might crash for Airflow. See AIRFLOW-3326 for details and solution.

Version 0.12.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Adding TFMA Architecture doc
• TFX User Guide
• Initial version of the following TFX components:
  • CSVExampleGen - CSV data ingestion
  • BigQueryExampleGen - BigQuery data ingestion
  • StatisticsGen - calculates statistics for the dataset
  • SchemaGen - examines the dataset and creates a data schema
  • ExampleValidator - looks for anomalies and missing values in the dataset
  • Transform - performs feature engineering on the dataset
  • Trainer - trains the model
  • Evaluator - performs analysis of the model performance
  • ModelValidator - helps validate exported models ensuring that they are "good enough" to be pushed to production
  • Pusher - deploys the model to a serving infrastructure, for example the TensorFlow Serving Model Server
• Initial version of following orchestration platform supported:
  • Apache Airflow
• Polished examples based on the Chicago Taxi dataset.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Cleanup Colabs to remove TF warnings
• Performance improvement during shuffling of post-transform data.
• Changing example to move everything to one file in plugins
• Adding instructions to refer to README when running Chicago Taxi notebooks

Breaking changes

For pipeline authors

• N/A

For component authors

• N/A