Feast v0.16.0

Overview

Today we are releasing Feast 0.16, which includes many bug fixes and optimizations.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @achals, @adchia, @ArrichM, @aurobindoc, @casassg, @danilopeixoto, @felixwang9817, @judahrand, @mavysavydav, @olivierlabreche, @nossrannug, @ptoman-pa, @pyalex, @tsotnet, @ysk24ok for the contributions!

✨ New Features:

• Install redis extra in AWS Lambda feature server & add hiredis depend… #2057 (tsotnet)
• Support of GC and S3 storages for registry in Java Feature Server #2043 (pyalex)
• Adding stream ingestion alpha documentation #2005 (adchia)

🔴 Fixed bugs:

• requested_features are not passed to online_read() from passthrough_provider #2106
• feast apply broken with 0.15.* if the registry already exists #2086
• Inconsistent logic with on_demand_feature_views #2072
• requested_features is passed to online_read from passthrough_provider #2107 (aurobindoc)
• Don't materialize FeatureViews where online is False #2101 (judahrand)
• Have apply_total use the repo_config that's passed in as a parameter (makes it more compatible with custom wrapper code) #2099 (mavysavydav)
• Do not attempt to compute ODFVs when there are no ODFVs #2090 (felixwang9817)
• Duplicate feast apply bug #2087 (felixwang9817)
• Add --host as an option for feast serve #2078 (nossrannug)
• Fix feature server docker image tag generation in pr integration tests #2077 (tsotnet)
• Fix ECR Image build on master branch #2076 (tsotnet)
• Optimize memory usage during materialization #2073 (judahrand)
• Fix unexpected feature view deletion when applying edited odfv #2054 (ArrichM)
• Properly exclude entities from feature inference #2048 (mavysavydav)
• Don't allow FeatureStore.apply with commit=False #2047 (nossrannug)
• Fix bug causing OnDemandFeatureView.infer_features() to fail when the… #2046 (ArrichM)
• Add missing comma in setup.py #2031 (achals)
• Correct cleanup after usage e2e tests #2015 (pyalex)
• Change Environment timestamps to be in UTC #2007 (felixwang9817)
• get_online_features on demand transform bug fixes + local integration test mode #2004 (adchia)
• Always pass full and partial feature names to ODFV #2003 (judahrand)
• ODFV UDFs should handle list types #2002 (Agent007)
• Update bq_to_feast_value_type with BOOLEAN type as a legacy sql data type #1996 (mavysavydav)
• Fix bug where using some Pandas dtypes in the output of an ODFV fails #1994 (judahrand)
• Fix duplicate update infra #1990 (felixwang9817)
• Improve performance of _convert_arrow_to_proto #1984 (nossrannug)

🔨 Merged pull requests:

• Update FAQ #2118 (felixwang9817)
• Move helm chart back to main repo #2113 (pyalex)
• Set package long description encoding to UTF-8 #2111 (danilopeixoto)
• Update release workflow to include new docker images #2108 (adchia)
• Use the maintainers group in Codeowners instead of individuals #2102 (achals)
• Remove tfx schema from ValueType #2098 (pyalex)
• Add data source implementations to RTD docs #2097 (felixwang9817)
• Updated feature view documentation to include blurb about feature inferencing #2096 (mavysavydav)
• Fix integration test that is unstable due to incorrect materialization boundaries #2095 (pyalex)
• Broaden google-cloud-core dependency #2094 (ptoman-pa)
• Use pip-tools to lock versions of dependent packages #2093 (ysk24ok)
• Fix typo in feature retrieval doc #2092 (olivierlabreche)
• Fix typo in FeatureView example (doc) #2091 (olivierlabreche)
• Use request.addfinalizer instead of the yield based approach in integ tests #2089 (achals)
• Odfv logic #2088 (felixwang9817)
• Refactor _convert_arrow_to_proto #2085 (judahrand)
• Add github run id into the integration test projects for debugging #2069 (achals)
• Fixing broken entity key link in quickstart #2068 (adchia)
• Fix java_release workflow by removing step without users/with #2067 (achals)
• Allow using cached registry when writing to the online store #2066 (achals)
• Raise import error when repo configs module cannot be imported #2065 (felixwang9817)
• Remove refs to tensorflow_metadata #2063 (achals)
• Add detailed error messages for test_univerisal_e2e failures #2062 (achals)
• Remove unused protos & deprecated java modules #2061 (pyalex)
• Asynchronously refresh registry in transformation service #2060 (pyalex)
• Fix GH workflow for docker build of java parts #2059 (pyalex)
• Dedicated workflow for java PRs #2050 (pyalex)
• Run java integration test with real google cloud and aws #2049 (pyalex)
• Fixing typo enabling on_demand_transforms #2044 (ArrichM)
• Make feast registry-dump print the whole registry as one json #2040 (nossrannug)
• Remove tensorflow-metadata folders #2038 (casassg)
• Update CHANGELOG for Feast v0.15.1 #2034 (felixwang9817)
• Remove unsupported java parts #2029 (pyalex)
• Fix checked out branch for PR docker image build workflow #2018 (tsotnet)
• Extend "feast in production" page with description of java feature server #2017 (pyalex)
• Remove duplicates in setup.py and run rudimentary verifications #2016 (achals)
• Upload feature server docker image to ECR on approved PRs #2014 (tsotnet)
• GitBook: [#1] Plugin standards documentation #2011 (felixwang9817)
• Add changelog for v0.15.0 #2006 (adchia)
• Add integration tests for AWS Lambda feature server #2001 (tsotnet)
• Moving Feast Java back into main repo under java/ package #1997 (adchia)
• Fix protobuf version conflict in [gcp] and [ci] packages #1992 (ysk24ok)
• Improve aws lambda deployment (logging, idempotency, etc) #1985 (tsotnet)
• Extend context for usage statistics collection & add latencies for performance analysis #1983 (pyalex)