2.9.0 🦉

Refer to https://dvc.org/doc/install for installation instructions.

Changes

💣 Breaking Changes

• exp diff: Remove --old option. (#6888) @daavoo

🚀 New Features and Enhancements

• introduces exp init command @skshetry
• render: image: make html less ugly (#7075) @pared
• plots: collect: provide callable for data resolution (#6832) @pared
• live: Call webbrowser.open (#6913) @daavoo
• scm: hint to autostage (#6985) @dberenbaum
• exp show: Add --only-changed option (#6867) @daavoo

🐛 Bug Fixes

• exp: respect repo hardlink_lock config for the exp scm lock (#7030) @kwon-young
• dulwich: fallback to default SSH keys in asyncssh vendor (#6983) @pmrowla
• plots: special chars handling for vega plots paths (#6900) @pared
• params: Use ast.literal_eval for python params. (#6954) @daavoo
• push: fix http storage ignoring method setting (#6981) @ditod
• hardlink: fallback to other link methods if "Function not implemented" is raised (#6963) @skshetry
• argparse: dont override cmd (#6958) @pared

🔨 Maintenance

• build(deps): Bump scmrepo from 0.0.1 to 0.0.2 (#7055) @dependabot
• packages: build binary pkgs with Python 3.9 (#7016) @skshetry
• dvc.scm: refactor exceptions (#7017) @skshetry
• build(deps): Bump adlfs from 2021.9.1 to 2021.10.0 (#6734) @dependabot
• build: bump sshfs from 2021.8.1 to 2021.11.2 (#6999) @guludo
• build: bump pyinstaller from 4.6 to 4.7 (#6960) @dependabot
• dvc: get rid of path_info (#6946) @efiop

Thanks again to @daavoo, @dberenbaum, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @ditod, @efiop, @guludo, @isidentical, @karajan1001, @kwon-young, @pared, @pmrowla, @pre-commit-ci, @pre-commit-ci[bot], @skshetry and Dimitar Todorov for the contributions! 🎉