Kedro 0.18.2 is out!

[merelcht]

We're excited to announce that Kedro 0.18.2 has finally been released! 🎉

TL;DR This release is special because we've worked on improving Databricks Repos support and improved the CLI experienced by adding in pretty logging to the CLI with Rich and reducing the kedro new prompts to one question.

What can you expect in this release?

🚀 Major features:

• Kedro now uses the Rich library to format terminal logs and tracebacks.
• The file conf/base/logging.yml is now optional. See our documentation for details.
• Introduced a kedro.starters entry point. This enables plugins to create custom starter aliases used by kedro starter list and kedro new.
• Reduced the kedro new prompts to just one question asking for the project name.

🐛 Bug fixes:

• Bumped pyyaml upper bound to make Kedro compatible with the pyodide stack.
• Kedro's framework-side logging configuration no longer performs file-based logging. Hence superfluous info.log/errors.log files are no longer created in your project root, and running Kedro on read-only file systems such as Databricks Repos is now possible.
• Required cookiecutter>=2.1.1 to address a known command injection vulnerability.
• The session store no longer fails if a username cannot be found with getpass.getuser.
• Added generic typing for AbstractDataSet and AbstractVersionedDataSet as well as typing to all datasets.

You can find the full list of changes in the release notes.
Kedro 0.18.2 is a non-breaking release in the 0.18.x series, upgrade now with:

How do I get access to the latest release?
Get the latest version of Kedro with pip install kedro == 0.18.2 or install Kedro from Conda with conda install -c conda-forge kedro==0.18.2.

[mjmare]

I like rich but can I turn off the new Tracebacks? IMO they are a complete waste of space, sometimes making one scroll for pages and pages to find the actual error.

[antonymilne]

Yes! See #1728 for how you can do this now. Also please do add your opinion here so we can work out what better default options might be: #1750.

[antonymilne]

Basically you can alter the tracebacks with the following code in your settings.py:

# no locals and only 1 extra line context
rich.traceback.install(suppress=[click, str(Path(sys.executable).parent)], extra_lines=1)

Or turn off rich tracebacks altogether with:

import sys
sys.excepthook = sys.__excepthook__

[mjmare]

I tried both options.
The first does not work for me: still a mess in the PyCharm terminal (regardless of the "emulate terminal in output console") and the line with the error is not clickable.
The second works. Thank you!