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@omry omry released this 13 May 20:00
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1.1.0.rc1 (2021-05-13)

This is the biggest Hydra release yet.

Highlights

  • OmegaConf 2.1 supports relative interpolations, nested interpolations, more powerful resolvers and better compatibility with plain Python dict and list.
  • Recursive defaults list: Every config can now have a Defaults List.
  • Recursive instantiation: When instantiating objects using the instantiate API, nested defined objects are instantiated automatically.

There have also been many bug fixes and performance improvements, as well of as some breaking changes - both in Hydra and in OmegaConf.
Please check the API changes and deprecation sections in these release notes and in the OmegaConf release notes.

Features

General enhancements

  • Upgrade to OmegaConf 2.1. Please check the release notes for it (#1426)
  • Support for Python 3.9. (#1062)
  • Improve performance of config composition in a benchmark by 64% (#1328)
  • Allow @, $ and ? symbols in unquoted values in overrides (#1074, #1437, #1597)
  • Add a --resolve flag that can be used with the --cfg flag to resolve interpolations before the config is printed. (#1585)
  • It is now possible to disable Hydra's logging configuration (#1130)
  • Support for Zsh tab completion (#347)
  • Support for force-add of config values via ++key=value (force-add overrides if the value exists and adds it otherwise) (#1049)

Config composition enhancements

  • Support for Defaults List in any config (Recursive relative defaults) (#1170)
  • Composition order of a config with a Defaults List can be specified with the _self_ keyword. (#326)
  • Support for configuring the config search path from the primary config (#274)
  • Add support for selecting multiple configs from the same Config Group (#499)
  • Final choices of defaults list are retained in the dictionary hydra.runtime.choices (#956)

Object Instantiation enhancements

  • Support for recursive instantiation with hydra.utils.instantiate() (#566)
  • Instantiate now fully supports positional arguments (#1432)
  • Support for converting parameters to primitive containers during instantiation (#1015)
  • It is now possible to override the _target_ of instantiation with a Python type or a string (#1017)

API Change (Renames, deprecations and removals)

General changes

  • Default composition order change, see this for details (#1217)
  • Remove deprecated strict flag from @hydra.main and the Compose API (#1010)
  • Passing a config name as config_path to @hydra.main is now an error (#1010)
  • Promote hydra.experimental.{compose,initialize,initialize_config_dir,initialize_config_module} out from the hydra.experimental module to the hydra module. (#1030)
  • The override grammar now requires that, in quoted strings, any sequence of \ preceding a quote (either an escaped quote, or the closing quote) must be escaped (#1600)

Instantiate changes

  • Instantiate is now recursive by default, use _recursive_=False to disable recursive instantiation. (#566)
  • Deprecated TargetConf, you should no longer be extending or annotating with it (#1010)
  • Remove ObjectConf and deprecated params support that was deprecated in Hydra 1.0 (#1010)

Plugins API changes

  • HydraContext required in run_job, Launcher and Sweeper's setup methods, see issue for details (#1498)
  • ConfigSourcePlugins needs to be modified to support recursive defaults, see link for details (#1080)

Bug Fixes

  • Hydra no longer erroneously changes the USER environment variable in pytest unit tests once installed (#1059)
  • Fix a bug where Structured Config has a field like list : Optional[List[int]] = None (#1117)
  • No longer modifies exception stack trace when running under a debugger (#1237)
  • hydra.job.{id,num} are now properly passed to jobs in multirun (#1270)
  • Add support for %f directive (microseconds) to the ${now:PATTERN} resolver (#1287)
  • Fixed a bug where tab completion did not work if the Defaults List had a missing (???) item. (#1381)
  • Fix + overrides to properly insert new values into Structured Configs. (#1515)
  • Fix edge cases where using the command line to set a key to a value containing a string ending with a backslash could crash (#1600)

Plugins

Improved Documentation

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