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🚀 DVC 1.0 pre-release is ready

⭐ DVC has reached 5K GitHub starts (coincidently on the same day)
⭐ DVC has reached 5K GitHub starts (coincidentally on the same day)

We'll share what we've learned from our journey, how users helped for the new
release and how DVC is growing.
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**DVC contributors.** As of today, the DVC code base has
[126 individual contributors](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/graphs/contributors).
Many of these folks put hours into their code contributios. We're grateful for
Many of these folks put hours into their code contribution. We're grateful for
their tenacity and generosity.

![](/static/uploads/images/2020-05-04/vera-sativa.png)_Vera - 100th DVC
contibutor [on GitHub](https://github.com/verasativa/)._
contributor [on GitHub](https://github.com/verasativa/)._

**Documentation contributors.** Another
[124 people contributed](https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org/graphs/contributors)
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_Learnings:_ ML pipelines evolve much faster than data engineering pipelines.

We redesigned the DVC-metafile format to make saved pipelines more interpretable
and editable. Pipeline stages are now saved in a single metafile, with all
stages stored together instead of in separate files.
We redesigned the way DVC records data processing stages with metafiles, to make
pipelines more interpretable and editable. All pipeline stages are now saved in
a single metafile, with all stages stored together instead of in separate files.

Data hash values are no longer stored in the pipeline metafile. This improves
human-readability.
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versioning.

Countless users asked us when we'd support metrics visualizations. Now it's
here: DVC 1.0 introduces a metrics file visualization command,
`dvc metrics diff`. DVC plots are powered by the
here: DVC 1.0 introduces scalar and continuous metrics file visualization
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commands, `dvc metrics diff` and `dvc plots show`. DVC plots are powered by the
[Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) graphic library.

This function is designed not only for showing visualizations based on the
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[Mini-indexes](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/2147) were introduced to
help DVC instantly check data directories instead of iterating over millions of
files. This also speeds up file adding\removing to large directories.
files. This also speeds up file adding/removing to large directories.

More optimizations are included in the release based on performance bottlenecks
we profiled. More detailed
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important step to support configuration files and ML experiments in a more
holistic way.

### New features summary
### For more information on the new features...

Each of the big new features and improvements deserve a separate blog post. We
will be posting more - please stay in touch.

I hope our the most active users will find time to check the DVC pre-release
version and provide their feeback. The installation instruction is
version and provide their feedback. The installation instruction is
[on our website](https://dvc.org/doc/install/pre-release).

## 5000 GitHub stars

Activity on our GitHub page has grown organically since the DVC repo went public
on May 4th, 2017. Coincidently, today, in the 3rd year anniversary we have
on May 4th, 2017. Coincidentally, today, in the 3rd year anniversary we have
reached 5000 starts:

![](/uploads/images/2020-05-04/5k_github.png)

## Thank you!

Thank you again for all DVC contributors, community members, and users. Every
Thank you again to all DVC contributors, community members, and users. Every
piece of your help is highly appreciated and will bring huge benefits to the
entire ecosystem of data and ML projects.

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