Version 1.6.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added experimental support for TensorFlow Decision Forests models.
• Added Boolean type value artifacts.
• Function components defined with @component may now have optional/nullable primitive type return values when Optional[T] is used in the return type OutputDict.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

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For Component Authors

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Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Depends on numpy>=1.16,<2.
• Depends on absl-py>=0.9,<2.0.0.
• Depends on apache-beam[gcp]>=2.35,<3.
• Depends on ml-metadata>=1.6.0,<1.7.0.
• Depends on struct2tensor>=0.37.0,<0.38.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-data-validation>=1.6.0,<1.7.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-model-analysis>=0.37.0,<0.38.0.
• Depends on tensorflow-transform>=1.6.0,<1.7.0.
• Depends on tfx-bsl>=1.6.0,<1.7.0.
• Depends on tensorflow>=1.15.5,!=2.0.*,!=2.1.*,!=2.2.*,!=2.3.*,!=2.4.*,!=2.5.*,!=2.6.*,<3.
• Depends on kfp>=1.8.5,<2'.
• Pusher now copies the saved_model.pb file at last to prevent loading SavedModel on invalid (partially available) directory state.
• Always disable caching for exit handlers in Kubeflow V2 runner to reflect latest status of dependent dag.

Documentation Updates

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