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1.8.13 (core) / 0.24.13 (libraries)#

New#

  • Performance improvements when loading code locations using multi-assets with many asset keys.
  • AutomationCondition.in_progress() now will be true if an asset partition is part of an in-progress backfill that has not yet executed it. The prior behavior, which only considered runs, is encapsulated in AutomationCondition.execution_in_progress().
  • [ui] Added tag filter to the jobs page.
  • [ui] Preserve user login state for a longer period of time.
  • [dagster-dbt] Performance improvements when loading definitions using build_dbt_asset_selection.
  • [dagster-docker] container_kwargs.stop_timeout can now be set when using the DockerRunLauncher or docker_executor to configure the amount of time that Docker will wait when terminating a run for it to clean up before forcibly stopping it with a SIGKILL signal.
  • [dagster-sigma] The Sigma integration now fetches initial API responses in parallel, speeding up initial load.
  • [dagster-looker] Attempt to naively render liquid templates for derived table sql.
  • [dagster-looker] Added support for views and explores that rely on refinements or extends.
  • [dagster-looker] When fetching explores and dashboards from the Looker API, retrieve in parallel.

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue with AutomationCondition.eager() that could cause it to attempt to launch a second attempt of an asset in cases where it was skipped or failed during a run where one of its parents successfully materialized.
  • Fixed an issue which would cause AutomationConditionSensorDefinitions to not be evaluated if the use_user_code_server value was toggled after the initial evaluation.
  • Fixed an issue where configuration values for aliased pydantic fields would be dropped.
  • [ui] Fix an issue in the code locations page where invalid query parameters could crash the page.
  • [ui] Fix navigation between deployments when query parameters are present in the URL.
  • [helm] the blockOpConcurrencyLimitedRuns section of queuedRunCoordinator now correctly templates the appropriate config.
  • [dagster-sigma] Fixed pulling incomplete data for very large workspaces.

1.8.12 (core) / 0.24.12 (libraries)#

New#

  • The AutomationCondition.eager(), AutomationCondition.missing(), and AutomationCondition.on_cron conditions are now compatible with asset checks.
  • Added AssetSelection.materializable(), which returns only assets that are materializable in an existing selection.
  • Added a new AutomationCondition.all_deps_blocking_checks_passed condition, which can be used to prevent materialization when any upstream blocking checks have failed.
  • Added a code_version parameter to the @graph_asset decorator.
  • If a LaunchPartitionBackfill mutation is submitted to GQL with invalid partition keys, it will now return an early PartitionKeysNotFoundError.
  • AssetSelection.checks_for_assets now accepts AssetKeys and string asset keys, in addition to AssetsDefinitions.
  • [ui] Added a search bar to partitions tab on the asset details page.
  • [ui] Restored docked left nav behavior for wide viewports.
  • [dagster-aws] get_objects now has a since_last_modified that enables only fetching objects modified after a given timestamp.
  • [dagster-aws] New AWS EMR Dagster Pipes client (dagster_aws.pipes.PipesEMRCLient ) for running and monitoring AWS EMR jobs from Dagster.
  • [dagster-looker] Pinned the looker-sdk dependency below 24.18.0 to avoid this issue: https://github.com/looker-open-source/sdk-codegen/issues/1518.

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue which could cause incorrect evaluation results when using self-dependent partition mappings with AutomationConditions that operate over dependencies.
  • [ui] Fixed an issue where the breadcumb on asset pages would flicker nonstop.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed extraction of metadata for dlt assets whose source and destination identifiers differ.
  • [dagster-databricks] Fixed a permissioning gap that existed with the DatabricksPySparkStepLauncher, so that permissions are now set correctly for non-admin users.
  • [dagster-dbt] Fixed an issue where column metadata generated with fetch_column_metadata did not work properly for models imported through dbt dependencies.

Documentation#

  • [dagster-k8s] DagsterK8sPipesClient.run now shows up in API docs.

Dagster Plus#

  • [ui] Fixed a bug in the catalog UI where owners filters were not applied correctly.
  • [ui] Fixed width of the column lineage dropdown selector on the asset page.
  • [ui] Column lineage now correctly renders when set on asset definition metadata
  • [ui] Fixed Settings link on the list of deployments, for users in the legacy navigation flag.

1.8.11 (core) / 0.24.11 (libraries)#

New#

  • [experimental] AutomationCondition.eager() will now only launch runs for missing partitions which become missing after the condition has been added to the asset. This avoids situations in which the eager policy kicks off a large amount of work when added to an asset with many missing historical static/dynamic partitions.
  • [experimental] Added a new AutomationCondition.asset_matches() condition, which can apply a condition against an arbitrary asset in the graph.
  • [experimental] Added the ability to specify multiple kinds for an asset with the kinds parameter.
  • [dagster-github] Added create_pull_request method on GithubClient that enables creating a pull request.
  • [dagster-github] Added create_ref method on GithubClient that enables creating a new branch.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] dlt assets now generate column metadata for child tables.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] dlt assets can now fetch row count metadata with dlt.run(...).fetch_row_count() for both partitioned and non-partitioned assets. Thanks @kristianandre!
  • [dagster-airbyte] relation identifier metadata is now attached to Airbyte assets.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] relation identifier metadata is now attached to sling assets.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] relation identifier metadata is now attached to dlt assets.

Bugfixes#

  • PartitionedConfig objects can now return a RunConfig without causing a crash.
  • Corrected the AssetIn.__new__ typing for the dagster_type argument.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] dlt assets now generate correct column metadata after the first materialization.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] Sling's fetch_row_count() method now works for databases returning uppercase column names. Thanks @kristianandre!
  • [dagster-gcp] Ensure blob download is flushed to temporary file for GCSFileManager.read operations. Thanks @ollie-bell!

Dagster Plus#

  • Fixed a bug in the catalog UI where owners filters were not applied correctly.

1.8.10 (core) / 0.24.10 (libraries)#

New#

  • JobDefinition, @job, and define_asset_job now take a run_tags parameter. If run_tags are defined, they will be attached to all runs of the job, and tags will not be. If run_tags is not set, then tags are attached to all runs of the job (status quo behavior). This change enables the separation of definition-level and run-level tags on jobs.
  • Then env var DAGSTER_COMPUTE_LOG_TAIL_WAIT_AFTER_FINISH can now be used to pause before capturing logs (thanks @HynekBlaha!)
  • The kinds parameter is now available on AssetSpec.
  • OutputContext now exposes the AssetSpec of the asset that is being stored as an output (thanks, @marijncv!)
  • [experimental] Backfills are incorporated into the Runs page to improve observability and provide a more simplified UI. See the GitHub discussion for more details.
  • [ui] The updated navigation is now enabled for all users. You can revert to the legacy navigation via a feature flag. See GitHub discussion for more.
  • [ui] Improved performance for loading partition statuses of an asset job.
  • [dagster-docker] Run containers launched by the DockerRunLauncher now include dagster/job_name and dagster/run_id labels.
  • [dagster-aws] The ECS launcher now automatically retries transient ECS RunTask failures (like capacity placement failures).

Bugfixes#

  • Changed the log volume for global concurrency blocked runs in the run coordinator to be less spammy.
  • [ui] Asset checks are now visible in the run page header when launched from a schedule.
  • [ui] Fixed asset group outlines not rendering properly in Safari.
  • [ui] Reporting a materialization event now removes the asset from the asset health "Execution failures" list and returns the asset to a green / success state.
  • [ui] When setting an AutomationCondition on an asset, the label of this condition will now be shown in the sidebar on the Asset Details page.
  • [ui] Previously, filtering runs by Created date would include runs that had been updated after the lower bound of the requested time range. This has been updated so that only runs created after the lower bound will be included.
  • [ui] When using the new experimental navigation flag, added a fix for the automations page for code locations that have schedules but no sensors.
  • [ui] Fixed tag wrapping on asset column schema table.
  • [ui] Restored object counts on the code location list view.
  • [ui] Padding when displaying warnings on unsupported run coordinators has been corrected (thanks @hainenber!)
  • [dagster-k8s] Fixed an issue where run termination sometimes did not terminate all step processes when using the k8s_job_executor, if the termination was initiated while it was in the middle of launching a step pod.

Documentation#

  • Corrections on the Dagster instance concept page (thanks @mheguy!)
  • Corrections on the code locations concept page (thanks @tiberiuana!)
  • Repeated words removed (thanks @tianzedavid!)
  • [dagster-deltalake] Corrections and improvements (thanks @avriiil!)
  • [dagster-aws] Added docs for PipesEMRServerlessClient.
  • [dagster-cli] A guide on how to validate Dagster definitions using dagster definitions validate have been added.
  • [dagster-databricks] Added docs for using Databricks Pipes with existing clusters.
  • [dagster-dbt] Corrected sample sql code (thanks @b-per!)

1.8.9 (core) / 0.24.9 (libraries)#

New#

  • AssetSpec now has a with_io_manager_key method that returns an AssetSpec with the appropriate metadata entry to dictate the key for the IO manager used to load it. The deprecation warning for SourceAsset now references this method.
  • Added a max_runtime_seconds configuration option to run monitoring, allowing you to specify that any run in your Dagster deployment should terminate if it exceeds a certain runtime. Prevoiusly, jobs had to be individually tagged with a dagster/max_runtime tag in order to take advantage of this feature. Jobs and runs can still be tagged in order to override this value for an individual run.
  • It is now possible to set both tags and a custom execution_fn on a ScheduleDefinition. Schedule tags are intended to annotate the definition and can be used to search and filter in the UI. They will not be attached to run requests emitted from the schedule if a custom execution_fn is provided. If no custom execution_fn is provided, then for back-compatibility the tags will also be automatically attached to run requests emitted from the schedule.
  • SensorDefinition and all of its variants/decorators now accept a tags parameter. The tags annotate the definition and can be used to search and filter in the UI.
  • Added the dagster definitions validate command to Dagster CLI. This command validates if Dagster definitions are loadable.
  • [dagster-databricks] Databricks Pipes now allow running tasks in existing clusters.

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue where calling build_op_context in a unit test would sometimes raise a TypeError: signal handler must be signal.SIG_IGN, signal.SIG_DFL, or a callable object Exception on process shutdown.
  • [dagster-webserver] Fix an issue where the incorrect sensor/schedule state would appear when using DefaultScheduleStatus.STOPPED / DefaultSensorStatus.STOPPED after performing a reset.

Documentation#

  • [dagster-pipes] Fixed inconsistencies in the k8s pipes example.
  • [dagster-pandas-pyspark] Fixed example in the Spark/Pandas SDA guide.

Dagster Plus#

  • Fixed an issue where users with Launcher permissions for a particular code location were not able to cancel backfills targeting only assets in that code location.
  • Fixed an issue preventing long-running alerts from being sent when there was a quick subsequent run.

1.8.8 (core) / 0.24.8 (libraries)#

New#

  • Added --partition-range option to dagster asset materialize CLI. This option only works for assets with single-run Backfill Policies.
  • Added a new .without() method to AutomationCondition.eager(), AutomationCondition.on_cron(), and AutomationCondition.on_missing() which allows sub-conditions to be removed, e.g. AutomationCondition.eager().without(AutomationCondition.in_latest_time_window()).
  • Added AutomationCondition.on_missing(), which materializes an asset partition as soon as all of its parent partitions are filled in.
  • pyproject.toml can now load multiple Python modules as individual Code Locations. Thanks, @bdart!
  • [ui] If a code location has errors, a button will be shown to view the error on any page in the UI.
  • [dagster-adls2] The ADLS2PickleIOManager now accepts lease_duration configuration. Thanks, @0xfabioo!
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] Added an option to fetch row count metadata after running a Sling sync by calling sling.replicate(...).fetch_row_count().
  • [dagster-fivetran] The dagster-fivetran integration will now automatically pull and attach column schema metadata after each sync.

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue which could cause errors when using AutomationCondition.any_downstream_condition() with downstream AutoMaterializePolicy objects.
  • Fixed an issue where process_config_and_initialize did not properly handle processing nested resource config.
  • [ui] Fixed an issue that would cause some AutomationCondition evaluations to be labeled DepConditionWrapperCondition instead of the key that they were evaluated against.
  • [dagster-webserver] Fixed an issue with code locations appearing in fluctuating incorrect state in deployments with multiple webserver processes.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed an issue where Sling column lineage did not correctly resolve int the Dagster UI.
  • [dagster-k8s] The wait_for_pod check now waits until all pods are available, rather than erroneously returning after the first pod becomes available. Thanks @easontm!

Dagster Plus#

  • Backfill daemon logs are now available in the "Coordinator Logs" tab in a backfill details page.
  • Users without proper code location permissions can no longer edit sensor cursors.

1.8.7 (core) / 0.24.7 (libraries)#

New#

  • The AssetSpec constructor now raises an error if an invalid group name is provided, instead of an error being raised when constructing the Definitions object.
  • dagster/relation_identifier metadata is now automatically attached to assets which are stored using a DbIOManager.
  • [ui] Streamlined the code location list view.
  • [ui] The “group by” selection on the Timeline Overview page is now part of the query parameters, meaning it will be retained when linked to directly or when navigating between pages.
  • [dagster-dbt] When instantiating DbtCliResource, the project_dir argument will now override the DBT_PROJECT_DIR environment variable if it exists in the local environment (thanks, @marijncv!).
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] dlt assets now generate rows_loaded metadata (thanks, @kristianandre!).
  • Added support for pydantic version 1.9.0.

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed a bug where setting asset_selection=[] on RunRequest objects yielded from sensors using asset_selection would select all assets instead of none.
  • Fixed bug where the tick status filter for batch-fetched graphql sensors was not being respected.
  • [examples] Fixed missing assets in assets_dbt_python example.
  • [dagster-airbyte] Updated the op names generated for Airbyte assets to include the full connection ID, avoiding name collisions.
  • [dagster-dbt] Fixed issue causing dagster-dbt to be unable to load dbt projects where the adapter did not have a database field set (thanks, @dargmuesli!)
  • [dagster-dbt] Removed a warning about not being able to load the dbt.adapters.duckdb module when loading dbt assets without that package installed.

Documentation#

  • Fixed typo on the automation concepts page (thanks, @oedokumaci!)

Dagster Plus#

  • You may now wipe specific asset partitions directly from the execution context in user code by calling DagsterInstance.wipe_asset_partitions.
  • Dagster+ users with a "Viewer" role can now create private catalog views.
  • Fixed an issue where the default IOManager used by Dagster+ Serverless did not respect setting allow_missing_partitions as metadata on a downstream asset.

1.8.6 (core) / 0.24.6 (libraries)#

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue where runs in Dagster+ Serverless that materialized partitioned assets would sometimes fail with an object has no attribute '_base_path' error.
  • [dagster-graphql] Fixed an issue where the statuses filter argument to the sensorsOrError GraphQL field was sometimes ignored when querying GraphQL for multiple sensors at the same time.

1.8.5 (core) / 0.24.5 (libraries)#

New#

  • Updated multi-asset sensor definition to be less likely to timeout queries against the asset history storage.
  • Consolidated the CapturedLogManager and ComputeLogManager APIs into a single base class.
  • [ui] Added an option under user settings to clear client side indexeddb caches as an escape hatch for caching related bugs.
  • [dagster-aws, dagster-pipes] Added a new PipesECSClient to allow Dagster to interface with ECS tasks.
  • [dagster-dbt] Increased the default timeout when terminating a run that is running a dbt subprocess to wait 25 seconds for the subprocess to cleanly terminate. Previously, it would only wait 2 seconds.
  • [dagster-sdf] Increased the default timeout when terminating a run that is running an sdf subprocess to wait 25 seconds for the subprocess to cleanly terminate. Previously, it would only wait 2 seconds.
  • [dagster-sdf] Added support for caching and asset selection (Thanks, akbog!)
  • [dagster-dlt] Added support for AutomationCondition using DagsterDltTranslator.get_automation_condition() (Thanks, aksestok!)
  • [dagster-k8s] Added support for setting dagsterDaemon.runRetries.retryOnAssetOrOpFailure to False in the Dagster Helm chart to prevent op retries and run retries from simultaneously firing on the same failure.
  • [dagster-wandb] Removed usage of deprecated recursive parameter (Thanks, chrishiste!)

Bugfixes#

  • [ui] Fixed a bug where in-progress runs from a backfill could not be terminated from the backfill UI.
  • [ui] Fixed a bug that caused an "Asset must be part of at least one job" error when clicking on an external asset in the asset graph UI
  • Fixed an issue where viewing run logs with the latest 5.0 release of the watchdog package raised an exception.
  • [ui] Fixed issue causing the “filter to group” action in the lineage graph to have no effect.
  • [ui] Fixed case sensitivity when searching for partitions in the launchpad.
  • [ui] Fixed a bug which would redirect to the events tab for an asset if you loaded the partitions tab directly.
  • [ui] Fixed issue causing runs to get skipped when paging through the runs list (Thanks, @HynekBlaha!)
  • [ui] Fixed a bug where the asset catalog list view for a particular group would show all assets.
  • [dagster-dbt] fix bug where empty newlines in raw dbt logs were not being handled correctly.
  • [dagster-k8s, dagster-celery-k8s] Correctly set dagster/image label when image is provided from user_defined_k8s_config. (Thanks, @HynekBlaha!)
  • [dagster-duckdb] Fixed an issue for DuckDB versions older than 1.0.0 where an unsupported configuration option, custom_user_agent, was provided by default
  • [dagster-k8s] Fixed an issue where Kubernetes Pipes failed to create a pod if the op name contained capital or non-alphanumeric containers.
  • [dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed an issue where dbt assets downstream of Sling were skipped

Deprecations#

  • [dagser-aws]: Direct AWS API arguments in PipesGlueClient.run have been deprecated and will be removed in 1.9.0. The new params argument should be used instead.

Dagster Plus#

  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when loading the launchpad for a partition, when using Dagster+ with an agent with version below 1.8.2.
  • Fixed an issue where terminating a Dagster+ Serverless run wouldn’t forward the termination signal to the job to allow it to cleanly terminate.

1.8.4 (core) / 0.24.4 (libraries)#

Bugfixes#

  • Fixed an issue where viewing run logs with the latest 5.0 release of the watchdog package raised an exception.
  • Fixed a bug that caused an "Asset must be part of at least one job" error when clicking on an external asset in the asset graph UI

Dagster Plus#

  • The default io_manager on Serverless now supports the allow_missing_partitions configuration option.
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when loading the launchpad for a partition, when using in Dagster+ with an agent with version below 1.8.2

1.8.3 (core) / 0.24.3 (libraries) (YANKED - This version of Dagster resulted in errors when trying to launch runs that target individual asset partitions)#

New#

  • When different assets within a code location have different PartitionsDefinitions, there will no longer be an implicit asset job __ASSET_JOB_... for each PartitionsDefinition; there will just be one with all the assets. This reduces the time it takes to load code locations with assets with many different PartitionsDefinitions.

1.8.2 (core) / 0.24.2 (libraries)#

New#

  • [ui] Improved performance of the Automation history view for partitioned assets
  • [ui] You can now delete dynamic partitions for an asset from the ui
  • [dagster-sdf] Added support for quoted table identifiers (Thanks, @akbog!)
  • [dagster-openai] Add additional configuration options for the OpenAIResource (Thanks, @chasleslr!)
  • [dagster-fivetran] Fivetran assets now have relation identifier metadata.

Bugfixes#

  • [ui] Fixed a collection of broken links pointing to renamed Declarative Automation pages.
  • [dagster-dbt] Fixed issue preventing usage of MultiPartitionMapping with @dbt_assets (Thanks, @arookieds!)
  • [dagster-azure] Fixed issue that would cause an error when configuring an AzureBlobComputeLogManager without a secret_key (Thanks, @ion-elgreco and @HynekBlaha!)

Documentation#

  • Added API docs for AutomationCondition and associated static constructors.
  • [dagster-deltalake] Corrected some typos in the integration reference (Thanks, @dargmuesli!)
  • [dagster-aws] Added API docs for the new PipesCloudWatchMessageReader

0.7.2#

Docs

  • New docs site at docs.dagster.io.
  • dagster.readthedocs.io is currently stale due to availability issues.

New

  • Improvements to S3 Resource. (Thanks @dwallace0723!)
  • Better error messages in Dagit.
  • Better font/styling support in Dagit.
  • Changed OutputDefinition to take is_required rather than is_optional argument. This is to remain consistent with changes to Field in 0.7.1 and to avoid confusion with python's typing and dagster's definition of Optional, which indicates None-ability, rather than existence. is_optional is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
  • Added support for Flower in dagster-k8s.
  • Added support for environment variable config in dagster-snowflake.

Bugfixes

  • Improved performance in Dagit waterfall view.
  • Fixed bug when executing solids downstream of a skipped solid.
  • Improved navigation experience for pipelines in Dagit.
  • Fixed for the dagster-aws CLI tool.
  • Fixed issue starting Dagit without DAGSTER_HOME set on windows.
  • Fixed pipeline subset execution in partition-based schedules.

0.7.1#

Dagit

  • Dagit now looks up an available port on which to run when the default port is not available. (Thanks @rparrapy!)

dagster_pandas

  • Hydration and materialization are now configurable on dagster_pandas dataframes.

dagster_aws

  • The s3_resource no longer uses an unsigned session by default.

Bugfixes

  • Type check messages are now displayed in Dagit.
  • Failure metadata is now surfaced in Dagit.
  • Dagit now correctly displays the execution time of steps that error.
  • Error messages now appear correctly in console logging.
  • GCS storage is now more robust to transient failures.
  • Fixed an issue where some event logs could be duplicated in Dagit.
  • Fixed an issue when reading config from an environment variable that wasn't set.
  • Fixed an issue when loading a repository or pipeline from a file target on Windows.
  • Fixed an issue where deleted runs could cause the scheduler page to crash in Dagit.

Documentation

  • Expanded and improved docs and error messages.

0.7.0 "Waiting to Exhale"#

Breaking Changes

There are a substantial number of breaking changes in the 0.7.0 release. Please see 070_MIGRATION.md for instructions regarding migrating old code.

Scheduler

  • The scheduler configuration has been moved from the @schedules decorator to DagsterInstance. Existing schedules that have been running are no longer compatible with current storage. To migrate, remove the scheduler argument on all @schedules decorators:

    instead of:

    @schedules(scheduler=SystemCronScheduler)
    def define_schedules():
      ...
    

    Remove the scheduler argument:

    @schedules
    def define_schedules():
      ...
    

    Next, configure the scheduler on your instance by adding the following to $DAGSTER_HOME/dagster.yaml:

    scheduler:
      module: dagster_cron.cron_scheduler
      class: SystemCronScheduler
    

    Finally, if you had any existing schedules running, delete the existing $DAGSTER_HOME/schedules directory and run dagster schedule wipe && dagster schedule up to re-instatiate schedules in a valid state.

  • The should_execute and environment_dict_fn argument to ScheduleDefinition now have a required first argument context, representing the ScheduleExecutionContext

Config System Changes

  • In the config system, Dict has been renamed to Shape; List to Array; Optional to Noneable; and PermissiveDict to Permissive. The motivation here is to clearly delineate config use cases versus cases where you are using types as the inputs and outputs of solids as well as python typing types (for mypy and friends). We believe this will be clearer to users in addition to simplifying our own implementation and internal abstractions.

    Our recommended fix is not to use Shape and Array, but instead to use our new condensed config specification API. This allow one to use bare dictionaries instead of Shape, lists with one member instead of Array, bare types instead of Field with a single argument, and python primitive types (int, bool etc) instead of the dagster equivalents. These result in dramatically less verbose config specs in most cases.

    So instead of

    from dagster import Shape, Field, Int, Array, String
    # ... code
    config=Shape({ # Dict prior to change
          'some_int' : Field(Int),
          'some_list: Field(Array[String]) # List prior to change
      })
    

    one can instead write:

    config={'some_int': int, 'some_list': [str]}
    

    No imports and much simpler, cleaner syntax.

  • config_field is no longer a valid argument on solid, SolidDefinition, ExecutorDefintion, executor, LoggerDefinition, logger, ResourceDefinition, resource, system_storage, and SystemStorageDefinition. Use config instead.

  • For composite solids, the config_fn no longer takes a ConfigMappingContext, and the context has been deleted. To upgrade, remove the first argument to config_fn.

    So instead of

    @composite_solid(config={}, config_fn=lambda context, config: {})
    

    one must instead write:

    @composite_solid(config={}, config_fn=lambda config: {})
    
  • Field takes a is_required rather than a is_optional argument. This is to avoid confusion with python's typing and dagster's definition of Optional, which indicates None-ability, rather than existence. is_optional is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

Required Resources

  • All solids, types, and config functions that use a resource must explicitly list that resource using the argument required_resource_keys. This is to enable efficient resource management during pipeline execution, especially in a multiprocessing or remote execution environment.

  • The @system_storage decorator now requires argument required_resource_keys, which was previously optional.

Dagster Type System Changes

  • dagster.Set and dagster.Tuple can no longer be used within the config system.
  • Dagster types are now instances of DagsterType, rather than a class than inherits from RuntimeType. Instead of dynamically generating a class to create a custom runtime type, just create an instance of a DagsterType. The type checking function is now an argument to the DagsterType, rather than an abstract method that has to be implemented in a subclass.
  • RuntimeType has been renamed to DagsterType is now an encouraged API for type creation.
  • Core type check function of DagsterType can now return a naked bool in addition to a TypeCheck object.
  • type_check_fn on DagsterType (formerly type_check and RuntimeType, respectively) now takes a first argument context of type TypeCheckContext in addition to the second argument of value.
  • define_python_dagster_type has been eliminated in favor of PythonObjectDagsterType .
  • dagster_type has been renamed to usable_as_dagster_type.
  • as_dagster_type has been removed and similar capabilities added as make_python_type_usable_as_dagster_type.
  • PythonObjectDagsterType and usable_as_dagster_type no longer take a type_check argument. If a custom type_check is needed, use DagsterType.
  • As a consequence of these changes, if you were previously using dagster_pyspark or dagster_pandas and expecting Pyspark or Pandas types to work as Dagster types, e.g., in type annotations to functions decorated with @solid to indicate that they are input or output types for a solid, you will need to call make_python_type_usable_as_dagster_type from your code in order to map the Python types to the Dagster types, or just use the Dagster types (dagster_pandas.DataFrame instead of pandas.DataFrame) directly.

Other

  • We no longer publish base Docker images. Please see the updated deployment docs for an example Dockerfile off of which you can work.
  • step_metadata_fn has been removed from SolidDefinition & @solid.
  • SolidDefinition & @solid now takes tags and enforces that values are strings or are safely encoded as JSON. metadata is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
  • resource_mapper_fn has been removed from SolidInvocation.

New

  • Dagit now includes a much richer execution view, with a Gantt-style visualization of step execution and a live timeline.

  • Early support for Python 3.8 is now available, and Dagster/Dagit along with many of our libraries are now tested against 3.8. Note that several of our upstream dependencies have yet to publish wheels for 3.8 on all platforms, so running on Python 3.8 likely still involves building some dependencies from source.

  • dagster/priority tags can now be used to prioritize the order of execution for the built-in in-process and multiprocess engines.

  • dagster-postgres storages can now be configured with separate arguments and environment variables, such as:

    run_storage:
      module: dagster_postgres.run_storage
      class: PostgresRunStorage
      config:
        postgres_db:
          username: test
          password:
            env: ENV_VAR_FOR_PG_PASSWORD
          hostname: localhost
          db_name: test
    
  • Support for RunLaunchers on DagsterInstance allows for execution to be "launched" outside of the Dagit/Dagster process. As one example, this is used by dagster-k8s to submit pipeline execution as a Kubernetes Job.

  • Added support for adding tags to runs initiated from the Playground view in Dagit.

  • Added @monthly_schedule decorator.

  • Added Enum.from_python_enum helper to wrap Python enums for config. (Thanks @kdungs!)

  • [dagster-bash] The Dagster bash solid factory now passes along kwargs to the underlying solid construction, and now has a single Nothing input by default to make it easier to create a sequencing dependency. Also, logs are now buffered by default to make execution less noisy.

  • [dagster-aws] We've improved our EMR support substantially in this release. The dagster_aws.emr library now provides an EmrJobRunner with various utilities for creating EMR clusters, submitting jobs, and waiting for jobs/logs. We also now provide a emr_pyspark_resource, which together with the new @pyspark_solid decorator makes moving pyspark execution from your laptop to EMR as simple as changing modes. [dagster-pandas] Added create_dagster_pandas_dataframe_type, PandasColumn, and Constraint API's in order for users to create custom types which perform column validation, dataframe validation, summary statistics emission, and dataframe serialization/deserialization.

  • [dagster-gcp] GCS is now supported for system storage, as well as being supported with the Dask executor. (Thanks @habibutsu!) Bigquery solids have also been updated to support the new API.

Bugfix

  • Ensured that all implementations of RunStorage clean up pipeline run tags when a run is deleted. Requires a storage migration, using dagster instance migrate.
  • The multiprocess and Celery engines now handle solid subsets correctly.
  • The multiprocess and Celery engines will now correctly emit skip events for steps downstream of failures and other skips.
  • The @solid and @lambda_solid decorators now correctly wrap their decorated functions, in the sense of functools.wraps.
  • Performance improvements in Dagit when working with runs with large configurations.
  • The Helm chart in dagster_k8s has been hardened against various failure modes and is now compatible with Helm 2.
  • SQLite run and event log storages are more robust to concurrent use.
  • Improvements to error messages and to handling of user code errors in input hydration and output materialization logic.
  • Fixed an issue where the Airflow scheduler could hang when attempting to load dagster-airflow pipelines.
  • We now handle our SQLAlchemy connections in a more canonical way (thanks @zzztimbo!).
  • Fixed an issue using S3 system storage with certain custom serialization strategies.
  • Fixed an issue leaking orphan processes from compute logging.
  • Fixed an issue leaking semaphores from Dagit.
  • Setting the raise_error flag in execute_pipeline now actually raises user exceptions instead of a wrapper type.

Documentation

  • Our docs have been reorganized and expanded (thanks @habibutsu, @vatervonacht, @zzztimbo). We'd love feedback and contributions!

Thank you Thank you to all of the community contributors to this release!! In alphabetical order: @habibutsu, @kdungs, @vatervonacht, @zzztimbo.

0.6.9#

Bugfix

  • Improved SQLite concurrency issues, uncovered while using concurrent nodes in Airflow
  • Fixed sqlalchemy warnings (thanks @zzztimbo!)
  • Fixed Airflow integration issue where a Dagster child process triggered a signal handler of a parent Airflow process via a process fork
  • Fixed GCS and AWS intermediate store implementations to be compatible with read/write mode serialization strategies
  • Improve test stability

Documentation

  • Improved descriptions for setting up the cron scheduler (thanks @zzztimbo!)

0.6.8#

New

  • Added the dagster-github library, a community contribution from @Ramshackle-Jamathon and @k-mahoney!

dagster-celery

  • Simplified and improved config handling.
  • An engine event is now emitted when the engine fails to connect to a broker.

Bugfix

  • Fixes a file descriptor leak when running many concurrent dagster-graphql queries (e.g., for backfill).
  • The @pyspark_solid decorator now handles inputs correctly.
  • The handling of solid compute functions that accept kwargs but which are decorated with explicit input definitions has been rationalized.
  • Fixed race conditions in concurrent execution using SQLite event log storage with concurrent execution, uncovered by upstream improvements in the Python inotify library we use.

Documentation

  • Improved error messages when using system storages that don't fulfill executor requirements.