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MLflow 1.23.0

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MLflow maintainers

We are happy to announce the availability of MLflow 1.23.0!

MLflow 1.23.0 includes several major features and improvements:

Features:

  • [Models] Introduce an mlflow.evaluate() API for evaluating MLflow Models, providing performance and explainability insights. For an overview, see https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/models.html#model-evaluation (#5069, #5092, #5256, @WeichenXu123)
  • [Models] log_model() APIs now return information about the logged MLflow Model, including artifact location, flavors, and schema (#5230, @liangz1)
  • [Models] Introduce an mlflow.models.Model.load_input_example() Python API for loading MLflow Model input examples (#5212, @maitre-matt)
  • [Models] Add a UUID field to the MLflow Model specification. MLflow Models now have a unique identifier (#5149, #5167, @WeichenXu123)
  • [Models] Support passing SciPy CSC and CSR matrices as MLflow Model input examples (#5016, @WeichenXu123)
  • [Model Registry] Support specifying latest in model URI to get the latest version of a model regardless of the stage (#5027, @lichenran1234)
  • [Tracking] Add support for LightGBM scikit-learn models to mlflow.lightgbm.autolog() (#5130, #5200, #5271 @jwyyy)
  • [Tracking] Improve S3 artifact download speed by caching boto clients (#4695, @Samreay)
  • [UI] Automatically update metric plots for in-progress runs (#5017, @cedkoffeto, @harupy)

Bug fixes and documentation updates:

  • [Models] Fix a bug in MLflow Model schema enforcement where strings were incorrectly cast to Pandas objects (#5134, @stevenchen-db)
  • [Models] Fix a bug where keyword arguments passed to mlflow.pytorch.load_model() were not applied for scripted models (#5163, @schmidt-jake)
  • [Model Registry][r] Fix bug in R client mlflow_create_model_version() API that caused model source to be set incorrectly (#5185, @bramrodenburg)
  • [Projects] Fix parsing behavior for Project URIs containing quotes (#5117, @dinaldoap)
  • [Scoring] Use the correct 400-level error code for malformed MLflow Model Server requests (#5003, @abatomunkuev)
  • [Tracking] Fix a bug where mlflow.start_run() modified user-supplied tags dictionary (#5191, @matheusMoreno)
  • [UI] Fix a bug causing redundant scroll bars to be displayed on the Experiment Page (#5159, @sunishsheth2009)

For a comprehensive list of changes, see the release change log, and check out the latest documentation on mlflow.org.