Kedro 0.17.6 is out!

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🚀 🎊  KEDRO RELEASE 🎊 🚀

Kedro 0.17.6 is available on PyPI and Conda. This version of Kedro contains heaps of bugfixes and dataset improvements, including:

✍️ pandas.ExcelDataSet can now save files with multiple sheets
📜 pandas.SQLQuerydataSet can accept the query through a file (via a new filepath argument)
🗑️ PartitionedDataSet and MatplotlibWriter can now delete existing partition/plots on save()
🥒 Added support for arbitrary backends for pickle.PickleDataSet
🗄️ Added 4 new datasets, including:

• pandas.GenericDataSet to read/write any format supported by pandas
• spark.DeltaTableDataSet for handling DeltaLake tables

➕ Added support for sum() syntax for connecting Pipeline objects
⚡ Made some performance optimisations when loading up the catalog
🐛 Fixed some bugs with kedro pipeline package and kedro pipeline pull
🐞 Removed unintentional dependency on git

See the release notes for more info.

💻 Installation

Kedro 0.17.6 is a non-breaking release in the 0.17.x series, upgrade now with:

pip install kedro==0.17.6
conda install -c conda-forge kedro==0.17.6