v0.29.0

[chukarsten]

v0.29.0 Jul. 21, 2021

Enhancements

• Updated 1-way partial dependence support for datetime features Datetime support for 1-way Partial Dependence #2454
• Added details on how to fix error caused by broken ww schema Provide details on how to fix error when ww schema is broken #2466
• Added ability to use built-in pickle for saving AutoMLSearch Add ability to use built-in pickle for saving AutoMLSearch #2463
• Updated our components and component graphs to use latest features of ww 0.4.1, e.g. concat_columns and drop in-place. Use latest ww features #2465
• Added new, concurrent.futures based engine for parallel AutoML Karstengine #2506
• Added support for new Woodwork Unknown type in AutoMLSearch Allow AutoMLSearch to handle Unknown type #2477
• Updated our components with an attribute that describes if they modify features or targets and can be used in list API for pipeline initialization Update make_pipelines for AutoML to create component dictionaries, not lists, to initialize pipelines #2504
• Updated ComponentGraph to accept X and y as inputs Update ComponentGraph to accept X and y as inputs #2507
• Removed unused TARGET_BINARY_INVALID_VALUES from DataCheckMessageCode enum and fixed formatting of objective documentation Remove unused TARGET_BINARY_INVALID_VALUES from DataCheckMessageCode enum, fix formatting of objective docs #2520

Fixes

• Fixed FraudCost objective and reverted threshold optimization method for binary classification to Golden Fix Fraud Cost #2450
• Added custom exception message for partial dependence on features with scales that are too small Partial Dependence Scale Error #2455
• Ensures the typing for Ordinal and Datetime ltypes are passed through _retain_custom_types_and_initalize_woodwork Quick fix to retain typing #2461
• Updated to work with Pandas 1.3.0 Pandas 1.3.0 Upgrade #2442
• Updated to work with sktime 0.7.0 Small update for sktime 0.6.2 -> 0.7.0 #2499

Changes

• Updated XGBoost dependency to >=1.4.2 Upgrade XGBoost to >=1.4.0 #2484, Upgrade XGBoost requirement to >=1.4.2 #2498
• Added a DeprecationWarning about deprecating the list API for ComponentGraph Add a DeprecationWarning about deprecating the list API for ComponentGraphs #2488
• Updated make_pipeline for AutoML to create dictionaries, not lists, to initialize pipelines Update make_pipelines for AutoML to create component dictionaries, not lists, to initialize pipelines #2504
• No longer installing graphviz on windows in our CI pipelines because release 0.17 breaks windows 3.7 Fix the windows 3.7 nightlies #2516

Documentation Changes

• Moved docstrings from __init__ to class pages, added missing docstrings for missing classes, and updated missing default values Moves __init__ docstrings to class docstrings and removes __init__ from docs, add missing docstrings, and general cleanup #2452
• Build documentation with sphinx-autoapi Use sphinx-autoapi to generate api reference #2458
• Change autoapi_ignore to only ignore files in evalml/tests/* Change autoapi_ignore to fix rtd #2530

Testing Changes

• Fixed flaky dask tests Fix dask flaky tests #2471
• Removed shellcheck action from build_conda_pkg action Remove shellcheck from build_conda_pkg #2514
• Added a tmp_dir fixture that deletes its contents after tests run Clean up files written to tmpdir during tests #2505
• Added a test that makes sure all pipelines in AutoMLSearch get the same data splits Test that all pipelines get the same data splits #2513
• Condensed warning output in test logs Condense log statements in build_conda_pkg #2521

Breaking Changes

• NaN values in the Natural Language type are no longer supported by the Imputer with the pandas upgrade. Allow AutoMLSearch to handle Unknown type #2477

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Codecov Report

Merging #2536 (269c713) into main (26db19b) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.0%.

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[freddyaboulton]

Thank you @chukarsten ! The performance tests look good to me!