1.0.0rc3 (2020-08-17)

Features

• Extended Override grammar supports range(),glob(),type casts,shuffle, sort and more. (#752)
• Add support for specifying an additional config dir in the command line (#874)
• Allow overriding of the defaults and hydra nodes in primary Structured Configs that does not mentioned defaults and hydra. (#877)

API Change (Renames, deprecations and removals)

• ObjectConf is deprecated for TargetConf. See upgrade page. (#882)
• All plugins updated to use TargetConf. Be sure to update all your Hydra plugins (#882)
• Instantiated objects no longer have a params node in the conf. keys like hydra.launcher.params.foo are changed to hydra.launcher.foo. Update your configs and overrides if you were overriding such parameters. (#882)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed parsing of two nested lists with whitespace between them: [[a], [b]] (#836)

Improved Documentation

• New Extended command line syntax page (#752)

1.0.0rc2 (2020-07-18)

Features

• Introducing a DSL for the command line override syntax (#797)
• Sanitize exception messages by default, showing only interesting stack frames (#646)
• Add a new --info flag to show Hydra debug information without running the user function. (#662)
• Add --package flag, can be used with --cfg to print a specific config package (#674)
• Improve the Compose API initialization methods (#702)
• Switch internal package resource loader from pkg_resources to importlb_resources (#719)
• Allow interpolation in the Hydra config node to access the application config (#771)
• Hydra provides pytest fixtures (hydra_sweep_runner, hydra_task_runner, hydra_restore_singletons) (#687)
• Added contexts to help initialize Hydra in a localized context (Mostly for Unit Tests and Jupyter Notebooks) (#687)
• Prints error when command line override looks like a sweep but --multirun is not specified (#712)
• Frozen Structured Configs are respected during composition command line overrides (#724)

API Change (Renames, deprecations and removals)

• Hydra argparse flags are now consistently using dash-style. (#661)
• Restructure the configuration of the Submitit launcher (#682)
• Deprecated cls in favor of target in hydra.utils.{instantiate()/call{}} (#721)

Bug Fixes

• Add hydra/py.typed to pip package to enable type checking in downstream projects (#657)
• Fix initilzation of Hydra in a module imported from a Jupyter Notebook (#695)
• Fix handling of main module override via HYDRA_MAIN_MODULE (#717)
• Fix interpoaltions in overrides to evaluate lazily (#725)
• Fixed handling of multirun when target config node is introduced by composition (#726)
• Sweepers are now validating config composition before launching (#775)
• Save .hydra/*.yaml before task execution (#678)

Plugins

• Add Redis Queue Launcher plugin (Jan-Matthis)
• Upgrade ax-platform used by Ax sweeper plugin to 0.1.13 or newer

Improved Documentation

• Add a unit testing example in the Hydra example application (#687)
• New Terminology page (#795)
• New Advanced/Hydra in Jupyter Notebooks page (#795)
• New Advanced/Hydra in Unit Tests page (#795)
• New Advanced/Command-line syntax page (#795)

Maintenance Changes

• Integrate yamllint (#693)
• Upgrade to OmegaConf 2.0.1rc11 which solves multiple bugs (#755)