Feast v0.17.0

Overview

Today, we released Feast 0.17, which includes:

• an initial cut at feast plan (See RFC-030)
• many optimizations for materialization / feature serving in both python + java feature servers, especially with Redis as an online store.
• a simplified Java server (without Spring Boot boilerplate)
• a helm chart for deploying the python feature server (as an alternative to deploying in AWS Lambda)
• other bug fixes, including type conversion bugs and log4j patches

✨ New Features:

• Add feast-python-server helm chart #2177 (michelle-rascati-sp)
• Add a feast plan command, and have CLI output differentiates between created, deleted and unchanged objects #2147 (achals)
• Refactor tag methods to infer created, deleted, and kept repo objects #2142 (achals)
• Pre compute the timestamp range for feature views #2103 (judahrand)

🔴 Fixed bugs:

• Fix issues with java docker building #2178 (achals)
• unpin boto dependency in setup #2168 (fengyu05)
• Fix issue with numpy datetimes in feast_value_type_to_pandas_type #2167 (achals)
• Fix BYTES and BYTES_LIST type conversion #2158 (judahrand)
• Use correct name when deleting dynamo table #2154 (pyalex)
• Bump log4j-core from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 in /java #2146 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump log4j-api from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 in /java #2145 (dependabot[bot])
• Respect full_feature_names for ODFVs #2144 (judahrand)
• Cache dynamodb client and resource in DynamoDB online store implement… #2138 (felixwang9817)
• Bump log4j-api from 2.13.2 to 2.15.0 in /java #2133 (dependabot[bot])
• Fix release workflow to use the new GCP action #2132 (adchia)
• Remove spring-boot from the feast serving application #2127 (achals)
• Fix Makefile to properly create the ECR_VERSION #2123 (adchia)

🔨 Merged pull requests:

• Update roadmap to include Snowflake + Trino. Also fix docs + update FAQ #2175 (adchia)
• Convert python values into proto values in bulk #2172 (pyalex)
• Push docker image after build in GH workflow #2171 (pyalex)
• Improve serialization performance #2165 (judahrand)
• Improve online deserialization latency #2164 (judahrand)
• Add a unit test for the tag_proto_objects method #2163 (achals)
• Bump log4j-core from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0 in /java #2161 (dependabot[bot])
• [Java Feature Server] Use hgetall in redis connector when number of retrieved fields is big enough #2159 (pyalex)
• Do not run benchmarks on pull requests #2155 (felixwang9817)
• Ensure that universal CLI test tears down infrastructure #2151 (felixwang9817)
• Remove underscores from ECR docker versions #2139 (achals)
• Run PR integration tests only on python 3.7 #2137 (achals)
• Bump log4j-core from 2.13.2 to 2.15.0 in /java #2134 (dependabot[bot])
• Updating lambda docker image to feature-server-python-aws #2130 (adchia)
• Fix README to reflect new integration test suites #2124 (adchia)
• Change the feast serve endpoint to be sync rather than async. #2119 (nossrannug)
• Remove argument feature_refs #2115 (judahrand)
• Fix leaking dynamodb tables in integration tests #2104 (pyalex)
• Remove untested and undocumented interfaces #2084 (judahrand)
• Update creating-a-custom-provider.md #2070 (ChaitanyaKN)
• • Add SqliteTable as an InfraObject #2157 (felixwang9817)
• Compute property-level diffs for repo objects #2156 (achals)
• Add DatastoreTable infra object #2140 (felixwang9817)
• Dynamodb infra object #2131 (felixwang9817)
• Add Infra and InfraObjects classes #2125 (felixwang9817)