Staging to main: Prepare for release

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # See https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
 # for more info about CODEOWNERS file
 
-*           @miguelgfierro @gramhagen @anargyri @loomlike @wutaomsft @simonyansenzhao
+*           @miguelgfierro @gramhagen @anargyri @loomlike @wav8k @simonyansenzhao
 

.github/workflows/azureml-cpu-nightly.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   get-test-groups:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ jobs:
   execute-tests:
     needs: get-test-groups
     name: ${{ join(matrix.*, ', ') }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 120 
     permissions:
       id-token: write # This is required for requesting the JWT
     strategy:

.github/workflows/azureml-gpu-nightly.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   get-test-groups:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ jobs:
   execute-tests:
     needs: get-test-groups
     name: ${{ join(matrix.*, ', ') }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 120 
     permissions:
       id-token: write # This is required for requesting the JWT
     strategy:

.github/workflows/azureml-release-pipeline.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
     secrets: inherit
 
   create-release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     needs: [unit-test-workflow, cpu-nightly-workflow, gpu-nightly-workflow, spark-nightly-workflow]
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository code

.github/workflows/azureml-spark-nightly.yml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   get-test-groups:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ jobs:
   execute-tests:
     needs: get-test-groups
     name: ${{ join(matrix.*, ', ') }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 120 
     permissions:
       id-token: write # This is required for requesting the JWT
     strategy:

.github/workflows/azureml-unit-tests.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ on:
       - tests/**
       - '!tests/**/*.md'
       - setup.py
+      - .github/**
     types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review]
 
   # Enable manual trigger
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   get-test-groups:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -52,7 +53,8 @@ jobs:
   execute-tests:
     needs: get-test-groups
     name: ${{ join(matrix.*, ', ') }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 120 
     permissions:
       id-token: write # This is required for requesting the JWT
     strategy:

.github/workflows/sarplus.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #   * GitHub Actions workflow templates
 #       + [python package](https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/main/ci/python-package.yml)
 #       + [scala](https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/main/ci/scala.yml)
-#   * [GitHub hosted runner - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-README.md)
+#   * [GitHub hosted runner - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/ubuntu/Ubuntu2404-Readme.md)
 #   * [Azure Databricks runtime releases](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/release-notes/runtime/releases)
 #   * [Azure Synapse Analytics runtimes](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/spark/apache-spark-version-support)
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
     # Test pysarplus with different versions of Python.
     # Package pysarplus and upload as GitHub workflow artifact when merged into
     # the main branch.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -U build cibuildwheel pip twine
           python -m pip install -U flake8 pytest pytest-cov scikit-learn
 
+          # Install sbt
+          # See https://github.com/yokra9/akka-http-example/pull/119/files
+          echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list
+          echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt_old.list
+          curl -sL "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2EE0EA64E40A89B84B2DF73499E82A75642AC823" | sudo apt-key add
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install sbt
+
       - name: Lint with flake8
         run: |
           cd "${PYTHON_ROOT}"
@@ -133,6 +141,15 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
+      - name: Install sbt
+        run: |
+          # See https://github.com/yokra9/akka-http-example/pull/119/files
+          echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list
+          echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt_old.list
+          curl -sL "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2EE0EA64E40A89B84B2DF73499E82A75642AC823" | sudo apt-key add
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install sbt
+
       - name: Test
         run: |
           cd "${SCALA_ROOT}"

.github/workflows/update_documentation.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository

AUTHORS.md

@@ -32,14 +32,13 @@ They have admin access to the repo and provide support reviewing issues and pull
 * **[Miguel González-Fierro](https://github.com/miguelfierro)**
    * Recommendation algorithms review, development and optimization.
    * Reco utils review, development and optimization.
-   * Github statistics.
    * Continuous integration build / test setup.
 * **[Scott Graham](https://github.com/gramhagen)**
    * Improving documentation
    * VW notebook
 * **[Simon Zhao](https://github.com/simonyansenzhao)**
    * SARplus algorithm upgrade
-* **[Tao Wu](https://github.com/wutaomsft)**
+* **[Tao Wu](https://github.com/wav8k)**
    * Improving documentation
 
 

NEWS.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 # What's New
 
+## Update December 23, 2024
+
+We have a new release [Recommenders 1.2.1](https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/releases/tag/1.2.1)!
+
+We fixed a lot of bugs due to dependencies, improved security, reviewed the notebooks and the libraries.
+
 ## Update May 2, 2024
 
 We have a new release [Recommenders 1.2.0](https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/releases/tag/1.2.0)!

README.md

@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 <br>
 
-## What's New (May, 2024)
+## What's New (Dec, 2024)
 
-We have a new release [Recommenders 1.2.0](https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/releases/tag/1.2.0)!
+We have a new release [Recommenders 1.2.1](https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/releases/tag/1.2.1)!
 
-So many changes since our last release. We have full tests on Python 3.8 to 3.11 (around 1800 tests), upgraded performance in many algorithms, reviewed notebooks, and many more improvements.
+We fixed a lot of bugs due to dependencies, improved security, reviewed the notebooks and the libraries.
 
 ## Introduction
 

recommenders/__init__.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 __title__ = "Recommenders"
-__version__ = "1.2.0"
+__version__ = "1.2.1"
 __author__ = "Recommenders contributors"
 __license__ = "MIT"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2018-present Recommenders contributors."