Accelerated Data Science 2.8.2 is released
- Services: Data Science
 - Release Date: March 02, 2023
 
The following changes were made in ADS 2.8.2:
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Removed support for Python 3.7.
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Improved the
DataScienceMode.create()to support the timeout argument and automatically extract the region from the signer and signer configuration. - 
Support Jupyter Notebook as
entrypointwhen defining Data Science jobs withPythonRuntimeandGitPythonRuntime. - 
Support environment variable substitution in Data Science job names and output URI.
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Support JSON serialization of list and dictionary when assigning them as Data Science jobs environment variables.
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Support saving the notebook to output URI even if the job run failed when running a Data Science job using
NotebookRuntime. - 
Added
job.build()method to Data Science job to load default values from the environment. - 
Added
DataScienceJob.fast_launch_shapes()method to list fast launch shapes available for Data Science job. - 
Added the
HuggingFacePipelineModelclass to support prepare, save, deploy, and predict for Hugging Face pipelines. - 
Updated Data Science job run YAML representation to include configurations inherited from the job.
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Fixed custom conda environment not showing in Data Science Job YAML specification.
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Fixed an issue where model saving was failing in notebook sessions when
ipywidgetsisn't installed. - 
Fixed “Unknown archive format” error in
ads.jobs.PythonRuntime, when the source code folder name ends withzip. The supported archive files arezip,tar.gz,tar,andtgz. 
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