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Upgrading wandb 0.19 to 0.20

Breaking0.19.11 → 0.20.1Breaking7Deprecated2New11Changed2Fixed9Other1

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7 breaking changes.

In plain terms
  • You can no longer turn off the background service process that wandb runs.
  • The settings and environment variables used to turn off the service process now raise an error if used.
  • wandb.docker is no longer available just by importing wandb and is not a public interface.
  • The unused sync argument on Run.log has been removed.
Must act Top 5 of 9 that need code or config changes

Adds packaging.

Drops docker-pycreds, setuptools.

Installs 21 packages in all (was 23).

What you must change

Breaking7
Removes the ability to disable the service process.
service
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes support for disabling the service process; the x_disable_service/_disable_service setting and related env vars now raise an error.
x_disable_service_disable_serviceWANDB_DISABLE_SERVICEWANDB_X_DISABLE_SERVICE
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the ability to use wandb.docker after only importing wandb.
wandb.docker
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the no-op sync argument from wandb.Run::log.
wandb.Run::logsync
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the deprecated wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run.mode property.
wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run.mode
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the deprecated wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run::join method.
wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run::join
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run::save now requires the glob_str argument.
wandb.sdk.wandb_run.Run::saveglob_str
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source

Deprecations to plan for

Deprecated2
Deprecates the start_method setting, which now has no effect and is safely ignored.
start_method
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Deprecates the Artifact.use_as property and the use_as parameter for run.use_artifact().
Artifact.use_asrun.use_artifact()use_as
0.20.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source