Release 0.18.2

[AhdraMeraliQB]

Description

Release 0.18.2

Major features and improvements

• Added abfss to list of cloud protocols, enabling abfss paths.
• Kedro now uses the Rich library to format terminal logs and tracebacks.
• The file conf/base/logging.yml is now optional. See our documentation for details.
• Introduced a kedro.starters entry point. This enables plugins to create custom starter aliases used by kedro starter list and kedro new.
• Reduced the kedro new prompts to just one question asking for the project name.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Bumped pyyaml upper bound to make Kedro compatible with the pyodide stack.
• Updated project template's Sphinx configuration to use myst_parser instead of recommonmark.
• Reduced number of log lines by changing the logging level from INFO to DEBUG for low priority messages.
• Kedro's framework-side logging configuration no longer performs file-based logging. Hence superfluous info.log/errors.log files are no longer created in your project root, and running Kedro on read-only file systems such as Databricks Repos is now possible.
• The root logger is now set to the Python default level of WARNING rather than INFO. Kedro's logger is still set to emit INFO level messages.
• SequentialRunner now has consistent execution order across multiple runs with sorted nodes.
• Bumped the upper bound for the Flake8 dependency to <5.0.
• kedro jupyter notebook/lab no longer reuses a Jupyter kernel.
• Required cookiecutter>=2.1.1 to address a known command injection vulnerability.
• The session store no longer fails if a username cannot be found with getpass.getuser.
• Added generic typing for AbstractDataSet and AbstractVersionedDataSet as well as typing to all datasets.
• Rendered the deployment guide flowchart as a Mermaid diagram, and added Dask.

Minor breaking changes to the API

• The module kedro.config.default_logger no longer exists; default logging configuration is now set automatically through kedro.framework.project.LOGGING. Unless you explicitly import kedro.config.default_logger you do not need to make any changes.

Upcoming deprecations for Kedro 0.19.0

• kedro.extras.ColorHandler will be removed in 0.19.0.

Checklist

• Read the contributing guidelines
• Opened this PR as a 'Draft Pull Request' if it is work-in-progress
• Updated the documentation to reflect the code changes
• Added a description of this change in the RELEASE.md file
• Added tests to cover my changes

[antonymilne]

Suggested change

	After that you can use this starter with `kedro new --starter=test_plugin_starter --checkout=main`.
	After that you can use this starter with `kedro new --starter=test_plugin_starter`.
	```{note}
	If your starter lives on a git repository, by default Kedro attempts to use a tag or branch labelled with your version of Kedro, e.g. `0.18.2.`. This means that you can host different versions of your starter template on the same repository, and the correct one will automatically be used. If you do not wish to follow this structure, you should override it with the `checkout` flag, e.g. `kedro new --starter=test_plugin_starter --checkout=main`.
	```

@noklam I think this is clearer?

I've actually always thought (and I think @Galileo-Galilei agrees) that we should change this behaviour since in reality no one maintains a starters repo which they keep up to date with every single version of the kedro template.

• by default don't try and checkout the kedro version unless it's an official starter (cookiecutter will by default look for the right main/master branch if you don't specify checkout)
• and/or enable people to specify checkout in their KedroStarterSpec

But that's a discussion for another time.

[antonymilne]

I think we should do the change from kedro==0.18.2 to kedro~=0.18.2 in this PR as well. Also @noklam was planning to alter the test starter plugin e2e test a bit - please can you wait for that?

Edit: actually the e2e test isn't urgent tbh... I just thought it would be easiest to stick it in this PR also given the e2e test change is already here.

[merelcht]

Only joking of course 😉 Looks good to me!

[noklam]

[SajidAlamQB]

🎉