# Release Notes ## April 14, 2025 - Version 0.22.0 This release includes several new features that allow users to more easily view and diagnose behavioral shifts in their test sessions. Check out [Similarity Index](/v0.25.x/using-distributional/tests/reviewing-tests/what-is-a-similarity-index.md), our way of quantifying drift, and create new tests based on the key insights we surface! ### New Features * Similarity Index: Added initial computation, Likert scale support, history charts, test creation, and UI enhancements. * Metrics System: Introduced metric APIs, creation forms, and computation jobs * UI/UX: * Key Insights and summary detail view improvements * Summary chips, tooltips, sortable tables * Various UI and UX improvements, including column metrics pages and test creation shortcuts * Schema & Typing: * Parametrized type handling in UI * Improved type system: `to_json_value`, nullability, JSON unnesting * Schema unification ### Improvements * Helm & Dependency Management: * Updated helm charts and lock files * Repinned/upgraded Python and JS dependencies (e.g., `alembic`, `ruff`, `identify`) * UI/UX: * Improved Summary Tab and Test Session views * Fixed overlay defaults, sorted metrics table, and chart tooltips * Responsive layout tweaks and consistent styling * General improvements: * Code quality, cleanup (deprecated / legacy code), and improved organization ### Bug Fixes * UI/UX: Fixed navigation issues, loading states, pagination, and flaky links. * Infrastructure: Resolved Helm/chart/tagging issues, GitHub Actions bugs, and sandbox setup problems. * Testing: Addressed test failures and integration test inconsistencies. ### SDK Updates * RunConfig or RunSchema for Runs (defaults to RunSchema on infer) * Integrated metrics into the `RunSchema` object * `RunConfig`deprecated for future releases * Enabled metric creation and deletion * Added `wait_for_run_close` utility (now default behavior) * Improved command-line feedback and error handling (e.g., Docker not running) * Removed support for legacy types and deprecated `DBNL_API_HOST` * Adjusted version bounds for `numpy` and `spacy` * Fixed multiple issues with publishing wheels and builds * Improved SDK integration tests (including `wait_for_close`) * Cleaned up comments and enhanced docstrings ## Mar 21, 2025 - Version 0.21.1 This patch release adds a critical bug fix to the sandbox authentication flow. ### Bug Fixes * Fix a bug with the sandbox authentication flow that resulted in credentials being considered invalid ## Mar 17, 2025 - Version 0.21.0 This release adds a sandbox environment with the dbnl platform which can be deployed to a single machine. Contact us for access! ### New Features * New Sandbox deployment option * Support for RunSchema on Run creation in the API ### Improvements * Add install option to set dev tokens expiration policy * Link to versioned documentation from the UI * Terms of service updates * Remove link to "View Test Analysis" page ### Bug Fixes * \[UI] Only allow closed runs when selecting a default run for comparison in UI * \[UI] Allow selecting more than 10 columns in test session summary page * \[SDK] Fixed default namespace in URL for project upon get\_or\_create ### SDK Updates * New SDK CLI interface * Changes in minimum and maximum versions for some libraries (pyarrow, numpy, spacy) ## Feb 18, 2025 - Version 0.20.0 This release adds a number of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. ### New Features * New Test History feature in Test Spec detail page that enables users to understand a single tests' behavior over time, including its recalibration history * Added support for [Slack notifications](/v0.25.x/to-be-deleted/stages-in-the-ai-software-development-lifecycle/reviewing-test-sessions-and-runs-in-distributional/notifications.md) in UI ### Improvements * Close runs in the UI * Viewable dbnl version in sidebar * UI performance improvements * Update color of links * Preserve input expressions in test spec editor * Extend scope of Project export * Export Tags by name for Project export * Better error messages for Project import * Improve namespace support for multi-org users * Miscellaneous package updates * Validate results on run close * `/projects` redirects to home page ### Bug Fixes * Fix broken pagination * Fix broken Histogram title * Fix Results Table rendering issue for some Tests * Fix support for decimal values in assertion params * Fix rendering of `=` and `!=` Assertions * Test spec editor navigation bugfix ### New SDK Version * Check compatibility with API version * Add support for double and long values * Improved errors for invalid API URL configuration * Remove `en-core-web-sm` from requirements to enable PyPI support * Updated helm-charts for on-prem ## Jan 13, 2025 - Version 0.19.0 Highlights in this version: * Improvements to the project import/export feature including support for notifications. * Support for new versioning and release process. * Better dependency management. * Too many bug fixes and UX improvements to list in detail. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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