Release 2.18.2

💡 Providing a deployment name to flow.serve is now optional

When running flow.serve, you can now omit the deployment name. If you do not provide a deployment name, the deployment name will default to the name of the flow. This change makes it easier to run flows without needing to specify a deployment name each time:

@flow
def etl_flow():
    pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
  etl_flow.serve()

results in:

Your flow 'etl-flow' is being served and polling for scheduled runs!

To trigger a run for this flow, use the following command:

        $ prefect deployment run 'etl-flow/etl-flow'

🛠✨ We've also released a few important fixes to our deployment parameter form when creating a run in the Prefect UI! 🧑‍🎨

🚀 This release also includes a number of other fixes and in-flight feature work. See the release notes for more details!