v0.18.0

v0.18.0 July 31, 2020

• Enhancements
  • Warn user if supplied primitives are not used during dfs (#1073)
• Fixes
  • Use more consistent and uniform warnings (#1040)
  • Fix issue with missing instance ids and categorical entity index (#1050)
  • Remove warnings.simplefilter in feature_set_calculator to un-silence warnings (#1053)
  • Fix feature visualization for features with '>' or '<' in name (#1055)
  • Fix boolean dtype mismatch between encode_features and dfs and calculate_feature_matrix (#1082)
  • Update primitive options to check reversed inputs if primitive is commutative (#1085)
  • Fix inconsistent ordering of features between kernel restarts (#1088)
• Changes
  • Make DFS match TimeSince primitive with all Datetime types (#1048)
  • Change default branch to main (#1038)
  • Raise TypeError if improper input is supplied to Entity.delete_variables() (#1064)
  • Updates for compatibility with pandas 1.1.0 (#1079, #1089)
  • Set pandas version to pandas>=0.24.1,<2.0.0. Filter pandas deprecation warning in Week primitive. (#1094)
• Documentation Changes
  • Remove benchmarks folder (#1049)
  • Add custom variables types section to variables page (#1066)
• Testing Changes
  • Add fixture for ft.demo.load_mock_customer (#1036)
  • Refactor Dask test units (#1052)
  • Implement automated process for checking critical dependencies (#1045, #1054, #1081)
  • Don't run changelog check for release PRs or automated dependency PRs (#1057)
  • Fix non-deterministic behavior in Dask test causing codecov issues (#1070)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: @frances-h, @gsheni, @monti-python, @rwedge, @systemshift, @tamargrey, @thehomebrewnerd, @wsankey