v0.23.0

v0.23.0 Dec 31, 2020

• Fixes
  • Fix logic for inferring variable type from unusual dtype (#1273)
  • Allow passing entities without relationships to calculate_feature_matrix (#1290)
• Changes
  • Move query_by_values method from Entity to EntitySet (#1251)
  • Move _handle_time method from Entity to EntitySet (#1276)
  • Remove usage of ravel to resolve unexpected warning with pandas 1.2.0 (#1286)
• Documentation Changes
  • Fix installation command for Add-ons (#1279)
• Testing Changes
  • Use repository-scoped token for dependency check (#1245:, #1248)
  • Fix install error during docs CI test (#1250)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@gsheni, @jeff-hernandez, @rwedge, @thehomebrewnerd

Breaking Changes

• Entity.query_by_values has been removed and replaced by EntitySet.query_by_values with an
  added entity_id parameter to specify which entity in the entityset should be used for the query.

v0.23.0.dev0

Developmental release for testing purposes

v0.22.0

v0.22.0 Nov 30, 2020

• Enhancements
  • Allow variable descriptions to be set directly on variable (#1207)
  • Add ability to add feature description captions to feature lineage graphs (#1212)
  • Add support for local tar file in read_entityset (#1228)
• Fixes
  • Updates to fix unit test errors from koalas 1.4 (#1230, #1232)
• Documentation Changes
  • Removed link to unused feedback board (#1220)
  • Update footer with Alteryx Innovation Labs (#1221)
  • Update links to repo in documentation to use alteryx org url (#1224)
• Testing Changes
  • Update release notes check to use new repo url (#1222)
  • Use new version of pull request Github Action (#1234)
  • Upgrade pip during featuretools[complete] test (#1236)
  • Migrated CI tests to github actions (#1226, #1237, #1239)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@frances-h, @gsheni, @jeff-hernandez, @kmax12, @rwedge, @thehomebrewnerd

v0.22.0.dev0

"Development release for testing purposes"

v0.21.0

v0.21.0 Oct 30, 2020

• Enhancements
  • Add describe_feature to generate an English language feature description for a given feature (#1201)
• Fixes
  • Update EntitySet.add_last_time_indexes to work with Koalas 1.3.0 (#1192, #1202)
• Changes
  • Keep koalas requirements in separate file (#1195)
• Documentation Changes
  • Added footer to the documentation (#1189)
  • Add guide for feature selection functions (#1184)
  • Fix README.md badge with correct link (#1200)
• Testing Changes
  • Add pyspark and koalas to automated dependency checks (#1191)
  • Add DockerHub credentials to CI testing environment (#1204)
  • Update premium primitives job name on CI (#1205)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@frances-h, @gsheni, @jeff-hernandez, @rwedge, @tamargrey, @thehomebrewnerd

v0.21.0.dev0

Development release for testing purposes

v0.20.0

v0.20.0 Sep 30, 2020

The Text variable type has been deprecated and been replaced with the NaturalLanguage variable type. The Text variable type will be removed in a future release.

• Fixes
  • Allow FeatureOutputSlice features to be serialized (#1150 )
  • Fix duplicate label column generation when labels are passed in cutoff times and approximate is being used (#1160)
  • Determine calculate_feature_matrix behavior with approximate and a cutoff df that is a subclass of a pandas DataFrame (#1166)
• Changes
  • Text variable type has been replaced with NaturalLanguage (#1159 )
• Documentation Changes
  • Update release doc for clarity and to add Future Release template (#1151)
  • Use the PyData Sphinx theme (#1169)
• Testing Changes
  • Stop requiring single-threaded dask scheduler in tests (#1163, #1170)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@gsheni , @rwedge , @tamargrey, @tuethan1999

v0.20.0.dev0

"Development release for testing purposes"

v0.19.0

v0.19.0 Sept 8, 2020

• Enhancements
  • Support use of Koalas DataFrames in entitysets (#1031 )
  • Add feature selection functions for null, correlated, and single value features (#1126 )
• Fixes
  • Fix encode_features converting excluded feature columns to a numeric dtype (#1123 )
  • Improve performance of unused primitive check in dfs (#1140 )
• Changes
  • Remove the ability to stack transform primitives (#1119, #1145 )
  • Sort primitives passed to dfs to get consistent ordering of features* (#1119 )
• Documentation Changes
  • Added return values to dfs and calculate_feature_matrix (#1125 )
• Testing Changes
  • Better test case for normalizing from no time index to time index (#1113 )

*When passing multiple instances of a primitive built with make_trans_primitive
or maxe_agg_primitive, those instances must have the same relative order when passed
to dfs to ensure a consistent ordering of features.

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@frances-h, @gsheni, @rwedge, @tamargrey, @thehomebrewnerd, @tuethan1999

Breaking Changes

• ft.dfs will no longer build features from Transform primitives where one
  of the inputs is a Transform feature, a GroupByTransform feature,
  or a Direct Feature of a Transform / GroupByTransform feature. This will make some
  features that would previously be generated by ft.dfs only possible if
  explicitly specified in seed_features.

v0.19.0.dev0

Development release for testing purposes