v1.16.0 - 2024-08-22

This release enables the HMASynthesizer and other utility functions to work with null foreign key values! It also adds an anonymization method to the metadata classes. Additionally, it patches a bug that lets SDV work with more Pandas data types.

New Features

• Add metadata anonymization to public SDV - Issue #2137 by @R-Palazzo
• Switch drop_missing_values in in drop_unknown_references to support null foreign keys by default - Issue #2076 by @R-Palazzo
• Support nullable foreign keys in HMA - Issue #2063 by @rwedge
• Remove input error from base synthesizer class once nullable foreign keys are supported - Issue #2057 by @rwedge
• Support null foreign keys in get_random_subset - Issue #2056 by @R-Palazzo
• Warn the user if they are trying to save an unfit synthesizer - Issue #1961 by @fealho

Bugs Fixed

• Using FixedCombinations constraint with an integer constraint column causes sampling to fail - Issue #2183 by @R-Palazzo
• Metadata Detection Fails with new Data Type - Issue #2182 by @R-Palazzo
• Unable visualize just the real data (or just the synthetic data) in a multi-table setting - Issue #2160 by @R-Palazzo
• [dtypes] Numerical Formatter Fails to Learn Format of New Data Types - Issue #2156 by @R-Palazzo
• Primary keys may not be unique for variable length regexes - Issue #2116 by @amontanez24
• Confusing warning when using GANs that suggests that CUDA isn't being used - Issue #2052 by @fealho
• PAR DiagnosticReport not 1.0 with float categorical columns - Issue #1910 by @lajohn4747
• In PARSynthesizer I cannot pass in datetime context (InvalidDataError during fitting) - Issue #1485 by @lajohn4747

Internal

• Enabling sdv logging causes tests to fail locally - Issue #2162 by @amontanez24
• Separate primary key detection functionality - Issue #2101 by @amontanez24

Maintenance

• [dtypes] Update the NumericalFormatter to use the learn_rounding_digits from RDT - Issue #2164 by @R-Palazzo
• Mock every usage of is_faker_function to speed up the unit tests - Issue #2163 by @R-Palazzo
• Review docs-related dev dependencies - Issue #2148 by @rwedge
• Cap boto and botocore - Issue #2123 by @lajohn4747