TFX 1.13.0-rc0 Release

Major Features and Improvements

• Supported setting the container image at a component level for Kubeflow V2
  Dag Runner.

Breaking Changes

For Pipeline Authors

• Conditional can be used from tfx.dsl.Cond (Given from tfx import v1 as tfx).

• Dummy channel for testing can be constructed by
  tfx.testing.Channel(artifact_type).

• placeholder.Placeholder.placeholders_involved() was replaced with
  placeholder.Placeholder.traverse().

• placeholder.Predicate.dependent_channels() was replaced with
  channel_utils.get_dependent_channels(Placeholder).

• placeholder.Predicate.encode_with_keys(...) was replaced with
  channel_utils.encode_placeholder_with_channels(Placeholder, ...).

• placeholder.Predicate.from_comparison() removed (was deprecated)

• enable external_pipeline_artifact_query for querying artifact within one pipeline

For Component Authors

• N/A

Deprecations

• Deprecate python 3.7 support

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Support to task type "workerpool1" of CLUSTER_SPEC in Vertex AI training's
  service according to the changes of task type in Tuner component.
• Propagates unexpected import failures in the public v1 module.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.12.0)	Comments
click	>=7,<9	>=7,<8
ml-metadata	~=1.13.1	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
protobuf	>=3.13,<4	>=3.20.3,<5	To support TF 2.12
struct2tensor	~=0.44.0	~=0.43.0	Synced release train
tensorflow	~=2.12.0	>=1.15.5,<2 or ~=2.11.0
tensorflow-data-validation	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-model-analysis	~=0.44.0	~=0.43.0	Synced release train
tensorflow-transform	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train
tfx-bsl	~=1.13.0	~=1.12.0	Synced release train

Documentation Updates

• Added page for TFX-Addons