v0.4.0 - Docs, docs, docs 📖

The v0.4.0 release is dominated by the complete overhaul of the user documentation (check it out at https://lakefs-spec.org/) 🚀

The documentation now features a quickstart guide, a full user guide, and an improved tutorial on how to use lakeFS-spec in a data science project. Feedback on and contributions to the documentation are highly appreciated!

🚨 Breaking Changes

• The LakeFSFileSystem.scope context manager has been removed from the API in #175, since its functionality has been superseded

What's Changed

• Make pyyaml dependency mandatory by @AdrianoKF in #143
• Restructure README [ENG-122] by @AdrianoKF in #129
• Run pre-commit autoupdate, delete unnecessary gitkeep file by @nicholasjng in #144
• Remove file upload performance warning by @nicholasjng in #146
• Improve lakeFS transactions by using deque, placeholders for commit SHAs by @nicholasjng in #140
• Move demo lakectl to tutorials folder by @maxmynter in #148
• Integrate .ipynb to CI and move to docs by @maxmynter in #119
• Quickstart guide [ENG-146] by @AdrianoKF in #142
• Delete stale black config and comments, fix error handling in blockstore puts by @nicholasjng in #150
• Add lakeFS file system configuration doc by @nicholasjng in #151
• Reword Python environment installation guide by @nicholasjng in #152
• Add exist_ok flag to all resource-creating client helpers by @nicholasjng in #154
• Docs: Landing page [ENG-147] by @AdrianoKF in #155
• Docs: Branding fixes by @AdrianoKF in #157
• Improvements to ls implementation by @AdrianoKF in #166
• Add file system usage documentation [ENG-148] by @nicholasjng in #156
• Docs: Add third-party integrations user guide by @AdrianoKF in #167
• Allow leading lakefs:// scheme in input paths by @nicholasjng in #169
• Change fs.info() logic to recognize non-slash-terminated directories by @nicholasjng in #160
• Add transaction usage document [ENG-150] by @nicholasjng in #171
• Documentation cleanup [ENG-198] by @AdrianoKF in #170
• Docs: Post-hoc cleanup of third-party integrations user guide [ENG-149] by @AdrianoKF in #172
• Change certain aspects of the data science tutorial notebook by @nicholasjng in #158
• Add doc-strings to the client_helpers by @maxmynter in #168
• Add HTTP409 check in create_repository for forward compatibility by @nicholasjng in #177
• Docs: Render pre-release banner for main by @AdrianoKF in #176
• Adapt create_tag client helper to reflect tag immutability by @maxmynter in #179
• Remove _strip_protocol overload and usages by @nicholasjng in #174
• Remove LakeFSFileSystem.scope context manager by @nicholasjng in #175
• Add depagination helper by @nicholasjng in #180

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0