I have a question about the protobuf versions required by flyteidl:

onnx

and

tensorboardX

for instance don’t support protobuf 4 yet (see here and here) which blocks us from using newer versions of flyteidl and as a consequence flytekit.

tensorflow

also only supported 4.21 as of three weeks ago but this isn’t even part of the newest release yet so I would have to install from this commit. I understand this is annoying from the flyte side that these libraries move slower but is there any small chance 3.x could be supported again a little while longer? 🙈

That would be good indeed!

wrt to flytekit, we are planning on supporting v1.2.x for a while (though admittedly we’re behind on merging in PRs)

But new features will only be available in 1.3.x, right? We will need the new “pod_template arg in the task” feature that is coming soon to onboard the majority of our engineers.

no i think we’re going to try to maintain feature parity.

Oh wow, so there might be a 1.2.x version that will have the pod_templates and not require protobuf 4? Asking again to be sure I understand correctly because this would solve several problems I have right now ahah

@cool-lifeguard-49380, just to reinforce the message, we are going to maintain the 1.2 branch going forward while maintaining feature parity. So expect a 1.2 flytekit release this week that will contain the pod template feature and other features that came in the 1.3 release.

Thanks a lot @high-accountant-32689 🙏

Let's know how it goes, @cool-lifeguard-49380!