TFX 1.10.0-rc0

Major Features and Improvements

• Saved tuner results in pandas records formatted JSON.
• TFX Transform now supports tf.SequenceExample natively. The native path can be activated by providing TensorRepresentations in the Schema.
• TFX Transform now supports reading raw and materializing transformed data in
  Apache Parquet format.
• ExampleDiff outputs statistics on the matching process, and optional counts
  of paired feature values.

Breaking Changes

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For Pipeline Authors

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For Component Authors

Deprecations

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Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Type hint on BaseComponent.inputs and BaseComponent.outputs corrected to be
  Channel subclasses.
• Added input_optional parameter to ChannelParameter. This allows
  component authors to declare that even if a channel is optional, if it is
  provided during pipeline definition time, then it must have resolved inputs
  during run time.
• Allow latest apache-airflow 2.x versions.
• Moved tflite-support related dependencies from [examples] to a separate
  [tflite-support] extra.

Dependency Updates

Package Name	Version Constraints	Previously (in v1.9.0)	Comments
google-api-core	<2	N/A	Added to help pip dependency resolution. google-api-core was already a transitive dependency.
apache-beam[gcp]	>=2.40,<3	>=2.38,<3	Synced release train
attrs	>=19.3.0,<22	>=19.3.0,<21	Allow more recent versions
pyarrow	>=6,<7	>=1,<6	Synced release train
tflite-support	~=0.4.2	>=0.1.0a1,<0.2.1	Update to a TF-2.10 compatible version.

Documentation Updates

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