v0.8.6

This is the release notes of v0.8.6. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

New Features

• Tensor
  • Implementing Ellipsoidal Harmonics Functions (#2927, thanks @shantam-8!)

Enhancements

• Add support for dask.persist (#2990, thanks @loopyme!)
• Optimize gen subtask graph (#3006)
• Ignore broadcaster's locality when assign subtasks (#2994)

Bug fixes

• Fix task hang when error object cannot be pickled (#2913)
• Fix potential KeyError in actor_ref calls when running with multiple processes (#2962)
• Wrap errors in operand execution to protect scheduling service (#2971)
• Fix dtype of series result for DataFrame.apply (#2979)
• Fix default config to ensure storage backends configured (#2989)
• Fix potential empty chunks when creating DataFrame from pandas (#2991)
• Fix incorrect result for df.sort_values when specifying multiple ascending (#3006)
• Fix missing extra_params when constructing operands (#3006)

Tests

• Fix version mismatch between kubernetes and minikube (#2988)