Change Log

Version	Issue	Type	Description	Compatibility Notes
193.14	45019	Bugfix	Fix Email Notification Scheduler.ipynb notebook to be compatible with 2.x Pandas.
193.13	45176	Bugfix	Improve performance of workstep creation
193.12	44235	Bugfix	Fix spy.pull(shape='capsules', tz_convert) dropping timezone when all capsules for a condition have NaT values.
193.11	44193	Bugfix	Removes rpy2 usage for executing SPy print messages in R kernel.
193.10	44822	Bugfix	Fix spy.workbooks.pull() 'NoneType' is not iterable error.
193.9	44748	Feature	Support triple-brace syntax for Mustache variables in Workbook Templates.	See new Data Lab Visualizations.ipynb documentation notebook for usage.
193.8	43911	Feature	Introducing Data Lab Environment Manager in spy.widgets.DataLabEnvMgr().
193.7	44548	Bugfix	spy.workbooks.push() was not correctly handling Metric Neutral Color in all cases.
193.6	44530	Bugfix	Fix SPyDependencyNotFound error message throwing AttributeError when extra is missing.
193.5	44536	Bugfix	Replaced the Seeq SDK usage of deprecated methods with the new version.
193.4	44295	Bugfix	spy.workbooks was not correctly handling Topic Document notifications/schedules.
193.3	44469	Feature	Improve performance at the start of the spy.swap() function for large number of swaps.
193.2	44201	Bugfix	Improve ability to interrupt/cancel SPy operations via KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit exceptions
193.1	44163	Feature	Improve spy.workbooks.push() performance with large item inventories.
193.0	41116	Feature	Split SPy requirements into extras for faster and more lightweight installation use cases.	Automated installations of SPy may need to be updated for these changes, E.G. pip install seeq-spy[all]. See the new “Installation” section of the documentation for more information.
192.38	43964	Feature	Improve spy.workbooks.pull() performance with large item inventories.
192.37	44086	Bugfix	Fix metadata of spy documentation notebooks to use python311 kernel.
192.36	43042	Feature	Warn on spy.login(request_origin_url) if it cannot be inferred from the environment.
192.35	42747	Feature	Improve Workbook Template support for Asset Selection-oriented scenarios	See “Using Asset Selections” in Workbook Templates documentation notebook for more information.
192.34	35468	Feature	Add-on Tools Pane Enhancements - when an Add-on Tool is created, user can select if it should be displayed on Home screen or in Tools Pane.
192.33	43682	Bugfix	Fix spy.workbooks.load() not finding worksteps when the workbook folder has [] in the name.
192.32	43716	Bugfix	Add Locked property to reserved properties.	Applicable only to R66+.
192.31	42806	Bugfix	Improve Tree pulling when workbook parameter is not provided or has mismatch.
192.30	27985	Bugfix	Remove key_uom from the list of reserved properties.	Applicable only to R66+.
192.29	43381	Bugfix	Prevent SSLError: KEY_VALUES_MISMATCH when spy.login(ignore_ssl_errors=True) is used.
192.28	43334	Bugfix	Fix spy.workbooks.push incorrectly resolving path to nested folders when searching by name.
192.27	43042	Feature	Warn on spy.login(request_origin_label) if it cannot be inferred from the environment.
192.26	41491	Feature	Add datasource and workbook commands to the Administration scripts.
192.25	38441	Bugfix	Upgrade spy.widgets to be compatible with ipywidgets 8.
192.24	34051	Bugfix	Add capsule_id_property reserved properties.	Applicable only to R66+.
192.23	35359	Bugfix	Enable friendly exception traceback to be displayed inline in Data Lab Add-on Mode.
192.22	42569	Bugfix	Handle workstep versions with either sqTrendCapsuleSetStore and sqTrendConditionStore.
192.21	42533	Feature	Add documentation to “spy.workbooks.ipynb” and “Workbook Templates.ipynb” to describe how to manipulate a worksheet’s display_items attribute.
192.20	41594, 41440	Bugfix	All SPy imports for files in spy are listed in install requirements.
192.19	34015	Bugfix	‘Display’ added to ‘Asset Type’ in SPy Docs.
192.18	42221	Bugfix	Add Column Definitions property to reserved properties.
192.17	42224, 41832	Bugfix	Fix spy.pull(tz_convert) for conditions. Improve compatibility with Pandas 2.2.
192.16	42014	Feature	Added get_open_port util function to spy.utils.
192.15	41950	Bugfix	When spy.login() errors occur, ensure the original error is raised rather than ones caused by clearing the Session.
192.14	34203	Feature	Updated SPy Documentation notebooks to Python 3.11
192.13	41645	Bugfix	Fix Pandas TypeError when pulling only flyover capsules.
192.12	41565	Bugfix	Fix code changes from 192.8 that rendered the deprecated-but-still-functional spy.utils.get_analysis_worksheet_from_url() unusable.
192.11	39672	Feature	Expose spy.options.request_timeout_in_seconds for better control over the execution of large data workflows.	This new option may require an upgrade of the seeq Python package to function - a warning will be provided if so.
192.10	41630	Bugfix	Fix code changes from 192.0 that caused spy.search({'Type': 'Signal'}) to sometimes return Assets.
192.9	40712	Bugfix	Update Knowledge Base links in example notebooks.
192.8	41565	Feature	Improve performance of spy.workbook.pull() and spy.workbook.push() for customers with large user directories by excluding group membership from User/UserGroup pulls.	spy.utils.get_analysis_worksheet_from_url() has been deprecated in favor of spy.utils.pull_worksheet_via_url().
192.7	35431	Feature	Exposed the parse_schedule_string function publicly through util.
192.6	41248	Bugfix	Included workbook owner and creator info in workbook search results.
192.5	23930	Bugfix	Added worksheet_view url to seeqURL routes
192.4	41374	Bugfix	Fix validation rule preventing floats from being set on spy.options.compatibility. Fix spy.search() incorrectly converting Estimated Sample Period to str when using compatibility=188.
192.3	34617, 38639	Bugfix	Added errors in docstring of Status class and updated Asset Trees documentation ipynb and rst files.
192.2	38737	Bugfix	Added a warning for setting compatibility to a number outside the supported range.
192.1	39601	Bugfix	Added type validations for the function arguments in find_user(), find_group(), get_user_timezone(), get_server_version_tuple(), validate_data_lab_license(), validate_login(), get_fallback_timezone() and is_valid_unit() functions.
192.0	41197	Bugfix	Fix spy.search() not returning assets correctly in certain cases. Add “On Match” option to Regex datasource map logic to continue processing after the criteria matches but no item was found in the destination server. Use spy.options.compatibility=191 to restore previous behavior in all cases.
191.4	33715	Bugfix	Fix typo and added whitespace in get_analysis_worksheet_from_url().
191.3	40874	Bugfix	Tweak spy.workbooks example notebooks for automated testing.
191.2	41125	Bugfix	Fix various problems in support of the Calculation column in spy.pull().
191.1	40930	Bugfix	Fix edge cases in spy.workbooks.push(datasource_map_folder) being unable to map workbook-scoped items to various existing items.
191.0	34296	Bugfix	Fix Tree() allowing unsupported types to be inserted.	Existing scripts that have misspelled types when inserting into a Tree() (e.g. ‘Threshold Metric’ instead of ‘ThresholdMetric’) should fix typos or use spy.options.compatibility=190.
190.18	40805, 40826	Bugfix	Fix get_analysis_worksheet_from_url not accepting a session, include markdown versions of the SPy docs as part of publishing, publish spy.swap reference doc.
190.17	40804	Bugfix	Fix errors in spy.swap() when quiet=True and when the input dataframes are empty.	Fixes compatibility break introduced in 190.5 where spy.swap’s Swap Results column was renamed to Results - Specify spy.options.compatibility=189 to get the original behavior.
190.16	40078	Bugfix	Add Stale Metadata property to reserved properties.	Applicable only to R65+.
190.15	40647, 40649, 40569	Bugfix	Fix AttributeError: 'dict_values' has no attribute 'split' in spy.swap(). Fix KeyError: 'dur' in spy.pull(). Improve memory usage of folder searches.
190.14	40547	Bugfix	Fix spy.search(all_properties=True) for swapped items as a non-admin.	Applicable only to R62+.
190.13	23336	Feature	Better support for Asset Groups and local Asset Trees in spy.workbooks.push().
190.12	40547	Bugfix	Fix TypeError: need a bytes-like object, float found in spy.push(metadata).
190.11	39063	Feature	Exposed the in_development parameter to spy.addons.install.	Applicable only to R65+.
190.10	23336	Feature	Better support for Asset Groups in spy.push(metadata).	Applicable only to R64+.
190.9	40350	Bugfix	spy.search() incorrectly converts certain columns to str when using compatibility=188. spy.push() is unable to round-trip reference items.	spy.search()’s Formula Parameters, Swappable Assets, and Thresholds columns when compatibility=188 is specified will no longer incorrectly be cast to str.
190.8	40353	Bugfix	Improved error reporting for messages coming from the SDK.
190.7	40301	Bugfix	Better support for asset trees in workbooks/worksheets that have been duplicated through the UI.	Applicable only to R64+.
190.6	38957	Bugfix	Improve spy jobs logging and notification messages
190.5	40228	Bugfix	spy.pull(assets_df, calculation=<calc>, grid=None) throws incorrect error. Also improved the way column headers are determined in spy.pull() after a spy.swap(), and parallelized spy.swap() operations.	“Swap Result” column in spy.swap() results has been renamed to just “Result”.
190.4	39832	Bugfix	Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute ... error in spy.workbooks.pull() and spy.search().
190.3	39846	Bugfix	Out-of-memory errors can result from repeated calls to worksheet_template.copy().
190.2	39796	Bugfix	spy.push() with a Condition column can silently fail.
190.1	38173	Bugfix	Improve the request timings meters parsing logic.
190.0	39559	Feature	Add spy.workbooks.job module for bulk workbook changes and content migration. See “Workbook Jobs.ipynb” documentation notebook for usage information.
189.18	39189	Bugfix	SPy ACL pull and push raise FutureWarning: Setting an item of incompatible dtype is deprecated.
189.17	39192	Bugfix	Fix spy.push() performance issue. Now 10x faster than previous version.
189.16	34632	Bugfix	Fix UnicodeEncodeError when Notebook name contains non Latin-1 chars.
189.15	38934	Bugfix	Update Knowledge Base links in example notebooks.
189.14	38940	Bugfix	Fix TypeError: _init_() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘force_calculated_scalars’.
189.13	35351	Bugfix	Prevent jobs.pull() from erroring if /api/sessions does not give a valid JSON response.
189.12	37733	Bugfix	Deprecate offset and incorporate continuation token for compute pagination.	Applicable only to R63+.
189.11	38450	Bugfix	spy.acl.push(), allow users with indirect permissions to transfer permissions to other users.
189.10	37888	Bugfix	Scalars created by SPy are now forced to CalculatedScalars, so they can be edited in the UI.	Applicable only to R61+.
189.9	38383	Bugfix	Fix parsing of Mustache variable syntax for images.
189.8	38168	Bugfix	Fix spy.search() not working when IDs are specified in lowercase.
189.7	38240	Bugfix	Add authentication information to screenshot get request for Advanced Scheduling Example.
189.6	37905	Bugfix	Fix displayed cron description ‘day of the week’ when scheduling notebooks.
189.5	30514	Feature	Added notify_on_skipped_execution and notify_on_automatic_unschedule parameters to the spy.jobs notebook scheduling functions.
189.4	38193	Feature	Add “Data Processed” metrics to spy.pull() Status DataFrame. See new “Performance Metrics” section of spy.pull.ipynb documentation notebook for more information.
189.3	37603	Feature	Support images as Mustache variables in Workbook Templates. See new Data Lab Visualizations.ipynb documentation notebook for usage.
189.2	38169	Bugfix	Unbounded capsules incorrectly returned pd.NA for ‘Capsule Start’ and ‘Capsule End’ instead of pd.NaT.
189.1	38032	Bugfix	Ensure ‘Capsule Is Uncertain’ column in spy.pull() works with ‘Original Uncertainty’ API output changing from a boolean to a number.	Applicable only to R63+.
189.0	32942, 28948	Feature	Improve spy.search() speed (with Seeq Server R62+) when all_properties=True or when processing a DataFrame of IDs. Add include_properties and limit parameters to spy.search().	spy.search() now returns a default limit of 1,000 items - if your queries are expected to return more results, the limit argument should be specified or spy.options.compatibility = 188 should be used. When a DataFrame containing IDs is specified for spy.search(), all_properties=True is no longer implied - you will need to specify all_properties=True explicitly or use spy.options.compatibility = 188.
188.4	37889	Bugfix	Fix pushing items that are not in the SPy datasources.
188.3	37789	Bugfix	Fix pushing Metrics with custom threshold colors.
188.2	36908	Bugfix	Fix Tree.insert() raising warnings due to dtype not being specified in pd.Series().
188.1	37560	Bugfix	Improve handling of KeyboardInterrupt exceptions across all functions.
188.0	34148	Feature	Add top-level spy.swap() function to swap items across assets. See new spy.swap.ipynb reference workbook for usage guidance. Also added old_asset_format argument to spy.search() and several other functions, see function reference for details.	New spy.options.compatibility facility added to allow user to specify what version of SPy they have tested with. This will allow future versions of SPy to more easily maintain compatibility with existing scripts and notebooks.
187.6	37591, 37557	Bugfix	Fix workbooks.push() error when a Journal annotates a Capsule. Improve documentation for formula_parameters in Tree.insert().
187.5	37433	Bugfix	Fix error in spy.workbooks when the display_range is stored as a string.
187.4	37089	Bugfix	Improve example notebook consistency for online publishing.
187.3	36948	Feature	Add user migration administration notebook.
187.2	37290	Bugfix	Fix backward compatibility for spy.utils.parse_str_time_to_ms().
187.1	28728	Bugfix	Improve compatibility for additional configurations in @Asset.DateRange.	spy.utils.parse_str_time_to_ms() has been deprecated in favor of spy.utils.parse_str_time().
187.0	36704	Bugfix	Update SPy to work with Pandas 2.X
186.9	36654	Bugfix	Fix backward compatibility for seeq.base.system.cleanse_path().	Applicable only to R62+.
186.8	36345	Bugfix	Fix spy.push(data) only maintaining the last page worth of pushed samples/capsules (100k by default).
186.7	33922	Bugfix	Prevent PermissionInheritanceEnabled and MetadataProperties property errors when round-tripping search()/push(metadata).
186.6	36264, 36268	Bugfix	Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'errors' in workbooks.pull() when a formula dependency is not accessible. Prevent workbooks.pull() failing if an item has an invalid UIConfig.
186.5	30009	Bugfix	Remove dependency on seeq.base.system in favor of relying on seeq.base.util.	Compatibility issues could be present if your scripts directly use from seeq.base import system except the maintained system.cleanse_path() function.
186.4	31685	Bugfix	Fix pushing Workbook Templates from one server to another due to include_inventory.
186.3	36273	Bugfix	Update spy.push(replace) docs to include signals.
186.2	36082	Bugfix	Use the Notifications SDK instead of basic HTTP requests to send emails.	Applicable only to R61+.
186.1	34810	Feature	Enable pushing to Seeq-native datasources using push(..., datasource=spy.INHERIT_FROM_WORKBOOK).
186.0	31481	Feature	Add support for LiteralScalar item type.	Applicable only to R61+.
185.5	35789	Bugfix	Fix raise_or_catalog() when the Status dataframe is in summary mode.
185.4	25450	Bugfix	Fix spy.push(data) use cases.
185.3	35163	Bugfix	Fix Push errors, particularly for Workbook Templates.
185.2	31685	Bugfix	Change /sendEmail endpoint to /send-email.	Applicable only to R61+.
185.1	33745, 34629, 34658	Bugfix	Add request origin label and url for Scheduled Notebooks and Data Lab Functions.
185.0	32426	Feature	Split SPy into its own seeq-spy PyPI package.