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Changelog

1.7.0 - 2025-04-11

Overview

Features

Fixes

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.6.1...1.7.0

Changes

1.6.1 - 2024-09-10

Overview

Features

MLServer now offers an option to use pre-existing Python environments by specifying a path to the environment to be used - by @idlefella in (#1891)

Releases

MLServer released catboost runtime which allows serving catboost models with MLServer - by @sakoush in (#1839)

Fixes

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.6.0...1.6.1

Changes

1.6.0 - 2024-06-26

Overview

Upgrades

MLServer supports Pydantic V2.

Features

MLServer supports streaming data to and from your models.

Streaming support is available for both the REST and gRPC servers:

  • for the REST server is limited only to server streaming. This means that the client sends a single request to the server, and the server responds with a stream of data.
  • for the gRPC server is available for both client and server streaming. This means that the client sends a stream of data to the server, and the server responds with a stream of data.

See our docs and example for more details.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.5.0...1.6.0

Changes

1.5.0 - 2024-03-05

What's Changed

Notes

  • We remove support for python 3.8, check #1603 for more info. Docker images for mlserver are already using python 3.10.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.4.0...1.5.0

Changes

1.4.0 - 2024-02-28

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.3.5...1.4.0

Changes

1.3.5 - 2023-07-10

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.3.4...1.3.5

Changes

1.3.4 - 2023-06-21

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.3.3...1.3.4

Changes

1.3.3 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.3.2...1.3.3

Changes

1.3.2 - 2023-05-10

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.3.1...1.3.2

Changes

1.3.1 - 2023-04-27

What's Changed

  • Move OpenAPI schemas into Python package (#1095)

Changes

1.3.0 - 2023-04-27

WARNING ⚠️ : The 1.3.0 has been yanked from PyPi due to a packaging issue. This should have been now resolved in >= 1.3.1.

What's Changed

Custom Model Environments

More often that not, your custom runtimes will depend on external 3rd party dependencies which are not included within the main MLServer package - or different versions of the same package (e.g. scikit-learn==1.1.0 vs scikit-learn==1.2.0). In these cases, to load your custom runtime, MLServer will need access to these dependencies.

In MLServer 1.3.0, it is now possible to load this custom set of dependencies by providing them, through an environment tarball, whose path can be specified within your model-settings.json file. This custom environment will get provisioned on the fly after loading a model - alongside the default environment and any other custom environments.

Under the hood, each of these environments will run their own separate pool of workers.

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Custom Metrics

The MLServer framework now includes a simple interface that allows you to register and keep track of any custom metrics:

  • [mlserver.register()](https://mlserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/api/metrics.html#mlserver.register): Register a new metric.
  • [mlserver.log()](https://mlserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/api/metrics.html#mlserver.log): Log a new set of metric / value pairs.

Custom metrics will generally be registered in the [load()](https://mlserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/api/model.html#mlserver.MLModel.load) method and then used in the [predict()](https://mlserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/api/model.html#mlserver.MLModel.predict) method of your custom runtime. These metrics can then be polled and queried via Prometheus.

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OpenAPI

MLServer 1.3.0 now includes an autogenerated Swagger UI which can be used to interact dynamically with the Open Inference Protocol.

The autogenerated Swagger UI can be accessed under the /v2/docs endpoint.

https://mlserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/swagger-ui.png

Alongside the general API documentation, MLServer also exposes now a set of API docs tailored to individual models, showing the specific endpoints available for each one.

The model-specific autogenerated Swagger UI can be accessed under the following endpoints:

  • /v2/models/{model_name}/docs
  • /v2/models/{model_name}/versions/{model_version}/docs

HuggingFace Improvements

MLServer now includes improved Codec support for all the main different types that can be returned by HugginFace models - ensuring that the values returned via the Open Inference Protocol are more semantic and meaningful.

Massive thanks to @pepesi for taking the lead on improving the HuggingFace runtime!

Support for Custom Model Repositories

Internally, MLServer leverages a Model Repository implementation which is used to discover and find different models (and their versions) available to load. The latest version of MLServer will now allow you to swap this for your own model repository implementation - letting you integrate against your own model repository workflows.

This is exposed via the model_repository_implementation flag of your settings.json configuration file.

Thanks to @jgallardorama (aka @jgallardorama-itx ) for his effort contributing this feature!

Batch and Worker Queue Metrics

MLServer 1.3.0 introduces a new set of metrics to increase visibility around two of its internal queues:

Many thanks to @alvarorsant for taking the time to implement this highly requested feature!

Image Size Optimisations

The latest version of MLServer includes a few optimisations around image size, which help reduce the size of the official set of images by more than ~60% - making them more convenient to use and integrate within your workloads. In the case of the full seldonio/mlserver:1.3.0 image (including all runtimes and dependencies), this means going from 10GB down to ~3GB.

Python API Documentation

Alongside its built-in inference runtimes, MLServer also exposes a Python framework that you can use to extend MLServer and write your own codecs and inference runtimes. The MLServer official docs now include a reference page documenting the main components of this framework in more detail.

New Contributors

Changes

1.2.4 - 2023-03-10

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.2.3...1.2.4

Changes

1.2.3 - 2023-01-16

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.2.2...1.2.3

Changes

1.2.2 - 2023-01-16

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.2.1...1.2.2

Changes

1.2.1 - 2022-12-19

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.2.0...1.2.1

Changes

1.2.0 - 2022-11-25

What's Changed

Simplified Interface for Custom Runtimes

MLServer now exposes an alternative “simplified” interface which can be used to write custom runtimes. This interface can be enabled by decorating your predict() method with the mlserver.codecs.decode_args decorator, and it lets you specify in the method signature both how you want your request payload to be decoded and how to encode the response back.

Based on the information provided in the method signature, MLServer will automatically decode the request payload into the different inputs specified as keyword arguments. Under the hood, this is implemented through MLServer’s codecs and content types system.

from mlserver import MLModel
from mlserver.codecs import decode_args

class MyCustomRuntime(MLModel):

  async def load(self) -> bool:
    # TODO: Replace for custom logic to load a model artifact
    self._model = load_my_custom_model()
    self.ready = True
    return self.ready

  @decode_args
  async def predict(self, questions: List[str], context: List[str]) -> np.ndarray:
    # TODO: Replace for custom logic to run inference
    return self._model.predict(questions, context)

Built-in Templates for Custom Runtimes

To make it easier to write your own custom runtimes, MLServer now ships with a mlserver init command that will generate a templated project. This project will include a skeleton with folders, unit tests, Dockerfiles, etc. for you to fill.

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Dynamic Loading of Custom Runtimes

MLServer now lets you load custom runtimes dynamically into a running instance of MLServer. Once you have your custom runtime ready, all you need to do is to move it to your model folder, next to your model-settings.json configuration file.

For example, if we assume a flat model repository where each folder represents a model, you would end up with a folder structure like the one below:

.
├── models
│   └── sum-model
│       ├── model-settings.json
│       ├── models.py

Batch Inference Client

This release of MLServer introduces a new mlserver infer command, which will let you run inference over a large batch of input data on the client side. Under the hood, this command will stream a large set of inference requests from specified input file, arrange them in microbatches, orchestrate the request / response lifecycle, and will finally write back the obtained responses into output file.

Parallel Inference Improvements

The 1.2.0 release of MLServer, includes a number of fixes around the parallel inference pool focused on improving the architecture to optimise memory usage and reduce latency. These changes include (but are not limited to):

  • The main MLServer process won’t load an extra replica of the model anymore. Instead, all computing will occur on the parallel inference pool.
  • The worker pool will now ensure that all requests are executed on each worker’s AsyncIO loop, thus optimising compute time vs IO time.
  • Several improvements around logging from the inference workers.

Dropped support for Python 3.7

MLServer has now dropped support for Python 3.7. Going forward, only 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 will be supported (with 3.8 being used in our official set of images).

Move to UBI Base Images

The official set of MLServer images has now moved to use UBI 9 as a base image. This ensures support to run MLServer in OpenShift clusters, as well as a well-maintained baseline for our images.

Support for MLflow 2.0

In line with MLServer’s close relationship with the MLflow team, this release of MLServer introduces support for the recently released MLflow 2.0. This introduces changes to the drop-in MLflow “scoring protocol” support, in the MLflow runtime for MLServer, to ensure it’s aligned with MLflow 2.0.

MLServer is also shipped as a dependency of MLflow, therefore you can try it out today by installing MLflow as:

$ pip install mlflow[extras]

To learn more about how to use MLServer directly from the MLflow CLI, check out the MLflow docs.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SeldonIO/MLServer/compare/1.1.0...1.2.0

Changes

v1.1.0 - 2022-08-01

Changes