TensorBoard 2.11.0

The 2.11 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.11.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed HParams plugin sorting bugs (#5971)
• Fix color by menu drop down bug in projector plugin (#5974)
• Fix bug with histogram axis being off due to rounding (#5925)

Breaking Changes

• TensorBoard now only supports Python 3.7 and above (#5878)
  Python 3.6 is past its End of Life: https://peps.python.org/pep-0494/#lifespan

TensorBoard 2.10.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix embedding projector plugin. (#5944)

TensorBoard 2.10.0

The 2.10 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.10.

Features

• Time Series is now the default dashboard when you log scalar, histogram, or image events (#5698). If you have feedback or find any bugs you can leave a comment here (#5704) or create a new issue
• Time Series now supports selecting a single run using double click (#5831, #5842)

Bug Fixes

• Stop removing experiment related query parameters (#5717, #5834)
• Fix the histogram x-axis tick format (#5818)
• Keep pinned cards when refreshing UI (#5837)
• Fix "Card Width" property reset button (#5841)
• Numerous fixes for dependencies and unit tests

TensorBoard 2.9.1

Bug fixes

• Force protobuf dependency < 3.20 to workaround incompatibilities with newer protobuf versions (#5726)
• Recognize text/javascript as valid js mimetype for caching purposes (#5746)

TensorBoard 2.9.0

Release 2.9.0

The 2.9 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.9.

Features

• Prefer the WebGL Renderer (#5492, #5494)
• New --detect_file_replacement flag allows showing new data even when event files are replaced entirely rather than appended to. Useful for rsync and some cloud filesystems (#5529, #5546, see also #349)
• Support for s3://, hdfs://, and other cloud filesystems no longer included in TensorFlow 2.6+ - requires installing tensorflow-io package (#5491)

Bug fixes

• Fix for incorrect alpha-channel layering (#5571, #5567)
• Fix histogram tooltips that bleed out of content box. (#5631)
• Fix for run table overlapping text in npmi plugin (#5468)
• Numerous internal fixes & refactorings related to navigation & state management
• Removes dependency on org_tensorflow (#5528)

TensorBoard 2.8.0

The 2.8 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.8.

Features

• Histograms
  • TensorFlow 2 tf.summary.histogram API is now fully compatible with TPUs (#5356, #5392, #5404, #5409, #5415, #5443)
• Text
  • Add checkbox to enable or disable markdown rendering (#5378)
• Time Series
  • Add more horizontal space by restyling resize bar (#5390)
  • Preserve run regex filter string in URL (#5412)
  • Collapse some chart groups by default (#5408)
  • Introduce "Alphabetical" tooltip sort and make it the default (#5442)
  • Allow card width to be customized (#5496)
• Mesh
  • Allow camera properties to be specified in config (#5452)
• Misc
  • Better support for cloud file systems by conditionally importing tensorflow_io (#5491)

Bug fixes

• Time Series
  • Fix line chart dark mode bug (#5305)
  • Fix scalars/image/histogram button toggle issues (#5398)
  • Fix subtle SVG chart update issue (#5423)
  • Dark mode fix for collapsible groups (#5426)
  • Font fix for collapsible groups (#5429)
  • Optimize paints triggered by mouse movements (#5461)
  • Improve fallback to SVG charts when WebGL context can't be created (#5465)
  • Improve management of WebGL contexts by freeing them more frequently (#5465)
  • Fix subtle settings bugs (#5458)
  • Fix bug with run selector expander disappearing (#5503)
• Documentation and Examples
  • Update scalars_and_keras demo notebook to use learning_rate instead of lr (#5363)
  • Fix example_basic plugin (#5366)
• Misc
  • Successfully load in Safari and iOS browsers (#5495)
  • Allow tensorboard to be run with Python 3.10 (#5490) - thanks @simonkrenger
  • Update tests for Python 3.11 compatibility (#5380) - thanks @tirkarthi

TensorBoard.dev updates

• Support delete of multiple experiments at the same time (#5471)

TensorBoard 2.7.0

The 2.7 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.7.

Features

• Time Series plugin
  • Run selection now is based on regex filter (#5252)
  • Run match logic matches run name and alias (#5334, #5351)
  • Prepare Time Series for promotion to the first tab (#5291)
  • Improve/persist tag filter in the URL (#5249, #5236, #5263, #5265, #5271, #5300)
  • Show sample count on image cards (#5250)
  • Keep all digits for step values (#5325)
  • Remove pinned view while filtering (#5324)
  • Show relative time in tooltip (#5319)
  • UI: style improvements, adjust scroll position
• Core
  • Resizable run table sidebar (#5219)
  • Support for fsspec filesystems (#5248)
• Hparams
  • Treat no data as an empty experiment rather than an error (#5273)
  • Add tf.stop_gradient in tf.summary.histogram (#5311) - thanks @allenlavoie

Bug fixes

• Darkmode improvements and fixes (#5318)
• Time Series
  • Improve visibility logics (#5234, #5235)
  • Reset PluginType filter when selected all (#5272)
• PR curve plugin: display correct thresholds (#5191)
• Line chart
  • Recreate charts upon fatal renderer errors (#5237)
  • Fix zoom interaction (#5215)
  • Skip axis label render based on visibility (#5317)
• Dropdown ui fixes (#5194, #5199, #5242)
• Navigation handling (#5223, #5216)
• Documentation
  • Document the Time Series dashboard (#5193)
  • Update README.md to include no-data example (#5163)

TensorBoard 2.6.0

The 2.6 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.6.

Features

• Added dark mode
• Some user settings are now kept in local storage and are persisted after page reload, including:
  • Time Series scalars smoothing, tooltip sorting method, ignore outliers in chart scaling
  • Settings dialog reload data, reload period, pagination limit
  • Dark mode
• Time Series
  • Improved positioning of the fit button in scalar chart (#4856)
  • Improved selection of runs when new runs arrive (#4888)

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where some plugins were not appearing in plugins list (#4849)
• Fixed subtle bugs in navigation (#4974)
• Stopped storing default values for settings on the URL (#5030)
• Graphs
  • Fixed parsing of _output_shapes attr (#4867)
• HParams
  • Fixed parallel coordinate layout (#4988)
• Projector
  • Fix KNN algorithm and, by extension, T-SNE and UMAP embeddings (#5063)
  • Make opaque sprites opaque (#4921) - thanks @tyhenry
  • Make transparent sprites transparent (#5149) - thanks @canbakiskan
• Scalars
  • Improved rendering of small major axis numbers (#5010)
  • Fixed axis label in Firefox (#5078)
• Time Series
  • Fixed rendering of filter text areas (#4938)
  • Improved rendering of small major axis numbers (#5010)
  • Improved tooltip rendering (#5003)
  • Fixed scrolling of runs selector (#5020)
  • Make runs selector header sticky on scroll (#5024)
  • Improved rendering of step axis to use SI units (#5015)
• Documentation
  • Fixed and cleaned documentation and demos during TensorBoard team fixit.
  • Fixed debugger v2 documentation (#4843) - thanks @kevint324

TensorBoard.dev updates

• Improve upload throughput for scalar summaries (#4825)
• Fixed bug where experiment name and description were not displayed in tensorboard dev list (#4912)
• Fixed bug where reading from remote directories did not work in --one_shot mode (#4909)

Breaking changes

• TimeSeries plugin no longer supports ?fastChart=false fallback to old chart renderer.

TensorBoard 2.5.0

Features

• New data loading mode: typically loads between 100× and 350× faster
  • On by default when applicable; pass --load_fast false to disable
  • For details, or to provide feedback, see #4784
• Time Series
  • Improved line charts with GPU acceleration (#4695)
    • On by default; use ?fastChart=false to fallback to the older version. Please give us feedback before you use the fallback mechanism.
    • Support manual extent changes (#4711)
  • Monotonic option for "zigzag" charts (#4696)
• Graphs
  • Added toggle to disable high-degree node extraction (#4722)
  • "Color by structure" is now opt-in for large graphs; improves load performance by up to 77% in some cases (#4742)
  • Combine graph by prefixing with unique name (#4334)
• Text
  • Support fenced code blocks in Markdown (#4585)
• Histograms
  • Most recent step gets the most salient color. (#4374)
• Support http server port reuse (#4616) – thanks @zuston.

Bug fixes

• Graphs
  • Fixed "Download as PNG" button (#4759)
  • Fixed "Ungroup this series" button (#4817)
  • Now collapses more series (abc1, abc2, …, abc5 → abc[1-5]) (#4803)
• Core
  • Removed scrollbars on no data views for plugins (#4525)
  • Error message is JS is disabled (#4401)
• Projector: fix the KNN algorithm caused projections to be incorrect. (#4687)
• Windows: fixed the issue where TensorBoard notebook magic would hang when first launched (#4407, #4300)
• Time series: Time axis on scalar chart read walltime incorrectly (#4541)
• Graph events inconsistently evicted after session log START event (#4743)

TensorBoard.dev updates

• Text summaries now uploaded

Breaking changes

• Projector plugin will not work with --logdir_spec (#4494) (may not have worked before)
• Drop support for negative --reload_interval, which instructed TensorBoard to not read any data at all

TensorBoard 2.4.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed --path_prefix handling (#4423)
• Removed frame-ancestors * CSP directive for compatibility with Electron
  embeds (#4332) - thanks @joyceerhl