Features / Enhancements
* **Docs**: Remove deprecated methods and classes, 3056, jillnogold
* **Docs**: Update python 3.9 model pickle files, 3079, yonishelach
* **Log Collector**: Change state file key delimiter, 3100, TomerShor
* **Nuclio**: Set default workers to 0 to allow backend enrichments, 3097, liranbg
* **Feature Store**: Don't treat `RunConfig` as remote when `local=True`, 3098, gtopper
* **Nuclio**: Ensure byte string are decoded to string on old python runtimes, 3095, liranbg
* **Docs**: Spark engine support for steps: MapValues, Imputer, OneHotEncoder, DropFeatures; DateExtractor (partial), 3035, jillnogold
* **Nuclio**: Set default workers to 8 in case `None` was given, 3072, liranbg
* **Functions**: Mask function credentials after submitting run, 3076, tankilevitch
* **Models-GPU**: Move opencv dependencies installation to prebaked images, 3092, alonmr
* **Docs**: Creating feature vector over several feature sets with different entity, 2540, jillnogold
* **Docs**: Add Confluent Kafka data source, 3091, jillnogold
* **Models-GPU**: Install opencv dependencies, 3085, alonmr
* **Runtimes**: Enable type hinting inputs and log hinting returning values, 2919, guy1992l
* **UI**: [Features & enhancement](https://github.com/mlrun/ui/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc24#features-and-enhancements)
Bug fixes
* **Runtimes**: Fix `_fill_credentials` condition to not overwrite if already contains secret reference, 3104, tankilevitch
* **Tests**: Test test_get_offline_features_with_spark_engine: add temp debug logs, 3103, tomerm-iguazio
* **Tests**: Fix sporadic test failures in CI, 3101, gtopper
* **Tests**: Fix nondeterministic failures of `TestFeatureStoreSparkEngine::test_aggregations`, 3086, gtopper
* **Datastore**: Fix target/source serialization to incldue credentials_prefix, 3093, alxtkr77
* **FeatureStore**: Fix issues when `value_type` is not provided to `Entity` or `Feature`, setting to string by default, 3083, davesh0812
* **SDK**: Fix `project.set_artifact` not validating artifact exists, 3059, quaark
* **Docs**: Sliding and fixed window updates, 3081, jillnogold
* **Datastore**: Fix depractations removal - delete all references to `after_state` parameter, 3088, gtopper
* **UI**: [Bug fixes](https://github.com/mlrun/ui/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc24#bug-fixes)
Pull requests:
50f349c4 [Docs] Remove deprecated methods and classes (3056)
bf90e31a [Docs] Update python 3.9 model pickle files (3079)
189bb8a6 [Runtimes] Fix `_fill_credentials` condition to not overwrite if already contains secret reference (3104)
5c107528 [Tests] Test test_get_offline_features_with_spark_engine: add temp debug logs (3103)
943838bc [Tests] Fix sporadic test failures in CI (3101)
070eab61 [Log Collector] Change state file key delimiter (3100)
2727b288 [Nuclio] Set default workers to 0 to allow backend enrichments (3097)
ded35bfb [Feature Store] Don't treat `RunConfig` as remote when `local=True` (3098)
a77d7cee [Nuclio] Ensure byte string are decoded to string on old python runtimes (3095)
2de20034 [Tests] Fix nondeterministic failures of `TestFeatureStoreSparkEngine::test_aggregations` (3086)
3c9268e8 [Docs] Spark engine support for steps: MapValues, Imputer, OneHotEncoder, DropFeatures; DateExtractor (partial) (3035)
4f756c0a [Nuclio] Set default workers to 8 in case `None` was given (3072)
49229bf5 [Datastore] Fix target/source serialization to incldue credentials_prefix (3093)
29eb15b0 [FeatureStore] Fix issues when `value_type` is not provided to `Entity` or `Feature`, setting to string by default (3083)
b8b6ebcd [Functions] Mask function credentials after submitting run (3076)
f55883f9 [Models-GPU] Move opencv dependencies installation to prebaked images (3092)
6d293a2d [SDK] Fix `project.set_artifact` not validating artifact exists (3059)
10fe9d8c [Docs] Creating feature vector over several feature sets with different entity (2540)
cae5b200 [Docs] Sliding and fixed window updates (3081)
4589542a [Docs] Add Confluent Kafka data source (3091)
f2ad63b9 [Models-GPU] Install opencv dependencies (3085)
6eb66d5c [Runtimes] Enable type hinting inputs and log hinting returning values (2919)
2f9c1b3a [Datastore] Fix depractations removal - delete all references to `after_state` parameter (3088)