Tensorboard

Bug Fixes

- Bumps `google-auth-oauthlib` dependency restriction to be compatible with
versions up to 1.0 (6246)

The 2.12 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.12.

Features

- Time Series dashboard visualization improvements: (6137)
- Allows selection of a step or range of steps on a scalar chart, and shows a table with data from those steps under it.
- Enables linking the selected steps across all charts in the Time Series dashboard.
- Time Series dashboard now sorts runs in tooltip by pixel distance (matching the Scalars dashboard) (6116).
- Fast data loading mode (`--load_fast`, aka “RustBoard”) improvements:
- Supports more ways to authenticate to GCS, including GKE service accounts, via `gcp_auth` (5939, thanks Corwinpro).
- Now available on `manylinux2014` platforms (6101, thanks adamjstewart).

Bug Fixes

- Fixes long standing breakage in standalone version of the Projector visualization (6069).
- Fixes broken help dialog button in projector plugin (6024, thanks mromanelli9).
- Fixes a bug in which a deadlock could cause the event writer to hang (6168, thanks crassirostris).


Breaking Changes

- Drops support for Python 3.7 and marks 3.11 as supported (6144).
- Drops support for protobuf < 3.19.6 and adds support for 4.x (6147).

Bug Fixes

- Fixes bug introduced in 6107, which was included in release 2.11.1. (6142)

NOTE: This release has a bug related to the limited-input device auth flow, and was "yanked" in PyPi (https://pypi.org/help/#yanked). A newer patch release (2.11.2) contains these changes along with the fix for the bug.

Bug Fixes

- Prevent regression in TensorBoard.dev uploader authentication by replacing deprecated OOB auth flow with limited-input device flow. (6107)
See [deprecation announcement](https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flows-safer.html).
- Fix compatibility with numpy 1.24.0 by removing deprecated type aliases (6117, 6140)

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

Bug Fixes

- Fix embedding projector plugin. (5944)