Tensorboard

The 1.12 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.12.

Features

- New download-as-SVG option for scalar dashboard charts (1446)
- Image dashboard should now detect and render SVG images (1440)
- What-If Tool example viewer/loader improvements:
- Support for sampling examples to load (1504)
- Support for viewing SequenceExamples (1513)
- Improvements to saliency viewing/sorting (1472)
- Profile tool shows per-program breakdown, idle time, and ops left out (1470)

Bug fixes

- 1463 - What-If tool now handles classes with blank labels (PR 1471)
- 1468 - Reduce clipping in graph plugin sidebar
- 1475 - Restore tag filter persistence to URL param and across dashboards
- 1477 - Fix bug rendering TPU profile dashboard overview page
- 1480 - Fix projector hanging due to infinite loop (PR 1481)
- 1491 - Restore spinner on line charts when loading data
- 1499 - Fix stale/incorrect line charts when filtering by tag (PR 1500)
- 1505 - Fix 404 console errors in Firefox - thanks wdirons
- 1506 - Fix --purge_orphaned_data to allow passing false (PR 1511)
- 1508 - Make custom scalars chart ignore outliers functionality work
- 1524 - Preserve line chart zoom level when data refreshes

The 1.11 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.11.

Highlights

- New What-If Tool dashboard, which provides a simple, intuitive, and powerful
visual interface to play with a trained ML model on a set of data with
absolutely no code required. See for details:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/tree/1.11/tensorboard/plugins/interactive_inference

Features

- Graph dashboard now supports coloring nodes by XLA cluster (PR 1336)
- Last updated time appears in tooltip for refresh button (PR 1362)
- Line charts support pan w/ shift key, zoom w/ scroll wheel (PR 1429, 1456)

Performance improvements

- Better UI animation/scrolling performance (1311, 1357)
- Reduced Plottable MouseInteraction overhead on hover (1333/1329)
- Optimized line chart tooltip redraw behavior (1355)

Bug fixes

- 982 - Fix spurious 404s for /[[_dataImageSrc]] or /[[_imageURL]] (PR 1315)
- 1320 - Fix port binding to disallow confusing IPv4/IPv6 port reuse (PR 1449)
- 1397 - Fix multi-part logdirs to correct expand ~ for user homedir
- 1396 - Fix "step" chart axis to show only integer ticks
- 1389 - Fix scalar card titles to omit common prefix (PR 1399)
- 1403 - Fix scalar chart shrinking problem on fast page changes
- 1406 - Fix scalar chart tooltip display to better avoid clipping

The 1.10 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.10.

Changes

- New logic for loading/launching TensorBoard (PR 1240)
- Plugin loading now uses new TBLoader API
- Argument parsing now uses argparse
- New `tb.program.launch()` API to launch TB from within Python
- Sidebars adjusted to be consistent across plugins (PR 1296)
- tb.summary.image() param order fixed to h, w (PR 1262) - thanks ppwwyyxx
- New TPU profile dashboard progress bar for loading tools (PR 1286)

Bug fixes

- 1260 - Fix missing pie chart in TPU profile input pipeline analyzer
- 1280 - Fix TPU profile memory viewer issue with XLA compatibility
- 1287 - Fix dangling UI interaction layer issue in vz-line-chart
- 1294 - Fix custom scalar dashboard to de-duplicate charts - thanks lgeiger

The 1.9 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.9.

Highlights

- Improved performance with log directories on GCS (Google Cloud Storage) with
faster traversal time and reduced bandwidth consumption (PRs 1087, 1226)
- Profile dashboard improvements, including:
- New memory viewer tool that visualizes peak memory usage (1223)
- Trace viewer tool now supports streaming mode, that dynamically renders a
much longer trace (1128)
- Op profile tool now shows memory utilization in op details card (1238)
- Profile dashboard now supports visualizing data from multiple hosts (1117)

Features

- Graph dashboard now allows searching nodes by regex (1130)
- New --samples_per_plugin flag to control how many samples are kept (1138)
- Better error when --logdir/--db flag is omitted (1189) - thanks oxinabox
- Debugger plugin can now show single elements of string tensors (1131)

Bug fixes

- 1107 - Beholder plugin should no longer reserve GPU (PR 1114)
- 1190 - Beholder plugin summary placeholder no longer interferes with normal
summary use and/or Estimator - thanks TanUkkii007 (PR 1148)
- 427 and 588 - removed pip package deps on bleach and html5lib (PR 1142)
- 1191 - fixed debugger plugin UnboundLocalError - thanks cfroehli
- 1200 - fixed debugger plugin binary-valued string tensor issues
- 1201 - fixed "dictionary changed size" race condition in reloader (PR 1235)

The 1.8 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.8.

Bug fixes

- 1082 - fixes rendering for certain graphs with metaedges/function nodes
- 1097 - correction to debugger plugin keras code snippet (PR 1100)
- 1111 - event reader logic now supports TF 1.8 GetNext() API (PR 1086)

The 1.7 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.7.

Highlights

- (Beta) New Beholder plugin that shows a live video feed of tensor data during
model training, by chrisranderson. Caveat: only currently recommended for use
where TensorBoard and TensorFlow share a local disk. See for details:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/tree/1.7/tensorboard/plugins/beholder

Features

- Debugger tensor value card improvements:
- Entering new slice/time indices will automatically refresh view (1017)
- Clicking title will highlight node in other parts of the UI (1023)
- Debugger health pills now show number of NaN/Inf values if any (1026)

Changes

- Audio summary playback elements no longer loop by default (PR 1061), but
looping can be enabled for individual elements through a right-click option.

Bug fixes

- 965 - pr_curve_streaming_op no longer results in duplicate plots (PR 1053)
- 967 - custom scalar margin plots with missing tags now indicate the run
- 970 - browser back button now works across home page (/) - thanks brianwa84
- 990 - apple-touch-icon.png requests no longer trigger 404s - thanks lanpa
- 1010 - content no longer intrudes into sidebar on narrow viewports
- 1016 - CTRL+C now exits TensorBoard even with debugger enabled (PR 975)
- 1021 - text plugin no longer always shows as inactive on first page load