Flyte 1.16.2

Added

• Added support for configuring horizontal pod autoscaling for flyte admin in flyte-core helm chart (#6625)
• Added support for typing.Union in flytecopilot / container tasks (#6674)

Changed

• Only return connector/agent plugins if enabled (#6644)
• Support downloading old versions of flytectl by install.sh (#6668)
• Improve datacatalog query performance with composite index on tags table (#6672)
• Handle child node timeouts in conditional branch nodes (#6678)
• Fix auto refresh cache iteration bug causing parent workflows to get stuck in a running state (#6725)

Removed

• Removed unused node selector functions and legacy environment variables (#6614)
• Remove unused DefaultWorkflowActiveDeadline config (#6688)

Dependencies / Security

• Bump urllib3 from 2.2.3 to 2.5.0 in /flytectl/docs (#6728)
• Bump requests from 2.32.3 to 2.32.4 in /flytectl/docs (#6727)

Housekeeping

• Removed unused replace directives (#6638)
• Removed use of deprecated pod phase (#6640)
• Executor code cleanup (#6629)
• Updated docker images to use Bitnami legacy repo (#6631)
• Updated helm charts to use new twun.io helm repo (#6726)

Contributors

Special thanks to new contributors: @hefeiyun (#6629), @ihvol-freenome (#6672), @Sally-Yang-Jing-Ou (#6725), along with all returning contributors who made this release possible.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/compare/v1.16.1...v1.16.2