Kedro Files

Major features and improvements

• Added a new HTTP Server layer which uses the KedroServiceSession to execute pipelines from HTTP requests. It offers the following endpoints:
• /run to run pipelines with optional runtime parameters.
• /health to check the server's health status.
• /snapshot to retrieve the current project snapshot.
• Added a new CLI command kedro server start to run the server.
• Added selective pipeline loading: when --pipelines is specified, only the requested pipeline modules are imported.

Bug fixes and other changes

• Fixed Rich logging integration so node input/output brackets render correctly in console logs and dataset colour markup does not leak into plain log handlers.
• Improved the AbstractDataset.from_config() error message for custom dataset classes that are still abstract, so it no longer suggests invalid constructor arguments when required dataset methods are missing.
• Fixed kedro new accepting project names whose derived package name shadows a Python standard library module or is a Python keyword (e.g. email, json, import), which silently produced a broken, unimportable project. Such names are now rejected at creation time with a clear message.
• Fixed kedro pipeline create accepting Python keywords (e.g. for, import, return) as pipeline names. Such names are now rejected at creation time with a clear error message.

Documentation changes

• Documented hooks limitation when using ParallelRunner.
• Updated the Amazon EMR Serverless deployment guide with a strategy-first layout, custom container images, Spark catalog configuration, and troubleshooting for common deployment issues.
• Updated the AWS Step Functions deployment guide with a strategy-first layout, pipeline-level namespace grouping, Lambda container deployment, and an end-to-end Spaceflights walkthrough.
• Updated the AWS Batch deployment guide with a strategy-first layout, custom AWSBatchRunner usage, namespace-based job submission, and S3-backed catalog configuration.

Community contributions

Many thanks to the following Kedroids for contributing PRs to this release:

• Feng Jikui
• Rudra Dudhat
• Jean-Baptiste Braun
• Gargi
• Simon