Don't forget to join our #events channel so you don't miss out on our local meetups! First up, NYC 🌆 on May 12th. https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1651781910001929

Just posted SEVEN IRL and virtual events over the next few weeks, join the #events channel so you don't miss a thing!

Hi, everyone. Unfortunately, some Prefect Cloud logs received from 12:55 EST to about 4:15 EST today have been lost due to an infrastructure issue. The issue has been resolved and all flow run logs after that time are available. We apologize and we'll keep you up-to-date - you can follow the status on https://prefect.status.io/.

👋 Hey everyone! If you're in NYC and want to meet up with the community tonight, head on over to the Betterment Offices in Flatiron at 7p - see you there! https://www.meetup.com/Prefect-Community/events/285723660/

What's happening over the next couple of weeks? -Meetup in Boulder/Denver area -Biweekly beginners demo by Kalise -Livestream with Hex! https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1652710246045999

https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1652884026667259 IRL meetup tonight!

Hey all! Integrations lead @alex will be joining me on PrefectLive in 5 minutes, we'll be talking about Collections (and whatever else Alex has up his sleeve). Feel free to ask any questions in chat! twitch.tv/prefectlive

Hi all! Make sure to join the #events channel to hear about all the happenings, both IRL and virtually. This Tuesday: a Hex + Prefect livestream. https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1653309828869179

Get your LIVESTREAMS here! We're going live in 10 minutes, we'll see you there. Register here to join.

It's a bit late for an announcement, but we want to keep you up to date with our latest releases: • Prefect 2.0 - release 2.0b5 • Prefect 1.0 - release 1.2.2 Happy Engineering!

Hi all! There is a Prefect Community Meetup happening in Berlin on June 14th, graciously hosted by the LiveEO team. We look forward to seeing you there for some Prefect talks, 🍕 and 🍻! RSVP on the Meetup and join our #events channel to learn about future IRL events 🚀 https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1653420600983689

Hi there everyone! 👋 Head on over to the #events channel to check out all of the exciting things happening over the next 2 weeks. We've got livestreams, IRL meetups, fireside chats and PrefectLive!

Hi everyone! We're going to release Prefect

2.0b6

tomorrow evening with some impressive albeit breaking changes to Prefect 2.0 prefect2, among others: • We've added Windows support. • We've added breaking changes with respect to the Blocks API - this API is an important abstraction you may have used already in the

flow_storage

part of your

DeploymentSpec

. As a result, the

2.0b6

API is incompatible with previous Orion client versions. Since "breaking changes" sounds dangerous, the good news is that your data will be migrated (for all users). After the open-source release, we will update Cloud 2.0 cloud2. Again, your data will remain intact, but you will immediately need to upgrade to

2.0b6

to continue using the Cloud API. Thanks everyone, and we'll keep you up to date once the release is complete.

☝️ <!here> - To ensure that these breaking changes are adequately tested, we are deferring this release until next Monday, 6/6. Thank you for your patience! 🔜

Hey everyone! We want to make an open call for PrefectLive 📺 guests. We know that community members want to learn about what OTHER people in the community are up to: • how are they using Prefect P • what other tools are they using • what are their personal best practices If you're interested in coming on PrefectLive to show off how you use Prefect (or anything else), we'd love to have you. Just shoot me a DM here and we can figure out a day that works for you.

STRONG 💪 list of events coming these 2 next weeks - check them out and register to join. We can't wait to see you virtually or in-person!

<!here> Hi, Prefectionists! We've just released the

2.0b6

version of Prefect 2.0! We apologize for the delay, but we promise it was well worth waiting for due to a number of exciting changes! 🎉 We're so grateful for the fountain of feedback we've received about Prefect 2.0. One of the themes in feedback was that the Orion UI didn't reflect the same clarity and elegance that the rest of Prefect 2.0 did. We agreed! Today, we're proud to share a completely redesigned UI. It's simpler, faster, and easier to use. Give it a spin! This release includes several other exciting changes, including Windows support. Note that this release makes a breaking change to the Blocks API - an important abstraction you may have used already in the

flow_storage

part of your

DeploymentSpec

. As a result, the backend API in

2.0b6

is incompatible with previous Orion client versions. After the upgrade, your data will remain intact, but you will need to upgrade to

2.0b6

to continue using the Cloud 2.0 API. You can upgrade in just a few simple steps: • Install the latest Prefect 2.0 python package:

pip install -U "prefect>=2.0b6"

• Restart any existing agent processes ◦ If you are using an agent running on Kubernetes, update the Prefect image version to

2.0b6

in your Kubernetes manifest and re-apply the deployment. ◦ You don't need to recreate any deployments or pause any schedules - stopping your agent process to perform an upgrade may result in some Late Runs, but those will be picked up once you restart your agent. Kudos to the UI team and everyone else behind this release, including our contributors! 👏 We will release this new version to Cloud 2.0 in about an hour. We'll let you know again once the upgrade to cloud2 is complete. Happy engineering!

Hi all, just an update on ☝️ - Cloud 2.0 release is complete. Once you upgrade your agent, everything should work as before. Please post in #prefect-community if you have any issues with the upgrade. In case you wonder about the UI: • the UI changes are not yet published to Cloud 2.0 - for now, only the backend API got upgraded, • if you want to play around with the brand new UI, you can spin up a local Orion instance. Here is a sneak peek of the UI showing the most vivid duck! marvin duck

A short update on the latest release: the new UI is now available in Cloud 2.0! cloud2 If you haven't signed up yet, the URL is https://beta.prefect.io/ Here is a list of resources to get you started with Cloud 2.0. Happy engineering!

👋 Hi there Prefectionists! We are excited to announce our inaugural Prefect Associate Certification Course! 🚀 The PAC Course is designed to a be a positive, hands-on experience creating a dynamic for collaboration and creativity. The course is broken down into 6 modules with a final capstone project to tie in all concepts! The course is in person and delivered by three Prefect P Instructors over two days ensuring plenty of support for attendees during their journey. Don't miss out on this opportunity to participate in a hands-on, immersive experience where you'll get to learn from other Prefect users, data practitioners and Prefect Instructors! Some Details: 🏢 Location - San Jose, CA marvin duck Seats - 25 Open Enrollment 🗓️ Dates - July 28 and 29 ✏️ Registration For more information or any questions, feel free to reach out ✉️ to anthony@prefect.io or send a Slack message directly to @Anthony Head!

👋 Hi all! Don't forget to join us live tomorrow for a fireside chat at 4p Eastern. 👉 Register here!

Hi all! Due to some unavoidable conflicts, we'll have to move our Fireside Chat to next Friday, June 17 at 4p Eastern. Apologies for the last minute reschedule, but it is sure to be worth it! Register here 👈

👋 Hi all! Come meet our new Developer Advocate @Khuyen Tran on PrefectLive today at 3p Eastern (in 10 minutes!). We'll be chatting about her experience, thoughts on content and dropping some spicy 🌶️ takes on Prefect.

👋 Hi all - Will here from the Product team at Prefect 🫂 Today, we’re excited to announce the release of workspace collaborators in Prefect Cloud 2. 👭 Workspace collaborators can do all the day to day orchestration work you’d expect - manage deployments, inspect flow runs, create work queues, but can’t perform administrative actions like editing workspace metadata or adding other collaborators. Beta users can add up to three collaborators for free! 🤝 To add a collaborator, navigate to the new workspace collaborators menu item in the sidebar from within a workspace. 💙 Try it out and let us know what you think!

See you at 4p Eastern! Sign up below! https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C036FRC4KMW/p1655481144265909

Hi everyone, in case you forgot about ☝️- the Fireside Chat starts now 🔥

Hi everyone! We have launched a new Prefect Associate Certification (PAC) Course, which is a two day immersive training dedicated to increasing engineering proficiency with workflow orchestration tooling for the modern data stack. The next session will take place on July 28-29 in San Jose, CA. More details can be found here. This will be a good opportunity to get hands-on workflow orchestration training, as well as network with fellow data practitioners. Just let us know if you’re interested or have any questions 🙂

👋 Hello Prefectionists - we’ve just released the

2.0b7

version of Prefect 2.0! Thank you all again for the continued feedback. Exciting updates in this release include • Fixes for running the Orion UI on Windows • Adding a color select in the Orion UI, enabling users to change their state color scheme • Added anonymous blocks, allowing Prefect to dynamically store blocks for you without cluttering your workspace • Performance enhancements • and more … !! As a result of ongoing upgrades to Blocks, the backend API in `2.0b7`is incompatible with previous Orion client versions. After the upgrade, your data will remain intact, but you will need to upgrade to `2.0b7`to continue using the Cloud 2.0 API. You can upgrade in just a few simple steps: • Install the latest Prefect 2.0 python package:

pip install -U "prefect>=2.0b7"

• Restart any existing agent processes • If you are using an agent running on Kubernetes, update the Prefect image version to `2.0b7`in your Kubernetes manifest and re-apply the deployment. • You don’t need to recreate any deployments or pause any schedules - stopping your agent process to perform an upgrade may result in some Late Runs, but those will be picked up once you restart your agent. We will release this new version to Cloud 2.0 in about an hour. We’ll let you know again once the cloud2 upgrade is complete. Happy engineering!

☝️ Cloud 2.0 has been updated. After upgrading your agent, everything should continue to work as normal.

Hi everyone, We are currently in the holiday season 🏖️ and working intensely on the Perfect 2.0 GA release planned for this summer. Community Support may be slow and limited in scope this month (July 2022). You may contact our paid support at cs@prefect.io if you have some mission-critical issues. I will be available to answer any of your questions during Office Hours between 7 and 9 AM EST (see my Slack status for the current availability). You may post your question anytime, but we will get back to you when we are available. To make it easier to get help during Office Hours: • Check the docs and Discourse whether it already provides the information you need • Make it clear whether your question is about Prefect 2.0 or Prefect 1.0 • Specify the problem rather than the feature or solution you tried. Focusing on a problem allows discussing many ways to solve it rather than focusing on a single approach you may have tried so far. • Define your issue as precisely as you can: ◦ explain your use case/problem in the main message, ◦ in the thread🧵, provide as many details as possible about: ▪︎ your environment (Cloud or self-hosted, the output of

prefect version

in 2.0 and

prefect diagnostics

in 1.0, your agent/storage setup, etc.), ▪︎ at which stage you are in your Prefect adoption, ◦ and document all steps you have taken so far to solve the issue you are facing in the thread. Thanks for understanding, and huge thanks to all community members helping others during that time! We appreciate you ❤️