We’re pleased to announce the release of Prefect 2.14.0 and the inaugural release of the light-weight Prefect Client:

prefect-client 2.14.0

. prefect rocket Things to know about Prefect Client: 1. Installed size (with dependencies) is less than half the size of Prefect. 2. It’s a stripped down version of the Prefect package without a server, UI, or CLI. Many dependencies are removed. 3. You can have both

prefect

and

prefect-client

in the same environment (for example if you thought

prefect-client

would meet your needs but found you needed to install

prefect

for additional functionality). 4. You import objects from

prefect-client

exactly like you do from

prefect

. For example:

from prefect import flow

. 5. The Prefect Client is built out of the prefecthq/prefect GitHub repo and we plan to keep the versions of Prefect and Prefect Client in sync (the latest versions of both are currently 2.14.0). 6. We do not currently publish a Docker image that uses the Prefect Client.

prefect-client

is available today on PyPI, and can be installed with

pip install prefect-client 🚀

Please share any feedback about the Prefect Client in Slack. If you find bugs or desire additional features, feel free to open an issue in the Prefect GitHub repo. We plan to continue development it to make it as functional and light-weight as possible. This release also includes bug fixes 🐛 and documentation 📃 updates. See the release notes for all the details. 🔍