Pathway/pathway: Release v0.8.1

Name: pathway

Owner: Pathway

Release: v0.8.1

Released: 2024-02-15

License: NOASSERTION

Release Assets:

• pathway-0.8.1-cp310-abi3-macosx_10_15_x86_64.macosx_11_0_arm64.macosx_10_15_universal2.whl

• pathway-0.8.1-cp310-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl

• pathway-0.8.1-cp310-abi3-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl

Added

• Introduced the send_alerts function in the pw.io.slack namespace, enabling users to send messages from a specified column directly to a Slack channel.
• Enhanced the pw.io.http.rest_connector by introducing an additional argument called request_validator. This feature empowers users to validate payloads and raise an HTTP 400 error if necessary.

Fixed

• Addressed an issue in pw.io.xpacks.llm.VectorStoreServer where the computation of the last modification timestamp for an indexed document was incorrect.

Changed

• Improved the behavior of pw.io.kafka.write. It now includes retries when sending data to the output topic encounters failures.