TensorBoard 1.14.0

Features

• New hyperparameters dashboard: see tutorial and demo and
  summary APIs
• New dashboard for visualizing meshes and point clouds: see
  README
• Graph dashboard now shows Keras conceptual graph: see tutorial and
  demo
• Embedding projector now supports the UMAP dimensionality reduction
  algorithm (learn more about UMAP here) (#1901) -
  thanks @cannoneyed
• TensorBoard notebook support is stabilized: in a Colab or
  Jupyter notebook, run %load_ext tensorboard followed by %tensorboard --logdir ./path/to/logs
• Profile dashboard improvements:
  • New pod viewer tool to analyze TPU performance (#2111)
  • Now allows capturing profiles from TensorBoard (#1894)
• What-If Tool improvements:
  • Now available as a notebook widget for Jupyter and Colab: see
    demo
  • Now shows PR curves and F1 score (#2264)
  • Now supports Cloud AI Platform, including XGBoost models (#2194)
  • Now shows feature-level attributions for individual predictions, as
    applicable (#2252)
• Image dashboard now allows scrolling for large images (#2164) - thanks @lr1d
• Scalar chart smoothing now caps at 0.999 for convenience (#1974) - thanks
  @flostim
• Scalar chart scroll-to-zoom behavior now requires holding Alt (#2221)
• tensorboard now supports a --version command line argument (#2097) -
  thanks @shashvatshahi1998
• Python API now defines tensorboard.__version__ in addition to
  tensorboard.version.VERSION (#2026)

Bug fixes

• Projector metadata card now formats long words properly (PR #2016) - thanks
  @makseq
• #2010 - .tensorboard-info is now world-writable for multi-user *nix systems
  (PR #2131)
• #1989 - importlib.reload(tensorboard) now works properly (PR #2005)

TensorBoard 1.13.1

Bug fixes

• #1895 - Fix strftime-related launch error on Windows (PR #1900)
• #1794 - Fix What-If Tool loading examples without inference (PR #1898)
• #1914 - Disable the profile dashboard inside Colab, where it doesn’t work
• #1945 - Fix profile dashboard loading behavior

TensorBoard 1.13.0

The 1.13 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.13.

Compatibility note: As of 1.13, TensorBoard has begun transitioning its own use
of some TensorFlow APIs to align with their naming in TF 2.0, and as a result
TensorBoard 1.13+ strictly requires TensorFlow 1.13+.

Features

• What-If tool notebook mode and general improvements
  • Now usable directly inside Jupyter and Colab notebooks (#1662, #1745, #1788)
  • Added comparison of multiple models (#1589, #1672)
  • Added CSV loading model (#1597)
  • Added global partial dependence plots (#1604)
  • Added custom prediction function support (#1842)
• (Alpha) TensorBoard can be embedded inside Juptyer and Colab notebooks via a
  %tensorboard magic, after loading the tb.notebook extension (#1813, #1822)
• Profile dashboard overview page now shows step time breakdown (PR #1683)
• Line chart "log" scale is now a true log scale (#1507)
• When no --port flag is specified, TensorBoard will now search for open ports
  near the default port (6006) if that port is already in use (#1851)

Performance improvements

• Faster event file loading by caching runtime check (PR #1686) - thanks @abiro

Bug fixes

• #786 (partial) - Avoid trying to smooth plots of constant y-value (PR #1698)
• #1515 - Fix image right-click accessiblity in non-Chromium browsers (PR #1561)
• #1541 - Fix --event_file flag when using --inspect
• #1566 - Fix error on trying to import "google.protobuf.pyext" (PR #1887)
• #1567 - Fix display bug on line chart after toggling series selection
• #1598 - Fix clipping in graph dashboard PNG download (PR #1600)
• #1601 - Fix chart SVG download option in Firefox
• #1623 - Fix --path_prefix interpretation
• #1838 - Fix run selector synchronization across already-loaded dashboards

TensorBoard 1.12.2

Release 1.12.2

The 1.12.2 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.12.

Bug fixes

• #1620 - Fix path_prefix flag regression (PR #1623)
• #1704 - Fix debugger sidebar resizer

TensorBoard 1.12.1

The 1.12.1 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.12.

Bug fixes

• #1549 - Run names wrap at all character (PR #1602) - thanks @dgrahn
• #1610 - Fix Download as PNG for large graph
• #1684 - Fix bug rendering debugger plugin (PR #1550) - thanks @longouyang

TensorBoard 1.12.0

The 1.12 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.12.

Features

• New download-as-SVG option for scalar dashboard charts (#1446)
• Image dashboard should now detect and render SVG images (#1440)
• What-If Tool example viewer/loader improvements:
  • Support for sampling examples to load (#1504)
  • Support for viewing SequenceExamples (#1513)
  • Improvements to saliency viewing/sorting (#1472)
• Profile tool shows per-program breakdown, idle time, and ops left out (#1470)

Bug fixes

• #1463 - What-If tool now handles classes with blank labels (PR #1471)
• #1468 - Reduce clipping in graph plugin sidebar
• #1475 - Restore tag filter persistence to URL param and across dashboards
• #1477 - Fix bug rendering TPU profile dashboard overview page
• #1480 - Fix projector hanging due to infinite loop (PR #1481)
• #1491 - Restore spinner on line charts when loading data
• #1499 - Fix stale/incorrect line charts when filtering by tag (PR #1500)
• #1505 - Fix 404 console errors in Firefox - thanks @wdirons
• #1506 - Fix --purge_orphaned_data to allow passing false (PR #1511)
• #1508 - Make custom scalars chart ignore outliers functionality work
• #1524 - Preserve line chart zoom level when data refreshes

TensorBoard 1.11.0

The 1.11 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.11.

Highlights

• New What-If Tool dashboard, which provides a simple, intuitive, and powerful
  visual interface to play with a trained ML model on a set of data with
  absolutely no code required. See for details:
  https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/tree/1.11/tensorboard/plugins/interactive_inference

Features

• Graph dashboard now supports coloring nodes by XLA cluster (PR #1336)
• Last updated time appears in tooltip for refresh button (PR #1362)
• Line charts support pan w/ shift key, zoom w/ scroll wheel (PR #1429, #1456)

Performance improvements

• Better UI animation/scrolling performance (#1311, #1357)
• Reduced Plottable MouseInteraction overhead on hover (#1333/#1329)
• Optimized line chart tooltip redraw behavior (#1355)

Bug fixes

• #982 - Fix spurious 404s for /[[_dataImageSrc]] or /[[_imageURL]] (PR #1315)
• #1320 - Fix port binding to disallow confusing IPv4/IPv6 port reuse (PR #1449)
• #1397 - Fix multi-part logdirs to correct expand ~ for user homedir
• #1396 - Fix "step" chart axis to show only integer ticks
• #1389 - Fix scalar card titles to omit common prefix (PR #1399)
• #1403 - Fix scalar chart shrinking problem on fast page changes
• #1406 - Fix scalar chart tooltip display to better avoid clipping

TensorBoard 1.10.0

The 1.10 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.10.

Changes

• New logic for loading/launching TensorBoard (PR #1240)
  • Plugin loading now uses new TBLoader API
  • Argument parsing now uses argparse
  • New tb.program.launch() API to launch TB from within Python
• Sidebars adjusted to be consistent across plugins (PR #1296)
• tb.summary.image() param order fixed to h, w (PR #1262) - thanks @ppwwyyxx
• New TPU profile dashboard progress bar for loading tools (PR #1286)

Bug fixes

• #1260 - Fix missing pie chart in TPU profile input pipeline analyzer
• #1280 - Fix TPU profile memory viewer issue with XLA compatibility
• #1287 - Fix dangling UI interaction layer issue in vz-line-chart
• #1294 - Fix custom scalar dashboard to de-duplicate charts - thanks @lgeiger

TensorBoard 1.9.0

The 1.9 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.9.

Highlights

• Improved performance with log directories on GCS (Google Cloud Storage) with
  faster traversal time and reduced bandwidth consumption (PRs #1087, #1226)
• Profile dashboard improvements, including:
  • New memory viewer tool that visualizes peak memory usage (#1223)
  • Trace viewer tool now supports streaming mode, that dynamically renders a
    much longer trace (#1128)
  • Op profile tool now shows memory utilization in op details card (#1238)
  • Profile dashboard now supports visualizing data from multiple hosts (#1117)

Features

• Graph dashboard now allows searching nodes by regex (#1130)
• New --samples_per_plugin flag to control how many samples are kept (#1138)
• Better error when --logdir/--db flag is omitted (#1189) - thanks @oxinabox
• Debugger plugin can now show single elements of string tensors (#1131)

Bug fixes

• #1107 - Beholder plugin should no longer reserve GPU (PR #1114)
• #1190 - Beholder plugin summary placeholder no longer interferes with normal
  summary use and/or Estimator - thanks @TanUkkii007 (PR #1148)
• #427 and #588 - removed pip package deps on bleach and html5lib (PR #1142)
• #1191 - fixed debugger plugin UnboundLocalError - thanks @cfroehli
• #1200 - fixed debugger plugin binary-valued string tensor issues
• #1201 - fixed "dictionary changed size" race condition in reloader (PR #1235)

TensorBoard 1.8.0

The 1.8 minor series tracks TensorFlow 1.8.

Bug fixes

• #1082 - fixes rendering for certain graphs with metaedges/function nodes
• #1097 - correction to debugger plugin keras code snippet (PR #1100)
• #1111 - event reader logic now supports TF 1.8 GetNext() API (PR #1086)