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Changelog

This changelog documents user-facing updates (features, enhancements, fixes, and deprecations) to the modal client library. Patch releases are made on every change.

The client library is still in pre-1.0 development, and sometimes breaking changes are necessary. We try to minimize them and publish deprecation warnings / migration guides in advance, typically providing a transition window of several months.

We appreciate your patience while we speedily work towards a stable release of the client.

Latest

0.72.0 (2025-01-09)

• The default behaviorImage.from_dockerfile() and image.dockerfile_commands() if no parameter is passed to ignore will be to automatically detect if there is a valid dockerignore file in the current working directory or next to the dockerfile following the same rules as dockerignore does using docker commands. Previously no patterns were ignored.

0.71.13 (2025-01-09)

• FilePatternMatcher has a new constructor from_file which allows you to read file matching patterns from a file instead of having to pass them in directly, this can be used for Image methods accepting an ignore parameter in order to read ignore patterns from files.

0.71.11 (2025-01-08)

• Modal Volumes can now be renamed via the CLI (modal volume rename) or SDK (modal.Volume.rename).

0.71.7 (2025-01-08)

• Adds Image.from_id, which returns an Image object from an existing image id.

0.71.1 (2025-01-06)

• Sandboxes now support fsnotify-like file watching:

from modal.file_io import FileWatchEventType
app = modal.App.lookup("file-watch", create_if_missing=True)
sb = modal.Sandbox.create(app=app)
events = sb.watch("/foo")
for event in events:
if event.type == FileWatchEventType.Modify:
print(event.paths)

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• 68b6cb1 [auto-commit] [skip ci] Bump the build number
• a32d5c8 Fix Python 3.13 standalone mount steps (#2743)
• 2c8e526 [auto-commit] [skip ci] Bump the build number
• d3ea87d Add Python standalone mount deployment back to CD pipeline (#2741)
• 8f6b065 [auto-commit] [skip ci] Bump the build number
• bbea6a9 CLI-298: auto detect dockerignore for Image.from_dockerfile() and `Image.do...
• d8245cc [auto-commit] [skip ci] Bump the build number
• 1c4cfc0 CLI-298: Add from_file support to FilePatternMatcher & Image.docker metho...
• 3e6c1d2 [auto-commit] [skip ci] Bump the build number
• 54a0b70 Add web_server decorator container test (#2738)
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