Sourced from modal's changelog.

0.73.10 (2025-02-04)

• Modal functions, methods and entrypoints can now accept variable-length arguments to skip Modal's default CLI parsing. This is useful if you want to use Modal with custom argument parsing via argparse or HfArgumentParser. For example, the following function can be invoked with modal run my_file.py --foo=42 --bar="baz":

  import argparse
  @​app.function()
  def train(*arglist):
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument("--foo", type=int)
  parser.add_argument("--bar", type=str)
  args = parser.parse_args(args = arglist)

0.73.1 (2025-01-30)

modal run now runs a single local entrypoints/function in the selected module. If exactly one local entrypoint or function exists in the selected module, the user doesn't have to qualify the runnable
in the modal run command, even if some of the module's referenced apps have additional local entrypoints or functions. This partially restores "auto-inferred function" functionality that was changed in v0.72.48.

0.73.0 (2025-01-30)


Introduces an include_source argument in the App.function and App.cls decorators that let users configure which class of python packages are automatically included as source mounts in created modal functions/classes (what we used to call "automount" behavior). This will supersede the MODAL_AUTOMOUNT configuration value which will eventually be deprecated. As a convenience, the modal.App constructor will also accept an include_source argument which serves as the default for all the app's functions and classes.
The include_source argument accepts the following values:

True (default in a future version of Modal) Automatically includes the Python files of the source package of the function's own home module, but not any other local packages. Roughly equivalent ot MODAL_AUTOMOUNT=0 in previous versions of Modal.
False - don't include any local source. Assumes the function's home module is importable in the container environment through some other means (typically added to the provided modal.Image's Python environment).
None (the default) - use current soon-to-be-deprecated automounting behavior, including source of all first party packages that are not installed into site-packages locally.



Minor change to MODAL_AUTOMOUNT=0:  When running/deploying using a module path (e.g. modal run mypak.mymod), all non .pyc files of the source package (mypak in this case) are now included in the function's container. Previously, only the function's home .py module file + any __init__.py files in its package structure were included. Note that this is only for MODAL_AUTOMOUNT=0. To get full control over which source files are included with your functions, you can set include_source=False on your function (see above) and manually specify the files to include using the ignore argument to Image.add_local_python_source.


0.72.56 (2025-01-28)

Deprecated .lookup methods on Modal objects. Users are encouraged to use .from_name instead. In most cases this will be a simple name substitution. See the 1.0 migration guide for more information.

0.72.54 (2025-01-28)

Fixes bug introduced in v0.72.48 where modal run didn't work with files having global Function.from_name()/Function.lookup()/Cls.from_name()/Cls.lookup() calls.

0.72.48 (2025-01-24)
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