Mephisto 1.1.0

Overview

This release contains a number of Stability and Quality of Life improvements from v1.0.0 and v1.0.2. The big focus has been on collection success rate, documentation, and various bugfixes.

For those updating from 1.0, see the 1.0.2 changes as well for a complete changelog.

Breaking changes

• Mephisto no longer supports Python 3.7. This is as of #898, wherein to get the ParlAI peer imports working we needed to bump to ParlAI 1.7.0, which no longer supports Python 3.7.

Big Changes

• When launching on MTurk, Mephisto will request that you run the mephisto scripts mturk cleanup script inline before launching. This exercise prevents having long-running tasks that haven't been cleaned up properly. #918
• When jobs have had no activity for a set duration, they'll be shut down automatically (suspecting an issue). #919

Big Fixes

• Lots of documentation, thanks @Etesam913!
• Significant fixes to proper execution and state tracking in Mephisto, which should improve stability across all job types (#875, #878, #902, #922)
• Major fix for Heroku tasks using the useMephistoLiveTask hook, which was causing all messages to be double sent in both directions. (#921)

Included PRs

Feature + UX Improvements

• Enhance logging messages with rich by @Etesam913 in #869
• Added ability to customize html-static-task-example submit button by @Etesam913 in #879
• Adds ability to clear onboarding for a worker by @Etesam913 in #886
• Adding more general function with better name by @mojtaba-komeili in #893
• Making MTurk cleanup run daily per requester by @JackUrb in #918
• 12 hour inactivity shutdown by @JackUrb in #919

Bugfixes

• [Bugfix] Fixing double update bug on heroku by @JackUrb in #921
• Fixing Worker Pool race condition for assignments by @JackUrb in #875
• ParlAI Assignment Fixes pt 2 by @JackUrb in #878
• Resolving static return status bug by @JackUrb in #902
• Make self.metadata backward-compatible by @chiehminwei in #861
• Finding OSTYPE if not exists by @mojtaba-komeili in #892
• fix breaks in create_validation_function for screening units by @macota in #864
• Fix mephisto web cli command by @Etesam913 in #865
• Removing threadsafety as we already lock connections behind threads by @JackUrb in #897
• Extending some 1.1 changes by @JackUrb in #922

Testing & DevX

• Add path filter by @Etesam913 in #868
• Add cypress test to simple static task by @Etesam913 in #881
• fix #874: Upgrade pip and create main_data_directory in Dockerfile by @mjkanji in #917
• pre-commit install by @mojtaba-komeili in #894
• Some fixes made to run a live demo of Mephisto functionality by @JackUrb in #909

Docs + Examples

• Adds cypress section to frontend docs by @Etesam913 in #860
• Adds tips/feedback section to docs by @Etesam913 in #838
• Add tests to tips example by @Etesam913 in #833
• Add searchbar to docs by @Etesam913 in #858
• Update searchbar colors by @Etesam913 in #863
• Auto Generate Blueprint Documentation by @Etesam913 in #870
• Auto Generate Architect Documentation by @Etesam913 in #871
• Auto Generate Requester Documentation by @Etesam913 in #872
• Auto Generate Provider Documentation by @Etesam913 in #873
• Update deploy docs github action to auto-generate docs by @Etesam913 in #877
• Add Screening Example by @Etesam913 in #883
• Creates a readme for simple_static_task by @Etesam913 in #882
• Improve onboarding example by @Etesam913 in #887
• Add info on link_task_source to docs by @Etesam913 in #885
• Update documentation to reflect that make_qualification_dict takes 3 arguments. by @xksteven in #908

Dependencies

• Bump terser from 5.12.1 to 5.14.2 in /docs/web by @dependabot in #853
• Update @blueprintjs/core version by @pringshia in #876
• Bump oauthlib from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 by @dependabot in #901
• Bump protobuf from 3.19.4 to 3.19.5 by @dependabot in #903
• Bump joblib from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 by @dependabot in #904
• Upgrading to poetry 1.2, resolving dependency issues by @JackUrb in #898
• Upgrade yarn 3.2.1->3.2.4 by @pringshia in #920

New Contributors

• @chiehminwei made their first contribution in #861
• @mjkanji made their first contribution in #917

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.1.0