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What's New? - CAIP - 24-PI2

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Paul Weber
Paul Weber
Product Owner - Connected AI Platform

🚀 What's New in CAIP after 24-PI2?​

24-PI2 (March 12 – May 6, 2024) strengthened the reliability and flexibility of CAIP workflows, expanded modern notebook choices, and introduced a focused environment for exploring GenAI capabilities.

🖥️ CAIP Offboard v1 / v1.5: Classic & Managed Kubeflow​

✨ New Features​

📓 Notebooks & Development​

The CAIP SDK made Python 3.11 the default for new projects and added artifact uploads to S3 buckets in custom regions, giving teams more flexibility in where project outputs are stored. New Python 3.11 Notebook Server and Code Server images also brought a current runtime to interactive development.

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🔀 Pipelines & Serving​

Pipeline versioning began recognizing relevant YAML changes, helping teams run the intended version when a definition changes. Glue components added step retries, Glue 4 by default, and automatic artifact-output paths; EMR components added retries, configurable Spark job overrides, and reliable selection of the requested virtual cluster—giving workflow authors more resilient, configurable jobs.

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🤖 Foundation Models​

A GenAI example environment introduced isolated access for Bedrock model invocation, giving teams a focused place to explore the capability. Its KServe custom-model example also reported readiness after a model loaded, making it clear when the example could receive requests.

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🛠 Maintenance​

The SDK warns projects still using retired ci-bot credentials to move to OIDC, supporting a safer authentication path. Local-version and run-completion handling were also made more resilient.

📦 Repositories in This Release​

  • caip-sdk — Python 3.11 defaults, regional S3 uploads, pipeline-version handling, and OIDC migration guidance.
  • jupyter-notebooks-images — Python 3.11 Notebook Server and Code Server images.
  • kubeflow-components — Glue and EMR workflow improvements.
  • products — GenAI example environment and KServe custom-model readiness.

This section covers customer-visible changes for CAIP Offboard v1/v1.5 from March 12 – May 6, 2024 (24-PI2). For guides and reference material, see the CAIP Documentation.