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0.2.79

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Features

• Chain image commands
• Real-time task dashboard
• Jupyter integration
• Added credits dashboard to V2
• Stop containers from dashboard
• Added websocket support to ASGI

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Bug Fixes

• Improved .beamignore to ignore common folders like .venv/ .git poetry
• Improved logs for image builds that fail
• Containers spin down properly after errors
• Fixed bug with /task/cancel authentication
• Fixed Expired tasks

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How to update

pip install --upgrade beam-client

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Feature Spotlight

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Chain Image Commands

You can chain together image commands, making it easier to control the order of build steps.

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Run Beam from a Local Jupyter Notebook

You can now run Beam functions from a Jupyter Notebook. Learn more.

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>50% Faster Cold Starts with Volume Cache

We’re shipping a new feature to make cold starts over 50% faster for large models loaded from volumes.

Here’s a table with some cold boot benchmarks for popular apps, like Whisper and Stable Diffusion:

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Real-Time Dashboard

Tasks are now streamed to the dashboard in real-time.