v0.21.0

[github-actions[bot]]

Release Notes

Summary

This release main introduces the new PeriodicFeatureExtractor, the control interface to the BatteryPool, and a new naming scheme for retrieving LogicalMeter and BatteryPool metrics. It also drops support for Python versions older than 3.11.

Upgrading

• Now Python 3.11 is the minimum supported version. All users must upgrade to Python 3.11 (including virtual environments used for development).

• BatteryPool metric streaming interfaces have changed for soc, capacity and power_bounds:

  soc_rx = battery_pool.soc()    # old
  
  soc_rx = battery_pool.soc.new_receiver()    # new

• Formulas now follow the new naming scheme.

  • BatteryPool.{power, production_power, consumption_power}
  • EVChargerPool.{power, production_power, consumption_power}
  • LogicalMeter:
    • consumer_power
    • grid_power
    • grid_production_power
    • grid_consumption_power
    • chp_power
    • chp_production_power
    • chp_consumption_power

• A power request can now be forced by setting the include_broken attribute. This is especially helpful as a safety measure when components appear to be failing, such as when battery metrics are unavailable. Note that applications previously relying on automatic fallback to all batteries when none of them was working will now require the include_broken attribute to be explicitly set in the request.

• Now float is used everywhere for representing power (before power metrics were float but setting power was done using int).

  • frequenz.sdk.actor.power_distributing: the power attribute of the Request class has been updated from int to a float.
  • frequenz.sdk.microgrid: the set_power() method of both the MicrogridApiClient and MicrogridGrpcClient classes now expect a float value for the power_w parameter instead of int.

• The LogicalMeter no longer takes a component_graph parameter.

• Now frequenz.sdk.timeseries.Sample uses a more sensible comparison. Before this release Samples were compared only based on the timestamp. This was due to a limitation in Python versions earlier than 3.10. Now that the minimum supported version is 3.11 this hack is not needed anymore and Samples are compared using both timestamp and value as most people probably expects.

• The dependency to sympy was unused and thus removed from the SDK. If you used it indirectly without declaring the dependency in your project you should do it now.

New Features

• The MovingWindow has new public methods that return the oldest and newest timestamp of all stored samples.

• The PeriodicFeatureExtractor has been added.

  This is a tool to create certain profiles out of periodic reoccurring windows inside a MovingWindow.

  As an example one can create a daily profile of specific weekdays which will be returned as numpy arrays.

• The BatteryPool can now be used to control the batteries in it via the new methods charge(), discharge(), and set_power().

Bug Fixes

• Fixed many examples in the documentation.

What's Changed

• ci: Fix building of tags by @leandro-lucarella-frequenz in ci: Fix building of tags #5

New Contributors

• @leandro-lucarella-frequenz made their first contribution in ci: Fix building of tags #5

Full Changelog: https://github.com/leandro-lucarella-frequenz/frequenz-sdk-python/commits/v0.21.0

---

This discussion was created from the release v0.21.0.