Covalent Version 0.202.0 is now live 🚀

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v0.202.0

🎉 Whats new in v0.202.0 ?

We are excited to announce v0.202.0! This new release is packed with amazing UI goodies. Specifically, we heard how much hard it was for you all to comb through the Covalent logs, so we added it directly to the UI now! Moreover, we also brought the settings - which previously had to be configured by editing a TOML file - directly into the UI as a bonus. Sub-lattices, which are used to create dynamic workflows, are now supported in the UI as well. Finally, we have added a beta version of our terminal feature, which exposes the terminal of the Covalent server’s machine directly on the UI. This new feature is extremely useful when hosting Covalent on remote machines.

Apart from these major changes, we are also shipping the following new additions/improvements:

• Specific theme updates have been made to enhance user experience and provide a vibrant UI that aligns with the Covalent theme specification.
• Clearing dispatches has never become more easier with the new ability to delete all dispatches in one go.
• Dispatch graphs can now be exported and shared as screenshots.

See the full list of new features included in v0.202.0 in the table below:

Features	Summary
Logs	Covalent logs are now available directly on the GUI. A user can view, download, and search through logs directly from the GUI.
Settings	Configuration files can be viewed and edited directly to the GUI. Along with logs, this is part of a roadmap to provide access to system-level logs & config files directly from the GUI for ease of access & modification.
Terminal	Covalent now lets users access & operate a command line terminal directly from the GUI!
Sublattices	Users will now be able to view the list of sublattices and their corresponding graph directly on the main lattice page.
Theme updates	The transport graph and the lattice/electron sidebars have been made more legible and align with the covalent theme specification
Executor label, node id and function label	Nodes on the transport graph now contain important metadata, making the graph view informative & intuitive.
Graph screenshot	Users no longer need an screenshot tool to capture & share graphs. Covalent now comes with built-in screenshot capability to help users capture & share graph images.
Delete all dispatches	Users will be able to delete all the dispatches in one go. This is especially useful when a user is experimenting through a large number of workflows. Users can also specifically filter by status and delete relevant dispatches.
Filter dispatches by status	Users will be able to filter the list of dispatches by status, enabling pointed searches & retrievals.

✨ Logs

Covalent UI logs are now accessible on the GUI! Users will be able to view, search, sort, copy and download the complete set of log files. This feature is part of an ongoing roadmap to provide users more system level information & capability on the GUI!

                          Ability to view & download the log file from the UI 

✨ Settings

Users will now be able to view and edit the config files from the GUI. This reduces the hassle of searching for the config files on your system to make changes.

💡 Note: Some settings will be non-editable on the GUI and are only to be viewed by a user

                   Configuration settings on the GUI

✨ Sublattices

Users will now have the ability to view the sublattices that are part of the main lattice graph inside the transport graph view. An additional tab has been added, which will help users view and sort the list of sublattices.

Users will also be able to view the transport graph of the sublattices by clicking them.

             Sublattices and their corresponding transport graph on the GUI

✨Terminal

Users will now have the ability to use the command line terminal on the UI. This will allow users to run whatever commands they want on the Covalent server. This would reduce the need to ssh into the remote server or even open local bash to run specific commands.

                                            Terminal on the GUI

✨Theme updates

The nodes in the transport graph now have a sober visual shade. Different shades have been used for different actions to increasing relevance to user action.

The edges will now be highlighted based on the nodes that are selected increasing context information on the transport graph.

The input, result, and function strings’ information snippets now align better with the Covalent theme specification.

           Theme update changes in the transport graph and lattice/electron sidebars

✨Executor label, node id, and function label

The nodes on the graph will now contain additional information, such as which executor has been used for that particular node as well as the node ID and a function image based on the type of node. This helps one to get specific node’s result by directly querying ct.get_result(<dispatch_id>).get_node_result**(<*node_id>*)** where <dispatch_id> is the dispatch ID and <node_id> is the ID shown in UI.

         Node ID and executor information shown on the nodes of the transport graph

✨Transport graph screenshot

This exciting new feature lets users take a screenshot of a particular graph view and download it as an image for easily sharing workflows. This gives a great deal of power to users to zoom-in/zoom-out and take screenshots of any variation/any part of the graph that they desire.

                       A sample transport graph screenshot

✨Deletion of all dispatches

Deletion of dispatches used to be restricted to just deleting workflow dispatches in a single paginated view. There have been additions to delete options, and now users will have better control over what they want to delete. Users will be allowed to select and delete the entire list of dispatches and additionally filter by dispatch status.

                               Different delete options available for the users

                                 Filter level deletion of dispatches 

✨Filter dispatches based on status

Users will now be able to filter the dispatch list based on dispatch statuses! This will let users directly view a list of dispatches of a specific status and drill down on them.

                                  Filter dispatches on clicking status cards

🙋🏽 Contributors

This release would not have been possible without the hard work of the team at Agnostiq and our contributors: @AgnostiqHQ , @mshkanth, @Prasy12, @amalanpsiog, @mpvgithub,@Aravind-Psiog,@ArunPsiog,@Kamalesh-suresh,@RaviPsiog,@Socrates,