Kedro 0.18.5 is out!

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We are excited to announce that Kedro 0.18.5 is out!

TLDR: In this release, we introduce a brand new config loader powered by omegaconf, updates & improvements to kedro run command options, the ability to use generator functions as nodes, and more!

Kedro 0.18.5 is a non-breaking release in the 0.18.x series, which means you can upgrade with:
pip install kedro==0.18.5 or conda install -c conda-forge kedro==0.18.5

🎉 Major features and changes

• Several configuration improvements
• A new config loader, the OmegaConfigLoader, which uses the powerful omegaconf library under the hood.
• A new flag --conf-source for the kedro run command that allows you to specify the location of your config files.
• You can now also use the omegaconf syntax with kedro run --param flag.
• Improvements to the kedro run CLI to make it more consistent; the flags --node, --tag, and --load-version are deprecated in favour of --nodes, --tags, and --load-versions (they’ll be removed in Kedro 0.19.0).
• Filter and run nodes by node namespace using the --namespace flag with kedro run.
• Support for using generator functions as nodes, i.e. using yield instead of return.
• New node argument to all four dataset hooks.
• Documentation improvements and additions.

🪲 Bug fixes and other changes

• Corrected the parsing of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 URIs used in datasets.
• Fixed the incorrect splitting of auto-generated node names containing commas for kedro run options --from-nodes and --to-nodes.
• Fixed bug where micropkg manifest section in pyproject.toml wasn’t being recognised as allowed configuration.
• Added safe extraction of tar files in micropkg pull caused by CVE-2007-4559
• Added anyconfig’s ac_context parameter to kedro.config.commons module functions for more flexible ConfigLoader customisations.
• Fixed bug causing after_dataset_saves hook to be called only once even when multiple datasets are being saved in a single node and async saving is in use.

You can find the full list of changes in the release notes: https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/releases/tag/0.18.5

We welcome every community contribution, large or small. See what we're working on now and report bugs or suggest future features.