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From: Hamza Tahir <htahir111@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:06:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] preparing 0.3.4

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+# 0.3.4
+This release is a big design change and refactor. It involves a significant change in the Configuration file structure, meaning this is a **breaking upgrade**. 
+For those upgrading from an older version of ZenML, we ask to please delete their old `pipelines` dir and `.zenml` folders and start afresh with a `zenml init`.
+
+If only working locally, this is as simple as:
+
+```
+cd zenml_enabled_repo
+rm -rf pipelines/
+rm -rf .zenml/
+```
+
+And then another ZenML init:
+
+```
+pip install --upgrade zenml
+cd zenml_enabled_repo
+zenml init
+```
+
+# New Features
+* Introduced another higher-level pipeline: The [NLPPipeline](https://github.com/maiot-io/zenml/blob/main/zenml/pipelines/nlp_pipeline.py). This is a generic 
+  NLP pipeline for a text-datasource based training task. Full example of how to use the NLPPipeline can be found [here](https://github.com/maiot-io/zenml/tree/main/examples/nlp)
+* Introduced a [BaseTokenizerStep](https://github.com/maiot-io/zenml/blob/main/zenml/steps/tokenizer/base_tokenizer.py) as a simple mechanism to define how to train and encode using any generic 
+tokenizer (again for NLP-based tasks).
+
+# Bug Fixes + Refactor
+* Significant change to imports: Now imports are way simpler and user-friendly. E.g. Instead of:
+```python
+from zenml.core.pipelines.training_pipeline import TrainingPipeline
+```
+
+A user can simple do:
+
+```python
+from zenml.pipelines import TrainingPipeline
+```
+
+The caveat is of course that this might involve a re-write of older ZenML code imports.
+
+Note: Future releases are also expected to be breaking. Until announced, please expect that upgrading ZenML versions may cause older-ZenML 
+generated pipelines to behave unexpectedly.
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-0.3.4rc0
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