What is the project status given the last release was in 2023

[wingkitlee0]

Just curious what is the status of the project? Do the maintainers recommend new projects to use hydra?

(similar question to OmegaConf as well..)

[wingkitlee0]

Some words from Omegaconf's maintainers: omry/omegaconf#1200

[rsokl]

I have a working dev release of omegaconf that supports Python 3.9 - 3.14. I am planning to publish this as OmegaConf 2.4.0 soon (hopefully this week). Hydra is also passing CI for Python 3.9 - 3.14, and I am working with people at meta to be able to release this as Hydra 1.4.0.

My intentions are to keep the lights on for these projects. This amounts to maintaining compatibility with future versions of Python and fixing any major regressions. I personally will not be doing any feature development on these projects.

Perhaps if people open PRs that are thoroughly documented and tested, these will be considered. There are other people who have worked on omegaconf and hydra who are still capable of reviewing these, I just personally have very limited time to dedicate to this.

[szapp]

@rsokl That's great to hear! Thank you for stepping up! Where can I stay updated about your efforts?

If it's within the scope of your maintenance intentions, would you consider adjusting the dependencies in the hydra-plugins - possibly through community PRs? E.g. lifting the upper-bound dependency constraint for optuna in the optuna-sweeper plugin.

[deveArt]

@rsokl waiting for the update asap! Thank you!

[rsokl]

If it's within the scope of your maintenance intentions, would you consider adjusting the dependencies in the hydra-plugins - possibly through community PRs? E.g. lifting the upper-bound dependency constraint for optuna in the optuna-sweeper plugin.

@szapp this sounds good to me! Please feel free to open a PR

I released a new dev version of omegaconf, and have a PR open for upgrading how hydra-core makes releases to pypi. Waiting for people at Meta to approve this so that I can move forward. Once this is in, I will release a dev version of hydra, wait a week or two for regression reports, and the publish the new version of hydra.