TensorBoard 2.6.0

The 2.6 minor series tracks TensorFlow 2.6.

Features

• Added dark mode
• Some user settings are now kept in local storage and are persisted after page reload, including:
  • Time Series scalars smoothing, tooltip sorting method, ignore outliers in chart scaling
  • Settings dialog reload data, reload period, pagination limit
  • Dark mode
• Time Series
  • Improved positioning of the fit button in scalar chart (#4856)
  • Improved selection of runs when new runs arrive (#4888)

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where some plugins were not appearing in plugins list (#4849)
• Fixed subtle bugs in navigation (#4974)
• Stopped storing default values for settings on the URL (#5030)
• Graphs
  • Fixed parsing of _output_shapes attr (#4867)
• HParams
  • Fixed parallel coordinate layout (#4988)
• Projector
  • Fix KNN algorithm and, by extension, T-SNE and UMAP embeddings (#5063)
  • Make opaque sprites opaque (#4921) - thanks @tyhenry
  • Make transparent sprites transparent (#5149) - thanks @canbakiskan
• Scalars
  • Improved rendering of small major axis numbers (#5010)
  • Fixed axis label in Firefox (#5078)
• Time Series
  • Fixed rendering of filter text areas (#4938)
  • Improved rendering of small major axis numbers (#5010)
  • Improved tooltip rendering (#5003)
  • Fixed scrolling of runs selector (#5020)
  • Make runs selector header sticky on scroll (#5024)
  • Improved rendering of step axis to use SI units (#5015)
• Documentation
  • Fixed and cleaned documentation and demos during TensorBoard team fixit.
  • Fixed debugger v2 documentation (#4843) - thanks @kevint324

TensorBoard.dev updates

• Improve upload throughput for scalar summaries (#4825)
• Fixed bug where experiment name and description were not displayed in tensorboard dev list (#4912)
• Fixed bug where reading from remote directories did not work in --one_shot mode (#4909)

Breaking changes

• TimeSeries plugin no longer supports ?fastChart=false fallback to old chart renderer.