Monthly Rewind > July

Your July look back at new features and great community content

Posted in Community, August 6 2021

๐Ÿ† App of the Month ๐Ÿ†

Our July featured app of the month is......๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ

Chef Transformer by Mehrdad, Kartik, Haswanth, Deepak and Nicholas.

Discover new and unique recipes from Chef Scheherazade and Chef Giovanni, trained NLP models/"chefs", by entering a type of cuisine or a custom ingredient list. [code]

Streamlit July Updates

Let's take a look at all that happened during the month of July!

๐Ÿ” Current Release: 0.85.1

The latest release is 0.85.1. Notably, Streamlit now uses Apache Arrow to serialize DataFrames but make sure to check out the changelog to see all the latest features and fixes.

๐Ÿ”ฎ Upcoming Features

Be on the lookout for these new features on the horizon:

  • Text dials
  • Download button
  • Support for cards

๐ŸŽˆ New blog design

If you hadn't noticed, we made some fun changes to our blog site! Take a look around and explore our other posts.

Featured Streamlit content

Podcasts and articles written by or featuring the Streamlit team for your listening and reading pleasure.

  • Randy outlines some tips on improving your app performance in the final part of the Designing Streamlit Apps for the User series.

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  • Henrikh dives into how we now use Arrow as our internal serialization format and how it helped delete over 1,000 lines of code from our codebase here.

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  • Ken gives an in depth interview and answers Streamlit questions in dataroots' Tour de Tools.

Some great apps, videos, and articles by the Streamlit community. Check out the Streamlit forum for even more community content.

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