> Release time: 2020-12-13 23:12:22
🙇 We'd like to thank all contributors for this new release! In particular,
Han Xiao, Jina Dev Bot, Wang Bo, Siyuan Shi, Joan Fontanals, Yusup, Rutuja Surve, florian-hoenicke, cristian, Harry Stark, Deepankar Mahapatro, Pratik Bhavsar, Amritpal Singh, 🙇
🆕 New Features
- [[7ebfc762](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/7ebfc7623475e74e50b833ca3cb263fc92c916f6)] __-__ add `env` to pea, pod, flow cli (#1446) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[ec8d9131](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ec8d91315a863b03dd5bdb7aee253180c7029cb1)] __-__ __flow__: add needs, inspect, version to flow yaml (#1442) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[4ff02558](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/4ff025588fcfdb46a41bb011f260b1a53217c3c5)] __-__ __kvindexers__: update method for binary pb indexer (#1380) (*florian-hoenicke*)
- [[130dfbbf](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/130dfbbf84e9f52a6fb69510269a3fe173258ef5)] __-__ native async based grpc & fastapi based rest for gateway (#1348) (*Deepankar Mahapatro*)
🐞 Bug fixes
- [[46aaa5b2](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/46aaa5b2c766dd280befa50307a52d9c03b9fca5)] __-__ __pod__: do not set envs in thread mode (#1448) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[6fdfb5e5](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/6fdfb5e5e0de1c9dfc823571d1c751f1917caa06)] __-__ redundant translation in readme chinese (#1443) (*Siyuan Shi*)
- [[4bf27801](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/4bf27801ee892046002e9c720ec3f40ba0f443e7)] __-__ __grpc__: rename the file and class (#1428) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[576c4bd4](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/576c4bd4f5a6406adf423a9acd3d9d6d92f244c0)] __-__ __completions__: add newline at the end (#1425) (*Yusup*)
- [[7a0279b7](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/7a0279b7a6198597605b2f605bb984ce08a309e8)] __-__ changes to test levels for hubio (#1361) (*Rutuja Surve*)
- [[8e6750a0](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/8e6750a0caac91d157bec38faa3d883a1ff7dde6)] __-__ check jina version in hub modules when pushing (#1403) (*cristian*)
- [[f3165afb](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/f3165afb5995ee48a891296d5ebc9525b9b7ae9b)] __-__ add _merge_matches and _merge_chunks syntax sugar (#1406) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[ce258b1b](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ce258b1b383c4d8c5841556ba6c6ccfeccf1560a)] __-__ add opname when ranking (#1409) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[af36ae6f](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/af36ae6f09d7a78218d041671483bb8758cb087d)] __-__ __gateway__: event loop for rest server (#1408) (*Deepankar Mahapatro*)
🚧 Code Refactoring
- [[3db76599](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/3db765992365da7332bd2e21e2955d07efa3083b)] __-__ __client__: refactor code, style of pyclient (#1450) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[e90cd370](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/e90cd3700ef15af0bc57dac251186ae6fef45e63)] __-__ ensure callback called in tests (#1419) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[7c18aea8](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/7c18aea8832cd57d7dbde1624ae2656808305c3b)] __-__ __peapods__: restructure code base (#1421) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[11f7222e](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/11f7222e69cb9a99e188115e16d5da83afe56d1f)] __-__ remove _merge_all (#1418) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[0094bbf7](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/0094bbf75f1cc97a48bf0f092c8c1fd5ebb461b9)] __-__ refactor pea loop and closing (#1379) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[4afdd2de](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/4afdd2deb9dfb1cd1b6958cc01dea5ce9d37ad19)] __-__ updated helloworld.html to fix a typo (#1405) (*Harry Stark*)
- [[920fcb3f](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/920fcb3f444299e20757c64bf3510290ba5a8f82)] __-__ __client__: refactor async client (#1410) (*Han Xiao*)
📗 Documentation
- [[2109b3d1](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/2109b3d1ab21de73b2d571325934e98e76e81599)] __-__ __README__: add cross and multimodal documentation into readme (#1384) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[15c38f4b](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/15c38f4b696f13641e42abbcb42e5ac95ef49cff)] __-__ add understanding jina recursive document representation (#1394) (*Wang Bo*)
- [[ab078ea6](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ab078ea6a990657c329f3a14305bc906da7ecf63)] __-__ added code review guide (#1397) (*Pratik Bhavsar*)
🏁 Unit Test and CICD
- [[906c62c7](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/906c62c78cca8214b18c7f5172d9fd0c12360b32)] __-__ refactor request test (#1445) (*Wang Bo*)
- [[ded6127f](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ded6127f0263ce5fc4c0230fdf68ff9b49a36654)] __-__ add latency tracking (#1437) (*Han Xiao*)
- [[978e130a](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/978e130aca13b632504e422f68b5b9f790d85367)] __-__ add test behavior cosine with zeros (#1434) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[ce5f094f](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ce5f094f275ad0624884bdadbaedb66d5e3d3008)] __-__ refactor primitive type test (#1435) (*Wang Bo*)
- [[ad81b05e](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/ad81b05e072766d97f4b854ddf6be8c0425059ce)] __-__ refactor type sets test (#1417) (*Wang Bo*)
- [[d3563de9](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/d3563de9c4eeae9606458fa67c55bc50351bbf1b)] __-__ test merge all with more than one request (#1411) (*Joan Fontanals*)
- [[fe8ad66d](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/fe8ad66db17ab0451bf96e1db8c56c836b34de36)] __-__ add test jinad checks for pr on master (#1407) (*Joan Fontanals*)
🍹 Other Improvements
- [[694a6ae3](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/694a6ae391d15d8386af0d4cc6dfb44c64fd13eb)] __-__ remove false commit files (*Han Xiao*)
- [[783cf429](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/783cf42980b74a42b2638c8441b88e0929868b50)] __-__ __docs__: update readme (*Jina Dev Bot*)
- [[8c1c2a3d](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/8c1c2a3d16c5217f694acf569e3852e5f008be6b)] __-__ __contributor__: update contributors (*Jina Dev Bot*)
- [[f40a6c66](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/f40a6c6613c518c088b4bfd1fdb6075e653cc849)] __-__ __ci__: fix update mode to replacement (*Han Xiao*)
- [[5137759f](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/5137759fd53239022a2e72fa3be0699a46dfa38d)] __-__ __copyright__: update copyright header (*Jina Dev Bot*)
- [[e4d831a7](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/e4d831a7fd8ccd236705cfb4ce8804545666dc1c)] __-__ use pathlib instead of os path in all unit tests (*Amritpal Singh*)
- [[539a28a9](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/539a28a983be93d84d1ca479d2a6f547b1964cf4)] __-__ __docs__: update TOC (*Jina Dev Bot*)
- [[51932675](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/51932675d92a6123f327ff805011a2c1618467a0)] __-__ __version__: the next version will be 0.8.4 (*Jina Dev Bot*)
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