# ZenML 0.96.4

- Product: ZenML (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zenml)
- Vendor: ZenML
- Date: 2026-09-04
- Version: 0.96.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zenml/releases/0.96.4

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- **added** — Add webhook triggers functionality
- **added** — Add ClickUp webhook provider
- **added** — Add Slack webhook provider
- **added** — Add RDS IAM database authentication
- **added** — Add raw event storage and downstream access
- **changed** — Treat infer_artifact=False as the documented default in add_tags/remove_tags
- **changed** — Improve dependency handling for the Databricks orchestrator and step operator
- **changed** — Precalculate and reuse build checksums
- **changed** — Sanitize the chart version in the version label
- **fixed** — Fix AWS Strands GPT-5 temperature
- **fixed** — Escape $ in generated Docker Compose files
- **fixed** — Fix completed pipeline with failed steps bug
- **fixed** — Fix Qwen-Agent example dependency installation
- **fixed** — Fix breaking cases of dynamic pipelines
- **security** — Prevent exchanging scoped workload tokens for unscoped ones

##### What's Changed
* Add version 0.96.2 to legacy docs by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5147
* Fail agent examples on provider errors by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5144
* Fix AWS Strands GPT-5 temperature by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5151
* Pin `setup-python` and extend Dependabot to composite actions by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5118
* Escape $ in generated Docker Compose files by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5087
* Bump actions/stale from 10.4.0 to 11.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5134
* Reframe Kitaru docs around executions and replay; fix unshipped API samples by @htahir1 in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5099
* Treat infer_artifact=False as the documented default in add_tags/remove_tags by @chuenchen309 in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5097
* Refresh the Kitaru SDK reference by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5156
* Fix dead Kitaru example links in `docs/book/user-guide` by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5161
* Fix completed pipeline with failed steps bug by @Json-Andriopoulos in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5182
* Update Kitaru documentation for current architecture by @AlexejPenner in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5184
* Add RDS IAM database authentication by @safoinme in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5113
* Fix Qwen-Agent example dependency installation by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5181
* Mark ZenML as production/stable on PyPI by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5186
* Expand custom flavor docs with remote instructions by @stefannica in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5183
* Better dependency handling for the Databricks orchestrator / step operator by @bcdurak in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5146
* Prevent exchanging scoped workload tokens for unscoped ones by @stefannica in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5152
* Precalculate and reuse build checksums by @stefannica in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5154
* Bump the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory with 8 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5150
* Fix breaking cases of dynamic pipelines by @Json-Andriopoulos in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5187
* Run the Kubernetes release quickstart inside staging by @safoinme in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5189
* Mention Kitaru in the evals, tracing and agent-example docs by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5208
* Bump cardinalby/schema-validator-action from 77eb17b070f282db4680215551cae4d9c379f2f4 to 95ce895b6846cc7d931785fcaa46c84816753612 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5211
* Bump the minor-and-patch group with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5210
* Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 9.0.0 to 10.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5212
* Update the security policy by @stefannica in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5214
* Dispatch staging workspace runtime builds by @safoinme in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5185
* Clear standing CI reds: bump `mkdocs-material`, pin zizmor, skip Docker tests for Dependabot by @strickvl in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5213
* Feature/webhook triggers by @Json-Andriopoulos in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5169
* Feature/webhook followup features by @Json-Andriopoulos in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5217
* Sanitize the chart version in the version label by @safoinme in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5222
* Add ClickUp webhook provider by @bcdurak in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5216
* Slack webhook provider by @stefannica in https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/pull/5221
* Return Kubernetes release quicks

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