In September 2025, the team focused on deprecation governance and documentation improvements in modal-labs/modal-client, establishing a clear path toward removing outdated APIs. A targeted deprecation notice was added to the NetworkFileSystem documentation and docstrings, signaling removal and guiding developers away from a deprecated approach. This work aligns with the roadmap and reduces future maintenance and migration risk.

May 2025: Delivered a key feature enabling robust data sharing between the TensorFlow training function and the TensorBoard web server using Modal Volumes. This refactor replaces the previous NetworkFileSystem with a Modal Volume and adds middleware to reload volumes to ensure log data is promptly updated. Result: more reliable, lower-latency data access for monitoring and debugging, improved reproducibility, and reduced risk of stale logs.