Kicking off this issue to document the upcoming release. This release will be a feature/functionality release.

Feast 0.6

New Functionality

1. Batch statistics & validation Add computation and retrieval of batch feature statistics #612 (@zhilingc)
2. Authentication & Authorization Add support for authentication and authorization #554 (@dr3s)
3. Online feature/entity status metadata Add Field Status metadata to Online Serving #658 (@mrzzy)
4. Improved searching and filtering of features and entities (@mrzzy)
5. Python support for labels Update Python SDK to support labels #663 (@Joostrothweiler)

Technical debt, refactoring, or housekeeping

1. Improved job life cycle management Job Coordination Improvement Proposal #761 (@pyalex)
2. Compute and write metrics for rows prior to store writes Compute and write metrics for rows prior to store writes #763 (@zhilingc)