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Deprecation of Python 2

MXNet community voted to no longer support Python 2 in future releases of MXNet. Therefore, MXNet 1.6 release is going to be the last MXNet release to support Python 2.

New features

NumPy compatible interface and using TVM to generate operators

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• Add symbol api for randn and fix shape issue for randn ndarray and symbol api (#15772)
• Graph Partition API (#15886)

Language Bindings

Python

MXNet community voted to no longer support Python 2 in future releases of MXNet. Therefore, MXNet 1.6 release is going to be the last MXNet release to support Python 2.

C/C++

• [C++] Improve inference script to support benchmark on Imagenet (#15164)
• C Api for simplebind, fix comment for trigoops, add atol to assert (#16585)

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Please follow the instructions at https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/get_started

Users that build MXNet from source are recommended to build release 1.6.0 without jemalloc to avoid incompatibilities with llvm's openmp library (details in issue 17043 and PR 17324). This is done for cmake builds by setting USE_JEMALLOC "OFF" in ./CMakeLists.txt, or for make builds with "USE_JEMALLOC = 0" in make/config.mk.

List of submodules used by Apache MXNet (Incubating) and when they were updated last

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