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Apache MXNet 1.6.0 is TODO
MXNet 1.6.0 road map can be found at https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/15589.
Release Manager: Przemyslaw Tredak
Release shepherd:
Scope
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GitHub issue: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/15589
Issue | Proposer | PRs | Contributor(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Update to MKLDNN 1.0 | @pengzhao-intel | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/16555 | @TaoLv | Under review |
| Enabling MKLDNN Subgraph fusion by default | @pengzhao-intel | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15518 | @ZhennanQin | Done 7/26 |
| Quantization API improvement | @pengzhao-intel | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15448 | @zinyu-intel | Done 8/1 |
| Enhancements to INT64 support | @sandeep-krishnamurthy | |||
| Improvements to Estimator API | @sandeep-krishnamurthy | |||
| BERT optimizations for GPU | @ptrendx | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15545 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15167 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15657 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/16039 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/16398 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/16122 | @ptrendx @MoisesHer @drivanov @DickJC123 @Caenorst @nvchai | 15545 - done 8/21 15167 - WIP 15657 - WIP 16039 - done 9/24 16398 - WIP 16122 - done 9/30 16355 - done 10/5 16408 - WIP |
Fixing nightly tests | @roywei | |||
| NumPy compatibility | @reminisce | |||
| Better TensorRT documentation | @KellenSunderland | |||
Multithreaded inference | @anirudh2290 | |||
Release Timeline
Following timeline is based on everything goes well.(Added some buffer time)
TODO
Step | Tasks | Goal | Actual | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Freeze and release start | Track ongoing PRs | Oct 24th 2019 | ||
| Cut the release branch | Check license headers | |||
| Make code changes with necessary version updates | ||||
| Cut the release branch | ||||
| Update the version on master | ||||
| Test the release and tag the release | Nightly test, Jenkins CI | |||
| RAT check | ||||
| Tag RC0 | ||||
| Package artifacts and validate | Create release artifacts | |||
| Validate release package | ||||
| Test release package | ||||
| Scala release process | ||||
| Begin Apache voting | Start vote on dev@ | |||
| Start vote on general@ | ||||
| Finalizing and posting the release | Create the final release tag on github | |||
| Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir | ||||
| Update the website using tag | ||||
| Release the official pip package | ||||
| Release the official docker images | ||||
| After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded | ||||
| Draft the offical announce email and review | ||||
| Send out the email on announce@ | ||||
| Update the apache blog | ||||
| update the aws blog | ||||
| send internal announcement | ||||
CI status:
Release Note
This patch release includes the following bug fixes: