Features

CUDA Graphs

• Enable CUDA Graphs for TRT (#19184)
• CUDA graphs support (#19142)

CUDA 11 Support

• Update CUB and include it only for CUDA < 11 #18799' (#18975)
• Add new CI pipeline for building and testing with cuda 11.0. (#19149)

TensorRT

• TensorRT: add int8 with calibration (#19011)

• Add TRT verbose mode (#19100)

• Backporting TensorRT-Gluon Partition API (and TensorRT 7 support) (#18916)

OneDNN

• Upgrade to oneDNN v1.6.3 (#19153) (#19161)

• Update oneDNN to official v1.6 release (#18867) (#18867)
• Upgrade to oneDNN v1.6 (#18822)

IntGemm

• Backport of intgemm #17559 (#19099)

Subgraph API

• Backport Fix for duplicate subgraph inputs/outputs (#16131) (#19112)

Extensions

• Backport #19103 (#19117)

• Backporting #19016 (#19069)

• Backport: Change Partition API's options_map to std::unordered_map #18929 (#18964)
• Backporting #18779 to v1.x (#18894)

ONNX

• Update onnx support to work with onnx 1.7.0 with most CV models (#19017)

Large Tensor

• Fix linalg_potri and linalg_potrf operators for large tensor. (#18752)

• Add forward, backward test for linalg.gemm2 (#18784)

• add large matrix tests for linalg ops: det, inverse, trsm, trmm (#18744)

• Add Large Tensor Test for linalg_syrk (#18782)

• Add Large Dim Checks for linalg Operators (#18816)

• Add forward & backward linalg.gemm test for large size (#18825)
• adding error message when attempting to use Large tensor with linalg_syevd (#18807)

Website Improvements

• v1.8 website patch (#19212)

Documentation

• Fix mxnet.test_utils.check_numeric_gradient documentation (#19060)

• Update windows_setup.md (#18874)

License

• Stop packaging GPL libquadmath.so (#19055)

• Remove mention of nightly in pypi (#18635) (#18884)

• Mkldnn header fix v1x for nightly binaries (#18797)

CI Improvements

• Upgrade unix gpu toolchain (#18186) (#18785)
• Fix CI in v1.x branch (#18907)

Bug Fixes

• delete executor before reallocating it memory (#19222)

• Nightly Large Tensor test cherrypicks (#19194) (#19215)

• Tweeking syntax to be closer to other tests (#19186) (#19206)

• ElementWiseSum fix for oneDNN (#18777) (#19200)

• Fix flaky intgemm test in v1.8.x too (#19204)

• Revert "Fix memory leaks in Gluon (#18328) (#18359)" (#19181)

• Improve environment variable handling in unittests (#18424) (#19173)

• Backport Unittest tolerance handling improvements (#18694). Also test seeding (#18762). (#19148)

• Fix the error of gradient of np.pad (#19044) (#19167)

• Backport Add cmake flag USE_FATBIN_COMPRESSION, ON by default (#19123) (#19158)

• SymbolBlock.imports ignore_extra & allow_missing (#19156)

• Fix race condition in NaiveEngine::PushAsync (#19108) (#19122)

• empty list cannot be cleared issue fixed. (#14882)

• Update base_module.py (#19096)

• fix block.export (#17970) (#19075)

• Support for fp16 in SpM x DnsM on GPU (#18930) (#19074)

• Backport of Fix LeakyRelu behaviour on empty input (#18934) (#19009)

• Get rid of monkey patching in LossScaler overflow handling (#18959) (#18973)

• remove upper bound (#18857) (#18910)

• fix gelu to use erf based algorithm (#18827) (#18946)

• Cherry-pick #18635 to v1.7.x (#18935) (#18945)

• Backporting backward inference from 2.x #18348 and #18378 (#18895)

• backport Invoke mkldnn and cudnn BatchNorm when axis != 1 to v1.7.x (#18676) (#18890)

• bump version to 1.8.0 (#18899)

• Fixing ONNX spatial export for batchnorm (#17711) (#18846)

• Fix softmax, logsoftmax failed on empty ndarray (#18602) (#18708)

• Add unit tests for potri and potrf backward and check output shape in unit tests. (#18803)

• Add syrk test shape check (#18812)

• Back port optimization to broadcast_axis to MXNet1.x (#18773)

• Fix crash when accessing already destructed static variables (#18768) (#18778)

• Cherrypick #18677 #18713 (#18742)