THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
Apache MXNet 1.9.0 is a minor release that includes backward compatible changes.
As MXNet follows semver, this release includes backwards-compatible fixes and new features only.
Discussion on the roadmap: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/20238
Release Managers:
- Serge Panev (https://github.com/Kh4L)
Scope
Issue | PRs | Contributor(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reuse params from cached_op_args | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20221 | @samskalicky | Done |
ONNX export support from arg/aux params | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20198 | @waytrue17 | Done |
ONNX export support broadcast_not_equal | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20259 | @waytrue17 | Done |
ONNX Change some 10D shapes to 8D | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20258 | @Zha0q1 | Done |
Add aarch64 support | https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/20252 | @mseth10 | Done |
Release Timeline
Steps | Tasks | Goal | Actual | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Freeze and release start | Track ongoing PRs | May 14th | May 14th | |
| Cut the release branch | Check license headers | May 15th | May 15th | |
| Cut the release branch | May 17th | May 17th | ||
| Make code changes with necessary version updates on v1.x | May 18th | June 14th | #20348 | |
| Test the release and tag the release | Nightly test, Jenkins CI | May 19th | May 19th | |
| RAT check | May 19th | May 19th | ||
| Tag RC0 | May 20th | May 20th | ||
| Package artifacts and validate | Create release artifacts | May 21st | May 21st | |
| Validate release package | May 21st | May 21st | ||
| Test release package | May 21st | May 21st | ||
| Begin apache voting | Start vote on dev@ | May 21st | May 21st | |
| Start vote on general@ | June 2nd | June 9th | ||
| Finalizing and posting the release | Create the final release tag on github | June 15th | ||
| Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir | June 15th | |||
| Update the website using tag | June 16th | |||
| Release the official pip package | June 18th | |||
| Release the official docker images | June 18th | |||
| After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded | June 19th | |||
| Draft the official announce email and review | June 21st | |||
| Send out the email on announce@ | June 21st | |||
| Update the apache blog | June 21st | |||
| Update the AWS blog | June 21st | |||
| Send internal announcement | June 21st |