Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.4.0 Release Plan and Status

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Release timelines

Following timeline is based on everything goes well.(Added some buffer time)

Step	Tasks	Goal	Actual	Comments
Code Freeze and release start	Track ongoing PRs	November 27, 2018	ongoing

Cut the release branch	Check license headers	November 29, 2018		Depending on stability
	Make code changes with necessary version updates	November 29, 2018	N/A	master version was already on 1.4.0
	Cut the release branch	November 29, 2018	done 11/29
	Update the version on master	November 29, 2018		https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13478
Test the release and tag the release	Nightly test, Jenkins CI	December 4, 2018	setup done 11/29
	RAT check	part of CI	passed	http://jenkins.mxnet-ci.amazon-ml.com/job/incubator-mxnet/job/v1.4.x/
	Tag RC0

Package artifacts and validate	Create release artifacts	December 6, 2018
	Validate release package	December 6, 2018
	Test release package	December 6, 2018
	Scala release process

Begin apache voting	Start vote on dev@	December 7, 2018
	Start vote on general@	December 11, 2018

Finalizing and posting the release	Create the final release tag on github	December 17, 2018
	Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir	December 17, 2018
	Update the website using tag	December 17, 2018
	Release the official pip package	December 17, 2018
	Release the official docker images	December 17, 2018
	After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded	December 18, 2018
	Draft the offical announce email and review
	Send out the email on announce@	December 18, 2018
	Update the apache blog	December 18, 2018
	update the aws blog	December 18, 2018
	send internal announcement	December 18, 2018

PR	Title	Contributor	Status
~~https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13369 (merged)~~	~~MKLDNN LSTM Regression in MKLDNN 0.17~~	~~Alex, Patric~~	~~Open, PR merged on both master and v1.4.x~~
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13409 - PR for 1.4.x branch: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13487	Fix shape inference problems in Activation backward	Pedro,	Open, PR for master ready
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13438	libc getenv is not threadsafe	Pedro, Sam S.	Open, PR for master ready
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13449	performance degradation	Alex Z.	Open
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12255	Pretty high cpu load when import mxnet	multiple	Open
~~https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13330~~ (merged) ~~https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13473~~ (merged)	~~Scala Inference enable different shapes input~~	~~Qing~~	~~Open on master, needs PR to merge to v1.4.x branch~~
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13447	Rewrite dataloader, improves responsiveness and reliability	Zhi	Open on master, needs PR to merge to v1.4.x branch, needs test
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13479	API to return header file path in MXNet package	Lin Yuan	Merged to master. Tested. Needed by Horovod MXNet integration.