Usability Improvement
- Improved the usability of examples and tutorials
Bug-fixes
Fix I/O multiprocessing for too many open file handles (#8904), race condition (#8995), deadlock (#9126).
Fix image IO integration with OpenCV 3.3 (#8757).
Fix Gluon block printing (#8956).
Fix float16 argmax when there is negative input. (#9149)
Fix random number generator to ensure sufficient randomness. (#9119, #9256, #9300)
Fix custom op multi-GPU scaling (#9283)
Fix gradient of gather_nd when duplicate entries exist in index. (#9200)
New Features
Added support for standard SGD optimizer with momentum with `row_sparse` gradient.
- Added `sparse.dot(dense, csr)` operator
API Changes
Change Scala package namespace prefix from `ml.dmlc.mxnet` to `org.apache.mxnet`. (#9324)
How to build MXNet
Please follow the instructions at https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html
List of submodules used by Apache MXNet (Incubating) and when they were updated last
Submodule:: Last updated by MXNet:: Last update in submodule
- cub@:: Jul 31, 2017 :: Jul 31, 2017
- dlpack@: May 20, 2017 :: Oct 30, 2017
- dmlc-core@: Jan 16, 2017 :: Jan 17, 2017
- mshadow@: December 19, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
- nnvm@: Dec 9, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
- ps-lite@: Nov 21, 2017 :: Jan 2, 2017