New Features

• Added Scala Inference APIs (#9678). See: MXNet Scala Inference API
• Added module to import ONNX models into MXNet (#9963). See: Proposal: ImportExport module
• Added support for Model Quantization with Calibration (#9552). 
• Added Exception Handling support for operators and iterators (#9681). See: Improved Exception Handling in MXNet
• Added MKLDNN support for MXNet (#9677). See: MKLDNN integration
• Added FP16 support for distributed training (#10183).
• Added Sparse support for Custom Operator (#10374).

Bug-fixes

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

1. cub@:: Jul 31, 2017 :: Jul 31, 2017
2. dlpack@: May 20, 2017 :: Oct 30, 2017
3. dmlc-core@: Jan 16, 2017 :: Jan 17, 2017
4. mshadow@: December 19, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
5. nnvm@: Dec 9, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
6. ps-lite@: Nov 21, 2017 :: Jan 2, 2017