+1 I had issues of sending this reply via pony-mail. Please excuse and duplicate votes from me that may show up.
I reviewed the 6 commits since v7. mkldnn deconv support looks good in terms of not affecting GPU users. Commits reviewed: 8173b858d 2021-11-04 Sam Skalicky [v1.x][FEATURE] Add MKLDNN Deconvolution 1D and 3D support (#20137) (#20726) 200b284de 2021-11-03 Joe Evans [v1.9.x] Port #20709 to v1.9.x branch (#20722) 5cd2d4d86 2021-10-18 Joe Evans [v1.9.x] CI fixes (#20648) 7d09efc7c 2021-10-07 Joe Evans [v1.9.x] LICENSE and CI fixes for 1.9 release (#20626) 7b2c0c8f2 2021-09-29 Joe Evans [v1.9.x] license updates (#20598) 82384cb88 2021-08-19 Joe Evans [v1.9.x] Backport docker cache fixes (#20537) -Dick On 2021/11/09 02:46:54 Serge Panev wrote: > Dear MXNet community, > > This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.9.0.rc8. > Voting will start on Monday, November 8th, 2021 7:00 pm and close after 4 > days. > > Compared to RC7, this RC8: > - addresses several issues, described in > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/20616 > - add MKLDNN Deconvolution 1D and 3D support > > Link to release notes: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.9.0+Release+Notes > > Link to release candidate: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.9.0.rc8 > > Link to source and signatures on Apache dist server: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.9.0.rc8/ > > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly: > +1 = approve > +0 = no opinion > -1 = disapprove (provide reason) > > > Best regards, > Serge Panev >