Hi Naveen and Anton,

Thanks for pointing that out. You are right that these are not critical
fixes. Putting them in 1.4.0 is more appropriate. PRs are closed.

Best,
Haibin

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:35 AM Naveen Swamy <mnnav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Please note that this is a patch release(1.3.1) to address critical bugs!,
> For everything else please wait for 1.4.0 which is planned very shortly
> after 1.3.1
>
> > On Nov 6, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The following PR's have been created so far:
> >
> > Infer dtype in SymbolBlock import from input symbol (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13117
> >
> > [MXNET-953] Fix oob memory read (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13118
> >
> > [MXNET-969] Fix buffer overflow in RNNOp (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13119
> >
> > [MXNET-922] Fix memleak in profiler (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13120
> >
> > Set correct update on kvstore flag in dist_device_sync mode (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13121
> >
> > update mshadow (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13122
> >
> > CudnnFind() usage improvements (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13123
> >
> > Fix lazy record io when used with dataloader and multi_worker > 0
> (v1.3.x)
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13124
> >
> >
> > As stated previously I would be rather opposed to have following PR's it
> in
> > the patch release:
> >
> > Gluon LSTM Projection and Clipping Support (#13055) v1.3.x
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13129
> >
> > sample_like operators (#13034) v1.3.x
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13130
> >
> >
> > Best
> > Anton
> >
> > вт, 6 нояб. 2018 г. в 16:06, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi Haibin,
> >>
> >> I have a few comments regarding the proposed performance improvement
> >> changes.
> >>
> >> CUDNN support for LSTM with projection & clipping
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13056
> >>
> >> There is no doubt that this change brings value, but I don't see it as a
> >> critical bug fix. I would rather leave it for the next major release.
> >>
> >> sample_like operators
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13034
> >>
> >> Even if it's related to performance, this is an addition of
> functionality
> >> and I would also push this to be in the next major release only.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Anton
> >>
> >>
> >> вт, 6 нояб. 2018 г. в 15:55, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> Hi Patric,
> >>>
> >>> This change was listed in the 'PR candidates suggested for
> consideration
> >>> for v1.3.1 patch release' section [1].
> >>>
> >>> You are right, I also think that this is not a critical hotfix change
> >>> that should be included into the 1.3.1 patch release.
> >>>
> >>> Thus I'm not making any further efforts to bring it in.
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>> Anton
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Project+Proposals+for+next+MXNet+Release#PR_candidates
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> вт, 6 нояб. 2018 г. в 1:14, Zhao, Patric <patric.z...@intel.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Anton,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for looking into the MKL-DNN PR.
> >>>>
> >>>> As my understanding of cwiki (
> >>>>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Project+Proposals+for+next+MXNet+Release
> >>>> ),
> >>>> these features will go into 1.4 rather than patch release of 1.3.1.
> >>>>
> >>>> Feel free to correct me :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> --Patric
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Anton Chernov [mailto:mecher...@gmail.com]
> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 3:11 AM
> >>>>> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Announce] Upcoming Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.3.1
> patch
> >>>>> release
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems that there is a problem porting following changes to the
> >>>> v1.3.x
> >>>>> release branch:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Implement mkldnn convolution fusion and quantization
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12530
> >>>>>
> >>>>> MKL-DNN Quantization Examples and README
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12808
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The bases are different.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would need help from authors of these changes to make a backport
> PR.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> @ZhennanQin, @xinyu-intel would you be able to assist me and create
> the
> >>>>> corresponding PR's?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Without proper history and domain knowledge I would not be able to
> >>>> create
> >>>>> them by my own in reasonable amount of time, I'm afraid.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>> Anton
> >>>>>
> >>>>> пн, 5 нояб. 2018 г. в 19:45, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As part of:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Implement mkldnn convolution fusion and quantization
> >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12530
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I propose to add the examples and documentation PR as well:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> MKL-DNN Quantization Examples and README
> >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12808
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>> Anton
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> пн, 5 нояб. 2018 г. в 19:02, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com>:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Dear MXNet community,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I will be the release manager for the upcoming 1.3.1 patch release.
> >>>>>>> Naveen will be co-managing the release and providing help from the
> >>>>>>> committers side.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The following dates have been set:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Code Freeze: 31st October 2018
> >>>>>>> Release published: 13th November 2018
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Release notes have been drafted here [1].
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * Known issues
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Update MKL-DNN dependency
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12953
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This PR hasn't been merged even to master yet. Requires additional
> >>>>>>> discussion and merge.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> distributed kvstore bug in MXNet
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12713
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> When distributed kvstore is used, by default gluon.Trainer doesn't
> >>>>>>>> work
> >>>>>>> with mx.optimizer.LRScheduler if a worker has more than 1 GPU. To
> be
> >>>>>>> more specific, the trainer updates once per GPU, the LRScheduler
> >>>>>>> object is shared across GPUs and get a wrong update count.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This needs to be fixed. [6]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * Changes
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The following changes will be ported to the release branch, per
> [2]:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Infer dtype in SymbolBlock import from input symbol [3]
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12412
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-953] Fix oob memory read
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12631
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-969] Fix buffer overflow in RNNOp
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12603
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-922] Fix memleak in profiler
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12499
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Implement mkldnn convolution fusion and quantization (MXNet Graph
> >>>>>>> Optimization and Quantization based on subgraph and MKL-DNN
> >>>>> proposal
> >>>>>>> [4])
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12530
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Following items (test cases) should be already part of 1.3.0:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-486] Create CPP test for concat MKLDNN operator
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11371
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-489] MKLDNN Pool test
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11608
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-484] MKLDNN C++ test for LRN operator
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11831
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-546] Add unit test for MKLDNNSum
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11272
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-498] Test MKLDNN backward operators
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11232
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [MXNET-500] Test cases improvement for MKLDNN on Gluon
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10921
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Set correct update on kvstore flag in dist_device_sync mode (as
> part
> >>>>>>> of fixing [5])
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12786
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> upgrade mshadow version
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12692
> >>>>>>> But another PR will be used instead:
> >>>>>>> update mshadow
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12674
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> CudnnFind() usage improvements
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12804
> >>>>>>> A critical CUDNN fix that reduces GPU memory consumption and
> >>>>>>> addresses this memory leak issue. This is an important fix to
> >>>> include
> >>>>>>> in 1.3.1
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> From discussion about gluon toolkits:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> disable opencv threading for forked process
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12025
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Fix lazy record io when used with dataloader and multi_worker > 0
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12554
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> fix potential floating number overflow, enable float16
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12118
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * Resolved issues
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> MxNet 1.2.1–module get_outputs()
> >>>>>>> https://discuss.mxnet.io/t/mxnet-1-2-1-module-get-outputs/1882
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As far as I can see from the comments the issue has been resolved,
> >>>> no
> >>>>>>> actions need to be taken for this release. [7] is mentioned in this
> >>>>>>> regards, but I don't see any action points here either.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I will start with help of Naveen port the mentioned PR's to the
> >>>> 1.3.x
> >>>>>>> branch.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>>> Anton
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/eZGzBQ
> >>>>>>> [2]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Project+Proposals+f
> >>>>>>> or+next+MXNet+Release [3]
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11849
> >>>>>>> [4]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Graph+Optimiz
> >>>>>>> ation+and+Quantization+based+on+subgraph+and+MKL-DNN
> >>>>>>> [5] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12713
> >>>>>>> [6]
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-
> >>>>> mxnet/issues/12713#issuecomment-4
> >>>>>>> 35773777 [7] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11005
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
>

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