On 2020/01/07 17:55:15, Przemys��aw Tr��dak <ptre...@apache.org> wrote:
> Dear MXNet community,
>
> This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.6.0. Voting
> starts today and will close on Friday 1/10/2020 23:59 PST.
>
> Link to release notes:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.6.0+Release+notes
>
> Link to release candidate:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.6.0.rc1
>
> Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.6.0.rc1/
>
> The differences comparing to previous release candidate 1.6.0.rc0:
> * Fix for RNN gradient calculation for MKLDNN ([v1.6.x] Cherry-pick MKL-DNN
> Rnn operator enhancements to v1.6.x (#17225))
> * Fix for Windows CMake build (Backport #16980 #17031 #17018 #17019 to 1.6
> branch (#17213))
> * CPU counterpart to contrib multihead attention operators (Interleaved MHA
> for CPU path (#17138) (#17211))
> * Fix for #16060 (fix norm sparse fallback (#17149))
> * Fix for inconsistent names in estimator API (fix parameter names in the
> estimator api (#17051) (#17162))
> * Fixes for OpenMP (Backport 3rdparty/openmp fixes (#17193))
> * Fix for pointwise fusion speed for large networks (which was the reason of
> -1 in the vote for rc0) as well as fixes for nondeterminism in sum of squares
> operator and trainer parameter order (Backport #17002, #17068 and #17114 to
> 1.6 branch (#17137))
>
>
> Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Przemyslaw Tredak
>
+1
Built from source on Ubuntu 18 with CUDA/CUDNN. Inference worked well without
speed/accuracy drop.
Thanks.
