NEWS.txt

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Release Notes
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Theano 0.10.0beta2 (7th of September, 2017)
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This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release candidate.

We recommend that every developer updates to this version.

Highlights:
 - Support NumPy ``1.13``
 - Support pygpu ``0.7``
 - Added conda recipe
 - Optional faster optimization step with new destroy handler
 - Added documentation for RNNBlock
 - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates

A total of 67 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.

Interface changes:
 - Added new parameter ``target`` for MRG functions

Convolution updates:
 - Added unshared convolutions
 - Added 3D separable convolutions
 - Added 3D grouped convolutions
 - Removed old ``conv3d`` interface
 - Deprecated old ``conv2d`` interface
 - Updated ``conv`` documentation

GPU:
 - Added a meta-optimizer to select the fastest GPU implementations for convolutions

 - cuDNN:

   - Official support for ``v6.*`` and ``v7.*``, support for ``v5.*`` will be removed in next release
   - Added spatial transformation operation based on cuDNN
   - Updated and improved caching system for runtime-chosen cuDNN convolution algorithms
   - Support cuDNN v7 tensor core operations for convolutions with runtime timed algorithms
   - Restricted cuDNN reductions to contiguous inputs
   - Automatic addition of cuDNN DLL path to ``PATH`` environment variable on Windows

New features:
 - Added ``tensor6()`` and ``tensor7()`` in ``theano.tensor`` module
 - Added boolean indexing for sub-tensors
 - Added covariance matrix function ``theano.tensor.cov``
 - Added new Theano flag ``pickle_test_value`` to help disable pickling test values

Others:
 - Kept stack trace for optimizations in new GPU backend

Other more detailed changes:
 - Moved all C code files into separate folder ``c_code`` in every Theano module
 - Improvements for Jenkins tests

Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Frederic Bastien
 - João Victor Tozatti Risso
 - Arnaud Bergeron
 - Steven Bocco
 - Mohammed Affan
 - amrithasuresh
 - Pascal Lamblin
 - Reyhane Askari
 - Alexander Matyasko
 - Simon Lefrancois
 - Shawn Tan
 - Gijs van Tulder
 - Thomas George
 - Vikram
 - Andrei Costinescu
 - Faruk Ahmed
 - Boris Fomitchev
 - Zhouhan LIN
 - Aleksandar Botev
 - jhelie
 - xiaoqie
 - Tegan Maharaj
 - Matt Graham
 - Cesar Laurent
 - Gabe Schwartz
 - Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera
 - Tim Cooijmans
 - Anirudh Goyal
 - Saizheng Zhang
 - vipulraheja
 - Florian Bordes
 - Sina Honari
 - Yikang Shen
 - erakra
 - Chiheb Trabelsi
 - Shubh Vachher
 - Daren Eiri
 - Joseph Paul Cohen
 - Laurent Dinh
 - Mohamed Ishmael Diwan Belghazi
 - Jeff Donahue
 - Ramana Subramanyam
 - Bogdan Budescu
 - Dzmitry Bahdanau
 - Ghislain Antony Vaillant
 - Jan Schlüter
 - Xavier Bouthillier
 - fo40225
 - Aarni Koskela
 - Adam Becker
 - Adam Geitgey
 - Adrian Keet
 - Adrian Seyboldt
 - Anmol Sahoo
 - Chong Wu
 - Holger Kohr
 - Jayanth Koushik
 - Lilian Besson
 - Lv Tao
 - Michael Manukyan
 - Murugesh Marvel
 - NALEPA
 - Zotov Yuriy
 - dareneiri
 - lrast
 - morrme
 - wyjw