v2.1.0-rc.1

What's Changed

• ci: run unit tests, fmt, image build on release branch by @anhuong in #361
• chore: update code owners by @anhuong in #363
• fix: crash when output directory doesn't exist by @HarikrishnanBalagopal in #364
• refactor: move tokenizer_data_utils with the rest of utils, add further unit testing. by @willmj in #348
• build(deps): update transformers and accelerate deps by @anhuong in #355
• build(deps): Update peft requirement from <0.13,>=0.8.0 to >=0.8.0,<0.14 by @dependabot in #354
• build(deps): Upgrade accelerate requirement to allow version 1.0.0 by @willmj in #371
• build: Set triton environment variables by @willmj in #370

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2-rc.1