Prepare release 0.9.0rc2

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@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> Chinnadhurai Sankar <sankarch@leto5
 Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> Chinnadhurai Sankar <sankarch@kepler2.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> Chinnadhurai Sankar <sankarch@kepler3.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> chinnadhurai <chinnadhurai@gmail.com>
+Claude Coulombe <claude.coulombe@gmail.com> Claude Coulombe <claude.coulombe@gmail.comgit statuslscd /Users/claudecoulombe/gitlspwdsay Isabellegit config --global user.email claude.coulombe@gmail.com>
 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde-Farley <dwf@cs.toronto.edu>
 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde Farley <dwf@cs.toronto.edu>
 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde-Farley <d.warde.farley@gmail.com>
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> bastienf@ldapk3.scinet.utoronto.ca <bastienf@
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> nouiz <nouiz@nouiz.org>
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> Frederic <nouiz@nouiz.org>
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> Frédéric Bastien <frederic.bastien@gmail.com>
+Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> theano-bot <frederic.bastien.1@umontreal.ca>
 Gennadiy Tupitsin <genichyar@genichyar.com> genichyar <genichyar@genichyar.com>
 Gokula Krishnan <gokul.uf@gmail.com> Gokul <gokul.uf@gmail.com>
 Grégoire Mesnil <gregoire.mesnil@gmail.com> Grégoire <gregoire.mesnil@laposte.net>
@@ -201,6 +203,7 @@ Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca>
 Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca>
 Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <sebastien.jean@mail.mcgill.ca>
 Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> slefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca>
+Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> Simon Lefrancois <lefransi@iro.umontreal.ca>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> SinaHonari <sina2222@gmail.com>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> Sina Honari <honaris@eos21.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Søren Kaae Sønderby <skaaesonderby@gmail.com> skaae <skaaesonderby@gmail.com>

NEWS.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,33 @@ Release Notes
 =============
 
 
+Theano 0.9.0rc2 (27th of February, 2017)
+========================================
+
+This release extends the 0.9.0rc1 and announces the upcoming final release 0.9.
+
+Highlights (since 0.9.0rc1):
+ - Fixed dnn conv grad issues
+ - Allowed pooling of empty batch
+ - Use of 64-bit indices in sparse.AddSD where necessary
+ - Removed old benchmark directory
+ - Crash fixes, bug fixes, warnings improvements, and documentation update
+
+A total of 9 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0rc1 and 121 since 0.8.0, see the lists below.
+
+
+Committers since 0.9.0rc1:
+ - Frederic Bastien
+ - Pascal Lamblin
+ - Steven Bocco
+ - Simon Lefrancois
+ - Lucas Beyer
+ - Michael Harradon
+ - Rebecca N. Palmer
+ - David Bau
+ - Micah Bojrab
+
+
 Theano 0.9.0rc1 (20th of February, 2017)
 ========================================
 
@@ -22,7 +49,7 @@ Highlights (since 0.9.0beta1):
 
    - Value of a shared variable is now set inplace
 
-A total of 26 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0beta1 and 118 since 0.8.0, see the list at the bottom.
+A total of 26 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0beta1 and 117 since 0.8.0, see the list at the bottom.
 
 Interface changes:
  - In MRG, replaced method `multinomial_wo_replacement()` with new method `choice()`
@@ -101,7 +128,7 @@ Highlights:
    - ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling
 
 
-A total of 112 people contributed to this release since 0.8.0, see the list at the bottom.
+A total of 111 people contributed to this release since 0.8.0, see the list at the bottom.
 
 
 Interface changes:
@@ -225,7 +252,6 @@ Committers since 0.8.0:
  - Kirill Bobyrev
  - Yang Zhang
  - Yaroslav Ganin
- - theano-bot
  - Liwei Cai
  - Morgan Stuart
  - Tim Gasper

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Interface changes:
  - round() default to the same as NumPy: half_to_even
 
 Convolution updates:
+ - Allowed pooling of empty batch
  - Implement conv2d_transpose convenience function
  - Multi-cores convolution and pooling on CPU
  - New abstract 3d convolution interface similar to the 2d convolution interface
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ Others:
 
 
 Other more detailed changes:
+ - Use of 64-bit indices in sparse.AddSD where necessary
  - Allow more then one output to be an destructive inplace
  - Add flag profiling.ignore_first_call, useful to profile the new gpu back-end
  - Doc/error message fixes/updates
@@ -117,6 +119,23 @@ Other more detailed changes:
 
 
 ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5626
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5625
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5616
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5619
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5614
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5605
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5599
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5609
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5597
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5596
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5550
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5595
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5537
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5593
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5576
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5577
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5587
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5559
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5568
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5553

doc/conf.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ copyright = '2008--2017, LISA lab'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.9'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.9.0rc1'
+release = '0.9.0rc2'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:

doc/index.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ learning/machine learning <https://mila.umontreal.ca/en/cours/>`_ classes).
 News
 ====
 
+* 2017/02/27: Release of Theano 0.9.0rc2, with crash fixes, bug fixes and improvements.
+
 * 2017/02/20: Release of Theano 0.9.0rc1, many improvements and bugfixes, final release to coming.
 
 * 2017/01/24: Release of Theano 0.9.0beta1, many improvements and bugfixes, release candidate to coming.

doc/introduction.txt

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Note: There is no short term plan to support multi-node computation.
 Theano Vision State
 ===================
 
-Here is the state of that vision as of February 20th, 2017 (after Theano 0.9.0rc1):
+Here is the state of that vision as of February 27th, 2017 (after Theano 0.9.0rc2):
 
 * We support tensors using the `numpy.ndarray` object and we support many operations on them.
 * We support sparse types by using the `scipy.{csc,csr,bsr}_matrix` object and support some operations on them.

setup.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ PLATFORMS           = ["Windows", "Linux", "Solaris", "Mac OS-X", "Unix"]
 MAJOR               = 0
 MINOR               = 9
 MICRO               = 0
-SUFFIX              = "rc1"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
+SUFFIX              = "rc2"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
 ISRELEASED          = False
 
 VERSION             = '%d.%d.%d%s' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, SUFFIX)