Merge pull request #5705 from notoraptor/prepare-rc-0.9.0rc4

NEWS.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,31 @@ Release Notes
 =============
 
 
+Theano 0.9.0rc4 (13th of March, 2017)
+=====================================
+
+This release extends the 0.9.0rc3 and announces the upcoming final release 0.9.
+
+Highlights (since 0.9.0rc3):
+ - Documentation updates
+ - DebugMode fixes, cache cleanup fixes and other small fixes
+
+ - New GPU back-end:
+
+   - Fixed offset error in GpuIncSubtensor
+   - Fixed indexing error in GpuAdvancedSubtensor for more than 2 dimensions
+
+A total of 5 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0rc3 and 123 since 0.8.0, see the lists below.
+
+
+Committers since 0.9.0rc3:
+ - Frederic Bastien
+ - Pascal Lamblin
+ - Arnaud Bergeron
+ - Cesar Laurent
+ - Martin Drawitsch
+
+
 Theano 0.9.0rc3 (6th of March, 2017)
 ====================================
 

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ Highlights:
 
  - New GPU back-end:
 
+   - Fixed offset error in GpuIncSubtensor
+   - Fixed indexing error in GpuAdvancedSubtensor for more than 2 dimensions
    - Value of a shared variable is now set inplace
    - float16 storage
    - better mapping between theano device number and nvidia-smi number, using the PCI bus ID of graphic cards
@@ -122,6 +124,14 @@ Other more detailed changes:
 
 
 ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5693
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5702
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5697
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5684
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5673
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5680
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5678
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5675
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5666
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5643
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5631

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 = '0.9.0rc3'
+release = '0.9.0rc4'
 
 # 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
 ====
 
+* 2017/03/13: Release of Theano 0.9.0rc4, with crash fixes and bug fixes.
+
 * 2017/03/06: Release of Theano 0.9.0rc3, with crash fixes, bug fixes and improvements.
 
 * 2017/02/27: Release of Theano 0.9.0rc2, with crash fixes, bug fixes and improvements.

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 March 6th, 2017 (after Theano 0.9.0rc3):
+Here is the state of that vision as of March 13th, 2017 (after Theano 0.9.0rc4):
 
 * 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              = "rc3"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
+SUFFIX              = "rc4"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
 ISRELEASED          = False
 
 VERSION             = '%d.%d.%d%s' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, SUFFIX)