Prepare release 0.10.0beta4

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--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@kepler3.iro.umontre
 Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@ceylon.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@leto21.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@leto23.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk-Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com>
 Fei Wang <fay96816@gmail.com> fay <fay96816@gmail.com>
 Francesco Visin <fvisin@gmail.com> Francesco <fvisin@users.noreply.github.com>
 Francesco Visin <fvisin@gmail.com> fvisin <fvisin@gmail.com>

--- a/HISTORY.txt
+++ b/HISTORY.txt
@@ -5,9 +5,114 @@
 Old Release Notes
 =================
-=============
+Theano 0.10.0beta3 (20th of September, 2017)
-Release Notes
+============================================
-=============
+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:
+ - conda packages now available and updated in our own conda channel ``mila-udem``.
+   To install it: ``conda install -c mila-udem/label/pre theano pygpu``
+ - Improved elemwise operations
+   - Speed-up elemwise ops based on SciPy
+   - Fixed memory leak related to elemwise ops on GPU
+ - Improved pickling and tests in debug mode
+ - Fixed pygpu detection
+ - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates
+A total of 69 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
+Interface changes:
+ - Removed op ``ExtractDiag`` from ``theano.tensor.nlinalg``, now only in ``theano.tensor.basic``
+Convolution updates:
+ - Added dilated causal convolutions for 2D
+New features:
+ - Implemented ``topk`` and ``argtopk`` on CPU and GPU
+ - Added ``unravel_index`` and ``ravel_multi_index`` functions on CPU
+ - Implemented ``max()`` and ``min()`` functions for booleans and unsigned integers types
+Others:
+ - Added ``R_op()`` for ``ZeroGrad``
+ - Added description for rnnblock
+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
+ - Adam Becker
+ - Shawn Tan
+ - Vikram
+ - Gijs van Tulder
+ - Thomas George
+ - 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
+ - Yikang Shen
+ - vipulraheja
+ - Florian Bordes
+ - Sina Honari
+ - 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
+ - Nan Jiang
+ - Xavier Bouthillier
+ - fo40225
+ - wyjw
+ - Aarni Koskela
+ - 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
+ - naitonium
 Theano 0.10.0beta2 (7th of September, 2017)
 ===========================================

--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,42 +3,40 @@ Release Notes
 =============
-Theano 0.10.0beta3 (20th of September, 2017)
+Theano 0.10.0beta4 (16th of October, 2017)
-============================================
+==========================================
 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:
- - conda packages now available and updated in our own conda channel ``mila-udem``.
+ - Announcing that `MILA will stop developing Theano <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY/rNCIfvAEAwAJ>`_
-   To install it: ``conda install -c mila-udem/label/pre theano pygpu``
- - Improved elemwise operations
-   - Speed-up elemwise ops based on SciPy
-   - Fixed memory leak related to elemwise ops on GPU
- - Improved pickling and tests in debug mode
- - Fixed pygpu detection
 - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates
-A total of 69 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
+A total of 70 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
 Interface changes:
- - Removed op ``ExtractDiag`` from ``theano.tensor.nlinalg``, now only in ``theano.tensor.basic``
+ - Generalized ``AllocDiag`` for any non-scalar input
 Convolution updates:
- - Added dilated causal convolutions for 2D
+ - Implemented fractional bilinear upsampling
+cuDNN (GPU):
+ - Disallowed ``float16`` precision for convolution gradients
+ - Fixed memory alignment detection
+ - Added profiling in C debug mode (with theano flag ``cmodule.debug=True``)
 New features:
- - Implemented ``topk`` and ``argtopk`` on CPU and GPU
+ - Implemented truncated normal distribution with box-muller transform
- - Added ``unravel_index`` and ``ravel_multi_index`` functions on CPU
+ - Added ``L_op()`` overriding option for ``OpFromGraph``
- - Implemented ``max()`` and ``min()`` functions for booleans and unsigned integers types
+ - Added NumPy C-API based fallback implementation for ``[sd]gemv_`` and ``[sd]dot_``
-Others:
+Other more detailed changes:
- - Added ``R_op()`` for ``ZeroGrad``
+ - Improved stack trace follow-up for GPU optimizations
- - Added description for rnnblock
+ - Fixed gradient error for elemwise ``minimum`` and ``maximum``
+ - Fixed gradient for ``ARange``
+ - Removed ``ViewOp`` subclass during optimization
 Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Frederic Bastien
@@ -50,14 +48,15 @@ Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Pascal Lamblin
 - Reyhane Askari
 - Alexander Matyasko
+ - Shawn Tan
 - Simon Lefrancois
 - Adam Becker
- - Shawn Tan
 - Vikram
 - Gijs van Tulder
+ - Faruk Ahmed
 - Thomas George
+ - erakra
 - Andrei Costinescu
- - Faruk Ahmed
 - Boris Fomitchev
 - Zhouhan LIN
 - Aleksandar Botev
@@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - vipulraheja
 - Florian Bordes
 - Sina Honari
- - erakra
 - Chiheb Trabelsi
 - Shubh Vachher
 - Daren Eiri
@@ -91,6 +89,7 @@ Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Nan Jiang
 - Xavier Bouthillier
 - fo40225
+ - mrTsjolder
 - wyjw
 - Aarni Koskela
 - Adam Geitgey

--- a/NEWS_DEV.txt
+++ b/NEWS_DEV.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DRAFT Release Notes
 ===================
 git log -p rel-0.9.0... |grep Merge|grep '#[0123456789]' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | sed 's\#\* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/\'
-git log -p rel-0.10.0beta2... |grep Merge|grep '#[0123456789]' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | sed 's\#\* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/\'
+git log -p rel-0.10.0beta3... |grep Merge|grep '#[0123456789]' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | sed 's\#\* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/\'
 # Commit count per user
 git shortlog -sn rel-0.9.0..
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ TODO: better Theano conv doc
 # NB: Following notes contains infos since 0.9.0.
 Highlights:
+ - Announcing that `MILA will stop developing Theano <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY/rNCIfvAEAwAJ>`_
 - conda packages now available and updated in our own conda channel ``mila-udem``.
   To install it: ``conda install -c mila-udem/label/pre theano pygpu``
 - Support NumPy ``1.13``
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ Highlights:
 - Many bug fixes, crash fixes and warning improvements
 Interface changes:
+ - Generalized ``AllocDiag`` for any non-scalar input
 - Added new parameter ``target`` for MRG functions
 - Merged duplicated diagonal functions into two ops: ``ExtractDiag`` (extract a diagonal to a vector),
   and ``AllocDiag`` (set a vector as a diagonal of an empty array)
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ Interface changes:
 - Removed op ``ExtractDiag`` from ``theano.tensor.nlinalg``, now only in ``theano.tensor.basic``
 Convolution updates:
+ - Implemented fractional bilinear upsampling
 - Removed old ``conv3d`` interface
 - Deprecated old ``conv2d`` interface
 - Updated ``conv`` documentation
@@ -107,6 +110,10 @@ GPU:
   - Support cuDNN v6 reductions for contiguous inputs
   - Added new Theano flags ``cuda.include_path``, ``dnn.base_path`` and ``dnn.bin_path``
     to help configure Theano when CUDA and cuDNN can not be found automatically.
+   - Disallowed ``float16`` precision for convolution gradients
+   - Fixed memory alignment detection
+   - Added profiling in C debug mode (with theano flag ``cmodule.debug=True``)
 - Updated ``float16`` support
@@ -115,6 +122,9 @@ GPU:
   - Started to use ``float32`` precision for computations that don't support ``float16`` on GPU
 New features:
+ - Implemented truncated normal distribution with box-muller transform
+ - Added ``L_op()`` overriding option for ``OpFromGraph``
+ - Added NumPy C-API based fallback implementation for ``[sd]gemv_`` and ``[sd]dot_``
 - Implemented ``topk`` and ``argtopk`` on CPU and GPU
 - Implemented ``max()`` and ``min()`` functions for booleans and unsigned integers types
 - Added ``tensor6()`` and ``tensor7()`` in ``theano.tensor`` module
@@ -146,6 +156,9 @@ Others:
 - Added decsription for rnnblock
 Other more detailed changes:
+ - Fixed gradient error for elemwise ``minimum`` and ``maximum``
+ - Fixed gradient for ``ARange``
+ - Removed ``ViewOp`` subclass during optimization
 - Removed useless warning when profile is manually disabled
 - Added tests for abstract conv
 - Added options for `disconnected_outputs` to Rop
@@ -158,6 +171,36 @@ Other more detailed changes:
 - Many improvements for Jenkins CI tests: daily testings on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux
 ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6479
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6401
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6472
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6477
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6475
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6468
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6467
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6469
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6466
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6460
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6459
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6457
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6456
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6453
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6452
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6430
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6447
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6446
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6431
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6445
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6348
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6416
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6443
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6440
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6388
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5641
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6367
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6437
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6439
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6425
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6434
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5959
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6005

--- a/doc/index.txt
+++ b/doc/index.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ learning/machine learning <https://mila.umontreal.ca/en/cours/>`_ classes).
 News
 ====
+* 2017/10/16: Release of Theano 0.10.0beta4, new features and many bugfixes, release candidate to coming.
 * 2017/09/28: IMPORTANT: `MILA will stop developing Theano <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY/rNCIfvAEAwAJ>`_ and the next release (renamed to 1.0) will be the last main release.
 * 2017/09/20: Release of Theano 0.10.0beta3, new features and many bugfixes, release candidate to coming.

--- a/doc/introduction.txt
+++ b/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 September 7th, 2017 (after Theano 0.10.0beta2):
+Here is the state of that vision as of October 16th, 2017 (after Theano 0.10.0beta4):
 * 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.

--- a/theano/version.py
+++ b/theano/version.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, division
 from theano._version import get_versions
-FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.10.0beta3+unknown"
+FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.10.0beta4+unknown"
 info = get_versions()
 if info['error'] is not None: