Update Theano copyright.

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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ abalkin <abalkin@enlnt.com> Alexander Belopolsky <a@enlnt.com>
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 Alex Lamb <alex6200@gmail.com> DeathMonster666 <alex6200@gmail.com>
 Alexandre de Brebisson <adbrebs@gmail.com> AdeB <adbrebs@gmail.com>
+Alexandre de Brebisson <adbrebs@gmail.com> Alexandre de Brébisson <adbrebs@users.noreply.github.com>
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+Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <scellier@bart4.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <scellier@bart5>
+Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <scellier@eos13.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <scellier@sencha.iro.umontreal.ca>
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 Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> Chinnadhurai Sankar <sankarch@kepler3.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Chinnadhurai Sankar <chinnadhurai@gmail.com> chinnadhurai <chinnadhurai@gmail.com>
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 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde-Farley <d.warde.farley@gmail.com>
@@ -53,6 +59,8 @@ Dzmitry Bahdanau <dimabgv@gmail.com> rizar <dimabv@tut.by>
 Eric Hunsberger <hunse@ctn> hunse <hunse@ctn>
 Ethan Buchman <ebuchman@uoguelph.ca> ebuchman <ebuchman@uoguelph.ca>
 Evelyn Mitchell <efm-github@linsomniac.com> evelynmitchell <efm-github@linsomniac.com>
+Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@eos3.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@kepler3.iro.umontreal.ca>
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 Francesco Visin <fvisin@gmail.com> fvisin <fvisin@gmail.com>
@@ -68,7 +76,9 @@ 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>
 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>
+Grégoire Mesnil <gregoire.mesnil@gmail.com> Grégoire <gregoire.mesnil@gmail.com>
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@@ -85,6 +95,7 @@ Ian Goodfellow <goodfellow.ian@gmail.com> Ian Goodfellow <ia3n@gryphon0.(none)>
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+Jakub Sygnowski <sygnowski@gmail.com> Jakub Sygnowski <sygi@google.com>
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@@ -170,7 +181,8 @@ Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@ba
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-Ramana.S <vxrram95@gmail.com> sentient07 <vxrram95@gmail.com>
+Ramana Subramanyam <vxrram95@gmail.com> sentient07 <vxrram95@gmail.com>
+Ramana Subramanyam <vxrram95@gmail.com> Ramana.S <vxrram95@gmail.com>
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@@ -192,6 +204,7 @@ Søren Kaae Sønderby <skaaesonderby@gmail.com> skaae <skaaesonderby@gmail.com>
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 Steven Pigeon <pigeon@iro.umontreal.ca> steven-pigeon <pigeon@iro.umontreal.ca>
+Thomas George <tfjgeorge@gmail.com> Thomas George <georgeth@helios1.helios>
 Valentin Bisson <valentin.bisson@umontreal.ca> onze <onzeonline@gmail.com>
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HISTORY.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,287 @@
 Old Release Notes
 =================
 
+Theano 0.8.2 (21th of April, 2016)
+==================================
+
+This is a point release with only the support for cudnn v5 convolution
+and minor fixes.
+
+Highlights:
+- cuDNN v5 convolution support (cuDNN v3 isn't supported anymore)
+- A few crash fixes
+
+
+Theano 0.8.1 (29th of March, 2016)
+==================================
+
+This is a point release without any new feature.
+
+It fixes compilation issues on MacOS X with the command line tools for
+XCode 7.3, which was released shortly after Theano 0.8.0.
+
+
+Theano 0.8 (21th of March, 2016)
+================================
+
+We recommend that everybody update to this version.
+
+Highlights:
+ - Python 2 and 3 support with the same code base
+ - Faster optimization
+ - Integration of cuDNN for better GPU performance
+ - Many Scan improvements (execution speed up, ...)
+ - optimizer=fast_compile moves computation to the GPU.
+ - Better convolution on CPU and GPU. (CorrMM, cudnn, 3d conv, more parameter)
+ - Interactive visualization of graphs with d3viz
+ - cnmem (better memory management on GPU)
+ - BreakpointOp
+ - Multi-GPU for data parallism via Platoon (https://github.com/mila-udem/platoon/)
+ - More pooling parameter supported
+ - Bilinear interpolation of images
+ - New GPU back-end:
+
+   * Float16 new back-end (need cuda 7.5)
+   * Multi dtypes
+   * Multi-GPU support in the same process
+
+
+A total of 141 people contributed to this release, see the list at the bottom.
+
+
+Installation:
+ - Better BLAS detection
+ - Fixes for more recent software and OS versions
+ - Support Anaconda on Windows
+
+Bug fixes:
+ - GpuJoin now supports negative axis
+ - Fix GpuCumsum for negative axis
+
+Interface Deprecation (a warning is printed):
+ - Deprecate Param class, use In instead
+
+Interface Changes:
+ - Rename DownsampleFactorMax to Pool.
+ - tensor.stack now uses the same interface as numpy.stack
+ - optimizer=fast_compile moves computation to the GPU
+ - Raise the user stack trace more frequently.
+ - Change dev version numbering to follow the PEP 440
+
+
+New Interface (reuses existing functionality):
+ - theano.tensor.nnet.relu
+ - theano.tensor.nnet.elu
+ - BatchNormalization.
+ - MaxAndArgmax support axis=None
+ - Add theano.tensor.compress (equivalent of numpy.compress)
+ - theano.tensor.signal.downsamples.max_pool_2d_same_size
+ - COp
+ - __props__
+
+New features
+ - tensor.unique
+ - map_variables
+ - erfcx
+ - mgrid, ogrid
+ - allclose
+ - BreakpointOp
+ - Make bincount work on GPU
+ - SolveOp on GPU
+ - Optional optimization remove_all_assert
+ - AllocEmpty
+ - LogSoftmax, for stability optimization when the crossentropy optimization does not apply.
+ - theano.tensor.repeat works on GPU
+ - BatchedDot on the GPU and faster on the CPU.
+ - Faster batched_tensordot and make it work on GPU.
+ - SoftmaxGrad grad
+ - 3d conv via CorrMM on the GPU
+ - CPU Max Pool support of padding and strides!=windows size
+ - theano.function() now accepts a dict for the outputs. When doing this, the function will return a dict. Helpful to keep track of which output is what.
+ - Warn for unknown or misspelled theano config variables
+ - theano.tensor.tile update (accept symbolic reps, work on GPU)
+ - scan how have a strict flag. If set to True, this make scan building faster and could make execution faster.
+ - theano.tensor.signal.conv2d(2d,2d) output 2d answer
+ - More convolution parameter supported
+ - Bilinear interpolation of images
+
+
+Speed-ups:
+ - Faster SetSubtensor on the GPU.
+ - Support more reduction pattern on the GPU.
+ - More graph optimization
+ - Faster graph optimization
+ - GpuCrossentropySoftmaxArgmax1HotWithBias
+
+
+Crash/no return fixes:
+ - Fix crash in the assert op grad
+ - Fix curand crash on Mac
+ - Multiple Fix scan crashes
+ - Finish to update all Op.grad() implementation to the new interface
+
+Others:
+ - Support ARM processor.
+ - Better tests
+ - Code clean up.
+ - Doc updates
+ - doctest and sphinx test in travis
+ - More tests tagged as slow
+ - Better same_shape implementation
+ - More op with c code to lower overhead
+ - Custom pickler for SharedVariable theano.misc.pkl_utils.{dump,load}
+ - function_dump to help us reproduce user error during compilation
+ - assert_no_cpu_op
+ - pep8, flake8
+ - Better error messages
+ - On non-default modes, reduce the number of allocation when allow_gc=False
+ - Better lock
+
+
+Committers for this dev version only:
+ - Frederic Bastien
+ - Arnaud Bergeron
+ - Pierre Luc Carrier
+ - Iban Harlouchet
+ - Pascal Lamblin
+ - Chienli Ma
+ - Tim Cooijmans
+ - Nicolas Ballas
+ - Amjad Almahairi
+ - David Warde-Farley
+ - Christof Angermueller
+ - Ziye Fan
+ - Caglar
+ - Sina Honari
+ - Roy Xue
+ - hantek
+ - Mohammad Pezeshki
+ - Melanie Ducoffe
+ - Alexandre de Brebisson
+ - Harm de Vries
+ - Samira Shabanian
+ - Alex Lamb
+ - Ramana.S
+ - Francesco Visin
+ - Saizheng Zhang
+ - Ying Zhang
+ - Jan Schlüter
+ - Xavier Bouthillier
+ - Bart van Merrienboer
+ - Cesar Laurent
+ - Iulian Vlad Serban
+ - Li Yao
+ - Sigurd Spieckermann
+ - Dmitrii Serdiuk
+ - Kelvin Xu
+ - Sebastien Jean
+ - Thomas Mesnard
+ - Seon-Wook Park
+ - Vincent Michalski
+ - Dustin Webb
+ - Mikhail Korobov
+ - Orhan Firat
+ - Olivier Mastropietro
+ - Daniel Renshaw
+ - Julien Rebetez
+ - Peng Liu
+ - Sean Lee
+ - TimSalimans
+ - Andre Holzner
+ - Gijs van Tulder
+ - Guillaume Alain
+ - Julien Demouth
+ - Markus Beissinger
+ - Mehdi Mirza
+ - Moslem Kazemi
+ - Saxenauts
+ - Søren Kaae Sønderby
+ - sentient07
+ - Anatoly Belikov
+ - Diogo Moitinho de Almeida
+ - Jakub Sygnowski
+ - Kashif Rasul
+ - Laurent Dinh
+ - Rémy Léone
+ - Taesup (TS) Kim
+ - gw0 [http://gw.tnode.com/]
+ - mronian
+ - vesis84
+ - Benni
+ - Chiheb Trabelsi
+ - JesseLivezey
+ - Marius Killinger
+ - Matt Graham
+ - Matthew Willson
+ - Piotr Frankowski
+ - Stefan Krastanov
+ - vdumoulin
+ - Adithya Ganesh
+ - Anish Shah
+ - Balázs Hidasi
+ - Colin Raffel
+ - Cory Lorenz
+ - Doug
+ - Jesse Livezey
+ - John Salvatier
+ - John Zedlewski
+ - Jonathan Ho
+ - Kaixhin
+ - Liang-Chi Hsieh
+ - Lucas Beyer
+ - Luke Metz
+ - Marc-Alexandre Cote
+ - Martin Arjovsky
+ - Matthias Kümmerer
+ - Sirisha Rambhatla
+ - briancheung
+ - cai-lw
+ - ivdorelian
+ - jan-matthis
+ - jojolalpin
+ - joncrall
+ - peterjsadowski
+ - scottsievert
+ - Étienne Simon
+ - A. Flaxman
+ - AlOa
+ - Albert Zeyer
+ - Andrea
+ - Andy Jiang
+ - Balázs
+ - Ben Poole
+ - Brian Cheung
+ - Christophe Van Gysel
+ - Claude Coulombe
+ - Clay McLeod
+ - Dario Garcia
+ - Jakob Lombacher
+ - Joao Felipe Santos
+ - John Arevalo
+ - Jonas Degrave
+ - Martin Thoma
+ - Mathieu Germain
+ - Matthew Koichi Grimes
+ - Michael Eickenberg
+ - Michael Opitz
+ - Paul Hollensen
+ - Prayag Verma
+ - Saatvik Shah
+ - Sergei Lebedev
+ - Vik Kamath
+ - Wei Ouyang
+ - Wojciech Głogowski
+ - Yi-Lin Juang
+ - Yurii Shevchuk
+ - Zach Dwiel
+ - dan
+ - eulerreich
+ - jotterbach
+ - rolf
+ - theaverageguy
+ - wuaalb
+
+
 Theano 0.7 (26th of March, 2015)
 ================================
 We recommand to everyone to upgrade to this version.

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -19,18 +19,23 @@ Highlight:
  - Many computation and compilation speed up
  - More numerical stability by default for some graph
  - Jenkins (gpu tests run on PR in addition to daily buildbot)
+ - Better handling of corner cases for theano functions and graph optimizations
  - More graph optimization (faster execution and smaller graph, so more readable)
  - Less c code compilation
  - Better Python 3.5 support
+ - Better numpy 1.12.0rc2 support
  - Support newer Mac and Windows version
  - Conda packages for Mac, Linux and Windows
+ - Theano scripts now works on Windows
  - scan with checkpoint (trade off between speed and memory usage, useful for long sequences)
  - Added a bool dtype
+ - Added a deprecation message for the old backend.
 
  - New back-end:
    - float16 storage
    - print pci bus id
    - More pooling support on GPU when cudnn isn't there.
+   - ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling.
 
 Interface changes:
  - New pooling interface
@@ -39,6 +44,8 @@ Interface changes:
  - The MRG random generator now try to infer the broadcast pattern of its output
  - Move softsign out of sandbox to theano.tensor.nnet.softsign
  - Roll make the shift be modulo the size of the axis we roll on
+ - Merge CumsumOp/CumprodOp into CumOp
+ - round() default to the same as NumPy: half_to_even.
 
 Convolution updates:
  - Multi-cores convolution and pooling on CPU
@@ -52,9 +59,12 @@ GPU:
  - GpuAdvancedSubtensor in new back-end
  - Gemv(matrix-vector product) speed up for special shape
  - Support for MaxAndArgMax for some axis combination
+ - Support for solve (using cusolver), erfinv and erfcinv
  - cublas gemv workaround when we reduce on an axis with a dimensions size of 0
+ - Warn user that some cudnn algorithms may produce unexpected results in certain environments
+   for convolution backward filter operations.
 
-New feature:
+New features:
  - Add gradient of solve, tensorinv (CPU), tensorsolve (CPU) searchsorted (CPU)
  - Add Multinomial Without Replacement
  - conv3d2d support full and half mode (REMOVE?)
@@ -64,6 +74,7 @@ New feature:
  - Indexing support ellipsis: a[..., 3], a[1,...,3]
  - Added theano.tensor.{tensor5,dtensor5, ...}
  - compiledir_format support device
+ - Added new Theano flag cmodule.age_thresh_use
 
 
 Others:
@@ -83,13 +94,68 @@ Other more detailed changes:
  - More support of negative axis
  - Added the keepdims parameter to the norm function
  - Crash fixes
- - Make scan gradiant more deterministic
+ - Make scan gradient more deterministic
  - Add support for space in path on Windows
  - remove ProfileMode (use Theano flag profile=True instead)
 
 
 
 ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5419
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5436
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5427
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5434
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5428
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5412
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5417
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5420
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5422
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5406
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5403
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5410
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5415
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5407
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5321
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5405
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5400
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5346
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5380
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5399
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5182
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5389
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5351
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5377
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5385
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5390
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5387
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5373
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5357
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5363
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5320
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5359
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5362
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5358
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5350
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5317
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5356
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5355
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5353
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5352
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5349
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5267
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5342
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5336
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5335
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5301
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5332
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5299
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5331
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5314
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5276
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5318
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5315
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5313
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5311
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5309
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5306
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5289

doc/LICENSE.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 LICENSE
 =======
 
-Copyright (c) 2008--2016, Theano Development Team
+Copyright (c) 2008--2017, Theano Development Team
 All rights reserved.
 
 Contains code from NumPy, Copyright (c) 2005-2016, NumPy Developers.

doc/conf.py

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General substitutions.
 project = 'Theano'
-copyright = '2008--2016, LISA lab'
+copyright = '2008--2017, LISA lab'
 
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
 # other places throughout the built documents.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ copyright = '2008--2016, LISA lab'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.9'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.9 dev'
+release = '0.9.0beta1'
 
 # 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
 ====
 
+* 2017/01/24: Release of Theano 0.9.0beta1, many improvements and bugfixes, release candidate to coming.
+
 * 2016/05/09: New technical report on Theano:
   `Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions <http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02688>`_.
   This is the new preferred reference.

doc/internal/how_to_release.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Update files
 
 Update the NEWS.txt and move the old stuff in the HISTORY.txt file.
 To update the NEWS.txt file, check all ticket closed for this release
-and all commit log messages. Update the index.txt *News* section.
+and all commit log messages. Update the ``Theano/doc/index.txt`` *News* section.
 
 Update the "Vision"/"Vision State" in the file
 ``Theano/doc/introduction.txt``.

setup.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ PLATFORMS           = ["Windows", "Linux", "Solaris", "Mac OS-X", "Unix"]
 MAJOR               = 0
 MINOR               = 9
 MICRO               = 0
-SUFFIX              = "dev5"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
+SUFFIX              = "beta1"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
 ISRELEASED          = False
 
 VERSION             = '%d.%d.%d%s' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, SUFFIX)