Prepare release 0.9.0rc1.

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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <scellier@bart4.
 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>
+Benjamin Scellier <scellier@iro.umontreal.ca> Benjamin Scellier <benjamin.scellier@gmail.com>
 Bogdan Budescu <bbudescu@gmail.com> bbudescu <bbudescu@gmail.com>
 Brian Cheung <briancheung@users.noreply.github.com> briancheung <bcheung5@gmail.com>
 Caglar <ca9lar@gmail.com> Caglar <caglar@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ 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>
+Faruk Ahmed <faruk.ahmed.91@gmail.com> Faruk Ahmed <ahmedfar@elisa1.iro.umontreal.ca>
 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>

NEWS.txt

@@ -3,12 +3,83 @@ Release Notes
 =============
 
 
+Theano 0.9.0rc1 (15th of February, 2017)
+========================================
+
+This release extends the 0.9.0beta1 and announces the upcoming final release 0.9.
+
+Highlights (since 0.9.0beta1):
+ - Better integration of Theano+libgpuarray packages into conda distribution
+ - Better handling of Windows end-lines into C codes.
+ - Better compatibility with NumPy 1.12
+ - Faster scan optimizations
+ - Fixed broadcast checking in scan
+ - Bug fixes related to merge optimizer
+ - many other bug fixes and improvements
+ - Updated documentation
+
+ - Old GPU back-end:
+   * In MRG, replaced method `multinomial_wo_replacement()` with new method `choice()`
+
+ - New GPU back-end:
+   * Value of a shared variable is now set inplace
+
+A total of 25 people contributed to this release, see the list at the bottom.
+
+Convolution updates:
+ - Implement conv2d_transpose convenience function
+
+GPU:
+ - GPUMultinomialFromUniform op now supports multiple dtypes
+
+New features:
+ - OpFromGraph now allows gradient overriding for every input
+ - Added Abstract Ops for batch normalization that use cuDNN when available and pure Theano CPU/GPU alternative otherwise
+ - Added new Theano flag cuda.enabled
+ - Added new Theano flag print_global_stats to print some global statistics (time spent) at the end
+
+Others:
+ - Split op now has C code for CPU and GPU
+ - "theano-cache list" now includes compilation times
+
+Other more detailed changes:
+ - Changed optdb.max_use_ratio to 6
+
+
+Committers since 0.8.0:
+ - Benjamin Scellier
+ - Frederic Bastien
+ - khaotik
+ - Steven Bocco
+ - Arnaud Bergeron
+ - Gijs van Tulder
+ - Reyhane Askari
+ - Pascal Lamblin
+ - Chinnadhurai Sankar
+ - Vincent Dumoulin
+ - Alexander Matyasko
+ - Cesar Laurent
+ - Nicolas Ballas
+ - affanv14
+ - Faruk Ahmed
+ - Anton Chechetka
+ - Alexandre de Brebisson
+ - bscellier
+ - Amjad Almahairi
+ - Dimitar Dimitrov
+ - Fuchai
+ - Jan Schlüter
+ - Jonas Degrave
+ - Mathieu Germain
+ - Simon Lefrancois
+
+
 Theano 0.9.0beta1 (24th of January, 2017)
 =========================================
 
 This release contains a lot of bug fixes and improvements + new features, to prepare the upcoming release candidate.
 
-Highlight:
+Highlights:
  - 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)
@@ -23,11 +94,11 @@ Highlight:
  - scan with checkpoint (trade off between speed and memory usage, useful for long sequences)
  - Added a bool dtype
 
- - New back-end:
-   - float16 storage
-   - better mapping between theano device number and nvidia-smi number, using the PCI bus ID of graphic cards
-   - More pooling support on GPU when cuDNN isn't there.
-   - ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling.
+ - New GPU back-end:
+   * float16 storage
+   * better mapping between theano device number and nvidia-smi number, using the PCI bus ID of graphic cards
+   * More pooling support on GPU when cuDNN isn't there.
+   * ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling.
 
 
 A total of 112 people contributed to this release, see the list at the bottom.

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -15,7 +15,15 @@ git shortlog -sn rel-0.8.0..
 
 TODO: better Theano conv doc
 
-Highlight:
+Highlights:
+ - Better integration of Theano+libgpuarray packages into conda distribution
+ - Better handling of Windows end-lines into C codes.
+ - Better compatibility with NumPy 1.12
+ - Faster scan optimizations
+ - Fixed broadcast checking in scan
+ - Bug fixes related to merge optimizer
+ - many other bug fixes and improvements
+ - Updated documentation
  - 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)
@@ -30,11 +38,15 @@ Highlight:
  - scan with checkpoint (trade off between speed and memory usage, useful for long sequences)
  - Added a bool dtype
 
- - New back-end:
-   - float16 storage
-   - better mapping between theano device number and nvidia-smi number, using the PCI bus ID of graphic cards
-   - More pooling support on GPU when cuDNN isn't there.
-   - ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling.
+ - Old GPU back-end:
+   * In MRG, replaced method `multinomial_wo_replacement()` with new method `choice()`
+
+ - New GPU back-end:
+   * 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
+   * More pooling support on GPU when cuDNN isn't there.
+   * ignore_border=False is now implemented for pooling.
 
 Interface changes:
  - New pooling interface
@@ -47,12 +59,14 @@ Interface changes:
  - round() default to the same as NumPy: half_to_even.
 
 Convolution updates:
+ - Implement conv2d_transpose convenience function
  - Multi-cores convolution and pooling on CPU
  - New abstract 3d convolution interface similar to the 2d convolution interface
  - Dilated convolution
 
 
 GPU:
+ - GPUMultinomialFromUniform op now supports multiple dtypes
  - cuDNN: support versoin 5.1 and wrap batch normalization (2d and 3d) and RNN functions
  - Multiple-GPU, synchrone update (via platoon, use NCCL)
  - GpuAdvancedSubtensor in new back-end
@@ -64,6 +78,10 @@ GPU:
    for convolution backward filter operations.
 
 New features:
+ - OpFromGraph now allows gradient overriding for every input
+ - Added Abstract Ops for batch normalization that use cuDNN when available and pure Theano CPU/GPU alternative otherwise
+ - Added new Theano flag cuda.enabled
+ - Added new Theano flag print_global_stats to print some global statistics (time spent) at the end
  - Add gradient of solve, tensorinv (CPU), tensorsolve (CPU) searchsorted (CPU)
  - Add Multinomial Without Replacement
  - conv3d2d support full and half mode (REMOVE?)
@@ -77,6 +95,8 @@ New features:
 
 
 Others:
+ - Split op now has C code for CPU and GPU
+ - "theano-cache list" now includes compilation times
  - Speed up argmax only on gpu (without also needing the max)
  - A few unfrequent bugfix 
  - More stack trace in error message
@@ -84,9 +104,8 @@ Others:
  - log(sum(exp(...))) now get stability optimized
 
 
-
-
 Other more detailed changes:
+ - Changed optdb.max_use_ratio to 6
  - 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
@@ -100,6 +119,50 @@ Other more detailed changes:
 
 
 ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5542
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5451
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5520
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5539
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5532
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5457
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5477
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5499
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5518
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5527
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5522
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5505
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5523
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5516
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5511
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5443
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5255
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5508
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5479
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5462
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5490
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5480
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5497
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5489
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5474
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5454
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5469
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5458
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5481
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5190
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5473
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5456
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5398
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5468
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5459
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5452
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5298
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5442
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5450
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5435
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5446
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5447
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5445
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5323
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5421
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5343
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5437

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 = '0.9.0beta1'
+release = '0.9.0rc1'
 
 # 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
 ====
 
+* 2017/02/15: 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.
 
 * 2016/05/09: New technical report on Theano:

setup.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ PLATFORMS           = ["Windows", "Linux", "Solaris", "Mac OS-X", "Unix"]
 MAJOR               = 0
 MINOR               = 9
 MICRO               = 0
-SUFFIX              = "beta1"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
+SUFFIX              = "rc1"  # Should be blank except for rc's, betas, etc.
 ISRELEASED          = False
 
 VERSION             = '%d.%d.%d%s' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, SUFFIX)