Merge pull request #6510 from notoraptor/prepare-release-1.0

HISTORY.txt

@@ -5,9 +5,99 @@
 Old Release Notes
 =================
 
-=============
-Release Notes
-=============
+
+Theano 1.0.0rc1 (30th of October, 2017)
+=======================================
+
+This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release.
+
+We recommend that every developer updates to this version.
+
+Highlights:
+ - Make sure MKL uses GNU OpenMP
+
+   - **NB**: Matrix dot product (``gemm``) with ``mkl`` from conda
+     could return wrong results in some cases. We have reported the problem upstream
+     and we have a work around that raises an error with information about how to fix it.
+
+ - Optimized ``SUM(x^2)``, ``SUM(ABS(X))`` and ``MAX(ABS(X))`` operations with cuDNN reductions
+ - Added Python scripts to help test cuDNN convolutions
+ - Fixed invalid casts and index overflows in ``theano.tensor.signal.pool``
+
+A total of 71 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
+
+Commiters since 0.9.0:
+ - Frederic Bastien
+ - Steven Bocco
+ - João Victor Tozatti Risso
+ - Arnaud Bergeron
+ - Mohammed Affan
+ - amrithasuresh
+ - Pascal Lamblin
+ - Reyhane Askari
+ - Alexander Matyasko
+ - Shawn Tan
+ - Simon Lefrancois
+ - Adam Becker
+ - Vikram
+ - Gijs van Tulder
+ - Faruk Ahmed
+ - Thomas George
+ - erakra
+ - Andrei Costinescu
+ - 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
+ - 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
+ - mrTsjolder
+ - 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
+ - Rebecca N. Palmer
+ - Zotov Yuriy
+ - dareneiri
+ - lrast
+ - morrme
+ - naitonium
 
 
 Theano 0.10.0beta4 (16th of October, 2017)

NEWS.txt

@@ -3,26 +3,174 @@ Release Notes
 =============
 
 
-Theano 1.0.0rc1 (30th of October, 2017)
-=======================================
+Theano 1.0.0 (15th of November, 2017)
+=====================================
 
-This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release.
+This is a final release of Theano, version ``1.0.0``, with a lot of
+new features, interface changes, improvements and bug fixes.
 
-We recommend that every developer updates to this version.
+We recommend that everybody update to this version.
 
-Highlights:
+Highlights (since 0.9.0):
+ - 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 theano pygpu``
+ - Support NumPy ``1.13``
+ - Support pygpu ``0.7``
+ - Moved Python ``3.*`` minimum supported version from ``3.3`` to ``3.4``
+ - Added conda recipe
+ - Replaced deprecated package ``nose-parameterized`` with up-to-date package ``parameterized`` for Theano requirements
+ - Theano now internally uses ``sha256`` instead of ``md5`` to work on systems that forbid ``md5`` for security reason
+ - Removed old GPU backend ``theano.sandbox.cuda``. New backend ``theano.gpuarray`` is now the official GPU backend
  - Make sure MKL uses GNU OpenMP
 
    - **NB**: Matrix dot product (``gemm``) with ``mkl`` from conda
      could return wrong results in some cases. We have reported the problem upstream
      and we have a work around that raises an error with information about how to fix it.
 
- - Optimized ``SUM(x^2)``, ``SUM(ABS(X))`` and ``MAX(ABS(X))`` operations with cuDNN reductions
- - Added Python scripts to help test cuDNN convolutions
- - Fixed invalid casts and index overflows in ``theano.tensor.signal.pool``
+ - Improved elemwise operations
+
+   - Speed-up elemwise ops based on SciPy
+   - Fixed memory leaks related to elemwise ops on GPU
+
+ - Scan improvements
+
+   - Speed up Theano scan compilation and gradient computation
+   - Added meaningful message when missing inputs to scan
+
+ - Speed up graph toposort algorithm
+ - Faster C compilation by massively using a new interface for op params
+ - Faster optimization step, with new optional destroy handler
+ - Documentation updated and more complete
+
+   - Added documentation for RNNBlock
+   - Updated ``conv`` documentation
+
+ - Support more debuggers for ``PdbBreakpoint``
+ - Many bug fixes, crash fixes and warning improvements
 
 A total of 71 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
 
+Interface changes:
+ - 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)
+ - Removed op ``ExtractDiag`` from ``theano.tensor.nlinalg``, now only in ``theano.tensor.basic``
+ - Generalized ``AllocDiag`` for any non-scalar input
+ - Added new parameter ``target`` for MRG functions
+ - Renamed ``MultinomialWOReplacementFromUniform`` to ``ChoiceFromUniform``
+ - Changed ``grad()`` method to ``L_op()`` in ops that need the outputs to compute gradient
+
+ - Removed or deprecated Theano flags:
+
+   - ``cublas.lib``
+   - ``cuda.enabled``
+   - ``enable_initial_driver_test``
+   - ``gpuarray.sync``
+   - ``home``
+   - ``lib.cnmem``
+   - ``nvcc.*`` flags
+   - ``pycuda.init``
+
+Convolution updates:
+ - Implemented separable convolutions for 2D and 3D
+ - Implemented grouped convolutions for 2D and 3D
+ - Added dilated causal convolutions for 2D
+ - Added unshared convolutions
+ - Implemented fractional bilinear upsampling
+ - Removed old ``conv3d`` interface
+ - Deprecated old ``conv2d`` interface
+
+GPU:
+ - Added a meta-optimizer to select the fastest GPU implementations for convolutions
+ - Prevent GPU initialization when not required
+ - Added disk caching option for kernels
+ - Added method ``my_theano_function.sync_shared()`` to help synchronize GPU Theano functions
+ - Added useful stats for GPU in profile mode
+ - Added Cholesky op based on ``cusolver`` backend
+ - Added GPU ops based on `magma library <http://icl.cs.utk.edu/magma/software/>`_:
+   SVD, matrix inverse, QR, cholesky and eigh
+ - Added ``GpuCublasTriangularSolve``
+ - Added atomic addition and exchange for ``long long`` values in ``GpuAdvancedIncSubtensor1_dev20``
+ - Support log gamma function for all non-complex types
+ - Support GPU SoftMax in both OpenCL and CUDA
+ - Support offset parameter ``k`` for ``GpuEye``
+ - ``CrossentropyCategorical1Hot`` and its gradient are now lifted to GPU
+
+ - cuDNN:
+
+   - Official support for ``v6.*`` and ``v7.*``
+   - Added spatial transformation operation based on cuDNN
+   - Updated and improved caching system for runtime-chosen cuDNN convolution algorithms
+   - Support cuDNN v7 tensor core operations for convolutions with runtime timed algorithms
+   - Better support and loading on Windows and Mac
+   - Support cuDNN v6 dilated convolutions
+   - Support cuDNN v6 reductions for contiguous inputs
+   - Optimized ``SUM(x^2)``, ``SUM(ABS(X))`` and ``MAX(ABS(X))`` operations with cuDNN reductions
+   - 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
+   - Extended Theano flag ``dnn.enabled`` with new option ``no_check`` to help speed up cuDNN importation
+   - Disallowed ``float16`` precision for convolution gradients
+   - Fixed memory alignment detection
+   - Added profiling in C debug mode (with theano flag ``cmodule.debug=True``)
+   - Added Python scripts to help test cuDNN convolutions
+   - Automatic addition of cuDNN DLL path to ``PATH`` environment variable on Windows
+
+ - Updated ``float16`` support
+
+   - Added documentation for GPU float16 ops
+   - Support ``float16`` for ``GpuGemmBatch``
+   - 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
+ - Added boolean indexing for sub-tensors
+ - Added covariance matrix function ``theano.tensor.cov``
+ - Added a wrapper for `Baidu's CTC <https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc>`_ cost and gradient functions
+ - Added scalar and elemwise CPU ops for modified Bessel function of order 0 and 1 from ``scipy.special``
+ - Added Scaled Exponential Linear Unit (SELU) activation
+ - Added sigmoid_binary_crossentropy function
+ - Added tri-gamma function
+ - Added ``unravel_index`` and ``ravel_multi_index`` functions on CPU
+ - Added modes ``half`` and ``full`` for ``Images2Neibs`` ops
+ - Implemented gradient for ``AbstractBatchNormTrainGrad``
+ - Implemented gradient for matrix pseudoinverse op
+ - Added new prop `replace` for ``ChoiceFromUniform`` op
+ - Added new prop ``on_error`` for CPU ``Cholesky`` op
+ - Added new Theano flag ``deterministic`` to help control how Theano optimize certain ops that have deterministic versions.
+   Currently used for subtensor Ops only.
+ - Added new Theano flag ``cycle_detection`` to speed-up optimization step by reducing time spending in inplace optimizations
+ - Added new Theano flag ``check_stack_trace`` to help check the stack trace during optimization process
+ - Added new Theano flag ``cmodule.debug`` to allow a debug mode for Theano C code. Currently used for cuDNN convolutions only.
+ - Added new Theano flag ``pickle_test_value`` to help disable pickling test values
+
+Others:
+ - Kept stack trace for optimizations in new GPU backend
+ - Added deprecation warning for the softmax and logsoftmax vector case
+ - Added a warning to announce that C++ compiler will become mandatory in next Theano release ``0.11``
+ - Added ``R_op()`` for ``ZeroGrad``
+ - Added description for rnnblock
+
+Other more detailed changes:
+ - Fixed invalid casts and index overflows in ``theano.tensor.signal.pool``
+ - Fixed gradient error for elemwise ``minimum`` and ``maximum`` when compared values are the same
+ - 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
+ - Removed ``theano/compat/six.py``
+ - Removed ``COp.get_op_params()``
+ - Support of list of strings for ``Op.c_support_code()``, to help not duplicate support codes
+ - Macro names provided for array properties are now standardized in both CPU and GPU C codes
+ - Moved all C code files into separate folder ``c_code`` in every Theano module
+ - Many improvements for Travis CI tests (with better splitting for faster testing)
+ - Many improvements for Jenkins CI tests: daily testings on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux
+
 Commiters since 0.9.0:
  - Frederic Bastien
  - Steven Bocco

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 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-0.10.0beta4... |grep Merge|grep '#[0123456789]' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | sed 's\#\* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/\'
+git log -p rel-1.0.0... |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..
+git shortlog -sn rel-1.0.0..
 
 
 
@@ -19,164 +18,33 @@ 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 -c mila-udem/label/pre theano pygpu``
- - Support NumPy ``1.13``
- - Support pygpu ``0.7``
- - Added conda recipe
- - Moved Python 3.* minimum supported version from 3.3 to 3.4
- - Replaced deprecated package ``nose-parameterized`` with up-to-date package ``parameterized`` for Theano requirements
- - Theano now internally uses ``sha256`` instead of ``md5`` to work on systems that forbide ``md5`` for security reason
- - Removed old GPU backend ``theano.sandbox.cuda``. New backend ``theano.gpuarray`` is now the official GPU backend
- - Support more debuggers for ``PdbBreakpoint``
- - Make sure MKL uses GNU OpenMP
-
-   - **NB**: Matrix dot product (``gemm``) with numpy ``1.13`` and ``mkl`` from conda
-     could return wrong results in some cases. We have reported the problem upstream
-     and we have a work around that raises an error with information about how to fix it.
-
- - Improved elemwise operations
-
-   - Speed-up elemwise ops based on SciPy
-   - Fixed memory leak related to elemwise ops on GPU
-
- - Scan improvements
-
-   - Speed up Theano scan compilation and gradient computation
-   - Added meaningful message when missing inputs to scan
-
- - Speed up graph toposort algorithm
- - Faster C compilation by massively using a new interface for op params
- - Faster optimization step, with new optional destroy handler
- - Documentation updated and more complete
-
-   - Added documentation for RNNBlock
-
- - 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)
- - Renamed ``MultinomialWOReplacementFromUniform`` to ``ChoiceFromUniform``
-
- - Removed or deprecated Theano flags:
-
-   - ``cublas.lib``
-   - ``cuda.enabled``
-   - ``enable_initial_driver_test``
-   - ``gpuarray.sync``
-   - ``home``
-   - ``lib.cnmem``
-   - ``nvcc.*`` flags
-   - ``pycuda.init``
-
- - Changed ``grad()`` method to ``L_op()`` in ops that need the outputs to compute gradient
- - 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
- - Extended Theano flag ``dnn.enabled`` with new option ``no_check`` to help speed up cuDNN importation
- - Added unshared convolutions
- - Implemented separable convolutions for 2D and 3D
- - Implemented grouped convolutions for 2D and 3D
- - Added dilated causal convolutions for 2D
- - Automatic addition of cuDNN DLL path to ``PATH`` environment variable on Windows
+ - ...
 
 GPU:
- - Added a meta-optimizer to select the fastest GPU implementations for convolutions
- - Prevent GPU initialization when not required
- - Added disk caching option for kernels
- - Added method ``my_theano_function.sync_shared()`` to help synchronize GPU Theano functions
- - Added useful stats for GPU in profile mode
- - Added Cholesky op based on ``cusolver`` backend
- - Added GPU ops based on `magma library <http://icl.cs.utk.edu/magma/software/>`_:
-   SVD, matrix inverse, QR, cholesky and eigh
- - Added ``GpuCublasTriangularSolve``
- - Added atomic addition and exchange for ``long long`` values in ``GpuAdvancedIncSubtensor1_dev20``
- - Support log gamma function for all non-complex types
- - Support GPU SoftMax in both OpenCL and CUDA
- - Support offset parameter ``k`` for ``GpuEye``
- - ``CrossentropyCategorical1Hot`` and its gradient are now lifted to GPU
-
- - Better cuDNN support
-   - Official support for ``v6.*`` and ``v7.*``, support for ``v5.*`` will be removed in next release
-   - Added spatial transformation operation based on cuDNN
-   - Updated and improved caching system for runtime-chosen cuDNN convolution algorithms
-   - Support cuDNN v7 tensor core operations for convolutions with runtime timed algorithms
-   - Better support and loading on Windows and Mac
-   - Support cuDNN v6 dilated convolutions
-   - Support cuDNN v6 reductions for contiguous inputs
-   - Optimized ``SUM(x^2)``, ``SUM(ABS(X))`` and ``MAX(ABS(X))`` operations with cuDNN reductions
-   - 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``)
-   - Added Python scripts to help test cuDNN convolutions
-
- - Updated ``float16`` support
+ - ...
 
-   - Added documentation for GPU float16 ops
-   - Support ``float16`` for ``GpuGemmBatch``
-   - Started to use ``float32`` precision for computations that don't support ``float16`` on GPU
+ - cuDNN support
+   - ...
 
 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
- - Added boolean indexing for sub-tensors
- - Added covariance matrix function ``theano.tensor.cov``
- - Added a wrapper for `Baidu's CTC <https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc>`_ cost and gradient functions
- - Added scalar and elemwise CPU ops for modified Bessel function of order 0 and 1 from ``scipy.special``.
- - Added Scaled Exponential Linear Unit (SELU) activation
- - Added sigmoid_binary_crossentropy function
- - Added tri-gamma function
- - Added ``unravel_index`` and ``ravel_multi_index`` functions on CPU
- - Added modes ``half`` and ``full`` for ``Images2Neibs`` ops
- - Implemented gradient for ``AbstractBatchNormTrainGrad``
- - Implemented gradient for matrix pseudoinverse op
- - Added new prop `replace` for ``ChoiceFromUniform`` op
- - Added new prop ``on_error`` for CPU ``Cholesky`` op
- - Added new Theano flag ``deterministic`` to help control how Theano optimize certain ops that have deterministic versions.
-   Currently used for subtensor Ops only.
- - Added new Theano flag ``cycle_detection`` to speed-up optimization step by reducing time spending in inplace optimizations
- - Added new Theano flag ``check_stack_trace`` to help check the stack trace during optimization process
- - Added new Theano flag ``cmodule.debug`` to allow a debug mode for Theano C code. Currently used for cuDNN convolutions only.
- - Added new Theano flag ``pickle_test_value`` to help disable pickling test values
+ - ...
 
 Others:
- - Kept stack trace for optimizations in new GPU backend
- - Added deprecation warning for the softmax and logsoftmax vector case
- - Added a warning to announce that C++ compiler will become mandatory in next Theano release ``0.11``
- - Added ``R_op()`` for ``ZeroGrad``
- - Added decsription for rnnblock
+ - ...
 
 Other more detailed changes:
- - Fixed invalid casts and index overflows in ``theano.tensor.signal.pool``
- - Fixed gradient error for elemwise ``minimum`` and ``maximum`` when compared values are the same
- - 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
- - Removed ``theano/compat/six.py``
- - Removed ``COp.get_op_params()``
- - Support of list of strings for ``Op.c_support_code()``, to help not duplicate support codes
- - Macro names provided for array properties are now standardized in both CPU and GPU C codes
- - Moved all C code files into separate folder ``c_code`` in every Theano module
- - Many improvements for Travis CI tests (with better splitting for faster testing)
- - Many improvements for Jenkins CI tests: daily testings on Mac and Windows in addition to Linux
+ - ...
 
-ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED
+ALL THE PR BELLOW HAVE BEEN CHECKED FOR FINAL RELEASE 1.0.0 SINCE 0.9.0
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6509
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6508
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6505
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6496
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6495
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6492

doc/index.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ learning/machine learning <https://mila.umontreal.ca/en/cours/>`_ classes).
 News
 ====
 
+* 2017/11/15: Release of Theano 1.0.0. Everybody is encouraged to update.
+
 * 2017/10/30: Release of Theano 1.0.0rc1, new features and many bugfixes, final release to coming.
 
 * 2017/10/16: Release of Theano 0.10.0beta4, new features and many 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 October 30th, 2017 (after Theano 1.0.0rc1):
+Here is the state of that vision as of November 15th, 2017 (after Theano 1.0.0):
 
 * `MILA will stop developing Theano. <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY/rNCIfvAEAwAJ>`_
 * We support tensors using the `numpy.ndarray` object and we support many operations on them.

theano/version.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, division
 
 from theano._version import get_versions
 
-FALLBACK_VERSION = "1.0.0rc1+unknown"
+FALLBACK_VERSION = "1.0.0+unknown"
 
 info = get_versions()
 if info['error'] is not None: