Rebased and updated. Listed commiters since 0.9.0.

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@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Anatoly Belikov <awbelikov@gmail.com> Anatoly Belikov <wormblood@gmail.com>
 Andre Holzner <Andre.Georg.Holzner@cern.ch> Andre Holzner <holzner@pb-d-128-141-148-222.cern.ch>
 Andre Holzner <Andre.Georg.Holzner@cern.ch> andreh <andreh@localhost>
 Andre Holzner <Andre.Georg.Holzner@cern.ch> Andre Holzner <holzner@andres-mbp-2.fritz.box>
+Andrei Costinescu <andrei.costinescu@yahoo.com> Andrei Costinescu <AndreiCostinescu@users.noreply.github.com>
+Andrei Costinescu <andrei.costinescu@yahoo.com> AndreiCostinescu <andrei.costinescu@yahoo.com>
+Anirudh Goyal <anirudhgoyal9119@gmail.com> AndroidCloud <anirudhgoyal9119@gmail.com>
 Arjun Jain <arjunjain@gmail.com> Arjun Jain <stencilman@users.noreply.github.com>
 Arnaud Bergeron <abergeron@gmail.com> <abergeron@gmail.com>
 Arnaud Bergeron <abergeron@gmail.com> <bergearn@iro.umontreal.ca>
@@ -169,6 +172,7 @@ Mehdi Mirza <memirzamo@gmail.com> Mehdi Mirza <memimo@users.noreply.github.com>
 Mehdi Mirza <memirzamo@gmail.com> memimo <memirzamo@gmail.com>
 Mohammed Affan <affanv14@gmail.com> affan <affanv14@gmail.com>
 Mohammed Affan <affanv14@gmail.com> affanv14 <affanv14@gmail.com>
+Mohammed Affan <affanv14@gmail.com> Ubuntu <ubuntu@ip-172-31-58-125.ec2.internal>
 Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@gmail.com> Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@users.noreply.github.com>
 Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@gmail.com> Mo <moslemk@gmail.com>
 Nan Rosemary Ke <rosemary.ke@west.cmu.edu> nke001 <rosemary.nan.ke@gmail.com>
@@ -218,6 +222,8 @@ Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.c
 Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <sebastien.jean@mail.mcgill.ca>
 Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> slefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca>
 Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> Simon Lefrancois <lefransi@iro.umontreal.ca>
+Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> Jenkins <jenkins@milaburger.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Simon Lefrancois <simon.lefrancois@umontreal.ca> mila <mila@earlgrey.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> SinaHonari <sina2222@gmail.com>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> Sina Honari <honaris@eos21.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> Sina Honari <sina.honari@gmail.com>
@@ -239,6 +245,7 @@ Vincent Dumoulin <vi.dumoulin@gmail.com> vdumoulin <vi.dumoulin@gmail.com>
 Vitaliy Kurlin <vitaliykurin@gmail.com> yobibyte <vitaliykurin@gmail.com>
 Vivek Kulkarni <viveksck@gmail.com> Vivek Kulkarni <vvkulkarni@cs.stonybrook.edu>
 Wei Li <kuantkid@gmail.com> kuantkid <kuantkid@gmail.com>
+Yikang Shen <yikang.shn@gmail.com> yikang <yikang.shn@gmail.com>
 Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca> bengioy@bengio-mac.local <bengioy@bengio-mac.local>
 Ziye Fan <fanziye.cis@gmail.com> FanZiye(t13m) <fanziye.cis@gmail.com>
 Zhouhan LIN <lin.zhouhan@gmail.com> hantek <lin.zhouhan@gmail.com>

NEWS.txt

@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ We recommend that every developer updates to this version.
 
 Highlights:
  - Support NumPy ``1.13``
+ - Support pygpu ``0.7``
  - Added conda recipe
  - Optional faster optimization step with new destroy handler
- - Updated documentation
- - Bug fixes, crash fixes and warning improvements
+ - Added documentation for RNNBlock
+ - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates
 
-A total of 16 people contributed to this release since 0.10.0beta1, see list below.
+A total of 67 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.
+
+Interface changes:
+ - Added new parameter ``target`` for MRG functions
 
 Convolution updates:
  - Added unshared convolutions
@@ -45,24 +49,78 @@ New features:
  - Added covariance matrix function ``theano.tensor.cov``
  - Added new Theano flag ``pickle_test_value`` to help disable pickling test values
 
+Others:
+ - Kept stack trace for optimizations in new GPU backend
+
 Other more detailed changes:
  - Moved all C code files into separate folder ``c_code`` in every Theano module
  - Improvements for Jenkins tests
 
-Commiters since 0.10.0beta1:
- - João Victor Tozatti Risso
- - Mohammed Affan
+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
+ - Shawn Tan
  - Gijs van Tulder
- - Arnaud Bergeron
- - Boris Fomitchev
+ - Thomas George
  - Vikram
- - Joseph Paul Cohen
+ - 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
+ - vipulraheja
+ - Florian Bordes
+ - Sina Honari
  - Yikang Shen
+ - erakra
+ - Chiheb Trabelsi
+ - Shubh Vachher
+ - Daren Eiri
+ - Joseph Paul Cohen
+ - Laurent Dinh
+ - Mohamed Ishmael Diwan Belghazi
+ - Jeff Donahue
+ - Ramana Subramanyam
+ - Bogdan Budescu
  - Dzmitry Bahdanau
- - Faruk Ahmed
- - Shawn Tan
- - Simon Lefrancois
+ - Ghislain Antony Vaillant
+ - Jan Schlüter
+ - Xavier Bouthillier
+ - fo40225
+ - Aarni Koskela
+ - Adam Becker
+ - 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
  - wyjw

NEWS_DEV.txt

@@ -5,6 +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-0.10.0beta1... |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 +20,7 @@ TODO: better Theano conv doc
 
 Highlights:
  - 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
@@ -35,9 +37,13 @@ Highlights:
  - 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:
+ - 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``
@@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ New features:
  - 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``
 
@@ -136,6 +143,13 @@ 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/6326
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6317
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6269
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/5688
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6376
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6377
+* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6355
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6373
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6374
 * https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/6371