Major Features and Improvements

1. Support Paddle v1.7.1

2. Improve ease of use.

   Support install Paddle Serving with pip command and docker.

   Integrate with Paddle Training seamlessly.

   Start server with one command.

   Web service development supported.

3. Provide two prediction service methods : RPC and HTTP.

4. Add client api support for Python, Go.

5. CV, NLP and recommendation serving demos released.

6. Add Timeline tools for analysis service performance.

7. Performance Improvement: with python rpc python client, throughputs are improved over 100% compared with HTTP service in previous release.

Thanks to our Contributors

This release contains contributions from many people at Baidu, as well as: guru4elephant, wangjiawei04, MRXLT, barrierye