diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2684f5f5ded18cfb3a682dd17e5f40e5151e6d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +# Release v0.9.0 + +## New Features: + +* Add some layers to Paddle + * bilinear interpolation layer. + * spatial pyramid-pool layer. + * de-convolution layer. + * maxout layer. +* Support rectangle padding, stride, window and input for Pooling Operation. +* Add —job=time in trainer, which can be used to print time info without compiler option -WITH_TIMER=ON. +* Support Mac OS X Sierra by source code. +* Expose cost_weight/nce_layer in `trainer_config_helpers` +* Add FAQ, concepts, h-rnn docs. +* Add Bidi-LSTM and DB-LSTM to quick start demo @alvations +* Add usage track scripts. + +## Improvements + +* Add travis-ci for macos. Enable swig unittest in travis. Skip travis-ci when only docs are changed. +* Add code coverage tools. +* Refine convolution layer to speedup and reduce GPU memory. +* Speed up PyDataProvider2 +* Add ubuntu deb package build scripts. +* Make Paddle use git-flow branching model. +* PServer support no parameter blocks. + +## Bug Fixes + +* add zlib link to py_paddle +* add input sparse data check for sparse layer at runtime +* Bug fix for sparse matrix multiplication +* Fix floating-point overflow problem of tanh +* Fix some nvcc compile options +* Fix a bug in yield dictionary in DataProvider +* Fix SRL hang when exit. + +# Release v0.8.0beta.1 +New features: + +* Mac OSX is supported by source code. #138 + * Both GPU and CPU versions of PaddlePaddle are supported. + +* Support CUDA 8.0 + +* Enhance `PyDataProvider2` + * Add dictionary yield format. `PyDataProvider2` can yield a dictionary with key is data_layer's name, value is features. + * Add `min_pool_size` to control memory pool in provider. + +* Add `deb` install package & docker image for no_avx machines. + * Especially for cloud computing and virtual machines + +* Automatically disable `avx` instructions in cmake when machine's CPU don't support `avx` instructions. + +* Add Parallel NN api in trainer_config_helpers. + +* Add `travis ci` for Github + +Bug fixes: + +* Several bugs in trainer_config_helpers. Also complete the unittest for trainer_config_helpers +* Check if PaddlePaddle is installed when unittest. +* Fix bugs in GTX series GPU +* Fix bug in MultinomialSampler + +Also more documentation was written since last release. + +# Release v0.8.0beta.0 + +PaddlePaddle v0.8.0beta.0 release. The install package is not stable yet and it's a pre-release version.