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Release Notes
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Theano 0.10.0beta4 (16th of October, 2017)
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This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release candidate.

We recommend that every developer updates to this version.

Highlights:
 - Announcing that `MILA will stop developing Theano <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY/rNCIfvAEAwAJ>`_
 - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates

A total of 70 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.

Interface changes:
 - Generalized ``AllocDiag`` for any non-scalar input

Convolution updates:
 - Implemented fractional bilinear upsampling

cuDNN (GPU):
 - Disallowed ``float16`` precision for convolution gradients
 - Fixed memory alignment detection
 - Added profiling in C debug mode (with theano flag ``cmodule.debug=True``)

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_``

Other more detailed changes:
 - Improved stack trace follow-up for GPU optimizations
 - Fixed gradient error for elemwise ``minimum`` and ``maximum`` when compared values are the same
 - Fixed gradient for ``ARange``
 - Removed ``ViewOp`` subclass during optimization

Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Frederic Bastien
 - João Victor Tozatti Risso
 - Arnaud Bergeron
 - Steven Bocco
 - 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
 - Zotov Yuriy
 - dareneiri
 - lrast
 - morrme
 - naitonium
