v3.7.2

Improvements

• Cache CUDA kernels to disk to improve load times(Thanks to @cschreib-ibex) #2848
• Staticly link against cuda libraries #2785
• Make cuDNN an optional build dependency #2836
• Improve support for different compilers and OS #2876 #2945 #2925 #2942 #2943 #2945
• Improve performance of join and transpose on CPU #2849
• Improve documentation #2816 #2821 #2846 #2918 #2928 #2947
• Reduce binary size using NVRTC and template reducing instantiations #2849 #2861 #2890
• Improve reduceByKey performance on OpenCL by using builtin functions #2851
• Improve support for Intel OpenCL GPUs #2855
• Allow staticly linking against MKL #2877 (Sponsered by SDL)
• Better support for older CUDA toolkits #2923
• Add support for CUDA 11 #2939
• Add support for ccache for faster builds #2931
• Add support for the conan package manager on linux #2875
• Propagate build errors up the stack in AFError exceptions #2948 #2957
• Improve runtime dependency library loading #2954
• Improved cuDNN runtime checks and warnings #2960
• Document af_memory_manager_* native memory return values #2911
• Add support for cuDNN 8 #2963

Fixes

• Bug crash when allocating large arrays #2827
• Fix various compiler warnings #2827 #2849 #2872 #2876
• Fix minor leaks in OpenCL functions #2913
• Various continuous integration related fixes #2819
• Fix zero padding with convolv2NN #2820
• Fix af_get_memory_pressure_threshold return value #2831
• Increased the max filter length for morph
• Handle empty array inputs for LU, QR, and Rank functions #2838
• Fix FindMKL.cmake script for sequential threading library #2840
• Various internal refactoring #2839 #2861 #2864 #2873 #2890 #2891 #2913
• Fix OpenCL 2.0 builtin function name conflict #2851
• Fix error caused when releasing memory with multiple devices #2867
• Fix missing set stacktrace symbol from unified API #2915
• Fix zero padding issue in convolve2NN #2820
• Fixed bugs in ReduceByKey #2957
• Add clblast patch to handle custom context with multiple devices #2967

Contributions

Special thanks to our contributors:
Corentin Schreiber
Jacob Kahn
Paul Jurczak
Christoph Junghans