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Release Notes
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Theano 1.0.0rc1 (30th of October, 2017)
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This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release.

We recommend that every developer updates to this version.

Highlights:
 - Make sure MKL uses GNU OpenMP

   - **NB**: Matrix dot product (``gemm``) with ``mkl`` from conda
     could return wrong results in some cases. We have reported the problem upstream
     and we have a work around that raises an error with information about how to fix it.

 - Optimized ``SUM(x^2)``, ``SUM(ABS(X))`` and ``MAX(ABS(X))`` operations with cuDNN reductions
 - Added Python scripts to help test cuDNN convolutions
 - Fixed invalid casts and index overflows in ``theano.tensor.signal.pool``

A total of 71 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.

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