Features

CUDA Graphs

• Enable CUDA Graphs for TRT (#19184)
• CUDA graphs support (#19142)
• Update cudnn version. (#19375)

CUDA 11 Support

• Update CUB and include it only for CUDA < 11 #18799' (#18975)
• Add new CI pipeline for building and testing with cuda 11.0. (#19149)
• Enable CUDA 11.0 on nightly development builds (#19314)

TensorRT

• TensorRT: add int8 with calibration (#19011)
• Add TRT verbose mode (#19100)
• Backporting TensorRT-Gluon Partition API (and TensorRT 7 support) (#18916)
• Backport TRT test update #19296 (#19298)

OneDNN

• Upgrade to oneDNN v1.6.3 (#19153) (#19161)
• Update oneDNN to official v1.6 release (#18867) (#18867)
• Upgrade to oneDNN v1.6 (#18822)
• bumped version to v1.6.5 (#19437)
• Upgrade to oneDNN v1.7 (#19560)

IntGemm

• Backport of intgemm #17559 (#19099)
• Change intgemm to a submodule instead of fetch. (#19406)

Subgraph API

• Backport Fix for duplicate subgraph inputs/outputs (#16131) (#19112)

Extensions

• Backport #19103 (#19117)
• Backporting #19016 (#19069)
• Backport: Change Partition API's options_map to std::unordered_map #18929 (#18964)
• Backporting #18779 to v1.x (#18894)
• Backport extension bug fixes to v1.8.x (#19469) (#19504)
• fix for MX_ERROR_MSG namespace (#19756)

ONNX

• Update onnx support to work with onnx 1.7.0 with most CV models (#19017)

Large Tensor

• Fix linalg_potri and linalg_potrf operators for large tensor. (#18752)
• Add forward, backward test for linalg.gemm2 (#18784)
• Add large matrix tests for linalg ops: det, inverse, trsm, trmm (#18744)
• Add Large Tensor Test for linalg_syrk (#18782)
• Add Large Dim Checks for linalg Operators (#18816)
• Add forward & backward linalg.gemm test for large size (#18825)
• Adding error message when attempting to use Large tensor with linalg_syevd (#18807)

Website Improvements

• v1.8 website patch (#19212)
• Automate website artifacts uploading (#19244)

Documentation

• Fix mxnet.test_utils.check_numeric_gradient documentation (#19060)
• Update windows_setup.md (#18874)

License

• Stop packaging GPL libquadmath.so (#19055)
• Remove mention of nightly in pypi (#18635) (#18884)
• Mkldnn header fix v1x for nightly binaries (#18797)
• Update LICENSE for all submodules. (#19440)
• LICENSE update (#19443)
• Update LICENSE (#19704) (#19707)

CI Improvements

• Upgrade unix gpu toolchain (#18186) (#18785)
• Fix CI in v1.x branch (#18907)
• Remove extra --build-arg causing docker command to fail. (#19412)
• Fix CI builds failing due to invalid GPG keys. (#19377) (#19388)

Bug Fixes

• Backport #19656 - fix R builds (#19658)
• remove cleanup on side threads (#19557)
• Don't use namespace for pow() function, since it is built into cuda math library, and cast the second argument so it will find an acceptable form. (#19533)
• Remove temporary fix for RNN (#19451)
• backport #19393 to v1.8.x (#19398)
• Fix SoftReLU fused operator numerical stability (#17849) (#19390)
• Temporary fix for RNN with oneDNN seg faults/core dumps (#19308)
• Fix MKLDNN BatchNorm with even number of channels (#19150) #19299 #19425 (#19428)
• Relaxing type requirements for broadcast_like (#17977) (#19448)
• Backporting: Fixed setting attributes in reviewSubgraph (#19278)
• Include oneDNN gemm fix (#19251)
• Fix for breaking change introduced in #17123 when batch_axis=0 (#19283)
• Backport PR #19272 to v1.8.x (#19273)
• Backport PRs in v1.7.x missing from v1.x to v1.8.x (#19262)
• Delete executor before reallocating it memory (#19222)
• Nightly Large Tensor test cherrypicks (#19194) (#19215)
• Tweeking syntax to be closer to other tests (#19186) (#19206)
• ElementWiseSum fix for oneDNN (#18777) (#19200)
• Fix flaky intgemm test in v1.8.x too (#19204)
• Revert "Fix memory leaks in Gluon (#18328) (#18359)" (#19181)
• Improve environment variable handling in unittests (#18424) (#19173)
• Backport Unittest tolerance handling improvements (#18694). Also test seeding (#18762). (#19148)
• Fix the error of gradient of np.pad (#19044) (#19167)
• Backport Add cmake flag USE_FATBIN_COMPRESSION, ON by default (#19123) (#19158)
• SymbolBlock.imports ignore_extra & allow_missing (#19156)
• Fix race condition in NaiveEngine::PushAsync (#19108) (#19122)
• Empty list cannot be cleared issue fixed. (#14882)
• Update base_module.py (#19096)
• Fix block.export (#17970) (#19075)
• Support for fp16 in SpM x DnsM on GPU (#18930) (#19074)
• Backport of Fix LeakyRelu behaviour on empty input (#18934) (#19009)
• Get rid of monkey patching in LossScaler overflow handling (#18959) (#18973)
• Remove upper bound (#18857) (#18910)
• Fix gelu to use erf based algorithm (#18827) (#18946)
• Cherry-pick #18635 to v1.7.x (#18935) (#18945)
• Backporting backward inference from 2.x #18348 and #18378 (#18895)
• Backport Invoke mkldnn and cudnn BatchNorm when axis != 1 to v1.7.x (#18676) (#18890)
• Bump version to 1.8.0 (#18899)
• Fixing ONNX spatial export for batchnorm (#17711) (#18846)
• Fix softmax, logsoftmax failed on empty ndarray (#18602) (#18708)
• Add unit tests for potri and potrf backward and check output shape in unit tests. (#18803)
• Add syrk test shape check (#18812)
• Back port optimization to broadcast_axis to MXNet1.x (#18773)
• Fix crash when accessing already destructed static variables (#18768) (#18778)
• Cherrypick #18677 #18713 (#18742)