0.21.0 Clean House

[diptorupd]

Added

• Support addition and multiplication-based prange reduction loops (Enable dpnp parfor reduction #999)
• Proper boxing, unboxing of dpctl.SyclQueue objects inside dpjit decorated functions (Proper DpctlSyclQueue support #963, Changes to the DpctlSyclQueue and USMNdArray types. #1064)
• Support for queue keyword arguments inside dpnp array constructors in dpjit (Feature/support sycl queue in array constructor functions #1032)
• Overloads for dpnp array constructors: dpnp.full (Implementation for dpnp.full() #991), dpnp.full_like (Implementation for dpnp.full_like() #997)
• Support for complex64 and complex128 types as kernel arguments and in parfors (Enabled complex type for kernel. #1033, Enabled complex number in dpjit. #1035)
• New config to run the ConstantSizeStaticLocalMemoryPass optionally (Enable dpnp parfor reduction #999)
• Support for Numba 0.57 (Feature/support numba057 #1030, Replace parent package for cached_property import #1003, Rename nrt_debug_print -> drt_debug_print #1002)
• Support for Python 3.11 (support Python 3.11 #1054)
• Support for SPIRV 1.4 (Upgraded spirv-max-version from 1.1 to 1.4. #1056, Update the SPIR-V version for the atomic emulation kernel. #1060)

Changed

• Parfor lowering happens using the kernel pipeline (Use kernel compiler for parfors as well. #996)
• Minimum required Numba version is now 0.57 (Feature/support numba057 #1030)
• Numba monkey patches are moved to numba_dpex.numba_patches (Feature/support numba057 #1030)
• Redesigned unit test suite (Redesign numba-dpex test suite #1018, Removed to duplicate tests in tests. #1017, Making test_atomic_op testcase CFD compliant #1015, Added __init__.py to fix missing tests on CI. #1036, Directly invoke pytest in package build workflow. #1037, Fix jenkins CI #1072)

Fixed

• Fix stride computation when unboxing a dpnp array (Fixes stride calculation when unboxing a dpnp ndarray #1023)
• Using cached queue instead of creating new one on type inference (Using cached queue instead of creating new one on type inference #946)
• Fixed bug in reduction mul operation for dpjit (Fixed bug in reduction mul operation for dpjit. #1048)
• Offload of parfor nodes to OpenCL UHD GPU devices (Fix/opencl gpu exec #1074)

Removed

• Support for offloading NumPy-based parfor nodes to SYCL devices (Remove/njit offload #1041)
• Removed rename_numpy_functions_pass (Remove/njit offload #1041)
• Dpnp overloads using stubs (Remove/njit offload #1041, Remove legacy dpnp array ctor stub overloads. #1025)
• Support for like keyword argument in dpnp array constructor overloads (Removed like arg in dpnp empty, zeros and ones overload. #1043)
• Support for NumPy arrays as kernel arguments (Feature/remove numpy array kernelargs #1049)
• Kernel argument access specifiers (Feature/remove numpy array kernelargs #1049)
• Support for dpctl.device_context to launch kernels and njit offloading (Remove/njit offload #1041)

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