[RELEASE] v0.8 Release (Last release before NNVM refactor (#4409)

* [RELEASE] v0.8 Release (Last release before NNVM refactor

* fix

Author: piiswrong

NEWS.md

@@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ MXNet Change Log
 ================
 ## in progress version
 
+## v0.8
+This is the last release before the NNVM refactor.
+- CaffeOp and CaffeIter for interfacing with Caffe by @HrWangChengdu @cjolivier01
+- WrapCTC plugin for sequence learning by @xlvector
+- Improved Multi-GPU performance by @mli
+- CuDNN RNN support by @sbodenstein
+- OpenCV plugin for parallel image IO by @piiswrong
+- More operators as simple op
+    - Simple OP @tqchen
+    - element wise op with axis and broadcast @mli @sxjscience
+- Cudnn auto tuning for faster convolution by @piiswrong
+- More applications
+    - Faster RCNN by @precedenceguo
+
+
 ## v0.7
 -  0.6 is skipped because there are a lot of improvements since initial release
 - More math operators

R-package/DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: mxnet
 Type: Package
 Title: MXNet
-Version: 0.7
+Version: 0.8
 Date: 2015-12-23
 Author: Tianqi Chen, Qiang Kou, Tong He
 Maintainer: Qiang Kou <qkou@umail.iu.edu>

docs/conf.py

@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
 }
 os.environ['MXNET_BUILD_DOC'] = '1'
 # Version information.
-version = '0.7.0'
-release = '0.7.0'
+version = '0.8.0'
+release = '0.8.0'
 # import mxnet
 # version = mxnet.__version__
 # release = mxnet.__version__

plugin/warpctc/warpctc-inl.h

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class WarpCTCOp : public Operator {
     TBlob data = in_data[warpctc_enum::kData];
     TBlob label = in_data[warpctc_enum::kLabel];
     CHECK_EQ(data.shape_.ndim(), 2) << "input data shape should be 2 (t*n, p)";
-    ctcComputeInfo info;
+    ctcComputeInfo info; // please build warp-ctc with commit 5bfb46e (cd warp-ctc && git checkout 5bfb46e) NOLINT(*)
     if (data.dev_mask_ == cpu::kDevMask) {
       info.loc = CTC_CPU;
       info.num_threads = 1;

python/mxnet/libinfo.py

@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ def find_lib_path():
 
 
 # current version
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"