Neuron SDK Release - November 20, 2024
Neuron 2.20.2 release fixes a stability issue in Neuron Scheduler Extension that previously caused crashes in Kubernetes (K8) deployments. See Neuron K8 Release Notes.
This release also addresses a security patch update to Neuron Driver that fixes a kernel address leak issue. See more on Neuron Driver Release Notes and Neuron Runtime Release Notes.
Addtionally, Neuron 2.20.2 release updates torch-neuronx and libneuronxla packages to add support for torch-xla 2.1.5 package which fixes checkpoint loading issues with Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO-1). See PyTorch Neuron (torch-neuronx) release notes and Neuron XLA pluggable device (libneuronxla) release notes.
Neuron supported DLAMIs and DLCs are updated with this release (Neuron 2.20.2 SDK). The Training DLC is also updated to address the version dependency issues in NxD Training library. See Neuron DLC Release Notes.
NxD Training library in Neuron 2.20.2 release is updated to transformers 4.36.0 package. See NxD Training Release Notes (neuronx-distributed-training).