v0.2.0rc1

This is the release notes of v0.2.0rc1. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

Changes that break compatibility

• A huge refactor in #579 that merges expression and execution together both for tensor and DataFrame.

New Features

• Add a web page listing all running operands (#521)
• Support conversions between tensor and DataFrame (#524)
• Add distributed series support (#525)
• Add support for worker timeline (#529)
• Support view behavior in numpy and add tensor.view() as well as tensor.flat (#534)
• Mutable tensor for local session and web session (#536)
• Support fetch tensor data slices from client (#540)

Enhancements

• Do consolidation for totiledb (#403)
• Support failover for shuffle operands (#550)
• Allow specifying different calculation methods for CPU and memory (#560)
• Merge expressions and execution directories (#579)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug that redundant graphs are submitted unexpectedly when eager mode is on (#523)
• Fix unify chunks when add a scalar with out (#542)
• Fix execution error caused by fused ShuffleReduces (#546)
• Fix wrong result of negative indexing (#547)
• Fix error in importing new_client in Python 2.7 (#558)

Installation

• Fix build issue under cp27-cp27m-manylinux1 (#588)

Tests

• Separate scheduler integrated tests (#563)