updated news.md and readme.md for 1.8.0 release

NEWS.md

@@ -18,6 +18,22 @@
 MXNet Change Log
 ================
 - [MXNet Change Log](#mxnet-change-log)
+  - [1.8.0](#180)
+    - [Features](#features)
+      * [CUDA Graphs](#cuda-graphs)
+      * [CUDA 11 Support](#cuda-11-support)
+      * [TensorRT](#tensorrt)
+      * [OneDNN](#onednn)
+      * [IntGemm](#intgemm)
+      * [Subgraph API](#subgraph-api)
+      * [Extensions](#extensions)
+      * [ONNX](#onnx)
+      * [Large Tensor](#large-tensor)
+      * [Website Improvements](#website-improvements)
+      * [Documentation](#documentation)
+      * [License](#license)
+      * [CI Improvements](#ci-improvements)
+      * [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
   - [1.7.0](#170)
     - [New features](#new-features)
       - [MXNet Extensions: custom operators, partitioning, and graph passes](#mxnet-extensions-custom-operators-partitioning-and-graph-passes)
@@ -274,6 +290,114 @@ MXNet Change Log
   - [v0.7](#v07)
   - [v0.5 (initial release)](#v05-initial-release)
 
+## 1.8.0
+### 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)
+
 ## 1.7.0
 
 ### New features

README.md

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 What's New
 ----------
+* [1.8.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.8.0) - MXNet 1.8.0 Release.
 * [1.7.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0) - MXNet 1.7.0 Release.
 * [1.6.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.6.0) - MXNet 1.6.0 Release.
 * [1.5.1 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.5.1) - MXNet 1.5.1 Patch Release.