DJL Monthly Update - March 2022

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Also including content from February 2022

Released DJL 0.16.0 (Release Notes)

Key Features:

• Upgrades Apache MXNet engine to 1.9.0 with CUDA 11.2 support
• Improves ONNXRuntime engine memory configurations
• Improves fastText engine’s API
• Fixes several critical bugs

Community

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Feature Enhancements

DJL

• Device Name parsing (#1490)
• onnxruntime arena allocator setter (#1510)
• mxnet Updates MXNet engine to 1.9.0 (#1429)
• mxnet Upgrade native build mxnet version ([#1517)
• Refactor ml extension support (#1521)
• Parse default device with Device.fromName (#1529)
• Upgrade dependency versions (#1533)
• Bump up version to 0.17.0 (#1537)
• ci Upgrade gradle wrapper to 7.4.1 (#1539)
• Building DJL For aarch64 (#1526)
• api Make resource loading compatible with java9 module (#1541)
• pytorch Allows multiple native jars to package into fat jar (#1543)
• Support freeze parameters (#1544)
• basicdataset Add WikiText-2 dataset (#1545)

DJL Serving

• Bump follow-redirects from 1.14.7 to 1.14.8 in /central (#60)
• serving Detect engine when load model from URL (#63)
• Bump up version to 0.16.0 (#65)
• error message when model path is invalid (#66)
• Update inferentia docker image to use PyTorch 1.10.0 (#68)
• serving Refactor ModelDefinition class (#67)
• serving Make startup model default devices configurable (#69)
• Adds support for creating workflows (#70)
• Upgrade to DJL 0.16.0 (#71)
• Bump node-forge from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0 in /central (#72)
• Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /central (#74)
• Update nodejs package version (#73)
• Update dependencies version (#76)
• Create control plane for workflows (#75)

DJL Spring Boot Starter

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.6.4 (#19)
• Upgrade to DJL 0.15.0 (#18)
• Release djl-spring-boot-starter 0.15 (#20)

DJL Clojure

• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:scicloj/clj-djl
• depend on version 0.15.0
• 2 method signature have changed
• Merge pull request use v0.15.0 #7 from behrica/v015

Documentation & Examples

DJL

• docs Fixes dataset document. (#1523)
• release Update document version to 0.16.0 (#1536)
• jupyter remove unecessary maven import (#1540)
• examples Update maven pom file dependency version (#1546)
• Add document with installation instructions (#1548)

DJL Demos

• Bump vertx-web in /visualization-vue/djl-training-demo (#209)
• Upgrade inferentia demo to DJL 0.15.0 (#210)
• canary Upgrade to DJL 0.16.0 (#212)
• Upgrade gradle wrapper to 7.4.1 (#213)
• Upgrade java9 module demo to DJL 0.16.0 (#214)
• Upgrade multi-engine demo to DJL 0.16.0 (#215)
• fatjar Adds distribute DJL application demo (#216)

Bug Fixes

DJL

• sentencepiece Fixes #1149, fix NPE bug (#1492)
• Fix djl site vue version (#1495)
• Fixes MLP example code in README (#1497)
• pytorch Fixes jni dependency in README document (#1513)
• api Fixes memory leak in hybrid engine (#1518)
• typo fix (#1519)
• Fix the version issue reported from get-pip.py (#1530)
• Fix FastText JNI build (#1531)
• ci Fixes update version gradle script (#1534)
• api Fixes loading BlockFactory bug (#1547)

DJL Serving

• fixing broken url (#61)