0.17.0

This release features updated documentation web-page https://intelpython.github.io/dpctl/latest/index.html, adds cumulative reductions,
and complies with revision 2023.12 of Python Array API specification.

Added

• Added pybind11 caster for sycl::half to map to/from Python float to "dpctl4pybind11.hpp" header: gh-1655
• Added support for DLPack data interchange per Python Array API 2023.12 specification: gh-1667
• Implemented tensor.cumulative_sum, tensor.cumulative_prod and tensor.cumulative_logsumexp: gh-1602

Changed

• Expanded documentation for dpctl: gh-1619
• Expanded utils.intel_device_info functionality: gh-1656
• Improved performance of elementwise operations: gh-1651
• Efficiency improvement by avoiding unnecessary copying of sycl::queue: gh-1645
• dpctl uses pybind11 2.12.0: gh-1640
• Improved performance of tensor.reshape operation with order="F" when copying is needed, or requested: gh-1677

Fixed

• Fixed initialization of byte type constants in dpctl_capi Python/C API loader class in "dpctl4pybind11.hpp": gh-1665
• Fixed crash in tensor.sort reported for a CPU device and a CUDA device: gh-1676
• Fixed race condition in accumulation kernel for custom operations that caused test failures with AMD CPUs: gh-1624
• Fixed comparison operators for mixed signed and unsigned integral types: gh-1650
• Support use of index arrays of different integral types in indexing operations: gh-47
• Fixed source code to compile for NVidia(TM) GPUs with DPC++ 2024.1: gh-1630
• Corrected tensor.tile for scalar inputs and empty repetitions: gh-1628
• Fixed support for out keyword in tensor.matmul: gh-1610
• Fixed bug in basic slicing of empty arrays: gh-1680
• Fixed bug in tensor.bitwise_invert for boolean input array: gh-1681
• Fixed bug in tensor.repeat on zero-size input arrays: gh-1682

New Contributors

• @bdmoore1 made their first contribution in #1659
• @ekomarova made their first contribution in #1666

Full Changelog: https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md