Release tracker - 2024/11

[ScottTodd]

Overview

Our previous stable release was cut on 2024-11-04: https://github.com/iree-org/iree/releases/tag/candidate-20241104.1068. We aim for roughly one stable release every 6 weeks, though in this case we are planning an earlier release to coincide with the new versioning scheme discussed at #18938. This issue tracks the release process for the next release.

Release process docs:

• https://iree.dev/developers/general/release-management/
• https://github.com/iree-org/iree/blob/main/RELEASING.md

Release checklist:

• Watch for major/breaking changes and decide to either batch them with this release or defer them until the next release
• Choose a release candidate from nightly releases to promote. The candidate should contain no major regressions and should include all packages, even those marked experimental in .github/workflows/build_package.yml like macOS and Windows packages.
• Compile release notes
• Promote to stable (on GitHub) and push packages to PyPI
• Roll forward downstream packages like iree-turbine and push similar package updates to PyPI
• Update release process docs for next time

Release notes

Commit range

• Previous release to main: candidate-20241104.1068...main

(Contributors can edit this section as they land patches)

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Announcements:

Major changes:

In development features:

Full changelog: candidate-20241104.1068...main

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[ScottTodd]

I'm planning on promoting https://github.com/iree-org/iree/releases/tag/iree-2.9.0rc20241108 to PyPI and a GitHub release to include the new version scheme. Smaller release, with just these commits: candidate-20241104.1068...iree-2.9.0rc20241108

I'll compile some release notes now and get that pushed today, then keep this issue open.

[ScottTodd]

Version 2.9.0 has been released across iree-base-compiler, iree-base-runtime, and iree-turbine. The updates there were mostly packaging-related, so keeping this issue open for a running log of feature changes to include in the next set of release notes.