1.6.1 Patch Release
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21 commits
to release_1.6.0
since this release
v1.6.1 (2022 May 9)
This is a patch release for bug fixes and Spark barrier mode support. The R package is unchanged.
Experimental support for categorical data
- Fix segfault when the number of samples is smaller than the number of categories. (#7853)
- Enable partition-based split for all model types. (#7857)
JVM packages
We replaced the old parallelism tracker with spark barrier mode to improve the robustness of the JVM package and fix the GPU training pipeline.
- Fix GPU training pipeline quantile synchronization. (#7823, #7834)
- Use barrier model in spark package. (#7836, #7840, #7845, #7846)
- Fix shared object loading on some platforms. (#7844)
Artifacts
You can verify the downloaded packages by running this on your Unix shell:
echo "<hash> <artifact>" | shasum -a 256 --check
2633f15e7be402bad0660d270e0b9a84ad6fcfd1c690a5d454efd6d55b4e395b ./xgboost.tar.gz