Release 0.20.0 Phoenix · IntelPython/numba-dpex

New dpjit decorator supporting dpnp compilation (#887)
Boxing and unboxing functionality for dpnp.ndarray to numba_dpex (#902)
New DpexTarget and dispatcher for compiling dpnp using numba-dpex (#887)
Overload implementation for dpnp.empty (#902)
Overload implementation for dpnp.empty_like, dpnp.zeros_like and
dpnp.ones_like inside dpjit (#928)
Overload implementation for dpnp.zeros and dpnp.ones inside dpjit (#923)
Compilation and offload support for dpnp vector style expressions using Numba
parfors (#957)
Compilation of over 70 ufuncs for dpnp inside dpjit (#957)
Backported the split parfor pass from upstream Numba. (#949)
Numba type aliases to numba_dpex. (#851)
Numba prange alias inside numba_dpex. (#957)
New LRU cache for kernels (#804) and funcs (#877)
New Range and NdRange classes for kernel submission that follow sycl's range
and ndrange syntax. (#888)
Monkey pacthes to Numba 0.56.4 to support dpnp ufuncs, allocating dpnp
arrays (#954)
New config flag (NUMBA_DPEX_DUMP_KERNEL_LLVM) to dump a kernel's
LLVM IR (#924)
A badge to our gitter chatroom (#919)
A small script to update copyright headers (#917)
A new dpexrt_python extension to support USM allocators for Numba
NRT_MemInfo (#902)
Updated examples for kernel API demonstrating compute-follows-data programming
model. (#826)

CLK_GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE and CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE flags renamed to
GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE and LOCAL_MEM_FENCE. (#844)
Switched from Ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu-20.04 for conda package build (#836)
Rename USMNdArrayType to USMNdArray (#851)
Changes to the Numba type to represent dpnp ndarray typess now renamed to
DpnpNdarray (#880)
Improved exceptions and user errors (#804)
Updated internal API for kernel interface with improved support for
__sycl_usm_array_interface__ protocol (#804)
Pin generated spirv version for kernels to 1.1 (#885)
Rename DpexContext and DpexTypingContext to DpexKernelTarget and
DpexKernelTypingContext (#887)
Renamed existing dpnp overloads that used stubs to dpnp_stubs_impl.py (#953)
Dpctl version requirement mismatch is now a warning and not an
ImportError (#925)
Update to versioneer 0.28 (#827)
Update to dpctl 0.14 (#858)
Update linters: black to 23.1.0, isort to 5.12.0 (#900)
License in setup.py to match actual project licensing (#904)

Kernel specialization, compute follows data programming model for
kernels (#804)
Dispatcher/caching rewrite to address performance regression (#912, #896)
func decorator qualname ambiguation fix (#905)

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