Merge Dev branch for V 5.0.0

Author: moazreyad

.asf.yaml

@@ -24,5 +24,3 @@ github:
     wiki: true
     # Enable issues on github
     issues: true
-    # Enable settings on github
-    settings: true

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ LIST(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Thirdparty)
 #string(REGEX REPLACE "^[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.([0-9]+).*" "\\1" VERSION_PATCH "${VERSION}")
 
 
-SET(PACKAGE_VERSION 4.3.0) # ${VERSION})
-SET(VERSION 4.3.0)
-SET(SINGA_MAJOR_VERSION 4)
-SET(SINGA_MINOR_VERSION 3)
+SET(PACKAGE_VERSION 5.0.0) # ${VERSION})
+SET(VERSION 5.0.0)
+SET(SINGA_MAJOR_VERSION 5)
+SET(SINGA_MINOR_VERSION 0)
 SET(SINGA_PATCH_VERSION 0)
 #SET(SINGA_MAJOR_VERSION ${VERSION_MAJOR})  # 0 -
 #SET(SINGA_MINOR_VERSION ${VERSION_MINOR})  # 0 - 9

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+Release Notes - SINGA - Version singa-5.0.0
+
+SINGA is a distributed deep learning library.
+
+This release includes following changes:
+
+  * Add the implementations of the healthcare model zoo.
+    * Add the implementation for the cardiovascular disease.
+    * Add the implementation for the diabetic disease.
+    * Add the implementation for the hematologic disease.
+    * Add the implementation for the kidney disease.
+    * Add the implementation for the malaria disease.
+    * Add the implementation for the thyroid eye disease.
+  
+  * Optimize the distributed training by updating the MSOptimizer and MSSGD.
+  
+  * Improve the efficiency of the transformer example.
+  
+  * Add the sparsification version of the model for the model selection example.
+  
+  * Update data processing for the benchmark dataset.
+  
+  * Update the pom.xml file to include paths for datasets.
+  
+  * Update the online documentations for the healthcare model zoo.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Release Notes - SINGA - Version singa-4.3.0
 
 SINGA is a distributed deep learning library.