v0.18.4 Patch Release

What's Changed

• Update version by @sfc-gh-truwase in #7719
• Disable deterministic option in compile tests by @tohtana in #7720
• Fix SuperOffloadOptimizer_Stage3 crash due to missing param_names parameter by @ImaGoodFella in #7715
• [AMD][ROCm] Improve support of AMD by @k-artem in #7448
• fix typo by @stas00 in #7722
• Skip none in backward hook by @tohtana in #7725
• [Engine] Only scale gradients if scale_wrt_gas is True by @kashif in #7724
• Fix testcases that depends on triton by @k-artem in #7731
• Fix rare hang in DeepSpeed Async I/O wait by releasing the Python GIL by @xylian86 in #7727
• Fix #7733: Replace torch.sqrt with math.sqrt in scale_lr for sqrt method by @Rakshit-gen in #7735
• replace moe checkpoint dp_world_size with seq_dp_world_size by @wukong1992 in #7732
• [BUG] Fix UlyssesSPAttentionHF.register_with_transformers() crash with PEFT models by @Rakshit-gen in #7737
• Add core api update blog by @tohtana in #7738
• Fix Nebula checkpoint engine commit() API mismatch by @Rakshit-gen in #7740
• Fix DecoupledCheckpointEngine deadlock and improve reliability by @Rakshit-gen in #7742
• Fix OnebitLamb NaN propagation with empty parameters by @Rakshit-gen in #7736
• fix: remove premature MPI environment variable check in OpenMPIRunner by @leejianwoo-collab in #7751
• Enable python 3.11 and 3.12 tests by @loadams in #7007
• Add CI workflow to run tests on AWS by @tohtana in #7753
• Add fallback to BF16 support check by @tohtana in #7754
• Fix DeepCompile for PyTorch 2.8/2.9 compatibility by @tohtana in #7755
• Removed amp testcases by @k-artem in #7745
• fix: avoid IndexError in BF16_Optimizer.destroy() when using DummyOptim by @leejianwoo-collab in #7763

New Contributors

• @ImaGoodFella made their first contribution in #7715
• @k-artem made their first contribution in #7448
• @kashif made their first contribution in #7724
• @Rakshit-gen made their first contribution in #7735
• @leejianwoo-collab made their first contribution in #7751

Full Changelog: v0.18.3...v0.18.4