rel-2.9.1

ℹ️ Versions 2.8.12 and 2.9.0 did not get released on PyPI or conda-forge due to hiccups in our CI pipeline. The corresponding release notes were merged into the seconds below.

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• [from 2.8.12] Allow passing static shape to tensor creation helpers by @ricardoV94 in #118
  • The first and only positional argument to tensor is now name. dtype and shape are now keyword-only arguments in all tensor constructor helpers (tensor, matrix, ...)

New Features 🎉

• Add slogdet for Numba and JAX by @mtsokol in #172
• [from 2.9.0] Compute static shape types in outputs of Join by @michaelosthege in #164
• [from 2.9.0] Add Ops for Gaussian Hypergeometric Function, Pochhammer Symbol, and Factorials by @ColtAllen in #90
• [from 2.8.12] 🔄 From Aesara: 1362: "Add HalfNormalRV JAX implementation" by @theorashid in #129

Bugfixes 🐛

• Handle invalid BroadcastTo shape in C backend by @ricardoV94 in #175
• [from 2.8.12] Fix bug in truncated_graph_inputs by @ricardoV94 in #113
• [from 2.8.12] Fix JAX dispatch for multi-output Composite by @ricardoV94 in #123

Maintenance 🔧

• Improve CI pinelines by @danhphan in #176
• Seed logsumexp benchmark tests by @ricardoV94 in #185
• Create README.md by @canyon289 in #190
• Fix release pipeline by @cerrussell in #183
• [from 2.9.0] Fix PyPI description and update GitHub Actions by @michaelosthege in #171
• [from 2.9.0] A more low level implementation of vectorize in numba by @aseyboldt in #92
• [from 2.8.12] Update Release Notes template by @ricardoV94 in #117
• [from 2.8.12] 🔄 From Aesara: 1345: "Splitting before using JAX key" by @AdrienCorenflos in #130
• [from 2.8.12] Make tests compatible with newer version of JAX by @ricardoV94 in #133
• [from 2.8.12] Make scan to be a cython extention by @ferrine in #77
• [from 2.8.12] Remove deprecated modules by @ferrine in #111
• [from 2.8.12] 🔄 From Aesara: #1347 and # 1365: " Add CI support for benchmarking" by @brandonwillard in #139
• [from 2.8.12] Added PyTensor logo SVG by @fonnesbeck in #142
• [from 2.8.12] Remove some inline arguments and make some njit functions global by @aseyboldt in #144
• [from 2.8.12] Fix logit sigmoid function typo by @guin0x in #157

New Contributors

• @danhphan made their first contribution in #176
• @mtsokol made their first contribution in #172
• @canyon289 made their first contribution in #190
• @cerrussell made their first contribution in #183
• @fonnesbeck made their first contribution in #142
• @guin0x made their first contribution in #157
• @ColtAllen made their first contribution in #90

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