2.1.0 Release Roadmap

[trivialfis]

Hi everyone, we are delighted to announce a new release 2.1.0 in the upcoming weeks.

@dmlc/xgboost-committer

If you have specific items that you want to include in the upcoming release, please share them in the comment below. Let's ensure that

• Each item has an associated ticket
• Major design/refactoring is associated with an RFC before committing the code
• Blocking issue must be marked as blocking
• Breaking change must be marked as breaking

The 2.1.0 release will exclude the R interface due to #9810 . We will update the R package once the new interface is complete. Stay tuned.

backport

• Handle float128 generically #10322
• Sync stream in ellpack format. #10374
• [Doc] Fix deployment for JVM docs  #10385
• [pyspark] Allow to avoid repartition  #10408
• [CI] Fix JVM tests on Windows #10404
• [dask] Workaround the tokenizer by changing the scatter function. #10419
• Allow unaligned pointer if the array is empty. #10418
• Allow blocking launch of federated tracker. #10414
• Update rapids #10435
• Fix categorical data with external memory. #10433
• [CI] Migrate to rockylinux8 / manylinux_2_28_x86_64 #10399
• [CI] Stop vendoring libomp.dylib in MacOS Python wheels #10440
• [CI] [jvm-packages] Build libxgboost4j.dylib on M1 MacOS with OpenMP support #10449
• Link CMAKE_DL_LIBS when dlopen is used. #10447

[trivialfis]

@hcho3 Please help upload the jvm packages to maven. I have submitted updates for PyPI.

[hcho3]

@trivialfis I submitted the 2.1.0 release to Maven Central.