LensKit for Python 0.11.0 released

[Michael Ekstrand]

I am pleased to announce the release of LensKit 0.11.0.

This release brings a number of functionality and performance improvements. Highlights include:

• Refactoring the Bias model and using it consistently instead of re-implementing pieces in matrix factorizers
• Support new ratings from a user in both ALS recommenders
• Fix crash when TensorFlow 1 is installed

The main-channel Conda packages for this release have disabled MKL support in macOS, due to environmental factors causing the build to fail. LensKit will still work fine in MKL environments, it just won't use its MKL-based k-NN acceleration on macOS. Linux and Windows are still unchanged. With 0.11, we will also begin publishing packages to conda-forge; we expect MKL acceleration to work in that environment.

Package builds are in progress and should show up on PyPI and Anaconda later today.

- Michael

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