Breeze 1.0

[David Hall]

Hi everyone,

At long last, I'm pleased to announce Breeze 1.0, available for Scala 2.11, 2.12, and 2.13. The package should be hitting maven central soon.

Main changes since last release (0.9).

* Removed deprecated elementwise operators

* Functions like sin for which f(0) == 0 can now exploit sparsity in SparseVectors etc.

* added population variance and stddev

* Vector[Float] can now be used in optimization routines

* fix equality and equals for SparseVector/SparseArray (dlwh, superbobry)

* much faster CSC matrix multiply

* much faster DM transpose copy

* support for CSC \ CSC solve

* considerably faster sparse/hashvector binary operations

* a few new distributions (schmidmt)

* DescriptiveStats.percentileInPlace (jeff klukas)

* several root finding methods (Antoine Bertout)

* various improvements to DV[Float] support

* SliceVector operators fleshed out

 a more usable return type for LU decomposition (@ZacBlanco)

* a bug in matrix multiplies where the RHS arg is a Transpose[DenseVector]

* a new indirectSort algorithm that sorts parallel key and value arrays. Mostly an internal API. (Sergei Lebedev) 

* A fix to the DM/DM multiply for non-floating point types.

* fixed RingBuffer, modernized its API

* fixed a potential off-by-one in rangeD and rangeF caused by floating point nonsense

* bug fixes to CSC \ DV solve

* bug fix to transposed dm solve

* fixed serious dumb bug in dot product (BoleynSu)

* overflow check in SVD (WeichenXu123)

* Fixed a dumb bug in SparseArray.filter

* FirstOrderMinimizer can now return convergence reason (mrkm4ntr)

* OWLQN now accepts a convergence check (superbobry)

* HashVector is now serializable (superbobry)

* broadcasting now works somewhat more consistently in several places

* BitVector.copy is now a deep copy

* removed randomness from argtopk, now uses median of 3

* Improved inplace operations for HashVector/SparseVector in-place operations (Sergei Lebedev)

* don't insert default value into open address hash arrays (lezebulon)

* improved quickselect (jesse frankley)

* fixed SparseVector.horzcat (invkrh)

* fixed mpow when m has complex eigenvalues (Bjorn Mattson)

* fixed QR decomposition dimension inconsistency (alois-bissuel)

* Fixed SBT incremental compilation of @expand macros.

* the source is now Scalafmt'd (Sergei Lebedev)

* update to SBT 1.0 (Martin Mauch)

* bumped 2.12 and sbt version (helena)

* improved build stability

Thanks everyone! It's been a long road. I didn't get everything that I wanted done, but it is long past time.

-- David