Changes
💡 New Features
- [python] Windows wheels that support GPUs via OpenCL @itamarst (#3403)
🔨 Breaking
- [python] Drop Python 2 support @StrikerRUS (#3581)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- [docs] fix R documentation builds (fixes #3655) @jameslamb (#3656)
- [python] add average precision into higher_better eval @penolove (#3649)
- Fix model locale issue and improve model R/W performance. @AlbertoEAF (#3405)
📖 Documentation
- [docs] add link to ML Flow and treesnip in LightGBM docs @jameslamb (#3663)
- [docs] Add details on improving training speed @jameslamb (#3628)
- [docs] added daal4py to related projects @StrikerRUS (#3638)
- [docs] add Kubeflow operator repo and link to example @StrikerRUS (#3632)
- add 'mlr3learners.lightgbm' to README @t-wojciech (#3666)
🧰 Maintenance
- [docs] fix RTD builds @StrikerRUS (#3644)
- [python-package] remove unnecessary files to reduce sdist size @jameslamb (#3639)
- clarify warning about small target values with MAPE (fixes #3608) @jameslamb (#3615)
- [ci] Bump version for development @StrikerRUS (#3633)