Backwards incompatible changes
New algorithms or improvements
- Improve algos visibility #1542
- LightGBM test improvement #1531
- Fix Surprise and Python 3.7 #1540
- TF-IDF runtime enhancement changes #1571
- Add Spark 3.x support for SARplus #1566
New utilities or improvements
- Upgrade to Spark v3 #1555 , #1549 , #1543
- Move scikit-surprise and pymanopt from setup.py #1602
- Issue with pymanopt #1606
New notebooks or improvements
- Fix bugs in RBM notebooks #1581
- Remove explicit mapping of ratings to integers from RBM notebooks #1585
Other features
- Fix nightly workflows #1576 , #1548
- Stabilize more flaky tests #1558
- Miscellaneous Pipeline Fixes #1545
- Optimize Notebook Unit Tests #1538
- Development status change to production/stable #1579
- Update dependencies #1569, #1570
- Fix Databricks installation script #1531
- Adding codespace deployment #1521
- Improve GitHub tests #1518, #1578, #1590, #1592
- Flake8 Fixes #1552 , #1550
- Improvement in documentation #1591, #1598, #1594, #1603
- Update release pipeline #1596