What's new?

Python Quantization Tool

• Prevent int32 quantized bias from clipping by adjusting the weight's scale (#22020) - @adrianlizarraga
• Update QDQ Pad, Slice, Softmax (#22676) - @adrianlizarraga
• Introduce get_qdq_config() helper to get QDQ configurations (#22677) - @adrianlizarraga
• Add reduce_range option to get_qdq_config() (#22782) - @adrianlizarraga
• Flaky test due to Pad reflect bug (#22798) - @adrianlizarraga

CPU EP

• Refactor SkipLayerNorm implementation to address issues (#22719, #22862) - @amarin16, @liqunfu

QNN EP

• Add QNN SDK v2.28.2 support (#22724, #22844) - @HectorSVC, @adrianlizarraga

TensorRT EP

• Exclude DDS ops from running on TRT (#22875) - @chilo-ms

Packaging

• Rework the native library usage so that a pre-built ORT native package can be easily used (#22345) - @skottmckay
• Fix Maven Sha256 Checksum Issue (#22600) - @idiskyle

Contributions

Big thank you to the release manager @yf711, along with @adrianlizarraga, @HectorSVC, @jywu-msft, and everyone else who helped to make this patch release process a smooth one!