Apache SystemDS 0.12.0-incubating Release Notes

The Apache SystemML 0.12.0-incubating release was approved on February 7, 2017. It is the fourth release of Apache SystemML since it became an incubator project on November 2nd, 2015. Updates have been made to the project in several areas, as detailed below.

New Features

  • Support pip install of new python package
  • Allow NumPy arrays, Pandas DataFrame and SciPy matrices as input to MLContext
  • Improve SystemML Python DSL for NumPy
  • Updated build for Spark 1.6.0
  • DML utility script to shuffle input dataset

Experimental Features / Algorithms

  • GPU Enhancements

Various Fixes

  • Several bug fixes for diverse issues