Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/r2.18' into r2.18-rocm-enhance…

…d-ga

RELEASE.md

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 * `tf.lite`
     * C API:
       * An optional, fourth parameter was added `TfLiteOperatorCreate` as a step forward towards a cleaner API for `TfLiteOperator`. Function `TfLiteOperatorCreate` was added recently, in TensorFlow Lite version 2.17.0, released on 7/11/2024, and we do not expect there will be much code using this function yet. Any code breakages can be easily resolved by passing nullptr as the new, 4th parameter.
-    * SignatureRunner is now supported for models with no signatures.
 
 * TensorRT support is disabled in CUDA builds for code health improvement.
 
@@ -24,6 +23,7 @@
    * Tensorflow will continue to support NumPy 1.26 until 2025, aligning with community standard deprecation timeline [here](https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/).
 *   `tf.lite`:
     *   The LiteRT [repo](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/LiteRT) is live (see [announcement](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/tensorflow-lite-is-now-litert/)), which means that in the coming months there will be changes to the development experience for TFLite. The TF Lite Runtime source will be moved later this year, and sometime after that we will start accepting contributions through that repo.
+* SignatureRunner is now supported for models with no signatures.
 
 ### Bug Fixes and Other Changes
 

tensorflow/core/public/version.h

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 // TF_VERSION_SUFFIX is non-empty for pre-releases (e.g. "-alpha", "-alpha.1",
 // "-beta", "-rc", "-rc.1")
-#define TF_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc2"
+#define TF_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
 
 #define TF_STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define TF_STR(x) TF_STR_HELPER(x)

tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 # result for pip.
 # Also update tensorflow/tensorflow.bzl and
 # tensorflow/core/public/version.h
-_VERSION = '2.18.0-rc2'
+_VERSION = '2.18.0'
 
 
 # We use the same setup.py for all tensorflow_* packages and for the nightly