TensorFlow Federated 0.8.0

Release 0.8.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Improvements in the executor stack: caching, deduplication, bi-directional
  streaming mode, ability to specify physical devices.
• Components for integration with custom mapreduce backends
  (tff.backends.mapreduce).
• Improvements in simulation dataset APIs: ConcreteClientData, random seeds,
  stack overflow dataset, updated documentation.
• Utilities for encoding and various flavors of aggregation.

Breaking Changes

• Removed support for the deprecated tf.data.Dataset string iterator handle.
• Bumps the required versions of grpcio and tf-nightly.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes in notebooks, typos, etc.
• Assorted fixes to align with TF 2.0.
• Fixes thread cleanup on process exit in the high-performance executor.

Thanks to our Contributors

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as:

Gui-U@, Krishna Pillutla, Sergii Khomenko.