This release is meant to fix the following issues (regressions / silent correctness):

• Fix _canonical_mask throws warning when bool masks passed as input to TransformerEncoder/TransformerDecoder (#96009, #96286)
• Fix Embedding bag max_norm=-1 causes leaf Variable that requires grad is being used in an in-place operation #95980
• Fix type hint for torch.Tensor.grad_fn, which can be a torch.autograd.graph.Node or None. #96804
• Can’t convert float to int when the input is a scalar np.ndarray. #97696
• Revisit torch._six.string_classes removal #97863
• Fix module backward pre-hooks to actually update gradient #97983
• Fix load_sharded_optimizer_state_dict error on multi node #98063
• Warn once for TypedStorage deprecation #98777
• cuDNN V8 API, Fix incorrect use of emplace in the benchmark cache #97838

Torch.compile:

• Add support for Modules with custom getitem method to torch.compile #97932
• Fix improper guards with on list variables. #97862
• Fix Sequential nn module with duplicated submodule #98880

Distributed:

• Fix distributed_c10d's handling of custom backends #95072
• Fix MPI backend not properly initialized #98545

NN_frontend:

• Update Multi-Head Attention's doc string #97046
• Fix incorrect behavior of is_causal paremeter for torch.nn.TransformerEncoderLayer.forward #97214
• Fix error for SDPA on sm86 and sm89 hardware #99105
• Fix nn.MultiheadAttention mask handling #98375

DataLoader:

• Fix regression for pin_memory recursion when operating on bytes #97737
• Fix collation logic #97789
• Fix Ppotentially backwards incompatible change with DataLoader and is_shardable Datapipes #97287

MPS:

• Fix LayerNorm crash when input is in float16 #96208
• Add support for cumsum on int64 input #96733
• Fix issue with setting BatchNorm to non-trainable #98794

Functorch:

• Fix Segmentation Fault for vmaped function accessing BatchedTensor.data #97237
• Fix index_select support when dim is negative #97916
• Improve docs for autograd.Function support #98020
• Fix Exception thrown when running Migration guide example for jacrev #97746

Releng:

• Fix Convolutions for CUDA-11.8 wheel builds #99451
• Fix Import torchaudio + torch.compile crashes on exit #96231
• Linux aarch64 wheels are missing the mkldnn+acl backend support - https://github.com/pytorch/builder/commit/54931c264ed3e7346899f547a272c4329cc8933b
• Linux aarch64 torchtext 0.15.1 wheels are missing for aarch64_linux platform - https://github.com/pytorch/builder/issues/1375
• Enable ROCm 5.4.2 manywheel and python 3.11 builds #99552
• PyTorch cannot be installed at the same time as numpy in a conda env on osx-64 / Python 3.11 #97031
• Illegal instruction (core dumped) on Raspberry Pi 4.0 8gb - https://github.com/pytorch/builder/pull/1370

Torch.optim:

• Fix fused AdamW causes NaN loss #95847
• Fix Fused AdamW has worse loss than Apex and unfused AdamW for fp16/AMP #98620

The release tracker should contain all relevant pull requests related to this release as well as links to related issues