What's Changed

• Update version.txt after 0.14.1 release by @mrwyattii in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5413
• Remove dtype(fp16) condition check for residual_add unit test by @raza-sikander in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5329
• [XPU] Use non_daemonic_proc by default on XPU device by @ys950902 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5412
• Fix a convergence issues in TP topology caused by incorrect grad_norm. by @inkcherry in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5411
• Update 'create-pr' action in release workflow to latest by @loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5415
• Update engine.py to avoid torch warning by @etiennebonnafoux in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5408
• Update _sidebar.scss by @fasterinnerlooper in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5293
• Add more tests into XPU CI by @Liangliang-Ma in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5427
• [CPU] Support SHM based inference_all_reduce in TorchBackend by @delock in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5391
• Add required paths to trigger AMD tests on PRs by @loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5406
• Bug fix in split_index method by @bm-synth in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5292
• Parallel map step for DistributedDataAnalyzer map-reduce by @bm-synth in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5291
• Selective dequantization by @RezaYazdaniAminabadi in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5375
• Fix sorting of shard optimizer states files for universal checkpoint by @tohtana in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5395
• add device config env for the accelerator by @shiyuan680 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5396
• 64bit indexing fused adam by @garrett4wade in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5187
• Improve parallel process of universal checkpoint conversion by @tohtana in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5343
• set the default to use set_to_none for clearing gradients in BF16 optimizer. by @inkcherry in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5434
• OptimizedLinear implementation by @jeffra in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5355
• Update README.md by @Jhonso7393 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5453
• Update PyTest torch version to match PyTorch latest official (2.3.0) by @loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5454

New Contributors

• @etiennebonnafoux made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5408
• @fasterinnerlooper made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5293
• @shiyuan680 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5396
• @garrett4wade made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5187
• @Jhonso7393 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5453

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/compare/v0.14.1...v0.14.2