What's Changed

• Update version.txt after 0.15.0 release by @loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6403
• Fix Type Mismatch by @jomayeri in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6410
• Fix redundant seq data parallel grp argument in Z3/MiCS by @samadejacobs in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/5352
• add Huawei Ascend NPU setup guide by @xuedinge233 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6445
• Add documentation for launcher without SSH by @dogacancolak-kensho in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6455
• Dtype support check for accelerator in UTs by @raza-sikander in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6360
• Store/Load CIFAR from local/offline by @raza-sikander in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6390
• Add the accelerator setup guide link in Getting Started page by @rogerxfeng8 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6452
• Allow triton==3.0.x for fp_quantizer by @siddartha-RE in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6447
• Change GDS to 1 AIO thread by @jomayeri in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6459
• [CCL] fix condition issue in ccl.py by @YizhouZ in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6443
• Avoid gds build errors on ROCm by @rraminen in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6456
• TestLowCpuMemUsage UT get device by device_name by @raza-sikander in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6397
• Add workflow to build DS without torch to better test before releases by @loadams in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6450
• Fix patch for parameter partitioning in zero.Init() by @tohtana in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6388
• Add default value to "checkpoint_folder" in "load_state_dict" of bf16_optimizer by @ljcc0930 in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6446
• DeepNVMe tutorial by @tjruwase in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6449
• bf16_optimizer: fixes to different grad acc dtype by @nelyahu in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6485
• print warning if actual triton cache dir is on NFS, not just for default by @jrandall in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6487
• DS_BUILD_OPS should build only compatible ops by @tjruwase in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6489
• Safe usage of popen by @tjruwase in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6490
• Handle an edge case where CUDA_HOME is not defined on ROCm systems by @amorehead in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6488

New Contributors

• @xuedinge233 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6445
• @siddartha-RE made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6447
• @ljcc0930 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6446
• @jrandall made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6487
• @amorehead made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/pull/6488

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/compare/v0.15.0...v0.15.1