This release is dedicated for Heiko's successful PhD defense! Add conda-forge packages, to get prebuilt binaries via the cross-platform conda package manager [Dougal Sutherland] Change interface cmake variables to INTERFACE_* Move GPL code to gpl submodule [Heiko Strathmann] Features Enable using BLAS/LAPACK from Eigen by default [Viktor Gal] Add iterators to SGVector and SGMatrix [Viktor Gal] Significantly lower the runtime of KernelPCA (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni] Refactor FisherLDA and LDA solvers (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni] Add automated test for trained model serialization (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni] Enable SWIG director classes by default [Viktor Gal] Vectorize DotFeatures covariance/mean calculation [Michele Mazzoni] Support for premature stopping of model training (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni] Add support for observable variables (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni] Use TFLogger to serialize observed variables for TensorBoard (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni] Drop CMath::dot and SGVector::dot and use linalg::dot [Viktor Gal] Added class probabilities for BaggingMachine (GSoC '17) [Olivier Nguyen] ### Bugfixes Fix transpose bug in Ruby typemap for matrices [Elias Saalmann] Fix MKL detection and linking; use mkl_rt when available [Viktor Gal] Fix Windows static linking [Viktor Gal] Fix SWIG interface compilation on Windows [qcrist] Fix CircularBuffer bug that broke parsing of big CSV and LibSVM files #1991 [Viktor Gal] Fix R interface when using clang to compile the interface [Viktor Gal]