[v0.5.0] Release Tracker

[ejguan]

🚀 The feature

We cut a release branch for the 0.5.0 release at the same time with PyTorch.

Cherry-pick (until TBD)

We will keep cherry-picking all PRs landed to main branch until PyTorch 1.13.0 official released.
When you add PR against release branch, please link the landed PR from main branch.

RC-release can be found in https://download.pytorch.org/whl/test/cpu/torch_test.html or conda: https://anaconda.org/pytorch-test/torchdata

Motivation, pitch

Tracker for cherry-picking PRs to release branch

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[ejguan]

Cherry-picking PRs for the week of Oct 3rd:

• [DataPipe] Adding kwargs for fs.open() in fsspec DataPipes #804
• Adding Cloud Storage Provider tutorial section #812

[ejguan]

Cherry-picking PRs for the week of Oct 10th:

Edit:

• Add Dataloader2 test targets #811

Orignal:

• [DataLoader2] Deep copy DataPipe during initialization #786
• Fix Prefetcher __getstate__ and __setstate__ #818
• Adding reset epoch protocol message and support #816
• Add DataLoader2-related online doc #817

[ejguan]

Cherry-picking PRs for the week of Oct 17th:

• Fix the document of buffer_size in max_token_bucketize #834
• [DataLoader2] Skip wrapping if serialization wrapper attached & deepcopy DataPipe in load_state_dict #833
• Adding Prefetcher into the PrototypeRS and fixing prefetcher bug #826
• [DataPipe] Adding documentation for Prefetcher #835
• [DataLoader2] Fix PrototypeRS issue related to termination #837
• Unblock ProtoMPRS to control determinism of DataPipe in single/multi-processing and dist/non-dist env #827
• [DataLoader2] Moving worker timeout constant to proper file #839
• Add docs on accessing Azure blob storage through fsspec #836
• [Documentation] Simplify long type names #838
• [Documentation] Adding random_split example to tutorial #843
• [DataPipe] Update Prefetcher buffer to use deque #842
• [DataLoader2] Handle empty queue exception #785
• [DataLoader2] Ensure finalize and finalize_iteration are called during shutdown/exception #846

[ejguan]

Special cherrypick:

• Changing 1-to-M behaviour of on_disk_cache. #810
  We want to cherrypick Changing 1-to-M behaviour of on_disk_cache. #810, needs confirmation from torchtext Fixed on_disk_cache issues text#1942

[ejguan]

Backward cherrypick: #854

[ejguan]

Cherry-picking PRs for the week of Oct 24th:

• Temporarily skip distributed testing for ProtoMPRS on Windows #858

[ejguan]

Closing as 0.5.0 has been released.