Shogun 6.0.0 - Baba Nobuharu

• Add native MS Windows support [Viktor Gal]
• Shogun requires the compiler to support C++11 features
• Shogun cloud online: Jupyter notebook with Shogun from the browser, https://cloud.shogun.ml

Features

• LDA now supports 32, 64 and 128 bit floating point numbers [Chris Goldsworthy]
• Add SHOGUN_NUM_THREADS enviroment variable to control the number of threads
  used by the models in runtime [Viktor Gal]
• Added Scala Interface to the build [Abhinav Rai]
• Major re-writing and API changes in kernel statistical hypothesis
  testing framework, significant speed up in permutation test for
  quadratic time MMD, new kernel selection algorithms for quadratic time MMD [Soumyajit De]

Bugfixes:

• Fix build error of R interface for R>=3.3.0, #3460 [Heiko Strathmann]
• Make the code compatible with Eigen 3.3.0 [Viktor Gal]
• Fix number of CPUs detected on Linux [Viktor Gal]
• Fix multi-threading in KMeansBase [Viktor Gal]
• Make ExponentialARDKernel thread-safe [Viktor Gal]
• Make PRNG thread-safe [Viktor Gal]
• Fix python interface when using libshogun compiled with OpenMP [Viktor Gal]
• Fix CART to work with cross-validation [Fernando Iglesias]

Cleanup, efficiency updates, and API Changes:

• Port multi-threading to use OpenMP backend in Kernel [Viktor Gal]
• Fix false sharing in EuclideanDistance [Viktor Gal]
• Fix out of source build of the whole project [Viktor Gal]
• Add LIBSHOGUN cmake flag to turn off libshogun compilation [Viktor Gal]
• Export Shogun target with cmake to enable to build modular interfaces to a
  pre-compiled libshogun on the system without requiring to compile
  libshogun itself [Viktor Gal]

Notes

• Contains major rewrite and clean-up of developer documentation in doc/readme [Heiko Strathmann, Lea Götz]
• Known issue: Octave multithreaded crashes, currently bindings are initialized single-threaded, #3772 [Heiko Strathmann]