v0.28.0

Deprecations

1. Deepspeed Deprecation (#3732)

Composer no longer supports the Deepspeed deep learning library. Support has shifted to PyTorch-native solutions such as FSDP and DDP only. Please use Composer v0.27.0 or before to continue using Deepspeed!

What's Changed

• Fix composer gpu daily test to use torch 2.5.1 by @j316chuck in #3712
• Bump coverage[toml] from 7.6.4 to 7.6.7 by @dependabot in #3713
• Update torchmetrics requirement from <1.5.3,>=1.0 to >=1.0,<1.6.1 by @dependabot in #3714
• Bump ubuntu 22.04 + fix CI mlflow tests by @KuuCi in #3716
• Bump databricks-sdk from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0 by @dependabot in #3715
• Bump mosaicml/pytorch images to use new mosaicml/pytorch images with updated ubuntu 22.04 by @KuuCi in #3718
• migrated all possible assets from GCP to repo by @ethantang-db in #3717
• Bump databricks-sdk from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 by @dependabot in #3720
• Bump coverage[toml] from 7.6.7 to 7.6.8 by @dependabot in #3721
• Expose DistributedSampler RNG seed argument by @janEbert in #3724
• Fix netifaces install in Dockerfile by @j316chuck in #3726
• Update protobuf requirement from <5.29 to <5.30 by @dependabot in #3728
• Bump cryptography from 43.0.3 to 44.0.0 by @dependabot in #3731
• Speed up CI tests :) by @KuuCi in #3727
• Remove deepspeed completely by @snarayan21 in #3732
• Fix daily test failures by @snarayan21 in #3733
• Version bump to v0.29.0.dev0 by @snarayan21 in #3734

New Contributors

• @janEbert made their first contribution in #3724

Full Changelog: v0.27.0...v0.28.0