neon 2.2 release notes (#1010)

* neon 2.2 release notes * mention "latest" tag
NervanaSystems · Sep 27, 2017 · 5843e71 · 5843e71
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 # ChangeLog
 
-## v2.2.0 (2017-08-XX):
+## v2.2.0 (2017-09-27):
 
+* Update MKLML version 20170908 that fixes a bug related to data conversions)
+* Add SSD example for bounding box object detection that works for both GPU and MKL backend
+* Add DeepSpeech2 MKL backend optimization that features ~3X improvement
 * Update aeon to 1.0.0 including new version of manifest (doc/source/loading_data.rst#aeon-dataloader)
+* Add CHWD Support for Batch Normalization in mkl backend
+* Modify ResNet-50 model's last layer to match the original ResNet-50 model paper
+* Enable Seq2Seq testing and benchmarking
 
 ## v2.1.0 (2017-08-02):
 

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ neon (conda users see the [guide](http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/latest/install
     . .venv/bin/activate
 ```
 
-Starting after neon v2.2.0, the master branch of neon will be updated weekly with work-in-progress toward the next release. Check out a release tag (e.g., "git checkout v2.2.0") for a stable release.
+Starting after neon v2.2.0, the master branch of neon will be updated weekly with work-in-progress toward the next release. Check out a release tag (e.g., "git checkout v2.2.0") for a stable release. Or simply check out the "latest" release tag to get the latest stable release (i.e., "git checkout latest")
 
 **Warning**
 

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -36,12 +36,10 @@ Features include:
 
 New features in this release:
 
-* Set MKL backend (-b mkl) as the default CPU backend on Linux (use -b cpu to specify original CPU backend)
-* Update MKLML version 20170720 (AVX512 code paths enabled by default and conversion optimizations)
-* Simplify ResNet example
-* Makefiles now check for virtualenv and pkg-config (NervanaSystems/neon#383)
-* Fix Deep Speech2 model on MKL backend
-* Fix MKL installation for "make sysinstall"
+* Update MKLML version 20170908 that fixes a bug related to data conversions)
+* Add SSD example for bounding box object detection that works for both GPU and MKL backend
+* Add DeepSpeech2 MKL backend optimization that features ~3X improvement
+* Update aeon to 1.0.0 including new version of manifest (doc/source/loading_data.rst#aeon-dataloader)
 * See more in the `change log`_.
 
 We use neon internally at Intel Nervana to solve our `customers' problems`_

diff --git a/doc/source/installation.rst b/doc/source/installation.rst
@@ -71,11 +71,20 @@ If you use the `Anaconda <http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/index>`__ python
 distribution, please see the Anaconda Install section. Otherwise, to
 setup neon in this manner, run the following commands:
 
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    git clone https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon.git
+    cd neon; git checkout latest; make
+
+The above checks out the latest stable release (e.g. a tagged release version v2.2.0) and build neon.
+Alternatively, you can check out and build the latest master branch:
+
 .. code-block:: bash
 
     git clone https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon.git
     cd neon; make
 
+
 This will install the files in the ``neon/.venv/`` directory and will use the python version in the
 default PATH. Note that neon would automatically download the released MKLML library that
 features MKL support.

diff --git a/doc/source/previous_versions.rst b/doc/source/previous_versions.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@
 
 Previous Versions
 =================
+neon v2.1.0
+-----------
+
+neon v2.1.0 released August 2, 2017 supporting:
+
+* Set MKL backend (-b mkl) as the default CPU backend on Linux (use -b cpu to specify original CPU backend)
+* Update MKLML version 20170720 (AVX512 code paths enabled by default and conversion optimizations)
+* Simplify ResNet example
+* Makefiles now check for virtualenv and pkg-config (NervanaSystems/neon#383)
+* Fix Deep Speech2 model on MKL backend
+* Fix MKL installation for "make sysinstall"
 
 neon v2.0.0
 -----------

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 import subprocess
 
 # Define version information
-VERSION = '2.1.0'
+VERSION = '2.2.0'
 FULLVERSION = VERSION
 write_version = True