rel-2.26.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Dimshuffle does not need input broadcastable info by @ricardoV94 in #979
• Reduce overhead of function call and deprecate rarely used utilities by @ricardoV94 in #1024

New Features 🎉

• Merge consecutive reduces by @ricardoV94 in #888
• Added rewrites involving block diagonal matrices by @tanish1729 in #967
• Adding rewrites involving kronecker product by @tanish1729 in #975
• Adds functions to rewrite cholesky decomposition of identity and diagonal matrices by @tanish1729 in #925
• Implement Cast in PyTorch backend by @ricardoV94 in #1023
• Implement destructive in-place rewrites for Cholesky and Solve Ops by @ricardoV94 in #1028
• Added Support for Median by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #907
• Add Pytorch implementation of Blockwise by @Ch0ronomato in #988

Bugfixes 🐛

• Make blockwise perform method node dependent by @ricardoV94 in #1048
• Fix bug from too strict type check in _sum_grad_over_bcasted_dims by @ricardoV94 in #1036
• Fix downcasting bug in local_[mul|div]_switch_sink rewrite by @ricardoV94 in #1059
• Fix bugs in local_useless_slice and local_reduce_join rewrites by @ricardoV94 in #1057

Documentation 📖

• Small improvements to docs API by @ricardoV94 in #817

Maintenance 🔧

• Canonicalize Subtensor slices by @Dhruvanshu-Joshi in #761
• Remove rarely used shape utilities by @ricardoV94 in #1016
• Simplify logic with variadic_add and variadic_mul helpers by @ricardoV94 in #932
• Remove _asarray by @ricardoV94 in #1025
• Direct tests for dispatch implementations in alternative backends by @ricardoV94 in #1021
• Cleanup for Optimal Control Ops by @jessegrabowski in #1045
• Raise NotImplementedError for boolean scalar indexing by @ricardoV94 in #1063
• Add Accelerate framework blas__ldflags tests by @lucianopaz in #1056

Full Changelog: rel-2.25.5...rel-2.26.0