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Tensorflow v1.2 released

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Re: Tensorflow v1.2 released

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Note: As of version 1.2, TensorFlow no longer provides GPU support on Mac OS X.

To be a bit more precise, the changelog says:

> TensorFlow 1.1.0 will be the last time we release a binary with Mac GPU support. Going forward, we will stop testing on Mac GPU systems. We continue to welcome patches that maintain Mac GPU support, and we will try to keep the Mac GPU build working.

In other words, it still works (at least for now), and they'll accept patches to keep it working - they're just not going to explicitly test for it anymore.

Re: Tensorflow v1.2 released

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"RNNCell objects now subclass tf.layers.Layer. The strictness described in the TensorFlow 1.1 release is gone: The first time an RNNCell is used, it caches its scope. All future uses of the RNNCell will reuse variables from that same scope. "

I'm so glad they fixed this, I've been running 1.0 for the last few months because the 1.1 release broke their own RNN tutorials and a lot of seq2seq code that is out there. I really, really love Tensorflow and understand it is a fast moving project but I hope they do more regression testing on their example code in the future. This is an exciting release though!

Re: Tensorflow v1.2 released

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post #3

Note: As of version 1.2, TensorFlow no longer provides GPU support on Mac OS X.

Is there any explanation for why they decided to do this? I would imagine they just don't have the means to test on Mac anymore but I'd like to know why for sure.

Re: Tensorflow v1.2 released

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Thank you for the release! There is an submitted issue because the Intel MKL support does not work with Mac OS X, only Linux.

There should be some way of doing this manually. Any ideas?

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