PyTorch Lightning 1.6.1: Standard weekly patch release

[1.6.1] - 2022-04-13

Changed

• Support strategy argument being case insensitive (#12528)

Fixed

• Run main progress bar updates independent of val progress bar updates in TQDMProgressBar (#12563)
• Avoid calling average_parameters multiple times per optimizer step (#12452)
• Properly pass some Logger's parent's arguments to super().__init__() (#12609)
• Fixed an issue where incorrect type warnings appear when the overridden LightningLite.run method accepts user-defined arguments (#12629)
• Fixed rank_zero_only decorator in LSF environments (#12587)
• Don't raise a warning when nn.Module is not saved under hparams (#12669)
• Raise MisconfigurationException when the accelerator is available but the user passes invalid ([]/0/"0") values to the devices flag (#12708)
• Support auto_select_gpus with the accelerator and devices API (#12608)

Contributors

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