1.5.0 news

[roywei]

Description

release notes for 1.5.0 release
Do not merge until vote for 1.5.0 release is passed

Checklist

Essentials

Please feel free to remove inapplicable items for your PR.

• The PR title starts with [MXNET-$JIRA_ID], where $JIRA_ID refers to the relevant JIRA issue created (except PRs with tiny changes)
• Changes are complete (i.e. I finished coding on this PR)
• All changes have test coverage:
• Unit tests are added for small changes to verify correctness (e.g. adding a new operator)
• Nightly tests are added for complicated/long-running ones (e.g. changing distributed kvstore)
• Build tests will be added for build configuration changes (e.g. adding a new build option with NCCL)
• Code is well-documented:
• For user-facing API changes, API doc string has been updated.
• For new C++ functions in header files, their functionalities and arguments are documented.
• For new examples, README.md is added to explain the what the example does, the source of the dataset, expected performance on test set and reference to the original paper if applicable
• Check the API doc at http://mxnet-ci-doc.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com/PR-$PR_ID/$BUILD_ID/index.html
• To the my best knowledge, examples are either not affected by this change, or have been fixed to be compatible with this change

Changes

• Feature1, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)
• Feature2, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)

Comments

• If this change is a backward incompatible change, why must this change be made.
• Interesting edge cases to note here

[piyushghai]

Thanks for your contributions @roywei
@mxnet-label-bot Add [Doc, pr-awaiting-review]

[Roshrini]

@aaronmarkham Can you please help review this PR?

[IvyBazan]

I've left some suggested changes for clarity and grammar.

[roywei]

@aaronmarkham @IvyBazan Thanks for the review, I have addressed the comments.

[IvyBazan]

LGTM!

[aaronmarkham]

Few spelling nits and a ToC.

[roywei]

This TOC should work... but we might need to remove the old TOC for 1.4.1 (or update it) so there are no conflicts.

@aaronmarkham Thanks for the TOC!! it seems working fine here:
https://github.com/roywei/incubator-mxnet/blob/news/NEWS.md
what conflict are you talking about?

[aaronmarkham]

The old TOC that is down here:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15137/files#diff-8312ad0561ef661716b48d09478362f3R1072
Might be better to always delete the old TOC and put a new one at the top. Of course it'll get super long...

[aaronmarkham]

Clearing my change request...

[karan6181]

@IvyBazan Could you please review this PR? Thanks!

[IvyBazan]

LGTM!

[roywei]

@aaronmarkham 1.5 is released, this is good to go. We also need to update the website.