Bugfixes:
- slow scanning of inverted lists (#836).
Features:
- add basic support for 6 new metrics in CPU `IndexFlat` and `IndexHNSW` (#848);
- add support for `IndexIDMap`/`IndexIDMap2` with binary indexes (#780).
Misc:
- throw python exception for OOM (#758);
- make `DistanceComputer` available for all random access indexes;
- gradually moving from `long` to `int64_t` for portability.
Changelog:
- changed license: BSD+Patents -> MIT
- propagates exceptions raised in sub-indexes of IndexShards and IndexReplicas
- support for searching several inverted lists in parallel (parallel_mode != 0)
- better support for PQ codes where nbit != 8 or 16
- IVFSpectralHash implementation: spectral hash codes inside an IVF
- 6-bit per component scalar quantizer (4 and 8 bit were already supported)
- combinations of inverted lists: HStackInvertedLists and VStackInvertedLists
- configurable number of threads for OnDiskInvertedLists prefetching (including 0=no prefetch)
- more test and demo code compatible with Python 3 (print with parentheses)
- refactored benchmark code: data loading is now in a single file
+ Add conda packages metadata (now building Faiss using conda's toolchain);
+ add Dockerfile for building conda packages (for all CUDA versions);
+ add working Dockerfile building faiss on Centos7;
+ simplify GPU build;
+ avoid falling back to CPU-only version (python);
+ simplify TravisCI config;
+ update INSTALL.md;
+ add configure flag for specifying target architectures (--with-cuda-arch);
+ fix Makefile for gpu tests;
+ fix various Makefile issues;
+ remove stale file (gpu/utils/DeviceUtils.cpp).
* add a working setup.py
* Rename setup.py to python/setup.py
* Fix paths in setup.py
* Use relative imports for python3 compatibility.
* Add python/install Makefile target.
* Fix test target in Makefile.
* Refactors Makefiles and add configure script.
* Give MKL higher priority in configure script.
* Clean up Linux example makefile.inc.
* Cleanup makefile.inc examples.
* Fix python clean Makefile target.
* Regen swig wrappers.
* Remove useless CUDAFLAGS variable.
* Fix python linking flags.
* Separate compile and link phase in python makefile.
* Add macro to look for swig.
* Add CUDA check in configure script.
* Cleanup make depend targets.
* Cleanup CUDA flags.
* Fix linking flags.
* Fix python GPU linking.
* Remove useless flags from python gpu module linking.
* Add check for cuda libs.
* Cleanup GPU targets.
* Clean up test target.
* Add cpu/gpu targets to python makefile.
* Clean up tutorial Makefile.
* Remove stale OS var from example makefiles.
* Clean up cuda example flags.
