.. include:: _contributors.rst

.. currentmodule:: skopt

.. _changes_0_8_1:

Version 0.8.1
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**September 2020**

- |Fix| GaussianProcessRegressor on sklearn 0.23 normalizes the
  variance to 1, which needs to reverted on predict.

.. _changes_0_8:

Version 0.8.0
=============
**September 2020**

:mod:`skopt.Optimizer`
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- |Enhancement| n_jobs support was added to Optimizer and
  fixed for forest_minimize
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
  by :user:`JPN <jonathanng>`

:mod:`skopt.plots`
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- |Enhancement| Allow dimension selection for plot_objective
  and plot_evaluations and add plot_histogram and plot_objective_2D.
  Plot code has been refactored.
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
  by :user:`Hvass-Labs <Hvass-Labs>`

:mod:`skopt.sampler`
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- |MajorFeature| Initial sampling generation
  from latin hypercube, sobol, hammersly and halton
  is possible and can be set in all optimizers
  :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
- |Enhancement| Improve sampler and add grid sampler
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`

:mod:`skopt.searchcv`
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- |Fix| Fix library for scikit-learn >= 0.23.
  numpy MaskArray is replaced by numpy.ma.array.
  y_normalize=False has been added and initial runs
  has been increased.
  by :user:`Lucas Plagwitz <lucasplagwitz>`

:mod:`skopt.space`
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- |Fix| Fix Integer transform and inverse_transform for normalize
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
- |Enhancement| Add `is_constant`  property to dimension and
  `n_constant_dimensions` property to Space
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
- |Enhancement| Skip constant dimensions for plot_objective and
  plot_evaluations
  to allow plots using BayesSearchCV
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`

:mod:`skopt.utils`
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- |Fix| Fix Optimizer for full categorical spaces
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`

Miscellaneous
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- Improve circle ci
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`
- Add project toml and adapt minimal numpy, scipy, pyyaml and
  joblib version in setup.py
  by :user:`Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern>`