v0.15.3 Patch Release

What's Changed

• Update version.txt after 0.15.2 release by @loadams in #6615
• Clean up prefetched parameters by @tohtana in #6557
• AIO CPU Locked Tensor by @jomayeri in #6592
• reduce setting global variables to reduce torch compile graph breaks by @NirSonnenschein in #6541
• Add API to get devices of offload states by @tohtana in #6586
• Ignore reuse_dist_env by @tohtana in #6623
• Add API for updating ZeRO gradients by @tjruwase in #6590
• [compile] Show breakdown of graph break by @delock in #6601
• Accept btl_tcp_if_include option through launcher_args by @diskkid in #6613
• Add first Step in LR Schedulers by @jomayeri in #6597
• Support safetensors export by @xu-song in #6579
• add option to disable logger while compiling to avoid graph breaks by @ShellyNR in #6496
• Lock cache file of HF model list by @tohtana in #6628
• Add README Pipeline Status for Huawei Ascend NPU by @xuedinge233 in #6588
• Update torch version in workflows by @tohtana in #6631
• Use file store for tests by @tohtana in #6632
• Fix Memory Leak In AIO by @jomayeri in #6630
• [XPU] upgrade xpu max1100 CI workflow to pytorch2.3 by @Liangliang-Ma in #6646
• [XPU] host timer check version from Torch 2.5 to Torch 2.6 by @YizhouZ in #6633
• [XPU] [DeepNVMe] use same cpu_op_desc_t with cuda by @Liangliang-Ma in #6645

New Contributors

• @diskkid made their first contribution in #6613
• @ShellyNR made their first contribution in #6496

Full Changelog: v0.15.2...v0.15.3