rel-2.37.0

What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Do not raise in linalg Ops by @ricardoV94 in #1834

New Features 🎉

• Add rewrite to fuse nested BlockDiag Ops by @eby0303 in #1671
• Fix gradient of minimize and root wrt higher-dimensional arguments by @jessegrabowski in #1806
• Determinant of factorized matrices by @ricardoV94 in #1785
• Improved Linear Control Ops, with Numba Dispatches by @jessegrabowski in #1840
• Basic Sparse functionality in Numba by @ricardoV94 in #1676
• Implement sparse dot product in numba backend by @tomicapretto in #1854

Bugfixes 🐛

• Do not coerce gradients to TensorVariable by @ricardoV94 in #1685
• Fix bug in local_block_diag_dot_to_dot_block_diag by @ricardoV94 in #1839
• Fix issues with split and split_dims by @ricardoV94 in #1828
• Tweaks to reshape Ops by @ricardoV94 in #1842
• Fix scalar Blockwise in numba backend by @ricardoV94 in #1846

Maintenance 🔧

• local_[div|mul]_switch_sink: Allow zero inside a DimShuffle/Alloc by @ricardoV94 in #1850

New Contributors

• @eby0303 made their first contribution in #1671
• @tomicapretto made their first contribution in #1854

Full Changelog: rel-2.36.3...rel-2.37.0