microsoft · ultmaster · Jun 15, 2021 · Jun 8, 2021 · Jun 8, 2021 · Jun 9, 2021
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ The tool manages automated machine learning (AutoML) experiments, **dispatches a
 * ML Platform owners who want to **support AutoML in their platform**.
 
 ## **What's NEW!** &nbsp;<a href="#nni-released-reminder"><img width="48" src="docs/img/release_icon.png"></a>
-* **New release**: [v2.2 is available](https://github.com/microsoft/nni/releases) - _released on April-26-2021_
-* **New demo available**: [Youtube entry](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcafm6861B2mnYhPbZHavw) | [Bilibili 入口](https://space.bilibili.com/1649051673) - _last updated on May-26-2021_
 
-* **New use case sharing**: [Cost-effective Hyper-parameter Tuning using AdaptDL with NNI](https://medium.com/casl-project/cost-effective-hyper-parameter-tuning-using-adaptdl-with-nni-e55642888761) - _posted on Feb-23-2021_
+* **New release**: [v2.3 is available](https://github.com/microsoft/nni/releases) - _released on June-15-2021_
+* **New demo available**: [Youtube entry](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcafm6861B2mnYhPbZHavw) | [Bilibili 入口](https://space.bilibili.com/1649051673) - _last updated on May-26-2021_
+* **New webinar**: [Introducing Retiarii: A deep learning exploratory-training framework on NNI](https://note.microsoft.com/MSR-Webinar-Retiarii-Registration-Live.html) - _scheduled on June-24-2021_
+* **New community channel**: [Discussions](https://github.com/microsoft/nni/discussions)
 
 ## **NNI capabilities in a glance**
 
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ Note:
 * Download the examples via clone the source code.
 
   ```bash
-  git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+  git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
   ```
 
 * Run the MNIST example.
@@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ We appreciate all contributions and thank all the contributors!
 
 ## **Feedback**
 * [File an issue](https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues/new/choose) on GitHub.
+* Open or participate in a [discussion](https://github.com/microsoft/nni/discussions). 
 * Discuss on the NNI [Gitter](https://gitter.im/Microsoft/nni?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) in NNI.
 
 Join IM discussion groups:

diff --git a/docs/en_US/CommunitySharings/AutoCompletion.rst b/docs/en_US/CommunitySharings/AutoCompletion.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Step 1. Download ``bash-completion``
    cd ~
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/nni/{nni-version}/tools/bash-completion
 
-Here, {nni-version} should by replaced by the version of NNI, e.g., ``master``, ``v2.2``. You can also check the latest ``bash-completion`` script :githublink:`here <tools/bash-completion>`.
+Here, {nni-version} should by replaced by the version of NNI, e.g., ``master``, ``v2.3``. You can also check the latest ``bash-completion`` script :githublink:`here <tools/bash-completion>`.
 
 .. cannot find :githublink:`here <tools/bash-completion>`.
 

diff --git a/docs/en_US/NAS/Benchmarks.rst b/docs/en_US/NAS/Benchmarks.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ To avoid storage and legality issues, we do not provide any prepared databases.
       git clone -b ${NNI_VERSION} https://github.com/microsoft/nni
       cd nni/examples/nas/benchmarks
 
-   Replace ``${NNI_VERSION}`` with a released version name or branch name, e.g., ``v2.2``.
+   Replace ``${NNI_VERSION}`` with a released version name or branch name, e.g., ``v2.3``.
 
 #. 
    Install dependencies via ``pip3 install -r xxx.requirements.txt``. ``xxx`` can be ``nasbench101``\ , ``nasbench201`` or ``nds``.

diff --git a/docs/en_US/Release.rst b/docs/en_US/Release.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,94 @@
 Change Log
 ==========
 
+Release 2.3 - 6/15/2021
+-----------------------
+
+Major Updates
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Neural Architecture Search
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+* Retiarii Framework (NNI NAS 2.0) Beta Release with new features:
+
+  * Support new high-level APIs: ``Repeat`` and ``Cell`` (#3481)
+  * Support pure-python execution engine (#3605)
+  * Support policy-based RL strategy (#3650)
+  * Support nested ModuleList (#3652)
+  * Improve documentation (#3785)
+
+  **Note**: there are more exciting features of Retiarii planned in the future releases, please refer to `Retiarii Roadmap <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/discussions/3744>`__  for more information.
+
+* Add new NAS algorithm: Blockwise DNAS FBNet (#3532, thanks the external contributor @alibaba-yiwuyao) 
+
+Model Compression
+"""""""""""""""""
+
+* Support Auto Compression Framework (#3631)
+* Support slim pruner in Tensorflow (#3614)
+* Support LSQ quantizer (#3503, thanks the external contributor @chenbohua3)
+* Improve APIs for iterative pruners (#3507 #3688)
+
+Training service & Rest
+"""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+* Support 3rd-party training service (#3662 #3726)
+* Support setting prefix URL (#3625 #3674 #3672 #3643)
+* Improve NNI manager logging (#3624)
+* Remove outdated TensorBoard code on nnictl (#3613)
+
+Hyper-Parameter Optimization
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+* Add new tuner: DNGO (#3479 #3707)
+* Add benchmark for tuners (#3644 #3720 #3689)
+
+WebUI
+"""""
+
+* Improve search parameters on trial detail page (#3651 #3723 #3715)
+* Make selected trials consistent after auto-refresh in detail table (#3597)
+* Add trial stdout button on local mode (#3653 #3690)
+
+Examples & Documentation
+""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+* Convert all trial examples' from config v1 to config v2 (#3721 #3733 #3711 #3600)
+* Add new jupyter notebook examples (#3599 #3700)
+
+Dev Excellent
+"""""""""""""
+
+* Upgrade dependencies in Dockerfile (#3713 #3722)
+* Substitute PyYAML for ``ruamel.yaml`` (#3702)
+* Add pipelines for AML and hybrid training service and experiment config V2 (#3477 #3648)
+* Add pipeline badge in README (#3589)
+* Update issue bug report template (#3501)
+
+
+Bug Fixes & Minor Updates
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* Fix syntax error on Windows (#3634)
+* Fix a logging related bug (#3705)
+* Fix a bug in GPU indices (#3721)
+* Fix a bug in FrameworkController (#3730)
+* Fix a bug in ``export_data_url format`` (#3665)
+* Report version check failure as a warning (#3654)
+* Fix bugs and lints in nnictl (#3712)
+* Fix bug of ``optimize_mode`` on WebUI (#3731)
+* Fix bug of ``useActiveGpu`` in AML v2 config (#3655)
+* Fix bug of ``experiment_working_directory`` in Retiarii config (#3607)
+* Fix a bug in mask conflict (#3629, thanks the external contributor @Davidxswang) 
+* Fix a bug in model speedup shape inference (#3588, thanks the external contributor @Davidxswang)
+* Fix a bug in multithread on Windows (#3604, thanks the external contributor @Ivanfangsc)
+* Delete redundant code in training service (#3526, thanks the external contributor @maxsuren)
+* Fix typo in DoReFa compression doc (#3693, thanks the external contributor @Erfandarzi)
+* Update docstring in model compression (#3647, thanks the external contributor @ichejun)
+* Fix a bug when using Kubernetes container (#3719, thanks the external contributor @rmfan)
+
+
 Release 2.2 - 4/26/2021
 -----------------------
 

diff --git a/docs/en_US/TrainingService/AMLMode.rst b/docs/en_US/TrainingService/AMLMode.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Run the following commands to start the example experiment:
 
    nnictl create --config config_aml.yml
 
-Replace ``${NNI_VERSION}`` with a released version name or branch name, e.g., ``v2.2``.
+Replace ``${NNI_VERSION}`` with a released version name or branch name, e.g., ``v2.3``.
 
 Monitor your code in the cloud by using the studio
 --------------------------------------------------

diff --git a/docs/en_US/TrialExample/SquadEvolutionExamples.rst b/docs/en_US/TrialExample/SquadEvolutionExamples.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Modify ``nni/examples/trials/ga_squad/config_pai.yml``\ , here is the default co
    #Your nni_manager ip
    nniManagerIp: 10.10.10.10
    tuner:
-     codeDir: https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.2/examples/tuners/ga_customer_tuner
+     codeDir: https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.3/examples/tuners/ga_customer_tuner
      classFileName: customer_tuner.py
      className: CustomerTuner
      classArgs:

diff --git a/docs/en_US/Tutorial/Contributing.rst b/docs/en_US/Tutorial/Contributing.rst
@@ -71,4 +71,4 @@ Our documentation is built with :githublink:`sphinx <docs>`.
 
 
   * It's an image link which needs to be formatted with embedded html grammar, please use global URL like ``https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44491713/51381727-e3d0f780-1b4f-11e9-96ab-d26b9198ba65.png``, which can be automatically generated by dragging picture onto `Github Issue <https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/issues/new>`__ Box.
-  * It cannot be re-formatted by sphinx, such as source code, please use its global URL. For source code that links to our github repo, please use URLs rooted at ``https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.2/`` (:githublink:`mnist.py <examples/trials/mnist-pytorch/mnist.py>` for example).
+  * It cannot be re-formatted by sphinx, such as source code, please use its global URL. For source code that links to our github repo, please use URLs rooted at ``https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.3/`` (:githublink:`mnist.py <examples/trials/mnist-pytorch/mnist.py>` for example).
diff --git a/docs/en_US/Tutorial/InstallationLinux.rst b/docs/en_US/Tutorial/InstallationLinux.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Install NNI through source code
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-     git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+     git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
      cd nni
      python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
      python3 setup.py develop
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ If you want to perform a persist install instead, we recommend to build your own
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+    git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
     cd nni
     export NNI_RELEASE=2.0
     python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Verify installation
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
-     git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+     git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
 
 * 
   Run the MNIST example.

diff --git a/docs/en_US/Tutorial/InstallationWin.rst b/docs/en_US/Tutorial/InstallationWin.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ If you want to contribute to NNI, refer to `setup development environment <Setup
 
   .. code-block:: bat
 
-       git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+       git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
        cd nni
        python setup.py develop
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Verify installation
 
   .. code-block:: bat
 
-       git clone -b v2.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
+       git clone -b v2.3 https://github.com/Microsoft/nni.git
 
 * 
   Run the MNIST example.

diff --git a/docs/en_US/conf.py b/docs/en_US/conf.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version
 version = ''
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = 'v2.2'
+release = 'v2.3'
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
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Expand Up		@@ -71,4 +71,4 @@ Our documentation is built with :githublink:`sphinx <docs>`.


		* It's an image link which needs to be formatted with embedded html grammar, please use global URL like ``https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44491713/51381727-e3d0f780-1b4f-11e9-96ab-d26b9198ba65.png``, which can be automatically generated by dragging picture onto `Github Issue <https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/issues/new>`__ Box.
		* It cannot be re-formatted by sphinx, such as source code, please use its global URL. For source code that links to our github repo, please use URLs rooted at ``https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.2/`` (:githublink:`mnist.py <examples/trials/mnist-pytorch/mnist.py>` for example).
		* It cannot be re-formatted by sphinx, such as source code, please use its global URL. For source code that links to our github repo, please use URLs rooted at ``https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/tree/v2.3/`` (:githublink:`mnist.py <examples/trials/mnist-pytorch/mnist.py>` for example).