v21.08.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• expose epsilon parameter to allow precision to to be specified (#275) @ChuckHastings

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix support for different input and output types in linalg::reduce (#296) @Nyrio
• Const raft handle in sparse bfknn (#280) @cjnolet
• Add cuco::cuco to list of linked libraries (#279) @trxcllnt
• Use nested include in destination of install headers to avoid docker permission issues (#263) @dantegd
• Update UCX-Py version to 0.21 (#255) @pentschev
• Fix mst knn test build failure due to RMM device_buffer change (#253) @mdoijade

🚀 New Features

• Add chebyshev, canberra, minkowksi and hellinger distance metrics (#276) @mdoijade
• Move FAISS ANN wrappers to RAFT (#265) @cjnolet
• Remaining sparse semiring distances (#261) @cjnolet
• removing divye from codeowners (#257) @divyegala

🛠️ Improvements

• Pinning cuco to a specific commit hash for release (#304) @rlratzel
• Pin max dask & distributed versions (#301) @galipremsagar
• Overlap epilog compute with ldg of next grid stride in pairwise distance & fusedL2NN kernels (#292) @mdoijade
• Always add faiss library alias if it's missing (#287) @trxcllnt
• Use NVIDIA/cuCollections repo again (#284) @trxcllnt
• Use the 21.08 branch of rapids-cmake as rmm requires it (#278) @robertmaynard
• expose epsilon parameter to allow precision to to be specified (#275) @ChuckHastings
• Fix 21.08 forward-merge conflicts (#274) @ajschmidt8
• Add lds and sts inline ptx instructions to force vector instruction generation (#273) @mdoijade
• Move ANN to RAFT (additional updates) (#270) @cjnolet
• Sparse semirings cleanup + hash table & batching strategies (#269) @divyegala
• Revert "pin dask versions in CI (#260)" (#264) @ajschmidt8
• Pass stream to device_scalar::value() calls. (#259) @harrism
• Update get_rmm.cmake to better support CalVer (#258) @harrism
• Add Grid stride pairwise dist and fused L2 NN kernels (#250) @mdoijade
• Fix merge conflicts (#236) @ajschmidt8