Hi all, I've cut **RC1** for Qumat 0.6.0 and qumat-qdp 0.2.0. Both packages are published on PyPI and the testing issue is open — please help validate before we move to the formal vote.
**Install:** ```bash pip install --pre "qumat==0.6.0rc1" pip install --pre "qumat-qdp==0.2.0rc1" # CUDA wheels for py3.10/3.11/3.12, linux-x86_64 ``` **Links:** - PyPI qumat: https://pypi.org/project/qumat/0.6.0rc1/ - PyPI qumat-qdp: https://pypi.org/project/qumat-qdp/0.2.0rc1/ - Git tag: https://github.com/apache/mahout/releases/tag/mahout-qumat-0.6.0-RC1 - Testing issue (checklist of 130+ changes since 0.5.0): https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/1315 - Milestone: https://github.com/apache/mahout/milestone/2 **What to test:** install on your platform, exercise anything you contributed or care about, and check off your items on the testing issue. The QDP wheels need a Linux box with NVIDIA CUDA; the core qumat package is pure-Python and runs anywhere supported. I'm targeting **3–5 days** of community testing. If nothing critical surfaces, I'll start the formal [VOTE] thread after that. Thanks to everyone who shipped into this release. Ryan Huang
