DOC Mention loky change
@@ -1072,6 +1072,19 @@ Miscellaneous
:func:`metrics.pairwise_distances_chunked`. See :ref:`working_memory`.
:issue:`10280` by `Joel Nothman`_ and :user:`Aman Dalmia <dalmia>`.
+- |Feature| The version of :mod:`joblib` bundled with Scikit-learn is now 0.12.
+ This uses a new default multiprocessing implementation, named `loky
+ <https://github.com/tomMoral/loky>`_. While this may incur some memory and
+ communication overhead, it should provide greater cross-platform stability
+ than relying on Python standard library multiprocessing. :issue:`11741` by
+ the Joblib developers, especially :user:`Thomas Moreau <tomMoral>` and
+ `Olivier Grisel`_.
+
+- |Feature| An environment variable to use the site joblib instead of the
+ vendored one was added (:ref:`environment_variable`). The main API of joblib
+ is now exposed in :mod:`sklearn.utils`.
+ :issue:`11166` by `Gael Varoquaux`_.
+
- |Feature| Add almost complete PyPy 3 support. Known unsupported
functionalities are :func:`datasets.load_svmlight_file`,
:class:`feature_extraction.FeatureHasher` and
@@ -1079,11 +1092,6 @@ Miscellaneous
PyPy3-v5.10+, Numpy 1.14.0+, and scipy 1.1.0+ are required.
:issue:`11010` by :user:`Ronan Lamy <rlamy>` and `Roman Yurchak`_.
-- |Feature| An environment variable to use the site joblib instead of the
- vendored one was added (:ref:`environment_variable`). The main API of joblib
- is now exposed in :mod:`sklearn.utils`.
- :issue:`11166` by `Gael Varoquaux`_.
-
- |Feature| A utility method :func:`sklearn.show_versions()` was added to
print out information relevant for debugging. It includes the user system,
the Python executable, the version of the main libraries and BLAS binding
