TensorFlow Federated 0.38.0

Release 0.38.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Added tff.learning.models.FunctionalModel support to
  tff.learning.algorithms.build_mime_lite.
• Updated tensorflow-privacy to version 0.8.6.
• Added an abstract interface describing an asynchronous context
• Removed references to tff.framework.Context.
• Added tff.simulation.datasets.gldv2.get_synthetic.
• Added prefetching data source in tff.program.PrefetchingDataSource.

Breaking Changes

• Deleted deprecated
  tff.learning.framework.build_encoded_broadcast_process_from_model.
• Deprecated tff.learning.ModelWeights and alias
  tff.learning.framework.ModelWeights, has now moved to
  tff.learning.models.ModelWeights. Code should be updated before the next
  release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with variable creation order of metrics in
  tff.learning.models.functional_model_from_keras.
• Improved tff.tf_computation tracing to also trace functools.partial
  objects.

Known Bugs

• Colab compatibility: TFF requires Python 3.9 while Colab runtime uses Python
  3.7.