TensorFlow Federated 0.52.0

Release 0.52.0

Major Features and Improvements

• Exposed tff.backends.mapreduce.consolidate_and_extract_local_processing as
  public API.
• Updated the federated program API to be able to handle tff.Serializable
  objects.

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated handling attrs classes as containers in the tff.program API.
• Updated tff.learning.algorithms implementations to use
  tff.learning.models.FunctionalModel.loss instead of
  FunctionalModel.forward_pass.

Bug Fixes

• Avoid using sys.stdout and sys.stderr in subprocess.Popen when
  executing inside an IPython context.
• Added a SequenceExecutor to the C++ execution stack to handle sequence_*
  intrinsics.