release: v1.13.0

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Sielicki <[email protected]>

Author: Nicholas Sielicki

RELEASENOTES.md

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-This file is a placeholder on the primary development branch of the
-OFI NCCL Plugin so that "make dist" works properly.  Release branches
-will have an accurate release history in this location, and each
-release tarball will also have up to date release notes.
+# AWS OFI NCCL Release notes
 
-If you're looking for Plugin releases, please see the [Releases
-Page](https://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl/releases).
+# Supported Distributions
+
+- Amazon Linux 2
+- Amazon Linux 2023
+- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS.
+
+For releases before v1.6.0, we generally created releases from two separate
+branches, an AWS-specific branch and a general release branch.  With v1.6.0, we
+have unified the code into a single branch, and made the AWS-specific parts a
+compile-time option.  When a feature (or entire release) only supports one of
+the two variants, we note that in the release notes.
+
+# v1.13.0-aws (2024-11-18)
+
+This release is intended only for use on AWS P\* instances. A general release
+that supports other libfabric networks may be made in the near future.
+
+With this release, building with platform-aws requires
+[1.22.0amzn4.0](https://github.com/aws/libfabric/commits/1.22.0amzn4.0/)
+or greater. AWS customers are generally recommended to track
+[the latest-available EFA Installer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/efa-verify.html)
+for performance improvements and bug fixes.
+
+The 1.13.x release series supports
+[NCCL 2.23.4-1](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/releases/tag/v2.23.4-1)
+while maintaining backward compatibility with older NCCL versions
+([NCCL v2.17.1](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/releases/tag/v2.17.1-1) and later).
+
+New features:
+
+- AWS `P5en` platform support was added.
+
+- support was added for the NCCL v3 tuner API. The tuner now supports multiple
+  platforms and supports multiple collectives.
+
+- Scheduling improvements were made to the plugin RDMA protocol. In multirail
+  configurations, this is expected to balance traffic more optimally.
+
+- dmabuf memory registration support was added. Users facing problems with
+  dmabuf may disable dmabuf with `OFI_NCCL_DISABLE_DMABUF=1`.
+
+Breaking changes:
+
+- As mentioned above, building with support for platform-aws now requires
+  libfabric version 1.22.0amzn4.0 or greater.
+
+- Under CUDA, the plugin now statically links the CUDA runtime by default.
+  Packagers preferring to dynamically link CUDA may pass
+  `--enable-cudart-dynamic` at configure time to disable this.

configure.ac

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 #
 
 # Initialization
-AC_INIT([aws-ofi-nccl], [1.13.0pre], [[email protected]], , [http://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl])
+AC_INIT([aws-ofi-nccl], [1.13.0], [[email protected]], , [http://github.com/aws/aws-ofi-nccl])
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/nccl_ofi_net.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])