PySyft 0.2.7 Release Notes
**New functionality:**
- Implement msgpack serde for RoleAssignments (3595 by Jasopaum)
- Create `AbstractSendable` class to provide comms methods generically (3611 by karlhigley)
- Support serialization of lists in Arg (3617 by vvmnnnkv and karlhigley)
- Add FV homomorphic encryption scheme (3276 IamRavikantSingh)
- Proto messaging support (3638 by tudorcebere)
- BaseDataset proto support (3641 by tudorcebere & karlhigley)
- Add iterable behavior for PointerTensor (3659 by gmuraru)
- Add connection speed test for workers (3609 by vkkhare)
- Add mean and var methods for AST (3682 by LaRiffle)
- Add new gradient functions to Autograd (3681 by LaRiffle)
- Implemented Subtraction operation of FV Scheme (3775 by IamRavikantSingh)
- Add a mechanism for arbitrary remote exec on Python workers (3689 by LaRiffle)
- Add Multiplication operation of FV scheme. (3711 by IamRavikantSingh)
**Bug fixes**
- Fix federated_avg side effect (3614 joaolcaas)
- serde, torch: fix typo in numpy tensor serializer. (3644 by shubham3121)
- Fixed precision tensor support (3650 by tudorcebere & karlhigley)
- Fix: Copy issue with ciphertext in FV scheme. (3672 by IamRavikantSingh)
- Fix dtype issues in AST (3679 by LaRiffle)
- Fix decorator issues for FSS in AST (3680 by LaRiffle)
- Fix bug in set_model_params() in Create Plan (3781 sachin-101)
- Fix grid model hosting for large models (3719 by IonesioJunior)
- Fix Plan trace for inplace ops, add Role actions pruning (3798 by vvmnnnkv and LaRiffle)
- Fix issues in handle_func_command for syft tensors (3807 by LaRiffle)
**Refactoring:**
- Use serde for tags serialization in PointerTensor (3566 by gmuraru)
- Move torch arg hooking into the relevant classes to reduce circular imports (3612 by karlhigley)
- Remove protocol parameter in decrypt (3599 by youben11)
- Add utilities for hooking and chaining methods calls along tensor chain (3636 by karlhigley)
- Add an `__init__.py` file to `syft.generic.abstract` (3642 by karlhigley)
- Move permissions from `TorchTensor.send()` to `PrivateTensor._before_send` hook (3643 by karlhigley)
- Remove owner attribute from FrameworkWrapper (3652 by Jasopaum)
- Move tests for generic functionality out of `test/torch/tensors` dir (3645 by karlhigley)
- Clean up `AbstractSendable` to remove extraneous methods (3660 by karlhigley)
- Improve `hookable` decorator to allow modifying return values after (3655 by karlhigley)
- Adding support in msgpack for external libs. (3653 by tudorcebere)
- Extract `MessageHandler` classes from `BaseWorker` (3661 by karlhigley)
- Change `whitelist` to `allow_list` (3675 by karlhigley)
- Update Operations: For non same size polynomials (3684 IamRavikantSingh )
- Removed `wrap()` on non-tensor pointers in `respond_to_search()` (3685 by AlanAboudib)
- feat: add plan translation to tfjs (3371 Nolski)
- Update hook_args list (3677 by LaRiffle)
- Customizable timeout in workers (3760 by youben11)
- Serialize Plan's roles and base_framework fields (3801 by vvmnnnkv and gmuraru)
- Grid module architecture refactoring (3818 by hericlesme)
**Docs & tutorials:**
- Update CODEOWNERS file to reflect new team names (3620 by karlhigley)
- Update Part 11 - Secure Deep Learning Classification.ipynb (3444 by znreza)
- Simplify encrypted aggregation in the tutorials (3666 by bobsonlin26 )
**Tests & CI**
- Delete pull_request_template.md by cereallarceny
- Register the `translation` mark with PyTest to suppress warnings (3618 by karlhigley)
- Update requirements.txt with tornado compatible notebook version (3606 by rajathpatel23)
- Update the label used to mark stale issues/PRs (3630 by karlhigley)
- Added functionality to create a cluster using autoscale API (3637 rimijoker)