[GitHub] mbaijal opened a new pull request #8704: Initial Prep for 1.0: bump up version and add 0.12.1 changes to master

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mbaijal opened a new pull request #8704: Initial Prep for 1.0: bump up version and add 0.12.1 changes to master
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8704
 
 
   ## Description ##
   * bump up the version number to 1.0.0
   * Add the NEWS.md changes from 0.12.1 to master (it was only on the release branch)
   * Add the README.md changes from 0.12.1 to master (it was only on the release branch)
   
   ## Checklist ##
   ### Essentials ###
   - [x] Passed code style checking (`make lint`)
   - [x] Changes are complete (i.e. I finished coding on this PR)
   - [x] All changes have test coverage
   - [x] For user-facing API changes, API doc string has been updated. For new C++ functions in header files, their functionalities and arguments are well-documented. 
   - [x] To my best knowledge, examples are either not affected by this change, or have been fixed to be compatible with this change
   
   ### Changes ###
   * bump up the version number to 1.0.0
   * Add the NEWS.md changes from 0.12.1 to master (it was only on the release branch)
   * Add the README.md changes from 0.12.1 to master (it was only on the release branch)
   
   ## Comments ##
   The Readme.md and news.md have not been updated for 1.0. That will be done on the release branch only. 
   

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