0.13.0

Breaking changes

Drops support for python 3.8 and requires jax version >= 0.4.14

New Features

• Distributions are now vmap-able (#1529) (a great contribution by @pierreglaser)

Enhancements and Bug Fixes

• Enhance LocScaleReparam's documentation (#1599) by @Madhav-Kanda
• Fix incorrect unflattenning of inverse transforms (#1600) by @pierreglaser
• Update Stein mixture (#1601 and #1612) by @OlaRonning
• Support model without global variables in AutoSemiDAIS (#1610 and #1619) by @fehiepsi
• Fix mixture assert message: string shoulf be f-string (#1617) by @adrn
• Add support for local variables in RenyiELBO (#1608) by @fehiepsi
• Fix quantile computation of mvn autoguides (#1622) by @fehiepsi
• Respect log_density in kl of delta (#1625) by @fehiepsi
• Add vectorized_particles to ELBO (#1624) by @fehiepsi
• Fix bug in SineBivariateVonMises sampler (#1628) by @deoxyribose

This release is composed of great contributions and feedback from the Pyro community. Thank you!