v0.13.0 Minor Release

[nickfraser]

Issue to track what we plan to include in the next minor release. The "wishlist" contains items that we would like to include if we have the time. Keep in mind, plans and priorities can always change, as such, the list below is subject to change.

Planned Additions:

• [Breaking] Transisition from NamedTuple → tensor subclass
  • [Breaking] Likely deprecate PyTorch<2.2
• [Breaking] Deprecate custom FX
• Move delay to proxies Feat (delay): move delay to proxies #1141
• Quantizer builder
• brevitas dtype (not hard-coding dtypes in general in PTQ)
• Larger emphasis on context_manager based-export (rather than our own export functions)
  • "always caching"? Other alternatives?
• Wave export Feat (export/wave): support wave export #1261
• Lifting quantization parameter constraints #1309
• AXE updates [DRAFT] Feat (axe): improved implementation with extended support/testing #1181

Wishlist:

• OSTQuant
• vLLM export

Things to push to future release: