Keras Release 2.12.0 RC1

Please see the release history at https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.12.0-rc0 for more details.

What's Changed

• Updated Function _create_seed() in keras.backend by @sushreebarsa in #17150
• Fixed typo in keras/keras/preprocessing/text.py by @KarahanS in #17159
• Changed .format to f-string for better readability by @AdityaPunetha in #17170
• Use the fallback method for GRU and LSTM on ROCm if padded I/O is needed by @ekuznetsov139 in #17111
• Updated broken link by @sushreebarsa in #17196
• Remove unused amsgrad argument in SGD by @lgeiger in #17197
• Delegate finalize_variable_values in LossScaleOptimizerV3 by @lgeiger in #17225
• Update broken link by @chunduriv in #17224
• Fix use_causal_mask=True with RaggedTensor bug by @haifeng-jin in #17231
• Restore update_freq functionality by @myaaaaaaaaa in #17142
• support to compat python 3.11 by @hongxu-jia in #17239
• Update base_layer_v1.py by @kbuyukakyuz in #17246
• Added identity layer by @AdityaKane2001 in #17291
• Adds show_trainable option to plot_model() by @mfidabel in #17145
• Update deprecated tf.contrib by @sachinprasadhs in #17344
• Update depthwise_conv2d.py by @gowthamkpr in #17341
• Tzm/optional verbosity by @Mirandatz in #17346
• Fixed EfficientNetV2's MBConvBlock output phase. by @sebastian-sz in #17364
• Update README.md to fix wrong links by @NourEldin-Osama in #17374
• Warning if categorical crossentropy is used for 2 labels by @old-school-kid in #17330
• Improved the CONTRIBUTING.md file by @izam-mohammed in #17428
• Updated Docs string of doc_utils.py with new apis by @mohantym in #17441
• Update MHA docstrings by @haifeng-jin in #17461
• Update docstrings in text_dataset by @haifeng-jin in #17462
• Bugfix: Pass show_layer_activations to expand_nested calls by @alkatar21 in #17415
• Fix index_directory directory structure ignoring when passing labels explicitly by @wwossname in #17403
• Add to_ordinal feature for ordinal regression/classification by @awsaf49 in #17419
• Use 4 spaces indent for Dense layer docstrings by @haifeng-jin in #17472
• keras.layers.Bidirectional constructor ignores trainable argument, causing models with trainable=False layers to incorrectly be cloned by @mergian in #17467
• Fix api_docs for to_ordinal by @awsaf49 in #17485
• Less restrictive fallback logic by @jayfurmanek in #17591

New Contributors

• @KarahanS made their first contribution in #17159
• @AdityaPunetha made their first contribution in #17170
• @ekuznetsov139 made their first contribution in #17111
• @hongxu-jia made their first contribution in #17239
• @kbuyukakyuz made their first contribution in #17246
• @gowthamkpr made their first contribution in #17341
• @Mirandatz made their first contribution in #17346
• @NourEldin-Osama made their first contribution in #17374
• @izam-mohammed made their first contribution in #17428
• @alkatar21 made their first contribution in #17415
• @wwossname made their first contribution in #17403
• @awsaf49 made their first contribution in #17419
• @jayfurmanek made their first contribution in #17591

Full Changelog: v2.11.0...v2.12.0-rc1