1.7.0 Release Roadmap

[trivialfis]

Hi everyone, we are delighted to announce a new release 1.7.0 in the upcoming weeks. Previously we planned for a 2.0.0 as a milestone, but with the exciting addition of the PySpark interface, we decided to make a 1.7.0 instead to share some new features and bug fixes earlier.

Roadmap: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/projects/4

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• Each item has to be associated with a ticket
• Major design/refactoring are associated with an RFC before committing the code
• Blocking issue must be marked as blocking
• Breaking change must be marked as breaking

For other contributors who have no permission to edit the post, please comment here about what you think should be in 1.7.0.

[trivialfis]

cc @WeichenXu123

[WeichenXu123]

From my side no new ticket to be added for 1.7.0 :)

[wbo4958]

please add #8283 and #8271 into 1.7.0 Thx

[trivialfis]

Debugging Rhub build errors:

 1 xgboost 1.7.0.1 NNN       0b8d79f 0b8d79f debian… ~3h     2022-10-19 01:02:22
 2 xgboost 1.7.0.1 preperror 7e40754 6968cb8 linux-… ~6h     2022-10-19 00:20:33
 3 xgboost 1.7.0.1 E         7e40754 6e70c90 fedora… ~2h     2022-10-19 00:20:33
 4 xgboost 1.7.0.1 ENNN      7e40754 9976c70 window… ~13m    2022-10-19 00:20:33
 5 xgboost 1.7.0.1 preperror 7e40754 afa4448 ubuntu… ~2h     2022-10-19 00:20:33