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Merge: 0702c09c3 ed5451c83
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 21:23:23 2018 -0800

    Merge branch 'release/2.4' into manikj/merge-release-2.4

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Merge: 32f6844ca 1afe40461
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 21:23:11 2018 -0800

    Merge branch 'release/2.4' (early part) into manikj/merge-release-2.4

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Merge: 42a47a326 1f15d4649
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 21:21:55 2018 -0800

    Merge branch 'release/2.4' (early part) into manikj/merge-release-2.4

commit ed5451c83416c5084dedf1a684f03653fe5863ee
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 19:32:04 2018 -0800

    MakeBinaryDrop: Fix lib names

commit c528a56d4a1fa12f967e4bbab022a0d06b5704ea
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 12:35:40 2018 -0800

    Update README.md

commit 490a58e4a9cf01d9114373b9444f0fbaf055581b
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 12:08:57 2018 -0800

    Add Halide to Release notes

commit 2196299a71325b0959dc626ce548035db0634e58
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 11:48:45 2018 -0800

    MakeBinaryDrop: Change Cuda libs to 9.0

commit 3df48ddd3ac38c24c5aa25bdb9b77d98116a3d8d
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 06:06:29 2018 -0800

    Add release notes

commit 1afe404611f1f9a7cde0f43923382101cf15b823
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 06:05:05 2018 -0800

    Replace 2.4+ with 2.4

commit 1f15d464960956a8192f137ebedf2753a36d83cc
Author: Manik Jindal <manikj@microsoft.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 31 06:04:24 2018 -0800

    Bump version to 2.4