From 4fe5db605fe50104fc664a8a761cb01fe28bf6ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Koch <code@koch.ninja>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 01:58:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] v0.6.9

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                | 12 ++++++++++++
 python/interpret-core/interpret/_version.py |  2 +-
 python/interpret-core/setup.py              |  2 +-
 python/interpret/setup.py                   |  2 +-
 shared/vis/package.json                     |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b8d1a4d3..7f2b1ba8b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and the versioning is mostly derived from [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [v0.6.9] - 2025-01-06
+### Added
+- refitting of the intercept term after fitting the rest of the model to improve the intercept value
+- new options for handling missing values: "low", "high", "separate", and "gain"
+- use Fischer (1958) for handling categorical values. This is the same method employed by LightGBM.
+- added new parameters to control overfitting of nominal categoricals: gain\_scale, min\_cat\_samples, cat\_smooth
+### Changed
+- enable AVX-512 by default
+- modified default EBM parameters: outer\_bags=16, n\_jobs=-1
+### Fixed
+- fixed memory leak in the purification function
+
 ## [v0.6.8] - 2024-12-09
 ### Fixed
 - resolved new scikit-learn requirement for having \_\_sklearn\_tags\_\_
diff --git a/python/interpret-core/interpret/_version.py b/python/interpret-core/interpret/_version.py
index 39f9627d8..6d132d92f 100644
--- a/python/interpret-core/interpret/_version.py
+++ b/python/interpret-core/interpret/_version.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # Distributed under the MIT software license
 
 # NOTE: Version is replaced by a regex script.
-__version__ = "0.6.8"
+__version__ = "0.6.9"
diff --git a/python/interpret-core/setup.py b/python/interpret-core/setup.py
index 5c8d37dba..960ec7967 100644
--- a/python/interpret-core/setup.py
+++ b/python/interpret-core/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist
 
 # NOTE: Version is replaced by a regex script.
-version = "0.6.8"
+version = "0.6.9"
 
 
 def _copy_native_code_to_setup():
diff --git a/python/interpret/setup.py b/python/interpret/setup.py
index 0f1a49985..a2e4265e6 100644
--- a/python/interpret/setup.py
+++ b/python/interpret/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 name = "interpret"
 # NOTE: Version is replaced by a regex script.
-version = "0.6.8"
+version = "0.6.9"
 long_description = """
 In the beginning machines learned in darkness, and data scientists struggled in the void to explain them.
 
diff --git a/shared/vis/package.json b/shared/vis/package.json
index cf029ddc8..1b8c5f9ef 100644
--- a/shared/vis/package.json
+++ b/shared/vis/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@interpretml/interpret-inline",
-  "version": "0.6.8",
+  "version": "0.6.9",
   "description": "Interpret inline library for rendering visualizations across all notebook environments.",
   "main": "index.js",
   "keywords": [],