release v4.6.0 (#6796)

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.appveyor.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version: 4.5.0.99.{build}
+version: 4.6.0.{build}
 
 image: Visual Studio 2015
 platform: x64

R-package/configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for lightgbm 4.5.0.99.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for lightgbm 4.6.0.
 #
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1992-1996, 1998-2017, 2020-2021 Free Software Foundation,
@@ -607,8 +607,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='lightgbm'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='lightgbm'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='4.5.0.99'
-PACKAGE_STRING='lightgbm 4.5.0.99'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='4.6.0'
+PACKAGE_STRING='lightgbm 4.6.0'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures lightgbm 4.5.0.99 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures lightgbm 4.6.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of lightgbm 4.5.0.99:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of lightgbm 4.6.0:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-lightgbm configure 4.5.0.99
+lightgbm configure 4.6.0
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71
 
 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by lightgbm $as_me 4.5.0.99, which was
+It was created by lightgbm $as_me 4.6.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0$ac_configure_args_raw
@@ -2454,7 +2454,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by lightgbm $as_me 4.5.0.99, which was
+This file was extended by lightgbm $as_me 4.6.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ ac_cs_config_escaped=`printf "%s\n" "$ac_cs_config" | sed "s/^ //; s/'/'\\\\\\\\
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config='$ac_cs_config_escaped'
 ac_cs_version="\\
-lightgbm config.status 4.5.0.99
+lightgbm config.status 4.6.0
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

R-package/cran-comments.md

@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 # CRAN Submission History
 
+## v4.6.0 - Submission 1 - (TBD)
+
+### CRAN response
+
+TBD
+
+### Maintainer Notes
+
+This release fixed several issues reported by CRAN.
+Bashisms in `configure`
+
+```text
+possible bashism in configure.ac line 63 (should be VAR="${VAR}foo"):
+    LGB_CPPFLAGS+=" -DMM_PREFETCH=1"
+possible bashism in configure.ac line 89 (should be VAR="${VAR}foo"):
+    LGB_CPPFLAGS+=" -DMM_MALLOC=1"
+```
+
+Compilation errors on GCC 15.
+
+```text
+io/json11.cpp:97:28: error: 'uint8_t' does not name a type
+   97 |     } else if (static_cast<uint8_t>(ch) == 0xe2 &&
+      |                            ^~~~~~~
+io/json11.cpp:97:28: note: 'uint8_t' is defined in header '<cstdint>'; this is probably fixable by adding '#include <cstdint>'
+io/json11.cpp:98:28: error: 'uint8_t' does not name a type
+   98 |                static_cast<uint8_t>(value[i + 1]) == 0x80 &&
+```
+
+This release contains fixes for those issues.
+
 ## v4.5.0 - Submission 1 - (July 25, 2024)
 
 ### CRAN response

R-package/pkgdown/_pkgdown.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ repo:
     user: https://github.com/
 
 development:
-  mode: unreleased
+  mode: release
 
 authors:
   Yu Shi:

VERSION.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.5.0.99
+4.6.0

docs/Parameters.rst

@@ -417,6 +417,8 @@ Learning Control Parameters
 
    -  whether to do bagging sample by query
 
+   -  *New in version 4.6.0*
+
 -  ``feature_fraction`` :raw-html:`<a id="feature_fraction" title="Permalink to this parameter" href="#feature_fraction">&#x1F517;&#xFE0E;</a>`, default = ``1.0``, type = double, aliases: ``sub_feature``, ``colsample_bytree``, constraints: ``0.0 < feature_fraction <= 1.0``
 
    -  LightGBM will randomly select a subset of features on each iteration (tree) if ``feature_fraction`` is smaller than ``1.0``. For example, if you set it to ``0.8``, LightGBM will select 80% of features before training each tree

include/LightGBM/config.h

@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ struct Config {
   int bagging_seed = 3;
 
   // desc = whether to do bagging sample by query
+  // desc = *New in version 4.6.0*
   bool bagging_by_query = false;
 
   // alias = sub_feature, colsample_bytree

python-package/pyproject.toml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ maintainers = [
 name = "lightgbm"
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.7"
-version = "4.5.0.99"
+version = "4.6.0"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 arrow = [