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* update changelog

* [skip ci] removed requirements-test.txt

* [skip ci] updating changelog

* [skip ci] add PR numbers

* replacing requirements-test.txt by requirements-dev.txt

* [skip ci] changing requirements-test to requirements-dev in pre-commit and requirements-benchmarks

* [skip ci] mark manual static analysis checks as deprecated

* empty commit to trigger ci

* [skip ci] updating changelog

* [skip ci] addressing comments

* addressing more comments

* update master branch to main

* added FAQ about updating the branch from master to main

* fixed some false positive correction

* added what is new section

* fixed the quoted code area

* added release what is new section

* added a step in release.md

* fixed a word

[cleanup] CI test updates; mypy cleanup; partial broadcast_object cleanup; pre-commit documentation (#744)

* changelog; mypy; oss cleanup

* more broadcast_object cleanup in FSDP

* one more mypy fix

* retire pytorch 1.6 from circleci, add new lightly, add 1.8 LTS and 1.9 stable release

* update torch version for LTS

* minor fixes

* update cache key

* trying newer gpu VMs

* bump the cache

* update to gpu.medium, which should be 2 GPUs

* update nightly version

* add pre-commit instruction

* fixed CHANGELOG after merging

* updated to newer nightly

* retained the older broadcast function for older GPUs for oss.py

* fixed a bug

* added a comment

* fixing a test for pytorch 1.10

* testing a fix

* Update fairscale/optim/oss.py

* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Anjali Sridhar <anj@devfair0443.h2.fair>

- fixes #471
- one less thing to worry about during development.

* [fix] fixing circleCI for AdaScale

- ran black, isort, flake8, mypy

* more fix

Co-authored-by: Min Xu <m1n@fb.com>

Add FusedAdam, update benchmark and add tests.
Co-authored-by: Jun Ru Anderson <andersonic@fb.com>