v3.3.0 release (fixes #4310) (#4633)

* v3.3.0 release

* Auto-update configure

* Update R-package/DESCRIPTION
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Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-12@hotmail.com>

.appveyor.yml

-version: 3.2.1.99.{build}
+version: 3.3.0.{build}
 
 image: Visual Studio 2015
 platform: x64

R-package/DESCRIPTION

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Title: Light Gradient Boosting Machine
 Version: ~~VERSION~~
 Date: ~~DATE~~
 Authors@R: c(
-    person("Guolin", "Ke", email = "guolin.ke@microsoft.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
+    person("Yu", "Shi", email = "yushi2@microsoft.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
+    person("Guolin", "Ke", email = "guolin.ke@outlook.com", role = c("aut")),
     person("Damien", "Soukhavong", email = "damien.soukhavong@skema.edu", role = c("aut")),
     person("James", "Lamb", email="jaylamb20@gmail.com", role = c("aut")),
     person("Qi", "Meng", role = c("aut")),
@@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Alberto", "Ferreira", role = c("ctb")),
     person("Daniel", "Lemire", role = c("ctb")),
     person("Victor", "Zverovich", role = c("cph")),
-    person("IBM Corporation", role = c("ctb"))
+    person("IBM Corporation", role = c("ctb")),
+    person("David", "Cortes", role = c("ctb"))
     )
 Description: Tree based algorithms can be improved by introducing boosting frameworks. 
     'LightGBM' is one such framework, based on Ke, Guolin et al. (2017) <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision>.

R-package/configure

 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for lightgbm 3.2.1.99.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for lightgbm 3.3.0.
 #
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1992-1996, 1998-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -576,8 +576,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='lightgbm'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='lightgbm'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='3.2.1.99'
-PACKAGE_STRING='lightgbm 3.2.1.99'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='3.3.0'
+PACKAGE_STRING='lightgbm 3.3.0'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ 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 3.2.1.99 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures lightgbm 3.3.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of lightgbm 3.2.1.99:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of lightgbm 3.3.0:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-lightgbm configure 3.2.1.99
+lightgbm configure 3.3.0
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69
 
 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ 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 3.2.1.99, which was
+It was created by lightgbm $as_me 3.3.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ cat >>$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 3.2.1.99, which was
+This file was extended by lightgbm $as_me 3.3.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ _ACEOF
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config="`$as_echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`"
 ac_cs_version="\\
-lightgbm config.status 3.2.1.99
+lightgbm config.status 3.3.0
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

R-package/cran-comments.md

 # CRAN Submission History
 
-## v3.2.1 - Submission 1 - (TBD)
+## v3.3.0 - Submission 1 - (TBD)
 
 ### CRAN response
 
 ### Maintainer Notes
 
+In this submission, we attempted to switch the maintainer of the package (in the CRAN official sense) from Guolin Ke to Yu Shi.
+Did this by adding a note in the CRAN submission web form explaining Guolin's departure from Microsoft.
+
+## v3.2.1 - Submission 1 - (April 12, 2021)
+
+### CRAN response
+
+Accepted to CRAN.
+
+### Maintainer Notes
+
 ## v3.2.0 - Submission 1 - (March 22, 2021)
 
 ### CRAN response

VERSION.txt

-3.2.1.99
+3.3.0