---
slug: release-sb-v0.6
title: Releasing SuperBench v0.6
author: Peng Cheng
author_title: SuperBench Team
author_url: https://github.com/cp5555
author_image_url: https://github.com/cp5555.png
tags: [superbench, announcement, release]
---

We are very happy to announce that **SuperBench 0.6.0 version** is officially released today!

You can install and try superbench by following [Getting Started Tutorial](https://microsoft.github.io/superbenchmark/docs/getting-started/installation).

## SuperBench 0.6.0 Release Notes

### SuperBench Improvement

- Support running on host directly without Docker.
- Support running `sb` command inside docker image.
- Support ROCm 5.1.1.
- Support ROCm 5.1.3.
- Fix bugs in data diagnosis.
- Fix cmake and build issues.
- Support automatic configuration yaml selection on Azure VM.
- Refine error message when GPU is not detected.
- Add return code for Timeout.
- Update Dockerfile for NCCL/RCCL version, tag name, and verbose output.
- Support node_num=1 in mpi mode.
- Update Python setup for require packages.
- Enhance parameter parsing to allow spaces in value.
- Support NO_COLOR for SuperBench output.

### Micro-benchmark Improvements

- Fix issues in ib loopback benchmark.
- Fix stability issue in ib loopback benchmark.

### Distributed Benchmark Improvements

- Enhance pair-wise IB benchmark.
- Bug Fix in IB benchmark.
- Support topology-aware IB benchmark.

### Data Diagnosis and Analysis

- Add failure check function in data_diagnosis.py.
- Support JSON and JSONL in Diagnosis.
- Add support to store values of metrics in data diagnosis.
- Support exit code of sb result diagnosis.
- Format int type and unify empty value to N/A in diagnosis output files.
