prepare release v2.79.0

ci · jerrypeng7773 · commit 80f30544a7de · 2022-05-13T14:31:26.000-07:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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 # Changelog
 
+## v2.79.0 (2022-03-16)
+
+### Features
+
+ * Inferentia Neuron support for HuggingFace
+ * custom base job name for jumpstart models/estimators
+ * Python 3.9 for readthedocs
+
+### Bug Fixes and Other Changes
+
+ * container env generation for S3 URI and add test for the same
+
+### Documentation Changes
+
+ * the SageMaker distributed data parallel v1.4.0 release
+ * update sagemaker training compiler docstring
+ * smddp doc update
+
 ## v2.78.0 (2022-03-07)
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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-2.78.1.dev0
+2.79.0
