Increase version and auto-release.

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Fix incorrect usage of `is_checkpoint_finalized` in Checkpointer. The…

… bug was reported when restoring a checkpoint on GCS, the checkpoint was always thought to be "not finalized".

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Adding CHANGELOG.md to top-level.

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Add support for tracking checkpoint metrics with Orbax in T5X.

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Remove `dataclasses` from dependency

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Increase Orbax version.

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Increase orbax.checkpoint version.

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Increase Orbax version.

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Support older versions of Python. (External colab uses 3.7).

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Remove `use_gda` flag and replace with `use_jax_array` only. This is …

…used to represent both GDA and jax.Array. Restoration logic automatically figures out whether to return jax.Array or GDA depending on the setting of jax.config.

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