Performance improvements:

• Added featureLabelCorrOnly parameter in SanityChecker to only compute correlations between features and label (defaults to false)
• Added ignoreHashCorrelations parameter in SanityChecker that ignores correlations from hashed text features (defaults to false)
• Parallelize OP cross validation and set default validation parallelism to 8
• Added warmup in concurrent checks

New features and bug fixes:

• Replace deprecated 'forceSharedHashSpace' param with HashingStrategy
• Added explicit annotations for all classes with generic collections that use JsonUtils
• Added .transmogrify shortcut for arrays of features
• Removed referencing UID from a case object
• DecisionTree & DropIndices stages tests now use the OP spec base classes
• Added map features removed by RFF to model insights
• Pretty print model summaries
• Ensure OP Models are portable across environments
• Ignore _ in simple streaming avro file reader
• Updated evaluators so they can work with either Prediction type feature or three input featues
• Added Algebird kryo registrar
• Make Sure that SmartTextVectorizerModel can be serialized to/from json

Dependency upgrades:

• Upgraded to Scala 2.11.12
• Updated Gradle to 4.9 & bump Scalastyle plugin to 1.0.1

Released to Bintray - https://bintray.com/salesforce/maven/TransmogrifAI