update doc and news

pluskid · pluskid · commit da86da0b60d7 · 2017-11-07T20:01:30.000-05:00
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # News for Mocha Development
 
+## v0.2.1 2017.11.07
+
+* Infrastructure
+  * Mocha is now compatible with (and requires) Julia 0.6
+  * Mocha is now updated for CUDA 8.0 and cuDNN 5.1 API changes
+
 ## v0.2.0 2016.12.16
 
 Tagged as 0.2.0 instead of 0.1.3 because Julia now does not support
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/backend.rst b/docs/user-guide/backend.rst
@@ -131,12 +131,9 @@ free.
 
 .. note::
 
-   * cuDNN requires CUDA 6.5 to run.
-   * Mocha v0.0.1 ~ v0.0.4 use cuDNN 6.5 R1, which is only available on Linux
-     and Windows.
-   * Mocha v0.0.5 and higher uses cuDNN 6.5 v2, which is also
-     available on Mac OS X.
-   * cuDNN 6.5 v2 is **not** backward compatible with cuDNN 6.5 R1.
+   Mocha is tested on CUDA 8.0 and cuDNN 5.1 on Linux. Since cuDNN typically do not
+   keep backward compatibility in the APIs, it is not guaranteed to run on
+   different versions.
 
 Before using the CUDA backend, the Mocha kernels needs to be compiled. The kernels
 are located in ``src/cuda/kernels``. Please use ``Pkg.dir("Mocha")`` to find out
@@ -181,5 +178,3 @@ compiled kernel and the source files. An error will be raised if the compiled ke
 file is found to be older than the kernel source files. Simply following the procedures
 above to compile the kernel again will solve this problem.
 
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