*   Performance improvements for gRPC
*   Improved support for fp16
*   New high-level ops in tf.contrib. {layers,metrics}
*   New features for TensorBoard, such as shape display, exponential smoothing
*   Faster and more stable Google Cloud Storage (GCS) filesystem support
*   Support for zlib compression and decompression for TFRecordReader and
    TFRecordWriter
*   Support for reading (animated) GIFs