DVC 0.8.5 release

New minor DVC release 0.8.5 is available.

Git Tag: https://github.com/dataversioncontrol/dvc/releases/tag/0.8.5

Installation or update:

pip install -U dvc

The major subject of the release — speed up data synchronization and downloads/imports by multi-threading. What is important about the release — this is the first release where most of the feature requests were provided by our users.

Thanks to everyone in the community that helped bring this about. A special thanks to Ophir Yoktan (https://github.com/ophiry) and Dorel Vaida (https://github.com/adaptorel).

Top features:

1. Multithreaded data-import enhancement. #85
2. Multithreaded cloud sync enhancement. #81
3. Single commit when importing a directory of files. #91
4. Garbage collection (dvc gc) command. #45

Please do not hesitate to submit feature requests to DVC — we are always open to new requests.