Merge pull request #1862 from IntelPython/backport-gh-1860

Add Intel channel for installing wheels

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.18.1] - Oct. 11, 2024
+
+### Changed
+
+* Updated installation instructions [gh-1862](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/1862)
+
 ## [0.18.0] - Sept. 26, 2024
 
 This release reaches an important milestone by making offloading fully asynchronous.
@@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ The full list of changes that went into this release are:
 * `dpctl::tensor::usm_memory` class defined in `dpctl4pybind11.hpp` adds constructor to create Python USM memory objects viewing into existing USM allocations, which can be made by an external library [gh-1782](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/1782)
 * Add support for COVERAGE build type in project's CMake script [gh-1692](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/1692)
 
-### Change
+### Changed
 
 * Change ownership of USM allocation by `dpctl.memory` objects, make executions of `dpctl.tensor` operations asynchronous [gh-1705](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/1705)
 * Add support for Python scalars by `tensor.where` function [gh-1719](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/1719)

README.md

@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ conda install dpctl -c https://software.repos.intel.com/python/conda/ -c conda-f
 
 ## Pip
 
-The `dpctl` can be installed using `pip` obtaining wheel packages from PyPi.
-To install `dpctl` wheel package, run the following command:
+The `dpctl` can be installed using `pip` obtaining wheel packages either from PyPi or from Intel(R) channel.
+To install `dpctl` wheel package from Intel(R) channel, run the following command:
 
 ```bash
-python -m pip install dpctl
+python -m pip install --index-url https://software.repos.intel.com/python/pypi dpctl
 ```
 
 Installing the bleeding edge

docs/doc_sources/beginners_guides/installation.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ Binary wheels are published with Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/project/
 
     python -m pip install dpctl
 
+
+Binary wheels of ``dpctl`` and its dependencies are also published on Intel(R) channel. To install from this non-default package index,
+use
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+    python -m pip install --index-url https://software.repos.intel.com/python/pypi dpctl
+
 .. note::
     As of April 2024, installation using ``pip`` on Linux* requires
     that host operating system had ``libstdc++.so`` library version 6.0.29