[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.6.0 release candidate 2

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgohlke at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/3/2011 11:18 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the availability of the second release
>> candidate of NumPy 1.6.0.
>>
>> Compared to the first release candidate, one segfault on (32-bit
>> Windows + MSVC) and several memory leaks were fixed. If no new
>> problems are reported, the final release will be in one week.
>>
>> Sources and binaries can be found at
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.0rc2/
>> For (preliminary) release notes see below.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Ralf
>>
>
> Looks good. The msvc9/MKL builds now pass all tests on win32 and
> win-amd64, python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2.

Good, thanks for testing.
>
> One scipy test failure reported earlier remains, but that is probably no
> release blocker.
> <http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2011-April/055877.html>

That's a problem in scipy.stats, that only showed up recently because
of a bug fix in numpy.testing.

Cheers,
Ralf