[SciPy-dev] SciPy 0.6.0 release

[David Cournapeau]

Jarrod Millman wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the release of SciPy 0.6.0. SciPy is a package
> of tools for science and engineering for Python. It includes modules
> for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, Fourier
> transforms, signal and image processing, ODE solvers, and more.
>
> This release brings many bugfixes and speed improvements.
>
> Major changes since 0.5.2.1:
>
>     * cluster
>           o cleaned up kmeans code and added a kmeans2 function
>              that adds several initialization methods
>     * fftpack
>           o fft speedups for complex data
>           o major overhaul of fft source code for easier maintenance
>     * interpolate
>           o add Lagrange interpolating polynomial
>           o fix interp1d so that it works for higher order splines
>     * io
>           o read and write basic .wav files
>     * linalg
>           o add Cholesky decomposition and solution of banded linear
>              systems with Hermitian or symmetric matrices
>           o add RQ decomposition
>     * ndimage
>           o port to NumPy API
>           o fix byteswapping problem in rotate
>           o better support for 64-bit platforms
>     * optimize
>           o nonlinear solvers module added
>           o a lot of bugfixes and modernization
>     * signal
>           o add complex Morlet wavelet
>     * sparse
>           o significant performance improvements
>
> Thank you to everybody who contributed to the recent release.
>
> Enjoy,
>
>   
Except some last minute surprise, scipy 0.6 as well as numpy 1.0.3.1 
rpms should be available for FC 5-6-7 and opensuse 10.2 on the 
repository ashigabou in a few hours,

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ashigabou/

cheers,

David