[SciPy-User] [SciPy-Dev] NumPy 1.16.6 release.

[Warren Weckesser]

Thanks Chuck!

Warren

On 12/29/19, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.16.6 has
> been released. This release fixes bugs reported against the 1.16.5 release
> and backports several enhancements from master that seem appropriate for an
> LTS series. The supported Python versions are 2.7, 3.5-3.7. This is the
> last release planned that supports Python 2.7.  Wheels for this release can
> be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.16.6>, source
> archives and release notes are available from Github
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.16.6>. Downstream
> developers building this release should use Cython >= 0.29.2 and, if using
> OpenBLAS, OpenBLAS >= v0.3.7.
>
> *Highlights*
>
>    - The ``np.testing.utils`` functions have been updated from 1.19.0-dev0.
>    This improves the function documentation and error messages as well
>    extending the ``assert_array_compare`` function to additional types.
>
> *Contributors*
>
> A total of 10 people contributed to this release.
>
>
>    - CakeWithSteak
>    - Charles Harris
>    - Chris Burr
>    - Eric Wieser
>    - Fernando Saravia
>    - Lars Grueter
>    - Matti Picus
>    - Maxwell Aladago
>    - Qiming Sun
>    - Warren Weckesser
>
>
> *Pull requests merged*
>
> A total of 14 pull requests were merged for this release.
>
>
>    - `#14211 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14211>`__: BUG: Fix
>    uint-overflow if padding with linear_ramp and negative...
>    - `#14275 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14275>`__: BUG: fixing to
>    allow unpickling of PY3 pickles from PY2
>    - `#14340 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14340>`__: BUG: Fix
>    misuse of .names and .fields in various places (backport...
>    - `#14423 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14423>`__: BUG: test, fix
>    regression in converting to ctypes.
>    - `#14434 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14434>`__: BUG: Fixed
>    maximum relative error reporting in assert_allclose
>    - `#14509 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14509>`__: BUG: Fix
>    regression in boolean matmul.
>    - `#14686 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14686>`__: BUG: properly
>    define PyArray_DescrCheck
>    - `#14853 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14853>`__: BLD: add 'apt
>    update' to shippable
>    - `#14854 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14854>`__: BUG: Fix
>    _ctypes class circular reference. (#13808)
>    - `#14856 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14856>`__: BUG: Fix
>    `np.einsum` errors on Power9 Linux and z/Linux
>    - `#14863 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14863>`__: BLD: Prevent
>    -flto from optimising long double representation...
>    - `#14864 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14864>`__: BUG: lib: Fix
>    histogram problem with signed integer arrays.
>    - `#15172 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15172>`__: ENH: Backport
>    improvements to testing functions.
>    - `#15191 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15191>`__: REL: Prepare
>    for 1.16.6 release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Harris
>