[SciPy-Dev] ANN: Scipy 0.14.0 release candidate 1

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 4/3/2014 2:34 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
> On 4/3/2014 1:14 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate
>> of Scipy 0.14.0. Please try this RC and report any issues on the
>> scipy-dev mailing list. A significant number of fixes for scipy.sparse
>> went in after the beta release, so users of that module may want to test
>> this release carefully.
>>
>> Source tarballs, binaries and the full release notes can be found at
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.14.0rc1/. The final
>> release will follow in one week if no new issues are found.
>>
>> A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> scipy.sparse.linalg fails many tests on Windows on all Python versions.
> I attached the results for Python 2.7 with the official binaries
> (scipy-0.14.0rc1-win32-superpack-python2.7, 32 errors) and my msvc/MKL
> builds for 32 bit (scipy-0.14.0c1.win32-py2.7, 35 errors) and 64 bit
> (scipy-0.14.0c1.win-amd64-py2.7, 4 errors, 10 failures). Other Python
> versions also fail. The 64 bit failures/errors were previously reported
> for Python 3.4 only at <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/3306>.
> I'll try to build and test with numpy 1.7.x and see if that helps.
>
> Christoph
>

All tests pass when building and testing with numpy 1.7.2 instead of 
numpy 1.8.1 (tested on 32 and 64 bit Python 2.7).

Christoph