[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.8.1 release

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Julian Taylor
<jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm happy to announce the of Numpy 1.8.1.
> This is a bugfix only release supporting Python 2.6 - 2.7 and 3.2 - 3.4.
>
> More than 48 issues have been fixed, the most important issues are
> listed in the release notes:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rst
>
> Compared to the last release candidate we have fixed a regression of the
> 1.8 series that prevented using some gufunc based linalg functions on
> larger matrices on 32 bit systems. This implied a few changes in the
> NDIter C-API which might expose insufficient checks for error conditions
> in third party applications. Please check the release notes for details.
>
> Source tarballs, windows installers and release notes can be found at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.8.1

Thanks a lot for this.   I've just posted OSX wheels for Pythons 2.7, 3.3, 3.4.

It's a strange feeling doing this:

$ pip install numpy
Downloading/unpacking numpy
  Downloading numpy-1.8.1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl (3.6MB):
3.6MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy
Cleaning up...

5 seconds waiting on a home internet connection and a numpy install....  Nice.

Cheers,

Matthew