[SciPy-Dev] scipy 0.18.0 release candidate 2

[Evgeni Burovski]

OS X and linux wheels are on PyPI now:

$ pip install scipy --pre
Collecting scipy
  Downloading scipy-0.18.0rc2-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (42.0MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 42.0MB 33kB/s

For those who would want to verify the wheels, MD5 and SHA256
checksums are listed in the README file in
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc2




On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Evgeni Burovski
<evgeny.burovskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On behalf of the scipy development team, I am pleased to announce the
> second release candidate for scipy 0.18.0.
>
> Please test it --- both the release itself on your machines and your
> code against this release --- and report results on the issue tracker
> or scipy-dev mailing list.
>
> Source tarballs and release notes are available from Github releases,
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/releases/tag/v0.18.0rc2
>
> OS X and Linux wheels are being built now, and I will upload them to
> PyPI when they are ready.
>
> I would like to flag two areas where additional scrutiny and testing
> would be most appreciated:
>
> * Precision loss in some corner cases was reported to occur on Fedora
> 23 and 24 with OpenBLAS, see
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6286.
>
> * On Windows, a CRT incompatibility was reported when building with
> MSVC and MKL, see https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6336.
>
> There are additional issues on s390x
> (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/6338), so if you are using this
> platform, we appreciate your help resolving them.
>
> The (revised) release schedule is:
>
> 25 July:  final release
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Evgeni