[SciPy-Dev] NumPy 1.18.5 released

[Warren Weckesser]

On 6/3/20, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce the release of NumPy
> 1.18.5. This is a short release to enable pickle protocol=5 to be used in
> Python3.5 and is motivated by the recent backport of pickle5 to Python3.5.


Thanks Chuck!

Warren

>
> The Python versions supported in this release are 3.5-3.8. Downstream
> developers should use Cython >= 0.29.15 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS
>>= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture. Wheels for this release
> can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.18.5>, source
> archives and release notes are available from Github
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.18.5>.
>
> *Contributors*
>
> A total of 3 people contributed to this release. People with a \"+\" by
> their names contributed a patch for the first time.
>
>    - Charles Harris
>    - Matti Picus
>    - Siyuan Zhuang +
>
>
> *Pull requests merged*
>
> A total of 2 pull requests were merged for this release.
>
>    - #16439: ENH: enable pickle protocol 5 support for python3.5
>    - #16441: BUG: relpath fails for different drives on windows
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Harris
>