Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.21.0rc1. The highlights are

continued SIMD work covering more functions and platforms,

initial work on the new dtype infrastructure and casting,

improved documentation,

improved annotations,

the new ``PCG64DXSM`` bitgenerator for random numbers.

This NumPy release is the result of 561 merged pull requests contributed by 171 people. The Python versions supported for this release are 3.7-3.9, support for Python 3.10 will be added after Python 3.10 is released. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on Github. Linux users will need pip >= 0.19.3 in order to install manylinux2010 and manylinux2014 wheels.

Contributors

A total of 171 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

@8bitmp3 +
@DWesl +
@Endolith
@Illviljan +
@Lbogula +
@Lisa +
@Patrick +
@Scian +
@h-vetinari +
@h6197627 +
@jbCodeHub +
@legoffant +
@sfolje0 +
@tautaus +
@yetanothercheer +
Abhay Raghuvanshi +
Adrian Price-Whelan +
Aerik Pawson +
Agbonze Osazuwa +
Aitik Gupta +
Al-Baraa El-Hag
Alex Henrie
Alexander Hunt +
Alizé Papp +
Allan Haldane
Amarnath1904 +
Amrit Krishnan +
Andras Deak
AngelGris +
Anne Archibald
Anthony Vo +
Antony Lee
Atharva-Vidwans +
Ayush Verma +
Bas van Beek
Bharat Raghunathan
Bhargav V +
Brian Soto
Carl Michal +
Charles Harris
Charles Stern +
Chiara Marmo +
Chris Barnes +
Chris Vavaliaris
Christina Hedges +
Christoph Gohlke
Christopher Dahlin +
Christos Efstathiou +
Chunlin Fang
Constanza Fierro +
Daniel Evans +
Daniel Montes +
Dario Mory +
David Carlier +
David Stansby
Deepyaman Datta +
Derek Homeier
Dong Keun Oh +
Dylan Cutler +
Eric Larson
Eric Wieser
Eva Jau +
Evgeni Burovski
FX Coudert +
Faris A Chugthai +
Filip Ter +
Filip Trojan +
François Le Lay +
Ganesh Kathiresan
Giannis Zapantis +
Giulio Procopio +
Greg Lucas +
Hollow Man +
Holly Corbett +
Inessa Pawson
Isabela Presedo-Floyd
Ismael Jimenez +
Isuru Fernando
Jakob Jakobson
James Gerity +
Jamie Macey +
Jasmin Classen +
Jody Klymak +
Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
Jérome Eertmans +
Kamil Choudhury +
Kasia Leszek +
Keller Meier +
Kevin Sheppard
Kulin Seth +
Kumud Lakara +
Laura Kopf +
Laura Martens +
Leo Singer +
Leonardus Chen +
Lima Tango +
Lumir Balhar +
Maia Kaplan +
Mainak Debnath +
Marco Aurélio da Costa +
Marta Lemanczyk +
Marten van Kerkwijk
Mary Conley +
Marysia Winkels +
Mateusz Sokół +
Matt Haberland
Matt Hall +
Matt Ord +
Matthew Badin +
Matthias Bussonnier
Matthias Geier
Matti Picus
Matías Ríos +
Maxim Belkin +
Melissa Weber Mendonça
Meltem Eren Copur +
Michael Dubravski +
Michael Lamparski
Michal W. Tarnowski +
Michał Górny +
Mike Boyle +
Mike Toews
Misal Raj +
Mitchell Faas +
Mukulikaa Parhari +
Neil Girdhar +
Nicholas McKibben +
Nico Schlömer
Nicolas Hug +
Nilo Kruchelski +
Nirjas Jakilim +
Ohad Ravid +
Olivier Grisel
Pamphile ROY +
Panos Mavrogiorgos +
Patrick T. Komiske III +
Pearu Peterson
Raghuveer Devulapalli
Ralf Gommers
Raúl Montón Pinillos +
Rin Arakaki +
Robert Kern
Rohit Sanjay
Roman Yurchak
Ronan Lamy
Ross Barnowski
Ryan C Cooper
Ryan Polley +
Ryan Soklaski
Sabrina Simao +
Sayed Adel
Sebastian Berg
Shen Zhou +
Stefan van der Walt
Sylwester Arabas +
Takanori Hirano
Tania Allard +
Thomas J. Fan +
Thomas Orgis +
Tim Hoffmann
Tomoki, Karatsu +
Tong Zou +
Touqir Sajed +
Tyler Reddy
Wansoo Kim
Warren Weckesser
Weh Andreas +
Yang Hau
Yashasvi Misra +
Zolboo Erdenebaatar +
Zolisa Bleki

Cheers,

Charles Harris