Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.18.0rc1 has been released. In addition to the usual bug fixes, this NumPy release cleans up and documents the new random C-API, expires a large number of old deprecations, and improves the appearance and organization of the documentation. The Python versions supported are 3.5-3.8. This is the last NumPy release series that will support Python 3.5. 

The highlights of this release are:
  • the C-API for ``numpy.random`` has been defined and documented,
  • basic infrastructure for linking with 64 bit BLAS and LAPACK libraries,
  • many documentation improvements.
Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.14 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS >= 3.7 to avoid wrong results on the Skylake architecture. The NumPy Wheels for this release can be downloaded from PyPI, source archives and release notes are available from Github.

Highlights
  • The C-API for ``numpy.random`` has been defined and documented.
  • Basic infrastructure for linking with 64 bit BLAS and LAPACK libraries.
  • Many documentation improvements.
Contributors

A total of 113 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

  • Abhinav Sagar
  • Alex Henrie +
  • Alexander Jung +
  • Allan Haldane
  • Andrea Pattori
  • Andrew Liu +
  • Anis Ladram +
  • Anne Bonner +
  • Antoine Dechaume +
  • Aryan Naraghi +
  • Bastian Eichenberger +
  • Brian Wignall +
  • Brigitta Sipocz
  • CakeWithSteak +
  • Charles Harris
  • Chris Barker
  • Chris Burr +
  • Chris Markiewicz +
  • Christoph Gohlke
  • Christopher Whelan
  • Colin Snyder
  • Dan Allan
  • Daniel Ching
  • David Stansby +
  • David Zwicker +
  • Dieter Werthmüller
  • Disconnect3d +
  • Dmytro +
  • Doug Davis +
  • Eric Larson
  • Eric Wieser
  • Esben Haabendal +
  • Eugene Prilepin +
  • Felix Divo +
  • Gary Gurlaskie
  • Gina +
  • Giuseppe Cuccu +
  • Grzegorz Bokota +
  • Guanqun Lu +
  • Guilherme Leobas +
  • Guillaume Horel
  • Géraud Le Falher +
  • Hameer Abbasi
  • Harmon
  • Hiroyuki V. Yamazaki
  • Huang, Guangtai +
  • Hugo +
  • Hyeonguk Ryu +
  • Ilhan Polat +
  • Isaac Virshup
  • Jack J. Woehr +
  • Jack Woehr +
  • Jackie Leng
  • Jaime Fernandez
  • Jeff Hale +
  • Johann Faouzi +
  • Jon Dufresne +
  • Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
  • Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz +
  • João Marcos Gris +
  • Justus Magin +
  • Jérémie du Boisberranger
  • Kai Striega
  • Kevin Sheppard
  • Kexuan Sun
  • Kmol Yuan +
  • Kriti Singh
  • Larry Bradley +
  • Lars Grueter
  • Luis Pedro Coelho
  • MSeifert04
  • Magdalena Proszewska +
  • Manny +
  • Mark Harfouche
  • Martin Reinecke
  • Martin Thoma
  • Matt Haberland +
  • Matt McCormick +
  • Matthias Bussonnier
  • Matti Picus
  • Max Bolingbroke +
  • Maxwell Aladago +
  • Michael Hudson-Doyle +
  • Oleksandr Pavlyk
  • Omar Merghany +
  • Pauli Virtanen
  • Peter Andreas Entschev
  • Peter Bell
  • Peter Cock +
  • Pradeep Reddy Raamana +
  • Qiming Sun +
  • Raghuveer Devulapalli
  • Ralf Gommers
  • Samesh +
  • Samesh Lakhotia +
  • Sebastian Berg
  • Sergei Lebedev
  • Seth Troisi +
  • Siddhesh Poyarekar +
  • Simon +
  • Simon Notley +
  • Stefan van der Walt
  • Stephan Hoyer
  • Steve Stagg
  • Thomas A Caswell
  • Thomas Kluyver
  • Tim Hoffmann +
  • Tyler Reddy
  • Vladimir Pershin +
  • Warren Weckesser
  • Yadong Zhang +
  • Zieji Pohz +
  • Zolisa Bleki +
Cheers,

Charles Harris