Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team, I am pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.15.3. This is a bugfix release for bugs and regressions reported following the 1.15.2 release.  The most noticeable fix is probably for the memory leak encountered when slicing classes derived from Numpy.

The Python versions supported by this release are 2.7, 3.4-3.7. Wheels for this release can be downloaded from PyPI, source archives are available from Github.

Compatibility Note
==================

The NumPy 1.15.x OS X wheels released on PyPI no longer contain 32-bit
binaries.  That will also be the case in future releases. See
`#11625 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/11625>`__ for the related
discussion.  Those needing 32-bit support should look elsewhere or build
from source.

Contributors
============

A total of 7 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Allan Haldane
* Charles Harris
* Jeroen Demeyer
* Kevin Sheppard
* Matthew Bowden +
* Matti Picus
* Tyler Reddy

Pull requests merged
====================

A total of 12 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#12080 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12080>`__: MAINT: Blacklist some MSVC complex functions.
* `#12083 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12083>`__: TST: Add azure CI testing to 1.15.x branch.
* `#12084 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12084>`__: BUG: test_path() now uses Path.resolve()
* `#12085 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12085>`__: TST, MAINT: Fix some failing tests on azure-pipelines mac and...
* `#12187 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12187>`__: BUG: Fix memory leak in mapping.c
* `#12188 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12188>`__: BUG: Allow boolean subtract in histogram
* `#12189 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12189>`__: BUG: Fix in-place permutation
* `#12190 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12190>`__: BUG: limit default for get_num_build_jobs() to 8
* `#12191 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12191>`__: BUG: OBJECT_to_* should check for errors
* `#12192 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12192>`__: DOC: Prepare for NumPy 1.15.3 release.
* `#12237 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12237>`__: BUG: Fix MaskedArray fill_value type conversion.
* `#12238 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/12238>`__: TST: Backport azure-pipeline testing fixes for Mac

Cheers,

Charles Harris