Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.26.3. NumPy 1.26.3 is a maintenance release that fixes bugs and regressions discovered after the 1.26.2 release. The most notable fixes are the f2py bug fixes. The Python versions supported by this release are 3.9-3.12. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.26.3/>; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.26.3>. *Contributors* A total of 18 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - @DWesl - @Illviljan - Alexander Grund - Andrea Bianchi + - Charles Harris - Daniel Vanzo - Johann Rohwer + - Matti Picus - Nathan Goldbaum - Peter Hawkins - Raghuveer Devulapalli - Ralf Gommers - Rohit Goswami - Sayed Adel - Sebastian Berg - Stefano Rivera + - Thomas A Caswell - matoro *Pull requests merged* A total of 42 pull requests were merged for this release. - #25130: MAINT: prepare 1.26.x for further development - #25188: TYP: add None to ``__getitem__`` in ``numpy.array_api`` - #25189: BLD,BUG: quadmath required where available [f2py] - #25190: BUG: alpha doesn't use REAL(10) - #25191: BUG: Fix FP overflow error in division when the divisor is scalar - #25192: MAINT: Pin scipy-openblas version. - #25201: BUG: Fix f2py to enable use of string optional inout argument - #25202: BUG: Fix -fsanitize=alignment issue in numpy/_core/src/multiarray/arraytypes.c.src - #25203: TST: Explicitly pass NumPy path to cython during tests (also... - #25204: BUG: fix issues with ``newaxis`` and ``linalg.solve`` in ``numpy.array_api`` - #25205: BUG: Disallow shadowed modulenames - #25217: BUG: Handle common blocks with kind specifications from modules - #25218: BUG: Fix moving compiled executable to root with f2py -c on Windows - #25219: BUG: Fix single to half-precision conversion on PPC64/VSX3 - #25227: TST: f2py: fix issue in test skip condition - #25240: Revert "MAINT: Pin scipy-openblas version." - #25249: MAINT: do not use ``long`` type - #25377: TST: PyPy needs another gc.collect on latest versions - #25378: CI: Install Lapack runtime on Cygwin. - #25379: MAINT: Bump conda-incubator/setup-miniconda from 2.2.0 to 3.0.1 - #25380: BLD: update vendored Meson for AIX shared library fix - #25419: MAINT: Init ``base`` in cpu_avx512_kn - #25420: BUG: Fix failing test_features on SapphireRapids - #25422: BUG: Fix non-contiguous memory load when ARM/Neon is enabled - #25428: MAINT,BUG: Never import distutils above 3.12 [f2py] - #25452: MAINT: make the import-time check for old Accelerate more specific - #25458: BUG: fix macOS version checks for Accelerate support - #25465: MAINT: Bump actions/setup-node and larsoner/circleci-artifacts-redirector-action - #25466: BUG: avoid seg fault from OOB access in RandomState.set_state() - #25467: BUG: Fix two errors related to not checking for failed allocations - #25468: BUG: Fix regression with ``f2py`` wrappers when modules and subroutines... - #25475: BUG: Fix build issues on SPR - #25478: BLD: fix uninitialized variable warnings from simd/neon/memory.h - #25480: BUG: Handle ``iso_c_type`` mappings more consistently - #25481: BUG: Fix module name bug in signature files [urgent] [f2py] - #25482: BUG: Handle .pyf.src and fix SciPy [urgent] - #25483: DOC: ``f2py`` rewrite with ``meson`` details - #25485: BUG: Add external library handling for meson [f2py] - #25486: MAINT: Run f2py's meson backend with the same python that ran... - #25489: MAINT: Update ``numpy/f2py/_backends`` from main. - #25490: MAINT: Easy updates of ``f2py/*.py`` from main. - #25491: MAINT: Update crackfortran.py and f2py2e.py from main Cheers, Charles Harris