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 <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.21.0rc1/>; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.21.0rc1>. 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