Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.24.4. NumPy 1.24.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs discovered after the 1.24.3 release. The Python versions supported by this release are 3.8-3.11 Note that 32 bit wheels are only provided for Windows, all other wheels are 64 bits on account of Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions dropping 32 bit support. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.24.4/>; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.24.4>. *Contributors* A total of 4 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - Bas van Beek - Charles Harris - Sebastian Berg - Hongyang Peng + *Pull requests merged* A total of 6 pull requests were merged for this release. - #23720: MAINT, BLD: Pin rtools to version 4.0 for Windows builds. - #23739: BUG: fix the method for checking local files for 1.24.x - #23760: MAINT: Copy rtools installation from install-rtools. - #23761: BUG: Fix masked array ravel order for A (and somewhat K) - #23890: TYP,DOC: Annotate and document the ``metadata`` parameter of... - #23994: MAINT: Update rtools installation Cheers, Charles Harris