Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 2.2.3. NumPy 2.2.4 is a patch release that fixes bugs found after the 2.2.3 release. There are a large number of typing improvements, the rest of the changes are the usual mix of bug fixes and platform maintenance. This release supports Python 3.10-3.13. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.2.4>; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.2.4>. *Contributors* A total of 15 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - Abhishek Kumar - Andrej Zhilenkov - Andrew Nelson - Charles Harris - Giovanni Del Monte - Guan Ming(Wesley) Chiu + - Jonathan Albrecht + - Joren Hammudoglu - Mark Harfouche - Matthieu Darbois - Nathan Goldbaum - Pieter Eendebak - Sebastian Berg - Tyler Reddy - lvllvl + *Pull requests merged* A total of 17 pull requests were merged for this release. - #28333: MAINT: Prepare 2.2.x for further development. - #28348: TYP: fix positional- and keyword-only params in astype, cross... - #28377: MAINT: Update FreeBSD version and fix test failure - #28379: BUG: numpy.loadtxt reads only 50000 lines when skip_rows >= max_rows - #28385: BUG: Make np.nonzero threading safe - #28420: BUG: safer bincount casting (backport to 2.2.x) - #28422: BUG: Fix building on s390x with clang - #28423: CI: use QEMU 9.2.2 for Linux Qemu tests - #28424: BUG: skip legacy dtype multithreaded test on 32 bit runners - #28435: BUG: Fix searchsorted and CheckFromAny byte-swapping logic - #28449: BUG: sanity check ``__array_interface__`` number of dimensions - #28510: MAINT: Hide decorator from pytest traceback - #28512: TYP: Typing fixes backported from #28452, #28491, #28494 - #28521: TYP: Backport fixes from #28505, #28506, #28508, and #28511 - #28533: TYP: Backport typing fixes from main (2) - #28534: TYP: Backport typing fixes from main (3) - #28542: TYP: Backport typing fixes from main (4) Cheers, Charles Harris