= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture. Wheels for this release can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.18.1>,

Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.18.1 has been released. This release contains fixes for bugs reported against NumPy 1.18.0. Two bugs in particular that caused widespread problems downstream were: - The cython random extension test was not using a temporary directory for building, resulting in a permission violation. Fixed. - Numpy distutils was appending -std=c99 to all C compiler runs, leading to changed behavior and compile problems downstream. That flag is now only applied when building numpy C code. The Python versions supported in this release are 3.5-3.8. Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.14 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS source archives and release notes are available from Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.18.1>. *Contributors* A total of 7 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - Charles Harris - Matti Picus - Maxwell Aladago - Pauli Virtanen - Ralf Gommers - Tyler Reddy - Warren Weckesser *Pull requests merged* A total of 13 pull requests were merged for this release. - `#15158 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15158>`__: MAINT: Update pavement.py for towncrier. - `#15159 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15159>`__: DOC: add moved modules to 1.18 release note - `#15161 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15161>`__: MAINT, DOC: Minor backports and updates for 1.18.x - `#15176 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15176>`__: TST: Add assert_array_equal test for big integer arrays - `#15184 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15184>`__: BUG: use tmp dir and check version for cython test. - `#15220 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15220>`__: BUG: distutils: fix msvc+gfortran openblas handling corner case - `#15221 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15221>`__: BUG: remove -std=c99 for c++ compilation - `#15222 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15222>`__: MAINT: unskip test on win32 - `#15223 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15223>`__: TST: add BLAS ILP64 run in Travis & Azure - `#15245 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15245>`__: MAINT: only add --std=c99 where needed - `#15246 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15246>`__: BUG: lib: Fix handling of integer arrays by gradient. - `#15247 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15247>`__: MAINT: Do not use private Python function in testing - `#15250 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15250>`__: REL: Prepare for the NumPy 1.18.1 release. Cheers, Charles Harris