Hi All, I'm please to announce the NumPy 1.13.0rc1 release. This release supports Python 2.7 and 3.4-3.6 and contains many new features. It is one of the most ambitious releases in the last several years. Some of the highlights and new functions are *Highlights* - Operations like ``a + b + c`` will reuse temporaries on some platforms, resulting in less memory use and faster execution. - Inplace operations check if inputs overlap outputs and create temporaries to avoid problems. - New __array_ufunc__ attribute provides improved ability for classes to override default ufunc behavior. - New np.block function for creating blocked arrays. *New functions* - New ``np.positive`` ufunc. - New ``np.divmod`` ufunc provides more efficient divmod. - New ``np.isnat`` ufunc tests for NaT special values. - New ``np.heaviside`` ufunc computes the Heaviside function. - New ``np.isin`` function, improves on ``in1d``. - New ``np.block`` function for creating blocked arrays. - New ``PyArray_MapIterArrayCopyIfOverlap`` added to NumPy C-API. Wheels for the pre-release are available on PyPI. Source tarballs, zipfiles, release notes, and the Changelog are available on github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.13.0rc1>. A total of 100 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis + - Alessandro Pietro Bardelli + - Alex Rothberg + - Alexander Shadchin - Allan Haldane - Andres Guzman-Ballen + - Antoine Pitrou - Antony Lee - B R S Recht + - Baurzhan Muftakhidinov + - Ben Rowland - Benda Xu + - Blake Griffith - Bradley Wogsland + - Brandon Carter + - CJ Carey - Charles Harris - Danny Hermes + - Duke Vijitbenjaronk + - Egor Klenin + - Elliott Forney + - Elliott M Forney + - Endolith - Eric Wieser - Erik M. Bray - Eugene + - Evan Limanto + - Felix Berkenkamp + - François Bissey + - Frederic Bastien - Greg Young - Gregory R. Lee - Importance of Being Ernest + - Jaime Fernandez - Jakub Wilk + - James Cowgill + - James Sanders - Jean Utke + - Jesse Thoren + - Jim Crist + - Joerg Behrmann + - John Kirkham - Jonathan Helmus - Jonathan L Long - Jonathan Tammo Siebert + - Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz - Joshua Loyal + - Juan Nunez-Iglesias + - Julian Taylor - Kirill Balunov + - Likhith Chitneni + - Loïc Estève - Mads Ohm Larsen - Marein Könings + - Marten van Kerkwijk - Martin Thoma - Martino Sorbaro + - Marvin Schmidt + - Matthew Brett - Matthias Bussonnier + - Matthias C. M. Troffaes + - Matti Picus - Michael Seifert - Mikhail Pak + - Mortada Mehyar - Nathaniel J. Smith - Nick Papior - Oscar Villellas + - Pauli Virtanen - Pavel Potocek - Pete Peeradej Tanruangporn + - Philipp A + - Ralf Gommers - Robert Kern - Roland Kaufmann + - Ronan Lamy - Sami Salonen + - Sanchez Gonzalez Alvaro - Sebastian Berg - Shota Kawabuchi - Simon Gibbons - Stefan Otte - Stefan Peterson + - Stephan Hoyer - Søren Fuglede Jørgensen + - Takuya Akiba - Tom Boyd + - Ville Skyttä + - Warren Weckesser - Wendell Smith - Yu Feng - Zixu Zhao + - Zè Vinícius + - aha66 + - davidjn + - drabach + - drlvk + - jsh9 + - solarjoe + - zengi + Cheers, Chuck