On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.20.0rc2. This NumPy release is the largest to date, containing some 670 merged pull requests contributed by 184 people. See the list of highlights below. The Python versions supported for this release are 3.7-3.9, support for Python 3.6 has been dropped. Wheels can be downloaded from
PyPI; source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available on
Github. Linux users will need pip >= 0.19.3 in order to install manylinux2010 and manylinux2014 wheels.