[AstroPy] [ANN] Astropy v1.0.6 released

[Erik Bray]

Hi all,

This is just a quick announcement that I've released v1.0.6 of Astropy--a new 
bug fix release.

The primary reason for this release is to complete support for Numpy v1.10. 
Previously, Astropy mostly supported Numpy v1.10, but there were some issues 
primarily in the FITS module.

A few other fixes came along for the ride, which you can check in the full 
changelog [1].

I should also note there is one known issue [2] due to a regression in Numpy 
itself that can cause severe slowdown in reading *some* FITS tables.  However, 
this only affects FITS tables that contain columns with very large 
multi-dimensional arrays as elements.  For example, binary tables that store 
images in a column.  The workaround, for now, is to downgrade to Numpy 1.9.x.

There is one other known issue I found while testing the release [3] that 
affects FITS tables on Numpy 1.10, but it is not likely to affect many users, if 
any.

Thanks,
Erik B.

[1] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/v1.0.6/CHANGES.rst#106-2015-10-22
[2] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/4259
[3] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/4266