[Numpy-discussion] ANN: 1.8.0b2 release.

[Neal Becker]

Charles R Harris wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the second beta release of Numpy 1.8.0. This release
> should solve the Windows problems encountered in the first beta. Many
> thanks to Christolph Gohlke and Julian Taylor for their hard work in
> getting those issues settled.
> 
> It would be good if folks running OS X could try out this release and
> report any issues on the numpy-dev mailing list. Unfortunately the files
> still need to be installed from source as dmg files are not avalable at
> this time.
> 
> Source tarballs and release notes can be found at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.8.0b2/. The Windows
> and OS X installers will follow when the infrastructure issues are dealt
> with.
> 
> Chuck

Fedora 19 linux x86_64
mkl Package ID: l_mkl_11.0.3.163
MKL ERROR: Parameter 4 was incorrect on entry to DGETRF.
...
FAIL: test_linalg.test_xerbla
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/numpy/testing/decorators.py", line 146, in skipper_func
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/numpy/linalg/tests/test_linalg.py", line 925, in test_xerbla
    assert_(False)
  File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 44, in assert_
    raise AssertionError(msg)
AssertionError

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Ran 5271 tests in 56.843s

FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=5, SKIP=13, failures=1)
<nose.result.TextTestResult run=5271 errors=0 failures=1>
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