[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.9.0 beta release

[Jaime Fernández del Río]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
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> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Julian Taylor <
> jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce the fist beta release of Numpy 1.9.0.
>> 1.9.0 will be a new feature release supporting Python 2.6 - 2.7 and 3.2
>> - 3.4.
>> Due to low demand windows binaries for the beta are only available for
>> Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4.
>> Please try it and report any issues to the numpy-discussion mailing list
>> or on github.
>>
>> The 1.9 release will consists of mainly of many small improvements and
>> bugfixes. The highlights are:
>>
>> * Addition of __numpy_ufunc__ to allow overriding ufuncs in ndarray
>> subclasses. Please note that there are still some known issues with this
>> mechanism which we hope to resolve before the final release (e.g. #4753)
>> * Numerous performance improvements in various areas, most notably
>> indexing and operations on small arrays are significantly faster.
>> Indexing operations now also release the GIL.
>> * Addition of nanmedian and nanpercentile rounds out the nanfunction set.
>>
>> The changes involve a lot of small changes that might affect some
>> applications, please read the release notes for the full details on all
>> changes:
>>
>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.9.x/doc/release/1.9.0-notes.rst
>> Please also take special note of the future changes section which will
>> apply to the following release 1.10.0 and make sure to check if your
>> applications would be affected by them.
>>
>> Source tarballs, windows installers and release notes can be found at
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.9.0b1
>>
>>
> Thanks for this, good job.
>
> Chuck
>

This is the first release of numpy I have had any involvement with, and I
am truly amazed at the amount of talent and dedication you guys put into it.

Big, big thank you to everyone!

Jaime


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