[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.9.0 beta release

[Sankarshan Mudkavi]

Still working on it, it's unfortunately taking much more time than I'd anticipated.

Cheers,
Sankarshan Mudkavi

On Jun 9, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I take nothing ever happened to clean up the datetime64 timezone mess?
> 
> sigh.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 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
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian Taylor
> 
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