[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.8.1 release

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Julian Taylor
> <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm happy to announce the of Numpy 1.8.1.
> > This is a bugfix only release supporting Python 2.6 - 2.7 and 3.2 - 3.4.
> >
> > More than 48 issues have been fixed, the most important issues are
> > listed in the release notes:
> >
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rst
> >
> > Compared to the last release candidate we have fixed a regression of the
> > 1.8 series that prevented using some gufunc based linalg functions on
> > larger matrices on 32 bit systems. This implied a few changes in the
> > NDIter C-API which might expose insufficient checks for error conditions
> > in third party applications. Please check the release notes for details.
> >
> > Source tarballs, windows installers and release notes can be found at
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.8.1
>
> Thanks a lot for this.   I've just posted OSX wheels for Pythons 2.7, 3.3,
> 3.4.
>
> It's a strange feeling doing this:
>
> $ pip install numpy
> Downloading/unpacking numpy
>   Downloading numpy-1.8.1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl (3.6MB):
> 3.6MB downloaded
> Installing collected packages: numpy
> Successfully installed numpy
> Cleaning up...
>
> 5 seconds waiting on a home internet connection and a numpy install....
>  Nice.
>
>
That's pretty neat. Now if we can get the windows versions to be as easy.

Chuck
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