[Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] ANN: NumPy 1.9.2 release candidate

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Julian Taylor
<jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have finished the first release candidate of NumPy 1.9.2.
> The 1.9.2 release will as usual be a bugfix only release to the 1.9.x
> series.
> The tarballs and win32 binaries are available on sourceforge:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.9.2rc1/
>
> If no regressions show up the final release is planned next week.
> The upgrade is recommended for all users of the 1.9.x series.
>
> Following issues have been fixed:
> * gh-5316: fix too large dtype alignment of strings and complex types
> * gh-5424: fix ma.median when used on ndarrays
> * gh-5481: Fix astype for structured array fields of different byte order
> * gh-5155: Fix loadtxt with comments=None and a string None data
> * gh-4476: Masked array view fails if structured dtype has datetime
> component
> * gh-5388: Make RandomState.set_state and RandomState.get_state threadsafe
> * gh-5390: make seed, randint and shuffle threadsafe
> * gh-5374: Fixed incorrect assert_array_almost_equal_nulp documentation
> * gh-5393: Add support for ATLAS > 3.9.33.
> * gh-5313: PyArray_AsCArray caused segfault for 3d arrays
> * gh-5492: handle out of memory in rfftf
> * gh-4181: fix a few bugs in the random.pareto docstring
> * gh-5359: minor changes to linspace docstring
> * gh-4723: fix a compile issues on AIX
>
> Source tarballs, windows installers and release notes can be found at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.9.2rc1/

I built wheels for OSX testing, via the automated travis builders [1].

Install with:

pip install -f http://wheels.scipy.org -U --pre numpy

Scipy ecosystem tests (scipy, pandas, etc) running against the rc1 wheel at [2].

Cheers,

Matthew

[1] https://travis-ci.org/MacPython/numpy-wheels
[2] https://travis-ci.org/MacPython/scipy-stack-osx-testing