[Numpy-discussion] ANN: first SciPy 1.0.0 release candidate
Ralf Gommers
ralf.gommers at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 17:41:35 EDT 2017
Hi all,
I'm excited to be able to announce the availability of the first release
candidate of Scipy 1.0. This is a big release, and a version number that
has been 16 years in the making. It contains a few more deprecations and
backwards incompatible changes than an average release. Therefore please do
test it on your own code, and report any issues on the Github issue tracker
or on the scipy-dev mailing list.
Sources and binary wheels can be found at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scipy
and https://github.com/scipy/scipy/releases/tag/v1.0.0rc1. To install with
pip:
pip install --pre --upgrade scipy
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
Ralf
Pull requests merged after v1.0.0b1:
- `#7876 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7876>`__: GEN: Add comments
to the tests for clarification
- `#7891 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7891>`__: ENH: backport #7879
to 1.0.x
- `#7902 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7902>`__: MAINT: signal: Make
freqz handling of multidim. arrays match...
- `#7905 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7905>`__: REV: restore
wminkowski
- `#7908 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7908>`__: FIX: Avoid bad
``__del__`` (close) behavior
- `#7918 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7918>`__: TST: mark two
optimize.linprog tests as xfail. See gh-7877.
- `#7929 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7929>`__: MAINT: changed
defaults to lower in sytf2, sytrf and hetrf
- `#7938 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7938>`__: MAINT: backports
from 1.0.x
- `#7939 <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7939>`__: Fix umfpack solver
construction for win-amd64
==========================
SciPy 1.0.0 Release Notes
==========================
.. note:: Scipy 1.0.0 is not released yet!
.. contents::
SciPy 1.0.0 is the culmination of 8 months of hard work. It contains
many new features, numerous bug-fixes, improved test coverage and
better documentation. There have been a number of deprecations and
API changes in this release, which are documented below. All users
are encouraged to upgrade to this release, as there are a large number
of bug-fixes and optimizations. Moreover, our development attention
will now shift to bug-fix releases on the 1.0.x branch, and on adding
new features on the master branch.
Some of the highlights of this release are:
- Major build improvements. Windows wheels are available on PyPI for the
first time, and continuous integration has been set up on Windows and OS X
in addition to Linux.
- A set of new ODE solvers and a unified interface to them
(`scipy.integrate.solve_ivp`).
- Two new trust region optimizers and a new linear programming method, with
improved performance compared to what `scipy.optimize` offered previously.
- Many new BLAS and LAPACK functions were wrapped. The BLAS wrappers are
now
complete.
This release requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+ and NumPy 1.8.2 or greater.
This is also the last release to support LAPACK 3.1.x - 3.3.x. Moving the
lowest supported LAPACK version to >3.2.x was long blocked by Apple
Accelerate
providing the LAPACK 3.2.1 API. We have decided that it's time to either
drop
Accelerate or, if there is enough interest, provide shims for functions
added
in more recent LAPACK versions so it can still be used.
New features
============
`scipy.cluster` improvements
----------------------------
`scipy.cluster.hierarchy.optimal_leaf_ordering`, a function to reorder a
linkage matrix to minimize distances between adjacent leaves, was added.
`scipy.fftpack` improvements
----------------------------
N-dimensional versions of the discrete sine and cosine transforms and their
inverses were added as ``dctn``, ``idctn``, ``dstn`` and ``idstn``.
`scipy.integrate` improvements
------------------------------
A set of new ODE solvers have been added to `scipy.integrate`. The
convenience
function `scipy.integrate.solve_ivp` allows uniform access to all solvers.
The individual solvers (``RK23``, ``RK45``, ``Radau``, ``BDF`` and
``LSODA``)
can also be used directly.
`scipy.linalg` improvements
----------------------------
The BLAS wrappers in `scipy.linalg.blas` have been completed. Added
functions
are ``*gbmv``, ``*hbmv``, ``*hpmv``, ``*hpr``, ``*hpr2``, ``*spmv``,
``*spr``,
``*tbmv``, ``*tbsv``, ``*tpmv``, ``*tpsv``, ``*trsm``, ``*trsv``, ``*sbmv``,
``*spr2``,
Wrappers for the LAPACK functions ``*gels``, ``*stev``, ``*sytrd``,
``*hetrd``,
``*sytf2``, ``*hetrf``, ``*sytrf``, ``*sycon``, ``*hecon``, ``*gglse``,
``*stebz``, ``*stemr``, ``*sterf``, and ``*stein`` have been added.
The function `scipy.linalg.subspace_angles` has been added to compute the
subspace angles between two matrices.
The function `scipy.linalg.clarkson_woodruff_transform` has been added.
It finds low-rank matrix approximation via the Clarkson-Woodruff Transform.
The functions `scipy.linalg.eigh_tridiagonal` and
`scipy.linalg.eigvalsh_tridiagonal`, which find the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of tridiagonal hermitian/symmetric matrices, were added.
`scipy.ndimage` improvements
----------------------------
Support for homogeneous coordinate transforms has been added to
`scipy.ndimage.affine_transform`.
The ``ndimage`` C code underwent a significant refactoring, and is now
a lot easier to understand and maintain.
`scipy.optimize` improvements
-----------------------------
The methods ``trust-region-exact`` and ``trust-krylov`` have been added to
the
function `scipy.optimize.minimize`. These new trust-region methods solve the
subproblem with higher accuracy at the cost of more Hessian factorizations
(compared to dogleg) or more matrix vector products (compared to ncg) but
usually require less nonlinear iterations and are able to deal with
indefinite
Hessians. They seem very competitive against the other Newton methods
implemented in scipy.
`scipy.optimize.linprog` gained an interior point method. Its performance
is
superior (both in accuracy and speed) to the older simplex method.
`scipy.signal` improvements
---------------------------
An argument ``fs`` (sampling frequency) was added to the following
functions:
``firwin``, ``firwin2``, ``firls``, and ``remez``. This makes these
functions
consistent with many other functions in `scipy.signal` in which the sampling
frequency can be specified.
`scipy.signal.freqz` has been sped up significantly for FIR filters.
`scipy.sparse` improvements
---------------------------
Iterating over and slicing of CSC and CSR matrices is now faster by up to
~35%.
The ``tocsr`` method of COO matrices is now several times faster.
The ``diagonal`` method of sparse matrices now takes a parameter, indicating
which diagonal to return.
`scipy.sparse.linalg` improvements
----------------------------------
A new iterative solver for large-scale nonsymmetric sparse linear systems,
`scipy.sparse.linalg.gcrotmk`, was added. It implements ``GCROT(m,k)``, a
flexible variant of ``GCROT``.
`scipy.sparse.linalg.lsmr` now accepts an initial guess, yielding
potentially
faster convergence.
SuperLU was updated to version 5.2.1.
`scipy.spatial` improvements
----------------------------
Many distance metrics in `scipy.spatial.distance` gained support for
weights.
The signatures of `scipy.spatial.distance.pdist` and
`scipy.spatial.distance.cdist` were changed to ``*args, **kwargs`` in order
to
support a wider range of metrics (e.g. string-based metrics that need extra
keywords). Also, an optional ``out`` parameter was added to ``pdist`` and
``cdist`` allowing the user to specify where the resulting distance matrix
is
to be stored
`scipy.stats` improvements
--------------------------
The methods ``cdf`` and ``logcdf`` were added to
`scipy.stats.multivariate_normal`, providing the cumulative distribution
function of the multivariate normal distribution.
New statistical distance functions were added, namely
`scipy.stats.wasserstein_distance` for the first Wasserstein distance and
`scipy.stats.energy_distance` for the energy distance.
Deprecated features
===================
The following functions in `scipy.misc` are deprecated: ``bytescale``,
``fromimage``, ``imfilter``, ``imread``, ``imresize``, ``imrotate``,
``imsave``, ``imshow`` and ``toimage``. Most of those functions have
unexpected
behavior (like rescaling and type casting image data without the user asking
for that). Other functions simply have better alternatives.
``scipy.interpolate.interpolate_wrapper`` and all functions in that
submodule
are deprecated. This was a never finished set of wrapper functions which is
not relevant anymore.
The ``fillvalue`` of `scipy.signal.convolve2d` will be cast directly to the
dtypes of the input arrays in the future and checked that it is a scalar or
an array with a single element.
``scipy.spatial.distance.matching`` is deprecated. It is an alias of
`scipy.spatial.distance.hamming`, which should be used instead.
Implementation of `scipy.spatial.distance.wminkowski` was based on a wrong
interpretation of the metric definition. In scipy 1.0 it has been just
deprecated in the documentation to keep retro-compatibility but is
recommended
to use the new version of `scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski` that implements
the correct behaviour.
Positional arguments of `scipy.spatial.distance.pdist` and
`scipy.spatial.distance.cdist` should be replaced with their keyword
version.
Backwards incompatible changes
==============================
The following deprecated functions have been removed from `scipy.stats`:
``betai``, ``chisqprob``, ``f_value``, ``histogram``, ``histogram2``,
``pdf_fromgamma``, ``signaltonoise``, ``square_of_sums``, ``ss`` and
``threshold``.
The following deprecated functions have been removed from
`scipy.stats.mstats`:
``betai``, ``f_value_wilks_lambda``, ``signaltonoise`` and ``threshold``.
The deprecated ``a`` and ``reta`` keywords have been removed from
`scipy.stats.shapiro`.
The deprecated functions ``sparse.csgraph.cs_graph_components`` and
``sparse.linalg.symeig`` have been removed from `scipy.sparse`.
The following deprecated keywords have been removed in
`scipy.sparse.linalg`:
``drop_tol`` from ``splu``, and ``xtype`` from ``bicg``, ``bicgstab``,
``cg``,
``cgs``, ``gmres``, ``qmr`` and ``minres``.
The deprecated functions ``expm2`` and ``expm3`` have been removed from
`scipy.linalg`. The deprecated keyword ``q`` was removed from
`scipy.linalg.expm`. And the deprecated submodule ``linalg.calc_lwork`` was
removed.
The deprecated functions ``C2K``, ``K2C``, ``F2C``, ``C2F``, ``F2K`` and
``K2F`` have been removed from `scipy.constants`.
The deprecated ``ppform`` class was removed from `scipy.interpolate`.
The deprecated keyword ``iprint`` was removed from
`scipy.optimize.fmin_cobyla`.
The default value for the ``zero_phase`` keyword of `scipy.signal.decimate`
has been changed to True.
The ``kmeans`` and ``kmeans2`` functions in `scipy.cluster.vq` changed the
method used for random initialization, so using a fixed random seed will
not necessarily produce the same results as in previous versions.
`scipy.special.gammaln` does not accept complex arguments anymore.
The deprecated functions ``sph_jn``, ``sph_yn``, ``sph_jnyn``, ``sph_in``,
``sph_kn``, and ``sph_inkn`` have been removed. Users should instead use
the functions ``spherical_jn``, ``spherical_yn``, ``spherical_in``, and
``spherical_kn``. Be aware that the new functions have different
signatures.
The cross-class properties of `scipy.signal.lti` systems have been removed.
The following properties/setters have been removed:
Name - (accessing/setting has been removed) - (setting has been removed)
* StateSpace - (``num``, ``den``, ``gain``) - (``zeros``, ``poles``)
* TransferFunction (``A``, ``B``, ``C``, ``D``, ``gain``) - (``zeros``,
``poles``)
* ZerosPolesGain (``A``, ``B``, ``C``, ``D``, ``num``, ``den``) - ()
``signal.freqz(b, a)`` with ``b`` or ``a`` >1-D raises a ``ValueError``.
This
was a corner case for which it was unclear that the behavior was
well-defined.
The method ``var`` of `scipy.stats.dirichlet` now returns a scalar rather
than
an ndarray when the length of alpha is 1.
Other changes
=============
SciPy now has a formal governance structure. It consists of a BDFL (Pauli
Virtanen) and a Steering Committee. See `the governance document
<
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/doc/source/dev/governance/governance.rst
>`_
for details.
It is now possible to build SciPy on Windows with MSVC + gfortran!
Continuous
integration has been set up for this build configuration on Appveyor,
building
against OpenBLAS.
Continuous integration for OS X has been set up on TravisCI.
The SciPy test suite has been migrated from ``nose`` to ``pytest``.
``scipy/_distributor_init.py`` was added to allow redistributors of SciPy to
add custom code that needs to run when importing SciPy (e.g. checks for
hardware, DLL search paths, etc.).
Support for PEP 518 (specifying build system requirements) was added - see
``pyproject.toml`` in the root of the SciPy repository.
In order to have consistent function names, the function
``scipy.linalg.solve_lyapunov`` is renamed to
`scipy.linalg.solve_continuous_lyapunov`. The old name is kept for
backwards-compatibility.
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