[Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] NumPy 1.19.3 release

[Warren Weckesser]

On 10/28/20, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.19.3 has
> been released. NumPy 1.19.3 is a small maintenance release with two major
> improvements:
>
>    - Python 3.9 binary wheels on all supported platforms,
>    - OpenBLAS fixes for Windows 10 version 2004 fmod bug.
>
> This release supports Python 3.6-3.9 and is linked with OpenBLAS 3.12 to
> avoid some of the fmod problems on Windows 10 version 2004. Microsoft is
> aware of the problem and users should upgrade when the fix becomes
> available, the fix here is limited in scope.
>
> NumPy Wheels for this release can be downloaded from the PyPI
> <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.19.3/>, source archives, release notes,
> and wheel hashes are available on Github
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.19.3>. Linux users will
> need pip >= 0.19.3 in order to install manylinux2010 and manylinux2014
> wheels.
>
> *Contributors*
>
> A total of 8 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by
> their
> names contributed a patch for the first time.
>
>
>    - Charles Harris
>    - Chris Brown +
>    - Daniel Vanzo +
>    - E. Madison Bray +
>    - Hugo van Kemenade +
>    - Ralf Gommers
>    - Sebastian Berg
>    - @danbeibei +
>
>
>
> *Pull requests merged*
> A total of 10 pull requests were merged for this release.
>
>    - #17298: BLD: set upper versions for build dependencies
>    - #17336: BUG: Set deprecated fields to null in PyArray_InitArrFuncs
>    - #17446: ENH: Warn on unsupported Python 3.10+
>    - #17450: MAINT: Update test_requirements.txt.
>    - #17522: ENH: Support for the NVIDIA HPC SDK nvfortran compiler
>    - #17568: BUG: Cygwin Workaround for #14787 on affected platforms
>    - #17647: BUG: Fix memory leak of buffer-info cache due to relaxed
>    strides
>    - #17652: MAINT: Backport openblas_support from master.
>    - #17653: TST: Add Python 3.9 to the CI testing on Windows, Mac.
>    - #17660: TST: Simplify source path names in test_extending.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Harris
>


Thanks for managing the release, Chuck!

Warren