NumPy 1.14.0rc1 release

[Charles R Harris]

Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team, I am pleased to announce NumPy 1.14.0rc1. Numpy
1.14.0rc1 is the result of seven months of work and contains a large number
of bug fixes and new features, along with several changes with potential
compatibility issues. The major change that users will notice are the
stylistic changes in the way numpy arrays and scalars are printed, a change
that will affect doctests. See the release notes for details on how to
preserve the old style printing when needed.

A major decision affecting future development concerns the schedule for
dropping Python 2.7 support in the runup to 2020. The decision has been
made to support 2.7 for all releases made in 2018, with the last release
being designated a long term release with support for bug fixes extending
through the end of 2019. Starting from January, 2019 support for 2.7 will
be dropped in all new releases. More details can be found in the relevant
NEP
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/dropping-python2.7-proposal.rst>
.

This release supports Python 2.7 and 3.4 - 3.6. Wheels for the pre-release
are available on PyPI. Source tarballs, zipfiles, release notes, and the
changelog are available on github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.14.0rc1>.


*Highlights*

   - The ``np.einsum`` function uses BLAS when possible

   - ``genfromtxt``, ``loadtxt``, ``fromregex`` and ``savetxt`` can now
   handle files with arbitrary Python supported encoding.

   - Major improvements to printing of NumPy arrays and scalars.


*New functions*

   - ``parametrize``: decorator added to numpy.testing


   - ``chebinterpolate``: Interpolate function at Chebyshev points.


   - ``format_float_positional`` and ``format_float_scientific`` : format
   floating-point scalars unambiguously with control of rounding and padding.


   - ``PyArray_ResolveWritebackIfCopy`` and
   ``PyArray_SetWritebackIfCopyBase``, new C-API functions useful in achieving
   PyPy compatibity.


*Contributors*

A total of 101 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by
their names contributed a patch for the first time.

   - Alexey Brodkin +
   - Allan Haldane
   - Andras Deak +
   - Andrew Lawson +
   - Antoine Pitrou
   - Bernhard M. Wiedemann +
   - Bob Eldering +
   - Brandon Carter
   - CJ Carey
   - Charles Harris
   - Chris Lamb
   - Christoph Boeddeker +
   - Christoph Gohlke
   - Daniel Hrisca +
   - Daniel Smith
   - Danny Hermes
   - David Freese
   - David Hagen
   - David Linke +
   - David Schaefer +
   - Dillon Niederhut +
   - Egor Panfilov +
   - Emilien Kofman
   - Eric Wieser
   - Erik Bray +
   - Erik Quaeghebeur +
   - Garry Polley +
   - Gunjan +
   - Henke Adolfsson +
   - Hidehiro NAGAOKA +
   - Hong Xu +
   - Iryna Shcherbina +
   - Jaime Fernandez
   - James Bourbeau +
   - Jamie Townsend +
   - Jarrod Millman
   - Jean Helie +
   - Jeroen Demeyer +
   - John Goetz +
   - John Kirkham
   - John Zwinck
   - Jonathan Helmus
   - Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
   - Joseph Paul Cohen +
   - Joshua Leahy +
   - Julian Taylor
   - Jörg Döpfert +
   - Keno Goertz +
   - Kevin Sheppard +
   - Kexuan Sun +
   - Konrad Kapp +
   - Kristofor Maynard +
   - Licht Takeuchi +
   - Loïc Estève
   - Lukas Mericle +
   - Marten van Kerkwijk
   - Matheus Portela +
   - Matthew Brett
   - Matti Picus
   - Michael Lamparski +
   - Michael Odintsov +
   - Michael Schnaitter +
   - Michael Seifert
   - Mike Nolta
   - Nathaniel J. Smith
   - Nelle Varoquaux +
   - Nicholas Del Grosso +
   - Nico Schlömer +
   - Oleg Zabluda +
   - Oleksandr Pavlyk
   - Pauli Virtanen
   - Pim de Haan +
   - Ralf Gommers
   - Robert T. McGibbon +
   - Roland Kaufmann
   - Sebastian Berg
   - Serhiy Storchaka +
   - Shitian Ni +
   - Spencer Hill +
   - Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy +
   - Stefan Winkler +
   - Stephan Hoyer
   - Steven Maude +
   - SuperBo +
   - Thomas Köppe +
   - Toon Verstraelen
   - Vedant Misra +
   - Warren Weckesser
   - Wirawan Purwanto +
   - Yang Li +
   - Ziyan +
   - chaoyu3 +
   - hemildesai +
   - k_kapp at yahoo.com +
   - nickdg +
   - orbit-stabilizer +
   - schnaitterm +
   - solarjoe
   - wufangjie +
   - xoviat +
   - Élie Gouzien +

Enjoy,

Chuck