NumPy 1.16.2 released.

[Charles R Harris]

Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce the release of NumPy
1.16.2. This is a quick release fixing several problems encountered on
Windows. The Python versions supported are 2.7 and 3.5-3.7. The Windows
problems addressed are:

   - DLL load problems for NumPy wheels on Windows,
   - distutils command line parsing on Windows.

There is also a regression fix correcting signed zeros produced by divmod,
see the release notes for details. Downstream developers building this
release should use Cython >= 0.29.2 and, if using OpenBLAS, OpenBLAS >
v0.3.4.

If you are installing using pip, you may encounter a problem with older
installed versions of NumPy that pip did not delete becoming mixed with the
current version, resulting in an ``ImportError``. That problem is
particularly
common on Debian derived distributions due to a modified pip.  The fix is
to make sure all previous NumPy versions installed by pip have been
removed. See #12736 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/12736> for
discussion of the issue.

Wheels for this release can be downloaded from PyPI
<https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.16.2/>, source archives and release notes
are available from Github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.16.2>.


*Contributors*

A total of 5 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Charles Harris
* Eric Wieser
* Matti Picus
* Tyler Reddy
* Tony LaTorre +


*Pull requests merged*

A total of 7 pull requests were merged for this release.

* #12909: TST: fix vmImage dispatch in Azure
* #12923: MAINT: remove complicated test of multiarray import failure mode
* #13020: BUG: fix signed zero behavior in npy_divmod
* #13026: MAINT: Add functions to parse shell-strings in the
platform-native...
* #13028: BUG: Fix regression in parsing of F90 and F77 environment
variables
* #13038: BUG: parse shell escaping in extra_compile_args and
extra_link_args
* #13041: BLD: Windows absolute path DLL loading

Cheers,

Charles Harris