Re: NumPy 1.18.4 release

On 5/3/20, Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.18.4 has
> been released. This is the last planned release in the 1.18.x series. It
> reverts the bool("0") behavior introduced in 1.18.3 and fixes a bug in
> Generator.integers. There is also a link to a new troubleshooting section
> in the documentation included in the error message emitted when numpy
> import fails.
>
> The Python versions supported in this release are 3.5-3.8. Downstream
> developers should use Cython >= 0.29.15 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS
>>= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture.  Wheels for this
> release can be downloaded from PyPI
> <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.18.4>,
> source archives and release notes are available from Github
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.18.4>.
>
> *Contributors*
>
> A total of 4 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by
> their
> names contributed a patch for the first time.
>
>    - Charles Harris
>    - Matti Picus
>    - Sebastian Berg
>    - Warren Weckesser
>
>
> *Pull requests merged*
>
> A total of 6 pull requests were merged for this release.
>
>    - #16055: BLD: add i686 for 1.18 builds
>    - #16090: BUG: random: Generator.integers(2**32) always returned 0.
>    - #16091: BLD: fix path to libgfortran on macOS
>    - #16109: REV: Reverts side-effect changes to casting
>    - #16114: BLD: put openblas library in local directory on windows
>    - #16132: DOC: Change import error "howto" to link to new
>    troubleshooting...
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Harris
>


Thanks Chuck!


Warren