This is documentation for an old release of NumPy (version 1.18). Read this page in the documentation of the latest stable release (version 2.2).
NumPy 1.18.3 Release Notes¶
This release contains various bug/regression fixes.
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.
Highlights¶
Fix for the method=’eigh’ and method=’cholesky’ methods in
numpy.random.multivariate_normal. Those were producing samples from the wrong distribution.
Contributors¶
A total of 6 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
Charles Harris
Max Balandat +
@Mibu287 +
Pan Jan +
Sebastian Berg
@panpiort8 +
Pull requests merged¶
A total of 5 pull requests were merged for this release.
#15916: BUG: Fix eigh and cholesky methods of numpy.random.multivariate_normal
#15929: BUG,MAINT: Remove incorrect special case in string to number…
#15930: BUG: Guarantee array is in valid state after memory error occurs…
#15954: BUG: Check that pvals is 1D in _generator.multinomial.
#16017: BUG: Alpha parameter must be 1D in generator.dirichlet