NumPy 1.18.4 Release Notes

This is that 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 improved help in the error message emitted when numpy import fails due to a link to a new troubleshooting section in the documentation that is now included.

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.

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…