This release contains fixes for bugs reported against NumPy 1.17.2 along with a some documentation improvements. The Python versions supported in this release are 3.5-3.8.
Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.13 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS >= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture.
Wheels for Python 3.8
Boolean matmul fixed to use booleans instead of integers.
matmul
The seldom used PyArray_DescrCheck macro has been changed/fixed.
PyArray_DescrCheck
A total of 7 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
Allan Haldane
Charles Harris
Kevin Sheppard
Matti Picus
Ralf Gommers
Sebastian Berg
Warren Weckesser
A total of 12 pull requests were merged for this release.
#14456: MAINT: clean up pocketfft modules inside numpy.fft namespace.
#14463: BUG: random.hypergeometic assumes npy_long is npy_int64, hung…
#14502: BUG: random: Revert gh-14458 and refix gh-14557.
#14504: BUG: add a specialized loop for boolean matmul.
#14506: MAINT: Update pytest version for Python 3.8
#14512: DOC: random: fix doc linking, was referencing private submodules.
#14513: BUG,MAINT: Some fixes and minor cleanup based on clang analysis
#14515: BUG: Fix randint when range is 2**32
#14519: MAINT: remove the entropy c-extension module
#14563: DOC: remove note about Pocketfft license file (non-existing here).
#14578: BUG: random: Create a legacy implementation of random.binomial.
#14687: BUG: properly define PyArray_DescrCheck