NumPy 1.19.1 Release Notes#

NumPy 1.19.1 fixes several bugs found in the 1.19.0 release, replaces several functions deprecated in the upcoming Python-3.9 release, has improved support for AIX, and has a number of development related updates to keep CI working with recent upstream changes.

This release supports Python 3.6-3.8. Cython >= 0.29.21 needs to be used when building with Python 3.9 for testing purposes.

Contributors#

A total of 15 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

  • Abhinav Reddy +

  • Anirudh Subramanian

  • Antonio Larrosa +

  • Charles Harris

  • Chunlin Fang

  • Eric Wieser

  • Etienne Guesnet +

  • Kevin Sheppard

  • Matti Picus

  • Raghuveer Devulapalli

  • Roman Yurchak

  • Ross Barnowski

  • Sayed Adel

  • Sebastian Berg

  • Tyler Reddy

Pull requests merged#

A total of 25 pull requests were merged for this release.

  • #16649: MAINT, CI: disable Shippable cache

  • #16652: MAINT: Replace PyUString_GET_SIZE with PyUnicode_GetLength.

  • #16654: REL: Fix outdated docs link

  • #16656: BUG: raise IEEE exception on AIX

  • #16672: BUG: Fix bug in AVX complex absolute while processing array of…

  • #16693: TST: Add extra debugging information to CPU features detection

  • #16703: BLD: Add CPU entry for Emscripten / WebAssembly

  • #16705: TST: Disable Python 3.9-dev testing.

  • #16714: MAINT: Disable use_hugepages in case of ValueError

  • #16724: BUG: Fix PyArray_SearchSorted signature.

  • #16768: MAINT: Fixes for deprecated functions in scalartypes.c.src

  • #16772: MAINT: Remove unneeded call to PyUnicode_READY

  • #16776: MAINT: Fix deprecated functions in scalarapi.c

  • #16779: BLD, ENH: Add RPATH support for AIX

  • #16780: BUG: Fix default fallback in genfromtxt

  • #16784: BUG: Added missing return after raising error in methods.c

  • #16795: BLD: update cython to 0.29.21

  • #16832: MAINT: setuptools 49.2.0 emits a warning, avoid it

  • #16872: BUG: Validate output size in bin- and multinomial

  • #16875: BLD, MAINT: Pin setuptools

  • #16904: DOC: Reconstruct Testing Guideline.

  • #16905: TST, BUG: Re-raise MemoryError exception in test_large_zip’s…

  • #16906: BUG,DOC: Fix bad MPL kwarg.

  • #16916: BUG: Fix string/bytes to complex assignment

  • #16922: REL: Prepare for NumPy 1.19.1 release

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