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• #16654: REL: Fix outdated docs link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