This small release contains a fix for a performance regression in numpy/random and several bug/maintenance updates.
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.
A total of 5 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
Charles Harris
Ganesh Kathiresan +
Matti Picus
Sebastian Berg
przemb +
A total of 7 pull requests were merged for this release.
#15675: TST: move _no_tracing to testing._private
#15676: MAINT: Large overhead in some random functions
#15677: TST: Do not create gfortran link in azure Mac testing.
#15679: BUG: Added missing error check in ndarray.__contains__
ndarray.__contains__
#15722: MAINT: use list-based APIs to call subprocesses
#15729: REL: Prepare for 1.18.2 release.
#15734: BUG: fix logic error when nm fails on 32-bit