.. currentmodule:: numpy

========================== NumPy 1.18.2 Release Notes

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.

Contributors

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 +

Pull requests merged

A total of 7 pull requests were merged for this release.

• #15675 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15675>__: TST: move _no_tracing to testing._private
• #15676 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15676>__: MAINT: Large overhead in some random functions
• #15677 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15677>__: TST: Do not create gfortran link in azure Mac testing.
• #15679 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15679>__: BUG: Added missing error check in ndarray.__contains__
• #15722 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15722>__: MAINT: use list-based APIs to call subprocesses
• #15729 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15729>__: REL: Prepare for 1.18.2 release.
• #15734 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15734>__: BUG: fix logic error when nm fails on 32-bit