========================== SciPy 1.18.0 Release Notes

.. note:: SciPy 1.18.0 is not released yet!

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SciPy 1.18.0 is the culmination of X months of hard work. It contains many new features, numerous bug-fixes, improved test coverage and better documentation. There have been a number of deprecations and API changes in this release, which are documented below. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release, as there are a large number of bug-fixes and optimizations. Before upgrading, we recommend that users check that their own code does not use deprecated SciPy functionality (to do so, run your code with python -Wd and check for DeprecationWarning s). Our development attention will now shift to bug-fix releases on the 1.17.x branch, and on adding new features on the main branch.

This release requires Python 3.12-3.14 and NumPy 1.26.4 or greater.

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Highlights of this release

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New features

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scipy.cluster improvements

scipy.interpolate improvements

scipy.linalg improvements

scipy.ndimage improvements

scipy.optimize improvements

scipy.signal improvements

scipy.sparse improvements

scipy.spatial improvements

scipy.special improvements

scipy.stats improvements

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Deprecated features

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Backwards incompatible changes

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Other changes

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Authors

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Issues closed for 1.18.0

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Pull requests for 1.18.0

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