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Subject: NumPy 1.16.6 release.
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:27:25 -0700
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Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.16.6 has
been released. This release fixes bugs reported against the 1.16.5 release
and backports several enhancements from master that seem appropriate for an
LTS series. The supported Python versions are 2.7, 3.5-3.7. This is the
last release planned that supports Python 2.7.  Wheels for this release can
be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.16.6>, source
archives and release notes are available from Github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.16.6>. Downstream
developers building this release should use Cython >= 0.29.2 and, if using
OpenBLAS, OpenBLAS >= v0.3.7.

*Highlights*

   - The ``np.testing.utils`` functions have been updated from 1.19.0-dev0.
   This improves the function documentation and error messages as well
   extending the ``assert_array_compare`` function to additional types.

*Contributors*

A total of 10 people contributed to this release.


   - CakeWithSteak
   - Charles Harris
   - Chris Burr
   - Eric Wieser
   - Fernando Saravia
   - Lars Grueter
   - Matti Picus
   - Maxwell Aladago
   - Qiming Sun
   - Warren Weckesser


*Pull requests merged*

A total of 14 pull requests were merged for this release.


   - `#14211 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14211>`__: BUG: Fix
   uint-overflow if padding with linear_ramp and negative...
   - `#14275 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14275>`__: BUG: fixing to
   allow unpickling of PY3 pickles from PY2
   - `#14340 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14340>`__: BUG: Fix
   misuse of .names and .fields in various places (backport...
   - `#14423 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14423>`__: BUG: test, fix
   regression in converting to ctypes.
   - `#14434 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14434>`__: BUG: Fixed
   maximum relative error reporting in assert_allclose
   - `#14509 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14509>`__: BUG: Fix
   regression in boolean matmul.
   - `#14686 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14686>`__: BUG: properly
   define PyArray_DescrCheck
   - `#14853 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14853>`__: BLD: add 'apt
   update' to shippable
   - `#14854 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14854>`__: BUG: Fix
   _ctypes class circular reference. (#13808)
   - `#14856 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14856>`__: BUG: Fix
   `np.einsum` errors on Power9 Linux and z/Linux
   - `#14863 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14863>`__: BLD: Prevent
   -flto from optimising long double representation...
   - `#14864 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14864>`__: BUG: lib: Fix
   histogram problem with signed integer arrays.
   - `#15172 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15172>`__: ENH: Backport
   improvements to testing functions.
   - `#15191 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15191>`__: REL: Prepare
   for 1.16.6 release.

Cheers,

Charles Harris