SciPy 1.8.1 Release Notes#

SciPy 1.8.1 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.8.0. Notably, usage of Pythran has been restored for Windows builds/binaries.

Authors#

  • Henry Schreiner

  • Maximilian Nöthe

  • Sebastian Berg (1)

  • Sameer Deshmukh (1) +

  • Niels Doucet (1) +

  • DWesl (4)

  • Isuru Fernando (1)

  • Ralf Gommers (4)

  • Matt Haberland (1)

  • Andrew Nelson (1)

  • Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos (1) +

  • Tirth Patel (3)

  • Tyler Reddy (46)

  • Pamphile Roy (7)

  • Niyas Sait (1) +

    1. Vetinari (2)

  • Warren Weckesser (1)

A total of 17 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time. This list of names is automatically generated, and may not be fully complete.

Issues closed for 1.8.1#

  • #15258: BUG: sparse `dot` method should accept scalars

  • #15433: BUG: optimize: minimize: `ValueError` when `np.all(lb==ub)`

  • #15539: BUG: Questionable macOS wheel contents

  • #15543: REL: list contributors using GitHub handles

  • #15552: BUG: MacOS universal2 wheels have two gfortran shared libraries,…

  • #15636: BUG: DOCS incorrect `source` link on docs

  • #15678: BUG: scipy.stats.skew does not work with scipy.stats.bootstrap

  • #16174: Failure of `TestCorrelateComplex.test_rank0` in CI with NumPy…

Pull requests for 1.8.1#

  • #15167: CI: make sure CI stays on VS2019 unless changed explicitly

  • #15306: Revert “BLD Respect the –skip-build flag in setup.py”

  • #15504: MAINT: np.all(lb == ub) for optimize.minimize

  • #15530: REL: prep for SciPy 1.8.1

  • #15531: [BUG] Fix importing scipy.lib._pep440

  • #15558: CI: re-enable Pythran in Azure Windows CI jobs

  • #15566: BUG: fix error message

  • #15580: BUG: Avoid C Preprocessor symbol in _hypotests_pythran.py.

  • #15614: REL: filter out @ in authors name and add count

  • #15637: DOC, MAINT: fix links to wrapped functions and SciPy’s distributions

  • #15669: BUG: stats: fix a bug in UNU.RAN error handler

  • #15691: MAINT: stats: bootstrap: fix bug with `method=”BCa”` when `statistic`…

  • #15798: MAINT,BUG: stats: update to UNU.RAN 1.9.0

  • #15870: TST: signal: Convert a test with ‘assert_array_less’ to ‘less…

  • #15910: make sure CI stays on VS2019 unless changed explicitly

  • #15926: MAINT: 1.8.1 backports/prep

  • #16035: BUG: allow scalar input to the `.dot` method of sparse matrices

  • #16041: MAINT: add include dir explicitly for PROPACK to build with classic…

  • #16139: WIP, BLD, MAINT: git security/version shim

  • #16152: TST: Fortify invalid-value warning filters to small changes in…

  • #16155: MAINT: correct wrong license of Biasedurn

  • #16158: MAINT: better UNU.RAN licensing information

  • #16163: MAINT: update UNU.RAN copyright information

  • #16172: CI: pin Pip to 22.0.4 to avoid issues with `–no-build-isolation`

  • #16175: TST: fix test failure due to changes in numpy scalar behavior.