SciPy 1.5.4 Release Notes

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• SciPy 1.5.4 Release Notes

  • Authors

    • Issues closed for 1.5.4

    • Pull requests for 1.5.4

SciPy 1.5.4 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.5.3. Importantly, wheels are now available for Python 3.9 and a more complete fix has been applied for issues building with XCode 12.

Authors

• Peter Bell

• CJ Carey

• Andrew McCluskey +

• Andrew Nelson

• Tyler Reddy

• Eli Rykoff +

• Ian Thomas +

A total of 7 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 1.5.4

• #12763: ndimage.fourier_ellipsoid segmentation fault

• #12789: TestConvolve2d.test_large_array failing on Windows ILP64 CI job

• #12857: sparse A[0,:] = ndarray is ok, A[:,0] = ndarray ValueError from…

• #12860: BUG: Build failure with Xcode 12

• #12935: Failure to build with Python 3.9.0 on macOS

• #12966: MAINT: lint_diff.py on some backport PRs

• #12988: BUG: Highly multi-dimensional `gaussian_kde` giving `-inf`…

Pull requests for 1.5.4

• #12790: TST: Skip TestConvolve2d.test_large_array if not enough memory

• #12851: BUG: sparse: fix inner indexed assignment of a 1d array

• #12875: BUG: segfault in ndimage.fourier_ellipsoid with length-1 dims

• #12937: CI: macOS3.9 testing

• #12957: MAINT: fixes XCode 12/ python 3.9.0 build for 1.5.x maint branch

• #12959: CI: add Windows Python 3.9 to CI

• #12974: MAINT: Run lint_diff.py against the merge target and only for…

• #12978: DOC: next_fast_len output doesn’t match docstring

• #12979: BUG: fft.next_fast_len should accept keyword arguments

• #12989: BUG: improved the stability of kde for highly (1000s) multi-dimension…

• #13017: BUG: Add explicit cast to _tmp sum.

• #13022: TST: xfail test_maxiter_worsening()