DOC: Update the 1.10.0 release notes.

Rewrite the documentation of added functionality of the deg parameter of
the polynomial fitting functions in the numpy.polynomial package and put
it in the 'New Features' section.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst
index ea0e41694..3ce63b116 100644
--- a/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Future Changes
 
 * Relaxed stride checking will become the default in 1.12.0.
 * Support for Python 2.6, 3.2, and 3.3 will be dropped in 1.12.0.
-* ``MaskedArray``s take views of data **and** masks when slicing in 1.12.0.
+* ``MaskedArray`` takes view of data **and** mask when slicing in 1.12.0.
 
 
 Compatibility notes
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ it handles by converting to UTC. However, the resulting datetime is timezone
 naive::
 
     >>> np.datetime64('2000-01-01T00:00:00-08')
-    DeprecationWarning: parsing timezone aware datetimes is deprecated; this will raise an error in the future
+    DeprecationWarning: parsing timezone aware datetimes is deprecated;
+    this will raise an error in the future
     numpy.datetime64('2000-01-01T08:00:00')
 
 As a corollary to this change, we no longer prohibit casting between datetimes
@@ -68,6 +69,11 @@ the rule for casting from dates to times is no longer ambiguous.
 
 pandas_: http://pandas.pydata.org
 
+polynomial fit changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The various fit functions in the numpy polynomial package no longer accept
+non-integers for degree specification.
+
 DeprecationWarning to error
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -156,6 +162,14 @@ New Features
 * ``np.moveaxis`` allows for moving one or more array axes to a new position
   by explicitly providing source and destination axes.
 
+* numpy.polynomial fits now support degree selection.  The ``deg``
+  parameter was extended to allow fitting using only specified terms in the
+  polynomial expansion for all polynomial types. The change is backward
+  compatible and it is still possible to specify ``deg`` as before, but it
+  is now possible pass ``deg`` as a list specifying which terms in the
+  series to use in the fit.
+
+
 Improvements
 ============
 
@@ -208,6 +222,7 @@ Speed improvement for np.random.shuffle
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ``np.random.shuffle`` is now much faster for 1d ndarrays.
 
+
 Changes
 =======
 Pyrex support was removed from ``numpy.distutils``.  The method
@@ -240,14 +255,6 @@ arguments cannot be cast to a common type, it could have raised a ``TypeError``
 or ``ValueError`` depending on their order. Now, ``np.dot`` will now always
 raise a ``TypeError``.
 
-numpy.polynomial.*fit now supports restricted fitting
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The ``deg`` parameter was extended to allow restricted fitting of
-specified terms in the polynomial expansion for all polynomial
-types. This change is backward compatible and it is still possible to
-specify ``deg`` as a single integer to specify the maximum
-order/degree of polynomial used in the fit, but it is now possible for
-``deg`` to be a list specifying which terms in the series to fit.
 
 Deprecations
 ============