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.. currentmodule:: numpy

==========================
NumPy 1.17.3 Release Notes
==========================

This release contains fixes for bugs reported against NumPy 1.17.2 along with a
some documentation improvements. The Python versions supported in this release
are 3.5-3.8.

Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.13 for Python 3.8 support and
OpenBLAS >= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture.


Highlights
==========

- Wheels for Python 3.8
- Boolean ``matmul`` fixed to use booleans instead of integers.


Compatibility notes
===================

- The seldom used ``PyArray_DescrCheck`` macro has been changed/fixed.


Contributors
============

A total of 7 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Allan Haldane
* Charles Harris
* Kevin Sheppard
* Matti Picus
* Ralf Gommers
* Sebastian Berg
* Warren Weckesser


Pull requests merged
====================

A total of 12 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#14456 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14456>`__: MAINT: clean up pocketfft modules inside numpy.fft namespace.
* `#14463 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14463>`__: BUG: random.hypergeometic assumes npy_long is npy_int64, hung...
* `#14502 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14502>`__: BUG: random: Revert gh-14458 and refix gh-14557.
* `#14504 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14504>`__: BUG: add a specialized loop for boolean matmul.
* `#14506 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14506>`__: MAINT: Update pytest version for Python 3.8
* `#14512 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14512>`__: DOC: random: fix doc linking, was referencing private submodules.
* `#14513 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14513>`__: BUG,MAINT: Some fixes and minor cleanup based on clang analysis
* `#14515 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14515>`__: BUG: Fix randint when range is 2**32
* `#14519 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14519>`__: MAINT: remove the entropy c-extension module
* `#14563 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14563>`__: DOC: remove note about Pocketfft license file (non-existing here).
* `#14578 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14578>`__: BUG: random: Create a legacy implementation of random.binomial.
* `#14687 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14687>`__: BUG: properly define PyArray_DescrCheck