spread over 575 pull requests. There have been many improvements,
highlights are:
- Annotations of the main namespace are essentially complete. Upstream
is a moving target, so there will likely be further improvements,
but the major work is done. This is probably the most user visible
enhancement in this release.
- A preliminary version of the proposed Array-API is provided. This is
a step in creating a standard collection of functions that can be
used across application such as CuPy and JAX.
- NumPy now has a DLPack backend. DLPack provides a common interchange
format for array (tensor) data.
- New methods for `quantile`, `percentile`, and related functions. The
new methods provide a complete set of the methods commonly found in
the literature.
- A new configurable allocator for use by downstream projects.
These are in addition to the ongoing work to provide SIMD support for
commonly used functions, improvements to F2PY, and better documentation.
The Python versions supported in this release are 3.8-3.10, Python 3.7
has been dropped. Note that 32 bit wheels are only provided for Python