• [Python-announce] NumPy 2.5.2 released

    From Charles R Harris@charlesr.harris@gmail.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Sun Aug 9 12:42:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python.announce

    Hi All,

    The NumPy 2.5.2 is a patch release that fixes bugs discovered after the
    2.5.1 release. The big news is that it includes wheels for the newly
    released Python 3.15.0rc1.

    This release supports Python versions 3.12-3.15. Wheels can be downloaded
    from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.5.2>; release notes and the changelog are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.5.2>.



    *Contributors*
    A total of 16 people contributed to this release. People with a \"+\" by
    their
    names contributed a patch for the first time.

    - Abhijeetsingh Meena +
    - Charalampos Stratakis
    - Charles Harris
    - Chris Ninham +
    - David Woods
    - Geonho +
    - Gopu Yeshwanth Reddy +
    - Iason Krommydas
    - Ijtihed Kilani
    - Jelle Zijlstra +
    - Joren Hammudoglu
    - Kumar Aditya
    - Mike Boyle
    - Nathan Goldbaum
    - Raghuveer Devulapalli
    - Sebastian Berg



    *Pull requests merged*
    A total of 28 pull requests were merged for this release.

    - #31864: MAINT: Prepare 2.5.x for further development
    - #31889: TYP: Backport multiple static typing fixes 1.
    - #31900: TST: add tests for stable ABI numpy extensions (#31822)
    - #31901: BUG: fix `StringDType` coerce flag in binary ufunc
    promotion\...
    - #31902: BLD: fix meson deprecation warnings (#31892)
    - #31921: TYP: Backport multiple typing fixes 2.
    - #31947: MAINT: Update x86-simd-sort subproject (5adb334 raA fa944ef)
    (#31908)
    - #31949: BUG: fix crash on 32 bit systems using abi3t (#31771)
    - #31950: MNT: remove some obsolete string to bool workarounds (#31859)
    - #31952: BUG: centralized helper for output coerce and na_object in
    stringdtype\...
    - #31953: BUG: fix CPU feature env diagnostic buffer overruns (#31905)
    - #31954: BUG: restore ndarray.conjugate() for legacy user-defined
    dtypes\...
    - #31955: TYP: Avoid shadowed dtype annotations
    - #32077: MAINT: Update verdored-meson/meson to match main.
    - #32114: BUG: fix refcount leak on overlapping copyto with where=False
    - #32115: BUG: fix swallowed cast error in fancy indexing assignment
    (#31975)
    - #32116: BUG: Fix buffered iterator stride after removing multi-index
    - #32117: BUG: fix `np.fromiter` corruption when reusing a
    `StringDType`\...
    - #32119: BUG: add a special case for StringDType in np.isdtype (#32030)
    - #32121: BUG: reference leak in `simd_sequence_from_iterable` (#32038)
    - #32122: BUG: ensure lock is held when accessing or writing to RNG
    state\...
    - #32123: BUG: fully reset cached RNG state for non-MT19937 RNGs (#32062)
    - #32135: TYP: type capabilities max dimensions
    - #32158: BUG: avoid possible stack overflow in arraydescr_dealloc
    (#32133)
    - #32206: MAINT: Update cibuildwheel to v4.2.0
    - #32214: MAINT: Skip limited_api tests on some platforms.
    - #32220: TYP: `isclose` shape-typing fix for 2d array-likes (#32205)
    - #32221: BUG: avoid segfaults when legacy copyswap slot is not
    defined\...


    Cheers,

    Charles Harris
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