.. currentmodule:: numpy

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NumPy 1.20.1 Release Notes
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NumPy 1,20.1 is a rapid bugfix release fixing several bugs and regressions
reported after the 1.20.0 release.


Highlights
==========

- The distutils bug that caused problems with downstream projects is fixed.
- The ``random.shuffle`` regression is fixed.


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

A total of 8 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Bas van Beek
* Charles Harris
* Nicholas McKibben +
* Pearu Peterson
* Ralf Gommers
* Sebastian Berg
* Tyler Reddy
* @Aerysv +


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

A total of 15 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#18306 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18306>`__: MAINT: Add missing placeholder annotations
* `#18310 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18310>`__: BUG: Fix typo in ``numpy.__init__.py``
* `#18326 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18326>`__: BUG: don't mutate list of fake libraries while iterating over...
* `#18327 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18327>`__: MAINT: gracefully shuffle memoryviews
* `#18328 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18328>`__: BUG: Use C linkage for random distributions
* `#18336 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18336>`__: CI: fix when GitHub Actions builds trigger, and allow ci skips
* `#18337 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18337>`__: BUG: Allow unmodified use of isclose, allclose, etc. with timedelta
* `#18345 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18345>`__: BUG: Allow pickling all relevant DType types/classes
* `#18351 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18351>`__: BUG: Fix missing signed_char dependency. Closes #18335.
* `#18352 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18352>`__: DOC: Change license date 2020 -> 2021
* `#18353 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18353>`__: CI: CircleCI seems to occasionally time out, increase the limit
* `#18354 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18354>`__: BUG: Fix f2py bugs when wrapping F90 subroutines.
* `#18356 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18356>`__: MAINT: crackfortran regex simplify
* `#18357 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18357>`__: BUG: threads.h existence test requires GLIBC > 2.12.
* `#18359 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18359>`__: REL: Prepare for the NumPy 1.20.1 release.
