SciPy 1.7.1 Release Notes

SciPy 1.7.1 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.7.0.

Authors

• Peter Bell

• Evgeni Burovski

• Justin Charlong +

• Ralf Gommers

• Matti Picus

• Tyler Reddy

• Pamphile Roy

• Sebastian Wallkötter

• Arthur Volant

A total of 9 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time. This list of names is automatically generated, and may not be fully complete.

Issues closed for 1.7.1

• #14074: Segmentation fault when building cKDTree with Scipy 1.6.3.

• #14271: scipy.io.loadmat failure in 1.7.0

• #14273: `scipy.signal.{medfilt,medfilt2d}` hit “Windows fatal exception:…

• #14282: DOC, CI: stats skewtest refguide failure

• #14363: Huge stack allocation in _sobol.pyx may cause stack overvflow

• #14382: Memory leak in `scipy.spatial.distance` for `cdist`

• #14396: BUG: Sphinx 4.1 breaks the banner’s logo

• #14444: DOC/FEAT Rotation.from_rotvec documents a degrees argument which…

Pull requests for 1.7.1

• #14178: DEV: Update Boschloo Exact test

• #14264: REL: prepare for SciPy 1.7.1

• #14283: BUG: fix refguide-check namedtuple handling

• #14303: FIX: Check for None before calling str methods

• #14327: BUG: medfilt can access beyond the end of an array

• #14355: BUG: KDTree balanced_tree is unbalanced for degenerate data

• #14368: BUG: avoid large cython global variable in function

• #14384: BUG: Reference count leak in distance_pybind

• #14397: DOC/CI: do not allow sphinx 4.1.

• #14417: DOC/CI: pin sphinx to !=4.1.0

• #14460: DOC: add required scipy version to kwarg

• #14466: MAINT: 1.7.1 backports (round 1)

• #14508: MAINT: bump scipy-mathjax

• #14509: MAINT: 1.7.1 backports (round 2)