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

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

* Charles Harris
* Joren Hammudoglu
* Baskar Gopinath + 
* Nathan Goldbaum
* Nicholas Christensen +
* Sayed Adel
* karl +

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

A total of 19 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#28545 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28545>`__: MAINT: Prepare 2.2.x for further development
* `#28582 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28582>`__: BUG: Fix return type of NpyIter_GetIterNext in Cython declarations
* `#28583 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28583>`__: BUG: avoid deadlocks with C++ shared mutex in dispatch cache
* `#28585 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28585>`__: TYP: fix typing errors in ``_core.strings``
* `#28631 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28631>`__: MAINT, CI: Update Ubuntu to 22.04 in azure-pipelines
* `#28632 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28632>`__: BUG: Set writeable flag for writeable dlpacks.
* `#28633 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28633>`__: BUG: Fix crackfortran parsing error when a division occurs within...
* `#28650 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28650>`__: TYP: fix ``ndarray.tolist()`` and ``.item()`` for unknown dtype
* `#28654 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28654>`__: BUG: fix deepcopying StringDType arrays (#28643)
* `#28661 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28661>`__: TYP: Accept objects that ``write()`` to ``str`` in ``savetxt``
* `#28663 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28663>`__: CI: Replace QEMU armhf with native (32-bit compatibility mode)
* `#28682 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28682>`__: SIMD: Resolve Highway QSort symbol linking error on aarch32/ASIMD
* `#28683 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28683>`__: TYP: add missing ``"b1"`` literals for ``dtype[bool]``
* `#28705 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28705>`__: TYP: Fix false rejection of ``NDArray[object_].__abs__()``
* `#28706 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28706>`__: TYP: Fix inconsistent ``NDArray[float64].__[r]truediv__`` return...
* `#28723 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28723>`__: TYP: fix string-like ``ndarray`` rich comparison operators
* `#28758 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28758>`__: TYP: some ``[arg]partition`` fixes
* `#28772 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28772>`__: TYP: fix incorrect ``random.Generator.integers`` return type
* `#28774 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28774>`__: TYP: fix ``count_nonzero`` signature