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

A total of 20 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* @DWesl
* Albert Steppi +
* Bas van Beek
* Charles Harris
* Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering
* Filipe Laíns +
* Jake Vanderplas
* Liang Yan +
* Marten van Kerkwijk
* Matti Picus
* Melissa Weber Mendonça
* Namami Shanker
* Nathan Goldbaum
* Ralf Gommers
* Rohit Goswami
* Sayed Adel
* Sebastian Berg
* Stefan van der Walt
* Tyler Reddy
* Warren Weckesser

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

A total of 59 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#24305 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24305>`__: MAINT: Prepare 1.26.x branch for development
* `#24308 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24308>`__: MAINT: Massive update of files from main for numpy 1.26
* `#24322 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24322>`__: CI: fix wheel builds on the 1.26.x branch
* `#24326 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24326>`__: BLD: update openblas to newer version
* `#24327 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24327>`__: TYP: Trim down the ``_NestedSequence.__getitem__`` signature
* `#24328 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24328>`__: BUG: fix choose refcount leak
* `#24337 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24337>`__: TST: fix running the test suite in builds without BLAS/LAPACK
* `#24338 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24338>`__: BUG: random: Fix generation of nan by dirichlet.
* `#24340 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24340>`__: MAINT: Dependabot updates from main
* `#24342 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24342>`__: MAINT: Add back NPY_RUN_MYPY_IN_TESTSUITE=1
* `#24353 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24353>`__: MAINT: Update ``extbuild.py`` from main.
* `#24356 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24356>`__: TST: fix distutils tests for deprecations in recent setuptools...
* `#24375 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24375>`__: MAINT: Update cibuildwheel to version 2.15.0
* `#24381 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24381>`__: MAINT: Fix codespaces setup.sh script
* `#24403 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24403>`__: ENH: Vendor meson for multi-target build support
* `#24404 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24404>`__: BLD: vendor meson-python to make the Windows builds with SIMD...
* `#24405 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24405>`__: BLD, SIMD: The meson CPU dispatcher implementation
* `#24406 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24406>`__: MAINT: Remove versioneer
* `#24409 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24409>`__: REL: Prepare for the NumPy 1.26.0b1 release.
* `#24453 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24453>`__: MAINT: Pin upper version of sphinx.
* `#24455 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24455>`__: ENH: Add prefix to _ALIGN Macro
* `#24456 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24456>`__: BUG: cleanup warnings [skip azp][skip circle][skip travis][skip...
* `#24460 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24460>`__: MAINT: Upgrade to spin 0.5
* `#24495 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24495>`__: BUG: ``asv dev`` has been removed, use ``asv run``.
* `#24496 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24496>`__: BUG: Fix meson build failure due to unchanged inplace auto-generated...
* `#24521 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24521>`__: BUG: fix issue with git-version script, needs a shebang to run
* `#24522 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24522>`__: BUG: Use a default assignment for git_hash [skip ci]
* `#24524 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24524>`__: BUG: fix NPY_cast_info error handling in choose
* `#24526 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24526>`__: BUG: Fix common block handling in f2py
* `#24541 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24541>`__: CI,TYP: Bump mypy to 1.4.1
* `#24542 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24542>`__: BUG: Fix assumed length f2py regression
* `#24544 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24544>`__: MAINT: Harmonize fortranobject
* `#24545 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24545>`__: TYP: add kind argument to numpy.isin type specification
* `#24561 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24561>`__: BUG: fix comparisons between masked and unmasked structured arrays
* `#24590 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24590>`__: CI: Exclude import libraries from list of DLLs on Cygwin.
* `#24591 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24591>`__: BLD: fix ``_umath_linalg`` dependencies
* `#24594 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24594>`__: MAINT: Stop testing on ppc64le.
* `#24602 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24602>`__: BLD: meson-cpu: fix SIMD support on platforms with no features
* `#24606 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24606>`__: BUG: Change Cython ``binding`` directive to "False".
* `#24613 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24613>`__: ENH: Adopt new macOS Accelerate BLAS/LAPACK Interfaces, including...
* `#24614 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24614>`__: DOC: Update building docs to use Meson
* `#24615 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24615>`__: TYP: Add the missing ``casting`` keyword to ``np.clip``
* `#24616 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24616>`__: TST: convert cython test from setup.py to meson
* `#24617 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24617>`__: MAINT: Fixup ``fromnumeric.pyi``
* `#24622 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24622>`__: BUG, ENH: Fix ``iso_c_binding`` type maps and fix ``bind(c)``...
* `#24629 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24629>`__: TYP: Allow ``binary_repr`` to accept any object implementing...
* `#24630 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24630>`__: TYP: Explicitly declare ``dtype`` and ``generic`` hashable
* `#24637 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24637>`__: ENH: Refactor the typing "reveal" tests using `typing.assert_type`
* `#24638 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24638>`__: MAINT: Bump actions/checkout from 3.6.0 to 4.0.0
* `#24647 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24647>`__: ENH: ``meson`` backend for ``f2py``
* `#24648 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24648>`__: MAINT: Refactor partial load Workaround for Clang
* `#24653 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24653>`__: REL: Prepare for the NumPy 1.26.0rc1 release.
* `#24659 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24659>`__: BLD: allow specifying the long double format to avoid the runtime...
* `#24665 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24665>`__: BLD: fix bug in random.mtrand extension, don't link libnpyrandom
* `#24675 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24675>`__: BLD: build wheels for 32-bit Python on Windows, using MSVC
* `#24700 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24700>`__: BLD: fix issue with compiler selection during cross compilation
* `#24701 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24701>`__: BUG: Fix data stmt handling for complex values in f2py
* `#24707 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24707>`__: TYP: Add annotations for the py3.12 buffer protocol
* `#24718 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24718>`__: DOC: fix a few doc build issues on 1.26.x and update `spin docs`...