Contributors ============ A total of 15 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. * Abhishek Kumar + * Austin + * Benjamin A. Beasley + * Charles Harris * Christian Lorentzen * Marcel Telka + * Matti Picus * Michael Davidsaver + * Nathan Goldbaum * Peter Hawkins * Raghuveer Devulapalli * Ralf Gommers * Sebastian Berg * dependabot[bot] * kp2pml30 + Pull requests merged ==================== A total of 21 pull requests were merged for this release. * `#27512 `__: MAINT: prepare 2.1.x for further development * `#27537 `__: MAINT: Bump actions/cache from 4.0.2 to 4.1.1 * `#27538 `__: MAINT: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.21.2 to 2.21.3 * `#27539 `__: MAINT: MSVC does not support #warning directive * `#27543 `__: BUG: Fix user dtype can-cast with python scalar during promotion * `#27561 `__: DEV: bump ``python`` to 3.12 in environment.yml * `#27562 `__: BLD: update vendored Meson to 1.5.2 * `#27563 `__: BUG: weighted quantile for some zero weights (#27549) * `#27565 `__: MAINT: Use miniforge for macos conda test. * `#27566 `__: BUILD: satisfy gcc-13 pendantic errors * `#27569 `__: BUG: handle possible error for PyTraceMallocTrack * `#27570 `__: BLD: start building Windows free-threaded wheels [wheel build] * `#27571 `__: BUILD: vendor tempita from Cython * `#27574 `__: BUG: Fix warning "differs in levels of indirection" in npy_atomic.h... * `#27592 `__: MAINT: Update Highway to latest * `#27593 `__: BUG: Adjust numpy.i for SWIG 4.3 compatibility * `#27616 `__: BUG: Fix Linux QEMU CI workflow * `#27668 `__: BLD: Do not set __STDC_VERSION__ to zero during build * `#27669 `__: ENH: fix wasm32 runtime type error in numpy._core * `#27672 `__: BUG: Fix a reference count leak in npy_find_descr_for_scalar. * `#27673 `__: BUG: fixes for StringDType/unicode promoters