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

A total of 13 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* @stefan6419846
* @thalassemia +
* Andrew Nelson
* Charles Bousseau +
* Charles Harris
* Marcel Bargull +
* Mark Mentovai +
* Matti Picus
* Nathan Goldbaum
* Ralf Gommers
* Sayed Adel
* Sebastian Berg
* William Ayd +

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

A total of 25 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#24814 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24814>`__: MAINT: align test_dispatcher s390x targets with _umath_tests_mtargets
* `#24929 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24929>`__: MAINT: prepare 1.26.x for further development
* `#24955 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24955>`__: ENH: Add Cython enumeration for NPY_FR_GENERIC
* `#24962 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24962>`__: REL: Remove Python upper version from the release branch
* `#24971 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24971>`__: BLD: Use the correct Python interpreter when running tempita.py
* `#24972 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24972>`__: MAINT: Remove unhelpful error replacements from ``import_array()``
* `#24977 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/24977>`__: BLD: use classic linker on macOS, the new one in XCode 15 has...
* `#25003 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25003>`__: BLD: musllinux_aarch64 [wheel build]
* `#25043 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25043>`__: MAINT: Update mailmap
* `#25049 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25049>`__: MAINT: Update meson build infrastructure.
* `#25071 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25071>`__: MAINT: Split up .github/workflows to match main
* `#25083 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25083>`__: BUG: Backport fix build on ppc64 when the baseline set to Power9...
* `#25093 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25093>`__: BLD: Fix features.h detection for Meson builds [1.26.x Backport]
* `#25095 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25095>`__: BUG: Avoid intp conversion regression in Cython 3 (backport)
* `#25107 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25107>`__: CI: remove obsolete jobs, and move macOS and conda Azure jobs...
* `#25108 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25108>`__: CI: Add linux_qemu action and remove travis testing.
* `#25112 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25112>`__: MAINT: Update .spin/cmds.py from main.
* `#25113 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25113>`__: DOC: Visually divide main license and bundled licenses in wheels
* `#25115 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25115>`__: MAINT: Add missing ``noexcept`` to shuffle helpers
* `#25116 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25116>`__: DOC: Fix license identifier for OpenBLAS
* `#25117 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25117>`__: BLD: improve detection of Netlib libblas/libcblas/liblapack
* `#25118 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25118>`__: MAINT: Make bitfield integers unsigned
* `#25119 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25119>`__: BUG: Make n a long int for np.random.multinomial
* `#25120 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25120>`__: BLD: change default of the ``allow-noblas`` option to true.
* `#25121 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/25121>`__: BUG: ensure passing ``np.dtype`` to itself doesn't crash