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

A total of 11 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Charles Harris
* Chris Sidebottom
* Ishan Koradia +
* João Eiras +
* Katie Rust +
* Marten van Kerkwijk
* Matti Picus
* Nathan Goldbaum
* Peter Hawkins
* Pieter Eendebak
* Slava Gorloff +

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

A total of 14 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#27333 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27333>`__: MAINT: prepare 2.1.x for further development
* `#27400 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27400>`__: BUG: apply critical sections around populating the dispatch cache
* `#27406 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27406>`__: BUG: Stub out get_build_msvc_version if distutils.msvccompiler...
* `#27416 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27416>`__: BUILD: fix missing include for std::ptrdiff_t for C++23 language...
* `#27433 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27433>`__: BLD: pin setuptools to avoid breaking numpy.distutils
* `#27437 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27437>`__: BUG: Allow unsigned shift argument for np.roll
* `#27439 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27439>`__: BUG: Disable SVE VQSort
* `#27471 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27471>`__: BUG: rfftn axis bug
* `#27479 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27479>`__: BUG: Fix extra decref of PyArray_UInt8DType.
* `#27480 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27480>`__: CI: use PyPI not scientific-python-nightly-wheels for CI doc...
* `#27481 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27481>`__: MAINT: Check for SVE support on demand
* `#27484 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27484>`__: BUG: initialize the promotion state to be weak
* `#27501 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27501>`__: MAINT: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.20.0 to 2.21.2
* `#27506 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/27506>`__: BUG: avoid segfault on bad arguments in ndarray.__array_function__