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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2015-06-22 17:23:44 -0600
committerCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2015-06-22 17:23:44 -0600
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DOC: Document bogus stride fix for release.
Add explanation and patch link to doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt. [ci skip]
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@@ -310,6 +310,13 @@ Now, set ``release=True`` in setup.py, then
git tag <version>
git push origin <version>
+Apply patch to fix bogus strides
+--------------------------------
+NPY_RELAXED_STRIDE_CHECKING was made the default in Numpy 1.10 and bogus
+strides are used in the development branch to smoke out problems. The
+`patch <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5996>`_ should be updated if
+necessary and applied to the release branch to rationalize the strides.
+
Update the version of the master branch
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Increment the release number in setup.py. Release candidates should have "rc1"