ENH: Implement initial kwarg for ufunc.add.reduce

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/release/1.15.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.15.0-notes.rst
index 49e8ab22d..a6b23b892 100644
--- a/doc/release/1.15.0-notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release/1.15.0-notes.rst
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ Added experimental support for the 64-bit RISC-V architecture.
 Improvements
 ============
 
+``np.ufunc.reduce`` and related functions now accept an initial value
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+``np.ufunc.reduce``, ``np.sum``, ``np.prod``, ``np.min`` and ``np.max`` all
+now accept an ``initial`` keyword argument that specifies the value to start
+the reduction with.
+
 ``np.flip`` can operate over multiple axes
 ------------------------------------------
 ``np.flip`` now accepts None, or tuples of int, in its ``axis`` argument. If