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+=========================
+NumPy 1.6.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This is a bugfix release in the 1.6.x series.  Due to the delay of the NumPy
+1.7.0 release, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix
+release.  It also includes a number of documentation and build improvements.
+
+Issues fixed
+============
+
+``numpy.core``
+--------------
+
+* #2063: make unique() return consistent index
+* #1138: allow creating arrays from empty buffers or empty slices
+* #1446: correct note about correspondence vstack and concatenate
+* #1149: make argmin() work for datetime
+* #1672: fix allclose() to work for scalar inf
+* #1747: make np.median() work for 0-D arrays
+* #1776: make complex division by zero to yield inf properly
+* #1675: add scalar support for the format() function
+* #1905: explicitly check for NaNs in allclose()
+* #1952: allow floating ddof in std() and var()
+* #1948: fix regression for indexing chararrays with empty list
+* #2017: fix type hashing
+* #2046: deleting array attributes causes segfault
+* #2033: a**2.0 has incorrect type
+* #2045: make attribute/iterator_element deletions not segfault
+* #2021: fix segfault in searchsorted()
+* #2073: fix float16 __array_interface__ bug
+
+
+``numpy.lib``
+-------------
+
+* #2048: break reference cycle in NpzFile
+* #1573: savetxt() now handles complex arrays
+* #1387: allow bincount() to accept empty arrays
+* #1899: fixed histogramdd() bug with empty inputs
+* #1793: fix failing npyio test under py3k
+* #1936: fix extra nesting for subarray dtypes
+* #1848: make tril/triu return the same dtype as the original array
+* #1918: use Py_TYPE to access ob_type, so it works also on Py3
+
+
+``numpy.distutils``
+-------------------
+
+* #1261: change compile flag on AIX from -O5 to -O3
+* #1377: update HP compiler flags
+* #1383: provide better support for C++ code on HPUX
+* #1857: fix build for py3k + pip
+* BLD: raise a clearer warning in case of building without cleaning up first
+* BLD: follow build_ext coding convention in build_clib
+* BLD: fix up detection of Intel CPU on OS X in system_info.py
+* BLD: add support for the new X11 directory structure on Ubuntu & co.
+* BLD: add ufsparse to the libraries search path.
+* BLD: add 'pgfortran' as a valid compiler in the Portland Group
+* BLD: update version match regexp for IBM AIX Fortran compilers.
+
+
+``numpy.random``
+----------------
+
+* BUG: Use npy_intp instead of long in mtrand
+
+Changes
+=======
+
+``numpy.f2py``
+--------------
+
+* ENH: Introduce new options extra_f77_compiler_args and extra_f90_compiler_args
+* BLD: Improve reporting of fcompiler value
+* BUG: Fix f2py test_kind.py test
+
+
+``numpy.poly``
+--------------
+
+* ENH: Add some tests for polynomial printing
+* ENH: Add companion matrix functions
+* DOC: Rearrange the polynomial documents
+* BUG: Fix up links to classes
+* DOC: Add version added to some of the polynomial package modules
+* DOC: Document xxxfit functions in the polynomial package modules
+* BUG: The polynomial convenience classes let different types interact
+* DOC: Document the use of the polynomial convenience classes
+* DOC: Improve numpy reference documentation of polynomial classes
+* ENH: Improve the computation of polynomials from roots
+* STY: Code cleanup in polynomial [*]fromroots functions
+* DOC: Remove references to cast and NA, which were added in 1.7