This is a bugfix only release in the 1.6.x series.
#1834 einsum fails for specific shapes #1837 einsum throws nan or freezes python for specific array shapes #1838 object <-> structured type arrays regression #1851 regression for SWIG based code in 1.6.0 #1863 Buggy results when operating on array copied with astype() #1870 Fix corner case of object array assignment #1843 Py3k: fix error with recarray #1885 nditer: Error in detecting double reduction loop #1874 f2py: fix --include_paths bug #1749 Fix ctypes.load_library() #1895/1896 iter: writeonly operands weren't always being buffered correctly