Minutes_2022_05_10

Numba Meeting: 2022-05-10

Attendees: Siu Kwan Lam, stuart, Andre Masella, Val, brandon willard, Graham Markall, LI Da, Nick Riasanovsky, Benjamin Grahm, Guilherme Leobas, Todd A. Anderson, Luk

NOTE: All communication is subject to the Numba Code of Conduct.

Please refer to this calendar for the next meeting date.

0. Feature Discussion

• Numpy 1.22
  • CVE affects all numpy<1.22.3
  • To make backport support of numpy1.22.3 to 0.55
  • np1.22 uses low-accuracy SVML with 4ULP max
• #7950 mission statement --
• Support *args, **kws in overloads
• #7964 Support large constant dictionaries in Python 3.10
• follow up for last week discussion on being a maintainer
  • ideas to think about next week:
    • self-service task lists/boards/...

1. New Issues

• #8021 - Infer and propagate constant information earlier in the pipeline.
• #8023 - Incorrect docstring for TypeRefAttribute
• **** #8025 - Dependency on versions of Numpy with publicly-known security vulnerabilities (Fixed by Numpy 1.22.2)
• #8026 - When dict value_type is namedtuple, cannot set item for the dict

Closed Issues

• #8022 - KeyError: <ufunc 'invert'>
• #8028 - No error when getting out of bounds index

2. New PRs

• #8024 - Allow converting NumPy datetimes to int
• **** #8027 - Support for NumPy 1.22
  • Remember to talk about SVML
• #8029 - convert NamedTuple to NamedUniTuple when possible
• #8030 - DO NOT MERGE. Testing. Wip/np122 debug1
• #8031 - Added Support for Numpy BitGenerators

Closed PRs

3. Next Release: Version 0.56.0/0.39.0, RC May