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FIX: Update release notes.
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teoliphant committed Oct 20, 2012
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selecting multiple fields out of an array also produces a view.

The hash function of numpy.void scalars has been changed.
Previously the pointer to the data was hashed as an integer.
Now, the hash function uses the tuple-hash algorithm to combine
the hash functions of the elements of the scalar, but only if
the scalar is read-only.

New features
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been implemented. This was done by adding an NA mask to an array sub-type

.. note:: The NA API is *experimental*, and may undergo changes in future
versions of NumPy. The current implementation based on masks will likely be
supplemented by a second one based on bit-patterns, and it is possible that
a difference will be made between missing and ignored data.
versions of NumPy. The current implementation based on masks will
likely be supplemented by a second one based on bit-patterns, and it
is possible that a difference will be made between missing and
ignored data.

While a significant amount of the NumPy functionality has been extended to
support NA masks, not everything is yet supported. Here is an (incomplete)
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