release 2016-02 Follow-up

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release condition: (Pandas 0.18.0, scikit-learn 0.17.1, Spyder 3.0.0beta3), (release estimate: RC april 8th 2016, final April 17th = RC without change)

Features:

• Highlight:
  • user facing: Pandas 0.18, scikit-learn 0.17.1, Spyder 3.0.0beta 3
  • computation: pymc3, Lasagne, scikit-neuralnetwork
  • infrastructure: a bridge to .NET, 'Notebook' directories can be set in users directories instead of WinPython directory:
    • use script\make_working_directory_be_not_winpython.bat to go to this 'student' mode,
    • use script\make_working_directory_be_winpython.bat to go back to usual mode.
• New packages:
  • wordcloud, mpmath, docrepr, pythonnet
• Upgrades:
  • sympy 1.0, scikit-image 0.12, Theano 0.8.1
  • numba 0.25.0 for WinPython 3.5 and 3.4, cython 0.24
• Infrastructure:
  • WinPython Interpreter is now based on ptpython
  • simpler icon scripting technic,
  • WPPM supports new wheel format from cgohlke.
• Cleanups:
  • remove NSIS icon scripting complexity
  • simplify WinPython building
• Removals:
• Specific Notes:
  • WinPython Zero now ships with Pythonnet and ptpython
  • WinPython 3.4 is now shipping numba 0.25.0, so Windows 7/8 users wanting to use it may have to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
  • special thanks to active users who contributed to these release via remarks, gap/fit reports, bug reports, proposals and pull requests. WinPython cannot improve without your involvement.
  • special thanks to Christoph Gohlke, Carl Kleffner, Olivier Grisel, Phil Thompson and Tony Roberts (and many more) who are providing the invisible base work that no one else will do to bring Python 3 to pure Awesomness on Windows too. 2016 may be the year of the Python on all PCs.

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Work items:

• more generic, non-DOS and automatic ".bat" launcher creation (many packages miss it)
• wordcloud
• update vcredist32/64 for Python3.5 to nov 17th (14.0.23506)
• WinPython failed test to default shebang to '..\python.exe' instead of 'python.exe' (doesn't work for module with subprocesses like pip)
• ptpython as a better 'WinPython Interpreter'
• MKL-service
• scikit-learn 0.17.1
• improve follow-up: create issues to match commits, separate 'Work Items' from 'Release note'
• replace non-acessible and complex nsis scripts in icons per external scripts
• EXPERIMENTAL WinPython icon relying on scripts
  • new icons are generic (independant of WinPython version)
  • the new scripts can be use over installed WinPython (Settings folder is re-created in WINPYTHON_DIR #262 (comment))
• progress towards building from Zero:
  • all icons in Zero builds (Jupyter and qtconsole were missing)

(build1: 2016-02-28 = "(student)" icons for users not having write access to Winpython directory)

• big re-engineering of WinPython icons and configuration system :
  • winpython.ini can contain dynamic variables (like %HOMEPATH%)
  • WinPython Working Directory can be set to users 'Documents' directories
  • new icons are generic (independant of WinPython version)
  • new configuration method is tweaked to allow patching of previous release (just copy new icons and initialization scripts)
• progress towards building from Zero:
  • IDLEX and PythonInterpreter icons default back to IDLE and basic python if needed.
  • simplify make.py (remove NSIS complex scripts part)
• clearer DOS script (more python style)
• remove 7z from WinPython builds
• spyder 3.0.0beta3 icon launcher fix
• package updates:
  • scikit-image 0.12.0
  • spyder 3.0.0beta3pre (jedi 0.9 compatibility)

(build2: 2016-03-06 = "(student)" mode managed via WinPython.ini, spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre)

• scikit-image 0.12.3
• sympy 1.0
• pandas 0.18.0
• a few code cleanup and fix
• docrepr
• pyqtgraph of 2016-01-15
• theano0.8.0
• spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+ of 2016-03-26
• pymc-3.0.0b2pre (masters of 2016-03-22)

(build3: 2016-03-27 = pandas 0.18, spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+, ... )

• Theano 0.8.1
• spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+ (master of 2016-04-01)
• pymc-3.0.0b2pre (master of 2016-04-01 + Python 3-compatible generators in advi pymc-devs/pymc#1058
• Sphinx 1.4
• remove pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1
• Scikit-neuralnetwork 0.7 and lasagne 0.2dev-20160403
• pyqtgraph 0.9.10-2016-04-03
• pythonnet 2.1

(rc: 2016-04-04+)

• try build WinPython- 3.5.1.3Qt5 PyQt5-5.6.dev1604091249 and see if it sticks ... it doesn't for spyder. We have to wait PyQt5.6 and Spyder to stabilize, so it will be for WinPython 2016-03 betas

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build1 (2016-02-28): updates + new set of '(student)' icons

main features (since WinPython 2016-01):

• ptpython is the new "WinPython Interpreter.exe"
• supporting two usages of WinPython:
  • classic usage: (with the classic icons)
    • users are working in the WinPython directory,
    • the WinPython is moved at will
  • 'student' usage: (with the 'student' icons)
    • the WinPython directory is mainly used in read-only mode,
    • users work is made on a local directory %userprofile%\Documents\WinPython%WYNPYVER% (c:\The_User_Profile\Documents\WinPython3.4.4.2Qt5build1)
    • admin/teachers can tweak that 'student' setup in 'env_for_student.bat` batch, as the 'student' icons rely on it.
• "WinPythonZero" versions have now Jupyter and qtconsole icons
• package updates.

Area of interest for testers:

• check the new '(student)' icons work as expected, no drawbacks,

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• mkl-service 1.1.2 ()
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.4 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.6 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.3 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.58 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.0.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.29 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.8.7 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.5 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.1.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.4.20160217 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

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History of changes for WinPython 3.5.1.3Zero

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.5.1.2Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.58 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.29 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.1.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.4.20160217 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

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build2 (2016-03-06): finalized "icon launching" method, "spyder" changes

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build1):

• WinPython icons set is changed to support "classic" and "student" mode:
  • classic usage:
    • users are working in the WinPython directory,
    • the WinPython is moved at will
  • 'student' usage: (untaging '#' line in default WinPython.ini)
    • the WinPython directory is mainly used in read-only mode,
    • users work is made on a local directory %userprofile%\Documents\WinPython%WYNPYVER% (c:\The_User_Profile\Documents\WinPython3.4.4.2build2)
    • admin/teachers can tweak that setup via 'winpython.ini'.
    • make_working_directory_be_winpython.bat and make_working_directory_not_be_winpython.bat allows one-click change between the two options
• spyder-3.0.0beta3 (pre), which requires a different launching method (previous WinPython icons will break)

Area of interest for testers:

• experiment the new launching system, check the new spyder
• check Windows 10 is ok.

Next Build2:

• pandas 0.18.0, spyder 3.0.0.beta3 final

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2 (build2)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• mkl-service 1.1.2 ()
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.6 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.1 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.0 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.59 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.0.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.30 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.8.7 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.0 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.3.6 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

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build3: 2016-03-27 = pandas 0.18, build simplification process, spyder3.0.0beta3pre+)

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build2):

• fix error in WinPython Interpreter Icon,
• packages update: pandas 0.18.0, Spyder-3.0.0b3pre, sympy 1.0, pyqtgraph-2016-03-14
• Tensor-style computation refresh:
  • Theano 0.8.0, Lasagne 0.2.dev1-20160326, scikit-neuralnetwork
  • pymc 3.0beta-2016-03-19 (works ok on python 3.4 only, as pymc3 needs a compiler)
• Experiment: pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (hoping to get a dev2 for release)

Area of interest for testers:

• pymc3 and Lasagne, on WinPython3.4
• spyder 3.0.0b3
• participate in pythonnet dev2 effort

Known annoyances:

• spyder 3 leaves a process running if you stop Spyder less than 30 seconds after its start, an old problem we notice just now (so maybe not a big problem).
• pythonnet dev1 is buggy, dev2 should be ok but is late.
• spyder 3 at first start goes to internet.

Next Build4/rc focus:

• stabilization: spyder3 beta3 final, pythonnet dev2, pymc3

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Zero (build3)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Zero

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.31 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2 (build3)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• docrepr 0.1.0 (docrepr renders Python docstrings in HTML.)
• lasagne 0.2.dev1 (neural network tools for Theano)
• mkl-service 1.1.2 (Python bindings to some MKL service functions)
• mpmath 0.19 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)
• pymc3 3.0 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)
• pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• scikit-neuralnetwork 0.6.1 (Deep neural networks without the learning cliff! A wrapper library compatible with scikit-learn.)
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.4 → 1.4.5 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• castra 0.1.6 → 0.1.7 (On-disk partitioned store)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.7 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cython 0.23.4 → 0.23.5 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.2 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-core 4.0.6 → 4.1.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• lxml 3.5.0 → 3.6.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)
• markdown 2.6.5 → 2.6.6 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• netcdf4 1.2.2 → 1.2.3.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.3 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pandas 0.17.1 → 0.18.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.1.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.31 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pylint 1.5.4 → 1.5.5 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.2 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyopengl 3.1.1b1 → 3.1.1 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.9.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• pytz 2015.7 → 2016.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.2 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• qtpy 0.1.3 → 1.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.3 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.3.6 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• sqlparse 0.1.18 → 0.1.19 (Non-validating SQL parser)
• sympy 0.7.6.1 → 1.0 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
• theano 0.7.0 → 0.8.0 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)
• traitlets 4.1.0 → 4.2.1 (Traitlets Python config system)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

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[stonebig]

rc: 2016-04-05..2016-04-08: pythonnet 2.1, numba 0.25 for all, theano 0.8.1

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build3):

• recent numba 0.25 release in all branches, (windows 7/8 users may have to install "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable" at https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-visual-c)

• pythonnet 2.1 final

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Zero

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.32 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pythonnet 2.1.0 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.6.7 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160402 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• docrepr 0.1.0 (docrepr renders Python docstrings in HTML.)
• imagesize 0.7.0 ()
• lasagne 0.2.dev1 (neural network tools for Theano)
• mkl-service 1.1.2 (Python bindings to some MKL service functions)
• mpmath 0.19 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)
• pymc3 3.0 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)
• pythonnet 2.1.0 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• scikit-neuralnetwork 0.7 (Deep neural networks without the learning cliff! A wrapper library compatible with scikit-learn.)
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.4 → 1.4.5 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• blosc 1.2.8 → 1.3.0 (Blosc data compressor)
• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• castra 0.1.6 → 0.1.7 (On-disk partitioned store)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.6 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.7 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cython 0.23.4 → 0.24 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.2 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-core 4.0.6 → 4.1.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.3 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• llvmlite 0.6.0 → 0.10.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)
• lmfit 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)
• lxml 3.5.0 → 3.6.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)
• markdown 2.6.5 → 2.6.6 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• netcdf4 1.2.2 → 1.2.3.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numba 0.20.0 → 0.25.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5.1 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.3 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pandas 0.17.1 → 0.18.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pillow 3.1.1 → 3.2.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.1.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.32 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pylint 1.5.4 → 1.5.5 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.2 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyopengl 3.1.1b1 → 3.1.1 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.9.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• pytz 2015.7 → 2016.3 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.3 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.1 (Jupyter Qt console)
• qtpy 0.1.3 → 1.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.3 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.6.7 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.4 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• sqlparse 0.1.18 → 0.1.19 (Non-validating SQL parser)
• sympy 0.7.6.1 → 1.0 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
• theano 0.7.0 → 0.8.1 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)
• traitlets 4.1.0 → 4.2.1 (Traitlets Python config system)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160402 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• wrapt 1.10.6 → 1.10.7 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

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[cgohlke]

The latest (currently Update 2) downloads of the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable" moved to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-visual-c

[stonebig]

hi @cgohlke ,

Thank you for the information, will update links.