This is a bugfix release for bugs reported following the 1.14.5 release. The most significant fixes are:
Fix for behavior change in ma.masked_values(shrink=True)
ma.masked_values(shrink=True)
Fix the new cached allocations machinery to be thread safe.
The Python versions supported in this release are 2.7 and 3.4 - 3.7. The Python 3.6 wheels on PyPI should be compatible with all Python 3.6 versions.
A total of 4 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
Charles Harris
Eric Wieser
Julian Taylor
Matti Picus
A total of 4 pull requests were merged for this release.
#11985: BUG: fix cached allocations without the GIL
#11986: BUG: Undo behavior change in ma.masked_values(shrink=True)
#11987: BUG: fix refcount leak in PyArray_AdaptFlexibleDType
#11995: TST: Add Python 3.7 testing to NumPy 1.14.