[Python-announce] NumPy 2.1.2 released.

Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy
2.1.2. NumPy 2.1.2 is a maintenance release that fixes bugs and regressions
discovered after the 2.1.1 release.

This release supports Python 3.10-3.13. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI
<https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.1.2>; source archives, release notes, and
wheel hashes are available on Github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.1.2>.



*Contributors*
A total of 11 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by
theirnames contributed a patch for the first time.

   - Charles Harris
   - Chris Sidebottom
   - Ishan Koradia +
   - João Eiras +
   - Katie Rust +
   - Marten van Kerkwijk
   - Matti Picus
   - Nathan Goldbaum
   - Peter Hawkins
   - Pieter Eendebak
   - Slava Gorloff +


*Pull requests merged*

A total of 14 pull requests were merged for this release.

   - #27333: MAINT: prepare 2.1.x for further development
   - #27400: BUG: apply critical sections around populating the dispatch
   cache
   - #27406: BUG: Stub out get_build_msvc_version if
   distutils.msvccompiler...
   - #27416: BUILD: fix missing include for std::ptrdiff_t for C++23
   language...
   - #27433: BLD: pin setuptools to avoid breaking numpy.distutils
   - #27437: BUG: Allow unsigned shift argument for np.roll
   - #27439: BUG: Disable SVE VQSort
   - #27471: BUG: rfftn axis bug
   - #27479: BUG: Fix extra decref of PyArray_UInt8DType.
   - #27480: CI: use PyPI not scientific-python-nightly-wheels for CI doc...
   - #27481: MAINT: Check for SVE support on demand
   - #27484: BUG: initialize the promotion state to be weak
   - #27501: MAINT: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.20.0 to 2.21.2
   - #27506: BUG: avoid segfault on bad arguments in
   ndarray.__array_function__


Cheers,

Charles Harris