[Python-announce] NumPy 2.2.5 released

Hi All,

NumPy 2.2.5 is a patch release that fixes bugs found after the 2.2.4
release. It has a large number of typing fixes/improvements as well as the
normal bug fixes and some CI maintenance.

This release supports Python 3.10-3.13. Wheels can be downloaded from PyPI
<https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.2.5>; source archives, release notes, and
wheel hashes are available on Github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.2.5>.


*Contributors*

A total of 7 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by
their names contributed a patch for the first time.

   - Charles Harris
   - Joren Hammudoglu
   - Baskar Gopinath +
   - Nathan Goldbaum
   - Nicholas Christensen +
   - Sayed Adel
   - karl +



*Pull requests merged*
A total of 19 pull requests were merged for this release.

   - #28545: MAINT: Prepare 2.2.x for further development
   - #28582: BUG: Fix return type of NpyIter_GetIterNext in Cython
   declarations
   - #28583: BUG: avoid deadlocks with C++ shared mutex in dispatch cache
   - #28585: TYP: fix typing errors in ``_core.strings``
   - #28631: MAINT, CI: Update Ubuntu to 22.04 in azure-pipelines
   - #28632: BUG: Set writeable flag for writeable dlpacks.
   - #28633: BUG: Fix crackfortran parsing error when a division occurs
   within...
   - #28650: TYP: fix ``ndarray.tolist()`` and ``.item()`` for unknown dtype
   - #28654: BUG: fix deepcopying StringDType arrays (#28643)
   - #28661: TYP: Accept objects that ``write()`` to ``str`` in ``savetxt``
   - #28663: CI: Replace QEMU armhf with native (32-bit compatibility mode)
   - #28682: SIMD: Resolve Highway QSort symbol linking error on
   aarch32/ASIMD
   - #28683: TYP: add missing ``"b1"`` literals for ``dtype[bool]``
   - #28705: TYP: Fix false rejection of ``NDArray[object_].__abs__()``
   - #28706: TYP: Fix inconsistent ``NDArray[float64].__[r]truediv__``
   return...
   - #28723: TYP: fix string-like ``ndarray`` rich comparison operators
   - #28758: TYP: some ``[arg]partition`` fixes
   - #28772: TYP: fix incorrect ``random.Generator.integers`` return type
   - #28774: TYP: fix ``count_nonzero`` signature


Cheers,

Charles Harris