[Python-announce] NumPy 2.2.6 released

Hi All,

NumPy 2.2.6 is a patch release that fixes bugs found after the 2.2.5
release. It is a mix 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/2.2.6>; source archives, release notes, and
wheel hashes are available on Github
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.2.6>.


*Contributors*

A total of 8 people contributed to this release. People with a \"+\" by
their names contributed a patch for the first time.

   - Charles Harris
   - Ilhan Polat
   - Joren Hammudoglu
   - Marco Gorelli +
   - Matti Picus
   - Nathan Goldbaum
   - Peter Hawkins
   - Sayed Adel


*Pull requests merged*

A total of 11 pull requests were merged for this release.

   - #28778: MAINT: Prepare 2.2.x for further development
   - #28851: BLD: Update vendor-meson to fix module_feature conflicts
   arguments\...
   - #28852: BUG: fix heap buffer overflow in np.strings.find
   - #28853: TYP: fix `NDArray[floating] + float` return type
   - #28864: BUG: fix stringdtype singleton thread safety
   - #28865: MAINT: use OpenBLAS 0.3.29
   - #28889: MAINT: from_dlpack thread safety fixes
   - #28913: TYP: Fix non-existent `CanIndex` annotation in
   `ndarray.setfield`
   - #28915: MAINT: Avoid dereferencing/strict aliasing warnings
   - #28916: BUG: Fix missing check for PyErr_Occurred() in
   \_pyarray_correlate.
   - #28966: TYP: reject complex scalar types in ndarray.\_\_ifloordiv\_\_


Cheers,

Charles Harris