Dear community,
I am happy to announce that the release candidates Numba 0.60.0rc1 and llvmlite 043.0rc1 have been posted. Importantly the Numba RC comes with support for NumPy 2 (see below) and the llvmlite RC comes with support for LLVM 15.
You can install both using conda with the following command:
$ conda install -c numba numba=0.60.0rc1
or just llvmlite:
$ conda install -c numba llvmlite=0.43.0rc1
Alternatively using pip to install from PyPI:
$ pip install numba==0.60.0rc1
or just llvmlite:
$ pip install llvmlite==0.43.0rc1
Note that the above will install with a NumPy 1.x version.
Numba is now binary compatible with NumPy 2 – but importantly, does not yet have the same execution semantics! If you want to install the release candidate and a beta version of NumPy 2, you can use the following commands such that a NumPy 2 should be installed:
$ conda install -c numba -c ad-testing/label/numpy2 numba=0.60.rc1
$ pip install --pre numba==0.60.0rc1
For more information about these releases, the release notes can be found at:
https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.60.0rc1/release/0.60.0-notes.html
https://llvmlite.readthedocs.io/en/v0.43.0rc1/release-notes.html#v0-43-0rc1-may-14-2024
Please do test the release candidates with your libraries and applications and report back any issues you encounter in the thread below. 
ping 