Numba 0.52.0 and llvmlite 0.35.0 Release Candidates

[sklam]

Hi all,

We have tagged Numba 0.52.0rc1 and llvmlite 0.35.0rc1. Their change logs are at:

• numba: https://github.com/numba/numba/blob/release0.52/CHANGE_LOG
• llvmlite: https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/blob/release0.35/CHANGE_LOG

Unfortunately, we have already discovered a few minor issues, details at https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/6371. We are planning to quickly release a RC2 build next week. After that, we will invite the boarder community to test. As mentioned before in our public meeting, we are switching to a longer RC period so that downstream projects have enough time to help us verify and test for regressions.

[rpopovici]

@sklam pypi builds for 0.52rc2? also llvmlite 0.35 build is missing

[stuartarchibald]

RC2 was tagged very recently and the builds are slowly coming out of the farm (there’s often tens of test combinations for each package, it takes a while), once done they’ll be announced here. Most of the conda packages are done already:

• Numba: https://anaconda.org/numba/numba/files?version=0.52.0rc2
• llvmlite: https://anaconda.org/numba/llvmlite/files?version=0.35.0rc2

these get built first as they provide an easy mechanism to test the numerous combinations of Python x NumPy x features.

[sklam]

The farm is done with all the builds. The conda packages are available in the numba channel; e.g. conda install -c numba=0.52.0rc2. Pip packages are available at https://pypi.org/project/llvmlite/0.35.0rc2/ and
https://pypi.org/project/numba/0.52.0rc2/.

Please help us test these packages and report any issues at our issue trackers.

[sklam]

Thank you everyone for testing. You have helped us make sure that the final release is smooth and stable.