# Numba Activity Newsletter, July 2024

**URL:** <https://numba.discourse.group/t/numba-activity-newsletter-july-2024/2678>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [August 8, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://numba.discourse.group/t/numba-activity-newsletter-july-2024/2678 "2024-08-08T19:26:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://numba.discourse.group/t/numba-activity-newsletter-july-2024/2678/1 "2024-08-08T19:26:56Z")

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# NAN July 2024

## What Happened?

- conda and pip packages for `numba-cuda` available for testing: [RFC: Moving the CUDA target to a new package maintained by NVIDIA - #4 by gmarkall](https://numba.discourse.group/t/rfc-moving-the-cuda-target-to-a-new-package-maintained-by-nvidia/2628/4) `@gmarkall`
- [Python 3.13 PR](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9682) passed testsuite in the official CPython 3.13.0rc1 docker image `@sklam`
- [Numba](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9508) and [llvmlite](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1067) updated to LLVM15 `@gmarkall` `@yashssh`
- [Merged](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9662) first PR for new type system to split Python types vs NumPy types `@kc611` `@stuartarchibald`
- Merged [PR#8995](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8995) that addresses a long-standing issue in which array-like objects that define an ` __array_ufunc__ ` method (NEP-18) can’t be used with ufuncs created by `@vectorize` unless a signature is provided. `@jpivarski`
- Merged [PR#9508](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9508) to add Coverage for compiled code `@sklam`
- [PR#9670](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9670) runtime changes to [`numba.core.config.OPT`](https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/envvars.html#envvar-NUMBA_OPT) are now respected. `@yashssh`

## On-going

- NumPy 2.0 new type system implementation `@kc611`
- Update Numba to use LLVM 16+ --opaque pointers and new pass manager (`@rj-jesus`, `@yashssh`, `@gmarkall`). [PR#9676](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9676), [llvmlite PR#1057](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1057), [llvmlite PR#1064](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1064), [llvmlite PR#1068](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1068), [llvmlite PR#1069](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1069),

## Changes to upcoming meeting schedule

Reminder that there will be no office hours in August. Starting in September, office hours will be by-request only. See details [here](https://numba.discourse.group/t/august-break-office-hours-change/2656).