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Cython Changelog
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0.29.8 (2019-0?-??)
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Bugs fixed
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* GH-2919: Python tuple constants that compare equal but have different item
  types could incorrectly be merged into a single constant.

* Non-ASCII characters in unprefixed strings could crash the compiler when
  used with language level ``3str``.


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0.29.7 (2019-04-14)
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Bugs fixed
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* Crash when the shared Cython config module gets unloaded and another Cython
  module reports an exceptions.  Cython now makes sure it keeps an owned reference
  to the module.
  (Github issue #2885)

* Resolved a C89 compilation problem when enabling the fast-gil sharing feature.

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* Coverage reporting did not include the signature line of ``cdef`` functions.
  (Github issue #1461)

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* Casting a GIL-requiring function into a nogil function now issues a warning.
  (Github issue #2879)

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* Generators and coroutines were missing their return type annotation.
  (Github issue #2884)

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0.29.6 (2019-02-27)
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Bugs fixed
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* Fix a crash when accessing the ``__kwdefaults__`` special attribute of
  fused functions.  (Github issue #1470)

* Fix the parsing of buffer format strings that contain numeric sizes, which
  could lead to incorrect input rejections.  (Github issue #2845)

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* Avoid a C #pragma in old gcc versions that was only added in GCC 4.6.
  Patch by Michael Anselmi.  (Github issue #2838)

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* Auto-encoding of Unicode strings to UTF-8 C/C++ strings failed in Python 3,
  even though the default encoding there is UTF-8.
  (Github issue #2819)

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0.29.5 (2019-02-09)
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Bugs fixed
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* Crash when defining a Python subclass of an extension type and repeatedly calling
  a cpdef method on it.  (Github issue #2823)

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* Compiler crash when ``prange()`` loops appear inside of with-statements.
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  (Github issue #2780)

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* Some C compiler warnings were resolved.
  Patches by Christoph Gohlke.  (Github issues #2815, #2816, #2817, #2822)

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* Python conversion of C++ enums failed in 0.29.
  Patch by Orivej Desh.  (Github issue #2767)

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0.29.4 (2019-02-01)
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Bugs fixed
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* Division of numeric constants by a runtime value of 0 could fail to raise a
  ``ZeroDivisionError``.  (Github issue #2820)


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0.29.3 (2019-01-19)
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Bugs fixed
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* Some C code for memoryviews was generated in a non-deterministic order.
  Patch by Martijn van Steenbergen.  (Github issue #2779)

* C89 compatibility was accidentally lost since 0.28.
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  Patches by gastineau and true-pasky.  (Github issues #2778, #2801)
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* A C compiler cast warning was resolved.
  Patch by Michael Buesch.  (Github issue #2774)

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* An compilation failure with complex numbers under MSVC++ was resolved.
  (Github issue #2797)

* Coverage reporting could fail when modules were moved around after the build.
  Patch by Wenjun Si.  (Github issue #2776)

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0.29.2 (2018-12-14)
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Bugs fixed
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* The code generated for deduplicated constants leaked some references.
  (Github issue #2750)

* The declaration of ``sigismember()`` in ``libc.signal`` was corrected.
  (Github issue #2756)

* Crashes in compiler and test runner were fixed.
  (Github issue #2736, #2755)

* A C compiler warning about an invalid safety check was resolved.
  (Github issue #2731)


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0.29.1 (2018-11-24)
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Bugs fixed
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* Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer
  objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results.
  (Github issue #2670)

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* Cython no longer requires the source to be writable when copying its data
  into a memory view slice.
  Patch by Andrey Paramonov.  (Github issue #2644)

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* Line tracing of ``try``-statements generated invalid C code.
  (Github issue #2274)

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* When using the ``warn.undeclared`` directive, Cython's own code generated
  warnings that are now fixed.
  Patch by Nicolas Pauss.  (Github issue #2685)

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* Cython's memoryviews no longer require strides for setting the shape field
  but only the ``PyBUF_ND`` flag to be set.
  Patch by John Kirkham.  (Github issue #2716)

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* Some C compiler warnings about unused memoryview code were fixed.
  Patch by Ho Cheuk Ting.  (Github issue #2588)

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* A C compiler warning about implicit signed/unsigned conversion was fixed.
  (Github issue #2729)

* Assignments to C++ references returned by ``operator[]`` could fail to compile.
  (Github issue #2671)

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* The power operator and the support for NumPy math functions were fixed
  in Pythran expressions.
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  Patch by Serge Guelton.  (Github issues #2702, #2709)
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* Signatures with memory view arguments now show the expected type
  when embedded in docstrings.
  Patch by Matthew Chan and Benjamin Weigel.  (Github issue #2634)

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* Some ``from ... cimport ...`` constructs were not correctly considered
  when searching modified dependencies in ``cythonize()`` to decide
  whether to recompile a module.
  Patch by Kryštof Pilnáček.  (Github issue #2638)

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* A struct field type in the ``cpython.array`` declarations was corrected.
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  Patch by John Kirkham.  (Github issue #2712)
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0.29 (2018-10-14)
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* PEP-489 multi-phase module initialisation has been enabled again.  Module
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  reloads in other subinterpreters raise an exception to prevent corruption
  of the static module state.
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* A set of ``mypy`` compatible PEP-484 declarations were added for Cython's C data
  types to integrate with static analysers in typed Python code.  They are available
  in the ``Cython/Shadow.pyi`` module and describe the types in the special ``cython``
  module that can be used for typing in Python code.
  Original patch by Julian Gethmann. (Github issue #1965)

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* Memoryviews are supported in PEP-484/526 style type declarations.
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  (Github issue #2529)

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* ``@cython.nogil`` is supported as a C-function decorator in Python code.
  (Github issue #2557)

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* Raising exceptions from nogil code will automatically acquire the GIL, instead
  of requiring an explicit ``with gil`` block.

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* C++ functions can now be declared as potentially raising both C++ and Python
  exceptions, so that Cython can handle both correctly.
  (Github issue #2615)
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* ``cython.inline()`` supports a direct ``language_level`` keyword argument that
  was previously only available via a directive.

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* A new language level name ``3str`` was added that mostly corresponds to language
  level 3, but keeps unprefixed string literals as type 'str' in both Py2 and Py3,
  and the builtin 'str' type unchanged.  This will become the default in the next
  Cython release and is meant to help user code a) transition more easily to this
  new default and b) migrate to Python 3 source code semantics without making support
  for Python 2.x difficult.
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* In CPython 3.6 and later, looking up globals in the module dict is almost
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  as fast as looking up C globals.
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  (Github issue #2313)

* For a Python subclass of an extension type, repeated method calls to non-overridden
  cpdef methods can avoid the attribute lookup in Py3.6+, which makes them 4x faster.
  (Github issue #2313)
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* (In-)equality comparisons of objects to integer literals are faster.
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  (Github issue #2188)

* Some internal and 1-argument method calls are faster.

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* Modules that cimport many external extension types from other Cython modules
  execute less import requests during module initialisation.

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* Constant tuples and slices are deduplicated and only created once per module.
  (Github issue #2292)

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* The coverage plugin considers more C file extensions such as ``.cc`` and ``.cxx``.
  (Github issue #2266)

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* The ``cythonize`` command accepts compile time variable values (as set by ``DEF``)
  through the new ``-E`` option.
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  Patch by Jerome Kieffer.  (Github issue #2315)

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* ``pyximport`` can import from namespace packages.
  Patch by Prakhar Goel.  (Github issue #2294)

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* Some missing numpy and CPython C-API declarations were added.
  Patch by John Kirkham. (Github issues #2523, #2520, #2537)

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* Declarations for the ``pylifecycle`` C-API functions were added in a new .pxd file
  ``cpython.pylifecycle``.

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* The Pythran support was updated to work with the latest Pythran 0.8.7.
  Original patch by Adrien Guinet.  (Github issue #2600)

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* ``%a`` is included in the string formatting types that are optimised into f-strings.
  In this case, it is also automatically mapped to ``%r`` in Python 2.x.

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* New C macro ``CYTHON_HEX_VERSION`` to access Cython's version in the same style as
  ``PY_HEX_VERSION``.
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* Constants in ``libc.math`` are now declared as ``const`` to simplify their handling.

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* An additional ``check_size`` clause was added to the ``ctypedef class`` name
  specification to allow suppressing warnings when importing modules with
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  backwards-compatible ``PyTypeObject`` size changes.
  Patch by Matti Picus.  (Github issue #2627)
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* The exception handling in generators and coroutines under CPython 3.7 was adapted
  to the newly introduced exception stack.  Users of Cython 0.28 who want to support
  Python 3.7 are encouraged to upgrade to 0.29 to avoid potentially incorrect error
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  reporting and tracebacks.  (Github issue #1958)
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* Crash when importing a module under Stackless Python that was built for CPython.
  Patch by Anselm Kruis.  (Github issue #2534)

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* 2-value slicing of typed sequences failed if the start or stop index was None.
  Patch by Christian Gibson.  (Github issue #2508)

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* Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another
  constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy').

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* String formatting with the '%' operator didn't call the special ``__rmod__()``
  method if the right side is a string subclass that implements it.
  (Python issue 28598)

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* The directive ``language_level=3`` did not apply to the first token in the
  source file.  (Github issue #2230)

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* Overriding cpdef methods did not work in Python subclasses with slots.
  Note that this can have a performance impact on calls from Cython code.
  (Github issue #1771)

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* Fix declarations of builtin or C types using strings in pure python mode.
  (Github issue #2046)

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* Generator expressions and lambdas failed to compile in ``@cfunc`` functions.
  (Github issue #459)

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* Global names with ``const`` types were not excluded from star-import assignments
  which could lead to invalid C code.
  (Github issue #2621)

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* Several internal function signatures were fixed that lead to warnings in gcc-8.
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* The numpy helper functions ``set_array_base()`` and ``get_array_base()``
  were adapted to the current numpy C-API recommendations.
  Patch by Matti Picus. (Github issue #2528)

* Some NumPy related code was updated to avoid deprecated API usage.
  Original patch by jbrockmendel.  (Github issue #2559)

* Several C++ STL declarations were extended and corrected.
  Patch by Valentin Valls. (Github issue #2207)

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* C lines of the module init function were unconditionally not reported in
  exception stack traces.
  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.  (Github issue #2492)

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* When PEP-489 support is enabled, reloading the module overwrote any static
  module state. It now raises an exception instead, given that reloading is
  not actually supported.

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* Object-returning, C++ exception throwing functions were not checking that
  the return value was non-null.
  Original patch by Matt Wozniski (Github Issue #2603)

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* The source file encoding detection could get confused if the
  ``c_string_encoding`` directive appeared within the first two lines.
  (Github issue #2632)

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* Cython generated modules no longer emit a warning during import when the
  size of the NumPy array type is larger than what was found at compile time.
  Instead, this is assumed to be a backwards compatible change on NumPy side.

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* Cython now emits a warning when no ``language_level`` (2, 3 or '3str') is set
  explicitly, neither as a ``cythonize()`` option nor as a compiler directive.
  This is meant to prepare the transition of the default language level from
  currently Py2 to Py3, since that is what most new users will expect these days.
  The future default will, however, not enforce unicode literals, because this
  has proven a major obstacle in the support for both Python 2.x and 3.x.  The
  next major release is intended to make this change, so that it will parse all
  code that does not request a specific language level as Python 3 code, but with
  ``str`` literals.  The language level 2 will continue to be supported for an
  indefinite time.
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* The documentation was restructured, cleaned up and examples are now tested.
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  The NumPy tutorial was also rewritten to simplify the running example.
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  Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse.  (Github issue #2245)

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* Cython compiles less of its own modules at build time to reduce the installed
  package size to about half of its previous size.  This makes the compiler
  slightly slower, by about 5-7%.

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Bugs fixed
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* Extensions compiled with MinGW-64 under Windows could misinterpret integer
  objects larger than 15 bit and return incorrect results.
  (Github issue #2670)

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* Multiplied string literals lost their factor when they are part of another
  constant expression (e.g. 'x' * 10 + 'y' => 'xy').


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Bugs fixed
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* The discouraged usage of GCC's attribute ``optimize("Os")`` was replaced by the
  similar attribute ``cold`` to reduce the code impact of the module init functions.
  (Github issue #2494)

* A reference leak in Py2.x was fixed when comparing str to unicode for equality.


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* Reallowing ``tp_clear()`` in a subtype of an ``@no_gc_clear`` extension type
  generated an invalid C function call to the (non-existent) base type implementation.
  (Github issue #2309)

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* Exception catching based on a non-literal (runtime) tuple could fail to match the
  exception.  (Github issue #2425)

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* Compile fix for CPython 3.7.0a2.  (Github issue #2477)

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* Set iteration was broken in non-CPython since 0.28.

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* Work around a crash bug in g++ 4.4.x by disabling the size reduction setting
  of the module init function in this version.  (Github issue #2235)

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* Crash when exceptions occur early during module initialisation.
  (Github issue #2199)

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Features added
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* ``abs()`` is faster for Python long objects.

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* The C++11 methods ``front()`` and ``end()`` were added to the declaration of
  ``libcpp.string``.  Patch by Alex Huszagh.  (Github issue #2123)

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* The C++11 methods ``reserve()`` and ``bucket_count()`` are declared for
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* The copy of a read-only memoryview was considered read-only as well, whereas
  a common reason to copy a read-only view is to make it writable.  The result
  of the copying is now a writable buffer by default.
  (Github issue #2134)

* The ``switch`` statement generation failed to apply recursively to the body of
  converted if-statements.
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* ``NULL`` was sometimes rejected as exception return value when the returned
  type is a fused pointer type.
  Patch by Callie LeFave.  (Github issue #2177)

* Fixed compatibility with PyPy 5.11.
  Patch by Matti Picus.  (Github issue #2165)

Other changes
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* The NumPy tutorial was rewritten to use memoryviews instead of the older
  buffer declaration syntax.
  Contributed by Gabriel de Marmiesse.  (Github issue #2162)
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* ``PyFrozenSet_New()`` was accidentally used in PyPy where it is missing
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* Assignment between some C++ templated types were incorrectly rejected
  when the templates mix ``const`` with ``ctypedef``.
  (Github issue #2148)

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* Undeclared C++ no-args constructors in subclasses could make the compilation
  fail if the base class constructor was declared without ``nogil``.
  (Github issue #2157)

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* Bytes %-formatting inferred ``basestring`` (bytes or unicode) as result type
  in some cases where ``bytes`` would have been safe to infer.
  (Github issue #2153)

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* ``None`` was accidentally disallowed as typed return value of ``dict.pop()``.
  (Github issue #2152)

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* Cdef classes can now multiply inherit from ordinary Python classes.
  (The primary base must still be a c class, possibly ``object``, and
  the other bases must *not* be cdef classes.)

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* Type inference is now supported for Pythran compiled NumPy expressions.
  Patch by Nils Braun.  (Github issue #1954)

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* The ``const`` modifier can be applied to memoryview declarations to allow
  read-only buffers as input.  (Github issues #1605, #1869)
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* C code in the docstring of a ``cdef extern`` block is copied verbatimly
  into the generated file.
  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.  (Github issue #1915)

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* When compiling with gcc, the module init function is now tuned for small
  code size instead of whatever compile flags were provided externally.
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  Cython now also disables some code intensive optimisations in that function
  to further reduce the code size.  (Github issue #2102)
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* Decorating an async coroutine with ``@cython.iterable_coroutine`` changes its
  type at compile time to make it iterable.  While this is not strictly in line
  with PEP-492, it improves the interoperability with old-style coroutines that
  use ``yield from`` instead of ``await``.
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* The IPython magic has preliminary support for JupyterLab.
  (Github issue #1775)

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* The new TSS C-API in CPython 3.7 is supported and has been backported.
  Patch by Naotoshi Seo.  (Github issue #1932)
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* Cython knows the new ``Py_tss_t`` type defined in PEP-539 and automatically
  initialises variables declared with that type to ``Py_tss_NEEDS_INIT``,
  a value which cannot be used outside of static assignments.

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* The set methods ``.remove()`` and ``.discard()`` are optimised.
  Patch by Antoine Pitrou.  (Github issue #2042)

* ``dict.pop()`` is optimised.
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* Iteration over sets and frozensets is optimised.
  (Github issue #2048)

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* Safe integer loops (< range(2^30)) are automatically optimised into C loops.

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* ``alist.extend([a,b,c])`` is optimised into sequential ``list.append()`` calls
  for short literal sequences.

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* Calls to builtin methods that are not specifically optimised into C-API calls
  now use a cache that avoids repeated lookups of the underlying C function.
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* Some PEP-484/526 container type declarations are now considered for
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* Indexing into memoryview slices with ``view[i][j]`` is now optimised into
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* Python compatible ``cython.*`` types can now be mixed with type declarations
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* Some missing signals were added to ``libc/signal.pxd``.
  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.  (Github issue #1914)

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* The warning about repeated extern declarations is now visible by default.
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* The exception handling of the function types used by CPython's type slot
  functions was corrected to match the de-facto standard behaviour, so that
  code that uses them directly benefits from automatic and correct exception
  propagation.  Patch by Jeroen Demeyer.  (Github issue #1980)

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* Defining the macro ``CYTHON_NO_PYINIT_EXPORT`` will prevent the module init
  function from being exported as symbol, e.g. when linking modules statically
  in an embedding setup.  Patch by AraHaan.  (Github issue #1944)

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* If a module name is explicitly provided for an ``Extension()`` that is compiled
  via ``cythonize()``, it was previously ignored and replaced by the source file
  name.  It can now be used to override the target module name, e.g. for compiling
  prefixed accelerator modules from Python files.  (Github issue #2038)

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* The arguments of the ``num_threads`` parameter of parallel sections
  were not sufficiently validated and could lead to invalid C code.
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  the type of the first argument as ``self``.  It was previously treated as plain
  object, but CPython actually guarantees that it always has the correct type.
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* Some Python 3 exceptions were not recognised as builtins when running Cython
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* Some async helper functions were not defined in the generated C code when
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* Line tracing did not include generators and coroutines.
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* C++ declarations for ``unordered_map`` were corrected.
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* Iterator declarations in C++ ``deque`` and ``vector`` were corrected.
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* The const modifiers in the C++ ``string`` declarations were corrected, together
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* Some declaration types in ``libc.limits`` were corrected.
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* ``@cython.final`` was not accepted on Python classes with an ``@cython.cclass``
  decorator.  (Github issue #2040)

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* Cython no longer creates useless and incorrect ``PyInstanceMethod`` wrappers for
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* The builtin ``bytearray`` type could not be used as base type of cdef classes.
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* String forward references to extension types like ``@cython.locals(x="ExtType")``
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* NumPy slicing generated incorrect results when compiled with Pythran.
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* Fix "undefined reference" linker error for generators on Windows in Py3.3-3.5.
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* Adapt to recent C-API change of ``PyThreadState`` in CPython 3.7.

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* Fix signature of ``PyWeakref_GetObject()`` API declaration.
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* Comprehensions could incorrectly be optimised away when they appeared in boolean
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* The special methods ``__eq__``, ``__lt__`` etc. in extension types did not type
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* Crash on first lookup of "cline_in_traceback" option during exception handling.
  (Github issue #1907)

* Some nested module level comprehensions failed to compile.
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* Compiler crash on some complex type declarations in pure mode.
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* The Jupyter magic has a new debug option ``--verbose`` that shows details about
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* Deallocating fused types functions and methods kept their GC tracking enabled,
  which could potentially lead to recursive deallocation attempts.

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* Crash when compiling in C++ mode with old setuptools versions.
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* C++ object arguments for the constructor of Cython implemented C++ are now
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* PEP 489 support has been disabled by default to counter incompatibilities with
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* Extension module initialisation follows
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  resolves several differences with regard to normal Python modules.  This makes
  the global names ``__file__`` and ``__path__`` correctly available to module
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* C functions can be assigned to function pointers with a compatible exception
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  executes it to generate a runtime profile, and then compiles it again using that
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  to wrong methods being called and potentially also crashes.  The fix required
  changes to the ordering of fused methods in the call table, which may break
  existing compiled modules that call fused cdef methods across module boundaries,
  if these methods were implemented in a different order than they were declared
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* The exception state handling in generators and coroutines could lead to
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* Disabling the line tracing from a trace function could fail.
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  a reference to the buffer owner on release, thus not freeing the memory.
  (Github issue #1638)

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* Auto-decoding failed in 0.26 for strings inside of C++ containers.
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* Extension types named ``result`` or ``PickleError`` generated invalid unpickling code.
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  the previous behaviour now triggers a warning that can be disabled by
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* Coercion of C++ containers to Python is no longer automatic on attribute
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* Fixes a bug with cascaded tuple assignment (Github issue #1523).

* Fixed or silenced many Clang warnings.

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* Fixes a bug with ``isinstance(o, Exception)`` (Github issue #1496).

* Fixes bug with ``cython.view.array`` missing utility code in some cases
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* The distutils extension ``Cython.Distutils.build_ext`` has been reverted,
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* Calls to Python functions are faster, following the recent "FastCall"
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* Posix declarations for DLL loading and stdio extensions were added.
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* The Py2-only builtins ``unicode()``, ``xrange()``, ``reduce()`` and
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* C string literals were previously always stored as non-const global
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* Changed mangling scheme in header files generated by ``cdef api``
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* In Py2.6/7 and Py3.2, simple Cython memory views could accidentally be
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  bug when copying data from them, thus leading to data corruption.
  See CPython issues 12834 and 23349.

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* Crash when assigning a C value to both a Python and C target at the same time.

* Automatic coercion from C++ strings to ``str`` generated incomplete code that
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* Functions in ``libcpp.cast`` are now declared as ``nogil``.

* Some missing C-API declarations were added.

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* Taking a ``char*`` from a temporary Python string object is safer
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  including arguments of a function call.  A compile time error
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* IPython magic support is now available directly from Cython with
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* Set literals now create all of their items before trying to add them
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  expected behaviour by most users and was previously inconsistent with
  other structured types like C arrays.  Code that really wants all type
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  names and use those in the signature to make it clear which types are
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* Cython tries to undo the Python optimisationism of assigning a bound
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  provided explicitly using the Py3 ``metaclass`` keyword argument.
  In Py2 compilation mode, a ``__metaclass__`` entry in the class
  dict will still take precedence if not using Py3 metaclass syntax,
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  recommended to use the explicit Py3 syntax to define metaclasses
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  generates a 'default' clause to avoid C compiler warnings about
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  way of doing it because the declarations refer to a standard library
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  GCC and MSVC.

* Testing large (> int) C integer values for their truth value could fail
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* New directives ``c_string_type`` and ``c_string_encoding`` to more easily
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* The extension type flag ``Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG`` is enabled by default
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* EXPERIMENTAL support for simple Cython code level line tracing.  Enabled by
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* Cython implemented functions make their argument and return type annotations
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* Access to non-cdef module globals and Python object attributes is faster.

* ``Py_UNICODE*`` coerces from and to Python unicode strings.  This is
  helpful when talking to Windows APIs, which use compatible wchar_t
  arrays for strings.  Note that the ``Py_UNICODE`` type is otherwise
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* ``isinstance(obj, basestring)`` is optimised.  In Python 3 it only tests
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* The ``basestring`` builtin is mapped to ``str`` (i.e. Py2 ``unicode``) when
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* Closures use freelists, which can speed up their creation quite substantially.
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* A new class decorator ``@cython.freelist(N)`` creates a static freelist of N
  instances for an extension type, thus avoiding the costly allocation step if
  possible. This can speed up object instantiation by 20-30% in suitable
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* Fast extension type instantiation using the ``Type.__new__(Type)`` idiom has
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* The Python2-only dict methods ``.iter*()`` and ``.view*()`` (requires Python 2.7)
  are automatically mapped to the equivalent keys/values/items methods in Python 3
  for typed dictionaries.

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* list.append() is faster on average.

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  protocol is used instead of the ``getslice`` protocol (especially in Python 3),
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  a bit faster in some cases, e.g. for constant bounds.  This fixes trac ticket 636.

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* The ``__defaults__`` attribute was not writable for Cython implemented
  functions.

* Default values of keyword-only arguments showed up in ``__defaults__`` instead
  of ``__kwdefaults__`` (which was not implemented).  Both are available for
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* ``yield`` works inside of ``with gil`` sections.  It previously lead to a crash.
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* Static methods without explicitly named positional arguments (e.g. having only
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* ``dir()`` without arguments previously returned an unsorted list, which now
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* The declarations of ``frexp()`` and ``ldexp()`` in ``math.pxd`` were incorrect.

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  arithmetic with C ints overflow.  This has a modest performance penalty, but
  is much faster than using Python ints.

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* Calls to nested Python functions are resolved at compile time.

* Type inference works across nested functions.

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* ``py_bytes_string.decode(...)`` is optimised.

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* ``cythonize()`` gained a best effort compile mode that can be used to simply ignore .py files that fail to compile.

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* Cyclic imports at module init time did not work in Py3.

* The names of C++ destructors for template classes were built incorrectly.

* In pure mode, type casts in Cython syntax and the C ampersand operator are now rejected. Use the pure mode replacements instead.

* In pure mode, C type names and the sizeof() function are no longer recognised as such and can be used as normal Python names.

* The extended C level support for the CPython array type was declared too late to be used by user defined classes.

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* Remove module docstring in no-docstring mode.

* Fix specialization for varargs function signatures.

* Fix several compiler crashes.

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Bugs fixed
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* A reference leak was fixed in the new dict iteration code when the loop target was not a plain variable but an unpacked tuple.

* Memory views did not handle the special case of a NULL buffer strides value, as allowed by PEP3118.

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0.17 (2012-09-01)
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* "yield from" is supported (PEP 380) and a couple of minor problems with generators were fixed.

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* cdef classes can now have C++ class members (provided a zero-argument constructor exists)

* A new cpython.array standard cimport file allows to efficiently talk to the stdlib array.array data type in Python 2. Since CPython does not export an official C-API for this module, it receives special casing by the compiler in order to avoid setup overhead on user side. In Python 3, both buffers and memory views on the array type already worked out of the box with earlier versions of Cython due to the native support for the buffer interface in the Py3 array module.

* Fast dict iteration is now enabled optimistically also for untyped variables when the common iteration methods are used.

* The unicode string processing code was adapted for the upcoming CPython 3.3 (PEP 393, new Unicode buffer layout).

* Buffer arguments and memory view arguments in Python functions can be declared "not None" to raise a TypeError on None input.

* c(p)def functions in pure mode can specify their return type with "@cython.returns()".

* Automatic dispatch for fused functions with memoryview arguments

* Support newaxis indexing for memoryviews

* Support decorators for fused functions

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* Old-style Py2 imports did not work reliably in Python 3.x and were broken in Python 3.3. Regardless of this fix, it's generally best to be explicit about relative and global imports in Cython code because old-style imports have a higher overhead. To this end, "from __future__ import absolute_import" is supported in Python/Cython 2.x code now (previous versions of Cython already used it when compiling Python 3 code).

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* Exceptions are always instantiated while raising them (as in Python), instead of risking to instantiate them in potentially unsafe situations when they need to be handled or otherwise processed.

* locals() properly ignores names that do not have Python compatible types (including automatically inferred types).

* Some garbage collection issues of memory views were fixed.

* numpy.pxd compiles in Python 3 mode.

* Several C compiler warnings were fixed.

* Several bugs related to memoryviews and fused types were fixed.

* Several bug-fixes and improvements related to cythonize(), including ccache-style caching.

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* libc.string provides a convenience declaration for const uchar in addition to const char.

* User declared char* types are now recognised as such and auto-coerce to and from Python bytes strings.

* callable() and next() compile to more efficient C code.

* list.append() is faster on average.

* Modules generated by @cython.inline() are written into the directory pointed to by the environment variable CYTHON_CACHE_DIR if set.


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* Enhancements to Cython's function type (support for weak references, default arguments, code objects, dynamic attributes, classmethods, staticmethods, and more)

* Fused Types - Template-like support for functions and methods CEP 522 (docs)

* Typed views on memory - Support for efficient direct and indirect buffers (indexing, slicing, transposing, ...) CEP 517 (docs)

* super() without arguments

* Final cdef methods (which translate into direct calls on known instances)

Bugs fixed
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* fix alignment handling for record types in buffer support

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* support default arguments for closures

* search sys.path for pxd files

* support C++ template casting

* faster traceback building and faster generator termination

* support inplace operators on indexed buffers

* allow nested prange sections


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0.15 (2011-08-05)
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* Generators (yield) - Cython has full support for generators, generator expressions and PEP 342 coroutines.

* The nonlocal keyword is supported.

* Re-acquiring the gil: with gil - works as expected within a nogil context.

* OpenMP support: prange.

* Control flow analysis prunes dead code and emits warnings and errors about uninitialised variables.

* Debugger command cy set to assign values of expressions to Cython variables and cy exec counterpart $cy_eval().

* Exception chaining PEP 3134.

* Relative imports PEP 328.

* Improved pure syntax including cython.cclass, cython.cfunc, and cython.ccall.

* The with statement has its own dedicated and faster C implementation.

* Support for del.

* Boundschecking directives implemented for builtin Python sequence types.

* Several updates and additions to the shipped standard library .pxd files.

* Forward declaration of types is no longer required for circular references.

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* Uninitialized variables are no longer initialized to None and accessing them has the same semantics as standard Python.

* globals() now returns a read-only dict of the Cython module's globals, rather than the globals of the first non-Cython module in the stack

* Many C++ exceptions are now special cased to give closer Python counterparts. This means that except+ functions that formerly raised generic RuntimeErrors may raise something else such as ArithmeticError.

* The inlined generator expressions (introduced in Cython 0.13) were disabled in favour of full generator expression support. This breaks code that previously used them inside of cdef functions (usage in def functions continues to work) and induces a performance regression for cases that continue to work but that were previously inlined. We hope to reinstate this feature in the near future.


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* The gdb debugging support was extended to include all major Cython features, including closures.

* raise MemoryError() is now safe to use as Cython replaces it with the correct C-API call.

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* Decorators on special methods of cdef classes now raise a compile time error rather than being ignored.

* In Python 3 language level mode (-3 option), the 'str' type is now mapped to 'unicode', so that cdef str s declares a Unicode string even when running in Python 2.


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* Python classes can now be nested and receive a proper closure at definition time.

* Redefinition is supported for Python functions, even within the same scope.

* Lambda expressions are supported in class bodies and at the module level.

* Metaclasses are supported for Python classes, both in Python 2 and Python 3 syntax. The Python 3 syntax (using a keyword argument in the type declaration) is preferred and optimised at compile time.

* "final" extension classes prevent inheritance in Python space. This feature is available through the new "cython.final" decorator. In the future, these classes may receive further optimisations.

* "internal" extension classes do not show up in the module dictionary. This feature is available through the new "cython.internal" decorator.

* Extension type inheritance from builtin types, such as "cdef class MyUnicode(unicode)", now works without further external type redeclarations (which are also strongly discouraged now and continue to issue a warning).

* GDB support. http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/debugging.html

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* "nogil" blocks are supported when compiling pure Python code by writing "with cython.nogil".

* Iterating over arbitrary pointer types is now supported, as is an optimized version of the in operator, e.g. x in ptr[a:b].

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* In parallel assignments, the right side was evaluated in reverse order in 0.13. This could result in errors if it had side effects (e.g. function calls).

* In some cases, methods of builtin types would raise a SystemError instead of an AttributeError when called on None.

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* Constant tuples are now cached over the lifetime of an extension module, just like CPython does. Constant argument tuples of Python function calls are also cached.

* Closures have tightened to include exactly the names used in the inner functions and classes. Previously, they held the complete locals of the defining function.

* The builtin "next()" function in Python 2.6 and later is now implemented internally and therefore available in all Python versions. This makes it the preferred and portable way of manually advancing an iterator.

* In addition to the previously supported inlined generator expressions in 0.13, "sorted(genexpr)" can now be used as well. Typing issues were fixed in "sum(genexpr)" that could lead to invalid C code being generated. Other known issues with inlined generator expressions were also fixed that make upgrading to 0.14 a strong recommendation for code that uses them. Note that general generators and generator expressions continue to be not supported.

* Inplace arithmetic operators now respect the cdivision directive and are supported for complex types.

* Typing a variable as type "complex" previously gave it the Python object type. It now uses the appropriate C/C++ double complex type. A side-effect is that assignments and typed function parameters now accept anything that Python can coerce to a complex, including integers and floats, and not only complex instances.

* Large integer literals pass through the compiler in a safer way. To prevent truncation in C code, non 32-bit literals are turned into Python objects if not used in a C context. This context can either be given by a clear C literal suffix such as "UL" or "LL" (or "L" in Python 3 code), or it can be an assignment to a typed variable or a typed function argument, in which case it is up to the user to take care of a sufficiently large value space of the target.

* Python functions are declared in the order they appear in the file, rather than all being created at module creation time. This is consistent with Python and needed to support, for example, conditional or repeated declarations of functions. In the face of circular imports this may cause code to break, so a new --disable-function-redefinition flag was added to revert to the old behavior. This flag will be removed in a future release, so should only be used as a stopgap until old code can be fixed.


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* Closures are fully supported for Python functions. Cython supports inner functions and lambda expressions. Generators and generator expressions are not supported in this release.

* Proper C++ support. Cython knows about C++ classes, templates and overloaded function signatures, so that Cython code can interact with them in a straight forward way.

* Type inference is enabled by default for safe C types (e.g. double, bint, C++ classes) and known extension types. This reduces the need for explicit type declarations and can improve the performance of untyped code in some cases. There is also a verbose compile mode for testing the impact on user code.

* Cython's for-in-loop can iterate over C arrays and sliced pointers. The type of the loop variable will be inferred automatically in this case.

* The Py_UNICODE integer type for Unicode code points is fully supported, including for-loops and 'in' tests on unicode strings. It coerces from and to single character unicode strings. Note that untyped for-loop variables will automatically be inferred as Py_UNICODE when iterating over a unicode string. In most cases, this will be much more efficient than yielding sliced string objects, but can also have a negative performance impact when the variable is used in a Python context multiple times, so that it needs to coerce to a unicode string object more than once. If this happens, typing the loop variable as unicode or object will help.

* The built-in functions any(), all(), sum(), list(), set() and dict() are inlined as plain for loops when called on generator expressions. Note that generator expressions are not generally supported apart from this feature. Also, tuple(genexpr) is not currently supported - use tuple([listcomp]) instead.

* More shipped standard library declarations. The python_* and stdlib/stdio .pxd files have been deprecated in favor of clib.* and cpython[.*] and may get removed in a future release.

* Pure Python mode no longer disallows non-Python keywords like 'cdef', 'include' or 'cimport'. It also no longer recognises syntax extensions like the for-from loop.

* Parsing has improved for Python 3 syntax in Python code, although not all features are correctly supported. The missing Python 3 features are being worked on for the next release.

* from __future__ import print_function is supported in Python 2.6 and later. Note that there is currently no emulation for earlier Python versions, so code that uses print() with this future import will require at least Python 2.6.

* New compiler directive language_level (valid values: 2 or 3) with corresponding command line options -2 and -3 requests source code compatibility with Python 2.x or Python 3.x respectively. Language level 3 currently enforces unicode literals for unprefixed string literals, enables the print function (requires Python 2.6 or later) and keeps loop variables in list comprehensions from leaking.

* Loop variables in set/dict comprehensions no longer leak into the surrounding scope (following Python 2.7). List comprehensions are unchanged in language level 2.

* print >> stream

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* The availability of type inference by default means that Cython will also infer the type of pointers on assignments. Previously, code like this::

     cdef char* s = ...
     untyped_variable = s

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     untyped_variable2 = <object>s

     cdef object py_object = s
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* bool is no longer a valid type name by default. The problem is that it's not clear whether bool should refer to the Python type or the C++ type, and expecting one and finding the other has already led to several hard-to-find bugs. Both types are available for importing: you can use from cpython cimport bool for the Python bool type, and from libcpp cimport bool for the C++ type. bool is still a valid object by default, so one can still write bool(x).

* ``__getsegcount__`` is now correctly typed to take a ``Py_size_t*`` rather than an ``int*``.


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Features added
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* Type inference improvements.

  * There have been several bug fixes and improvements to the type inferencer.

  * Notably, there is now a "safe" mode enabled by setting the infer_types directive to None. (The None here refers to the "default" mode, which will be the default in 0.13.) This safe mode limits inference to Python object types and C doubles, which should speed up execution without affecting any semantics such as integer overflow behavior like infer_types=True might. There is also an infer_types.verbose option which allows one to see what types are inferred.

* The boundscheck directive works for lists and tuples as well as buffers.

* len(s) and s.decode("encoding") are efficiently supported for char* s.

* Cython's INLINE macro has been renamed to CYTHON_INLINE to reduce conflict and has better support for the MSVC compiler on Windows. It is no longer clobbered if externally defined.

* Revision history is now omitted from the source package, resulting in a 85% size reduction. Running make repo will download the history and turn the directory into a complete Mercurial working repository.

* Cython modules don't need to be recompiled when the size of an external type grows. (A warning, rather than an error, is produced.) This should be helpful for binary distributions relying on NumPy.

Bugs fixed
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* Several other bugs and minor improvements have been made. This release should be fully backwards compatible with 0.12.

Other changes
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0.12 (2009-11-23)
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Features added
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* Type inference with the infer_types directive

* Seamless C++ complex support

* Fast extension type instantiation using the normal Python meme obj = MyType.__new__(MyType)

* Improved support for Py3.1

* Cython now runs under Python 3.x using the 2to3 tool

* unittest support for doctests in Cython modules

* Optimised handling of C strings (char*): for c in cstring[2:50] and cstring.decode()

* Looping over c pointers: for i in intptr[:50].

* pyximport improvements

* cython_freeze improvements

Bugs fixed
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* Many bug fixes

Other changes
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* Many other optimisation, e.g. enumerate() loops, parallel swap assignments (a,b = b,a), and unicode.encode()

* More complete numpy.pxd


0.11.2 (2009-05-20)
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Features added
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* There's now native complex floating point support! C99 complex will be used if complex.h is included, otherwise explicit complex arithmetic working on all C compilers is used. [Robert Bradshaw]

  ::

      cdef double complex a = 1 + 0.3j
      cdef np.ndarray[np.complex128_t, ndim=2] arr = \
         np.zeros(10, np.complex128)

* Cython can now generate a main()-method for embedding of the Python interpreter into an executable (see #289) [Robert Bradshaw]

* @wraparound directive (another way to disable arr[idx] for negative idx) [Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

* Correct support for NumPy record dtypes with different alignments, and "cdef packed struct" support [Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

* @callspec directive, allowing custom calling convention macros [Lisandro Dalcin]

Bugs fixed
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Other changes
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* Bug fixes and smaller improvements. For the full list, see [1].