PyWavelets 1.6.0 Release Notes

We are very pleased to announce the release of PyWavelets 1.6.0. This release is a minor update to 1.6.x. It adds support for NumPy 2.0, which also keeping compatibility with NumPy 1.22-1.26. It requires Cython 3.0; support for 0.29.x is dropped.

Other noteworthy improvements:

• Improved documentation for pywt.cwt

• The documentation was migrated to the PyData Sphinx Theme and the content organization improved

• Releases on PyPI now include wheels for musllinux (x86-64 and aarch64)

• The test suite is now passing and tested in CI with Emscripten/Pyodide

• Nightly builds will be available at https://anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/PyWavelets/ going forward

Authors

• Christian Clauss

• Ralf Gommers

• Agriya Khetarpal +

• Jarrod Millman

• Cora Schneck +

• Daniel Stephan +

A total of 6 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time. This list of names is automatically generated, and may not be fully complete.

Issues closed for v1.6.0

• #623: pywavelets fails to install on Alpine Linux v3.15 ARM

• #676: Enhanced documentation for CWT

• #712: Upload dev builds for all supported platforms to anaconda.org

• #718: Publish musllinux wheels again, and natively compile macOS arm64…

Pull requests for v1.6.0

• #678: Additional documentation for cwt (issue #676)

• #684: Rename master branch to main

• #687: Add linter

• #701: Build and test PyWavelets Pyodide wheels in CI

• #703: MAINT: add input validation to `scales` argument to `cwt`

• #704: DOC: Migrate to `pydata-sphinx-theme`

• #708: Keep GitHub Actions up to date with GitHub’s Dependabot

• #709: mymindstorm/setup-emscripten –> mymindstorm/setup-emsdk

• #711: CI: tweaks to CI job triggers and names

• #713: Bump the github-actions group with 5 updates

• #714: Upload dev wheels to Anaconda.org + revamp wheels publishing…

• #715: BLD: update build and runtime dependencies for numpy 2.0

• #716: TST/CI: mark some tests as slow and avoid running them in wheel…

• #717: CI: fix patterns for artifact downloads in Anaconda nightly wheels…

• #719: CI: Build `musllinux` aarch64 and x86_64 wheels, and native…

• #720: BLD: avoid warnings from including deprecated NumPy API

• #721: Bump the github-actions group with 1 update

• #723: MAINT: use `numpy-config` and fix support for numpy 2.0