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Anonymous Pierre Raybaut stonebig

Since September 2014, Winpython developpement has moved to https://winpython.github.io/

(see https://github.com/winpython/winpython/wiki/Changelog_27)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.9.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.9.1.

Python packages

New packages:

  • llvmlite 0.2.1 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

  • runipy 0.1.1 (Run IPython notebooks from the command line)

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.21.1 → 0.21.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

  • Pillow 2.6.1 → 2.7.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

  • XlsxWriter 0.6.4 → 0.6.5 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  • baresql 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (playing SQL directly on Python datas)

  • cx_Freeze 4.3.3 → 4.3.4 (Deployment tool which converts Python scripts into stand-alone Windows executables (i.e. target machine does not require Python or any other library to be installed))

  • h5py 2.3.1 → 2.4.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

  • nltk 3.0.0 → 3.0.1 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

  • numba 0.15.1 → 0.16.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

  • pip 1.5.6 → 6.0.6 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

  • psutil 2.1.3 → 2.2.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

  • requests 2.5.0 → 2.5.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  • rpy2 2.5.2 → 2.5.4 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

  • scipy 0.14.0 → 0.15.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

  • setuptools 7.0 → 11.3.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  • six 1.8.0 → 1.9.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

  • winpython 1.0 → 1.1 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

  • llvmpy 0.12.7 (Python bindings for LLVM)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.9.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.8.3.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • MinGW32 4.8.1 → 4.9.2 (C/C++ and Fortran compilers (Mingw64 static toolchain Numpy version, with OpenBLAS)

Python packages

New packages:

  • PuLP 1.5.6 (PuLP is an LP modeler written in python. PuLP can generate MPS or LP files and call GLPK, COIN CLP/CBC, CPLEX, and GUROBI to solve linear problems)

  • enum34 1.0.4 (Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4)

  • tqdm 1.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

Downgraded packages: (on Win32)

  • numpy-MKL 1.9.1 → 1.8.2 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

Upgraded packages:

  • PyQt4 4.10.4 → 4.11.3 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

  • Pygments 1.6 → 2.0.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

  • Python 2.7.8 → 2.7.9 (Python programming language with standard library)

  • XlsxWriter 0.6.2 → 0.6.4 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  • astroid 1.2.1 → 1.3.2 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

  • db.py 0.3.1 → 0.3.5 (a db package that doesn't suck)

  • joblib 0.8.3_r1 → 0.8.4 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

  • julia 0.1.1.5 → 0.1.1.6 (Python interface to the Julia language)

  • logilab-common 0.62.1 → 0.63.2 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))

  • lxml 3.4.0 → 3.4.1 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

  • pandas 0.15.1 → 0.15.2 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  • psutil 2.1.1 → 2.1.3 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

  • pylint 1.3.1 → 1.4.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

  • python-dateutil 2.2 → 2.3 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

  • pytz 2014.7 → 2014.10 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

  • requests 2.4.3 → 2.5.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  • rpy2 2.4.4 → 2.5.2 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

  • seaborn 0.4.0 → 0.5.1 (statistical data visualization)

  • setuptools 5.8 → 7.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  • spyder 2.3.1 → 2.3.2 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

  • sqlparse 0.1.13 → 0.1.14 (Non-validating SQL parser)

  • statsmodels 0.6.0 → 0.6.1 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

  • sympy 0.7.5 → 0.7.6 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)


History of changes for WinPython 2.7.8.3

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.8.2.

Tools

Removed packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.11.2 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

  • baresql 0.7.0 (playing SQL directly on Python datas)

  • configparser 3.5.0b2 (This library brings the updated configparser from Python 3.5 to Python 2.6-3.5.)

  • db.py 0.3.1 (a db package that doesn't suck)

  • logutils 0.3.3 (Logging utilities)

  • oct2py 2.4.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

Upgraded packages:

  • XlsxWriter 0.5.9 → 0.6.2 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  • ipython 2.3.0 → 2.3.1 (Enhanced Python shell)

  • julia 0.1.1.4 → 0.1.1.5 (Python interface to the Julia language)

  • mahotas 1.2.1 → 1.2.3 (Computer Vision library)

  • matplotlib 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  • numpy-MKL 1.8.2 → 1.9.1 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

  • pandas 0.15.0 → 0.15.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  • pyzmq 14.3.1 → 14.4.1 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

  • simplejson 3.6.4 → 3.6.5 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

  • statsmodels 0.6.0-rc1 → 0.6.0 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)


History of changes for WinPython 2.7.8.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.8.1.

Python packages

New packages:

  • PyYAML 3.11 (YAML parser and emitter for Python)

  • XlsxWriter 0.5.9 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  • beautifulsoup4 4.3.2 (Screen-scraping library)

  • decorator 3.4.0 (Better living through Python with decorators)

  • husl 4.0.0 (Human-friendly HSL (Hue-Saturation-Lightness))

  • llvmpy 0.12.7 (Python bindings for LLVM)

  • lmfit 0.8.0 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

  • lxml 3.4.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

  • nltk 3.0.0 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

  • numba 0.15.1 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

  • prettytable 0.7.2 (A simple Python library for easily displaying tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII table format.)

  • requests 2.4.3 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  • scilab2py 0.5 (Python to Scilab bridge)

  • singledispatch 3.4.0.3 ()

  • sqlparse 0.1.13 (Non-validating SQL parser)

  • wheel 0.24.0 (A built-package format for Python.)

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.20.2 → 0.21.1 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

  • Pillow 2.5.2 → 2.6.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

  • SQLAlchemy 0.9.7 → 0.9.8 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

  • Sphinx 1.2.2 → 1.2.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

  • astroid 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

  • brewer2mpl 1.4 → 1.4.1 (Connect colorbrewer2.org color maps to Python and matplotlib)

  • colorama 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

  • ipython 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

  • ipython-sql 0.3.3 → 0.3.4 (Enhanced Python shell)

  • joblib 0.8.2 → 0.8.3_r1 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

  • julia 0.1.1.2 → 0.1.1.4 (Python interface to the Julia language)

  • logilab-common 0.61.0 → 0.62.1 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))

  • matplotlib 1.3.1 → 1.4.1 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  • mysql-connector-python 1.2.2 → 1.2.3 (MySQL driver written in Python)

  • networkx 1.9 → 1.9.1 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)

  • nose 1.3.3 → 1.3.4 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

  • pandas 0.14.1 → 0.15.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  • pg8000 1.9.14 → 1.10.1 (PostgreSQL interface library)

  • pylint 1.3.0 → 1.3.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

  • pyparsing 2.0.2 → 2.0.3 (A Python Parsing Module)

  • pytz 2014.4 → 2014.7 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

  • rpy2 2.4.3 → 2.4.4 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

  • scikit-learn 0.15.1 → 0.15.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

  • seaborn 0.3.1 → 0.4.0 (statistical data visualization)

  • setuptools 5.4.2 → 5.8 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  • simplejson 3.6.2 → 3.6.4 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

  • six 1.7.3 → 1.8.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

  • spyder 2.3.0 → 2.3.1 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

  • sqlite_bro 0.8.6 → 0.8.7.4 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)

  • statsmodels 0.5.0 → 0.6.0-rc1 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

  • tornado 4.0.1 → 4.0.2 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

Removed packages:

  • PyQtdoc 4.8.4 (PyQtdoc installs Qt documentation for PyQt4)

  • Scidoc 1.8.0 (Scidoc installs scientific libraries documentation (NumPy, SciPy, ...))


History of changes for WinPython 2.7.8.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.6.4.

Tools

New packages:

  • MinGW32 4.8.1 ((32-bit version only) Windows specific header files and import libraries, C/C++ and Fortran compilers)

Python packages

New packages:

Upgraded packages:

  • astroid 1.0.1 → 1.2.0 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

  • colorama 0.2.7 → 2.5.2 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

  • cx_Freeze 4.3.2 → 4.3.3 (Deployment tool which converts Python scripts into stand-alone Windows executables (i.e. target machine does not require Python or any other library to be installed))
  • docutils 4.3.2 → 0.12 (Text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX (includes reStructuredText))
  • guidata 1.6.1 → 1.6.2 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
  • h5py 2.2.1 → 2.3.1 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))
  • ipython 2.0.0 → 2.2.0 (Enhanced Python shell)
  • Jinja2 2.7.2 → 2.7.3 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))
  • mahotas 1.1.1 → 1.2.1 (Computer Vision library)
  • MarkupSafe 0.18 → 0.23 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)
  • networkx 1.8.1 → 1.9 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
  • nose 1.3.1 → 1.3.3 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))
  • numexpr 2.3.1 → 2.4 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
  • numpy-MKL 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy's core module))

  • pandas 0.13.1 → 0.14.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  • patsy 0.2.1 → 0.3.0 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)
  • Pillow 2.4.0 → 2.5.2 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

  • pip 1.5.0 → 1.5.6 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

  • psutil 1.5.0 → 2.1.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way))
  • pylint 1.1.0 → 1.3.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

  • PyOpenGL 3.0.2 → 3.1.0 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

  • pyparsing 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (A Python Parsing Module)
  • PyQt4 4.9.6.1 → 4.10.4 ()
  • pytz 2013.9 → 2014.4 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
  • pywin32 218.5 → 219 (Python library for Windows)
  • pyzmq 14.0.1 → 14.3.1 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
  • reportlab 3.0 → 3.1.8 (The PDF generation library)
  • setuptools 3.4.4 → 5.4.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  • scikit-image 0.9.3 → 0.10.1 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

  • scikit-learn 0.14.1 → 0.15.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
  • scipy 0.13.3 → 0.14.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
  • simplejson 3.3.3 → 3.6.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

  • six 1.6.1 → 1.7.2 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

  • spyder 2.3.0beta2 → 2.3.0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)
  • SQLAlchemy 0.9.4 → 0.9.7 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
  • tornado 3.2 → 4.0.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

Removed packages:

  • PySide 1.2.2 (Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt)
  • vispy 0.2.1 ()

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.6.4

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.6.3.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.10.1 → 2.11.2 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.20 → 0.20.1 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • Jinja2 2.7.1 → 2.7.2 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))
  • Pillow 2.3.0 → 2.4.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
  • SQLAlchemy 0.9.2 → 0.9.4 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
  • Sphinx 1.2.1 → 1.2.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
  • ipython 1.1.0 → 2.0.0 (Enhanced Python shell)
  • logilab-common 0.60.1 → 0.61.0 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
  • mahotas 1.0.4 → 1.1.0 (Computer Vision library)
  • nose 1.3.0 → 1.3.1 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))
  • numexpr 2.3 → 2.3.1 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
  • numpy-MKL 1.8.0 → 1.8.1 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy's core module))
  • pip 1.5.2 → 1.5.4 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
  • psutil 1.2.1 → 2.1.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
  • pylint 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
  • reportlab 2.7 → 3.0 (The PDF generation library)
  • setuptools 2.1 → 3.4.4 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • simplejson 3.3.2 → 3.4.0 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
  • six 1.5.2 → 1.6.1 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
  • sympy 0.7.4.1 → 0.7.5 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
  • tables 3.1.0 → 3.1.1 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
  • xlrd 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.6.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.5.3.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • SciTE 3.2.3 → 3.3.7 (SCIntilla based Text Editor - Multilanguage, powerful and light-weight text editor)
  • TortoiseHg 2.8 → 2.10.1 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

  • PyQtdesignerplugins 1.1 (PyQtdesignerplugins installs Python Qt designer plugins (Matplotlib, guiqwt, etc.) for PyQt4)
  • astroid 1.0.1 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.19.1 → 0.19.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • Pillow 2.1.0 → 2.2.2 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
  • Python 2.7.5 → 2.7.6 (Python programming language with standard library)
  • SQLAlchemy 0.7.9 → 0.9.0 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
  • Scidoc 1.7.1.1 → 1.8.0 (Scidoc installs scientific libraries documentation (NumPy, SciPy, ...))
  • Sphinx 1.1.3 → 1.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
  • colorama 0.2.5 → 0.2.7 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
  • cx_Freeze 4.3.1 → 4.3.2 (Deployment tool which converts Python scripts into stand-alone Windows executables (i.e. target machine does not require Python or any other library to be installed))
  • egenix-mx-base 3.2.5 → 3.2.7 (eGenix.com mx Base Distribution: mxDateTime, mxTextTools, mxProxy, mxBeeBase, mxURL, mxUID, mxStack, mxQueue and mxTools)
  • formlayout 1.0.13 → 1.0.15 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)
  • guiqwt 2.3.1 → 2.3.2 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
  • h5py 2.1.3 → 2.2.1 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))
  • ipython 0.13.2 → 1.1.0 (Enhanced Python shell)
  • logilab-common 0.59.1 → 0.60.1 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
  • mahotas 1.0.2 → 1.0.4 (Computer Vision library)
  • matplotlib 1.3.0 → 1.3.1 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
  • numexpr 2.1 → 2.2.2 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
  • numpy-MKL 1.7.1 → 1.8.0 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy's core module))
  • pandas 0.12.0 → 0.13.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
  • patsy 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)
  • psutil 1.0.1 → 1.2.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
  • pylint 0.28.0 → 1.0.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
  • python-dateutil 1.5 → 2.2 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
  • pytz 2013b → 2013.8 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
  • pyzmq 13.1.0 → 14.0.1 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
  • scikit-image 0.8.2 → 0.9.3 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
  • scipy 0.12.0 → 0.13.2 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
  • setuptools 1.0 → 2.0.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • simplejson 3.3.0 → 3.3.1 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
  • six 1.3.0 → 1.4.1 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
  • spyder 2.2.3 → 2.2.5 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)
  • sympy 0.7.3 → 0.7.4.1 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
  • tornado 2.4.1 → 3.1.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))
  • winpython 0.17 → 1.0 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

  • logilab-astng 0.24.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.5.3

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.5.2.

Python packages

New packages:

  • patsy 0.2.0 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)

Upgraded packages:

  • PySide 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt)
  • setuptools 0.9.8 → 1.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • spyder 2.2.2 → 2.2.3 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)
  • winpython 0.16 → 0.17 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.5.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.5.0.

Python packages

New packages:

  • MarkupSafe 0.18 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)
  • pyparsing 2.0.1 (A Python Parsing Module)
  • python-dateutil 1.5 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
  • pytz 2013b (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
  • setuptools 0.9.8 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • six 1.3.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
  • statsmodels 0.5.0 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

Upgraded packages:

  • Jinja2 2.7 → 2.7.1 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))
  • Pillow 2.0.0 → 2.1.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
  • PySide 1.1.2 → 1.2.0 (Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt)
  • Scidoc 1.7.1 → 1.7.1.1 (Scidoc installs scientific libraries documentation (NumPy, SciPy, ...))
  • docutils 0.10 → 0.11 (Text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX (includes reStructuredText))
  • guiqwt 2.3.0 → 2.3.1 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
  • mahotas 1.0 → 1.0.2 (Computer Vision library)
  • matplotlib 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
  • networkx 1.7 → 1.8.1 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
  • pandas 0.11.0 → 0.12.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
  • pip 1.3.1 → 1.4.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
  • psutil 0.7.1 → 1.0.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
  • pydicom 0.9.7 → 0.9.8 (Pure python package for working with DICOM files (medical imaging))
  • pywin32 218 → 218.4 (Python library for Windows)
  • scikit-learn 0.13.1 → 0.14.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
  • spyder 2.2.0 → 2.2.2 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)
  • sympy 0.7.2 → 0.7.3 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
  • tables 3.0.0rc2 → 3.0.0 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
  • winpython 0.14 → 0.16 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

  • distribute 0.6.40 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.5.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.5.0.

Internals

Added support for Environment Variables customization using the new settings\winpython.ini configuration file (see here for more details).

Python packages

New packages:

  • MarkupSafe 0.18 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)
  • statsmodels 0.4.3 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

Upgraded packages:

  • distribute 0.6.40 → 0.6.43 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • tables 3.0.0rc2 → 3.0.0rc3 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
  • winpython 0.14 → 0.15 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.5.0

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.4.1.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.7.2 → 2.8 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

  • colorama 0.2.5 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.19 → 0.19.1 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • Jinja2 2.6 → 2.7 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))
  • Python 2.7.4 → 2.7.5 (Python programming language with standard library)
  • cvxopt 1.1.5 → 1.1.6 (Convex optimization library)
  • distribute 0.6.38 → 0.6.40 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • guidata 1.5.1 → 1.6.1 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
  • guiqwt 2.2.1 → 2.3.0 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
  • mahotas 0.99 → 1.0 (Computer Vision library)
  • scikit-image 0.8.1 → 0.8.2 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
  • simplejson 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
  • tables 3.0.0b1 → 3.0.0rc2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
  • winpython 0.13 → 0.14 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.4.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.4.0.

Internals

The following changes were made to WinPython tools (winpython Python package), including WPPM, WPCP and the distribution generation script (make.py and its dependencies):

  • WinPython Control Panel: added shortcut to command prompt
  • Bugfix: all launchers now accept command line options -- Example, for executing IPython Qt console without pylab mode enabled, just create a shortcut pointing to "IPython Qt console.exe" and add the option "--pylab=None"
  • Added launcher for IPython notebook
  • WinPython registration: now registers entries in HKCU\Software\Python\PythonCore. In other words, any distutils Python package will see WinPython distribution as a standard installed Python distribution

Python packages

Upgraded packages:

  • formlayout 1.0.9 → 1.0.13 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)
  • distribute 0.6.36 → 0.6.38 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • simplejson 3.1.3 → 3.2.0 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
  • logilab-common 0.58.3 → 0.59.1 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
  • pylint 0.26.0 → 0.28.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
  • mahotas 0.9.8 → 0.99 (Computer Vision library)
  • logilab-astng 0.24.1 → 0.24.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
  • psutil 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
  • winpython 0.12 → 0.13 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
  • spyder 2.1.14dev4 → 2.2.0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.4.0

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.3.3.

Internals

The following changes were made to WinPython tools (winpython Python package), including WPPM, WPCP and the distribution generation script (make.py and its dependencies):

  • utils: added set_env and get_env functions (will be useful to fix Issue 35)
  • Register WinPython distribution:
    • Added "Edit with Spyder" to context menu entries (requires Spyder 2.2+)
    • Added "unregistration" process (WinPython Control Panel: new "Unregister distribution..." entry in "Advanced" menu)
  •  Issue 19 : Disable 'settings' folder (%HOME% redirection) by renaming/deleting the directory
  • WinPython control panel ( Issue 29 ): removed embedded Python (Spyder) console
  • Batch scripts: removed unnecessary "cd %WINPYDIR%" (this became unnecessary)
  • Fixed 'register_python.bat' scripts following changes in command line options (these changes were made in revision 9a62581ae693)
  • py3compat: fixed ImportError on non Windows plaforms due to winreg/_winreg _

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.6 → 2.7.2 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

  • cvxopt 1.1.5 (Convex optimization library)
  • PySide 1.1.2 (Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt)
  • simplejson 3.1.3 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
  • pip 1.3.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
  • networkx 1.7 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
  • mahotas 0.9.8 (Computer Vision library)
  • VPython 5.74 (A free, open-source module for producing real-time 3D scenes with Python)
  • Pillow 2.0.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.17.4 → 0.19 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • distribute 0.6.33 → 0.6.36 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • PyVISA 1.3 → 1.4 (Control all kinds of measurement equipment through various busses (GPIB, RS232, USB))
  • numexpr 2.0.1 → 2.1 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
  • tables 2.4.0 → 3.0.0b1 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
  • reportlab 2.6 → 2.7 (The PDF generation library)
  • Scidoc 1.6.2.1 → 1.7.1 (Scidoc installs scientific libraries documentation (NumPy, SciPy, ...))
  • Python 2.7.3 → 2.7.4 (Python programming language with standard library)
  • pandas 0.10.1 → 0.11.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
  • pyzmq 2.2.0.1 → 13.1.0 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
  • xlwt 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Create spreadsheet files compatible with Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 files, OpenOffice.org Calc, and Gnumeric)
  • numpy-MKL 1.6.2 → 1.7.1 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy's core module))
  • scikit-image 0.7.2 → 0.8.1 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
  • matplotlib 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
  • scipy 0.11.0 → 0.12.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
  • pyreadline 1.7.1 → 2.0 (IPython needs this module to display color text in Windows command window)
  • ipython 0.13.1 → 0.13.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
  • xlrd 0.8.0 → 0.9.2 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)
  • scikit-learn 0.13 → 0.13.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
  • rst2pdf 0.92 → 0.93 (Tool for transforming reStructuredText to PDF using ReportLab)
  • psutil 0.6.1 → 0.7.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
  • Pygments 1.5 → 1.6 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
  • winpython 0.10 → 0.12 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
  • nose 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))
  • h5py 2.1.1 → 2.1.3 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))
  • spyder 2.1.12 → 2.1.14dev4 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

Removed packages:

  • PIL 1.1.7 (Python Imaging Library - (basic) Image processing library)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.3.3

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.3.2.

Python packages

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.17.3 → 0.17.4 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • distribute 0.6.32 → 0.6.33 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • pandas 0.9.1 → 0.10.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
  • scikit-learn 0.12.1 → 0.13 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
  • winpython 0.8 → 0.11 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
  • h5py 2.1.0 → 2.1.1 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.3.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.3.1.

Tools

New packages:

  • SciTE 3.2.3 (SCIntilla based Text Editor - Multilanguage, powerful and light-weight text editor)

Upgraded packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.5 → 2.6 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)

Python packages

New packages:

  • egenix-mx-base 3.2.5 (eGenix.com mx Base Distribution: mxDateTime, mxTextTools, mxProxy, mxBeeBase, mxURL, mxUID, mxStack, mxQueue and mxTools)
  • VTK-Qt 5.10.1 (Open-source software system for visualization, 3D graphics, volume rendering and image processing)
  • scikit-image 0.7.2 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
  • scikits.audiolab 0.11.0 (Audio file I/O using NumPy arrays)

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.17.1 → 0.17.3 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • PyQtdoc 4.7.2 → 4.8.4 (PyQtdoc installs Qt documentation for PyQt4)
  • guiqwt 2.2.0 → 2.2.1 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
  • distribute 0.6.28 → 0.6.32 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
  • pywin32 217 → 218 (Python library for Windows)
  • Scidoc 1.6.2 → 1.6.2.1 (Scidoc installs scientific libraries documentation (NumPy, SciPy, ...))
  • docutils 0.9.1 → 0.10 (Text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX (includes reStructuredText))
  • pandas 0.8.1 → 0.9.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
  • pyzmq 2.2.0 → 2.2.0.1 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
  • logilab-common 0.58.2 → 0.58.3 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
  • tornado 2.4 → 2.4.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))
  • pylint 0.25.2 → 0.26.0 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
  • matplotlib 1.1.1 → 1.2.0 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
  • sympy 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
  • ipython 0.13 → 0.13.1 (Enhanced Python shell)
  • cx_Freeze 4.3 → 4.3.1 (Deployment tool which converts Python scripts into stand-alone Windows executables (i.e. target machine does not require Python or any other library to be installed))
  • PyQwt 5.2.0 → 5.2.1 (2D plotting library (set of Python bindings for the Qwt library featuring fast plotting))
  • guidata 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
  • logilab-astng 0.24.0 → 0.24.1 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
  • scikit-learn 0.12 → 0.12.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
  • PyQt 4.8.6-1 → 4.9.6-1 (Cross-platform Application Framework: GUI, widgets, SQL, OpenGL, XML, Unicode...)
  • winpython 0.7 → 0.8 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

  • scikits.timeseries 0.91.3 (Time series manipulation)
  • VTK 5.10.0 (Open-source software system for visualization, 3D graphics, volume rendering and image processing)
  • PyOpenGL-accelerate 3.0.2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
  • scikits-image 0.7.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

History of changes for WinPython 2.7.3.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.3.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

  • TortoiseHg 2.4.2 → 2.5 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)
  • MinGW32 4.5.2 → 4.6.2 ((32-bit version only) Windows specific header files and import libraries, C/C++ and Fortran compilers)

Python packages

New packages:

  • SQLAlchemy 0.7.9 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
  • PyOpenGL 3.0.2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
  • PyOpenGL-accelerate 3.0.2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

Upgraded packages:

  • Cython 0.17 → 0.17.1 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
  • reportlab 2.5 → 2.6 (The PDF generation library)
  • scipy 0.10.1 → 0.11.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
  • VTK 5.8.0 → 5.10.0 (Open-source software system for visualization, 3D graphics, volume rendering and image processing)
  • winpython 0.6 → 0.7 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
  • h5py 2.0.1 → 2.1.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))
  • scikits-image 0.6.1 → 0.7.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

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