Hi David, Thanks for pointing this out. I've added a clarification to that part of the release notes.
Right now pip install sympy will give you 1.4. You have to use --pre to get the prerelease which is currently 1.5rc1 (the release candidate for 1.5). Oscar On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 11:47, David Bailey <d...@dbailey.co.uk> wrote: > > On 29/11/2019 09:34, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > Hi SymPy users and contributors, > > It is my pleasure to announce the *release candidate* of SymPy 1.5. This is > is intended for advance testing but if there are no regressions > reported then there will be no changes to this before the 1.5 final > release. > > The final release will be in around a week unless regressions are > reported so please test this now to ensure that any possible > regressions affecting your code or downstream projects are fixed > beforehand. > > I have just made version 1.5rc1 available to install as a pre-release > from PyPI. You can install this with > > $ pip install --pre sympy > > The release notes for SymPy 1.5 can be found here: > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-1.5 > > Note that there are some features that are deprecated and also some > changes that are not backwards compatible. We try to ensure backwards > compatibility and to use a deprecation process wherever possible. > However it is not always possible to avoid potentially breaking > changes. > > Note also that SymPy 1.5 drops support for Python 3.4 and most > importantly will be the last release of SymPy that supports Python > 2.7. This makes it especially important to try and avoid regressions > in this release so I hope that it gets as much pre-release testing as > possible. > > Issues with the release should be reported on Github (make sure to > specify if the issue is a regression since 1.4): > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues > > The SHA256 hashes for the release files are: > > abc76c62593c80cafacc9e3cf80e71f9da15b27871cf77a8ed6c18e2e4c017da > sympy-1.5rc1-py2.py3-none-any.whl > a04dda54ad26e406d2e169d29500803556c5d28562d7c47f9d5b31bb9d3a840f > sympy-1.5rc1.tar.gz > > Happy testing, > Oscar > > I am a little puzzled. When I go here: > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-1.5 > > I read that SymPy 1.5 has not been released yet (obviously, because it is a > release candidate), and yet further down, the command to install the release > candidate is given as > > pip install -U sympy > > Surely this command would install the current version of sympy - not the > release candidate? > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/3718a286-2793-55ac-deda-0ee5a5b1b58b%40dbailey.co.uk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxSZ_GMVkvxVahLm2G1dzF-0ZJwR%2BrFOd%3D2s0FbcvtFagw%40mail.gmail.com.