Hi all, I'm preparing the SymPy 1.6.1 bugfix release and I'm considering skipping the release candidate and releasing directly and just wanted to see if anyone has any opinions on that. In the past I haven't seen much evidence that anyone has actually tested the pre-releases (release candidate or beta) and it is a bunch of work producing them so I'm asking here to see if anyone appreciates having them.
You can see the fixes included for 1.6.1 here: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-1.6.1 The big change from 1.6 is the partial revert of some changes in matrix operations. SymPy 1.6 introduced automatic simplification of some calculations as part of matrix operations which gives a big speed up in some simple cases but also a big slowdown in some other cases for matrices with very complicated entries. There is a longer term plan that can (hopefully) get the best of both worlds and speed up the simple cases without affecting the others but that won't be ready for some time. This change introduced in 1.6 is to be reverted for 1.6.1. There are also some other smaller bugfixes to be included in the 1.6.1 release. Does anyone have any strong desire for a release candidate? Otherwise I'll release 1.6.1 ASAP. Oscar -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTgk2WUo6w3qEbty_F_3yEqs-MXMx%3DfjGM8AErwbJCHpw%40mail.gmail.com.
