v2.5.1 (July 4, 2026)

NumPy 2.5.1 Release Notes The NumPy 2.5.1 is a patch release that fixes bugs discovered after the 2.5.0 release. The most noticeable is the fix is to the numpy datetime cython API which should allow downstream to support NumPy versions older than 2.5. Preparation for Python 3.15 continues along with typing improvements. This release supports Python versions 3.12-3.14 Changes The minimum supported GCC version has been updated from 9.3.0 to 10.3.0 (gh-31843) Contributors A total of 10 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. Adhyan Gupta + Ankit Ahlawat Charles Harris Iason Krommydas Joren Hammudoglu Kumar Aditya Nathan Goldbaum Sebastian Berg Ties Jan Hefting + Vineet Kumar Pull requests merged A total of 20 pull requests were merged for this release. #31707: MAINT: Prepare 2.5.x for further development #31721: CI: fix new cython-lint errors (#31711) #31723: MAINT: Update meson to match main #31729: TST: use setup-sde instead of curl to get SDE binaries (#31727) #31829: BUG: Relax finfo to be easier accessible for all user dtypes... #31831: TYP: Fix flatiter.__next__ return type for object_ and... #31832: BUG: av...