# NumPy 1.17.3 Release Notes

This release contains fixes for bugs reported against NumPy 1.17.2 along with a some documentation improvements. The Python versions supported in this release are 3.5-3.8.

Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.13 for Python 3.8 support and OpenBLAS >= 3.7 to avoid errors on the Skylake architecture.

## Highlights

- Wheels for Python 3.8

- Boolean `matmul` fixed to use booleans instead of integers.

## Compatibility notes

- The seldom used `PyArray_DescrCheck` macro has been changed/fixed.

## Contributors

A total of 7 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

- Allan Haldane

- Charles Harris

- Kevin Sheppard

- Matti Picus

- Ralf Gommers

- Sebastian Berg

- Warren Weckesser

## Pull requests merged

A total of 12 pull requests were merged for this release.

- #14456: MAINT: clean up pocketfft modules inside numpy.fft namespace.

- #14463: BUG: random.hypergeometic assumes npy_long is npy_int64, hung…

- #14502: BUG: random: Revert gh-14458 and refix gh-14557.

- #14504: BUG: add a specialized loop for boolean matmul.

- #14506: MAINT: Update pytest version for Python 3.8

- #14512: DOC: random: fix doc linking, was referencing private submodules.

- #14513: BUG,MAINT: Some fixes and minor cleanup based on clang analysis

- #14515: BUG: Fix randint when range is 2**32

- #14519: MAINT: remove the entropy c-extension module

- #14563: DOC: remove note about Pocketfft license file (non-existing here).

- #14578: BUG: random: Create a legacy implementation of random.binomial.

- #14687: BUG: properly define PyArray_DescrCheck