WinPythonQt5-64bit-3.6.5.0_History.md

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.5.0Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.3.0Qt5.

Tools

New packages:

• npmjs 5.6.0 (a package manager for JavaScript)

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v6.11.5 → v8.9.4 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Removed packages:

• ffmpeg 3.2.4 (a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata)

• Pandoc 1.19.2.1 (a universal document converter)

Python packages

New packages:

• absl_py 0.1.11 (Abseil Python Common Libraries)

• asciitree 0.3.3 (Draws ASCII trees.)

• asteval 0.9.12 (Safe, minimalistic evaluator of python expression using ast module)

• attrs 17.4.0 (Classes Without Boilerplate)

• ipydatawidgets 3.0.0 (A set of widgets to help facilitate reuse of large datasets across widgets)

• ipyscales 0.1.3 (A widget library for scales)

• kiwisolver 1.0.1 (an efficient implementation of the Cassowary constraint solving algorithm.)

• more_itertools 4.1.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

• msgpack 0.5.6 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• numcodecs 0.5.4 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• packaging 17.1 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pdvega 0.1 (Pandas plotting interface to Vega and Vega-Lite)

• pluggy 0.6.0 (plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python)

• pythreejs 1.0.0 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pywinpty 0.5.1 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• regex 2018.2.21 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• send2trash 1.5.0 (Send file to trash natively under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.)

• terminado 0.8.1 (Terminals served to term.js using Tornado websockets)

• vega3 0.5.0 (An IPython/ Jupyter widget for Vega 3 and Vega-Lite 2)

• vega_datasets 0.4.1 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

Upgraded packages:

• algopy 0.5.5 → 0.5.7 (Taylor Arithmetic Computation and Algorithmic Differentiation)

• altair 1.2.1 → 2.0.0.dev0 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 1.5.3 → 1.6.2 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• babel 2.5.1 → 2.5.3 (Internationalization utilities)

• bcolz 1.1.2 → 1.2.0 (columnar and compressed data containers.)

• bleach 2.1.1 → 2.1.3 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

• bokeh 0.12.10 → 0.12.15 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.10.0 → 0.10.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• brotli 1.0.0 → 1.0.2 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• certifi 2017.7.27.1 → 2018.1.18 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cffi 1.11.2 → 1.11.5 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

• cloudpickle 0.4.1 → 0.5.2 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• comtypes 1.1.3 → 1.1.4 (Pure Python COM package)

• cx_freeze 5.0.2 → 5.1.1 (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))

• cython 0.27.2 → 0.28.1 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• cytoolz 0.8.2 → 0.9.0.1 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)

• dask 0.15.4 → 0.17.2 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• dask_searchcv 0.1.0 → 0.2.0 (Tools for doing hyperparameter search with Scikit-Learn and Dask)

• datashader 0.6.2 → 0.6.5 (Data visualization toolchain based on aggregating into a grid)

• decorator 4.1.2 → 4.2.1 (Better living through Python with decorators)

• distributed 1.19.3 → 1.21.4 (Distributed computing)

• docrepr 0.1.0 → 0.1.1 (docrepr renders Python docstrings in HTML.)

• ecos 2.0.4 → 2.0.5 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• edward 1.3.4 → 1.3.5 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• fast_histogram 0.3 → 0.4 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastparquet 0.1.3 → 0.1.4 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• fuzzywuzzy 0.15.0 → 0.16.0 (Fuzzy string matching in python)

• geopy 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• greenlet 0.4.12 → 0.4.13 (Lightweight in-process concurrent programming)

• holoviews 1.8.5.dev0 → 1.10.0a2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• html5lib 1.0b10 → 1.0.1 (HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specification)

• imageio 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• imagesize 0.7.1 → 1.0.0 (Getting image size from png/jpeg/jpeg2000/gif file)

• ipykernel 4.6.1 → 4.8.2 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipyleaflet 0.4.0 → 0.7.3 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipympl 0.0.8 → 0.1.0 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

• ipyparallel 6.0.2 → 6.1.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)

• ipywidgets 7.0.3 → 7.2.0 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

• isort 4.2.15 → 4.3.4 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.11.0 → 0.11.1 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.6 → 2.10 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• julia 0.1.4 → 0.1.5 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.1.0 → 5.2.3 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyter_core 4.3.0 → 4.4.0 (Jupyter core package. A base package on which Jupyter projects rely.)

• jupyter_sphinx 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Jupyter Sphinx Extensions)

• jupyterlab 0.28.11 → 0.31.12 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.5.5 → 0.10.5 (Jupyter Launcher)

• keras 2.0.8 → 2.1.5 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• llvmlite 0.20.0 → 0.22.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.7 → 0.9.9 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• lxml 4.1.0 → 4.2.1 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• markdown 2.6.9 → 2.6.11 (Python implementation of Markdown.)

• matplotlib 2.1.0 → 2.2.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• metakernel 0.20.7 → 0.20.14 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mistune 0.8 → 0.8.3 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)

• mizani 0.4.0 → 0.4.6 (Scales for Python)

• monotonic 1.3 → 1.4 (An implementation of time.monotonic() for Python 2 & < 3.3)

• msgpack_python 0.4.8 → 0.5.4+dummy (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• multipledispatch 0.4.9 → 0.5.0 (A relatively sane approach to multiple dispatch in Python)

• mypy 0.540 → 0.580 (Optional static typing for Python)

• mysql_connector_python 2.0.4 → 8.0.6 (MySQL driver written in Python)

• nbconvert_reportlab 0.1 → 0.2 (Convert notebooks to PDF using Reportlab)

• networkx 2.0 → 2.1 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)

• notebook 5.2.1rc1 → 5.4.1 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.35.0 → 0.37.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• octave_kernel 0.28.1 → 0.28.3 (A Jupyter kernel for Octave.)

• pandas 0.21.0 → 0.22.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pandas_datareader 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

• param 1.5.1 → 1.5.2 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• parso 0.1.0 → 0.1.1 (A Python Parser)

• patsy 0.4.1 → 0.5.0 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)

• pep8 1.7.0 → 1.7.1 (Python style guide checker)

• pexpect 4.2.1 → 4.4.0 (Pexpect allows easy control of interactive console applications.)

• pg8000 1.10.5 → 1.11.0 (PostgreSQL interface library)

• pillow 4.3.0 → 5.0.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• pip 9.0.1 → 9.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

• pkginfo 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• plotnine 0.2.1 → 0.3.0 (A grammar of graphics for python)

• protobuf 3.4.0 → 3.5.2 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.3.1 → 5.4.3 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• py 1.4.34 → 1.5.3 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyarrow 0.7.1 → 0.9.0 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pybind11 2.2.1 → 2.2.2 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pyflux 0.4.15 → 0.4.17 (Open source time series library for Python)

• pylint 1.7.4 → 1.8.3 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pymc 2.3.6 → 2.3.7 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

• pymc3 3.2 → 3.3 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

• pymongo 3.5.1 → 3.6.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)

• pyodbc 4.0.19 → 4.0.22 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.1 → 3.1.2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyqt5 5.9 → 5.9.2 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pyqtgraph 0.10.0 → 0.10.1.dev1 (Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python)

• pytest 3.2.3 → 3.5.0 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.6.3 → 3.6.5 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dateutil 2.6.1 → 2.7.2 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

• python_hdf4 0.9 → 0.9.1 (Python-HDF4: Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library)

• python_snappy 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (Python library for the snappy compression library from Google)

• pytz 2017.2 → 2018.3 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 221 → 223 (Python library for Windows)

• pyzmq 16.0.3 → 17.0.0 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

• qtpy 1.3.1 → 1.4.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

• requests_file 1.4.2 → 1.4.3 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• rpy2 2.8.6 → 2.9.2 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• rx 1.6.0 → 1.6.1 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• scikit_optimize 0.4 → 0.5.2 (Sequential model-based optimization toolbox.)

• scilab2py 0.6 → 0.6.1 (Python to Scilab bridge)

• scipy 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• seaborn 0.8.1 → 0.9.dev0 (statistical data visualization)

• setuptools 36.6.0 → 39.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• simplejson 3.11.1 → 3.13.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

• sip 4.19.3 → 4.19.6 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sortedcontainers 1.5.7 → 1.5.9 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sounddevice 0.3.9 → 0.3.10 (Play and Record Sound with Python)

• sphinx 1.6.5 → 1.7.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.2.4 → 3.2.8 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.14 → 1.2.5 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• statsmodels 0.9.0.dev0 → 0.9.0.dev2 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

• streamz 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Streams)

• tensorflow 1.3.0 → 1.5.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tensorflow_tensorboard 0.1.8 → 1.5.1 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

• theano 0.9.0 → 1.0.1 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)

• thrift 0.10.0 → 0.11.0 (a software framework for scalable cross-language services development)

• toolz 0.8.2 → 0.9.0 (List processing tools and functional utilities)

• tornado 4.5.2 → 4.5.3 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• tqdm 4.19.4 → 4.19.9 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.9.1 → 1.11.0 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

• vega 0.4.4 → 0.5.0 (An IPython/ Jupyter widget for Vega and Vega-Lite)

• werkzeug 0.12.2 → 0.14.1 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)

• widgetsnbextension 3.0.6 → 3.2.0 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

• winpython 1.9.20171031 → 1.10.20180404 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• wordcloud 1.3.2 → 1.4.1 (A little word cloud generator)

• xarray 0.9.6 → 0.10.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlwings 0.11.4 → 0.11.5 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

• zarr 2.1.4 → 2.2.0 (A minimal implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays for Python.)

Removed packages:

• gitdb2 2.0.0 (Git Object Database)

• gitpython 2.1.3 (Python Git Library)

• lasagne 0.2.dev1 (neural network tools for Theano)

• nbdime 0.3.0 (Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks)

• olefile 0.44 (Python package to parse, read and write Microsoft OLE2 files)

• pweave 0.30.0a1 (Scientific reports with embedded python computations with reST, LaTeX or markdown)

• pyreadline 2.0 (IPython needs this module to display color text in Windows command window)

• scikit_garden 0.1.3 (A garden for scikit-learn compatible trees)

• scikit_neuralnetwork 0.7 (Deep neural networks without the learning cliff! A wrapper library compatible with scikit-learn.)

• smmap2 2.0.3 (A pure python implementation of a sliding window memory map manager)

• spyder_reports 0.1.1 (pyder plugin to render Markdown reports using Pweave as a backend)

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