Work items:

• more generic, non-DOS and automatic ".bat" launcher creation (many packages miss it)
• wordcloud
• update vcredist32/64 for Python3.5 to nov 17th (14.0.23506)
• WinPython failed test to default shebang to '..\python.exe' instead of 'python.exe' (doesn't work for module with subprocesses like pip)
• ptpython as a better 'WinPython Interpreter'
• MKL-service
• scikit-learn 0.17.1
• improve follow-up: create issues to match commits, separate 'Work Items' from 'Release note'
• replace non-acessible and complex nsis scripts in icons per external scripts
• EXPERIMENTAL WinPython icon relying on scripts
  • new icons are generic (independant of WinPython version)
  • the new scripts can be use over installed WinPython (Settings folder is re-created in WINPYTHON_DIR #262 (comment))
• progress towards building from Zero:
  • all icons in Zero builds (Jupyter and qtconsole were missing)

(build1: 2016-02-28 = "(student)" icons for users not having write access to Winpython directory)

• big re-engineering of WinPython icons and configuration system :
  • winpython.ini can contain dynamic variables (like %HOMEPATH%)
  • WinPython Working Directory can be set to users 'Documents' directories
  • new icons are generic (independant of WinPython version)
  • new configuration method is tweaked to allow patching of previous release (just copy new icons and initialization scripts)
• progress towards building from Zero:
  • IDLEX and PythonInterpreter icons default back to IDLE and basic python if needed.
  • simplify make.py (remove NSIS complex scripts part)
• clearer DOS script (more python style)
• remove 7z from WinPython builds
• spyder 3.0.0beta3 icon launcher fix
• package updates:
  • scikit-image 0.12.0
  • spyder 3.0.0beta3pre (jedi 0.9 compatibility)

(build2: 2016-03-06 = "(student)" mode managed via WinPython.ini, spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre)

• scikit-image 0.12.3
• sympy 1.0
• pandas 0.18.0
• a few code cleanup and fix
• docrepr
• pyqtgraph of 2016-01-15
• theano0.8.0
• spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+ of 2016-03-26
• pymc-3.0.0b2pre (masters of 2016-03-22)

(build3: 2016-03-27 = pandas 0.18, spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+, ... )

• Theano 0.8.1
• spyder 3.0.0 beta3pre+ (master of 2016-04-01)
• pymc-3.0.0b2pre (master of 2016-04-01 + Python 3-compatible generators in advi pymc-devs/pymc#1058
• Sphinx 1.4
• remove pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1
• Scikit-neuralnetwork 0.7 and lasagne 0.2dev-20160403
• pyqtgraph 0.9.10-2016-04-03
• pythonnet 2.1

(rc: 2016-04-04+)

• try build WinPython- 3.5.1.3Qt5 PyQt5-5.6.dev1604091249 and see if it sticks ... it doesn't for spyder. We have to wait PyQt5.6 and Spyder to stabilize, so it will be for WinPython 2016-03 betas

build1 (2016-02-28): updates + new set of '(student)' icons

main features (since WinPython 2016-01):

• ptpython is the new "WinPython Interpreter.exe"
• supporting two usages of WinPython:
  • classic usage: (with the classic icons)
    • users are working in the WinPython directory,
    • the WinPython is moved at will
  • 'student' usage: (with the 'student' icons)
    • the WinPython directory is mainly used in read-only mode,
    • users work is made on a local directory %userprofile%\Documents\WinPython%WYNPYVER% (c:\The_User_Profile\Documents\WinPython3.4.4.2Qt5build1)
    • admin/teachers can tweak that 'student' setup in 'env_for_student.bat` batch, as the 'student' icons rely on it.
• "WinPythonZero" versions have now Jupyter and qtconsole icons
• package updates.

Area of interest for testers:

• check the new '(student)' icons work as expected, no drawbacks,

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• mkl-service 1.1.2 ()
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.4 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.6 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.3 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.58 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.0.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.29 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.8.7 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.5 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.1.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.4.20160217 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

History of changes for WinPython 3.5.1.3Zero

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.5.1.2Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.58 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.29 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.1.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.4.20160217 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

build2 (2016-03-06): finalized "icon launching" method, "spyder" changes

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build1):

• WinPython icons set is changed to support "classic" and "student" mode:
  • classic usage:
    • users are working in the WinPython directory,
    • the WinPython is moved at will
  • 'student' usage: (untaging '#' line in default WinPython.ini)
    • the WinPython directory is mainly used in read-only mode,
    • users work is made on a local directory %userprofile%\Documents\WinPython%WYNPYVER% (c:\The_User_Profile\Documents\WinPython3.4.4.2build2)
    • admin/teachers can tweak that setup via 'winpython.ini'.
    • make_working_directory_be_winpython.bat and make_working_directory_not_be_winpython.bat allows one-click change between the two options
• spyder-3.0.0beta3 (pre), which requires a different launching method (previous WinPython icons will break)

Area of interest for testers:

• experiment the new launching system, check the new spyder
• check Windows 10 is ok.

Next Build2:

• pandas 0.18.0, spyder 3.0.0.beta3 final

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2 (build2)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• mkl-service 1.1.2 ()
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.6 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.1 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.0 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.59 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.0.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.30 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.1 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.8.7 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.0 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.3.6 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

build3: 2016-03-27 = pandas 0.18, build simplification process, spyder3.0.0beta3pre+)

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build2):

• fix error in WinPython Interpreter Icon,
• packages update: pandas 0.18.0, Spyder-3.0.0b3pre, sympy 1.0, pyqtgraph-2016-03-14
• Tensor-style computation refresh:
  • Theano 0.8.0, Lasagne 0.2.dev1-20160326, scikit-neuralnetwork
  • pymc 3.0beta-2016-03-19 (works ok on python 3.4 only, as pymc3 needs a compiler)
• Experiment: pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (hoping to get a dev2 for release)

Area of interest for testers:

• pymc3 and Lasagne, on WinPython3.4
• spyder 3.0.0b3
• participate in pythonnet dev2 effort

Known annoyances:

• spyder 3 leaves a process running if you stop Spyder less than 30 seconds after its start, an old problem we notice just now (so maybe not a big problem).
• pythonnet dev1 is buggy, dev2 should be ok but is late.
• spyder 3 at first start goes to internet.

Next Build4/rc focus:

• stabilization: spyder3 beta3 final, pythonnet dev2, pymc3

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Zero (build3)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Zero

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.31 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2 (build3)

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• docrepr 0.1.0 (docrepr renders Python docstrings in HTML.)
• lasagne 0.2.dev1 (neural network tools for Theano)
• mkl-service 1.1.2 (Python bindings to some MKL service functions)
• mpmath 0.19 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)
• pymc3 3.0 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)
• pythonnet 2.1.0.dev1 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• scikit-neuralnetwork 0.6.1 (Deep neural networks without the learning cliff! A wrapper library compatible with scikit-learn.)
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.4 → 1.4.5 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• castra 0.1.6 → 0.1.7 (On-disk partitioned store)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.3 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.7 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cython 0.23.4 → 0.23.5 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.2 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-core 4.0.6 → 4.1.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• lxml 3.5.0 → 3.6.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)
• markdown 2.6.5 → 2.6.6 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• netcdf4 1.2.2 → 1.2.3.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.3 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pandas 0.17.1 → 0.18.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.1.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.31 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pylint 1.5.4 → 1.5.5 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.2 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyopengl 3.1.1b1 → 3.1.1 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.9.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• pytz 2015.7 → 2016.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.2 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.0 (Jupyter Qt console)
• qtpy 0.1.3 → 1.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.3 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.2.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.3.6 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• sqlparse 0.1.18 → 0.1.19 (Non-validating SQL parser)
• sympy 0.7.6.1 → 1.0 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
• theano 0.7.0 → 0.8.0 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)
• traitlets 4.1.0 → 4.2.1 (Traitlets Python config system)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160305 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

rc: 2016-04-05..2016-04-08: pythonnet 2.1, numba 0.25 for all, theano 0.8.1

main features (since WinPython 2016-02 build3):

• recent numba 0.25 release in all branches, (windows 7/8 users may have to install "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable" at https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-visual-c)

• pythonnet 2.1 final

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History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2Zero

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• docopt 0.6.2 (Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile)
• jedi 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• prompt-toolkit 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• ptpython 0.32 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pygments 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pythonnet 2.1.0 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• six 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)
• wcwidth 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

Upgraded packages:

• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.6.7 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160402 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.2

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.4.1.

Python packages

New packages:

• docrepr 0.1.0 (docrepr renders Python docstrings in HTML.)
• imagesize 0.7.0 ()
• lasagne 0.2.dev1 (neural network tools for Theano)
• mkl-service 1.1.2 (Python bindings to some MKL service functions)
• mpmath 0.19 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)
• pymc3 3.0 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)
• pythonnet 2.1.0 (.Net and Mono integration for Python)
• scikit-neuralnetwork 0.7 (Deep neural networks without the learning cliff! A wrapper library compatible with scikit-learn.)
• wordcloud 1.2.1 (A little word cloud generator)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.4 → 1.4.5 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• blosc 1.2.8 → 1.3.0 (Blosc data compressor)
• bqplot 0.5.1 → 0.5.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• castra 0.1.6 → 0.1.7 (On-disk partitioned store)
• certifi 2015.11.20.1 → 2016.2.28 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)
• cffi 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• click 6.2 → 6.6 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• cloudpickle 0.1.1 → 0.2.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• colorama 0.3.5 → 0.3.7 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• cycler 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Composable style cycles)
• cyordereddict 0.2.2 → 1.0.0 (Cython implementation of Python's collections.OrderedDict)
• cython 0.23.4 → 0.24 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)
• cytoolz 0.7.4 → 0.7.5 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)
• dask 0.7.6 → 0.8.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• decorator 4.0.6 → 4.0.7 (Better living through Python with decorators)
• dill 0.2.4 → 0.2.5 (serialize all of python (almost))
• holoviews 1.4.1 → 1.4.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.2 → 4.3.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.1.1 → 4.1.2 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jupyter-client 4.1.1 → 4.2.2 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-console 4.1.0 → 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• jupyter-core 4.0.6 → 4.1.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.1 → 0.3.3 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• llvmlite 0.6.0 → 0.10.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)
• lmfit 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)
• lxml 3.5.0 → 3.6.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)
• markdown 2.6.5 → 2.6.6 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• mistune 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• netcdf4 1.2.2 → 1.2.3.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• networkx 1.10 → 1.11 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)
• nltk 3.0.5 → 3.2 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numba 0.20.0 → 0.25.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)
• numexpr 2.4.6 → 2.5.1 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)
• numpydoc 0.5 → 0.6.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)
• oct2py 3.4.0 → 3.5.3 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (Data migration in Python)
• pandas 0.17.1 → 0.18.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)
• pg8000 1.10.2 → 1.10.5 (PostgreSQL interface library)
• pillow 3.1.1 → 3.2.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
• pip 8.0.2 → 8.1.1 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.57 → 0.60 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.4.2 → 4.1.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• ptpython 0.28 → 0.32 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyflakes 0.9.2 → 1.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)
• pygments 2.1 → 2.1.3 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pylint 1.5.4 → 1.5.5 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.2 → 3.2.2 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyopengl 3.1.1b1 → 3.1.1 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)
• pyparsing 2.0.7 → 2.1.0 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pytest 2.8.5 → 2.9.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• python-dateutil 2.4.2 → 2.5.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)
• pytz 2015.7 → 2016.3 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)
• qtawesome 0.2.0 → 0.3.3 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)
• qtconsole 4.1.1 → 4.2.1 (Jupyter Qt console)
• qtpy 0.1.3 → 1.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• reportlab 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (The PDF generation library)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rx 1.2.4 → 1.2.6 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)
• scikit-image 0.11.3 → 0.12.3 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)
• scikit-learn 0.17 → 0.17.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)
• setuptools 19.6.2 → 20.6.7 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• simplejson 3.8.1 → 3.8.2 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• sphinx 1.3.5 → 1.4 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.11 → 1.0.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• sqlite-bro 0.8.10 → 0.8.11 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)
• sqlparse 0.1.18 → 0.1.19 (Non-validating SQL parser)
• sympy 0.7.6.1 → 1.0 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)
• theano 0.7.0 → 0.8.1 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)
• traitlets 4.1.0 → 4.2.1 (Traitlets Python config system)
• werkzeug 0.11.3 → 0.11.4 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wheel 0.26.0 → 0.29.0 (A built-package format for Python.)
• winpython 1.3 → 1.5.20160402 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))
• wrapt 1.10.6 → 1.10.7 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)
• xarray 0.7.0 → 0.7.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

The latest (currently Update 2) downloads of the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable" moved to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-visual-c

hi @cgohlke ,

Thank you for the information, will update links.