audit-trail:

• remove nose from default build (unless a package requirement still pulls it),
• infrastructure:
  • separate 32bit from 64bit audit trails (32bit is dying, changelogs are becoming different, had to do it by hand for 2017-01):
  • WinPythonQt5-64bit-3.6.1.1.md summary
  • WinPythonQt5-64bit-3.6.1.1_History.md changelog
• pyqt-5.8.2
• scikit-image-0.13.0
• Jupyterlab-0.19.0, qtconsole-3.0.0, ipykernel-4.6.1
• numba-0.32.0
• lmfit-0.9.6
• WinPythonZero : joblib, dask[bag, delayed], brotli, python-snappy
• fastparquet-0.0.5
• holoview-1.7.0rc1 (still labelled 1.7.dev8... a string bug)
• ipython-6.0.0rc1
• spyder-3.1.4dev0-20170415
• infrastructure : switch from winpython.qt to winpython._vendor.Qtpy (drop specifics to allow pyside2)
• pylint-1.7.1
• thriftpy-0.3.9+ cythonized thanks to cgohlke
• backpedal to tornado-4.4.3 (windows: No supported color terminal library tornadoweb/tornado#2013)
  (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43443974/no-supported-color-terminal-library-python-jupyter)
• tornado-4.5.1
• spyder-3.1.4dev0-20170421 (just missing translations)
• tensorflow-1.1.0
• jupyterlab-0.20.0, jupyter-launcher
• pandas-0.20.0rc1
• remove MPL from bokeh example (ongoing deprecation of bokeh-mpl link)
• an icon jupyterlab shall be usefull in this intermediate times

build1 (2017-04-23: ipython-6.0, holoviews-1.7, matplotlib-2.0.1, droping python 2.7/3.4 as we look for C++11 packages)

• holoviews-1.7.0
• ipython-6.0.0
• jupyterlab_launcher
• Jupyterlab-0.20.3
• Edward-1.3.0
• spyder-3.1.4
• 2017-04-29 fail test on Vitables for Qt5 (even on WinPython-64bit-3.5.3.0Qt5)
• vitables-2.2.1dev0 (with QtPy patch)
• feather_format-0.3.1
• matplotlib-2.0.1
• pandas-0.20.0rc2
• pandas-0.20.1
• llvmlite-0.18.0, numba-0.33
• dask-0.14.3 (pandas-0.20.1 compta.)
• supersmoother
• stay on nbdime-0.2 as nbdime-0.3 requires gitpython which requires gitdb2 which requires smmap , all requiring pygit ... a bit too much at the moment
• mypy-0.510

build2 (2017-05-07: vitables, matplotlib-2.0.1)

• jupyterlab-0.21.0,
• matplotlib-2.0.2
• pyarrow-0.3.0 on python-3.6 64bits
• jupyterlab-0.22.0
• pyarrow-0.4.0
• seaborn-0.8.dev0-2070512 (pandas-0.20 fix)
• jupyterlab-0.22.1
• FAILED try to upgrade jedi-0.10.3dev21070525 (works less nicely than jedi-0.10.2 on spyder editor)
• seaborn-0.8.dev0-2070522
• nbdime-0.3.0 (as even Windows is on GIT )
• spyder-3.2.0dev-20170524
• imageio-2.2.0
• pybind11
• ipython-6.1.0 (announced for may 24th)
• jupyterlab-0.23.1
• pandas-0.20.2
• jupyterlab-0.24.1
• spyder-3.1.2dev20160615
• pyarrow-0.4.0 (python-3.6 64 bit, with parquet support )
• bokeh-0.12.6
• pyarrow-0.4.1 (python-3.5/3.6 64 bit, with parquet support )
• holoviews-0.18.2dev-20160617
• pygame (there is also some non-game use of it, even with jupyter notebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtDJYpceqw)

build3 (2017-06-18, delayed by a busy week-end: ipython-6.1, pandas-0.20.2, jupyterlab-0.23.1, spyder-3.2dev )

• scikit-learn-0.18.2 (compatibility patch with numpy-0.13)
• check cvxpy possibility (initial fail, pyreadline is a pain)
• holoviews 1.8.0
• python-3.6.2rc2
• holoviews 1.8.1
• jupyterlab-0.25.1
• pyreadline i hate you
• pandas-0.20.3
• seaborn-0.8.0
• cvxpy-0.4.10
• spyder-3.2-20170709am (3.2 final maybe)
• keras_vis-0.4.1
• upgrade to vc_redist_v3 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53840
  , build 14.0.24215), required for some future package
• plotnine replaces ggpy
• feather_format-0.4 ... will have dependancy on pyarrow (aye aye: no wheel yet)

b4 (2017-07-08, may slip by 7 days more)

• numpy-0.13.1
• mpldatacursor
• spyder-notebook

b5 (2017-07-16, for the failed b4 attempt on python-3.6.2rc2 32bit)

• python-3.6.2 final
• typed-ast-1.0.4 (and not higher)
• mpl-scatter-density
• Jupyterlab widgets extension requires npm / nodejs-6.11.1
• Jupyterlab-0.26.4
• altair-widgets
• spyder-3.2.1.dev20170729
• spyder-reports
• spyder-terminal

b6 (2017-07-30, nodejs, spyder-terminal)

• python-3.6.2 final (was still python-3.6.2rc2)
• ipywidgets-7.0.0b3 (should be compatible with jupyterlab-0.26.4, so we should be see what jupyterlab truly is)
• Pulp-1.6.8
• datashader
• holoviews-1.8.2
• spyder-3.2.1.dev20170805
• notebook-5.1.0rc1
• ffmpeg, moviepy
• ipywidgets-7.0.0b7 (apparently ipyleaftlet/bqplot/bokeh will work on classic notebook, not in jupyterlab before a while)
• Jupyterlab-0.26.5
• python-3.5.4
• notebook-5.1rc1
• back to ipywidgets-6.0.0: ipywidgets-7 with a big and stable ecosystem is looking still month away

rc (2017-08-13) : (ffmpeg)

may drop it (unless we slip again of 7 days) :

• fresh scikit-learn-0.19.0 has some compatibility breakage with scikit-optimize
• altair-1.3

next time:

• baking ipywidget-7.0betas still baking, and so ecosystem not compatible yet (wait in 1 month)
• interesting "categorical" bokeh-0.12.7 may arrive after August 22nd
• altair-2.0

experiments:

• not turbodbc-2.1 (... too invasive for now).
• rely on qtpy for Qt interface (should allow Pyside2, one day)
• cntk-2.0 is now officially python-3.6 (33 Mo yet, because of opencv which adds 13 Mo, then add MSMpiSetup.exe for 5 Mo) . the need to install MSMpisetup.exe is a problem for WinPython case. KEras support supposed to work .... wiating to see benchmark on cpu
• review nddime-0.3 consequences
• (long term idea) remove heavy PyQt5 need from wppm:
  • idle gui: painfull
  • Flask: very painfull
  • there may be other things.

Would it be possible to add GPflow too?
I haven't succeeded in installing it yet :(

@unoe : not at the moment.

llvmlite updated to v0.17.1 http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#llvmlite

@hiccup7 thanks. now struggling with fastparquet

build1 (2017-04-2x): numpy-0.11.2, pandas-0.19.0, bokeh-0.12.5

main features (since WinPython 2017-01 ):

• pandas-0.20.0rc1, fastparquet, spyder-3.1.4dev0-20170421 (one commit from release)
• Jupyterlab-0.20.0 (still alpha), add "Jupyter Lab" icon, remove "QtLinguist" icon)
• ipython-6.0.0

Areas of interest for testers:

• pandas-0.20, spyder-3.1.4, ipython-6.0 (stability ?)
• Jupyterlab (alpha)

Next Focus:

• tweaks around Jupyterlab / Web technologies
• tweaks around Pandas / Parquet / Arrow / Data technologies
• hope for numpy-1.12.2 ?

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.1.1Zero

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.1.0Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• cloudpickle 0.2.2 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• dask 0.14.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• joblib 0.11 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• locket 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)

• partd 0.3.7 (Appendable key-value storage)

• python_snappy 0.5 (Python library for the snappy compression library from Google)

• toolz 0.8.2 (List processing tools and functional utilities)

Upgraded packages:

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.16 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 35.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.1.1Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.1.0Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• fastparquet 0.0.5 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.1.4 (Jupyter Launcher)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

• python_snappy 0.5 (Python library for the snappy compression library from Google)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.2 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.5 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.4.17 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.2 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.1 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.2 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.0.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.18.1 → 0.20.0 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.3 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.17.1 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.6 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.0.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.32.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.0rc1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.1.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.16 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.8.2 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 35.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.2 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 → 0.5.3 (Python Sorted Collections)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.5.5 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.9 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.1.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.5 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

Removed packages:

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

matplotlib v2.0.1 is available today. See http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#matplotlib

Please include Python 3.5 for future test builds.

llvmlite‑0.18.0 is available. May be required for numba-0.33.0.

build2 (2017-05-07): pandas-0.20.1, matplotlib-2.0.1, spyder-3.1.4

main features (since WinPython 2017-02 build1):

• pandas-0.20.1, matplotlib-2.0.1, numba-0.33.0, dask-0.14.2, feather-format-0.3.1
• Vitables-2.2.1dev0 (PyQt5 compatible at last)
• ipython-6.0.0, spyder-3.1.4, mypy-0.510 (on Python-3.6)

Areas of interest for testers: (to contribute bug examples and patches)

• check compatibility of other packages with pandas-0.20.1
• help Vitables maintainer to stabilize next release
• help check numba-0.33 new features

Next Focus:

• hunt Jupyterlab / ipywidgets progress towards usable beta
• trying to get pyarrow working on Windows
• checking cgohlke's move (or not) on numpy > 1.11.3

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.5.3.2Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.5.3.1Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• fastparquet 0.0.6 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• feather_format 0.3.1 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

• jupyterlab 0.20.3 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.1.4 (Jupyter Launcher)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

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

• supersmoother 0.4 (Python implementation of Friedman's Supersmoother)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

• vitables 2.2.1.dev0 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)

Upgraded packages:

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.2 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 → 4.6.0 (Screen-scraping library)

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.5 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.4.17 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.2 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• colorama 0.3.7 → 0.3.9 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• dask 0.14.1 → 0.14.3 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• distributed 1.16.1 → 1.16.2 (Distributed computing)

• edward 1.2.4 → 1.3.1 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.1 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.2 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• holoviews 1.7.dev8 → 1.7.0 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.0.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.4 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• lazy_object_proxy 1.2.2 → 1.3.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.18.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.6 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• matplotlib 2.0.0 → 2.0.1 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.0.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.33.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• param 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• partd 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.1.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.16 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.8.2 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• requests_file 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• s3fs 0.0.9 → 0.1.0 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 35.0.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.2 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 → 0.5.3 (Python Sorted Collections)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.5.5 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.1.4.dev0 → 3.1.4 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.9 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.1.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.5 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• zict 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Mutable mapping tools)

Removed packages:

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

I have been testing WinPython-64bit-3.5.3.2Qt5b2, with matplotlib upgraded to v2.0.2. Spyder crashed while using the editor. If I figure out how to reproduce the bug, I will post a PR to the Spyder team. Otherwise, build 2 is working fine for me.

thank you @hiccup7 for your time to test, debug, and propose a PR for spyder team.

here says TensorFlow only supports version 3.5.x of Python on Windows, so does it worthwhile to include in 3.6.x build ?

Yes:

• as much as possible, I try to get the same thing in all distros, so the switch to the newer WinPython is painless,
• cgohlke decided Tensorflow was compatible with Python-3.6,
• it's a bit lke the rear-camera option on cars: you can't affford not to have it,
• Theano/pymc3 shame on Windows-Python-3.5/3.6, because of gcc blocage per Microsoft legal wing, leaves no choice but to look at greener pastures, Tensorflow/Edward was the one I foresee, maybe you have a better idea ?.

Bottleneck‑1.2.1 is now available at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#bottleneck

Hi,
I have installation problems, but Google Groups for WinPython does not seem to be accepting postings

hi @joesoap99 , post rather on stackoverflow for this kind of questions

Any progress with making it really portable?

You're doing amazing work, really!

build3 (2017-06-18/19): pandas-0.20.1, matplotlib-2.0.1, spyder-3.1.4

main features (since WinPython 2017-02 build2):

• pandas-0.20.2, numba-0.33.0, dask-0.15.0, bokeh-0.12.6
• on 64bit version : pyarrow-0.4.1 (python-3.5/3.6 64bit), Tensorflow-1.2.0
• Vitables-3.0.0, ipython-6.1.0, spyder-3.2.0.dev0-2017-06-16, jupyterlab-0.24.1,
• pygame, python-3.6.2rc1

Areas of interest for testers: (to contribute bug examples and patches)

• spyder auto-completion (looks ok again)
• pyarrow/pandas things
• bad expectations : jupyterlab is not at beta level , as ipywidgets-7.0 is not there,

Next Focus:

• scipy-0.19.1, spyder-3.2.0-latest_dev, holoviews-1.8.0dev-latest (will not be jupyterlab compatible),
• release candidate (with jupyterlab being still not at beta level)

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.2.0Qt5b3

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.1.0Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• backports.weakref 1.0rc1 (Backport of new features in Python's weakref module)

• bkcharts 0.2 (High level chart types built on top of Bokeh)

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• fastparquet 0.1.0 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• feather_format 0.3.1 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

• gitdb2 2.0.0 (Git Object Database)

• gitpython 2.1.3 (Python Git Library)

• idna 2.5 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.2.9 (Jupyter Launcher)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

• pyarrow 0.4.1 ()

• pybind11 2.1.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pygame 1.9.3 (Pygame gives multimedia to python.)

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

• rope 0.10.5 (a python refactoring library...)

• smmap2 2.0.3 ()

• sphinxcontrib_websupport 1.0.1 (Sphinx API for Web Apps)

• supersmoother 0.4 (Python implementation of Friedman's Supersmoother)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

• urllib3 1.21.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vitables 3.0.0 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)

Upgraded packages:

• algopy 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Taylor Arithmetic Computation and Algorithmic Differentiation)

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 → 4.6.0 (Screen-scraping library)

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.6 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bottleneck 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.4.17 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.4 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• cloudpickle 0.2.2 → 0.3.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.3.7 → 0.3.9 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cx_freeze 5.0.1 → 5.0.2 (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))

• dask 0.14.1 → 0.15.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• distributed 1.16.1 → 1.17.1 (Distributed computing)

• edward 1.2.4 → 1.3.3 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• entrypoints 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.2 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.2 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• holoviews 1.7.dev8 → 1.8.dev2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• imageio 2.1.2 → 2.2.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.1.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• isort 4.2.5 → 4.2.15 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jmespath 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (JSON Matching Expressions)

• julia 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.0.1 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.18.1 → 0.24.1 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.5 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• lazy_object_proxy 1.2.2 → 1.3.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.18.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.7 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• lxml 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• matplotlib 2.0.0 → 2.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• metakernel 0.20.1 → 0.20.3 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mypy 0.501 → 0.511 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nbconvert 5.1.1 → 5.2.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nbdime 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks)

• netcdf4 1.2.7 → 1.2.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

• nltk 3.2.2 → 3.2.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.0.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.33.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.11.3+mkl → 1.13.0+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.2 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pandas_datareader 0.3.0.post0 → 0.4.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

• param 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• partd 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.1.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• py 1.4.33 → 1.4.34 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyflux 0.4.14 → 0.4.15 (Open source time series library for Python)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.16 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.8.2 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytest 3.0.7 → 3.1.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.6.1 → 3.6.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• requests 2.13.0 → 2.18.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_file 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• requests_toolbelt 0.7.1 → 0.8.0 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rpy2 2.8.5 → 2.8.6 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• s3fs 0.0.9 → 0.1.1 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 36.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.2 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.6.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.1.4.dev0 → 3.2.0.dev0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.10 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.2.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• testpath 0.3 → 0.3.1 (Test utilities for code working with files and commands)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• tqdm 4.11.2 → 4.14.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.8.1 → 1.9.1 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

• typed_ast 1.0.1 → 1.0.3 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• werkzeug 0.12.1 → 0.12.2 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.6 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• zict 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Mutable mapping tools)

Removed packages:

• appdirs 1.4.3 (A small Python module for determining appropriate " + "platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

• args 0.1.0 (Command Arguments for Humans.)

• clint 0.5.1 (Python Command Line Interface Tools)

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

• packaging 16.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• rope_py3k 0.9.4.post1 (a python refactoring library...)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 (Python Sorted Collections)

The build3 title says matplotlib-2.0.1, but the change log says matplotlib-2.0.2.

Was it a mistake to include numpy 1.13.0+mkl? Previously, you recommended using the version of numpy listed at the top of http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/
This currently says "Many binaries depend on numpy-1.11+mkl".
Can we expect problems with scipy and other packages that depend on numpy-1.11+mkl?
cc @cgohlke

build4 (2017-07-09/10): PyQt-5.9, pandas-0.20.3, spyder-3.2.0ev20170709)

It could have been an rc, but:

• PyQt5.9 suddenly arrived,
• Python-3.6.2 did an rc2,
• maybe cvxpy is arrived (and unfortunately pyreadline, for it to be possible)

main features (since WinPython 2017-02 build3):

• PyQt-5.9, spyder-3.2.0dev20170709 (with old console removal), scipy-0.19.1,
• new : cvxpy, plotnine replacing ggpy
• updates : pandas-0.20.3, numba-0.34.0, jupyterlab-0.25.1 (still an alpha), holiviews-1.8.1

Areas of interest for testers: (to contribute bug examples and patches)

• spyder and PyQt ok ? pandas ok ? cvxpy ok ? plotnine ok to replce ggpy ?

Next Focus:

• release candidate (with jupyterlab beta being promized for july 15th)
• looking at ipywidgets / bqplot upgrades, if so.

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.5.3.2Zero b4

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.5.3.1Zero.

Python packages

New packages:

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• cloudpickle 0.3.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• dask 0.15.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• joblib 0.11 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• locket 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)

• partd 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

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

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

• toolz 0.8.2 (List processing tools and functional utilities)

Upgraded packages:

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.17 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 36.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

Removed packages:

• appdirs 1.4.3 (A small Python module for determining appropriate " + "platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

• packaging 16.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pyparsing 2.2.0 (A Python Parsing Module)

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.5.3.2Qt5 b4

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.5.3.1Qt5.

Python packages

New packages:

• backports.weakref 1.0rc1 (Backport of new features in Python's weakref module)

• bkcharts 0.2 (High level chart types built on top of Bokeh)

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• cvxcanon 0.1.1 (common operations for convex optimization modeling tools.)

• cvxpy 0.4.10 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• dill 0.2.7 (serialize all of python (almost))

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

• enum34 1.1.6 (Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4)

• fastcache 1.0.2 (C implementation of Python 3 functools.lru_cache)

• fastparquet 0.1.0 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• feather_format 0.3.1 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

• gitdb2 2.0.0 (Git Object Database)

• gitpython 2.1.3 (Python Git Library)

• idna 2.5 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• jupyterlab 0.25.1 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.2.9 (Jupyter Launcher)

• keras_vis 0.4.1 (Neural network visualization toolkit for keras)

• mizani 0.3.1 (Scales for Python)

• multiprocess 0.70.5 (better multiprocessing and multithreading in python)

• palettable 3.0.0 (Color palettes for Python)

• plotnine 0.2.1 (A grammar of graphics for python)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

• pyarrow 0.4.1 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pybind11 2.1.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pygame 1.9.3 (Pygame gives multimedia to python.)

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

• rope 0.10.5 (a python refactoring library...)

• scs 1.2.6 (scs: splitting conic solver)

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

• sphinxcontrib_websupport 1.0.1 (Sphinx API for Web Apps)

• supersmoother 0.4 (Python implementation of Friedman's Supersmoother)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

• urllib3 1.21.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vitables 3.0.0 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)

Upgraded packages:

• algopy 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Taylor Arithmetic Computation and Algorithmic Differentiation)

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 → 4.6.0 (Screen-scraping library)

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.6 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bottleneck 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.4.17 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.4 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• cloudpickle 0.2.2 → 0.3.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.3.7 → 0.3.9 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cx_freeze 5.0.1 → 5.0.2 (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))

• dask 0.14.1 → 0.15.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• distributed 1.16.1 → 1.18.0 (Distributed computing)

• edward 1.2.4 → 1.3.3 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• entrypoints 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.2 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.3 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• holoviews 1.7.dev8 → 1.8.1 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• imageio 2.1.2 → 2.2.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.1.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• isort 4.2.5 → 4.2.15 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jmespath 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (JSON Matching Expressions)

• julia 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.6 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• lazy_object_proxy 1.2.2 → 1.3.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.19.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.7 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• lxml 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• matplotlib 2.0.0 → 2.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• metakernel 0.20.1 → 0.20.3 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• nbconvert 5.1.1 → 5.2.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nbdime 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks)

• netcdf4 1.2.7 → 1.2.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

• nltk 3.2.2 → 3.2.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.0.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.34.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.11.3+mkl → 1.13.0+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• numpydoc 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.3 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pandas_datareader 0.3.0.post0 → 0.4.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

• param 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• partd 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.2.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.14 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.39 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• ptyprocess 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal)

• py 1.4.33 → 1.4.34 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyflux 0.4.14 → 0.4.15 (Open source time series library for Python)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pymc3 3.0 → 3.1 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.17 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.9 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytest 3.0.7 → 3.1.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• requests 2.13.0 → 2.18.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_file 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• requests_toolbelt 0.7.1 → 0.8.0 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rpy2 2.8.5 → 2.8.6 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• s3fs 0.0.9 → 0.1.1 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.18.1 → 0.18.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 0.19.0 → 0.19.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• seaborn 0.8.dev0 → 0.8.0 (statistical data visualization)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 36.0.1 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• simplejson 3.10.0 → 3.11.1 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.3 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.6.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.1.4.dev0 → 3.2.0.dev0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.11 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• sympy 1.0 → 1.1 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.2.1 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• testpath 0.3 → 0.3.1 (Test utilities for code working with files and commands)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• tqdm 4.11.2 → 4.14.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.8.1 → 1.9.1 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

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

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• werkzeug 0.12.1 → 0.12.2 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170423 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.6 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlsxwriter 0.9.5 → 0.9.8 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

• zict 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Mutable mapping tools)

Removed packages:

• appdirs 1.4.3 (A small Python module for determining appropriate " + "platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

• args 0.1.0 (Command Arguments for Humans.)

• clint 0.5.1 (Python Command Line Interface Tools)

• commonmark 0.5.4 (Python parser for the CommonMark Markdown spec)

• ggplot 0.11.5 (ggplot for python)

• nbsphinx 0.2.13 (Jupyter Notebook Tools for Sphinx)

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

• packaging 16.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• recommonmark 0.4.0 (A markdown parser for docutils)

• rope_py3k 0.9.4.post1 (a python refactoring library...)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 (Python Sorted Collections)

build5 (2017-07-17): spyder-notebook, numpy-1.13.1, spyder-3.2.0dev20170715

Just for python-3.6.2 32 bit , who didn't have a build4.

main features (since WinPython 2017-02 build4):

• spyder-3.2.0 nearly final with (NEW!) spyder-notebook extension, (see screen below and demo https://youtu.be/Hf07PmwQwPQ?list=PLYx7XA2nY5GfdAFycPLBdUDOUtdQIVoMf&t=224 )
• numpy-1.13.1 at last (was numpy-1.11.3 last build)

Areas of interest for testers: (to contribute bug examples and patches)

• spyder-notebook, numpy-1.13.1 : do they work well ?

Next Focus:

• release candidate

build6 in the works (nodejs, spyder-3.2.1dev, jupyterlab-0.26.4)

main issue: (turns around this ? jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets#1551 (comment) )

• ipyleaflet not working on classic notebook because of ipywidgets-0.7.0.0b2
• ipywidgets-0.7.0.0b2 needs a refresh to match jupyterlab-0.26.4

interesting part to check:

• nodejs included (trying to do a portable functionnal jupyterlab stack)
• spyder-3.2.1 with spyder-notebook, spyder-terminal, spyder-reports
  

reverting to previous ipywidgets for release candidate is an option

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.2.0Qt5 b6

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.1.0Qt5.

Tools

New packages:

• Nodejs v6.11.1 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• backports.weakref 1.0rc1 (Backport of new features in Python's weakref module)

• bkcharts 0.2 (High level chart types built on top of Bokeh)

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• coloredlogs 7.1 (Colored terminal output for Python's logging module)

• cvxcanon 0.1.1 (common operations for convex optimization modeling tools.)

• cvxpy 0.4.10 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• dill 0.2.7.1 (serialize all of python (almost))

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

• enum34 1.1.6 (Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4)

• fast_histogram 0.2.1 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastcache 1.0.2 (C implementation of Python 3 functools.lru_cache)

• fastparquet 0.1.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• feather_format 0.3.1 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

• gitdb2 2.0.0 (Git Object Database)

• gitpython 2.1.3 (Python Git Library)

• humanfriendly 4.4 (Human friendly output for text interfaces using Python)

• idna 2.5 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• ipympl 0.0.5 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

• jupyter_sphinx 0.1.1 (Jupyter Sphinx Extensions)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.3.1 (Jupyter Launcher)

• keras_vis 0.4.1 (Neural network visualization toolkit for keras)

• mizani 0.3.2 (Scales for Python)

• mpl_scatter_density 0.2 (Fast scatter density plots for Matplotlib)

• mpldatacursor 0.6.2 (Interactive data cursors for Matplotlib)

• multiprocess 0.70.5 (better multiprocessing and multithreading in python)

• palettable 3.0.0 (Color palettes for Python)

• plotnine 0.2.1 (A grammar of graphics for python)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

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

• pyarrow 0.4.1 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pybind11 2.1.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pygame 1.9.3 (Pygame gives multimedia to python.)

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

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

• pywinpty 0.1.3 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pywinusb 0.4.2 (USB / HID windows helper library)

• rope 0.10.5 (a python refactoring library...)

• scs 1.2.6 (scs: splitting conic solver)

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

• sphinxcontrib_websupport 1.0.1 (Sphinx API for Web Apps)

• spyder_notebook 0.1.0.dev0 (Jupyter notebook integration with Spyder)

• spyder_reports 0.1.0.dev0 (pyder plugin to render Markdown reports using Pweave as a backend)

• spyder_terminal 0.2.0 (Spyder Plugin for displaying a virtual terminal (OS independent) inside the main Spyder window)

• supersmoother 0.4 (Python implementation of Friedman's Supersmoother)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

• urllib3 1.21.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vitables 3.0.0 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)

Upgraded packages:

• algopy 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Taylor Arithmetic Computation and Algorithmic Differentiation)

• altair_widgets 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Altair Widgets: An interactive visualization for statistical data for Python.)

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 → 4.6.0 (Screen-scraping library)

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.6 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bottleneck 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython)

• bqplot 0.9.0 → 0.10.0a3 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.4.17 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.4 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• cloudpickle 0.2.2 → 0.3.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.3.7 → 0.3.9 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cx_freeze 5.0.1 → 5.0.2 (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 0.25.2 → 0.26 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.14.1 → 0.15.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• decorator 4.0.11 → 4.1.2 (Better living through Python with decorators)

• distributed 1.16.1 → 1.18.0 (Distributed computing)

• edward 1.2.4 → 1.3.3 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• entrypoints 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.2 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.3 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• holoviews 1.7.dev8 → 1.8.1 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• imageio 2.1.2 → 2.2.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.1.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• ipywidgets 6.0.0 → 7.0.0b2 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

• isort 4.2.5 → 4.2.15 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jmespath 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (JSON Matching Expressions)

• julia 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.18.1 → 0.26.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.6 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• lazy_object_proxy 1.2.2 → 1.3.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.19.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.7 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• lxml 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• matplotlib 2.0.0 → 2.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• metakernel 0.20.1 → 0.20.4 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mypy 0.501 → 0.521 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nbconvert 5.1.1 → 5.2.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nbdime 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks)

• netcdf4 1.2.7 → 1.2.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

• nltk 3.2.2 → 3.2.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.0.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.34.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.11.3+mkl → 1.13.1+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• numpydoc 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.3 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pandas_datareader 0.3.0.post0 → 0.5.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

• param 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• partd 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.2.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.15 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.41 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• ptyprocess 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal)

• py 1.4.33 → 1.4.34 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyflux 0.4.14 → 0.4.15 (Open source time series library for Python)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pymc3 3.0 → 3.1 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.17 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.9 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pyserial 3.3 → 3.4 (Library encapsulating the access for the serial port)

• pytest 3.0.7 → 3.1.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.6.1 → 3.6.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dateutil 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• requests 2.13.0 → 2.18.2 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_file 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• requests_toolbelt 0.7.1 → 0.8.0 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rpy2 2.8.5 → 2.8.6 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• s3fs 0.0.9 → 0.1.2 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.18.1 → 0.18.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 0.19.0 → 0.19.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• seaborn 0.8.dev0 → 0.8.0 (statistical data visualization)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 36.2.4 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• simplejson 3.10.0 → 3.11.1 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.3 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sounddevice 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Play and Record Sound with Python)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.6.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.1.4.dev0 → 3.2.1.dev0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.12 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• sympy 1.0 → 1.1.1 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.2.1 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• testpath 0.3 → 0.3.1 (Test utilities for code working with files and commands)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• tqdm 4.11.2 → 4.15.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.8.1 → 1.9.1 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

• typed_ast 1.0.1 → 1.0.4 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

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

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• werkzeug 0.12.1 → 0.12.2 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)

• widgetsnbextension 2.0.0 → 3.0.0b2 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170715 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.6 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlsxwriter 0.9.5 → 0.9.8 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

• xlwings 0.10.4 → 0.11.4 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

• zict 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Mutable mapping tools)

Removed packages:

• appdirs 1.4.3 (A small Python module for determining appropriate " + "platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

• args 0.1.0 (Command Arguments for Humans.)

• clint 0.5.1 (Python Command Line Interface Tools)

• commonmark 0.5.4 (Python parser for the CommonMark Markdown spec)

• ggplot 0.11.5 (ggplot for python)

• nbsphinx 0.2.13 (Jupyter Notebook Tools for Sphinx)

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

• packaging 16.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• recommonmark 0.4.0 (A markdown parser for docutils)

• rope_py3k 0.9.4.post1 (a python refactoring library...)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 (Python Sorted Collections)

Build 6 has been working well for me.

Spyder v3.2.1 has no open issues: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/milestones
How about delaying the WinPython RC until Spyder v3.2.1 is available from Gohlke?
This would give me incentive to test the RC build.

rc (ffmpeg) : 2018-08-12/13

main change since last betas:

• going back to ipywidgets-6.0: ipywidgets-7.0 and its ecosystem are weeks from ready,
• notebook-5.1rc, spyder-3.1.2dev20170813am,
• qtpy-1.3
• don't upgrade to pywinpty-0.1.4, as it highlights issues on pywin32/pypiwin32 twin wheels (two workarounds to the same initial "pip install pywin32")
• ffmpeg.exe

main change since last beta:

• going back to ipywidgets-6.0: ipywidgets-7.0 and its ecosystem are weeks from ready,
• notebook-5.1rc, spyder-3.1.2dev20170813am,
• qtpy-1.3
• ffmpeg.exe

Interesting part to check:

• you may need to clear your browser cache with jupyter-notebook-5.1rc
• overall stability, latest python-3.5.4,
• examples of matplotlib using with ffmpeg,
• Jupyterlab infrastructure (launcher, nodejs), in anticipation of jupyterlab-1.0: errors/missing details are very possible.

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.5.4.0Qt5

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.5.3.1Qt5.

Tools

New packages:

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

• Nodejs v6.11.1 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• backports.weakref 1.0rc1 (Backport of new features in Python's weakref module)

• bkcharts 0.2 (High level chart types built on top of Bokeh)

• brotli 0.6.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

• colorcet 0.9.1 (A set of useful perceptually uniform colormaps for plotting scientific data)

• coloredlogs 7.3 (Colored terminal output for Python's logging module)

• cvxcanon 0.1.1 (common operations for convex optimization modeling tools.)

• cvxpy 0.4.10 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• datashader 0.5.0 (Data visualization toolchain based on aggregating into a grid)

• dill 0.2.7.1 (serialize all of python (almost))

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

• enum34 1.1.6 (Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4)

• fast_histogram 0.2.1 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastcache 1.0.2 (C implementation of Python 3 functools.lru_cache)

• fastparquet 0.1.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• feather_format 0.3.1 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

• gitdb2 2.0.0 (Git Object Database)

• gitpython 2.1.3 (Python Git Library)

• humanfriendly 4.4.1 (Human friendly output for text interfaces using Python)

• idna 2.5 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• ipympl 0.0.5 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

• jupyter_sphinx 0.1.1 (Jupyter Sphinx Extensions)

• jupyterlab 0.26.5 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• jupyterlab_launcher 0.3.1 (Jupyter Launcher)

• keras_vis 0.4.1 (Neural network visualization toolkit for keras)

• mizani 0.3.2 (Scales for Python)

• moviepy 0.2.3.2 (Video editing with Python)

• mpl_scatter_density 0.2 (Fast scatter density plots for Matplotlib)

• mpldatacursor 0.6.2 (Interactive data cursors for Matplotlib)

• multiprocess 0.70.5 (better multiprocessing and multithreading in python)

• mypy 0.521 (Optional static typing for Python)

• palettable 3.0.0 (Color palettes for Python)

• plotnine 0.2.1 (A grammar of graphics for python)

• ply 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

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

• pyarrow 0.5.0 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pybind11 2.1.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pygame 1.9.3 (Pygame gives multimedia to python.)

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

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

• pywinpty 0.1.3 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pywinusb 0.4.2 (USB / HID windows helper library)

• rope 0.10.5 (a python refactoring library...)

• scs 1.2.6 (scs: splitting conic solver)

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

• sphinxcontrib_websupport 1.0.1 (Sphinx API for Web Apps)

• spyder_notebook 0.2.0.dev0 (Jupyter notebook integration with Spyder)

• spyder_reports 0.1.0.dev0 (pyder plugin to render Markdown reports using Pweave as a backend)

• spyder_terminal 0.2.0 (Spyder Plugin for displaying a virtual terminal (OS independent) inside the main Spyder window)

• supersmoother 0.4 (Python implementation of Friedman's Supersmoother)

• thriftpy 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)

• typed_ast 1.0.4 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• urllib3 1.21.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vitables 3.0.0 (Graphical tool for browsing and editing files in both HDF5 and PyTables formats)

Upgraded packages:

• algopy 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Taylor Arithmetic Computation and Algorithmic Differentiation)

• altair_widgets 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Altair Widgets: An interactive visualization for statistical data for Python.)

• astroid 1.4.9 → 1.5.3 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 → 4.6.0 (Screen-scraping library)

• blosc 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 0.12.4 → 0.12.6 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bottleneck 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython)

• certifi 2017.1.23 → 2017.7.27.1 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• chardet 2.3.0 → 3.0.4 (Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3)

• cloudpickle 0.2.2 → 0.3.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.3.7 → 0.3.9 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cx_freeze 5.0.1 → 5.0.2 (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 0.25.2 → 0.26 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.14.1 → 0.15.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• db.py 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (a db package that doesn't suck)

• decorator 4.0.11 → 4.1.2 (Better living through Python with decorators)

• distributed 1.16.1 → 1.18.0 (Distributed computing)

• docutils 0.13.1 → 0.14 (Text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX (includes reStructuredText))

• edward 1.2.4 → 1.3.3 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

• entrypoints 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• flask 0.12 → 0.12.2 (A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions)

• flask_cors 2.1.2 → 3.0.3 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)

• holoviews 1.7.dev8 → 1.8.2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• imageio 2.1.2 → 2.2.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• ipykernel 4.5.2 → 4.6.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 5.3.0 → 6.1.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• isort 4.2.5 → 4.2.15 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.10.0 → 0.10.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• jinja2 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

• jmespath 0.9.2 → 0.9.3 (JSON Matching Expressions)

• julia 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• keras 2.0.2 → 2.0.6 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

• lazy_object_proxy 1.2.2 → 1.3.1 (A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.)

• llvmlite 0.16.0 → 0.19.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.5 → 0.9.7 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• lxml 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• matplotlib 2.0.0 → 2.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• metakernel 0.20.1 → 0.20.4 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• nbconvert 5.1.1 → 5.2.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nbdime 0.2.0 → 0.3.0 (Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks)

• netcdf4 1.2.7 → 1.2.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

• nltk 3.2.2 → 3.2.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.0.0rc2 → 5.1.0rc1 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.31.0 → 0.34.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.11.3+mkl → 1.13.1+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• numpydoc 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format)

• oct2py 4.0.5 → 4.0.6 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

• pandas 0.19.2 → 0.20.3 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• pandas_datareader 0.3.0.post0 → 0.5.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

• pandocfilters 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (Utilities for writing pandoc filters in python)

• param 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• partd 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Appendable key-value storage)

• pillow 4.0.0 → 4.2.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• prompt_toolkit 1.0.13 → 1.0.15 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.2.0 → 5.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• ptpython 0.36 → 0.41 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

• ptyprocess 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal)

• pulp 1.6.5 → 1.6.8 (PuLP is an LP modeler written in python. PuLP can generate MPS or LP files and call GLPK, COIN CLP/CBC, CPLEX, and GUROBI to solve linear problems)

• py 1.4.33 → 1.4.34 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyflakes 1.5.0 → 1.6.0 (passive checker of Python programs)

• pyflux 0.4.14 → 0.4.15 (Open source time series library for Python)

• pylint 1.6.5 → 1.7.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pymc3 3.0 → 3.1 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

• pymongo 3.4.0 → 3.5.0 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)

• pyodbc 4.0.15 → 4.0.17 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyqt5 5.8.1 → 5.9 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pyserial 3.3 → 3.4 (Library encapsulating the access for the serial port)

• pytest 3.0.7 → 3.2.0 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.5.3 → 3.5.4 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dateutil 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

• pytz 2016.10 → 2017.2 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywin32 220.1 → 221 (Python library for Windows)

• qtconsole 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

• qtpy 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

• requests 2.13.0 → 2.18.3 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_file 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (File transport adapter for Requests)

• requests_toolbelt 0.7.1 → 0.8.0 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rpy2 2.8.5 → 2.8.6 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• rx 1.5.8 → 1.5.9 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

• s3fs 0.0.9 → 0.1.2 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

• scikit_image 0.13.dev0 → 0.13.0 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.18.1 → 0.18.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 0.19.0 → 0.19.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• seaborn 0.8.dev0 → 0.8.0 (statistical data visualization)

• setuptools 34.3.2 → 36.2.7 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• simplejson 3.10.0 → 3.11.1 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

• sip 4.19.1 → 4.19.3 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

• sounddevice 0.3.7 → 0.3.8 (Play and Record Sound with Python)

• sphinx 1.5.2 → 1.6.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.1.4.dev0 → 3.2.1.dev0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• sqlalchemy 1.1.6 → 1.1.13 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• sympy 1.0 → 1.1.1 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)

• tables 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

• tblib 1.3.0 → 1.3.2 (Traceback serialization library.)

• tensorflow 1.0.1 → 1.2.1 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• testpath 0.3 → 0.3.1 (Test utilities for code working with files and commands)

• tornado 4.4.2 → 4.5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

• tqdm 4.11.2 → 4.15.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.8.1 → 1.9.1 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

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

• webencodings 0.5 → 0.5.1 (Character encoding aliases for legacy web content)

• werkzeug 0.12.1 → 0.12.2 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)

• winpython 1.7.20170128 → 1.9.20170812 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• wordcloud 1.3.1 → 1.3.2 (A little word cloud generator)

• xarray 0.9.1 → 0.9.6 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlsxwriter 0.9.5 → 0.9.8 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

• xlwings 0.10.4 → 0.11.4 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

• zict 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Mutable mapping tools)

Removed packages:

• appdirs 1.4.3 (A small Python module for determining appropriate " + "platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

• args 0.1.0 (Command Arguments for Humans.)

• clint 0.5.1 (Python Command Line Interface Tools)

• commonmark 0.5.4 (Python parser for the CommonMark Markdown spec)

• ggplot 0.11.5 (ggplot for python)

• nbsphinx 0.2.13 (Jupyter Notebook Tools for Sphinx)

• nose 1.3.7 (nose is a discovery-based unittest extension (e.g. NumPy test module is using nose))

• packaging 16.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• recommonmark 0.4.0 (A markdown parser for docutils)

• rope_py3k 0.9.4.post1 (a python refactoring library...)

• sortedcollections 0.4.2 (Python Sorted Collections)

@hiccup7 , spyder-3.2.1dev is not moving since a few days, so I took it as it is now, with last minute Qtpy-1.3

@stonebig , How come you take development builds of Spyder?

procedure:

• go there : https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/tree/3.x
• click on green download button, place result in d:\toto, it will download a "d:\toto\spyder-3.x.zip"
• unzip the result in d:\toto\spyder-3.x\spyder-3.x,
• launch an existing "WinPython Command Prompt.exe"
• cd/D d;\toto\spyder-3.x\spyder-3.x
• python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
• then you have a wheel at d:\toto\spyder-3.x\spyder-3.x\dist
• and now you can install that wheel the usual way.

also, this may be simplified, if you don't bother the wheel:

• launch an existing "WinPython Command Prompt.exe"
• pip uninstall spyder
• pip install https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/archive/3.x.zip

there may be simpler steps.

for pre-releases of bokeh, that doesn't work and the method to use is:

• pip install --pre -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/bokeh/channel/dev/simple bokeh

I didn't mean how you do it.
I asked why you use in your distribution the development builds instead of the official builds?

The Spyder stable build is perfect for Anaconda stable-release, but sometimes lacks some bug-fixes for WinPython.

So I use the dev build of Spyder stable branch 3.x, when it contains bug-fixes I want.

I see.
Seems reasonable.

They have a great progress there with Spyder, really great team.

@stonebig , It seems PyTorch (@pytorch) is heading to Windows release in 0.4.

You should take it under consideration (With CuDNN 7 + CUDA 8 / 9) in your next release.

pytorch is certainly great, trading blows with tensorflow for the benefit of Python stack. Yet I probably can't ship "CuDNN 7 + CUDA 8 / 9" with it.... But I see on the front page a "Facebook and Microsoft introduce ONNX"

Let me know when it comes to Windows, and I'll have a check

I'm not sure how it works but I think it has CuDNN built in.
So all needed is to use the one with CuDNN 7.

I'm not sure about CUDA (Does it use the system library or its own).

I will surely let you know once it is available.

Thank You.

There is also the japan "Cupy/chainer" outsider that Travis Oliphant (numpy father) noticed https://twitter.com/teoliphant/status/941758883554619392

I think Tensorflow/cuda have the marketshare for this round, but things evolve quickly and cuda must loose dominance, as it's vendor-tied.

@stonebig , As you can see in ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#7410 PyTorch is a package by itself. Coming with CuDNN + CUDA on its own.

It is a native Python Deep Learning package.
It doesn't have to be Tensorflow or PyTorch.

By the way, it seems Windows support will be official in version 0.4 of PyTorch.

Good news: having all leading DeepLearning packages under Python makes Python sucessfull.

Unfortunately, Tensorflow is already getting too big for WinPython 2go limit, and Pytorch shall be bigger.