Anaconda Distribution 1.x release notes

Fixes:

• updated to openssl 1.0.1g on Unix to fix the “Heartbleed bug” of the TLS Heartbeat Extension problem (reported in the news)
• fixed /D option in silent mode for Windows installer

Updates:

• openssl from 1.0.1c to 1.0.1g
• conda from 3.0.6 to 3.4.1
• conda-build from 1.2.0 to 1.3.1

Fixes:

• openpyxl to depend on up-to-date version of lxml
• added missing MSVCP (both for 2008 and 2010) DLLs to Windows installers which fixes issues with the user install mode on some systems

Updates:

• conda from 3.0.3 to 3.0.6
• conda-build from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
• numba from 0.12.0 to 0.12.1
• pandas from 0.13.0 to 0.13.1
• python from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4

Added:

• added Py3k support for h5py
• netcdf4 on 32-bit Windows
• xlsxwriter 0.5.2

Highlights:

• NumPy updated to version 1.8
• updates to about 35 packages, including Bokeh and Blaze
• added 10 new packages

Enhancements:

• use MSVC 2010 to compile Python 3 and C extensions on Windows
• remove distribute in favor of setuptools
• enable threadsafe when building HDF5 on Linux
• renamed the Python Imaging Library (PIL) from imaging to pil
• updated EULA

Fixes:

• ssl bindings in Python standard library on macOS
• Windows installers not working properly when PYTHONHOME is set

Updated:

• conda from 2.0.4 to 3.0.3
• numba from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0
• numpy from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0
• pandas from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0
• python from 2.7.5 to 2.7.6
• requests 1.2.3 to 2.2.1
• scipy from 0.13.0 to 0.13.2
• sympy from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4.1

Added:

• argcomplete 0.6.7
• blz 0.6.1
• cdecimal 2.3
• conda-build 1.1.0
• datashape 0.1.0
• future 0.11.2
• kiwisolver 0.1.2
• mock 1.0.1
• setuptools 2.1
• ssl_match_hostname 3.4.0.2
• ujson 1.33
• scikit-learn and redis-py support for Python 3
• added traits and unittest2 support for Python 2.6

Removed:

• distribute
• llvmmath
• meta

Enhancements:

• on Windows the installer now allows installing in user mode without having system administrator privileges
• use RPATH (instead of RUNPATH) on Linux, which fixes link problems when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set
• added ipython-notebook meta package for all supported Python versions
• removed curl binary on macOS, to avoid superseding system curl

Fixes:

• wrong location of VTK libraries in VTKTargets-debug.cmake on Linux
• fix python.app problem related to adding the symlink to lib, which also appears to create problems with %%cython magic in ipython
• apply patch to Mayavi, which foxes running mlab scripts

Updated:

• conda from 1.9.1 to 2.0.4
• ipython 1.0.0 to 1.1.0
• matplotlib from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
• numba from 0.10.2 to 0.11.0
• scikit-image from 0.8.2 to 0.9.3
• scipy from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0
• sypder from 2.2.4 to 2.2.5

Added:

• blaze 0.3
• pykit 0.1
• beautiful-soup 4.3.1
• openpyxl 1.6.2

Highlights:

• added VTK, Mayavi and Bokeh
• updated to new ipython 1.0 and matplotlib 1.3, and llvm 3.3
• many improvements and bug fixes to conda

Enhancements:

• removed conda as a direct anaconda dependency
• add MinGW runtime DLLs to Scripts directory on Windows
• fixed python-dateutil for Python 2

Updated:

• conda from 1.7.2 to 1.9.1
• ipython from 0.13.2 to 1.0.0
• matplotlib from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0
• numba from 0.9.0 to 0.10.2
• pandas from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0
• scikit-learn from 0.13.1 to 0.14.1
• spyder from 2.2.0 to 2.2.4
• sympy from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3

Added:

• bokeh 0.1.1
• chaco 4.3.0
• configobj 4.7.2
• markupsafe 0.18
• mayavi 4.3.0
• patsy 0.2.1
• traits 4.3.0
• vtk 5.10.1

• Fixed path being incorrectly appended on Windows during install

• fixed .pkg installer
• updated binstar from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2 (fixes upload on Windows)
• updated conda from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2 (fixes updating python.app on macOS)
• updated dynd from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0
• updated launcher from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2
• added missing pydoc command on Unix
• macOS: fix hard coded build prefix in .dylib files for may other libraries
• Windows: append instead of prepend path on Windows

Highlights:

• the “Launcher”, which allows users to start up applications
• conda has now the ability to build conda packages, which can be uploaded to binstar.org
• conda now uses a SAT solver to solve the install dependency problem

Enhancements:

• added a .pkg installer for macOS, such that installing Anaconda does not require command line access
• create copy of .bashrc (.bash_profile on macOS) before appending the PATH setting upon install
• Windows Menu items should are now installed system wide

Fixes:

• removed Lib/test/testbz2_bigmem.bz2 from Windows, this (harmless) file was triggering Trojan-ArcBomb.BZip.Agent warning, see: <http://bugs.python.org/issue17843>
• json.decoder in Python 2.7 standard library not using .decode(‘hex’), this was (mysteriously) causing install problems on macOS
• fixed PIL._imagetk on Linux

Updated:

• python from 2.7.4 to 2.7.5, and 3.3.1 to 3.3.2
• conda from 1.5.2 to 1.7.1
• numba from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
• requests from 1.2.0 to 1.2.3

Added:

• launcher 0.1.1
• binstar 0.1.1
• itsdangerous 0.21
• keyring 1.4
• llvmmath 0.1.0
• pep8 1.4.5
• pywin32 218.4 on Windows

• fixed pip command
• replace spaces by underscore in user install location
• shared libraries now link to /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (instead of /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib)

Highlights:

• updates to all important packages: python, numpy, scipy, ipython, matplotlib, pandas, cython
• added netCDF4 (with OpenDAP support) on Linux and macOS

Fixed:

• Cython on macOS on Python 2.6, due to a problem with Pyhton’s config/Makefile
• py.test command (all platforms)
• python-config command not using correct interpreter on macOS
• added missing MSVC 2008 and 2010 runtime to Windows installers
• removed hard-coded build location from identification name of dynamic shared libraries on macOS, to allow easier building against libraries in Anaconda

Enhancements:

• The Windows installers has a new dialog box with the following options:
  • “Add Anaconda to the System Path”
  • “Register Anaconda as default Python version of the system”
• The Unix installers have an option to add Anaconda to the path in the ~/.bashrc (on Linux) or ~/.bash_profile (on macOS). On macOS the default is ‘yes’, on Linux the default is ‘no’.
• added armv6l supports (only Python 2.7 and selected packages)
• link pycurl and libnetcdf dynamically against curl library on Unix
• add configure option –with-pgm for zeromq on Unix

Updates:

• python from 2.7.3 to 2.7.4, and 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
• numpy from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1
• scipy from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0
• ipython from 0.13.1 to 0.13.2
• matplotlib from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
• conda from 1.4.4 to 1.5.2
• numba from 0.7.0 to 0.8.1
• pandas from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0
• requests from 0.13.9 to 1.2.0
• scikit-learn from 0.13 to 0.13.1
• spyder from 2.1.13 to 2.2.0
• sympy from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2

Removed (from installer only, still available with conda):

• bitey
• gdata (conflicts with atom (which is required by enaml))
• googlecl (requires gdata)

Many more packages are now supported on Python 3.3. In addition, we have added Python 3 support on Windows, such that now Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 is supported across all platforms. In addition, we have redesigned the Windows installer, which was suffering from a number of problems, in particular the lack of uninstall functionality and the GUI not working on some systems.

updated:

• conda from 1.3.5 to 1.4.2
• numba from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0
• numpy from 1.7rc1 to 1.7.0
• scikit-image from 0.7.1 to 0.8.2

fixed:

• pytables on Windows

other notes:

• Linux: a ATLAS package is now available (conda install atlas). In addition the site.cfg in the numpy.distutils has been updated, such that other packages (e.g. scipy) which use the atlas build configuration can be build against the (non-MKL linked) numpy in Anaconda.

added:

• Python 2.6 support for iopro, numba and numbapro
• Python 2.6 support on Windows (Python 2.6 is now supported on all platforms)
• added pythonw (the command to run Python GUI applications) on macOS
• added chaco on Windows

updates:

• conda from 1.3.2 to 1.3.5
• numba from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0

fixes:

• fixed missing Grammar.txt in Sphinx
• recompiled llvm and llvmpy using gcc 4.4.6 on Linux, this fixes a problem with the mandel.py example in numba
• made Windows installer dialog box resizeable
• fixed problem that importing numbapro or iopro removed sys from the namespace

updates:

• numba from 0.3.2 to 0.5.0
• conda from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0
• pandas from 0.9.0 to 0.10.1
• spyder form 2.1.11 to 2.1.13
• numpy from 1.7.0b2 to 1.7.0rc1
• scikit-learn from 0.11 to 0.12.1
• scikits-image from 0.6.1 to 0.7.1
• pytest from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4

• pucurl on macOS
• anaconda-launcher envs by updating to conda 1.2.1
• add missing pyodbc numpy_tests in iopro/tests/pyodbc
• updated wiseRF to version 1.1
• add creation of .continuum directory (if not created yet) on Windows
• minor fixes in numba, numbapro, and iopro
• fixed version of “py” package
• add missing Windows manifest to Windows executable installer
• fixed Windows Menu install and making Anaconda the default Python
• on 2012-12-06 we released a 32-bit Linux version

• performance and feature enhancements to Numba Pro
• performance and feature enhancements to IOPro
• improved conda command (package management)
• added Qt to the Linux Version (Qt is now on all platforms)
• added MDP, NLTK and py, pytest
• update matplotlib from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
• update h5py from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0
• update IOPro to 1.2.1
• update libpng to 1.5.13

• add GUI to Windows installer
• IDE Spyder (Qt) for Mac Version
• add conda 1.0
• update llvmpy to 0.8.3
• add MinGW on Windows

• add Windows support
• installer can now install into different locations
• enable building free and permium version
• enable termcap in erlang
• add MKL support to permium version
• add networkx, pysal, pycurl, gevent_zeromq, requests, pip, distribute
• add iopro to permium version
• update scipy from 0.11.0b1 to 0.11.0rc2
• update scikits-image form 0.6 to 0.6.1
• update pytables from 2.4.0b1 to 2.4.0
• update pandas from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1
• add patch to disco to always use the anaconda erl
• remove useless files (Python) from being installed