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Open Code = Better Science NumFOCUS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing.
A huge thank-you to @blockscience.bsky.social for their support of NumFOCUS and PyData.Their commitment to rigorous research and community-driven innovation strengthens every part of the ecosystem. Join in their support of open source scientific computing: Donate to NumFOCUS at hubs.la/Q03VFBdL0
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A huge thank-you to @blockscience.bsky.social for their support of NumFOCUS and PyData.Their commitment to rigorous research and community-driven innovation strengthens every part of the ecosystem. Join in their support of open source scientific computing: Donate to NumFOCUS at hubs.la/Q03VFBdL0
Optuna v4.6 is scheduled for release next month! It will include full support for multi-objective and constrained optimization in AutoSampler, automatic plot generation using LLM in Optuna-Dashboard, and more.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Optuna v4.6 is scheduled for release next month! It will include full support for multi-objective and constrained optimization in AutoSampler, automatic plot generation using LLM in Optuna-Dashboard, and more.
We are happy to announce the release of Colour — CxF! This extension package for Colour implements reading and writing files in the Color Exchange Format (CxF) to store and exchange color data across different systems. Read the full announcement here: www.colour-science.org/posts/suppor...
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We are happy to announce the release of Colour — CxF! This extension package for Colour implements reading and writing files in the Color Exchange Format (CxF) to store and exchange color data across different systems. Read the full announcement here: www.colour-science.org/posts/suppor...
Skforecast 0.18.0 is here! 🎉 This release brings backtesting with more control, drift detection for production, better visualization and insights, and much more to make your forecasting pipelines more reliable, interpretable, and production-ready!
Full release notes: skforecast.org/0.18.0/relea...
Full release notes: skforecast.org/0.18.0/relea...
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Skforecast 0.18.0 is here! 🎉 This release brings backtesting with more control, drift detection for production, better visualization and insights, and much more to make your forecasting pipelines more reliable, interpretable, and production-ready!
Full release notes: skforecast.org/0.18.0/relea...
Full release notes: skforecast.org/0.18.0/relea...
rOpenSci recently hosted another Coworking session, this time focusing on the theme “Code Review with rOpenSci” with community host Liz Hare, rOpenSci Champion and Software Reviewer. Tune into their next session, “Getting to know The Carpentries” on Dec. 2! ropensci.org/events/cowor...
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
rOpenSci recently hosted another Coworking session, this time focusing on the theme “Code Review with rOpenSci” with community host Liz Hare, rOpenSci Champion and Software Reviewer. Tune into their next session, “Getting to know The Carpentries” on Dec. 2! ropensci.org/events/cowor...
Exciting news from @astropy.org! The redesigned Learn.Astropy.org is live! Explore tutorials blending Python + astronomy — from FITS files to orbit simulations. Learn more on the NumFOCUS blog at bit.ly/48hlBNI
Explore the Redesigned Learn.Astropy.org
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Exciting news from @astropy.org! The redesigned Learn.Astropy.org is live! Explore tutorials blending Python + astronomy — from FITS files to orbit simulations. Learn more on the NumFOCUS blog at bit.ly/48hlBNI
ICYMI: Julia version 1.12 has been released! julialang.org/blog/2025/10...
We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible! 💜
We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible! 💜
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ICYMI: Julia version 1.12 has been released! julialang.org/blog/2025/10...
We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible! 💜
We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible! 💜
Announcing C-Blosc2 2.21.2: A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C! This is a maintenance release, with a few fixes and some optimizations. Check out the full release notes here: github.com/Blosc/c-blos...
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Donate to Blosc: numfocus.org/donate-to-bl...
October 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Announcing C-Blosc2 2.21.2: A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C! This is a maintenance release, with a few fixes and some optimizations. Check out the full release notes here: github.com/Blosc/c-blos...
Donate to Blosc: numfocus.org/donate-to-bl...
Donate to Blosc: numfocus.org/donate-to-bl...
💙 pyMOR just released pyMOR 2025.1! This release introduces a major breaking change in pyMOR’s VectorArray API, along with a few new features. Check them out here: bit.ly/42LU7gh
October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
💙 pyMOR just released pyMOR 2025.1! This release introduces a major breaking change in pyMOR’s VectorArray API, along with a few new features. Check them out here: bit.ly/42LU7gh
Recently, rOpenSci held some fabulous community sessions on new ways to publish R packages and how to ship your R package to the R-multiverse! Stay up to date on their next events here: ropensci.org/events/ 💯
Donate to rOpenSci: numfocus.org/donate-to-ro...
Donate to rOpenSci: numfocus.org/donate-to-ro...
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Recently, rOpenSci held some fabulous community sessions on new ways to publish R packages and how to ship your R package to the R-multiverse! Stay up to date on their next events here: ropensci.org/events/ 💯
Donate to rOpenSci: numfocus.org/donate-to-ro...
Donate to rOpenSci: numfocus.org/donate-to-ro...
On behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, we’re pleased to announce that Spyder 6.0.8 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X! 🕷️
This release fixed input method positioning for the Editor and IPython Console.
Donate to Spyder: numfocus.org/donate-for-s...
This release fixed input method positioning for the Editor and IPython Console.
Donate to Spyder: numfocus.org/donate-for-s...
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
On behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, we’re pleased to announce that Spyder 6.0.8 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X! 🕷️
This release fixed input method positioning for the Editor and IPython Console.
Donate to Spyder: numfocus.org/donate-for-s...
This release fixed input method positioning for the Editor and IPython Console.
Donate to Spyder: numfocus.org/donate-for-s...
Optuna has released CARBOSampler, a sampler for robust Bayesian optimization, and the C-DTLZ constrained multi-objective optimization benchmark set packages on OptunaHub. They are also working on Optuna-Dashboard LLM integration functionalities that manipulate data with natural language. Good luck!😍
October 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Optuna has released CARBOSampler, a sampler for robust Bayesian optimization, and the C-DTLZ constrained multi-objective optimization benchmark set packages on OptunaHub. They are also working on Optuna-Dashboard LLM integration functionalities that manipulate data with natural language. Good luck!😍
On behalf of the NumPy team, we’re pleased to announce the release of NumPy 2.3.3. The NumPy 2.3.3 release is a patch release split between a number of maintenance updates and bug fixes. This release supports Python 3.11–3.14. 🩵
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On behalf of the NumPy team, we’re pleased to announce the release of NumPy 2.3.3. The NumPy 2.3.3 release is a patch release split between a number of maintenance updates and bug fixes. This release supports Python 3.11–3.14. 🩵
A Zarr Summit is currently being hosted in Rome, Oct. 13-17, 2025! Zarr currently has over 60 registrants representing 50+ organizations, 5+ continents, and Zarr usage across Python, R, C++, Rust, APIs, GUIs, and more! 🤩🐍🔬
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A Zarr Summit is currently being hosted in Rome, Oct. 13-17, 2025! Zarr currently has over 60 registrants representing 50+ organizations, 5+ continents, and Zarr usage across Python, R, C++, Rust, APIs, GUIs, and more! 🤩🐍🔬
Mesa had an exceptional Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! With its completion, they have three exciting improvements to Mesa: Mesa Frames 0.2, Mesa-LLM, & Mesa 3.3,
This is incredible, congrats Mesa!
This is incredible, congrats Mesa!
October 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mesa had an exceptional Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! With its completion, they have three exciting improvements to Mesa: Mesa Frames 0.2, Mesa-LLM, & Mesa 3.3,
This is incredible, congrats Mesa!
This is incredible, congrats Mesa!
The 4th Dynare Workshop for Advanced Users took place from Sep. 17-19, 2025, at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy.
The Dynare Team showcased their latest software developments alongside participants from policy institutions and academia. Congrats, Dynare! 💙
The Dynare Team showcased their latest software developments alongside participants from policy institutions and academia. Congrats, Dynare! 💙
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The 4th Dynare Workshop for Advanced Users took place from Sep. 17-19, 2025, at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy.
The Dynare Team showcased their latest software developments alongside participants from policy institutions and academia. Congrats, Dynare! 💙
The Dynare Team showcased their latest software developments alongside participants from policy institutions and academia. Congrats, Dynare! 💙
Julia version 1.11.7, the seventh patch release in the 1.11 series, is now available! As a patch release, 1.11.7 contains no new features or breaking changes, only bug fixes, documentation improvements, and performance improvements. 🙏
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Julia version 1.11.7, the seventh patch release in the 1.11 series, is now available! As a patch release, 1.11.7 contains no new features or breaking changes, only bug fixes, documentation improvements, and performance improvements. 🙏
We can’t wait for the 10th-anniversary PyBay 2025 NEXT WEEK! Join NumFOCUS and connect with developers and programmers in the Bay Area for all things Python! pybay.org
October 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We can’t wait for the 10th-anniversary PyBay 2025 NEXT WEEK! Join NumFOCUS and connect with developers and programmers in the Bay Area for all things Python! pybay.org
The Hopsworks Feature Store Summit 2025 takes place in just a week, and we couldn’t be happier to be a featured community partner! 🧡
This year, the summit will focus on real-time systems, LLM pipelines, and vector-native architectures for AI. Register here for free! www.featurestoresummit.com
This year, the summit will focus on real-time systems, LLM pipelines, and vector-native architectures for AI. Register here for free! www.featurestoresummit.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Hopsworks Feature Store Summit 2025 takes place in just a week, and we couldn’t be happier to be a featured community partner! 🧡
This year, the summit will focus on real-time systems, LLM pipelines, and vector-native architectures for AI. Register here for free! www.featurestoresummit.com
This year, the summit will focus on real-time systems, LLM pipelines, and vector-native architectures for AI. Register here for free! www.featurestoresummit.com
We’re proud to partner with Hopsworks for their Feature Store Summit 2025, which will take place online on Oct. 14!
We’ve got a star-studded speaker lineup, with talks from developers at Uber, Pinterest, and Roku, just to name a few! Register here: www.featurestoresummit.com
We’ve got a star-studded speaker lineup, with talks from developers at Uber, Pinterest, and Roku, just to name a few! Register here: www.featurestoresummit.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We’re proud to partner with Hopsworks for their Feature Store Summit 2025, which will take place online on Oct. 14!
We’ve got a star-studded speaker lineup, with talks from developers at Uber, Pinterest, and Roku, just to name a few! Register here: www.featurestoresummit.com
We’ve got a star-studded speaker lineup, with talks from developers at Uber, Pinterest, and Roku, just to name a few! Register here: www.featurestoresummit.com
NumFOCUS is thrilled to partner with PyBay for their 10th anniversary conference in San Francisco, Oct. 18! Join us and dozens of other enthusiastic and established developers in the beautiful Bay Area for software development, data science, community, and of course: Python! pybay.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NumFOCUS is thrilled to partner with PyBay for their 10th anniversary conference in San Francisco, Oct. 18! Join us and dozens of other enthusiastic and established developers in the beautiful Bay Area for software development, data science, community, and of course: Python! pybay.org
Our September round of monthly project updates is here! Check ‘em out here:
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September 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our September round of monthly project updates is here! Check ‘em out here:
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
Our September round of monthly project updates is here! Check ‘em out here:
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
September 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our September round of monthly project updates is here! Check ‘em out here:
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
numfocus.medium.com/september-20...
Funding fuels innovation. NumFOCUS helps projects find stability through sponsorship + grants. Your gift keeps open code powering science.
Back the Stack. Fuel the Future: bit.ly/3HPryqN
Back the Stack. Fuel the Future: bit.ly/3HPryqN
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Funding fuels innovation. NumFOCUS helps projects find stability through sponsorship + grants. Your gift keeps open code powering science.
Back the Stack. Fuel the Future: bit.ly/3HPryqN
Back the Stack. Fuel the Future: bit.ly/3HPryqN
pandas is pleased to announce the release of v2.3, and is seeking testers for their upcoming 3.0 release!
See the upcoming changes in pandas 3.0 for more details about what changes are coming: pandas.pydata.org/docs/whatsne...
Donate to pandas: numfocus.org/donate-to-pa...
See the upcoming changes in pandas 3.0 for more details about what changes are coming: pandas.pydata.org/docs/whatsne...
Donate to pandas: numfocus.org/donate-to-pa...
September 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
pandas is pleased to announce the release of v2.3, and is seeking testers for their upcoming 3.0 release!
See the upcoming changes in pandas 3.0 for more details about what changes are coming: pandas.pydata.org/docs/whatsne...
Donate to pandas: numfocus.org/donate-to-pa...
See the upcoming changes in pandas 3.0 for more details about what changes are coming: pandas.pydata.org/docs/whatsne...
Donate to pandas: numfocus.org/donate-to-pa...