Contributors
============

A total of 6 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Charles Harris
* Eric Wieser
* Ilhan Polat
* Matti Picus
* Michael Hudson-Doyle
* Ralf Gommers

Pull requests merged
====================

A total of 7 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#14593 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14593>`__: MAINT: backport Cython API cleanup to 1.17.x, remove docs
* `#14937 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14937>`__: BUG: fix integer size confusion in handling array's ndmin argument
* `#14939 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14939>`__: BUILD: remove SSE2 flag from numpy.random builds
* `#14993 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14993>`__: MAINT: Added Python3.8 branch to dll lib discovery
* `#15038 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15038>`__: BUG: Fix refcounting in ufunc object loops
* `#15067 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15067>`__: BUG: Exceptions tracebacks are dropped
* `#15175 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15175>`__: ENH: Backport improvements to testing functions.