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

A total of 7 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

* Allan Haldane
* Charles Harris
* Marten van Kerkwijk
* Matti Picus
* Pauli Virtanen
* Ryan Soklaski +
* Sebastian Berg

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

A total of 11 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#11104 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11104>`__: BUG: str of DOUBLE_DOUBLE format wrong on ppc64
* `#11170 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11170>`__: TST: linalg: add regression test for gh-8577
* `#11174 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11174>`__: MAINT: add sanity-checks to be run at import time
* `#11181 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11181>`__: BUG: void dtype setup checked offset not actual pointer for alignment
* `#11194 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11194>`__: BUG: Python2 doubles don't print correctly in interactive shell.
* `#11198 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11198>`__: BUG: optimizing compilers can reorder call to npy_get_floatstatus
* `#11199 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11199>`__: BUG: reduce using SSE only warns if inside SSE loop
* `#11203 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11203>`__: BUG: Bytes delimiter/comments in genfromtxt should be decoded
* `#11211 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11211>`__: BUG: Fix reference count/memory leak exposed by better testing
* `#11219 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11219>`__: BUG: Fixes einsum broadcasting bug when optimize=True
* `#11251 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/11251>`__: DOC: Document 1.14.4 release.