Contributors
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A total of 10 people contributed to this release.

* CakeWithSteak
* Charles Harris
* Chris Burr
* Eric Wieser
* Fernando Saravia
* Lars Grueter
* Matti Picus
* Maxwell Aladago
* Qiming Sun
* Warren Weckesser

Pull requests merged
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A total of 14 pull requests were merged for this release.

* `#14211 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14211>`__: BUG: Fix uint-overflow if padding with linear_ramp and negative...
* `#14275 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14275>`__: BUG: fixing to allow unpickling of PY3 pickles from PY2
* `#14340 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14340>`__: BUG: Fix misuse of .names and .fields in various places (backport...
* `#14423 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14423>`__: BUG: test, fix regression in converting to ctypes.
* `#14434 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14434>`__: BUG: Fixed maximum relative error reporting in assert_allclose
* `#14509 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14509>`__: BUG: Fix regression in boolean matmul.
* `#14686 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14686>`__: BUG: properly define PyArray_DescrCheck
* `#14853 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14853>`__: BLD: add 'apt update' to shippable
* `#14854 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14854>`__: BUG: Fix _ctypes class circular reference. (#13808)
* `#14856 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14856>`__: BUG: Fix `np.einsum` errors on Power9 Linux and z/Linux
* `#14863 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14863>`__: BLD: Prevent -flto from optimising long double representation...
* `#14864 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14864>`__: BUG: lib: Fix histogram problem with signed integer arrays.
* `#15172 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15172>`__: ENH: Backport improvements to testing functions.
* `#15191 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15191>`__: REL: Prepare for 1.16.6 release.