This is the release note of v7.2.0. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

Known packaging issues:

• Wheel packages for CUDA 10.2 (cupy-cuda102) are currently unavailable on PyPI. Packages will be published after getting approval of the file size limit increase. (resolved on 2020-02-21)

Highlights

This release adds support for CUDA 10.2 and NumPy 1.18.

Enhancements

• Fix linspace(..., num=1, endpoint=False, retstep=True) (#2990)
• Add nogil to CUB (#3000, thanks @y1r!)

Bug Fixes

• Fix ParameterInfo as a cache key (#2961)
• Fix import of _get_axis (#2972, thanks @jakirkham!)
• Fix an issue using non-existing attribute in cub.pyx (#3001)
• Use size_t nbytes in __cuda_array_interface__ (#3015, thanks @jakirkham!)
• Fix empty vector access (#3021)
• Fix get_fft_plan() and some FFT tests (#3031, thanks @leofang!)
• Fix imag for 0-size array (#3039)
• Fix nvcc command lookup (#3040)

Code Fixes

• Remove code paths for unsupported Python versions (#3045)

Documentation

• Fix typo in note (#3019, thanks @Schoyen!)
• Add NumPy 1.18 to installation guide (#3042)
• Add cupy-cuda102 (#3073)

Installation

• Fix an issue that cuComplex_bridge.h is not installed (#3043)
• Do not let Python 2 users build CuPy v7+ (#3044, thanks @leofang!)

Tests

• Require scipy in test_gmm (#3050)
• Print installed packages in pytest (#3065)
• Set CUPY_CI environment variable in Travis CI and AppVeyor (#3066)