# NumPy 1.21.5 Release Notes

NumPy 1.21.5 is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs discovered after the 1.21.4 release and does some maintenance to extend the 1.21.x lifetime. The Python versions supported in this release are 3.7-3.10. If you want to compile your own version using gcc-11, you will need to use gcc-11.2+ to avoid problems.

## Contributors

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

- Bas van Beek

- Charles Harris

- Matti Picus

- Rohit Goswami

- Ross Barnowski

- Sayed Adel

- Sebastian Berg

## Pull requests merged

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

- #20357: MAINT: Do not forward `__(deep)copy__` calls of `_GenericAlias`…

- #20462: BUG: Fix float16 einsum fastpaths using wrong tempvar

- #20463: BUG, DIST: Print os error message when the executable not exist

- #20464: BLD: Verify the ability to compile C++ sources before initiating…

- #20465: BUG: Force `npymath` ` to respect ``npy_longdouble`

- #20466: BUG: Fix failure to create aligned, empty structured dtype

- #20467: ENH: provide a convenience function to replace npy_load_module

- #20495: MAINT: update wheel to version that supports python3.10

- #20497: BUG: Clear errors correctly in F2PY conversions

- #20613: DEV: add a warningfilter to fix pytest workflow.

- #20618: MAINT: Help boost::python libraries at least not crash

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