## History of changes for WinPython 2.7.8.3



The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.8.2.



### Tools



Removed packages:



  * [TortoiseHg](http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org) 2.11.2 (Set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the Mercurial distributed revision control system)



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [baresql](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/baresql) 0.7.0 (playing SQL directly on Python datas)

  * [configparser](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser) 3.5.0b2 (This library brings the updated configparser from Python 3.5 to Python 2.6-3.5.)

  * [db.py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/db.py) 0.3.1 (a db package that doesn't suck)

  * [logutils](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logutils) 0.3.3 (Logging utilities)

  * [oct2py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/oct2py) 2.4.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)



Upgraded packages:



  * [XlsxWriter](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/XlsxWriter) 0.5.9 → 0.6.2 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  * [ipython](http://ipython.org) 2.3.0 → 2.3.1 (Enhanced Python shell)

  * [julia](http://sourceforge.net/projects/stonebig.u/files/packages) 0.1.1.4 → 0.1.1.5 (Python interface to the Julia language)

  * [mahotas](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mahotas) 1.2.1 → 1.2.3 (Computer Vision library)

  * [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net) 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  * [numpy-MKL](http://numpy.scipy.org/) 1.8.2 → 1.9.1 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

  * [pandas](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas) 0.15.0 → 0.15.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  * [pyzmq](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyzmq) 14.3.1 → 14.4.1 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

  * [simplejson](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson) 3.6.4 → 3.6.5 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)

  * [statsmodels](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/statsmodels) 0.6.0-rc1 → 0.6.0 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)



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