## History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.8.3.0cod



The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.8.2.0cod.



### Tools



New packages:



  * [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) 1.45.1.0 (source-code editor developed by Microsoft)



Upgraded packages:



  * [Nodejs](https://nodejs.org) v12.16.1 → v12.16.3 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

  * [npmjs](https://www.npmjs.com/) 6.13.4 → 6.14.4 (a package manager for JavaScript)



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [asgiref](https://pypi.org/project/asgiref) 3.2.7 (ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters)

  * [cachelib](https://pypi.org/project/cachelib) 0.1 (A collection of cache libraries in the same API interface.)

  * [cartopy](https://pypi.org/project/cartopy) 0.18.0 (A cartographic python library with Matplotlib support for visualisation)

  * [distlib](https://pypi.org/project/distlib) 0.3.0 (Distribution utilities)

  * [filelock](https://pypi.org/project/filelock) 3.0.12 (A platform independent file lock.)

  * [flask_mail](https://pypi.org/project/flask_mail) 0.9.1 (Flask extension for sending email)

  * [flask_session](https://pypi.org/project/flask_session) 0.3.2 (Adds server-side session support to your Flask application)

  * [flask_sqlalchemy](https://pypi.org/project/flask_sqlalchemy) 2.4.1 (Adds SQLAlchemy support to your Flask application.)

  * [geoviews](https://pypi.org/project/geoviews) 1.8.1 (GeoViews is a Python library that makes it easy to explore and visualize geographical, meteorological, and oceanographic datasets, such as those used in weather, climate, and remote sensing research.)

  * [httpie](https://pypi.org/project/httpie) 2.1.0 (HTTPie - a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.)

  * [imagecodecs](https://pypi.org/project/imagecodecs) 2020.2.18 (Image transformation, compression, and decompression codecs)

  * [lz4](https://pypi.org/project/lz4) 3.0.2 (LZ4 Bindings for Python)

  * [mergedeep](https://pypi.org/project/mergedeep) 1.3.0 (A deep merge function for &#128013;.)

  * [nest_asyncio](https://pypi.org/project/nest_asyncio) 1.3.3 (Patch asyncio to allow nested event loops)

  * [nlopt](https://pypi.org/project/nlopt) 2.6.2 (Library for nonlinear optimization, wrapping many algorithms for global and local, constrained or unconstrained, optimization)

  * [outcome](https://pypi.org/project/outcome) 1.0.1 (Capture the outcome of Python function calls.)

  * [pipdeptree](https://pypi.org/project/pipdeptree) 0.13.2 (Command line utility to show dependency tree of packages)

  * [pyshp](https://pypi.org/project/pyshp) 2.1.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

  * [python_dotenv](https://pypi.org/project/python_dotenv) 0.13.0 (Add .env support to your django/flask apps in development and deployments)

  * [rpy2](https://pypi.org/project/rpy2) 3.4.0.dev0 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

  * [sniffio](https://pypi.org/project/sniffio) 1.1.0 (Sniff out which async library your code is running under)

  * [tbb](https://pypi.org/project/tbb) 2019.0 (Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks)

  * [threadpoolctl](https://pypi.org/project/threadpoolctl) 2.0.0 (threadpoolctl)

  * [tifffile](https://pypi.org/project/tifffile) 2020.5.11 (Read and write TIFF(r) files)

  * [trio](https://pypi.org/project/trio) 0.15.1 (A friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O)

  * [trio_asyncio](https://pypi.org/project/trio_asyncio) 0.11.0 (A re-implementation of the asyncio mainloop on top of Trio)

  * [umap_learn](https://pypi.org/project/umap_learn) 0.4.3 (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection)

  * [virtualenv](https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv) 20.0.20 (Virtual Python Environment builder)



Upgraded packages:



  * [aiofiles](https://pypi.org/project/aiofiles) 0.4.0 → 0.5.0 (File support for asyncio.)

  * [aiosqlite](https://pypi.org/project/aiosqlite) 0.11.0 → 0.13.0 (asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module)

  * [altair](https://pypi.org/project/altair) 4.0.1 → 4.1.0 (Altair: A declarative statistical visualization library for Python.)

  * [appdirs](https://pypi.org/project/appdirs) 1.4.3 → 1.4.4 (A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".)

  * [astroid](https://pypi.org/project/astroid) 2.3.3 → 2.4.1 (An abstract syntax tree for Python with inference support.)

  * [astropy](https://pypi.org/project/astropy) 4.0 → 4.0.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

  * [atomicwrites](https://pypi.org/project/atomicwrites) 1.3.0 → 1.4.0 (Atomic file writes.)

  * [autopep8](https://pypi.org/project/autopep8) 1.5 → 1.5.2 (A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide)

  * [beautifulsoup4](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4) 4.8.2 → 4.9.0 (Screen-scraping library)

  * [bleach](https://pypi.org/project/bleach) 3.1.3 → 3.1.5 (An easy safelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool.)

  * [blosc](https://pypi.org/project/blosc) 1.8.3 → 1.9.1 (Blosc data compressor)

  * [bokeh](https://pypi.org/project/bokeh) 2.0.0 → 2.0.2 (Interactive plots and applications in the browser from Python)

  * [bqplot](https://pypi.org/project/bqplot) 0.12.6 → 0.12.11 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

  * [certifi](https://pypi.org/project/certifi) 2019.11.28 → 2020.4.5.1 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

  * [cftime](https://pypi.org/project/cftime) 1.1.1.1 → 1.1.3 (Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

  * [click](https://pypi.org/project/click) 7.1.1 → 7.1.2 (Composable command line interface toolkit)

  * [cloudpickle](https://pypi.org/project/cloudpickle) 1.3.0 → 1.4.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

  * [cryptography](https://pypi.org/project/cryptography) 2.8 → 2.9.2 (cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.)

  * [cvxopt](https://pypi.org/project/cvxopt) 1.2.4 → 1.2.5 (Convex optimization package)

  * [cvxpy](https://pypi.org/project/cvxpy) 1.0.28 → 1.0.31 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python.)

  * [cython](https://pypi.org/project/cython) 0.29.15 → 0.29.19 (The Cython compiler for writing C extensions for the Python language.)

  * [dask](https://pypi.org/project/dask) 2.12.0 → 2.16.0 (Parallel PyData with Task Scheduling)

  * [databases](https://pypi.org/project/databases) 0.2.6 → 0.3.2 (Async database support for Python.)

  * [datasette](https://pypi.org/project/datasette) 0.38 → 0.42 (A tool for exploring and publishing data)

  * [deprecated](https://pypi.org/project/deprecated) 1.2.7 → 1.2.10 (Python @deprecated decorator to deprecate old python classes, functions or methods.)

  * [distributed](https://pypi.org/project/distributed) 2.12.0 → 2.16.0 (Distributed scheduler for Dask)

  * [fastparquet](https://pypi.org/project/fastparquet) 0.3.3 → 0.4.0 (Python support for Parquet file format)

  * [feather_format](https://pypi.org/project/feather_format) 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Simple wrapper library to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

  * [flask](https://pypi.org/project/flask) 1.1.1 → 1.1.2 (A simple framework for building complex web applications.)

  * [flask_accepts](https://pypi.org/project/flask_accepts) 0.16.2 → 0.17.2 (Easy, opinionated Flask input/output handling with Flask-restx and Marshmallow)

  * [flask_restx](https://pypi.org/project/flask_restx) 0.1.0 → 0.2.0 (Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask)

  * [folium](https://pypi.org/project/folium) 0.10.1 → 0.11.0 (Make beautiful maps with Leaflet.js & Python)

  * [fsspec](https://pypi.org/project/fsspec) 0.6.2 → 0.7.3 (File-system specification)

  * [geopy](https://pypi.org/project/geopy) 1.21.0 → 1.22.0 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

  * [helpdev](https://pypi.org/project/helpdev) 0.6.10 → 0.7.1 (HelpDev - Extracts information about the Python environment easily.)

  * [holoviews](https://pypi.org/project/holoviews) 1.13.0b12 → 1.13.2 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself.)

  * [hypercorn](https://pypi.org/project/hypercorn) 0.9.2 → 0.9.5 (A ASGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.)

  * [hypothesis](https://pypi.org/project/hypothesis) 5.6.0 → 5.14.0 (A library for property-based testing)

  * [imageio_ffmpeg](https://pypi.org/project/imageio_ffmpeg) 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (FFMPEG wrapper for Python)

  * [intake](https://pypi.org/project/intake) 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Data load and catalog system)

  * [ipykernel](https://pypi.org/project/ipykernel) 5.1.4 → 5.2.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

  * [ipyleaflet](https://pypi.org/project/ipyleaflet) 0.12.3 → 0.12.6 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

  * [ipympl](https://pypi.org/project/ipympl) 0.5.3 → 0.5.6 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

  * [ipyparallel](https://pypi.org/project/ipyparallel) 6.2.4 → 6.3.0 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)

  * [ipython](https://pypi.org/project/ipython) 7.13.0 → 7.14.0 (IPython: Productive Interactive Computing)

  * [ipython_sql](https://pypi.org/project/ipython_sql) 0.3.9 → 0.4.0 (RDBMS access via IPython)

  * [janus](https://pypi.org/project/janus) 0.4.0 → 0.5.0 (Mixed sync-async queue to interoperate between asyncio tasks and classic threads)

  * [jedi](https://pypi.org/project/jedi) 0.15.2 → 0.17.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors.)

  * [jinja2](https://pypi.org/project/jinja2) 2.11.1 → 2.11.2 (A small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python.)

  * [joblib](https://pypi.org/project/joblib) 0.14.1 → 0.15.1 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

  * [julia](https://pypi.org/project/julia) 0.5.1 → 0.5.3 (Julia/Python bridge with IPython support.)

  * [jupyter_client](https://pypi.org/project/jupyter_client) 6.1.0 → 6.1.3 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

  * [jupyterlab](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab) 2.0.1 → 2.1.2 (The JupyterLab notebook server extension.)

  * [jupyterlab_pygments](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab_pygments) 0.1.0 → 0.1.1 (Pygments theme)

  * [jupyterlab_server](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab_server) 1.0.7 → 1.1.3 (JupyterLab Server)

  * [keyring](https://pypi.org/project/keyring) 21.2.0 → 21.2.1 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

  * [kiwisolver](https://pypi.org/project/kiwisolver) 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (A fast implementation of the Cassowary constraint solver)

  * [llvmlite](https://pypi.org/project/llvmlite) 0.31.0 → 0.32.1 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

  * [lmfit](https://pypi.org/project/lmfit) 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

  * [loky](https://pypi.org/project/loky) 2.6.0 → 2.8.0 (A robust implementation of concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor)

  * [lxml](https://pypi.org/project/lxml) 4.5.0 → 4.5.1 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

  * [markdown](https://pypi.org/project/markdown) 3.2.1 → 3.2.2 (Python implementation of Markdown.)

  * [marshmallow](https://pypi.org/project/marshmallow) 3.5.1 → 3.6.0 (A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.)

  * [mercantile](https://pypi.org/project/mercantile) 1.1.2 → 1.1.4 (Web mercator XYZ tile utilities)

  * [metakernel](https://pypi.org/project/metakernel) 0.24.3 → 0.24.4 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

  * [more_itertools](https://pypi.org/project/more_itertools) 8.2.0 → 8.3.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

  * [moviepy](https://pypi.org/project/moviepy) 1.0.1 → 1.0.3 (Video editing with Python)

  * [nbclient](https://pypi.org/project/nbclient) 0.1.0 → 0.3.0 (A client library for executing notebooks. Formally nbconvert's ExecutePreprocessor.)

  * [nbformat](https://pypi.org/project/nbformat) 5.0.4 → 5.0.6 (The Jupyter Notebook format)

  * [nltk](https://pypi.org/project/nltk) 3.4.5 → 3.5 (Natural Language Toolkit)

  * [numba](https://pypi.org/project/numba) 0.48.0 → 0.49.1 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

  * [numpy](https://pypi.org/project/numpy) 1.18.2+mkl → 1.18.4+mkl (NumPy is the fundamental package for array computing with Python.)

  * [octave_kernel](https://pypi.org/project/octave_kernel) 0.31.0 → 0.31.1 (A Jupyter kernel for Octave.)

  * [packaging](https://pypi.org/project/packaging) 20.3 → 20.4 (Core utilities for Python packages)

  * [panel](https://pypi.org/project/panel) 0.9.2 → 0.9.5 (A high level app and dashboarding solution for Python.)

  * [papermill](https://pypi.org/project/papermill) 2.0.0 → 2.1.1 (Parametrize and run Jupyter and nteract Notebooks)

  * [parso](https://pypi.org/project/parso) 0.6.2 → 0.7.0 (A Python Parser)

  * [pathspec](https://pypi.org/project/pathspec) 0.7.0 → 0.8.0 (Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths.)

  * [pillow](https://pypi.org/project/pillow) 7.0.0 → 7.1.2 (Python Imaging Library (Fork))

  * [pip](https://pypi.org/project/pip) 20.0.2 → 20.1.1 (The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.)

  * [plotly](https://pypi.org/project/plotly) 4.5.4 → 4.7.1 (An open-source, interactive graphing library for Python)

  * [prompt_toolkit](https://pypi.org/project/prompt_toolkit) 3.0.4 → 3.0.5 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

  * [ptpython](https://pypi.org/project/ptpython) 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)

  * [pyaml](https://pypi.org/project/pyaml) 20.3.1 → 20.4.0 (PyYAML-based module to produce pretty and readable YAML-serialized data)

  * [pyarrow](https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow) 0.16.0 → 0.17.1 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

  * [pybind11](https://pypi.org/project/pybind11) 2.4.3 → 2.5.0 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

  * [pycodestyle](https://pypi.org/project/pycodestyle) 2.5.0 → 2.6.0 (Python style guide checker)

  * [pyflakes](https://pypi.org/project/pyflakes) 2.1.1 → 2.2.0 (passive checker of Python programs)

  * [pylint](https://pypi.org/project/pylint) 2.4.4 → 2.5.2 (python code static checker)

  * [pymc](https://pypi.org/project/pymc) 2.3.7 → 2.3.8 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

  * [pyparsing](https://pypi.org/project/pyparsing) 2.4.6 → 2.4.7 (Python parsing module)

  * [pyproj](https://pypi.org/project/pyproj) 2.6.0 → 2.6.1.post1 (Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library))

  * [pyqt5](https://pypi.org/project/pyqt5) 5.14.1 → 5.14.2 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform application toolkit)

  * [pyqt5_sip](https://pypi.org/project/pyqt5_sip) 12.7.1 → 12.7.2 (The sip module support for PyQt5)

  * [pyrsistent](https://pypi.org/project/pyrsistent) 0.15.7 → 0.16.0 (Persistent/Functional/Immutable data structures)

  * [pytest](https://pypi.org/project/pytest) 5.4.1 → 5.4.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

  * [Python](http://www.python.org/) 3.8.2 → 3.8.3 (Python programming language with standard library)

  * [python_language_server](https://pypi.org/project/python_language_server) 0.31.9 → 0.32.0 (Python Language Server for the Language Server Protocol)

  * [pytz](https://pypi.org/project/pytz) 2019.3 → 2020.1 (World timezone definitions, modern and historical)

  * [pyzmq](https://pypi.org/project/pyzmq) 19.0.0 → 19.0.1 (Python bindings for 0MQ)

  * [qdarkstyle](https://pypi.org/project/qdarkstyle) 2.8 → 2.8.1 (The most complete dark stylesheet for Python and Qt applications)

  * [qtawesome](https://pypi.org/project/qtawesome) 0.7.0 → 0.7.2 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

  * [qtconsole](https://pypi.org/project/qtconsole) 4.7.1 → 4.7.4 (Jupyter Qt console)

  * [quantecon](https://pypi.org/project/quantecon) 0.4.6 → 0.4.7 (QuantEcon is a package to support all forms of quantitative economic modelling.)

  * [quart](https://pypi.org/project/quart) 0.11.3 → 0.12.0 (A Python ASGI web microframework with the same API as Flask)

  * [rasterio](https://pypi.org/project/rasterio) 1.1.3 → 1.1.4 (Fast and direct raster I/O for use with Numpy and SciPy)

  * [readme_renderer](https://pypi.org/project/readme_renderer) 25.0 → 26.0 (readme_renderer is a library for rendering "readme" descriptions for Warehouse)

  * [redis](https://pypi.org/project/redis) 3.4.1 → 3.5.2 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

  * [regex](https://pypi.org/project/regex) 2020.2.20 → 2020.5.14 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

  * [scikit_image](https://pypi.org/project/scikit_image) 0.16.2 → 0.17.2 (Image processing routines for SciPy)

  * [scikit_learn](https://pypi.org/project/scikit_learn) 0.22.2.post1 → 0.23.1 (A set of python modules for machine learning and data mining)

  * [scs](https://pypi.org/project/scs) 2.1.1.post2 → 2.1.2 (scs: splitting conic solver)

  * [seaborn](https://pypi.org/project/seaborn) 0.10.0 → 0.10.1 (seaborn: statistical data visualization)

  * [setuptools](https://pypi.org/project/setuptools) 46.0.0 → 46.4.0 (Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages)

  * [simpy](https://pypi.org/project/simpy) 3.0.12 → 4.0.1 (Event discrete, process based simulation for Python.)

  * [snakeviz](https://pypi.org/project/snakeviz) 2.0.1 → 2.1.0 (A web-based viewer for Python profiler output)

  * [sphinx](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx) 2.4.4 → 3.0.3 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

  * [spyder](https://pypi.org/project/spyder) 4.1.1 → 4.1.3 (The Scientific Python Development Environment)

  * [spyder_kernels](https://pypi.org/project/spyder_kernels) 1.9.0 → 1.9.1 (Jupyter kernels for Spyder's console)

  * [sqlalchemy](https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy) 1.3.15 → 1.3.17 (Database Abstraction Library)

  * [swifter](https://pypi.org/project/swifter) 0.297 → 0.304 (A package which efficiently applies any function to a pandas dataframe or series in the fastest available manner)

  * [tenacity](https://pypi.org/project/tenacity) 6.1.0 → 6.2.0 (Retry code until it succeeds)

  * [toml](https://pypi.org/project/toml) 0.10.0 → 0.10.1 (Python Library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)

  * [tqdm](https://pypi.org/project/tqdm) 4.43.0 → 4.46.0 (Fast, Extensible Progress Meter)

  * [typing_extensions](https://pypi.org/project/typing_extensions) 3.7.4.1 → 3.7.4.2 (Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+)

  * [tzlocal](https://pypi.org/project/tzlocal) 1.5.1 → 2.1 (tzinfo object for the local timezone)

  * [urllib3](https://pypi.org/project/urllib3) 1.25.8 → 1.25.9 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

  * [uvicorn](https://pypi.org/project/uvicorn) 0.11.3 → 0.11.5 (The lightning-fast ASGI server.)

  * [vega](https://pypi.org/project/vega) 3.1.0 → 3.4.0 (A Jupyter widget for Vega 5 and Vega-Lite 4)

  * [wcwidth](https://pypi.org/project/wcwidth) 0.1.8 → 0.1.9 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)

  * [werkzeug](https://pypi.org/project/werkzeug) 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 (The comprehensive WSGI web application library.)

  * [winpython](http://winpython.github.io/) 2.3.20200319 → 2.4.20200425 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM)

  * [wordcloud](https://pypi.org/project/wordcloud) 1.6.0 → 1.7.0 (A little word cloud generator)

  * [wrapt](https://pypi.org/project/wrapt) 1.11.2 → 1.12.1 (Module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

  * [xarray](https://pypi.org/project/xarray) 0.15.0 → 0.15.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

  * [xlwings](https://pypi.org/project/xlwings) 0.18.0 → 0.19.4 (Make Excel fly: Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa.)



Removed packages:



  * [importlib_metadata](https://pypi.org/project/importlib_metadata) 1.5.0 (Read metadata from Python packages)

  * [portalocker](https://pypi.org/project/portalocker) 1.5.2 (Wraps the portalocker recipe for easy usage)

  * [zipp](https://pypi.org/project/zipp) 3.1.0 (Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files)



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