## History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.6.2Qt5



The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.6.1Qt5.



### Tools



Upgraded packages:



  * [Nodejs](https://nodejs.org) v8.11.2 → v8.11.4 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [absl_py](https://pypi.org/project/absl_py) 0.4.0 (Abseil Python Common Libraries)

  * [astor](https://pypi.org/project/astor) 0.7.1 (Read/rewrite/write Python ASTs)

  * [click_plugins](https://pypi.org/project/click_plugins) 1.0.3 (An extension module for click to enable registering CLI commands via setuptools entry-points.)

  * [cligj](https://pypi.org/project/cligj) 0.4.0 (Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON)

  * [descartes](https://pypi.org/project/descartes) 1.1.0 (Use geometric objects as matplotlib paths and patches)

  * [fiona](https://pypi.org/project/fiona) 1.7.13 (reads and writes spatial data files)

  * [gast](https://pypi.org/project/gast) 0.2.0 (Python AST that abstracts the underlying Python version)

  * [geopandas](https://pypi.org/project/geopandas) 0.4.0 (Geographic pandas extensions)

  * [grpcio](https://pypi.org/project/grpcio) 1.13.0 (HTTP/2-based RPC framework)

  * [idlex](https://pypi.org/project/idlex) 1.18 (IDLE Extensions for Python)

  * [mlxtend](https://pypi.org/project/mlxtend) 0.13.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

  * [munch](https://pypi.org/project/munch) 2.3.2 (A dot-accessible dictionary (a la JavaScript objects).)

  * [ppci](https://pypi.org/project/ppci) 0.5.6 (A compiler for ARM, X86, MSP430, xtensa and more implemented in pure Python)

  * [prometheus_client](https://pypi.org/project/prometheus_client) 0.3.1 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

  * [protobuf](https://pypi.org/project/protobuf) 3.6.1 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

  * [pyproj](https://pypi.org/project/pyproj) 1.9.5.1 (Python interface to PROJ.4 library)

  * [pytest_runner](https://pypi.org/project/pytest_runner) 4.2 (Invoke py.test as distutils command with dependency resolution)

  * [rise](https://pypi.org/project/rise) 5.4.1 (Live Reveal.js Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension)

  * [shapely](https://pypi.org/project/shapely) 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

  * [tensorboard](https://pypi.org/project/tensorboard) 1.10.0 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

  * [tensorflow](https://pypi.org/project/tensorflow) 1.10.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

  * [tensorflow_probability](https://pypi.org/project/tensorflow_probability) 0.3.0 ()

  * [termcolor](https://pypi.org/project/termcolor) 1.1.0 (ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal)



Upgraded packages:



  * [altair](https://pypi.org/project/altair) 2.1.0 → 2.2.2 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

  * [astroid](https://pypi.org/project/astroid) 1.6.5 → 2.0.4 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

  * [beautifulsoup4](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4) 4.6.0 → 4.6.3 (Screen-scraping library)

  * [bleach](https://pypi.org/project/bleach) 2.1.3 → 2.1.4 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

  * [bokeh](https://pypi.org/project/bokeh) 0.13.0 → 1.0.0.dev6 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

  * [bqplot](https://pypi.org/project/bqplot) 0.10.5 → 0.11.1 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

  * [certifi](https://pypi.org/project/certifi) 2018.4.16 → 2018.8.13 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

  * [cftime](https://pypi.org/project/cftime) 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

  * [cloudpickle](https://pypi.org/project/cloudpickle) 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

  * [comtypes](https://pypi.org/project/comtypes) 1.1.4 → 1.1.7 (Pure Python COM package)

  * [cvxpy](https://pypi.org/project/cvxpy) 1.0.6 → 1.0.8 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

  * [cython](https://pypi.org/project/cython) 0.28.3 → 0.28.5 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

  * [dask](https://pypi.org/project/dask) 0.18.1 → 0.18.2 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

  * [distributed](https://pypi.org/project/distributed) 1.22.0 → 1.22.1 (Distributed computing)

  * [fast_histogram](https://pypi.org/project/fast_histogram) 0.4 → 0.5 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

  * [fastparquet](https://pypi.org/project/fastparquet) 0.1.5 → 0.1.6 (Python support for Parquet file format)

  * [fuzzywuzzy](https://pypi.org/project/fuzzywuzzy) 0.16.0 → 0.17.0 (Fuzzy string matching in python)

  * [geopy](https://pypi.org/project/geopy) 1.14.0 → 1.16.0 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

  * [greenlet](https://pypi.org/project/greenlet) 0.4.13 → 0.4.14 (Lightweight in-process concurrent programming)

  * [holoviews](https://pypi.org/project/holoviews) 1.11.0a1 → 1.11.0a3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

  * [hvplot](https://pypi.org/project/hvplot) 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

  * [ipykernel](https://pypi.org/project/ipykernel) 4.8.2 → 4.9.0 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

  * [ipympl](https://pypi.org/project/ipympl) 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

  * [ipython](https://pypi.org/project/ipython) 6.4.0 → 6.5.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

  * [ipywidgets](https://pypi.org/project/ipywidgets) 7.2.1 → 7.4.1 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

  * [joblib](https://pypi.org/project/joblib) 0.12.0 → 0.12.2 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

  * [jupyter_sphinx](https://pypi.org/project/jupyter_sphinx) 0.1.2 → 0.1.4 (Jupyter Sphinx Extensions)

  * [jupyterlab](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab) 0.32.1 → 0.34.7 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

  * [jupyterlab_launcher](https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlab_launcher) 0.10.5 → 0.13.1 (Jupyter Launcher)

  * [keras](https://pypi.org/project/keras) 2.2.0 → 2.2.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

  * [keras_applications](https://pypi.org/project/keras_applications) 1.0.2 → 1.0.4 (Reference implementations of popular deep learning models)

  * [keras_preprocessing](https://pypi.org/project/keras_preprocessing) 1.0.1 → 1.0.2 (Easy data preprocessing and data augmentation for deep learning models)

  * [loky](https://pypi.org/project/loky) 2.1.4 → 2.2.1 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

  * [lxml](https://pypi.org/project/lxml) 4.2.3 → 4.2.4 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

  * [matplotlib](https://pypi.org/project/matplotlib) 2.2.2 → 2.2.3 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  * [more_itertools](https://pypi.org/project/more_itertools) 4.2.0 → 4.3.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

  * [msgpack_numpy](https://pypi.org/project/msgpack_numpy) 0.4.3 → 0.4.3.1 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

  * [multipledispatch](https://pypi.org/project/multipledispatch) 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (A relatively sane approach to multiple dispatch in Python)

  * [mypy](https://pypi.org/project/mypy) 0.610 → 0.620 (Optional static typing for Python)

  * [mysql_connector_python](https://pypi.org/project/mysql_connector_python) 8.0.6 → 8.0.11 (MySQL driver written in Python)

  * [netcdf4](https://pypi.org/project/netcdf4) 1.4.0 → 1.4.1 (Provides an object-oriented python interface to the netCDF version 4 library)

  * [notebook](https://pypi.org/project/notebook) 5.5.0 → 5.6.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)

  * [numexpr](https://pypi.org/project/numexpr) 2.6.5 → 2.6.8 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

  * [pandas](https://pypi.org/project/pandas) 0.23.3 → 0.23.4 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  * [parambokeh](https://pypi.org/project/parambokeh) 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

  * [paramnb](https://pypi.org/project/paramnb) 2.0.2 → 2.0.4 (Generate ipywidgets from Parameterized objects in the notebook)

  * [parso](https://pypi.org/project/parso) 0.3.0 → 0.3.1 (A Python Parser)

  * [pdvega](https://pypi.org/project/pdvega) 0.1 → 0.2.1.dev0 (Pandas plotting interface to Vega and Vega-Lite)

  * [pip](https://pypi.org/project/pip) 10.0.1 → 18.0 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

  * [plotnine](https://pypi.org/project/plotnine) 0.3.0 → 0.4.0 (A grammar of graphics for python)

  * [pluggy](https://pypi.org/project/pluggy) 0.6.0 → 0.7.1 (plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python)

  * [psutil](https://pypi.org/project/psutil) 5.4.6 → 5.4.7 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

  * [pyarrow](https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow) 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

  * [pyct](https://pypi.org/project/pyct) 0.4.3 → 0.4.5 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

  * [pygame](https://pypi.org/project/pygame) 1.9.3 → 1.9.4 (Pygame gives multimedia to python.)

  * [pylint](https://pypi.org/project/pylint) 1.9.2 → 2.1.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

  * [pymongo](https://pypi.org/project/pymongo) 3.7.0 → 3.7.1 (Python driver for MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org>)

  * [pyodbc](https://pypi.org/project/pyodbc) 4.0.23 → 4.0.24 (DB API Module for ODBC)

  * [pytest](https://pypi.org/project/pytest) 3.6.3 → 3.7.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

  * [pywin32_ctypes](https://pypi.org/project/pywin32_ctypes) 0.1.2 → 0.2.0 (A (partial) reimplementation of pywin32 that is pure python (uses ctypes/cffi))

  * [pyzmq](https://pypi.org/project/pyzmq) 17.0.0 → 17.1.2 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

  * [pyzo](https://pypi.org/project/pyzo) 4.5.2 → 4.6.0 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

  * [qtconsole](https://pypi.org/project/qtconsole) 4.3.1 → 4.4.1 (Jupyter Qt console)

  * [qtpy](https://pypi.org/project/qtpy) 1.4.2 → 1.5.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

  * [regex](https://pypi.org/project/regex) 2018.6.21 → 2018.8.17 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

  * [reportlab](https://pypi.org/project/reportlab) 3.4.0 → 3.5.6 (The PDF generation library)

  * [rope](https://pypi.org/project/rope) 0.10.7 → 0.11.0 (a python refactoring library...)

  * [ruamel.yaml](https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml) 0.15.42 → 0.15.52 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

  * [scikit_learn](https://pypi.org/project/scikit_learn) 0.19.1 → 0.19.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

  * [scs](https://pypi.org/project/scs) 1.2.7 → 2.0.2 (scs: splitting conic solver)

  * [seaborn](https://pypi.org/project/seaborn) 0.9.dev0 → 0.9.0 (statistical data visualization)

  * [setuptools](https://pypi.org/project/setuptools) 39.2.0 → 40.2.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  * [snakeviz](https://pypi.org/project/snakeviz) 0.4.2 → 1.0.0 (An in-browser Python profile viewer)

  * [sphinx](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx) 1.7.5 → 1.7.7 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

  * [sphinx_rtd_theme](https://pypi.org/project/sphinx_rtd_theme) 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (ReadTheDocs.org theme for Sphinx, 2013 version.)

  * [spyder](https://pypi.org/project/spyder) 3.3.0 → 3.3.1 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

  * [spyder_kernels](https://pypi.org/project/spyder_kernels) 0.2.4 → 0.2.6 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

  * [sqlalchemy](https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy) 1.2.9 → 1.2.11 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

  * [sympy](https://pypi.org/project/sympy) 1.1.1 → 1.2 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)

  * [tornado](https://pypi.org/project/tornado) 5.0.2 → 5.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

  * [tqdm](https://pypi.org/project/tqdm) 4.23.4 → 4.25.0 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

  * [vega](https://pypi.org/project/vega) 1.3.0 → 1.4.0 (An IPython/ Jupyter widget for Vega and Vega-Lite)

  * [widgetsnbextension](https://pypi.org/project/widgetsnbextension) 3.2.1 → 3.4.1 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

  * [winpython](http://winpython.github.io/) 1.10.20180624 → 1.10.20180827 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

  * [wordcloud](https://pypi.org/project/wordcloud) 1.4.1 → 1.5.0 (A little word cloud generator)

  * [xarray](https://pypi.org/project/xarray) 0.10.7 → 0.10.8 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

  * [xlsxwriter](https://pypi.org/project/xlsxwriter) 1.0.5 → 1.0.7 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  * [xlwings](https://pypi.org/project/xlwings) 0.11.5 → 0.11.8 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)



Removed packages:



  * [pymc3](https://pypi.org/project/pymc3) 3.4.1 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

  * [theano](https://pypi.org/project/theano) 1.0.2 (Optimizing compiler for evaluating mathematical expressions on CPUs and GPUs.)

  * [torch](https://pypi.org/project/torch) 0.4.0 (a deep learning framework.)

  * [torchvision](https://pypi.org/project/torchvision) 0.2.1 (Datasets, Transforms and Models specific to Computer Vision)

  * [vega3](https://pypi.org/project/vega3) 0.13.0 (An IPython/ Jupyter widget for Vega 3 and Vega-Lite 2)



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