## History of changes for WinPython 2.7.10.3



The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 2.7.10.2.



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [backports-abc](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports-abc) 0.4 (A backport of recent additions to the 'collections.abc' module.)

  * [blosc](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blosc) 1.2.8 (Blosc data compressor)

  * [bloscpack](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bloscpack) 0.9.0 (Command line interface to and serialization format for Blosc)

  * [bottleneck](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bottleneck) 1.0.0 (Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython)

  * [bqplot](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bqplot) 0.4.2 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

  * [castra](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/castra) 0.1.6 (On-disk partitioned store)

  * [cycler](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cycler) 0.9.0 (Composable style cycles)

  * [ipykernel](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipykernel) 4.1.1 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

  * [ipyparallel](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipyparallel) 4.0.2 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)

  * [ipython-genutils](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython-genutils) 0.1.0 (Vestigial utilities from IPython)

  * [ipywidgets](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipywidgets) 4.1.0 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

  * [jupyter](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyter) 1.0.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)

  * [jupyter-client](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyter-client) 4.1.1 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)

  * [jupyter-console](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyter-console) 4.0.3 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)

  * [jupyter-core](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyter-core) 4.0.6 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)

  * [locket](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/locket) 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)

  * [nbconvert](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nbconvert) 4.0.0 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

  * [nbformat](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nbformat) 4.0.1 (The Jupyter Notebook format)

  * [notebook](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/notebook) 4.0.6 (# Jupyter Notebook)

  * [pandas-datareader](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas-datareader) 0.2.0 (Data readers extracted from the pandas codebase,should be compatible with recent pandas versions)

  * [path.py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/path.py) 8.1.2 (A module wrapper for os.path)

  * [pickleshare](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pickleshare) 0.5 (Tiny 'shelve'-like database with concurrency support)

  * [py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py) 1.4.30 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

  * [pytest](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest) 2.8.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

  * [python-hdf4](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-hdf4) 0.9 (Python-HDF4: Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library)

  * [pythonqwt](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythonqwt) 0.4.0 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)

  * [qtconsole](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qtconsole) 4.1.0 (Jupyter Qt console)

  * [requests-toolbelt](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests-toolbelt) 0.4.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  * [rx](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rx) 1.2.3 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

  * [simplegeneric](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplegeneric) 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

  * [traitlets](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/traitlets) 4.0.0 (Traitlets Python config system)



Upgraded packages:



  * [babel](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/babel) 1.3 → 2.1.1 (Internationalization utilities)

  * [baresql](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/baresql) 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (playing SQL directly on Python datas)

  * [bcolz](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bcolz) 0.10.0 → 0.11.4 (columnar and compressed data containers.)

  * [beautifulsoup4](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4) 4.4.0 → 4.4.1 (Screen-scraping library)

  * [blaze](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blaze) 0.8.2 → 0.8.3 (Blaze)

  * [bokeh](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bokeh) 0.9.2 → 0.10.0 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

  * [certifi](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/certifi) 2015.4.28 → 2015.9.6.1 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

  * [cffi](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cffi) 1.1.2 → 1.3.0 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

  * [click](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/click) 4.1 → 5.0 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)

  * [cython](http://www.cython.org) 0.22.1 → 0.23.4 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

  * [cytoolz](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cytoolz) 0.7.3 → 0.7.4 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)

  * [dask](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dask) 0.6.1 → 0.7.5 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

  * [datashape](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datashape) 0.4.6 → 0.4.7 (A data description language)

  * [decorator](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator) 3.4.2 → 4.0.4 (Better living through Python with decorators)

  * [dill](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dill) 0.2.3 → 0.2.4 (serialize all of python (almost))

  * [functools32](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/functools32) 3.2.3.post1 → 3.2.3.post2 (Backport of the functools module from Python 3.2.3 for use on 2.7 and PyPy.)

  * [greenlet](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet) 0.4.7 → 0.4.9 (Lightweight in-process concurrent programming)

  * [guidata](http://packages.python.org/guidata) 1.6.2 → 1.7.0b6 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)

  * [guiqwt](http://packages.python.org/guiqwt) 2.3.2 → 3.0.0b7 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)

  * [husl](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/husl) 4.0.2 → 4.0.3 (Human-friendly HSL (Hue-Saturation-Lightness))

  * [ipython](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython) 3.2.1 → 4.0.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

  * [ipython-sql](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython-sql) 0.3.6 → 0.3.7.1 (RDBMS access via IPython)

  * [jedi](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jedi) 0.9.0 → 0.8.1 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

  * [jinja2](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jinja2) 2.7.3 → 2.8 (Sandboxed template engine (provides a Django-like non-XML syntax and compiles templates into executable python code))

  * [joblib](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/joblib) 0.8.4 → 0.9.2 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

  * [keras](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keras) 0.1.2 → 0.2.0 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

  * [lmfit](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lmfit) 0.8.3 → 0.9.1 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

  * [logilab-common](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab-common) 1.0.2 → 1.1.0 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))

  * [matplotlib](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib) 1.4.3 → 1.5.0rc3 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  * [mistune](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mistune) 0.7 → 0.7.1 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)

  * [netcdf4](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netcdf4) 1.1.9 → 1.2.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

  * [networkx](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/networkx) 1.9.1 → 1.10 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)

  * [nltk](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nltk) 3.0.4 → 3.0.5 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

  * [numexpr](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numexpr) 2.4.3 → 2.4.4 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

  * [numpy](http://numpy.scipy.org/) 1.9.2+mkl → 1.9.3 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

  * [oct2py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/oct2py) 3.3.0 → 3.3.3 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)

  * [odo](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/odo) 0.3.3 → 0.3.4 (Data migration in Python)

  * [pandas](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas) 0.16.2 → 0.17.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  * [pillow](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pillow) 2.9.0 → 3.0.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

  * [pip](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) 7.1.0 → 7.1.2 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

  * [psutil](http://code.google.com/p/psutil) 3.1.1 → 3.2.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

  * [pyaudio](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyaudio) 0.2.8 → 0.2.9 (Bindings for PortAudio v19, the cross-platform audio input/output stream library.)

  * [pyopengl](http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net) 3.1.0 → 3.1.1b1 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

  * [pytz](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz) 2015.4 → 2015.6 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

  * [requests](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests) 2.7.0 → 2.8.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  * [rpy2](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpy2) 2.6.1 → 2.7.2 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

  * [scipy](http://www.scipy.org) 0.16.0 → 0.16.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

  * [seaborn](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/seaborn) 0.6.0 → 0.7.0.dev0 (statistical data visualization)

  * [setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) 17.1.1 → 18.4 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  * [six](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six) 1.9.0 → 1.10.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

  * [sphinx-rtd-theme](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx-rtd-theme) 0.1.8 → 0.1.9 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

  * [spyder](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyder) 2.3.5.2 → 3.0.0.dev0 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

  * [sqlalchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org) 1.0.8 → 1.0.9 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

  * [sqlite-bro](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlite-bro) 0.8.8 → 0.8.10 (a graphic SQLite Client in 1 Python file)

  * [sqlparse](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlparse) 0.1.15 → 0.1.16 (Non-validating SQL parser)

  * [sympy](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sympy) 0.7.6 → 0.7.6.1 (Symbolic Mathematics Library)

  * [tables](http://www.pytables.org) 3.2.1 → 3.2.2 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))

  * [toolz](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/toolz) 0.7.2 → 0.7.4 (List processing tools and functional utilities)

  * [twine](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twine) 1.5.0 → 1.6.3 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

  * [twitter](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter) 1.17.0 → 1.17.1 (An API and command-line toolset for Twitter (twitter.com))

  * [wheel](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel) 0.24.0 → 0.26.0 (A built-package format for Python.)

  * [winpython](http://winpython.github.io/) 1.1 → 1.2 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

  * [xlsxwriter](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlsxwriter) 0.7.3 → 0.7.7 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  * [xray](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xray) 0.5.2 → 0.6.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)



Removed packages:



  * [fonttools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fonttools) 2.4 (Tools to manipulate font files)

  * [locket.py](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/locket.py) 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)

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

  * [Polygon2](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Polygon2) 2.0.7 (Polygon2 is a Python-2 package that handles polygonal shapes in 2D)

  * [pyhdf](http://pysclint.sourceforge.net/pyhdf) 0.8.3 (Python interface to HDF4 files (Hierarchical Data Format version 4))

  * [TTFQuery](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TTFQuery) 1.0.5 (FontTools-based package for querying system fonts)

  * [wsgiref](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wsgiref) 0.1.2 (WSGI (PEP 333) Reference Library)



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