# SciPy 1.2.2 Release Notes

SciPy 1.2.2 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.2.1. Importantly, the SciPy 1.2.2 wheels are built with OpenBLAS 0.3.7.dev to alleviate issues with SkylakeX AVX512 kernels.

## Authors

- CJ Carey

- Tyler Dawson +

- Ralf Gommers

- Kai Striega

- Andrew Nelson

- Tyler Reddy

- Kevin Sheppard +

A total of 7 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time. This list of names is automatically generated, and may not be fully complete.

### Issues closed for 1.2.2

- #9611: Overflow error with new way of p-value calculation in kendall tau correlation for perfectly monotonic vectors

- #9964: optimize.newton : overwrites x0 argument when it is a numpy array

- #9784: TST: Minimum NumPy version is not being CI tested

- #10132: Docs: Description of nnz attribute of sparse.csc_matrix misleading

### Pull requests for 1.2.2

- #10056: BUG: Ensure factorial is not too large in kendaltau

- #9991: BUG: Avoid inplace modification of input array in newton

- #9788: TST, BUG: f2py-related issues with NumPy < 1.14.0

- #9749: BUG: MapWrapper.__exit__ should terminate

- #10141: Update description for nnz on csc.py