# SciPy 1.2.1 Release Notes

SciPy 1.2.1 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.2.0. Most importantly, it solves the issue that 1.2.0 cannot be installed from source on Python 2.7 because of non-ascii character issues.

It is also notable that SciPy 1.2.1 wheels were built with OpenBLAS 0.3.5.dev, which may alleviate some linear algebra issues observed in SciPy 1.2.0.

## Authors

- Eric Larson

- Mark Mikofski

- Evgeni Burovski

- Ralf Gommers

- Eric Moore

- Tyler Reddy

### Issues closed for 1.2.1

- #9606: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘xe2’ in file scipy/stats/_continuous_distns.py on line 3346, but no encoding declared

- #9608: Version 1.2.0 introduces too many indices for array error in…

- #9709: scipy.stats.gaussian_kde normalizes the weights keyword argument…

- #9733: scipy.linalg.qr_update gives NaN result

- #9724: CI: Is scipy.scipy Windows Python36-32bit-full working?

### Pull requests for 1.2.1

- #9612: BUG: don’t use array newton unless size is greater than 1

- #9615: ENH: Add test for encoding

- #9720: BUG: stats: weighted KDE does not modify the weights array

- #9739: BUG: qr_updates fails if u is exactly in span Q

- #9725: TST: pin mingw for Azure Win CI

- #9736: TST: adjust to vmImage dispatch in Azure

- #9681: BUG: Fix failing stats tests (partial backport)

- #9662: TST: interpolate: avoid pytest deprecations