# SciPy 0.18.1 Release Notes

SciPy 0.18.1 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 0.18.0.

## Authors

- @kleskjr

- Evgeni Burovski

- CJ Carey

- Luca Citi +

- Yu Feng

- Ralf Gommers

- Johannes Schmitz +

- Josh Wilson

- Nathan Woods

A total of 9 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 0.18.1

- #6357: scipy 0.17.1 piecewise cubic hermite interpolation does not return…

- #6420: circmean() changed behaviour from 0.17 to 0.18

- #6421: scipy.linalg.solve_banded overwrites input ‘b’ when the inversion…

- #6425: cKDTree INF bug

- #6435: scipy.stats.ks_2samp returns different values on different computers

- #6458: Error in scipy.integrate.dblquad when using variable integration…

### Pull requests for 0.18.1

- #6405: BUG: sparse: fix elementwise divide for CSR/CSC

- #6431: BUG: result for insufficient neighbours from cKDTree is wrong.

- #6432: BUG Issue #6421: scipy.linalg.solve_banded overwrites input ‘b’…

- #6455: DOC: add links to release notes

- #6462: BUG: interpolate: fix .roots method of PchipInterpolator

- #6492: BUG: Fix regression in dblquad: #6458

- #6543: fix the regression in circmean

- #6545: Revert gh-5938, restore ks_2samp

- #6557: Backports for 0.18.1