# SciPy 1.7.1 Release Notes

SciPy 1.7.1 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.7.0.

## Authors

- Peter Bell

- Evgeni Burovski

- Justin Charlong +

- Ralf Gommers

- Matti Picus

- Tyler Reddy

- Pamphile Roy

- Sebastian Wallkötter

- Arthur Volant

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 1.7.1

- #14074: Segmentation fault when building cKDTree with Scipy 1.6.3.

- #14271: scipy.io.loadmat failure in 1.7.0

- #14273: `scipy.signal.{medfilt,medfilt2d}` hit “Windows fatal exception:…

- #14282: DOC, CI: stats skewtest refguide failure

- #14363: Huge stack allocation in _sobol.pyx may cause stack overvflow

- #14382: Memory leak in `scipy.spatial.distance` for `cdist`

- #14396: BUG: Sphinx 4.1 breaks the banner’s logo

- #14444: DOC/FEAT Rotation.from_rotvec documents a degrees argument which…

### Pull requests for 1.7.1

- #14178: DEV: Update Boschloo Exact test

- #14264: REL: prepare for SciPy 1.7.1

- #14283: BUG: fix refguide-check namedtuple handling

- #14303: FIX: Check for None before calling str methods

- #14327: BUG: medfilt can access beyond the end of an array

- #14355: BUG: KDTree balanced_tree is unbalanced for degenerate data

- #14368: BUG: avoid large cython global variable in function

- #14384: BUG: Reference count leak in distance_pybind

- #14397: DOC/CI: do not allow sphinx 4.1.

- #14417: DOC/CI: pin sphinx to !=4.1.0

- #14460: DOC: add required scipy version to kwarg

- #14466: MAINT: 1.7.1 backports (round 1)

- #14508: MAINT: bump scipy-mathjax

- #14509: MAINT: 1.7.1 backports (round 2)