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Hi All,

On behalf of the NumPy team, I'm pleased to announce the release of NumPy 2.4.2. The NumPy 2.4.2 is a patch release that fixes bugs discovered after
the 2.4.1 release. Highlights are:

- Fixes memory leaks
- Updates OpenBLAS to fix hangs

This release supports Python versions 3.11-3.14. Wheels can be downloaded
from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/2.4.2>; release notes and the changelog are available on Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.4.2>.


*Contributors*

A total of 9 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

- Charles Harris
- Daniel Tang +
- Joren Hammudoglu
- Kumar Aditya
- Matti Picus
- Nathan Goldbaum
- Ralf Gommers
- Sebastian Berg
- Vikram Kumar +



*Pull requests merged*
A total of 12 pull requests were merged for this release.

- #30629: MAINT: Prepare 2.4.x for further development
- #30636: TYP: ``arange``\ : accept datetime strings
- #30657: MAINT: avoid possible race condition by not touching
``os.environ``...
- #30700: BUG: validate contraction axes in tensordot (#30521)
- #30701: DOC: __array_namespace__info__: set_module not __module__
(#30679)
- #30702: BUG: fix free-threaded PyObject layout in
replace_scalar_type_names...
- #30703: TST: fix limited API example in tests for latest Cython
- #30709: BUG: Fix some bugs found via valgrind (#30680)
- #30712: MAINT: replace ob_type access with Py_TYPE in
PyArray_CheckExact
- #30713: BUG: Fixup the quantile promotion fixup
- #30736: BUG: fix thread safety of ``array_getbuffer`` (#30667)
- #30737: backport scipy-openblas version change


Cheers,

Charles Harris
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