audit trail:

• nodejs-10.13.0
• matplotlib-3.0.2
• scikit-learn-0.20.1
• re-include simplegeneric, that is dropped per Ipython-7.1.1 but may be still of use for rpy2 examples
• astropy (as used in other domains)
• panel-0.2.0a8
• move node_js upward from '/t/n' to '/n', in order to insert '32' or '64' in installer path.
• Pytorch-1
• nodejs-10.14.1 ?
• cartopy-0.17 needs GeoViews61.6.0a3
• insert '32' or '64' in installer path.
• XGBoost ?
• python-3.7.2rc1, python-3.6.8rc1 (2018-12-11)
• pygbm
• failed try of spyder-4.0.0beta2- .... code completion and ctrl I not working in the editor.
• pyside2-5.12.0a1 LTS + shiboken2 (spyder-4 not compatible), guidata-1.7.7dev0, pythonqwt-0.5.6dev0, formlayout-2.0.0a0

build1 (2018-12-16)

• Pyside2-5.12 final
• scipy-1.2.0
• scikit_learn-0.20.2
• h5py-2.9.0
• Notebook-5.7.4
• tweak installer build system so it can be INNO, NSIS, or 7-Zip based
• Geoviews-1.6.0a3+20181223
• keep qml in pyside2 (INNO and 7ZIP installers can support it)
• python-3.7.2 final, python-3.6.8 final
• remove ".exe" package support,
• holoviews 1.11.0
• drop included 7zip (that was needed only for ".exe" package extraction support)
• add installer_build option to create installer with inno, nsis or 7zip, and/or to create .7z or .zip
• holoviews-1.11.0, geoviews-1.6.0a4

build2 (2018-12-26)

• numpy-1.15.4
• bokeh-1.0.3, geoviews-1.6.0,
• numba-0.42.0, llvmlite-0.27.0
• Tensorflow-1.9.0 (old from cgohlke) in Python-3.7

build3 (2018-01-04)

• hvplot-0.3.0 , panel-0.3.2a0
• pandas-0.24rc1
• bokeh-1.0.4
• holoviews-1.11.1a0pre

build4 (2018-01-13)

• pandas-0.24.0
• nodejs-10.15.0
• Spyder4-beta2-20190127-1756 (completion on tab ok)
• Spyder-3.3.3 (at Spyder-4 team request)
• holoviews-1.11.2, hvplot-0.4.0, datashader-0.6.9 (pandas-0.24.0 compatibility)
• remove pyviz too big
• Pytorch-1.0.1
• Tensorflow-1.13rc1 on Python-3.7 instead of 1.9 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• tensorflow-probability-0.6.0rc0
• Pyqt5-5.12
• PyQtWebengine
• pandas-0.24.1, scipy-1.2.1
• pip-0.19.2, setuptools-40.8.0
• revert to Pyqt5-5.9, Spyder-3 problem
• resolved the "pip list -o" lock , when zict was installed (pip list -o -v allowed to see a decrepited lock file in pip cache)
• Tensorflow-1.13rc2
• re-go foreward to Pyqt5-5.121a, Spyder-3 problem workarounded by using "spyder 2" theme

build5 (2018-02-16)

• tensorflow-probability-0.6.0rc1
• check no complaints under PyQt5-5.12.1
• moviepy-1.0.0
• Tensorflow-1.13.1 (unfortunately too late in 2018-02-26, need to delay rc)
• tensorflow-probability-0.6.0
• holoviews-1.11.3
• matplotlib-3.0.3, scikit_learn-0.20.3
• CANCELLED: tornado-6.0.0 breaks Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook
• fix streamz-0.5.0master20180304
• numpy-1.16.2 to fix Tensorflow-1.13.1 "No module named 'numpy.core._multiarray_umath'" problems
• nodejs-10.15.2

rc (2018-03-05)

• respin fo PyQt5 version:
  • QtAwesome-0.5.7 fix for PyQt-5.12.1 (spyder-ide/qtawesome#115)
  • reset default Spyder to spyder 3 icon theme

partial rc2 (2018-03-09)

next release:

• drop of Python-3.6
• thinking about a 32 bit drop timeline, as Scikit-Learn seems to moves away (in testings at least).

Exploration work:

• including more heavy stuff:

  • YES: pyside2 (including qtdesigner): 109 Mo (+34 Mo)
  • NO: dask graphic vizualisation requires: pygraphviz: ok, graphivz-2.38 binary gtk (+50Mo) , with gtk2
  • YES: Cartopy (+9 Mo) / pyshp / geopandas-0.4.0 (+20 Mo): includes click-plugins-1.0.4 cligj-0.5.0 fiona-1.7.13 munch-2.3.2 pyproj-1.9.5.1 shapely-1.6.4.post1
  • YES: geoviews
  • ? rtree

• NOT Spyder4-beta2

• Tensorflow-2 is 2019 Q2,

• quicker/better installer :

  • fast lzma2 would accelerate build or allow a mx7 compression (5% smaller, quite impressive)
  • zstd may accelerate build and installation time, with a true Quad-processor.
  • could be shipped in
  • all of this may require digging into 7zip deeper than whished, so waiting further proof of the interest to do so.

• may include zstandard after zstd 1.4 change of API.

build1 2018-12-16 (Python-3.7.2rc1, Python-3.6.8rc1, a Pyside2 build)

Changes from WinPython 2018-04:

• updated infrastructure:
  • Python-3.7.2rc1, Python-3.6.8rc1,
  • install tweaks:
    • nodejs is installed on .\t instead of .\n\t
    • installer now proposes 32/64 in the installation path, example; WPy64-3720b1
  • a Pyside2-5.12 flavor
• New Packages:
  • astropy, cartopy, gdal, pyviz, panel, pygbm,
• Upgraded Packages:
  • pyTorch-1.0.0 (on Python-3.7), Nodejs-10.14.1, numba-0.41.0, cython-0.29.2,
  • Matplotlib-3.0.2, Spyder-3.3.2, rpy2-2.9.5
• varation per version, for build1:
  • Spyder is not in ps2 release (uncompatible for now)
  • Pytorch-1.0 is not in Python-3.6 releases,
  • Tensorflow-1.12 is not in in Python-3.7 releases (uncompatible)

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• Python-3.7.2rc1,
• the new packages, that may help drawing earth problems,
• pyside2 build (with no Spyder) ... baby first steps, please apologize and help

Focus of next build:

• Python-3.7.2 final, Python-3.6.8 final (dec. 20th),
• leverage ML packages: Tensorflow-2 in 3.7 ? pytorch-1 in 3.6 ?

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.7.2.0b1

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.7.1.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v8.12.0 → v10.14.1 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• astropy 3.0.5 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• cartopy 0.17.0 (A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation)

• gdal 2.3.2 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)

• geoviews 1.6.0a3 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself... on a map!)

• panel 0.3.1 (A high-level Python toolkit for composing widgets and plots)

• pygbm 0.1.0 (Experimental, numba-based Gradient Boosting Machines)

• pyshp 2.0.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

• pyviz 0.9.1 (How to solve visualization problems with Python tools.)

• shapely 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

• simplegeneric 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

• singledispatch 3.4.0.3 (This library brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3)

Upgraded packages:

• altair 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 2.0.4 → 2.1.0 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• blosc 1.6.1 → 1.6.2 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 1.0.0 → 1.0.2 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.11.1 → 0.11.2 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2018.10.15 → 2018.11.29 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cftime 1.0.2.1 → 1.0.3.4 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• colorama 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cvxpy 1.0.10 → 1.0.11 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• cython 0.29 → 0.29.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.20.0 → 1.0.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• distributed 1.24.0 → 1.25.0 (Distributed computing)

• ecos 2.0.5 → 2.0.7.post1 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• fastparquet 0.1.6 → 0.2.0 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• geopy 1.17.0 → 1.18.0 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• holoviews 1.10.9 → 1.11.0a11 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• hvplot 0.2.1 → 0.3.0a7 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

• idna 2.7 → 2.8 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• imbalanced_learn 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning.)

• ipython 7.1.1 → 7.2.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• joblib 0.12.5 → 0.13.0 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• julia 0.1.5 → 0.2.0 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyterlab 0.35.3 → 0.35.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keyring 16.0.0 → 17.0.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• llvmlite 0.25.0 → 0.26.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.11 → 0.9.12 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• loky 2.3.1 → 2.4.2 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

• markupsafe 1.0 → 1.1.0 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)

• matplotlib 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• mlxtend 0.13.0 → 0.14.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• mpmath 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

• msgpack 0.5.6 → 0.6.0 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msgpack_numpy 0.4.4.1 → 0.4.4.2 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

• mypy 0.641 → 0.650 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nltk 3.3 → 3.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.7.0 → 5.7.2 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.40.0 → 0.41.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numcodecs 0.5.5 → 0.6.2 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• param 1.8.1 → 1.8.2a1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• prometheus_client 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• pyct 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

• pygments 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

• pylint 2.1.1 → 2.2.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.24 → 4.0.25 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.2 → 3.1.3b2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyparsing 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (A Python Parsing Module)

• pytest 3.9.3 → 4.0.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.7.1 → 3.7.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• pythreejs 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pytz 2018.6 → 2018.7 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pywinpty 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• qtawesome 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.4.2 → 4.4.3 (Jupyter Qt console)

• redis 2.10.6 → 3.0.1 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

• regex 2018.8.29 → 2018.11.22 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.9 → 3.5.12 (The PDF generation library)

• requests 2.20.0 → 2.21.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• rpy2 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• ruamel.yaml 0.15.75 → 0.15.79 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

• scikit_learn 0.20 → 0.20.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.1.0 → 1.2.0rc2 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• setuptools 40.5.0 → 40.6.3 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• six 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

• sortedcontainers 2.0.5 → 2.1.0 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sphinx 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.3.2.dev0 → 3.3.2 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• spyder_kernels 0.2.6 → 0.3.0 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

• sqlalchemy 1.2.12 → 1.2.15 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• streamz 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (Streams)

• torch 0.4.1 → 1.0.0 (a deep learning framework.)

• urllib3 1.24 → 1.24.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vega_datasets 0.5.0 → 0.7.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• wheel 0.32.2 → 0.32.3 (A built-package format for Python.)

• xarray 0.10.9 → 0.11.0 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlwings 0.12.1 → 0.15.1 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

build2 2018-12-26 (Python-3.7.2, Python-3.6.8, a dot build)

Changes from WinPython 2018-05 build1:

• updated infrastructure:
  • Python-3.7.2, Python-3.6.8,
  • ".exe" legacy packages are no more supported, and so included 7zip can be removed,
  • build system can use any of the 3 types of installers, and/or generate .zip compressed versions
• Upgraded Packages:
  • holoviews-1.11.0
  • Pyside2 QML part is now kept,
  • pytorch-1 in 3.6 (test)
• variation per version, for build2:
  • Spyder is not in ps2 release (that will last until pyside2 gains momentum)
  • Tensorflow-1.12 is not in in Python-3.7 releases (uncompatible ... )
  • experimental minimalist "dot" version:
    • zero included packages but pip, setuptools, winpython,
    • packaged simultaneously with the old NSIS installer, and as a simple ".zip".

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• Python-3.7.2, the minimalist "dot" versions.
• QML in pyside2

Focus of next build:

• pandas-0.24.0rc,
• Tensorflow in 3.7 ?

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.7.2.0 build2

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.7.1.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v8.12.0 → v10.14.1 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• astropy 3.0.5 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• branca 0.3.1 (Generate complex HTML+JS pages with Python)

• cartopy 0.17.0 (A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation)

• gdal 2.3.3 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)

• geoviews 1.6.0a4 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself... on a map!)

• panel 0.3.1 (A high-level Python toolkit for composing widgets and plots)

• pygbm 0.1.0 (Experimental, numba-based Gradient Boosting Machines)

• pyshp 2.0.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

• pyviz 0.9.1 (How to solve visualization problems with Python tools.)

• shapely 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

• simplegeneric 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

• singledispatch 3.4.0.3 (This library brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3)

Upgraded packages:

• altair 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 2.0.4 → 2.1.0 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• blosc 1.6.1 → 1.6.2 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 1.0.0 → 1.0.2 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.11.1 → 0.11.2 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2018.10.15 → 2018.11.29 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cftime 1.0.2.1 → 1.0.3.4 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• colorama 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cvxpy 1.0.10 → 1.0.11 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• cython 0.29 → 0.29.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.20.0 → 1.0.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• distributed 1.24.0 → 1.25.1 (Distributed computing)

• ecos 2.0.5 → 2.0.7.post1 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• fastparquet 0.1.6 → 0.2.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• formlayout 1.1.0 → 2.0.0a0 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)

• geopy 1.17.0 → 1.18.1 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• h5py 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

• holoviews 1.10.9 → 1.11.0 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• hvplot 0.2.1 → 0.3.0a7 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

• idna 2.7 → 2.8 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• imbalanced_learn 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning.)

• ipyleaflet 0.9.1 → 0.9.2 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipython 7.1.1 → 7.2.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• jedi 0.13.1 → 0.13.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• joblib 0.12.5 → 0.13.0 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• julia 0.1.5 → 0.2.0 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.2.3 → 5.2.4 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.35.3 → 0.35.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keyring 16.0.0 → 17.0.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• llvmlite 0.25.0 → 0.26.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.11 → 0.9.12 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• loky 2.3.1 → 2.4.2 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

• markupsafe 1.0 → 1.1.0 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)

• matplotlib 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• mlxtend 0.13.0 → 0.14.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• mpmath 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

• msgpack 0.5.6 → 0.6.0 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msgpack_numpy 0.4.4.1 → 0.4.4.2 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

• mypy 0.641 → 0.650 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nltk 3.3 → 3.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.7.0 → 5.7.4 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.40.0 → 0.41.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numcodecs 0.5.5 → 0.6.2 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• numexpr 2.6.8 → 2.6.9 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

• param 1.8.1 → 1.8.2a1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• prometheus_client 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• pyct 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

• pygments 2.2.0 → 2.3.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

• pylint 2.1.1 → 2.2.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.24 → 4.0.25 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.2 → 3.1.3b2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyparsing 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (A Python Parsing Module)

• pytest 3.9.3 → 4.0.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.7.1 → 3.7.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• pythonqwt 0.5.5 → 0.5.6.dev0 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)

• pythreejs 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pytz 2018.6 → 2018.7 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pyviz_comms 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Launch jobs, organize the output, and dissect the results)

• pywinpty 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pyzo 4.6.2.dev0 → 4.6.2a0 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 0.5.2 → 0.5.3 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.4.2 → 4.4.3 (Jupyter Qt console)

• redis 2.10.6 → 3.0.1 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

• regex 2018.8.29 → 2018.11.22 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.9 → 3.5.12 (The PDF generation library)

• requests 2.20.0 → 2.21.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• rpy2 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• ruamel.yaml 0.15.75 → 0.15.81 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

• scikit_learn 0.20 → 0.20.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• setuptools 40.5.0 → 40.6.3 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• six 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

• sortedcontainers 2.0.5 → 2.1.0 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sphinx 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.3.2.dev0 → 3.3.2 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• spyder_kernels 0.2.6 → 0.3.0 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

• sqlalchemy 1.2.12 → 1.2.15 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• streamz 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (Streams)

• torch 0.4.1 → 1.0.0 (a deep learning framework.)

• typed_ast 1.1.0 → 1.1.1 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• urllib3 1.24 → 1.24.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vega_datasets 0.5.0 → 0.7.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• wheel 0.32.2 → 0.32.3 (A built-package format for Python.)

• winpython 1.11.20181031 → 1.11.20181222 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• xarray 0.10.9 → 0.11.0 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlrd 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

• xlwings 0.12.1 → 0.15.1 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

build3 2018-01-04 (numpy-1.15.4, Tensorflow-1.9 for Python-3.7)

Changes from WinPython 2018-05 build2:

• rebranded WinPython 2018-05 build3 as WinPython 2019-01 build3,
• Upgraded Packages:
  • numpy-1.15.4, numba-0.42.0, bokeh-1.0.3,
  • astropy-3.1.1, geoviews-1.6.0
  • (old) Tensorflow-1.9.0 in Python-3.7
• variation per version, for build3:
  • Spyder is not in ps2 release (that will last until pyside2 gains momentum)
  • Tensorflow-probability is not in Python-3.7 release, due to old Tensorflow version (edward instead)
  • underlying Qt5 is Qt-5.9 for PyQt version, till Spyder supports 5.12, Pyside2 version (ps2) is Qt-5.12
  • popularity test of a WinPython-3.6.8.0ps2 (Pyside2).

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• numpy-1.15.4 + numba-0.42 stability
• Keras with the old Tensorflow on Python-3.7.

Focus of next build:

• pandas-0.24.0rc,

WinPython 3.7.2.0Ps2 b3

The following packages are included in WinPython-64bit v3.7.2.0Ps2 b3.

Tools

Python packages

build4 2018-01-13 (pandas-0.24.0rc1)

Changes from WinPython 2018-05 build3:

• Upgraded Packages:
  • pandas-0.24.0rc1 (at last)
  • Qtpy-1.6, Spyder-3.3.3.dev0-2019-01-12 (with PyQt-5.12 support),
  • bokeh-1.0.4, holoviews-1.1.1a0-20190112
• variation per version, for build4:
  • Spyder is not in ps2 release (that will last until pyside2 gains momentum)
  • Tensorflow-probability is not in Python-3.7 release (still hope, if Tensorflow-1.13 in 2 weeks)
  • underlying PyQt5 is Qt-5.9 (hope for PyQt-5.12 in 2 weeks),

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• pandas-0.24.0rc,
• solving the #711 mystery

Hope for Next Build (rc):

• pandas-0.24.0,
• (hope for) Tensorflow-1.13.

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.8.0Qt5 b4

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.7.0Qt5.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v8.12.0 → v10.14.1 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• astropy 3.1.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• branca 0.3.1 (Generate complex HTML+JS pages with Python)

• cartopy 0.17.0 (A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation)

• gdal 2.3.3 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)

• geoviews 1.6.0 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself... on a map!)

• panel 0.3.2a0 (A high-level Python toolkit for composing widgets and plots)

• pygbm 0.1.0 (Experimental, numba-based Gradient Boosting Machines)

• pyshp 2.0.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

• pyviz 0.9.1 (How to solve visualization problems with Python tools.)

• shapely 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

• simplegeneric 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

• singledispatch 3.4.0.3 (This library brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3)

• soupsieve 1.7 (A CSS4 selector implementation for Beautiful Soup.)

• torch 1.0.0 (a deep learning framework.)

• torchvision 0.2.1 (Datasets, Transforms and Models specific to Computer Vision)

Upgraded packages:

• altair 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 2.0.4 → 2.1.0 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• beautifulsoup4 4.6.3 → 4.7.1 (Screen-scraping library)

• bleach 3.0.2 → 3.1.0 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

• blosc 1.6.1 → 1.7.0 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 1.0.0 → 1.0.4 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.11.1 → 0.11.3 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2018.10.15 → 2018.11.29 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cftime 1.0.2.1 → 1.0.3.4 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• colorama 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• cvxpy 1.0.10 → 1.0.11 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• cython 0.29 → 0.29.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.20.0 → 1.0.0 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• distributed 1.24.0 → 1.25.2 (Distributed computing)

• ecos 2.0.5 → 2.0.7.post1 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• entrypoints 0.2.3 → 0.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• fast_histogram 0.5 → 0.7 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastparquet 0.1.6 → 0.2.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• formlayout 1.1.0 → 2.0.0a0 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)

• gast 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 (Python AST that abstracts the underlying Python version)

• geopy 1.17.0 → 1.18.1 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• grpcio 1.15.0 → 1.17.1 (HTTP/2-based RPC framework)

• h5py 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

• holoviews 1.10.9 → 1.11.1a0 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• hvplot 0.2.1 → 0.3.0 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

• idna 2.7 → 2.8 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• imbalanced_learn 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning.)

• ipyleaflet 0.9.1 → 0.9.2 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipython 7.1.1 → 7.2.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• jedi 0.13.1 → 0.13.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• joblib 0.12.5 → 0.13.1 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• julia 0.1.5 → 0.2.0 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.2.3 → 5.2.4 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.35.3 → 0.35.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keyring 16.0.0 → 17.0.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• llvmlite 0.25.0 → 0.27.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.11 → 0.9.12 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• loky 2.3.1 → 2.4.2 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

• lxml 4.2.5 → 4.3.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• markupsafe 1.0 → 1.1.0 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)

• matplotlib 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• mlxtend 0.13.0 → 0.14.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• more_itertools 4.3.0 → 5.0.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

• mpmath 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

• msgpack 0.5.6 → 0.6.0 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msgpack_numpy 0.4.4.1 → 0.4.4.2 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

• mypy 0.641 → 0.650 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nltk 3.3 → 3.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.7.0 → 5.7.4 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.40.0 → 0.42.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numcodecs 0.5.5 → 0.6.2 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• numexpr 2.6.8 → 2.6.9 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

• numpy 1.14.6+mkl → 1.15.4+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• osqp 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (the Operator Splitting QP Solver.)

• pandas 0.23.4 → 0.24.0rc1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• param 1.8.1 → 1.8.2a1 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• pillow 5.3.0 → 5.4.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• pkginfo 1.4.2 → 1.5.0.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• pluggy 0.8.0 → 0.8.1 (plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python)

• prometheus_client 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• pyct 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

• pygments 2.2.0 → 2.3.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

• pylint 2.1.1 → 2.2.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.24 → 4.0.25 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.2 → 3.1.3b2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyparsing 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (A Python Parsing Module)

• pytest 3.9.3 → 4.1.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.6.7 → 3.6.8 (Python programming language with standard library)

• pythonqwt 0.5.5 → 0.5.6.dev0 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)

• pythreejs 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pytz 2018.6 → 2018.9 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pyviz_comms 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Launch jobs, organize the output, and dissect the results)

• pywinpty 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pyzo 4.6.2.dev0 → 4.6.2a0 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 0.5.2 → 0.5.5 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.4.2 → 4.4.3 (Jupyter Qt console)

• qtpy 1.5.2 → 1.6.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

• redis 2.10.6 → 3.0.1 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

• regex 2018.8.29 → 2018.11.22 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.9 → 3.5.12 (The PDF generation library)

• requests 2.20.0 → 2.21.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• rpy2 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• ruamel.yaml 0.15.75 → 0.15.85 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

• scikit_learn 0.20 → 0.20.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• setuptools 40.5.0 → 40.6.3 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• six 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

• sortedcontainers 2.0.5 → 2.1.0 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sphinx 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 3.3.2.dev0 → 3.3.3.dev0 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• spyder_kernels 0.2.6 → 0.3.0 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

• sqlalchemy 1.2.12 → 1.2.16 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• streamz 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (Streams)

• tensorboard 1.12.0 → 1.12.2 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

• tensorflow 1.12.0rc2 → 1.12.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tensorflow_probability 0.4.0 → 0.5.0 (Probabilistic modeling and statistical inference in TensorFlow)

• tqdm 4.28.1 → 4.29.1 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• typed_ast 1.1.0 → 1.1.1 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• urllib3 1.24 → 1.24.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vega_datasets 0.5.0 → 0.7.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• wheel 0.32.2 → 0.32.3 (A built-package format for Python.)

• winpython 1.11.20181031 → 1.11.20181222 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• wrapt 1.10.11 → 1.11.0 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

• xarray 0.10.9 → 0.11.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlrd 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

• xlwings 0.12.1 → 0.15.1 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

I think it would be wise to wait until Spyder v4.0beta2 is tested and released before including it in a release of WinPython. Currently, I see 10 known bugs in the development version that will be fixed before release:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/milestones/v4.0beta2
These bugs could cause frustration and waste the time of a WinPython user. If a WinPython user goes to the effort to report any of these bugs, they would be marked as a duplicate.

Instead, I suggest including the latest development version of Spyder-3.3.3. A bug has been fixed since Spyder-3.3.3.dev0-2019-01-12 included in WinPython build4. Thus, this would be an improvement over the released Spyder-3.3.2.

Since there are only 3 open issues, it looks like Spyder-3.3.3 will be released soon:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/milestones/v3.3.3

You may re-count, it's 4. 5 are on spyder-3.

Spyder is one my most important packages because I use it 8 hours a day during my whole work week. I depend upon it to make a living.

I am not experiencing any of the bugs in the (released) Spyder-3.3.2. Since it can take me a day to learn and test a major revision change in Spyder, I would rather not do this (lose income) until the Spyder team has tested and released v4.0beta2. I think I will like the new features then.

I suspect that many teachers using WinPython for their students have similar concerns as me. But the impact on them is multiplied by the number of students they teach.

A post in spyder-ide/spyder#8668 estimates Spyder-3.3.3 will be released in a couple of days from now.

I agree with @hiccup7 here. I'd even advise against packaging our betas in WinPython. That would simply put more strain on us because you'd force us to support a moving, not-for-general-consumption target (the main reason to have a beta in the first place) and would delay even further a final release.

@stonebig, perhaps you could create WinPython betas and package Spyder betas along with them? That'd be very appreciated by us.

just noticing that spyder made the top 10 in the octoverse 2018 summary https://octoverse.github.com/projects.html

Yeah, that was a total surprise for us too!

build5 2018-02-16 (pandas-0.24.1, PyQt5-5.12, Tensorflow-1.13.0rc2 with Python-3.7 support)

Changes from WinPython 2019-01 build4:

• Upgraded Packages:
  • pandas-0.24.1, Spyder-3.3.3, PyQt5-5.12, Scipy-1.2.1, Cython-0.29.5
  • holoviews-1.1.1, pytorch-1.0.1, Tensorflow-1.13.0rc2
• [reduced] variation per version, for build5:
  • Spyder is not in ps2 release (that will last until pyside2 gains momentum)
• remark of 2019-02-13: bug on PyQt5-5.12 with Spyder3 Spyder 3 theme spyder-ide/spyder#8748 , so ... using "Spyder 2" icon theme

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• pandas-0.24.1,
• solving the "spyder 3" icon theme / PyQt5-5.12.1 incompatibility
• solving the #711 pyzo mystery

Hope for Next Build (rc):

• Tensorflow-1.13 final
• Forgotten tensorflow_probability (in Python-3.7)

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.7.2.0 b5

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.7.1.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v8.12.0 → v10.15.0 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• absl_py 0.7.0 (Abseil Python Common Libraries)

• astor 0.7.1 (Read/rewrite/write Python ASTs)

• astropy 3.1.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• branca 0.3.1 (Generate complex HTML+JS pages with Python)

• cartopy 0.17.0 (A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation)

• gast 0.2.2 (Python AST that abstracts the underlying Python version)

• gdal 2.3.3 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)

• geoviews 1.6.2 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself... on a map!)

• grpcio 1.18.0 (HTTP/2-based RPC framework)

• mock 2.0.0 (Rolling backport of unittest.mock for all Pythons)

• panel 0.4.0 (A high-level Python toolkit for composing widgets and plots)

• pbr 5.1.2 (Python Build Reasonableness)

• pygbm 0.1.0 (Experimental, numba-based Gradient Boosting Machines)

• pyqt5_sip 4.19.14 ()

• pyqtwebengine 5.12 ()

• pyshp 2.0.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

• shapely 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

• simplegeneric 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

• singledispatch 3.4.0.3 (This library brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3)

• soupsieve 1.7.3 (A CSS4 selector implementation for Beautiful Soup.)

• tensorboard 1.12.2 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

• tensorflow 1.13.0rc2 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tensorflow_estimator 1.13.0rc0 ()

• termcolor 1.1.0 (ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal)

Upgraded packages:

• altair 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 2.0.4 → 2.1.0 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• atomicwrites 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Powerful Python library for atomic file writes.)

• beautifulsoup4 4.6.3 → 4.7.1 (Screen-scraping library)

• bleach 3.0.2 → 3.1.0 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

• blosc 1.6.1 → 1.7.0 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 1.0.0 → 1.0.4 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.11.1 → 0.11.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2018.10.15 → 2018.11.29 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cffi 1.11.5 → 1.12.0 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

• cftime 1.0.2.1 → 1.0.3.4 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• cloudpickle 0.6.1 → 0.8.0 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• colorcet 0.9.1 → 1.0.1 (A set of useful perceptually uniform colormaps for plotting scientific data)

• cvxopt 1.2.2 → 1.2.3 (Convex optimization package)

• cvxpy 1.0.10 → 1.0.14 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• cython 0.29 → 0.29.5 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.20.0 → 1.1.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• datashader 0.6.8 → 0.6.9 (Data visualization toolchain based on aggregating into a grid)

• decorator 4.3.0 → 4.3.2 (Better living through Python with decorators)

• dill 0.2.8.2 → 0.2.9 (serialize all of python (almost))

• distributed 1.24.0 → 1.25.3 (Distributed computing)

• ecos 2.0.5 → 2.0.7.post1 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• entrypoints 0.2.3 → 0.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• fast_histogram 0.5 → 0.7 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastparquet 0.1.6 → 0.2.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• formlayout 1.1.0 → 2.0.0a0 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)

• geopy 1.17.0 → 1.18.1 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• h5py 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

• holoviews 1.10.9 → 1.11.2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• hvplot 0.2.1 → 0.4.0 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

• idna 2.7 → 2.8 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• imageio 2.4.1 → 2.5.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• imbalanced_learn 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning.)

• intake 0.2.3 → 0.4.1 (Data input plugin and catalog system)

• ipyleaflet 0.9.1 → 0.9.2 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipython 7.1.1 → 7.2.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• jedi 0.13.1 → 0.13.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• joblib 0.12.5 → 0.13.2 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• julia 0.1.5 → 0.2.0 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.2.3 → 5.2.4 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.35.3 → 0.35.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keras_applications 1.0.6 → 1.0.7 (Reference implementations of popular deep learning models)

• keras_preprocessing 1.0.5 → 1.0.9 (Easy data preprocessing and data augmentation for deep learning models)

• keyring 16.0.0 → 17.1.1 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• llvmlite 0.25.0 → 0.27.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.11 → 0.9.12 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• loky 2.3.1 → 2.4.2 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

• lxml 4.2.5 → 4.3.1 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• markupsafe 1.0 → 1.1.0 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)

• matplotlib 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• mlxtend 0.13.0 → 0.14.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• more_itertools 4.3.0 → 6.0.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

• mpl_scatter_density 0.4 → 0.5 (Fast scatter density plots for Matplotlib)

• mpmath 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

• msgpack 0.5.6 → 0.6.1 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msgpack_numpy 0.4.4.1 → 0.4.4.2 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

• multiprocess 0.70.6.1 → 0.70.7 (better multiprocessing and multithreading in python)

• mypy 0.641 → 0.670 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nbconvert 5.4.0 → 5.4.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nltk 3.3 → 3.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.7.0 → 5.7.4 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.40.0 → 0.42.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numcodecs 0.5.5 → 0.6.2 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• numexpr 2.6.8 → 2.6.9 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

• numpy 1.14.6+mkl → 1.15.4+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• osqp 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (the Operator Splitting QP Solver.)

• packaging 18.0 → 19.0 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pandas 0.23.4 → 0.24.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• param 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• parso 0.3.1 → 0.3.4 (A Python Parser)

• pg8000 1.12.3 → 1.12.4 (PostgreSQL interface library)

• pillow 5.3.0 → 5.4.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• pip 18.1 → 19.0.2 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

• pkginfo 1.4.2 → 1.5.0.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• pluggy 0.8.0 → 0.8.1 (plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python)

• prometheus_client 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• prompt_toolkit 2.0.7 → 2.0.8 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.6.1 → 3.7.0rc2 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.4.7 → 5.5.0 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• pyarrow 0.11.1 → 0.12.0 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pycodestyle 2.4.0 → 2.5.0 (Python style guide checker)

• pyct 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

• pyflakes 2.0.0 → 2.1.0 (passive checker of Python programs)

• pygments 2.2.0 → 2.3.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

• pylint 2.1.1 → 2.2.2 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.24 → 4.0.25 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.2 → 3.1.3b2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyparsing 2.2.2 → 2.3.1 (A Python Parsing Module)

• pyqt5 5.9.2 → 5.12 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytest 3.9.3 → 4.2.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.7.1 → 3.7.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dateutil 2.7.5 → 2.8.0 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

• pythonqwt 0.5.5 → 0.5.6.dev0 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)

• pythreejs 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pytz 2018.6 → 2018.9 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pyviz_comms 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Launch jobs, organize the output, and dissect the results)

• pywinpty 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pyzo 4.6.2.dev0 → 4.6.2a0 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 0.5.2 → 0.5.6 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.4.2 → 4.4.3 (Jupyter Qt console)

• qtpy 1.5.2 → 1.6.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

• redis 2.10.6 → 3.1.0 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

• regex 2018.8.29 → 2019.2.7 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.9 → 3.5.13 (The PDF generation library)

• requests 2.20.0 → 2.21.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_toolbelt 0.8.0 → 0.9.1 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rope 0.11.0 → 0.12.0 (a python refactoring library...)

• rpy2 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• ruamel.yaml 0.15.75 → 0.15.85 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

• scikit_image 0.14.1 → 0.14.2 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.20 → 0.20.2 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.1.0 → 1.2.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• setuptools 40.5.0 → 40.8.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• six 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

• sortedcontainers 2.0.5 → 2.1.0 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sphinx 1.8.1 → 1.8.4 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• sphinx_rtd_theme 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (ReadTheDocs.org theme for Sphinx, 2013 version.)

• spyder 3.3.2.dev0 → 3.3.3 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• spyder_kernels 0.2.6 → 0.4.2 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

• sqlalchemy 1.2.12 → 1.2.17 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• streamz 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (Streams)

• torch 0.4.1 → 1.0.1 (a deep learning framework.)

• tqdm 4.28.1 → 4.31.1 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• typed_ast 1.1.0 → 1.3.1 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• urllib3 1.24 → 1.24.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vega_datasets 0.5.0 → 0.7.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• wheel 0.32.2 → 0.33.0 (A built-package format for Python.)

• winpython 1.11.20181031 → 1.11.20181222 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• wrapt 1.10.11 → 1.11.1 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

• xarray 0.10.9 → 0.11.3 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlrd 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

• xlsxwriter 1.1.2 → 1.1.4 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

• xlwings 0.12.1 → 0.15.1 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

Removed packages:

• sip 4.19.8 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

This issue affects the combination of Spyder-3.3.3 and PyQt5-5.12:
spyder-ide/spyder#8748

I see these ways to resolve the problem:

1. Wait until the issue is solved by the Spyder team and include a Spyder-3.3.4 development build in the WinPython release
2. As @ccordoba12 suggested, downgrade PyQt5 to its 5.11 version
3. Inform WinPython users that only the "Spyder 2" icon theme is working

More issues with Spyder-3.3.3:
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/milestones/v3.3.4

2018-03-03 interlude, WinPython-3.8.0.0a2;

• a basic Python-3.8.0.0 alpha2, for the braves
• nota: with 7zip "auto-unpacker".

Main interest:

• experimenting with PEP 572 -- Assignment Expressions (current state)
• experimenting with 7zip auto-unzipper

WinPython 3.8.0.0dot build a2

The following packages are included in WinPython-64bit v3.8.0.0dot a2.

Tools

Python packages

rc 2018-03-05 (hopefully) (matplotlib-3.0.3, scikit_learn-0.20.3, tensorflow-1.13.1 )

Changes from WinPython 2019-01 build5:

• Upgraded Packages:
  • numpy-1.16.2, matplotlib-3.0.3, scikit_learn-0.20.3
  • holoviews-1.11.3, Tensorflow-1.13.0, nodejs-10.15.2

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• provided notebooks shall work without issues (expect one RTFM message from Keras)
• stability of this last 3.6 release

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.7.2.0

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.7.1.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v8.12.0 → v10.15.2 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• absl_py 0.7.0 (Abseil Python Common Libraries)

• astor 0.7.1 (Read/rewrite/write Python ASTs)

• astropy 3.1.2 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• branca 0.3.1 (Generate complex HTML+JS pages with Python)

• cartopy 0.17.0 (A cartographic python library with matplotlib support for visualisation)

• gast 0.2.2 (Python AST that abstracts the underlying Python version)

• gdal 2.3.3 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)

• geoviews 1.6.2 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself... on a map!)

• grpcio 1.19.0 (HTTP/2-based RPC framework)

• imageio_ffmpeg 0.2.0 (FFMPEG wrapper for Python)

• mock 2.0.0 (Rolling backport of unittest.mock for all Pythons)

• panel 0.4.0 (A high-level Python toolkit for composing widgets and plots)

• pbr 5.1.3 (Python Build Reasonableness)

• proglog 0.1.9 (Log and progress bar manager for console, notebooks, web...)

• pygbm 0.1.0 (Experimental, numba-based Gradient Boosting Machines)

• pyqt5_sip 4.19.14 (Python extension module support for PyQt5)

• pyqtwebengine 5.12 (Python bindings for the Qt 3D framework)

• pyrsistent 0.14.11 (Persistent/Functional/Immutable data structures)

• pyshp 2.1.0 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

• shapely 1.6.4.post1 (Geometric objects, predicates, and operations)

• simplegeneric 0.8.1 (Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.))

• singledispatch 3.4.0.3 (This library brings functools.singledispatch from Python 3.4 to Python 2.6-3.3)

• soupsieve 1.8 (A CSS4 selector implementation for Beautiful Soup.)

• tensorboard 1.13.0 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

• tensorflow 1.13.1 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

• tensorflow_estimator 1.13.0 (TensorFlow Estimator.)

• tensorflow_probability 0.6.0 (Probabilistic modeling and statistical inference in TensorFlow)

• termcolor 1.1.0 (ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal)

Upgraded packages:

• altair 2.2.2 → 2.4.1 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

• astroid 2.0.4 → 2.2.2 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))

• atomicwrites 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Powerful Python library for atomic file writes.)

• attrs 18.2.0 → 19.1.0 (Classes Without Boilerplate)

• beautifulsoup4 4.6.3 → 4.7.1 (Screen-scraping library)

• bleach 3.0.2 → 3.1.0 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

• blosc 1.6.1 → 1.7.0 (Blosc data compressor)

• bokeh 1.0.0 → 1.0.4 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

• bqplot 0.11.1 → 0.11.5 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2018.10.15 → 2018.11.29 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cffi 1.11.5 → 1.12.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

• cftime 1.0.2.1 → 1.0.3.4 (time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• cloudpickle 0.6.1 → 0.8.0 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

• colorama 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)

• colorcet 0.9.1 → 1.0.1 (A set of useful perceptually uniform colormaps for plotting scientific data)

• cvxopt 1.2.2 → 1.2.3 (Convex optimization package)

• cvxpy 1.0.10 → 1.0.19 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

• cython 0.29 → 0.29.6 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

• dask 0.20.0 → 1.1.3 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

• datashader 0.6.8 → 0.6.9 (Data visualization toolchain based on aggregating into a grid)

• decorator 4.3.0 → 4.3.2 (Better living through Python with decorators)

• dill 0.2.8.2 → 0.2.9 (serialize all of python (almost))

• distributed 1.24.0 → 1.26.0 (Distributed computing)

• ecos 2.0.5 → 2.0.7.post1 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver)

• entrypoints 0.2.3 → 0.3 (Discover and load entry points from installed packages)

• fast_histogram 0.5 → 0.7 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

• fastparquet 0.1.6 → 0.2.1 (Python support for Parquet file format)

• formlayout 1.1.0 → 2.0.0a0 (Module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters without having to write any GUI code)

• geopy 1.17.0 → 1.18.1 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)

• h5py 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

• holoviews 1.10.9 → 1.11.3 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

• hvplot 0.2.1 → 0.4.0 (A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, streamz and xarray built on HoloViews)

• idna 2.7 → 2.8 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

• imageio 2.4.1 → 2.5.0 (Library for reading and writing a wide range of image, video, scientific, and volumetric data formats.)

• imbalanced_learn 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning.)

• intake 0.2.3 → 0.4.1 (Data input plugin and catalog system)

• ipyleaflet 0.9.1 → 0.10.0 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipython 7.1.1 → 7.3.0 (Enhanced Python shell)

• isort 4.3.4 → 4.3.9 (A Python utility / library to sort Python imports.)

• jedi 0.13.1 → 0.13.3 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

• joblib 0.12.5 → 0.13.2 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• jsonschema 2.6.0 → 3.0.0 (An implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python)

• julia 0.1.5 → 0.2.0 (Python interface to the Julia language)

• jupyter_client 5.2.3 → 5.2.4 (Jupyter protocol implementation and client libraries)

• jupyterlab 0.35.3 → 0.35.4 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

• keras_applications 1.0.6 → 1.0.7 (Reference implementations of popular deep learning models)

• keras_preprocessing 1.0.5 → 1.0.9 (Easy data preprocessing and data augmentation for deep learning models)

• keyring 16.0.0 → 18.0.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• llvmlite 0.25.0 → 0.27.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lmfit 0.9.11 → 0.9.12 (Least-Squares Minimization with Bounds and Constraints)

• loky 2.3.1 → 2.4.2 (Robust and reusable Executor for joblib)

• lxml 4.2.5 → 4.3.2 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• markupsafe 1.0 → 1.1.1 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python)

• matplotlib 3.0.1 → 3.0.3 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

• mlxtend 0.13.0 → 0.15.0.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• more_itertools 4.3.0 → 6.0.0 (More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools)

• moviepy 0.2.3.5 → 1.0.0 (Video editing with Python)

• mpl_scatter_density 0.4 → 0.5 (Fast scatter density plots for Matplotlib)

• mpmath 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

• msgpack 0.5.6 → 0.6.1 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msgpack_numpy 0.4.4.1 → 0.4.4.2 (Numpy data serialization using msgpack)

• multiprocess 0.70.6.1 → 0.70.7 (better multiprocessing and multithreading in python)

• mypy 0.641 → 0.670 (Optional static typing for Python)

• nbconvert 5.4.0 → 5.4.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

• nltk 3.3 → 3.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

• notebook 5.7.0 → 5.7.4 (# Jupyter Notebook)

• numba 0.40.0 → 0.42.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numcodecs 0.5.5 → 0.6.3 (buffer compression and transformation codecs for use in data storage and communication applications)

• numexpr 2.6.8 → 2.6.9 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

• numpy 1.14.6+mkl → 1.16.2+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

• osqp 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (the Operator Splitting QP Solver.)

• packaging 18.0 → 19.0 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pandas 0.23.4 → 0.24.1 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

• param 1.8.1 → 1.8.2 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)

• parso 0.3.1 → 0.3.4 (A Python Parser)

• pg8000 1.12.3 → 1.12.4 (PostgreSQL interface library)

• pillow 5.3.0 → 5.4.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

• pip 18.1 → 19.0.3 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)

• pkginfo 1.4.2 → 1.5.0.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• pluggy 0.8.0 → 0.9.0 (plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python)

• prometheus_client 0.4.2 → 0.6.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• prompt_toolkit 2.0.7 → 2.0.9 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)

• protobuf 3.6.1 → 3.7.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

• psutil 5.4.7 → 5.5.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

• py 1.7.0 → 1.8.0 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pyarrow 0.11.1 → 0.12.1 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

• pycodestyle 2.4.0 → 2.5.0 (Python style guide checker)

• pyct 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (python package common tasks for users (e.g. copy examples, fetch data, ...))

• pyflakes 2.0.0 → 2.1.1 (passive checker of Python programs)

• pygments 2.2.0 → 2.3.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)

• pylint 2.1.1 → 2.3.1 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

• pyodbc 4.0.24 → 4.0.26 (DB API Module for ODBC)

• pyopengl 3.1.2 → 3.1.3b2 (Cross platform Python binding to OpenGL and related APIs)

• pyparsing 2.2.2 → 2.3.1 (A Python Parsing Module)

• pyqt5 5.9.2 → 5.12 (Python bindings for the Qt cross platform GUI toolkit)

• pytest 3.9.3 → 4.3.0 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.7.1 → 3.7.2 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dateutil 2.7.5 → 2.8.0 (Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module)

• python_hdf4 0.9.1 → 0.9.2 (Python-HDF4: Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library)

• pythonqwt 0.5.5 → 0.5.6.dev0 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)

• pythreejs 2.0.1 → 2.0.2 (Interactive 3d graphics for the Jupyter notebook, using Three.js from Jupyter interactive widgets.)

• pytz 2018.6 → 2018.9 (World Timezone Definitions for Python)

• pyviz_comms 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (Launch jobs, organize the output, and dissect the results)

• pywavelets 1.0.1 → 1.0.2 (Wavelet transforms module)

• pywinpty 0.5.4 → 0.5.5 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

• pyzmq 17.1.2 → 18.0.0 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

• pyzo 4.6.2.dev0 → 4.6.2a0 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 0.5.2 → 0.5.6 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.4.2 → 4.4.3 (Jupyter Qt console)

• qtpy 1.5.2 → 1.6.0 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

• redis 2.10.6 → 3.2.0 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

• regex 2018.8.29 → 2019.2.21 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.9 → 3.5.13 (The PDF generation library)

• requests 2.20.0 → 2.21.0 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

• requests_toolbelt 0.8.0 → 0.9.1 (A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests)

• rope 0.11.0 → 0.12.0 (a python refactoring library...)

• rpy2 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))

• ruamel.yaml 0.15.75 → 0.15.89 (a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order)

• scikit_fuzzy 0.3.1 → 0.4.0 (Fuzzy logic toolkit for SciPy)

• scikit_image 0.14.1 → 0.14.2 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.20 → 0.20.3 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.1.0 → 1.2.1 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

• setuptools 40.5.0 → 40.8.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

• six 1.11.0 → 1.12.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

• sortedcontainers 2.0.5 → 2.1.0 (Python Sorted Container Types: SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet)

• sounddevice 0.3.12 → 0.3.13 (Play and Record Sound with Python)

• sphinx 1.8.1 → 1.8.4 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• sphinx_rtd_theme 0.4.2 → 0.4.3 (ReadTheDocs.org theme for Sphinx, 2013 version.)

• spyder 3.3.2.dev0 → 3.3.3 (The Scientific Python Development Environment: An IDE designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

• spyder_kernels 0.2.6 → 0.4.2 (Jupyter kernels for the Spyder console)

• sqlalchemy 1.2.12 → 1.2.18 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

• streamz 0.3.0 → 0.5.0 (Streams)

• torch 0.4.1 → 1.0.1 (a deep learning framework.)

• torchvision 0.2.1 → 0.2.2.post3 (Datasets, Transforms and Models specific to Computer Vision)

• tqdm 4.28.1 → 4.31.1 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

• twine 1.12.1 → 1.13.0 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)

• typed_ast 1.1.0 → 1.3.1 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

• urllib3 1.24 → 1.24.1 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• vega_datasets 0.5.0 → 0.7.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• wheel 0.32.2 → 0.33.1 (A built-package format for Python.)

• winpython 1.11.20181031 → 1.11.20190223 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

• wrapt 1.10.11 → 1.11.1 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

• xarray 0.10.9 → 0.11.3 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlrd 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

• xlsxwriter 1.1.2 → 1.1.5 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

• xlwings 0.12.1 → 0.15.3 (Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa)

Removed packages:

• sip 4.19.8 (Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries)

final 2018-03-08 (re-spin of PyQt5 versions, with QtAwesome-0.5.7 & Spyder back to its Spyder 3 icon theme)

Changes from WinPython 2019-01 rc:

• QtAwesome-0.5.7 Upgraded Package for the PyQt5 versions (not the Ps2 nor the Zero ones)
• Spyder3 initial theme for icons is back to "Spyder 3"

exactly as rc (no re-spin):

with QtAwesome-0.5.7 patch and Spyder back to its usual QtAwesome icons: