# Numba Meeting: 2025-02-18

Attendees: Guilherme Leobas, Stuart Archibald, Siu Kwan Lam, Graham Markall
FPOC (last week): Guilherme Leobas
FPOC (incoming): Graham Markall

NOTE: All communication is subject to the [Numba Code of Conduct](https://github.com/numba/numba-governance/blob/accepted/code-of-conduct.md).

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## ~~Office hour signup~~

(canceled due to lack of signups)

## Discussion

- Numba 0.61.1 planning
- NumPy 2.2
- CUDA dynamic exception bug
- suggestion: make the underlying `@overload` to be specific for `target='cpu'`
- there needs to be minimal fix for the bugfix release and a long term proper fix
- `.pyi` files https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9900
- Give stubgen a try to see if we can fix this easily.
- GHA for windows
- Targets end of Feb
- free-threading builds: https://numba.discourse.group/t/support-for-free-threaded-python/2916
- Python code is mostly okay for freethreading
- Need testing infrastructure
- Need to check C + Python-API code
- Threading backend (tbb, omp, etc) will be problematic.
- Suggest to roll out baseline support first with just NOGIL support for Numba's C code but give us more time on the threading backends.
- Ticket: https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9928

## New "Ready for Review" PRs

## 1. New Issues
- [numba#9922](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9922) - serialize the compilation library file
- [numba#9923](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9923) - Segfault in typed list destructor on linux arm64
- [numba#9924](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9924) - dot out argument not behaving as expected
- [numba#9925](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9925) - the best way to swap two line
- [numba#9927](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9927) - Numba implicitly converts integers to floats causing `TypingError`

### Closed Issues

## 2. New PRs
- [numba#9926](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9926) - Implemented np.frombuffer kwargs offset and count
- [llvmlite#1157](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1157) - Update pre-commit hook PyCQA/flake8 to v7.1.2

### Closed PRs