# Numba Meeting: 2025-09-02
Attendees:
FPOC (last week): Guilherme
FPOC (incoming): Graham
NOTE: All communication is subject to the [Numba Code of Conduct](https://github.com/numba/numba-governance/blob/accepted/code-of-conduct.md).
Please refer to [this calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=5rqnddm4gjrdfjm31fsv182epk%40group.calendar.google.com) for the next meeting date.
## ~~Office hour signup~~
## Discussion
* 0.62.0rc1 / 0.45.0rc1
* NEWS
* they went out
* there were issues
* some bugs / regressions
* lots of GHA build issues
* LLVM 20 included
* Two users reported their project was fine: NuCS and STUMPY
* this week: cleanup and bug fixing :: next week: rc2 / FINAL (?)
* TODO
* fix stuff in milestones, bugs and GHA (Swapnil & Val)
* post-release actions from checklists (Val)
* test on conda-forge (Graham)
* decide on rc2 vs FINAL
* not testing new code, no user-testing required
* needed to test the build infrastructure
* needed because rc1 showed some issues with the build infrastructure
* what else can we use? weeklies? weeklies or nightlies may eat up a lot of infrastructure cost.
* the rc2 was deemed necessary because the linux wheels were missing from PyPi
* https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1243#issuecomment-3245276156
* maybe wait for conda-forge?
* what about NumPy wheels?
* https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10130#issuecomment-3233382431
* Note: PyPi stats are back up and Numba is being downloaded about 1 Million times a day.
## New "Ready for Review" PRs
## 1. New Issues
- [numba#10202](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10202) - Valid `range` usage broken in 0.62.0-rc1
- regression in the 0.62.0 FINAL milestone
- revert, targetting the release branch
- [numba#10203](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10203) - `FAIL: test_prange_fastmath_check_works`
- detected
- [numba#10204](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10204) - GHA and build script issues
- [numba#10207](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10207) - fixup `gitlog2changelog` duplicate authors
- [llvmlite#1270](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1270) - llvmdev packages missing SHA1 sum in package name
- [llvmlite#1271](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1271) - validate and test step names are missing platform identifier prefix
- [llvmlite#1272](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1272) - Update release notes before the FINAL release
- [llvmlite#1273](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1273) - check deprecation notices wrt. LLVM 20
### Closed Issues
- [numba#10196](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10196) - UnboundLocalError when calling numba's np.copy with non-Array types
- [numba#10209](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10209) - 0.62.0rc1 is missing binaries
## 2. New PRs
- [numba#10195](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10195) - Make `types.ListType` evaluable
- [numba#10201](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10201) - np copy handles non-Array types correctly, and fails nicely on uncopyable types
- [numba#10205](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10205) - GHA/ Fix for linux wheel builds
- [numba#10206](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10206) - GHA/ update artifact names in wheel builder workflows
- [numba#10208](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10208) - GHA/ remove redundant sdist exports
- [numba#10210](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10210) - fix syntax highlighting for towncrier command
- [llvmlite#1274](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1274) - GHA/ standardize job names on workflows for linux builds
- [llvmlite#1275](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1275) - Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v21
### Closed PRs
- merged - [numba#10197](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10197) - Update version support 0.62
- merged - [numba#10198](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10198) - Update deprecation doc for 0.62
- merged - [numba#10199](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10199) - Changelog 0.62
- merged - [numba#10200](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10200) - Dep pin 0.62
- merged - [llvmlite#1268](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1268) - Release 0.45: `CHANGE_LOG`
- merged - [llvmlite#1269](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1269) - add sdist build and upload steps on wheel workflow
(last numba: 10210; llvmlite 1275)