# Numba Meeting: 2025-09-23

Attendees:
FPOC (last week):
FPOC (incoming):

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.

## Discussion

* Post-0.62.0 release update
* quite a few things not quite right with the release
* windows wheels missing dependencies
* tbb linkage not quite right
* building issues on red-hat
* coverage.py optional dependency does not have a lower verion limit
* unlcear how and when `llvmlite.initialize` is needed for llvmlite < 0.45
* Numba 0.63 update (python 3.14)
* Open checklist on 29th Sept
* Security policy discussion
* Support tiers RFC

## 1. New Issues
- [numba#10233](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10233) - Numba 0.62.0 Checklist
- [numba#10234](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10234) - Lack of security.md - repoting potential found vulnerabilities
- [numba#10235](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10235) - Problem with structured array with bool element
- [numba#10239](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10239) - `AttributeError` in numba 0.62
- [numba#10240](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10240) - svml and tbb now broken in new numba 0.62
- [llvmlite#1293](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1293) - Unable to build llvmlite==0.45.0rc2 on RHEL 9.6 with GCC 11 or clang 20
- [llvmlite#1294](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1294) - llvmlite==0.45.0rc2 does not build with Clang
- [llvmlite#1297](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1297) - llvmlite 0.45.0 windows wheel is missing needed dependencies?

### Closed Issues
- [numba#10236](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/10236) - Memory leak from casting between memory managed types

## 2. New PRs
- [numba#10237](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10237) - Backport of driver fix from NVIDIA/numba-cuda#185
- [numba#10241](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10241) - GHA/fix linux wheel build linkages
- [numba#10242](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10242) - GHA/ test python-3.14
- [llvmlite#1295](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1295) - fix: use CMake CheckIPOSupported
- [llvmlite#1299](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1299) - [DEBUG] check azure pipelines macos runner images

### Closed PRs
- merged - [numba#10232](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10232) - Update release date and change-log for 0.62.0
- merged - [numba#10238](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/10238) - Cherry pick 0.62.0
- merged - [llvmlite#1291](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1291) - Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v21.1.1
- merged - [llvmlite#1292](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1292) - Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.34.0
- merged - [llvmlite#1296](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1296) - Cherry pick 0.45.0
- merged - [llvmlite#1298](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1298) - remove osx-64 from buildscripts and CI

(last numba: 10242;llvmlite 1299)