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title: 'Numba Meeting: 2024-11-05'
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# Numba Meeting: 2024-11-05

Attendees: ToddA, Ehsan
FPOC (last week): Graham
FPOC (incoming): Siu

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

- Need to sort out issue with x86 osx toolchain and the SDK problem.
- https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/1090, one of the windows builds failed, what's going on?
- llvmlite #1081, @Graham Markall need to dismiss requiring changes/approve changes made.
- https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9390 needs tests for non-contig etc
- Numba 0.61rc1 status
    - Aiming for:
        - Python 3.13 buildable by next week (11 Nov)
        - Tag on WB 18 Nov
    - Scheduling relating to shutdown:
        - RC require on 18 November to give 2 weeks testing time
        - Release on 2nd December, to give 2 weeks before shutdown
    - Potential risk factor:
        - Contains LLVM, NumPy, and Python upgrade all in one release
- llvmlite 0.44rc1 status

- Winter shutdown thoughts:
    - 14th December until Jan 13th 

### Public meeting topics

- LLVM upgrade status
    - NewPassManager PR numba#9676 is pending link-time optimization fix on Windows
    - llvmlite#1082 PR adds opaque pointers
    - llvmlite#1092 PR moves to llvm19. Mainly to demonstrate what needs changing
    - llvmlite has OrcJIT support but not yet in Numba.

## New "Ready for Review" PRs

## 1. New Issues
- [numba#9775](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9775) - Strange interaction between reshaping and type casting in Numba
- [numba#9777](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9777) - Numba 0.61.0rc1 Checklist
- [numba#9778](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9778) - register_jitable + cfunc + carray + non-constant slicing = miscompile silently
- [numba#9779](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9779) - Add mergesort option for array.sort()
- [numba#9781](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9781) - support hashlib
- [numba#9782](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9782) - suppurt numpy.polynomial.polynomial.polyval3d
- [llvmlite#1093](https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/1093) - llvmlite 0.44.0rc1 Checklist

### Closed Issues
- [numba#9776](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9776) - Hybrid code: mpi4py ranks with parallel numba

## 2. New PRs
- [numba#9780](https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/9780) - Default to turn off `sys.monitoring`

### Closed PRs


## Short-term Roadmap

2024-gantt: https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/9540










