## History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.6.3.0Qt5



The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.6.2.0Qt5.



### Tools



Upgraded packages:



  * [Nodejs](https://nodejs.org) v6.11.1 → v6.11.5 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

  * [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) 1.17.2 → 1.19.2.1 (a universal document converter)



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [dask_searchcv](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dask_searchcv) 0.1.0 (Tools for doing hyperparameter search with Scikit-Learn and Dask)

  * [paramnb](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paramnb) 2.0.2 (Generate ipywidgets from Parameterized objects in the notebook)

  * [parso](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parso) 0.1.0 (A Python Parser)

  * [scikit_garden](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit_garden) 0.1.3 (A garden for scikit-learn compatible trees)

  * [streamz](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/streamz) 0.2.0 (Streams)

  * [tensorflow_tensorboard](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow_tensorboard) 0.1.8 (TensorBoard lets you watch Tensors Flow)

  * [thrift](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/thrift) 0.10.0 (a software framework for scalable cross-language services development)



Upgraded packages:



  * [altair](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/altair) 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (High-level declarative visualization library for Python)

  * [babel](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/babel) 2.4.0 → 2.5.1 (Internationalization utilities)

  * [bleach](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bleach) 2.0.0 → 2.1.1 (An easy whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing tool)

  * [bokeh](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bokeh) 0.12.6 → 0.12.10 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)

  * [bqplot](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bqplot) 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

  * [brotli](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brotli) 0.6.0 → 1.0.0 (Python binding of the Brotli compression library)

  * [cffi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cffi) 1.10.0 → 1.11.2 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

  * [cloudpickle](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudpickle) 0.3.1 → 0.4.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)

  * [cvxpy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cvxpy) 0.4.10 → 0.4.11 (A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python)

  * [cython](http://www.cython.org) 0.26 → 0.27.2 (Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python)

  * [dask](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dask) 0.15.1 → 0.15.4 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)

  * [datashader](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/datashader) 0.5.0 → 0.6.2 (Data visualization toolchain based on aggregating into a grid)

  * [distributed](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distributed) 1.18.0 → 1.19.3 (Distributed computing)

  * [edward](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/edward) 1.3.3 → 1.3.4 (A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. Deep generative models, variational inference. Runs on TensorFlow.)

  * [fast_histogram](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fast_histogram) 0.2.1 → 0.3 (Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python)

  * [fastparquet](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fastparquet) 0.1.1 → 0.1.3 (Python support for Parquet file format)

  * [feather_format](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feather_format) 0.3.1 → 0.4.0 (Python interface to the Apache Arrow-based Feather File Format)

  * [h5py](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/h5py) 2.7.0 → 2.7.1 (General-purpose Python interface to HDF5 files (unlike PyTables, h5py provides direct access to the full HDF5 C library))

  * [holoviews](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/holoviews) 1.8.2 → 1.8.5.dev0 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)

  * [idna](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idna) 2.5 → 2.6 (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA))

  * [ipyleaflet](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipyleaflet) 0.3.0 → 0.4.0 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

  * [ipympl](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipympl) 0.0.5 → 0.0.8 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

  * [ipython](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython) 6.1.0 → 6.2.1 (Enhanced Python shell)

  * [ipywidgets](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipywidgets) 6.0.0 → 7.0.3 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

  * [jedi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jedi) 0.10.2 → 0.11.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)

  * [julia](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/julia) 0.1.2 → 0.1.4 (Python interface to the Julia language)

  * [jupyter_console](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyter_console) 5.1.0 → 5.2.0 (Jupyter terminal console)

  * [jupyterlab](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyterlab) 0.26.5 → 0.28.11 (Jupyter lab environment notebook server extension)

  * [jupyterlab_launcher](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jupyterlab_launcher) 0.3.1 → 0.5.5 (Jupyter Launcher)

  * [keras](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keras) 2.0.6 → 2.0.8 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)

  * [llvmlite](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/llvmlite) 0.19.0 → 0.20.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

  * [lxml](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml) 3.8.0 → 4.1.0 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

  * [markdown](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/markdown) 2.6.8 → 2.6.9 (Python implementation of Markdown.)

  * [matplotlib](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib) 2.0.2 → 2.1.0 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))

  * [metakernel](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/metakernel) 0.20.4 → 0.20.7 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

  * [mistune](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mistune) 0.7.4 → 0.8 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)

  * [mizani](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mizani) 0.3.2 → 0.4.0 (Scales for Python)

  * [mpl_scatter_density](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpl_scatter_density) 0.2 → 0.3 (Fast scatter density plots for Matplotlib)

  * [mpmath](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath) 0.19 → 1.0.0 (Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic)

  * [mypy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mypy) 0.521 → 0.540 (Optional static typing for Python)

  * [nbconvert](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nbconvert) 5.2.1 → 5.3.1 (Converting Jupyter Notebooks)

  * [nbformat](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nbformat) 4.3.0 → 4.4.0 (The Jupyter Notebook format)

  * [netcdf4](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netcdf4) 1.2.9 → 1.3.1 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))

  * [networkx](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/networkx) 1.11 → 2.0 (Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks)

  * [nltk](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nltk) 3.2.4 → 3.2.5 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)

  * [notebook](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/notebook) 5.1.0rc1 → 5.2.1rc1 (# Jupyter Notebook)

  * [numba](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numba) 0.34.0 → 0.35.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

  * [numexpr](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numexpr) 2.6.2 → 2.6.4 (Fast evaluation of array expressions elementwise by using a vector-based virtual machine)

  * [numpy](http://numpy.scipy.org/) 1.13.1+mkl → 1.13.3+mkl (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))

  * [octave_kernel](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/octave_kernel) 0.26.2 → 0.28.1 (A Jupyter kernel for Octave.)

  * [palettable](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/palettable) 3.0.0 → 3.1.0 (Color palettes for Python)

  * [pandas](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas) 0.20.3 → 0.21.0 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series and statistics)

  * [pdfrw](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfrw) 0.3 → 0.4 (pure Python library that reads and writes PDFs)

  * [pillow](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pillow) 4.2.1 → 4.3.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))

  * [protobuf](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/protobuf) 3.3.0 → 3.4.0 (Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format)

  * [psutil](http://code.google.com/p/psutil) 5.2.2 → 5.3.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)

  * [pyarrow](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyarrow) 0.5.0 → 0.7.1 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

  * [pybind11](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybind11) 2.1.1 → 2.2.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

  * [pylint](http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint) 1.7.2 → 1.7.4 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)

  * [pymc3](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymc3) 3.1 → 3.2 (Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.)

  * [pymongo](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo) 3.5.0 → 3.5.1 (Python driver for MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org>)

  * [pyodbc](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyodbc) 4.0.17 → 4.0.19 (DB API Module for ODBC)

  * [pytest](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest) 3.2.0 → 3.2.3 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

  * [Python](http://www.python.org/) 3.6.2 → 3.6.3 (Python programming language with standard library)

  * [pyzmq](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyzmq) 16.0.2 → 16.0.3 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))

  * [qtconsole](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/qtconsole) 4.3.0 → 4.3.1 (Jupyter Qt console)

  * [qtpy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/qtpy) 1.3.0 → 1.3.1 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)

  * [redis](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redis) 2.10.5 → 2.10.6 (Python client for Redis key-value store)

  * [requests](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests) 2.18.3 → 2.18.4 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)

  * [rx](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rx) 1.5.9 → 1.6.0 (Reactive Extensions (Rx) for Python)

  * [scikit_fuzzy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit_fuzzy) 0.3.dev0 → 0.3.1 (Fuzzy logic toolkit for SciPy)

  * [scikit_image](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit_image) 0.13.0 → 0.13.1 (Image processing toolbox for SciPy)

  * [scikit_learn](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit_learn) 0.18.2 → 0.19.1 (A set of Python modules for machine learning and data mining)

  * [scikit_optimize](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit_optimize) 0.3 → 0.4 (Sequential model-based optimization toolbox.)

  * [scipy](http://www.scipy.org) 0.19.1 → 1.0.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))

  * [scs](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scs) 1.2.6 → 1.2.7 (scs: splitting conic solver)

  * [seaborn](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seaborn) 0.8.0 → 0.8.1 (statistical data visualization)

  * [setuptools](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) 36.2.7 → 36.6.0 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)

  * [six](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six) 1.10.0 → 1.11.0 (Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities)

  * [snakeviz](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/snakeviz) 0.4.1 → 0.4.2 (An in-browser Python profile viewer)

  * [sounddevice](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sounddevice) 0.3.8 → 0.3.9 (Play and Record Sound with Python)

  * [sphinx](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx) 1.6.3 → 1.6.5 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

  * [spyder](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyder) 3.2.1.dev0 → 3.2.4 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface)

  * [spyder_reports](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyder_reports) 0.1.0.dev0 → 0.1.1 (pyder plugin to render Markdown reports using Pweave as a backend)

  * [sqlalchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org) 1.1.13 → 1.1.14 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)

  * [sqlparse](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlparse) 0.2.3 → 0.2.4 (Non-validating SQL parser)

  * [statsmodels](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/statsmodels) 0.8.0 → 0.9.0.dev0 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)

  * [tensorflow](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow) 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (TensorFlow helps the tensors flow)

  * [tornado](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tornado) 4.5.1 → 4.5.2 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))

  * [tqdm](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tqdm) 4.15.0 → 4.19.4 (A Simple Python Progress Meter)

  * [typed_ast](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/typed_ast) 1.0.4 → 1.1.0 (a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support)

  * [vega](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vega) 0.5.0 → 0.4.4 (An IPython/ Jupyter widget for Vega and Vega-Lite)

  * [wheel](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel) 0.29.0 → 0.30.0 (A built-package format for Python.)

  * [widgetsnbextension](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/widgetsnbextension) 2.0.0 → 3.0.6 (IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter)

  * [winpython](http://winpython.github.io/) 1.9.20170812 → 1.9.20171031 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))

  * [wrapt](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wrapt) 1.10.10 → 1.10.11 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

  * [xlrd](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd) 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

  * [xlsxwriter](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlsxwriter) 0.9.8 → 1.0.2 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

  * [zict](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zict) 0.1.2 → 0.1.3 (Mutable mapping tools)



Removed packages:



  * [backports.weakref](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.weakref) 1.0rc1 (Backport of new features in Python's weakref module)

  * [bkcharts](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bkcharts) 0.2 (High level chart types built on top of Bokeh)

  * [boto3](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto3) 1.4.1 (The AWS SDK for Python)

  * [botocore](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/botocore) 1.4.36 (Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3.)

  * [coloredlogs](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coloredlogs) 7.3 (Colored terminal output for Python's logging module)

  * [enum34](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enum34) 1.1.6 (Python 3.4 Enum backported to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and 2.4)

  * [humanfriendly](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanfriendly) 4.4.1 (Human friendly output for text interfaces using Python)

  * [jmespath](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jmespath) 0.9.3 (JSON Matching Expressions)

  * [ply](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ply) 3.10 (Python Lex & Yacc)

  * [pywinpty](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywinpty) 0.1.3 (Python bindings for the winpty library)

  * [s3fs](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/s3fs) 0.1.2 (Convenient Filesystem interface over S3)

  * [s3transfer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/s3transfer) 0.1.10 (An Amazon S3 Transfer Manager)

  * [spyder_notebook](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyder_notebook) 0.2.0.dev0 (Jupyter notebook integration with Spyder)

  * [spyder_terminal](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyder_terminal) 0.2.0 (Spyder Plugin for displaying a virtual terminal (OS independent) inside the main Spyder window)

  * [thriftpy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/thriftpy) 0.3.9 (Pure python implementation of Apache Thrift.)



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