## History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.12.8.1slim



The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.12.8.0slim.



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### Tools



Removed packages:



  * [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) 3.1.9 (a universal document converter)



### Python packages



New packages:



  * [faker](https://pypi.org/project/faker) 33.3.1 (Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.)

  * [prince](https://pypi.org/project/prince) 0.15.0 (Factor analysis in Python: PCA, CA, MCA, MFA, FAMD, GPA)

  * [pyogrio](https://pypi.org/project/pyogrio) 0.10.0 (Vectorized spatial vector file format I/O using GDAL/OGR)

  * [pyspnego](https://pypi.org/project/pyspnego) 0.11.2 (Windows Negotiate Authentication Client and Server)

  * [pywavelets](https://pypi.org/project/pywavelets) 1.8.0 (PyWavelets, wavelet transform module)

  * [sklearn_compat](https://pypi.org/project/sklearn_compat) 0.1.3 (Ease support for compatible scikit-learn estimators across versions)

  * [squarify](https://pypi.org/project/squarify) 0.4.4 (Pure Python implementation of the squarify treemap layout algorithm)

  * [sspilib](https://pypi.org/project/sspilib) 0.2.0 (SSPI API bindings for Python)

  * [thefuzz](https://pypi.org/project/thefuzz) 0.22.1 (Fuzzy string matching in python)



Upgraded packages:



  * [array_api_compat](https://pypi.org/project/array_api_compat) 1.8 → 1.10.0 (A wrapper around NumPy and other array libraries to make them compatible with the Array API standard)

  * [bokeh](https://pypi.org/project/bokeh) 3.6.1 → 3.6.2 (Interactive plots and applications in the browser from Python)

  * [cryptography](https://pypi.org/project/cryptography) 41.0.5 → 44.0.0 (cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.)

  * [cytoolz](https://pypi.org/project/cytoolz) 0.12.3 → 1.0.1 (Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities)

  * [deap](https://pypi.org/project/deap) 1.4.1 → 1.4.2 (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python)

  * [geopandas](https://pypi.org/project/geopandas) 0.14.4 → 1.0.1 (Geographic pandas extensions)

  * [hypothesis](https://pypi.org/project/hypothesis) 6.108.5 → 6.122.3 (A library for property-based testing)

  * [imbalanced_learn](https://pypi.org/project/imbalanced_learn) 0.12.3 → 0.13.0 (Toolbox for imbalanced dataset in machine learning)

  * [ipython](https://pypi.org/project/ipython) 8.26.0 → 8.31.0 (IPython: Productive Interactive Computing)

  * [janus](https://pypi.org/project/janus) 1.0.0 → 2.0.0 (Mixed sync-async queue to interoperate between asyncio tasks and classic threads)

  * [jaraco_context](https://pypi.org/project/jaraco_context) 5.3.0 → 6.0.1 (Useful decorators and context managers)

  * [jaraco_functools](https://pypi.org/project/jaraco_functools) 4.0.1 → 4.1.0 (Functools like those found in stdlib)

  * [jedi](https://pypi.org/project/jedi) 0.19.1 → 0.19.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors.)

  * [keras](https://pypi.org/project/keras) 3.7.0 → 3.8.0 (Multi-backend Keras)

  * [keyring](https://pypi.org/project/keyring) 25.2.1 → 25.6.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

  * [llvmlite](https://pypi.org/project/llvmlite) 0.44.0rc2 → 0.44.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

  * [maturin](https://pypi.org/project/maturin) 1.7.0 → 1.8.1 (Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages)

  * [mlxtend](https://pypi.org/project/mlxtend) 0.22.0 → 0.23.3 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

  * [narwhals](https://pypi.org/project/narwhals) 1.15.2 → 1.21.1 (Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries)

  * [numba](https://pypi.org/project/numba) 0.61.0rc2 → 0.61.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

  * [osqp](https://pypi.org/project/osqp) 0.6.7.post1 → 0.6.7.post3 (OSQP: The Operator Splitting QP Solver)

  * [pillow](https://pypi.org/project/pillow) 11.0.0 → 11.1.0 (Python Imaging Library (Fork))

  * [polars](https://pypi.org/project/polars) 1.18.0 → 1.20.0 (Blazingly fast DataFrame library)

  * [pyarrow](https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow) 18.1.0 → 19.0.0 (Python library for Apache Arrow)

  * [pygments](https://pypi.org/project/pygments) 2.18.0 → 2.19.1 (Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.)

  * [pyparsing](https://pypi.org/project/pyparsing) 3.1.2 → 3.2.1 (pyparsing module - Classes and methods to define and execute parsing grammars)

  * [pyproj](https://pypi.org/project/pyproj) 3.6.1 → 3.7.0 (Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library))

  * [qdldl](https://pypi.org/project/qdldl) 0.1.7.post4 → 0.1.7.post5 (QDLDL, a free LDL factorization routine.)

  * [qrcode](https://pypi.org/project/qrcode) 7.4.2 → 8.0 (QR Code image generator)

  * [requests_ntlm](https://pypi.org/project/requests_ntlm) 1.1.0 → 1.3.0 (This package allows for HTTP NTLM authentication using the requests library.)

  * [scikit_learn](https://pypi.org/project/scikit_learn) 1.6.0 → 1.6.1 (A set of python modules for machine learning and data mining)

  * [scipy](https://pypi.org/project/scipy) 1.14.1 → 1.15.1 (Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python)

  * [shapely](https://pypi.org/project/shapely) 2.0.4 → 2.0.6 (Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects)

  * [sqlite_utils](https://pypi.org/project/sqlite_utils) 3.37 → 3.38 (CLI tool and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases)

  * [sqlparse](https://pypi.org/project/sqlparse) 0.4.3 → 0.5.3 (A non-validating SQL parser.)

  * [tifffile](https://pypi.org/project/tifffile) 2024.7.2 → 2025.1.10 (Read and write TIFF files)

  * [toolz](https://pypi.org/project/toolz) 0.12.0 → 1.0.0 (List processing tools and functional utilities)

  * [tornado](https://pypi.org/project/tornado) 6.4.1 → 6.4.2 (Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.)

  * [trio](https://pypi.org/project/trio) 0.27.0 → 0.28.0 (A friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O)

  * [twine](https://pypi.org/project/twine) 4.0.1 → 6.0.1 (Collection of utilities for publishing packages on PyPI)

  * [watchdog](https://pypi.org/project/watchdog) 4.0.1 → 6.0.0 (Filesystem events monitoring)

  * [webcolors](https://pypi.org/project/webcolors) 1.12 → 24.11.1 (A library for working with the color formats defined by HTML and CSS.)

  * [websockets](https://pypi.org/project/websockets) 13.1 → 14.2 (An implementation of the WebSocket Protocol (RFC 6455 & 7692))

  * [werkzeug](https://pypi.org/project/werkzeug) 3.0.3 → 3.1.3 (The comprehensive WSGI web application library.)

  * [whatthepatch](https://pypi.org/project/whatthepatch) 1.0.2 → 1.0.7 (A patch parsing and application library.)

  * [wheel](https://pypi.org/project/wheel) 0.44.0 → 0.45.1 (A built-package format for Python)

  * [winpython](https://pypi.org/project/winpython) 11.2.20241228 → 12.0.20250201 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM)

  * [xarray](https://pypi.org/project/xarray) 2024.11.0 → 2025.1.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

  * [zipp](https://pypi.org/project/zipp) 3.17.0 → 3.21.0 (Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files)



Removed packages:



  * [about_time](https://pypi.org/project/about_time) 4.2.1 (Easily measure timing and throughput of code blocks, with beautiful human friendly representations.)

  * [affine](https://pypi.org/project/affine) 2.3.1 (Matrices describing affine transformation of the plane.)

  * [alive_progress](https://pypi.org/project/alive_progress) 3.1.5 (A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!)

  * [autograd](https://pypi.org/project/autograd) 1.6.2 (Efficiently computes derivatives of numpy code.)

  * [cartopy](https://pypi.org/project/cartopy) 0.23.0 (A Python library for cartographic visualizations with Matplotlib)

  * [cftime](https://pypi.org/project/cftime) 1.6.3 (Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

  * [click_plugins](https://pypi.org/project/click_plugins) 1.1.1 (An extension module for click to enable registering CLI commands via setuptools entry-points.)

  * [cligj](https://pypi.org/project/cligj) 0.7.2 (Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON)

  * [clr_loader](https://pypi.org/project/clr_loader) 0.2.6 (Generic pure Python loader for .NET runtimes)

  * [clrmagic](https://pypi.org/project/clrmagic) 0.0.1a2 (IPython cell magic to use .NET languages)

  * [cma](https://pypi.org/project/cma) 3.2.2 (CMA-ES, Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy for non-linear numerical optimization in Python)

  * [deprecated](https://pypi.org/project/deprecated) 1.2.13 (Python @deprecated decorator to deprecate old python classes, functions or methods.)

  * [ecos](https://pypi.org/project/ecos) 2.0.13 (This is the Python package for ECOS: Embedded Cone Solver. See Github page for more information.)

  * [fiona](https://pypi.org/project/fiona) 1.10.1 (Fiona reads and writes spatial data files)

  * [grapheme](https://pypi.org/project/grapheme) 0.6.0 (Unicode grapheme helpers)

  * [netcdf4](https://pypi.org/project/netcdf4) 1.7.1.post2 (Provides an object-oriented python interface to the netCDF version 4 library)

  * [ntlm_auth](https://pypi.org/project/ntlm_auth) 1.5.0 (Creates NTLM authentication structures)

  * [numexpr](https://pypi.org/project/numexpr) 2.10.1 (Fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy)

  * [pulp](https://pypi.org/project/pulp) 2.6.0 (PuLP is an LP modeler written in python)

  * [pyaudio](https://pypi.org/project/pyaudio) 0.2.14 (Cross-platform audio I/O with PortAudio)

  * [pycosat](https://pypi.org/project/pycosat) 0.6.6 (bindings to picosat (a SAT solver))

  * [pymoo](https://pypi.org/project/pymoo) 0.6.1.3 (Multi-Objective Optimization in Python)

  * [pypng](https://pypi.org/project/pypng) 0.20220715.0 (Pure Python library for saving and loading PNG images)

  * [pyshp](https://pypi.org/project/pyshp) 2.3.1 (Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format)

  * [pythonnet](https://pypi.org/project/pythonnet) 3.0.3 (.NET and Mono integration for Python)

  * [rasterio](https://pypi.org/project/rasterio) 1.3.10 (Fast and direct raster I/O for use with Numpy and SciPy)

  * [snuggs](https://pypi.org/project/snuggs) 1.4.7 (Snuggs are s-expressions for Numpy)

  * [wrapt](https://pypi.org/project/wrapt) 1.16.0 (Module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)

  * [xlwings](https://pypi.org/project/xlwings) 0.24.7 (Make Excel fly: Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa.)





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