audit-trail:

• Python-3.10.0a2
• VSCode-1.51.0 +vscode-python-2020.10.332292344
• switch back to Jupyterlab3 mode + Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc7
• remove pip option "--use-feature=2020-resolver" until pip-20.2.5
• "VS Code" icon will no more force a default directory
• pip-20.3b1+-2020-11-10 (pushing pip flight domain)
• Spyder-4.2.0
• Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc7
• Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc9 + jupyterlab_server-2.0.0rc3
• VSCode-1.51.1 +vscode-python-2020.11.358366026 + vscode-Jupyter-2020.11.0 (former extension splitted in two now)
• Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc10
• add a Drag&Drop example use of "pdfrw" (shipped since a long time) that is super practical to a confined teacher to:
  . merge pdfs or directories of pdf (like scans of a student)
  . rotate a pdf (like the result above)
• apparently wheel shall better be installed in pre-step now with new pip
• VSCode-1.51.1 + vscode-python-2020.11.371526539 + vscode-jupyter-2020.11.372831992 + nodejs-14.15.1
• tweak vscode settings.json to "jupyter.widgetScriptSources"

b1 (November 23rd: VScode-1.51 tweaks + jupyterlab-3rc10)

• python-3.9.1rc1
• pip-20.3-2020-11-28+ (infinite loop bug patch, that resolves also my infinite... as you know there are several infinites)
• winrt for Python-3.9 (already in 3.8)
• onnxruntime for Python-3.8
• pip-20.3.1
• Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc13 + jupyterlab_server-2.0.0rc6
• add a constraint file in the build to cut pip backtracking time
• torch-1.7 +torchvision for Python-3.8,
• torch-1.8.0.dev20201205+cpu for Python-3.9
• Python-3.9.1, Python-3.10.a3
• python-3.8.7rc1
• VSCode-1.51.1
• Pytorch-nightly on Python-3.9.1 (official version only in PyTorch>1.7.1)
• pip-20.3.2dev-2020-12-12_14h00 with yanking logic fix and skip bad metadata fix

b2 (December 13th)

• sklearn-contrib-lightning
• pip-20.3.3
• spyder-4.2.1
• failed jupyterlab-3.0.0rc15 experiment: using Jupyterlab-2 method, we can have ipywidgets, bqplot, ipyleaflet, not dask-jupyterlab, not jupyter_bokeh
• failed wasmer experiment ... not windows ready yet
• VSCode-1.52.1
• pyqtgraph-0.11.1
• discovering Distributed-2020.12.0 / Dask-jupyterlab doesn't work with Python-3.9.1
• python-3.8.7

rc (December 22nd)

delayed to 2021:

• numba-0.53 official support for Python-3.9
• SQLAlchemy-1.4 and async friends (asyncpg ?)
• Jupyterlab-3.0.0
• ipympl / ipyleaflet / bqplot extension for Jupyterlab-3
• dask-labextension for Jupyterlab-3, or for Python-3.9.1

futur:

• FastAI is now possible but add nvidia-ml...
• remark: Typescript compiler is just a "npm install -g typescript" away.

Interlude : Python-3.10 branch opening

It's Python-3.10.0a2.

WinPython 2020-05 b1 (VScode tweaks, Jupyterlab-3.0rc10)

Changes from WinPython 2020-04:

• Infrastructure:
  • Jupyterlab: until we know for sure if Jupyterlab-3 + main plugin are going to make it for mid-december:
    • Jupyterlab-3.0.0rc10 for Python-3.8 branch
    • Jupyterlab-2.2.9 for Python-3.9 branch
    • nodejs-14.15.1
  • VScode:
    • launcher no longer enforce the default "notebook" directory (may should it be done for other launchers)
    • VSCode-1.51.1 + vscode-python-2020.11.371526539 + vscode-jupyter-2020.11.372831992
  • 20.3.dev1-2020-11-21 new resolver
• New Packages:
• Upgraded Packages:
  • Spyder-4.2.0, SciPy-1.5.4, Pandas-1.1.4, numpy-1.19.4, statsmodels-0.12.1
• variation per version:
  • Tensorflow and Pytorch in standard branch only,
  • portable VSCode in "cod" branch only. (but you can copy the "\t\cod" directory from one to the other)

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• Jupyterlab-3rc10 on Python-3.8 branch (Jupyterlab-2.2.9 for Python-3.9)
• VScode tweaks

Next build effort:

• python-3.9.1rc, python-3.8.7rc1
• another look into launchers tweaks

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.8.6.1cod b1

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.8.6.0cod.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v14.14.0 → v14.15.0 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

• VSCode 1.50.0.0 → 1.51.1.0 (source-code editor developed by Microsoft)

Python packages

New packages:

• jupyterlab_widgets 1.0.0a6 (JupyterLab extension providing HTML widgets)

• nbclassic 0.2.3 (Jupyter Notebook as a Jupyter Server Extension.)

• pyinstaller_hooks_contrib 2020.10 (Community maintained hooks for PyInstaller)

• pyls_black 0.4.6 (Black plugin for the Python Language Server)

• pyls_spyder 0.1.1 (Spyder extensions for the python-language-server)

• pysocks 1.7.1 (A Python SOCKS client module. See https github.com/Anorov/PySocks for more information.)

• three_merge 0.1.1 (Simple library for merging two strings with respect to a base one)

Upgraded packages:

• aiofiles 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (File support for asyncio.)

• aiohttp 3.7.1 → 3.7.3 (Async http client/server framework (asyncio))

• aiosqlite 0.15.0 → 0.16.0 (asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module)

• asgiref 3.2.10 → 3.3.1 (ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters)

• asteval 0.9.19 → 0.9.21 (Safe, minimalistic evaluator of python expression using ast module)

• astropy 4.0.3 → 4.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• attrs 20.2.0 → 20.3.0 (Classes Without Boilerplate)

• babel 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (Internationalization utilities)

• bqplot 0.12.18 → 0.12.19 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2020.6.20 → 2020.11.8 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cftime 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• cligj 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON)

• cryptography 3.2 → 3.2.1 (cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.)

• databases 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Async database support for Python.)

• datasette 0.50.2 → 0.51.1 (A tool for exploring and publishing data)

• distributed 2.30.0 → 2.30.1 (Distributed scheduler for Dask)

• fastapi 0.61.1 → 0.61.2 (FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production)

• fiona 1.8.17 → 1.8.18 (Fiona reads and writes spatial data files)

• httpcore 0.12.0 → 0.12.2 (A minimal low-level HTTP client.)

• httpie 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (HTTPie - a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.)

• hvplot 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (A high-level plotting API for the PyData ecosystem built on HoloViews.)

• hypothesis 5.37.4 → 5.41.3 (A library for property-based testing)

• ipython 7.18.1 → 7.19.0 (IPython: Productive Interactive Computing)

• janus 0.5.0 → 0.6.1 (Mixed sync-async queue to interoperate between asyncio tasks and classic threads)

• jedi 0.17.1 → 0.17.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors.)

• jupyter_bokeh 2.0.3 → 2.0.4 (A Jupyter extension for rendering Bokeh content.)

• jupyter_core 4.6.3 → 4.7.0 (Jupyter core package. A base package on which Jupyter projects rely.)

• jupyter_server 1.0.5 → 1.0.7 (The Jupyter Server)

• jupyterlab 2.2.9 → 3.0.0rc10 (The JupyterLab notebook server extension.)

• jupyterlab_server 1.2.0 → 2.0.0rc3 (JupyterLab Server)

• keyring 21.4.0 → 21.5.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• kiwisolver 1.2.0 → 1.3.1 (A fast implementation of the Cassowary constraint solver)

• lz4 3.1.0 → 3.1.1 (LZ4 Bindings for Python)

• marshmallow 3.8.0 → 3.9.1 (A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.)

• matplotlib 3.3.2 → 3.3.3 (Python plotting package)

• metakernel 0.27.0 → 0.27.5 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mizani 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (Scales for Python)

• msvc_runtime 14.27.29016.1 → 14.28.29325 (Install the Microsoft™ Visual C++™ runtime DLLs to the sys.prefix and Scripts directories)

• multidict 5.0.0 → 5.0.2 (multidict implementation)

• nest_asyncio 1.4.2 → 1.4.3 (Patch asyncio to allow nested event loops)

• notebook 6.1.4 → 6.1.5 (A web-based notebook environment for interactive computing)

• numpy 1.19.2+mkl → 1.19.4+mkl (NumPy is the fundamental package for array computing with Python.)

• outcome 1.0.1 → 1.1.0 (Capture the outcome of Python function calls.)

• pandas 1.1.3 → 1.1.4 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics)

• panel 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (A high level app and dashboarding solution for Python.)

• papermill 2.2.0 → 2.2.2 (Parametrize and run Jupyter and nteract Notebooks)

• pip 20.2.4 → 20.3.dev1 (The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.)

• pkginfo 1.6.0 → 1.6.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• prometheus_client 0.7.1 → 0.9.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• pybind11 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pydantic 1.6.1 → 1.7.2 (Data validation and settings management using python 3.6 type hinting)

• pygame 1.9.6 → 2.0.0 (Python Game Development)

• pyinstaller 3.6 → 4.1 (PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package.)

• pymongo 3.11.0 → 3.11.1 (Python driver for MongoDB )

• pyproj 2.6.1.post1 → 3.0.0.post1 (Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library))

• pytest 6.1.1 → 6.1.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• python_dotenv 0.14.0 → 0.15.0 (Add .env support to your django/flask apps in development and deployments)

• python_language_server 0.35.1 → 0.36.1 (Python Language Server for the Language Server Protocol)

• pytz 2020.1 → 2020.4 (World timezone definitions, modern and historical)

• pywin32 228 → 300 (Python for Window Extensions)

• pyzmq 19.0.2 → 20.0.0 (Python bindings for 0MQ)

• pyzo 4.11.0 → 4.11.2 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• regex 2020.10.23 → 2020.11.13 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.53 → 3.5.55 (The Reportlab Toolkit)

• requests 2.24.0 → 2.25.0 (Python HTTP for Humans.)

• rise 5.7.0 → 5.7.1 (Reveal.js - Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension)

• scipy 1.5.3 → 1.5.4 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python)

• slicer 0.0.4 → 0.0.5 (A small package for big slicing.)

• sortedcontainers 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (Sorted Containers -- Sorted List, Sorted Dict, Sorted Set)

• sphinx 3.2.1 → 3.3.1 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 4.1.5 → 4.2.0 (The Scientific Python Development Environment)

• spyder_kernels 1.9.4 → 1.10.0 (Jupyter kernels for Spyder's console)

• statsmodels 0.12.0 → 0.12.1 (Statistical computations and models for Python)

• tifffile 2020.10.1 → 2020.11.18 (Read and write TIFF(r) files)

• toml 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (Python Library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)

• tornado 6.0.4 → 6.1 (Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.)

• tqdm 4.50.2 → 4.52.0 (Fast, Extensible Progress Meter)

• uncertainties 3.1.4 → 3.1.5 (Transparent calculations with uncertainties on the quantities involved (aka error propagation); fast calculation of derivatives)

• urllib3 1.25.11 → 1.26.2 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• uvicorn 0.12.2 → 0.12.3 (The lightning-fast ASGI server.)

• wordcloud 1.8.0 → 1.8.1 (A little word cloud generator)

• xlwings 0.20.8 → 0.21.2 (Make Excel fly: Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa.)

• yarl 1.6.2 → 1.6.3 (Yet another URL library)

• zipp 3.3.2 → 3.4.0 (Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files)

Removed packages:

• comtypes 1.1.7 (Pure Python COM package)

• ipyleaflet 0.13.3 (A Jupyter widget for dynamic Leaflet maps)

• ipympl 0.5.8 (Matplotlib Jupyter Extension)

WinPython 2020-05 b2 (2020-12-13: back to Jupyterlab-2.2.9)

Changes from WinPython 2020-05 b1:

• Infrastructure:

  • back to Jupyterlab-2.2.9 for all,:
    • Jupyterlab-3.0.0 is now for early January 2021,
    • then we will have to wait/push for major plugins conversion (count 15 days minimum)
    • that makes next WinPython with Jupyterlab-3 end february 2021
  • 20.3.2dev0 of-2020-12-12 , technically shall be equal to pip-20.3.2
  • Python-3.9.1 final
  • Python-3.8.7rc1, Python-3.10.a3
  • Winpython-3.10 alpha3 (with Python-3.10.a3)

• New Packages:

  • pysocks , as a requirement found per the new resolver
  • coverage, nbval: some testing packages
  • anyio

• Upgraded Packages:

  • pandas-1.1.5, numba-0.52.0,
  • torch-1.7.1cpu
  • ipykernel-5.4.2, dask-2020.12.0

• variation per version:

  • Tensorflow and Pytorch in standard branch only,
  • portable VSCode in "cod" branch only. (but you can copy the "\t\cod" directory from one to the other)

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• new versions of Python: Python-3.9.1 fixes some nasty bugs
• packages that still don't reach official Python-3.9 compatiblity: Pytorch, Onnxruntime, Numba (also it works for simple things)

Next build = RC:

• python-3.8.7 final,
• pip-20.3.2 final
• maybe a final look into launchers tweaks

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.8.7.0 b2

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.8.6.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v14.14.0 → v14.15.0 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• anyio 2.0.2 (High level compatibility layer for multiple asynchronous event loop implementations)

• coverage 5.3 (Code coverage measurement for Python)

• nbval 0.9.6 (A py.test plugin to validate Jupyter notebooks)

• onnxruntime 1.6.0 (ONNX Runtime Python bindings)

• pyinstaller_hooks_contrib 2020.10 (Community maintained hooks for PyInstaller)

• pyls_black 0.4.6 (Black plugin for the Python Language Server)

• pyls_spyder 0.2.1 (Spyder extensions for the python-language-server)

• pysocks 1.7.1 (A Python SOCKS client module. See https github.com/Anorov/PySocks for more information.)

• three_merge 0.1.1 (Simple library for merging two strings with respect to a base one)

Upgraded packages:

• aiofiles 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (File support for asyncio.)

• aiohttp 3.7.1 → 3.7.3 (Async http client/server framework (asyncio))

• aiosqlite 0.15.0 → 0.16.0 (asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module)

• asgiref 3.2.10 → 3.3.1 (ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters)

• asteval 0.9.19 → 0.9.21 (Safe, minimalistic evaluator of python expression using ast module)

• astropy 4.0.3 → 4.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• attrs 20.2.0 → 20.3.0 (Classes Without Boilerplate)

• babel 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (Internationalization utilities)

• bqplot 0.12.18 → 0.12.19 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2020.6.20 → 2020.12.5 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cffi 1.14.3 → 1.14.4 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

• cftime 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• cligj 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON)

• cryptography 3.2 → 3.3.1 (cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.)

• cx_freeze 6.3 → 6.4.2 (create standalone executables from Python scripts)

• dask 2.30.0 → 2020.12.0 (Parallel PyData with Task Scheduling)

• databases 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Async database support for Python.)

• datasette 0.50.2 → 0.52.3 (A tool for exploring and publishing data)

• distributed 2.30.0 → 2020.12.0 (Distributed scheduler for Dask)

• fastapi 0.61.1 → 0.62.0 (FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production)

• fiona 1.8.17 → 1.8.18 (Fiona reads and writes spatial data files)

• holoviews 1.13.5 → 1.14.0 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself.)

• httpcore 0.12.0 → 0.12.2 (A minimal low-level HTTP client.)

• httpie 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (HTTPie - a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.)

• hvplot 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (A high-level plotting API for the PyData ecosystem built on HoloViews.)

• hypothesis 5.37.4 → 5.43.3 (A library for property-based testing)

• ibis_framework 1.3.0 → 1.4.0 (Productivity-centric Python Big Data Framework)

• importlib_metadata 2.0.0 → 3.1.1 (Read metadata from Python packages)

• ipykernel 5.3.4 → 5.4.2 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 7.18.1 → 7.19.0 (IPython: Productive Interactive Computing)

• janus 0.5.0 → 0.6.1 (Mixed sync-async queue to interoperate between asyncio tasks and classic threads)

• jedi 0.17.1 → 0.17.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors.)

• jupyter_bokeh 2.0.3 → 2.0.4 (A Jupyter extension for rendering Bokeh content.)

• jupyter_core 4.6.3 → 4.7.0 (Jupyter core package. A base package on which Jupyter projects rely.)

• jupyter_server 1.0.5 → 1.1.0 (The Jupyter Server)

• keyring 21.4.0 → 21.5.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• kiwisolver 1.2.0 → 1.3.1 (A fast implementation of the Cassowary constraint solver)

• llvmlite 0.34.0 → 0.35.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lxml 4.6.1 → 4.6.2 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• lz4 3.1.0 → 3.1.1 (LZ4 Bindings for Python)

• marshmallow 3.8.0 → 3.9.1 (A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.)

• matplotlib 3.3.2 → 3.3.3 (Python plotting package)

• metakernel 0.27.0 → 0.27.5 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mizani 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (Scales for Python)

• mlxtend 0.17.3 → 0.18.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• mpld3 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (D3 Viewer for Matplotlib)

• msgpack 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msvc_runtime 14.27.29016.1 → 14.28.29325 (Install the Microsoft™ Visual C++™ runtime DLLs to the sys.prefix and Scripts directories)

• multidict 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (multidict implementation)

• nest_asyncio 1.4.2 → 1.4.3 (Patch asyncio to allow nested event loops)

• netcdf4 1.5.4 → 1.5.5 (Provides an object-oriented python interface to the netCDF version 4 library.)

• nlopt 2.6.2 → 2.7.0 (Library for nonlinear optimization, wrapping many algorithms for global and local, constrained or unconstrained, optimization)

• notebook 6.1.4 → 6.1.5 (A web-based notebook environment for interactive computing)

• numba 0.51.2 → 0.52.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.19.2+mkl → 1.19.4+mkl (NumPy is the fundamental package for array computing with Python.)

• outcome 1.0.1 → 1.1.0 (Capture the outcome of Python function calls.)

• packaging 20.4 → 20.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pandas 1.1.3 → 1.1.5 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics)

• panel 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (A high level app and dashboarding solution for Python.)

• papermill 2.2.0 → 2.2.2 (Parametrize and run Jupyter and nteract Notebooks)

• pip 20.2.4 → 20.3.2.dev0 (The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.)

• pkginfo 1.6.0 → 1.6.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• plotly 4.12.0 → 4.14.1 (An open-source, interactive graphing library for Python)

• prettytable 1.0.1 → 2.0.0 (A simple Python library for easily displaying tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII table format.)

• prometheus_client 0.7.1 → 0.9.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• pybind11 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pydantic 1.6.1 → 1.7.3 (Data validation and settings management using python 3.6 type hinting)

• pygame 1.9.6 → 2.0.0 (Python Game Development)

• pygments 2.7.2 → 2.7.3 (Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.)

• pyinstaller 3.6 → 4.1 (PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package.)

• pymongo 3.11.0 → 3.11.2 (Python driver for MongoDB )

• pyproj 2.6.1.post1 → 3.0.0.post1 (Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library))

• pyserial 3.4 → 3.5 (Python Serial Port Extension)

• pytest 6.1.1 → 6.1.2 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.8.6 → 3.8.7 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dotenv 0.14.0 → 0.15.0 (Add .env support to your django/flask apps in development and deployments)

• python_language_server 0.35.1 → 0.36.1 (Python Language Server for the Language Server Protocol)

• pytz 2020.1 → 2020.4 (World timezone definitions, modern and historical)

• pywin32 228 → 300 (Python for Window Extensions)

• pyzmq 19.0.2 → 20.0.0 (Python bindings for 0MQ)

• pyzo 4.11.0 → 4.11.2 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 1.0.1 → 1.0.2 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.7.7 → 5.0.1 (Jupyter Qt console)

• quart 0.13.1 → 0.14.0 (A Python ASGI web microframework with the same API as Flask)

• regex 2020.10.23 → 2020.11.13 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.53 → 3.5.56 (The Reportlab Toolkit)

• requests 2.24.0 → 2.25.0 (Python HTTP for Humans.)

• rise 5.7.0 → 5.7.1 (Reveal.js - Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension)

• scipy 1.5.3 → 1.5.4 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python)

• setuptools 50.3.2 → 51.0.0 (Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages)

• slicer 0.0.4 → 0.0.5 (A small package for big slicing.)

• sortedcontainers 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (Sorted Containers -- Sorted List, Sorted Dict, Sorted Set)

• soupsieve 2.0.1 → 2.1 (A modern CSS selector implementation for Beautiful Soup.)

• sphinx 3.2.1 → 3.3.1 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 4.1.5 → 4.2.0 (The Scientific Python Development Environment)

• spyder_kernels 1.9.4 → 1.10.0 (Jupyter kernels for Spyder's console)

• statsmodels 0.12.0 → 0.12.1 (Statistical computations and models for Python)

• sympy 1.6.2 → 1.7 (Computer algebra system (CAS) in Python)

• tifffile 2020.10.1 → 2020.12.8 (Read and write TIFF(r) files)

• toml 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (Python Library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)

• torch 1.6.0+cpu → 1.7.1+cpu (Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration)

• torchvision 0.7.0+cpu → 0.8.2+cpu (image and video datasets and models for torch deep learning)

• tornado 6.0.4 → 6.1 (Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.)

• tqdm 4.50.2 → 4.54.1 (Fast, Extensible Progress Meter)

• uncertainties 3.1.4 → 3.1.5 (Transparent calculations with uncertainties on the quantities involved (aka error propagation); fast calculation of derivatives)

• urllib3 1.25.11 → 1.26.2 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• uvicorn 0.12.2 → 0.13.0 (The lightning-fast ASGI server.)

• vega_datasets 0.8.0 → 0.9.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• virtualenv 20.1.0 → 20.2.2 (Virtual Python Environment builder)

• watchdog 0.10.3 → 1.0.1 (Filesystem events monitoring)

• wheel 0.35.1 → 0.36.1 (A built-package format for Python)

• winpython 3.0.20201028 → 3.0.202011212 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM)

• winrt 1.0.20239.1 → 1.0.20330.1 (Access Windows Runtime APIs from Python)

• wordcloud 1.8.0 → 1.8.1 (A little word cloud generator)

• wsproto 0.15.0 → 1.0.0 (WebSockets state-machine based protocol implementation)

• xarray 0.16.1 → 0.16.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlwings 0.20.8 → 0.21.4 (Make Excel fly: Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa.)

• yarl 1.6.2 → 1.6.3 (Yet another URL library)

• zarr 2.5.0 → 2.6.1 (An implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays for Python.)

• zipp 3.3.2 → 3.4.0 (Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files)

Removed packages:

• comtypes 1.1.7 (Pure Python COM package)

• pathtools 0.1.2 (File system general utilities)

WinPython 2020-05 rc (2020-12-24: keeping Jupyterlab-2 for the last time)

Changes from WinPython 2020-05 b2:

• Infrastructure:
  • python-3.8.7 final,
  • pip-20.3.3
• New Packages:
• Upgraded Packages:
  • spyder-4.2.1,
  • scikit_learn-0.24.0, scikit_image-0.18.1, joblib-1.0.0, sympy-1.7.1
  • seaborn-0.11.1, dask_labextension-4.0.1
• variation per version:
  • Pytorch in standard branch only, and in "nightly" mode for Python-3.9.1
  • portable VSCode in "cod" branch only. (but you can copy the "\t\cod" directory from one to the other)

Areas of particular interest for testers:

• Python-3.8.7 shall be perfectly stable, using stable Jupyterlab-2.2.9
• packages that still don't reach official Python-3.9 compatiblity: Pytorch, Onnxruntime, Numba (also it works for simple things)

History of changes for WinPython-64bit 3.8.7.0

The following changes were made to WinPython-64bit distribution since version 3.8.6.0.

Tools

Upgraded packages:

• Nodejs v14.14.0 → v14.15.0 (a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine)

Python packages

New packages:

• anyio 2.0.2 (High level compatibility layer for multiple asynchronous event loop implementations)

• coverage 5.3.1 (Code coverage measurement for Python)

• nbval 0.9.6 (A py.test plugin to validate Jupyter notebooks)

• onnxruntime 1.6.0 (ONNX Runtime Python bindings)

• pyinstaller_hooks_contrib 2020.10 (Community maintained hooks for PyInstaller)

• pyls_black 0.4.6 (Black plugin for the Python Language Server)

• pyls_spyder 0.3.0 (Spyder extensions for the python-language-server)

• pysocks 1.7.1 (A Python SOCKS client module. See https github.com/Anorov/PySocks for more information.)

• sklearn_contrib_lightning 0.6.0 (Large-scale sparse linear classification, regression and ranking in Python)

• textdistance 4.2.0 (Compute distance between the two texts.)

• three_merge 0.1.1 (Simple library for merging two strings with respect to a base one)

Upgraded packages:

• aiofiles 0.5.0 → 0.6.0 (File support for asyncio.)

• aiohttp 3.7.1 → 3.7.3 (Async http client/server framework (asyncio))

• aiosqlite 0.15.0 → 0.16.0 (asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module)

• asgiref 3.2.10 → 3.3.1 (ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters)

• asteval 0.9.19 → 0.9.21 (Safe, minimalistic evaluator of python expression using ast module)

• astropy 4.0.3 → 4.1 (Community-developed python astronomy tools)

• attrs 20.2.0 → 20.3.0 (Classes Without Boilerplate)

• babel 2.8.0 → 2.9.0 (Internationalization utilities)

• bqplot 0.12.18 → 0.12.19 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)

• certifi 2020.6.20 → 2020.12.5 (Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle.)

• cffi 1.14.3 → 1.14.4 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)

• cftime 1.2.1 → 1.3.0 (Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python)

• cligj 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 (Click params for commmand line interfaces to GeoJSON)

• cryptography 3.2 → 3.3.1 (cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.)

• cx_freeze 6.3 → 6.4.2 (create standalone executables from Python scripts)

• dask 2.30.0 → 2020.12.0 (Parallel PyData with Task Scheduling)

• dask_labextension 3.0.0 → 4.0.1 (A Jupyter Notebook server extension manages Dask clusters.)

• databases 0.4.0 → 0.4.1 (Async database support for Python.)

• datasette 0.50.2 → 0.53 (A tool for exploring and publishing data)

• distributed 2.30.0 → 2020.12.0 (Distributed scheduler for Dask)

• fastapi 0.61.1 → 0.63.0 (FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production)

• fasteners 0.15 → 0.16 (A python package that provides useful locks.)

• fiona 1.8.17 → 1.8.18 (Fiona reads and writes spatial data files)

• fsspec 0.8.4 → 0.8.5 (File-system specification)

• holoviews 1.13.5 → 1.14.0 (Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself.)

• httpcore 0.12.0 → 0.12.2 (A minimal low-level HTTP client.)

• httpie 2.2.0 → 2.3.0 (HTTPie - a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.)

• hvplot 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 (A high-level plotting API for the PyData ecosystem built on HoloViews.)

• hypothesis 5.37.4 → 5.43.3 (A library for property-based testing)

• ibis_framework 1.3.0 → 1.4.0 (Productivity-centric Python Big Data Framework)

• importlib_metadata 2.0.0 → 3.3.0 (Read metadata from Python packages)

• ipykernel 5.3.4 → 5.4.2 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)

• ipython 7.18.1 → 7.19.0 (IPython: Productive Interactive Computing)

• janus 0.5.0 → 0.6.1 (Mixed sync-async queue to interoperate between asyncio tasks and classic threads)

• jedi 0.17.1 → 0.17.2 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors.)

• joblib 0.17.0 → 1.0.0 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)

• jupyter_bokeh 2.0.3 → 2.0.4 (A Jupyter extension for rendering Bokeh content.)

• jupyter_core 4.6.3 → 4.7.0 (Jupyter core package. A base package on which Jupyter projects rely.)

• jupyter_server 1.0.5 → 1.1.2 (The Jupyter Server)

• jupyter_server_proxy 1.5.0 → 1.5.2 (Jupyter server extension to supervise and proxy web services)

• keyring 21.4.0 → 21.7.0 (Store and access your passwords safely.)

• kiwisolver 1.2.0 → 1.3.1 (A fast implementation of the Cassowary constraint solver)

• llvmlite 0.34.0 → 0.35.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)

• lxml 4.6.1 → 4.6.2 (Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.)

• lz4 3.1.0 → 3.1.1 (LZ4 Bindings for Python)

• marshmallow 3.8.0 → 3.9.1 (A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.)

• matplotlib 3.3.2 → 3.3.3 (Python plotting package)

• metakernel 0.27.0 → 0.27.5 (Metakernel for Jupyter)

• mizani 0.7.1 → 0.7.2 (Scales for Python)

• mlxtend 0.17.3 → 0.18.0 (Machine Learning Library Extensions)

• mpld3 0.5.1 → 0.5.2 (D3 Viewer for Matplotlib)

• msgpack 1.0.0 → 1.0.2 (MessagePack (de)serializer.)

• msvc_runtime 14.27.29016.1 → 14.28.29325 (Install the Microsoft™ Visual C++™ runtime DLLs to the sys.prefix and Scripts directories)

• multidict 5.0.0 → 5.1.0 (multidict implementation)

• nest_asyncio 1.4.2 → 1.4.3 (Patch asyncio to allow nested event loops)

• netcdf4 1.5.4 → 1.5.5.1 (Provides an object-oriented python interface to the netCDF version 4 library.)

• nlopt 2.6.2 → 2.7.0 (Library for nonlinear optimization, wrapping many algorithms for global and local, constrained or unconstrained, optimization)

• notebook 6.1.4 → 6.1.5 (A web-based notebook environment for interactive computing)

• numba 0.51.2 → 0.52.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)

• numpy 1.19.2+mkl → 1.19.4+mkl (NumPy is the fundamental package for array computing with Python.)

• outcome 1.0.1 → 1.1.0 (Capture the outcome of Python function calls.)

• packaging 20.4 → 20.8 (Core utilities for Python packages)

• pandas 1.1.3 → 1.1.5 (Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics)

• panel 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (A high level app and dashboarding solution for Python.)

• papermill 2.2.0 → 2.2.2 (Parametrize and run Jupyter and nteract Notebooks)

• pip 20.2.4 → 20.3.3 (The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.)

• pkginfo 1.6.0 → 1.6.1 (Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.)

• plotly 4.12.0 → 4.14.1 (An open-source, interactive graphing library for Python)

• prettytable 1.0.1 → 2.0.0 (A simple Python library for easily displaying tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII table format.)

• prometheus_client 0.7.1 → 0.9.0 (Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system.)

• psutil 5.7.3 → 5.8.0 (Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python.)

• py 1.9.0 → 1.10.0 (library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities)

• pybind11 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Seamless operability between C++11 and Python)

• pydantic 1.6.1 → 1.7.3 (Data validation and settings management using python 3.6 type hinting)

• pygame 1.9.6 → 2.0.0 (Python Game Development)

• pygments 2.7.2 → 2.7.3 (Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.)

• pyinstaller 3.6 → 4.1 (PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package.)

• pymongo 3.11.0 → 3.11.2 (Python driver for MongoDB )

• pyproj 2.6.1.post1 → 3.0.0.post1 (Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections and coordinate transformations library))

• pyqtgraph 0.11.0 → 0.11.1 (Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python)

• pyserial 3.4 → 3.5 (Python Serial Port Extension)

• pytest 6.1.1 → 6.2.1 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)

• Python 3.8.6 → 3.8.7 (Python programming language with standard library)

• python_dotenv 0.14.0 → 0.15.0 (Add .env support to your django/flask apps in development and deployments)

• python_language_server 0.35.1 → 0.36.2 (Python Language Server for the Language Server Protocol)

• pytz 2020.1 → 2020.4 (World timezone definitions, modern and historical)

• pywin32 228 → 300 (Python for Window Extensions)

• pyzmq 19.0.2 → 20.0.0 (Python bindings for 0MQ)

• pyzo 4.11.0 → 4.11.2 (the Python IDE for scientific computing)

• qtawesome 1.0.1 → 1.0.2 (FontAwesome icons in PyQt and PySide applications)

• qtconsole 4.7.7 → 5.0.1 (Jupyter Qt console)

• quart 0.13.1 → 0.14.1 (A Python ASGI web microframework with the same API as Flask)

• regex 2020.10.23 → 2020.11.13 (Alternative regular expression module, to replace re.)

• reportlab 3.5.53 → 3.5.56 (The Reportlab Toolkit)

• requests 2.24.0 → 2.25.1 (Python HTTP for Humans.)

• rise 5.7.0 → 5.7.1 (Reveal.js - Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension)

• rtree 0.9.4 → 0.9.5 (R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS)

• scikit_image 0.17.2 → 0.18.1 (Image processing routines for SciPy)

• scikit_learn 0.23.2 → 0.24.0 (A set of python modules for machine learning and data mining)

• scipy 1.5.3 → 1.5.4 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python)

• seaborn 0.11.0 → 0.11.1 (seaborn: statistical data visualization)

• setuptools 50.3.2 → 51.1.0 (Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages)

• slicer 0.0.4 → 0.0.7 (A small package for big slicing.)

• sortedcontainers 2.2.2 → 2.3.0 (Sorted Containers -- Sorted List, Sorted Dict, Sorted Set)

• soupsieve 2.0.1 → 2.1 (A modern CSS selector implementation for Beautiful Soup.)

• sphinx 3.2.1 → 3.3.1 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)

• spyder 4.1.5 → 4.2.1 (The Scientific Python Development Environment)

• spyder_kernels 1.9.4 → 1.10.1 (Jupyter kernels for Spyder's console)

• sqlalchemy 1.3.20 → 1.3.22 (Database Abstraction Library)

• statsmodels 0.12.0 → 0.12.1 (Statistical computations and models for Python)

• sympy 1.6.2 → 1.7.1 (Computer algebra system (CAS) in Python)

• tenacity 6.2.0 → 6.3.1 (Retry code until it succeeds)

• tifffile 2020.10.1 → 2020.12.8 (Read and write TIFF(r) files)

• toml 0.10.1 → 0.10.2 (Python Library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)

• torch 1.6.0+cpu → 1.7.1+cpu (Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration)

• torchvision 0.7.0+cpu → 0.8.2+cpu (image and video datasets and models for torch deep learning)

• tornado 6.0.4 → 6.1 (Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.)

• tqdm 4.50.2 → 4.54.1 (Fast, Extensible Progress Meter)

• uncertainties 3.1.4 → 3.1.5 (Transparent calculations with uncertainties on the quantities involved (aka error propagation); fast calculation of derivatives)

• urllib3 1.25.11 → 1.26.2 (HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.)

• uvicorn 0.12.2 → 0.13.2 (The lightning-fast ASGI server.)

• vega_datasets 0.8.0 → 0.9.0 (A Python package for offline access to Vega datasets)

• virtualenv 20.1.0 → 20.2.2 (Virtual Python Environment builder)

• wasmer 0.4.2b11 → 1.0.0b1 (Python extension to run WebAssembly binaries)

• watchdog 0.10.3 → 1.0.2 (Filesystem events monitoring)

• wheel 0.35.1 → 0.36.2 (A built-package format for Python)

• winpython 3.0.20201028 → 3.0.202011219 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM)

• winrt 1.0.20239.1 → 1.0.20330.1 (Access Windows Runtime APIs from Python)

• wordcloud 1.8.0 → 1.8.1 (A little word cloud generator)

• wsproto 0.15.0 → 1.0.0 (WebSockets state-machine based protocol implementation)

• xarray 0.16.1 → 0.16.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

• xlrd 1.2.0 → 2.0.1 (Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files)

• xlwings 0.20.8 → 0.21.4 (Make Excel fly: Interact with Excel from Python and vice versa.)

• yarl 1.6.2 → 1.6.3 (Yet another URL library)

• zarr 2.5.0 → 2.6.1 (An implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays for Python.)

• zipp 3.3.2 → 3.4.0 (Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files)

Removed packages:

• comtypes 1.1.7 (Pure Python COM package)

• monotonic 1.5 (An implementation of time.monotonic() for Python 2 & < 3.3)

• pathtools 0.1.2 (File system general utilities)

Is there a reason why pyqt or pyside don't show up in the package list? I say you're doing a greate job to keep the qt packages up to date, even bejond "spyder limits" :-).

reason is: PyQt-5.15.1 is unchanged from last time, see there for the full list of package (changed and unchanged) https://github.com/winpython/winpython/blob/master/changelogs/WinPython-64bit-3.8.7.0.md