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# SciPy 1.16.3 Release Notes

SciPy 1.16.3 is a bug-fix release with no new features compared to 1.16.2.

## Authors

- Name (commits)

- ChrisAB (1) +

- Lucas Colley (1)

- Ralf Gommers (3)

- Matt Haberland (8)

- Nick ODell (2)

- Ilhan Polat (1)

- Tyler Reddy (28)

- Lucas Roberts (2)

  > A total of 8 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time. This list of names is automatically generated, and may not be fully complete.

### Issues closed for 1.16.3

- #23336: BUG: linalg: wrong handling of args/kwargs in `_apply_over_batch`

- #23469: BUG: huge speed and quality regression for stats.multivariate_normal.cdf

- #23589: BUG: `lqmn(1,1,0)` and `lqmn(1,1,0j)` return incompatible…

- #23642: CI: meson setup fails with “invalid int value: ‘Sentinel.UNSET’”

- #23738: BUG: `special.expi(inf)` is `nan`, should be `inf`

- #23820: MAINT, TST: optimize test_input_validation torch failure

- #23859: TST, MAINT: boxcox_llf failing again

### Pull requests for 1.16.3

- #23602: REL, MAINT: prepare for SciPy 1.16.3

- #23615: TST, MAINT: backports, restore lfilter

- #23681: BUG: linalg:solve…are: fix bug when optional array is skipped

- #23685: MAINT: optimize: fix usage of `nextafter(..., where=)` without…

- #23777: CI: pin Python 3.11.13 in CircleCI job

- #23787: BUG:optimize:SLSQP: Use double negative in an if condition for…

- #23815: ENH: scipy.stats: speed up bivariate normal cdf

- #23817: BUG/TST: Bump xsf to v0.1.3 add tests for expi limits

- #23821: CI: optimize: allow new Pytorch message

- #23829: MAINT: patch vendored qhull source for security fix

- #23864: TST: stats.boxcox_llf: bump test tolerance