It is almost 9 years since SciPy 1.0 was released back in October of 2017. Since then, a wealth of new features and improvements have been implemented, with 18 minor releases leading up to SciPy 1.18.0. This talk presents a brief retrospective on some of the biggest changes that have happened in that time, before focusing in on the biggest developments of the past few years.

Now, plans are underway for a SciPy 2.0 release, with highlights including support for alternative array types to NumPy coming out of experimental mode, and the removal of a Fortran compiler as a build requirement. The second part of the talk surveys some of the biggest changes which are planned for this release and beyond, discussing what these changes mean for the wider scientific Python ecosystem.

No prior knowledge is expected, but those who have used SciPy before will get the most out of the talk.