Prepare things for a 2.6.1 release (#4264)

Author: IAlibay

package/CHANGELOG

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ The rules for this file:
   * release numbers follow "Semantic Versioning" http://semver.org
 
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-??/??/?? IAlibay, hmacdope, pillose, jaclark5, tylerjereddy
+28/08/23 IAlibay, hmacdope, pillose, jaclark5, tylerjereddy
 
- * 2.7.0
+ * 2.6.1
 
 Fixes
   * Fix Atom type guessing error (PR #4168, Issue #4167)

package/MDAnalysis/version.py

@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@
 # e.g. with lib.log
 
 #: Release of MDAnalysis as a string, using `semantic versioning`_.
-__version__ = "2.7.0-dev0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
+__version__ = "2.6.1"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py

package/pyproject.toml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
-    'numpy>=1.22.3',
+    'numpy>=1.22.3,<2.0',
     'biopython>=1.80',
     'networkx>=2.0',
     'GridDataFormats>=0.4.0',

package/setup.py

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 from subprocess import getoutput
 
 # NOTE: keep in sync with MDAnalysis.__version__ in version.py
-RELEASE = "2.7.0-dev0"
+RELEASE = "2.6.1"
 
 is_release = 'dev' not in RELEASE
 
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ def long_description(readme):
     exts, cythonfiles = extensions(config)
 
     install_requires = [
-          'numpy>=1.22.3',
+          'numpy>=1.22.3,<2.0',
           'biopython>=1.80',
           'networkx>=2.0',
           'GridDataFormats>=0.4.0',

testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger("MDAnalysisTests.__init__")
 
 # keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
-__version__ = "2.7.0-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.6.1"
 
 
 # Do NOT import MDAnalysis at this level. Tests should do it themselves.

testsuite/setup.py

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     # this must be in-sync with MDAnalysis
-    RELEASE = "2.7.0-dev0"
+    RELEASE = "2.6.1"
     with open("README") as summary:
         LONG_DESCRIPTION = summary.read()