Request for Release of ndarray 0.17 Compatible Crates: ndarray-rand, ndarray-stats, and ndarray-linalg

[xsxun]

First, thank you for your continued work on maintaining and improving the ndarray ecosystem — it’s a cornerstone of numerical computing in Rust, and your efforts are greatly appreciated.

With the release of ndarray 0.17, the changelog mentions that This release is fully backwards-compatible. However, in Rust’s dependency management, crates depending on ndarray = "0.16" cannot automatically use ndarray = "0.17", since semver treats these as incompatible versions.
As a result, many downstream crates that rely on ndarray 0.16 — such as ndarray-rand, ndarray-stats, ndarray-linalg, ndarray-ndimage — cannot yet upgrade ndarray to the latest release without manual intervention or local patching. This effectively prevents users from adopting the latest ndarray version across their projects.

I’d like to kindly request that the rust-ndarray organization update and publish new versions of:

• ndarray-rand
• ndarray-stats
• ndarray-linalg

with support for ndarray 0.17.

This would help ensure that the entire ecosystem can benefit from the improvements in ndarray 0.17 and continue to evolve smoothly.

Thank you again for the time and effort in maintaining the ndarray ecosystem. Your work is highly valued by those of us relying on these crates for scientific and numerical computing in Rust.

[akern40]

Hello! Thank you for the ask (and for being very polite about it!), rest assured these compatible releases are my next priority. There's a tad more work I need to do before I get to them, but they are coming as soon as possible.