API Changes for 3.9.2

Development

Windows wheel runtime bundling made static

In 3.7.0, the MSVC runtime DLL was bundled in wheels to enable importing Matplotlib on systems that do not have it installed. However, this could cause inconsistencies with other wheels that did the same, and trigger random crashes depending on import order. See this issue for further details.

Since 3.9.2, wheels now bundle the MSVC runtime DLL statically to avoid such issues.