DOC: Update 1.12.1 release notes.

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@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ Jarrod Millman <[email protected]> Jarrod Millman <[email protected]>
 Jason Grout <[email protected]> Jason Grout <[email protected]>
 Jason King <[email protected]> jason king <[email protected]>
 Jay Bourque <[email protected]> jayvius <[email protected]>
+Jean Utke <[email protected]> jutke <[email protected]>
 Jerome Kelleher <[email protected]> jeromekelleher <[email protected]>
 Johannes Schönberger <[email protected]> Johannes Schönberger <[email protected]>
 Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz <[email protected]> Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz <[email protected]>

doc/release/1.12.1-notes.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,42 @@ NumPy 1.12.1 Release Notes
 ==========================
 
 NumPy 1.12.1 supports Python 2.7 and 3.4 - 3.6 and fixes bugs and regressions
-found in NumPy 1.12.0. Wheels for Linux, Windows, and OSX can be found on pypi,
+found in NumPy 1.12.0. In particular, the regression in f2py constant parsing
+is fixed. Wheels for Linux, Windows, and OSX can be found on pypi,
 
-Fixes Merged
+
+Contributors
 ============
+
+A total of 10 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
+names contributed a patch for the first time.
+
+* Charles Harris
+* Eric Wieser
+* Greg Young
+* Joerg Behrmann +
+* John Kirkham
+* Julian Taylor
+* Marten van Kerkwijk
+* Matthew Brett
+* Shota Kawabuchi
+* Jean Utke +
+
+Fixes Backported
+================
+
+* `#8483 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8483>`__: BUG: Fix wrong future nat warning and equiv type logic error...
+* `#8489 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8489>`__: BUG: Fix wrong masked median for some special cases
+* `#8490 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8490>`__: DOC: Place np.average in inline code
+* `#8491 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8491>`__: TST: Work around isfinite inconsistency on i386
+* `#8494 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8494>`__: BUG: Guard against replacing constants without '_' spec in f2py.
+* `#8524 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8524>`__: BUG: Fix mean for float 16 non-array inputs for 1.12
+* `#8571 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8571>`__: BUG: Fix calling python api with error set and minor leaks for...
+* `#8602 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8602>`__: BUG: Make iscomplexobj compatible with custom dtypes again
+* `#8618 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8618>`__: BUG: Fix undefined behaviour induced by bad __array_wrap__
+* `#8648 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8648>`__: BUG: Fix MaskedArray.__setitem__
+* `#8659 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8659>`__: BUG: PPC64el machines are POWER for Fortran in f2py
+* `#8665 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8665>`__: BUG: Look up methods on MaskedArray in `_frommethod`
+* `#8674 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8674>`__: BUG: Remove extra digit in binary_repr at limit
+* `#8704 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8704>`__: BUG: Fix deepcopy regression for empty arrays.
+* `#8707 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8707>`__: BUG: Fix ma.median for empty ndarrays