Merge pull request #6960 from mhvk/trace-allow-subclasses-release-note

charris · charris · commit a7377d881469 · 2016-01-06T15:09:23.000-07:00
Release note entry for change in behaviour for np.trace.
diff --git a/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.11.0-notes.rst
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ a single array. This change obsoletes distinctions like
 
 Instead, ``np.broadcast`` can be used in all cases.
 
+*np.trace* now respects array subclasses
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+This behaviour mimics that of other functions such as ``np.diagonal`` and
+ensures, e.g., that for masked arrays ``np.trace(ma)`` and ``ma.trace()`` give
+the same result.
+
 Deprecations
 ============
 
