v1.16.1.1

This release targets SciPy 1.16.1 and requires Python 3.11-3.14, NumPy 1.25-2.3, and optype 0.13.4.

What's Changed

✨ Improvements

• sparse: improved block-related sparse construction functions by @JulVandenBroeck in #775
• sparse: improve the lil_matrix and lil_array constructors by @jorenham in #818
• stats: improve mode by @jorenham in #812
• stats: improve pearsonr by @jorenham in #814
• stats: improve sem by @jorenham in #815
• stats: improve zscore and gzscore by @jorenham in #816

🐛 Fixes

• sparse: fix the lil_matrix and lil_array constructors by @jorenham in #818
• stats: fix mode return type by @jorenham in #809

⬆️ Dependencies

• bump ruff to 0.12.9 and basedpyright to 1.31.2 by @jorenham in #813
• upgrade optype to 0.13.4 by @jorenham in #821
• pin uv_build by @jorenham in #821
• exclude pyright 1.1.404 by @jorenham in #823

Other Changes

• ♻️ stats: consistent typar naming and remove redundant float | defaults by @jorenham in #807

Full Changelog: v1.16.1.0...v1.16.1.1