MAINT: Bump dependencies

Bump dependencies and update travis, appveyor and azure

.travis.yml

@@ -33,55 +33,38 @@ env:
 matrix:
   fast_finish: true
   include:
-    # Python 2.7 + partially updated numpy, mpl; cutting edge scipy, pandas
+    # Python 2.7 until 0.10.1 has been released, then change to Python 3.7
     - python: 2.7
       env:
         - PYTHON=2.7
-        - NUMPY=1.13
-        - MATPLOTLIB=2.0
+        - PANDAS=0.24
         - COVERAGE=true
-      # Python 2.7 + baseline packages
-    - python: 2.7
-      env:
-        - PYTHON=2.7
-        - NUMPY=1.12
-        - BLAS= # Do not specify blas in this config due to conflict
-        - SCIPY=0.19
-        - PANDAS=0.20
-        - USEMPL=false
-        - LINT=true
-    # Python 3.4 + baseline packages
-    - python: 3.4
-      env:
-        - PYTHON=3.4
-        - NUMPY=1.11
-        - SCIPY=0.18
-        - PANDAS=0.19
-        - MATPLOTLIB=1.5
     # Python 3.7 + cutting edge packages
     - python: 3.7
       env:
         - PYTHON=3.7
         - COVERAGE=true
-        # Documentation build (on Python 3.6 + cutting edge packages)
-    - python: 3.6
+    # Documentation build (on Python 3.7 + cutting edge packages)
+    - python: 3.7
       env:
         - PYTHON=3.7
         - DOCBUILD=true
-    # Python 3.6 + legacy blas
+    # Python 3.6 + legacy blas + older pandas
     - python: 3.6
       env:
         - PYTHON=3.6
-        - NUMPY=1.14
+        - NUMPY=1.15
+        - PANDAS=0.22
+        - SCIPY=1.1
         - BLAS="nomkl blas=*=openblas"
-    # Python 3.5 + partially updated packages
+    # Python 3.5 + oldest packages
     - python: 3.5
       env:
         - PYTHON=3.5
-        - NUMPY=1.13
+        - NUMPY=1.14
         - SCIPY=1.0
-        - PANDAS=0.22
-        - MATPLOTLIB=2.0
+        - PANDAS=0.21
+        - MATPLOTLIB=2
         - LINT=true
     # Latest pre-release packages
     - python: 3.7
@@ -92,7 +75,8 @@ matrix:
       language: generic
       env:
         - PYTHON=3.6.6
-        - NUMPY=1.14
+        - NUMPY=1.15
+        - SCIPY=1.2
         - BUILD_INIT=tools/ci/travis_pip.sh
     - os: osx
       language: generic
@@ -105,16 +89,6 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - PIP_PRE=true
         - BUILD_INIT=tools/ci/travis_pip.sh
-    - os: osx
-      language: generic
-      env:
-        - PYTHON=3.6.6
-        - NUMPY=1.14
-        - BUILD_INIT=tools/ci/travis_pip.sh
-    - os: osx
-      language: generic
-      env:
-        - PYTHON=3.7
 
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appveyor.yml

@@ -8,17 +8,16 @@ environment:
   PYTEST_DIRECTIVES: --skip-slow
   matrix:
     # Pip builds
-    - PYTHON: C:\Python27
-      PYTEST_DIRECTIVES:
     - PYTHON: C:\Python36
       PYTEST_DIRECTIVES:
-    # Conda builds
+    # Conda builds, TODO: Remove after 0.10.1
     - PY_MAJOR_VER: 2
       PYTHON_ARCH: "x86"
+    # Conda builds, TODO: Move to Python 3 after 0.10.1
     - PY_MAJOR_VER: 2
       PYTHON_ARCH: "x86_64"
-      SCIPY: "0.18"
-      NUMPY: "1.11"
+      SCIPY: "1"
+      NUMPY: "1.14"
     - PY_MAJOR_VER: 3
       PYTHON_ARCH: "x86_64"
       TEST_INSTALL: "true"

docs/source/install.rst

@@ -103,32 +103,33 @@ Dependencies
 
 The current minimum dependencies are:
 
-* `Python <https://www.python.org>`__ >= 2.7, including Python 3.4+
-* `NumPy <http://www.scipy.org/>`__ >= 1.11
-* `SciPy <http://www.scipy.org/>`__ >= 0.18
-* `Pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`__ >= 0.19
-* `Patsy <https://patsy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__ >= 0.4.0
-* `Cython <http://cython.org/>`__ >= 0.24 is required to build the code from
+* `Python <https://www.python.org>`__ >= 3.5
+* `NumPy <http://www.scipy.org/>`__ >= 1.14
+* `SciPy <http://www.scipy.org/>`__ >= 1.0
+* `Pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`__ >= 0.21
+* `Patsy <https://patsy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__ >= 0.5.0
+
+Cython is required to build from a git checkout but not to run or install from PyPI:
+
+* `Cython <http://cython.org/>`__ >= 0.29 is required to build the code from
   github but not from a source distribution.
 
 Given the long release cycle, Statsmodels follows a loose time-based policy for
 dependencies: minimal dependencies are lagged about one and a half to two
-years. Our next planned update of minimum versions in `setup.py` is expected in
-September 2018, when we will update to reflect Numpy >= 1.12 (released January
-2017), Scipy >= 0.19 (released March 2017) and Pandas >= 0.20 (released May
-2017).
+years. Our next planned update of minimum versions is expected in the first
+half of 2020.
 
 Optional Dependencies
 ---------------------
 
-* `Matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org/>`__ >= 1.5 is needed for plotting
+* `Matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org/>`__ >= 2.2 is needed for plotting
   functions and running many of the examples.
 * If installed, `X-12-ARIMA <http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x13as/>`__ or
   `X-13ARIMA-SEATS <http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x13as/>`__ can be used
   for time-series analysis.
 * `pytest <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/>`__ is required to run
   the test suite.
-* `IPython <http://ipython.org>`__ >= 3.0 is required to build the
+* `IPython <http://ipython.org>`__ >= 5.0 is required to build the
   docs locally or to use the notebooks.
 * `joblib <http://pythonhosted.org/joblib/>`__ >= 0.9 can be used to accelerate distributed
   estimation for certain models.

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # build
-cython
+cython>=0.29
 
 # run
-matplotlib
+matplotlib>=2.2
 cvxopt
 
 # test
 pytest
 pytest-randomly
+pytest-xdist
 flake8

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-numpy>=1.11
-scipy>=0.18
-pandas>=0.19
-patsy>=0.4
+numpy>=1.14
+scipy>=1.0
+pandas>=0.21
+patsy>=0.5
+

setup.py

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 ###############################################################################
 # Key Values that Change Each Release
 ###############################################################################
-SETUP_REQUIREMENTS = {'numpy': '1.11',  # released March 2016
-                      'scipy': '0.18',  # released July 2016
+SETUP_REQUIREMENTS = {'numpy': '1.14',  # released January 2018
+                      'scipy': '1.0',  # released October 2017
                       }
 
 REQ_NOT_MET_MSG = """
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@
         raise RuntimeError(REQ_NOT_MET_MSG.format(key, ver, req_ver))
 
 INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS = SETUP_REQUIREMENTS.copy()
-INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS.update({'pandas': '0.19',  # released October 2016
-                             'patsy': '0.4.0',  # released July 2015
+INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS.update({'pandas': '0.21',  # released October 2017
+                             'patsy': '0.5',  # released January 2018
                              })
 
-CYTHON_MIN_VER = '0.24'  # released Apr 2016
+CYTHON_MIN_VER = '0.29'  # released November 2018
 
 SETUP_REQUIRES = [k + '>=' + v for k, v in SETUP_REQUIREMENTS.items()]
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = [k + '>=' + v for k, v in INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS.items()]
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@
 CLASSIFIERS = ['Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
                'Environment :: Console',
                'Programming Language :: Cython',
-               'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-               'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
                'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
                'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
                'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',

tools/ci/azure_template.yml

@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ jobs:
     vmImage: ${{ parameters.vmImage }}
   strategy:
     matrix:
-      Python27:
-        python.version: '2.7'
       Python35:
         python.version: '3.5'
       Python36:
@@ -32,14 +30,6 @@ jobs:
       versionSpec: '$(python.version)'
       architecture: 'x64'
 
-  - ${{ if eq(parameters.name, 'Windows') }}:
-    # We need to install a C compiler, see
-    #  https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/issues/9674
-    # TODO: This is only necessary for the py27 build, can be removed
-    #  once py27 is dropped
-    - script: choco install vcpython27
-      displayName: 'Install compiler'
-
   - script: |
       python -m pip install --upgrade pip
       pip install -r requirements.txt