Why mediapipe v0.10.15 depends on numpy (<2) and v0.10.14 doesn't?

[alanwilter]

My code is working fine with MP v0.10.14 and numpy v2.0.2.
I can't update to numpy v2.1.1 yet because I use numba, whose v0.60.0, is not yet updated for latest numpy.

Anyway, when I was trying to update to latest MP, I got this warning.

Because mediapipe (0.10.15) depends on numpy (<2)

Was this pinning introduced on purpose to address some particular issue?

[ayushgdev]

Hello @alanwilter
The Numpy version was downgraded to <2 in this commit. This was done for the stability of the package across all platform architectures.
With newer features coming to MediaPipe, we internally encountered issues packet propagation in MP graph with numpy 2.0.2 and hence downgrade was required.

[alanwilter]

Many thanks for that. Do you have an idea when numpy 2.1.x will be supported?

[ayushgdev]

@alanwilter This will depend on factors like the dependent packages used in MediaPipe(similar to numba package in your project), the stability(as we have already encountered), the performance and acceptable accuracy for each of the supported tasks.

Hence, we cannot comment on the timeline for the time being.

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[alanwilter]

How can we prevent this ticket to be automatically closed by the the GitHub Bot?

[kuaashish]

Hi @alanwilter,

This can be marked as a feature request for supporting NumPy versions>2. We will share it with the team, and based on future demand and discussions, we may proceed with implementation if everything aligns on our end.

Thank you!!