Issues

• ingest fails with pynndescent 0.7

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4450 · Filter by author eroell opened on Oct 28, 2026

• Integration Testing CI Test Failure on python 3.14

  scverse/scanpy#4449 · Filter by author scverse-issue-creator opened on Oct 28, 2026

• Integration Testing CI Test Failure on python 3.14 with prerelease dependencies

  scverse/scanpy#4448 · Filter by author scverse-issue-creator opened on Oct 28, 2026

• Integration Testing CI Test Failure on python 3.13

  scverse/scanpy#4447 · Filter by author scverse-issue-creator opened on Oct 28, 2026

• Dask: highly_variable_genes(flavor="seurat_v3"), calculate_qc_metrics and rank_genes_groups load the whole array into memory

  scverse/scanpy#4445 · Filter by author yangqi-su opened on Oct 27, 2026

• neighbors fails with pynndescent 0.7: 'csr_array' object has no attribute 'getnnz'

  scverse/scanpy#4444 · Filter by author Marius1311 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Consider switch to graspologic-native for faster Leiden implementation

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  Enhancement

  scverse/scanpy#4441 · Filter by author maltekuehl opened on Oct 26, 2026

• calculate_qc_metrics gives negative pct_counts_in_top_N_genes for sparse int16 X and fails for sparse unsigned integer X

  scverse/scanpy#4440 · Filter by author JoeyTan21 opened on Oct 25, 2026

• Remove louvain

  Task

  scverse/scanpy#4434 · Filter by author flying-sheep opened on Oct 23, 2026

• Remove recipes

  breaking change ‼️
  Task

  scverse/scanpy#4433 · Filter by author flying-sheep opened on Oct 23, 2026
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• highly_variable_genes(batch_key=...) selects more than n_top_genes genes (and merges distinct genes) when var_names contain duplicates

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4432 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 22, 2026

• Integration Testing CI Install Failure on python 3.12

  scverse/scanpy#4425 · Filter by author scverse-issue-creator opened on Oct 20, 2026

• neighbors(method="gauss") returns a non-symmetric connectivity matrix on the sparse (pynndescent / transformer) path

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4416 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 11, 2026

• highly_variable_genes(flavor="cell_ranger", n_top_genes=n) selects 0 genes when the top genes have infinite normalized dispersion

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4415 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 11, 2026

• downsample_counts(total_counts=...) on float32 data gives cells/genes more reads than they had once the matrix has > 2^24 counts

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4414 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 11, 2026

• downsample_counts(total_counts=...) silently does nothing for Fortran-ordered dense X

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4406 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 8, 2026

• highly_variable_genes(flavor="seurat_v3") flags more than n_top_genes genes when var_names contain duplicates

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4405 · Filter by author ChenziqiAdam opened on Oct 8, 2026

• Multi-column groupby crashes on non-string observations in dotplot/matrixplot/heatmap

  scverse/scanpy#4384 · Filter by author barlowa124 opened on Sep 28, 2026

• highly_variable_genes with batch_key and subset=True keeps the wrong genes when n_top_genes is not set

  scverse/scanpy#4370 · Filter by author haeganm opened on Sep 17, 2026

• anndata.acc based API for obs_df,var_df

  Area – API
  Enhancement

  scverse/scanpy#4360 · Filter by author flying-sheep opened on Sep 11, 2026

• calculate_qc_metrics(use_raw=True) labels .raw's matrix with adata.var

  scverse/scanpy#4347 · Filter by author Arthur031221 opened on Sep 6, 2026

• The .uns output for scanpy.pp.highly_variable_genes is not documented

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  Enhancement

  scverse/scanpy#4341 · Filter by author lazappi opened on Sep 3, 2026

• rank_genes_groups(method="t-test", mean_in_log_space=False) runs the t-test on exponentiated values

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4336 · Filter by author cindykrafft opened on Sep 2, 2026

• sc.external.exporting.cellbrowser: cellbrowser_raw_data\sample_colors.tsv does not exist, skipping it An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

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  Bug

  scverse/scanpy#4335 · Filter by author danli349 opened on Sep 2, 2026

• anndata.acc replacement for functions taking obsm, layer, …

  Area – API
  Enhancement

  scverse/scanpy#4334 · Filter by author flying-sheep opened on Sep 1, 2026