What’s new in 0.26

scikit-survival 0.26.0 (2025-12-17)

This is a maintainance release that adds support for Python 3.14 and updates the minimum supported version of dependencies:

Package	Minimum Version
Python	3.11
pandas	2.0.0
osqp	1.0.2

Enhancements

• Port from numpy’s legacy numpy.random.RandomState to numpy.random.Generator (#554).

• Add object dtype support to sksurv.preprocessing.OneHotEncoder (#556).

• Add support for pandas string dtype (#558).

• Add support for osqp 1.0.0 (#562).

• Upgrade Eigen to 3.4.1.

• Add support for copy-on-write for pandas 2.3.0 and later (#556).

Documentation

• Corrected typo – changed non-singular to singular – in penalized Cox models user guide (#552).

Backwards incompatible changes

• Require at least for Python 3.11.

• Require at least pandas 2.0.0.

• Require at least osqp 1.0.