From a1e876a7d6a6baa1bda151b548ca78662301c4b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "clemens.schmid@esrf.fr" <clemens.schmid@esrf.fr>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:13:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Return pyarray directly instead of bp::incref to avoid
 memory ballooning

---
 src/extensions/registerconverters.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/extensions/registerconverters.cpp b/src/extensions/registerconverters.cpp
index e421487..bac7484 100644
--- a/src/extensions/registerconverters.cpp
+++ b/src/extensions/registerconverters.cpp
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ PyObject* makeNdArray(const double* data, std::vector<npy_intp>& dims)
     PyArrayObject* a = reinterpret_cast<PyArrayObject*>(pyarray);
     double* adata = static_cast<double*>(PyArray_DATA(a));
     std::copy(data, data + PyArray_SIZE(a), adata);
-    return bp::incref(pyarray);
+    return pyarray;
 }
 
 // CrystVector to ndarray

From a7d3e1e6c667114a7d9d06ff835e287d75c9cf28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Schmid <clem.schmid@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:57:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] add news file

---
 news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst

diff --git a/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst b/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..234489b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* Fix memory leak in makeNdArray 
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>

From 89bfc04be4fd0f2a86741f1e3df3f4f237732621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:57:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit hooks

---
 news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst b/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst
index 234489b..4f2b7ca 100644
--- a/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst
+++ b/news/fix_pyarray_ref.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 **Fixed:**
 
-* Fix memory leak in makeNdArray 
+* Fix memory leak in makeNdArray
 
 **Security:**