From cbdd6be913e36fd9bcbcbcafb300be42dc664b84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdlpstsci <mdelapena@stsci.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:16:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Newcandidate 370rc3 (#1779)

---
 CHANGELOG.rst  | 6 ++++++
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 8079203fd..b20ba09e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ number of the code change for that issue.  These PRs can be viewed at:
 3.7.0rc2 (22-Mar-2024) Infrastructure Build
 ===========================================
 
+- Modified the pyproject.toml file in order to force the use of
+  stsci-imagestats >= 1.8.1.  Version 1.8.1 contains a bug fix which caused
+  drizzlepac to fail in Linux machines.  It was necessary to force this 
+  change as the build sequence is "in progress" and will not allow changes
+  to non-domestic packages until the build sequence is complete.
+
 - Force the identified bad rows to be removed from the total (aka white light)
   source catalog before the corresponding bad segments are removed from the
   segmentation image. [#1771]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index caa92727e..3530f4f60 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dependencies = [
     'matplotlib',
     'stsci.tools>=4.0',
     'stsci.image>=2.3.4',
-    'stsci.imagestats',
+    'stsci.imagestats>=1.8.1',
     'stsci.skypac>=1.0.9',
     'stsci.stimage',
     'stwcs>=1.5.3',