diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d3d2368..9e34420 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 * To set `mkl_fft` as the backend for SciPy is only possible through `mkl_fft.interfaces.scipy_fft` [gh-179](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/179)
 * SciPy interface `mkl_fft.interfaces.scipy_fft` uses the same function from SciPy for handling `s` and `axes` for N-D FFTs [gh-181](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/181)
 
+### Fixed
+* Fixed an issue for calling `mkl_fft.interfaces.numpy.fftn` with an empty axes [gh-139](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/139)
+* Fixed an issue for calling `mkl_fft.interfaces.numpy.fftn` with a zero-size array [gh-139](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/139)
+* Fixed inconsistency of input and output arrays dtype for `irfft` function [gh-180](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/180)
+
 ## [1.3.14] (04/10/2025)
 
 resolves gh-152 by adding an explicit `mkl-service` dependency to `mkl-fft` when building the wheel
diff --git a/mkl_fft/_pydfti.pyx b/mkl_fft/_pydfti.pyx
index e6d1d22..5cfd20f 100644
--- a/mkl_fft/_pydfti.pyx
+++ b/mkl_fft/_pydfti.pyx
@@ -665,13 +665,12 @@ def _r2c_fft1d_impl(
         return f_arr
 
 
-# this routine is functionally equivalent to numpy.fft.irfft
 def _c2r_fft1d_impl(
     x, n=None, axis=-1, overwrite_x=False, double fsc=1.0, out=None
 ):
     """
-    Uses MKL to perform 1D FFT on the real input array x along the given axis,
-    producing complex output, but giving only half of the harmonics.
+    Uses MKL to perform 1D FFT on the real/complex input array x along the
+    given axis, producing real output.
 
     cf. numpy.fft.irfft
     """
@@ -704,13 +703,13 @@ def _c2r_fft1d_impl(
     else:
         # we must cast the input and allocate the output,
         # so we cast to complex double and operate in place
-        try:
+        if x_type is cnp.NPY_FLOAT:
             x_arr = <cnp.ndarray> cnp.PyArray_FROM_OTF(
-                x_arr, cnp.NPY_CDOUBLE, cnp.NPY_BEHAVED)
-        except:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "First argument should be a real or "
-                "a complex sequence of single or double precision"
+                x_arr, cnp.NPY_CFLOAT, cnp.NPY_BEHAVED
+            )
+        else:
+            x_arr = <cnp.ndarray> cnp.PyArray_FROM_OTF(
+                x_arr, cnp.NPY_CDOUBLE, cnp.NPY_BEHAVED
             )
         x_type = cnp.PyArray_TYPE(x_arr)
         in_place = 1
diff --git a/mkl_fft/interfaces/_numpy_fft.py b/mkl_fft/interfaces/_numpy_fft.py
index 8557213..f2f72d5 100644
--- a/mkl_fft/interfaces/_numpy_fft.py
+++ b/mkl_fft/interfaces/_numpy_fft.py
@@ -295,13 +295,11 @@ def hfft(a, n=None, axis=-1, norm=None, out=None):
     """
     norm = _swap_direction(norm)
     x = _downcast_float128_array(a)
-    x = np.array(x, copy=True)
-    np.conjugate(x, out=x)
     fsc = _compute_fwd_scale(norm, n, 2 * (x.shape[axis] - 1))
 
     return _trycall(
         mkl_fft.irfft,
-        (x,),
+        (np.conjugate(x),),
         {"n": n, "axis": axis, "fwd_scale": fsc, "out": out},
     )
 
@@ -317,9 +315,9 @@ def ihfft(a, n=None, axis=-1, norm=None, out=None):
     x = _downcast_float128_array(a)
     fsc = _compute_fwd_scale(norm, n, x.shape[axis])
 
-    output = _trycall(
+    result = _trycall(
         mkl_fft.rfft, (x,), {"n": n, "axis": axis, "fwd_scale": fsc, "out": out}
     )
 
-    np.conjugate(output, out=output)
-    return output
+    np.conjugate(result, out=result)
+    return result
diff --git a/mkl_fft/tests/test_fft1d.py b/mkl_fft/tests/test_fft1d.py
index 01631fe..fbff2bd 100644
--- a/mkl_fft/tests/test_fft1d.py
+++ b/mkl_fft/tests/test_fft1d.py
@@ -457,3 +457,12 @@ def test_irfft_out_strided(axis):
     expected = np.fft.irfft(x, axis=axis, out=out)
 
     assert_allclose(result, expected)
+
+
+@requires_numpy_2
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dt", ["i4", "f4", "f8", "c8", "c16"])
+def test_irfft_dtype(dt):
+    x = np.array(rnd.random((20, 20)), dtype=dt)
+    result = mkl_fft.irfft(x)
+    expected = np.fft.irfft(x)
+    assert_allclose(result, expected, rtol=1e-7, atol=1e-7, strict=True)
diff --git a/mkl_fft/tests/third_party/scipy/test_basic.py b/mkl_fft/tests/third_party/scipy/test_basic.py
index 19b00fa..f05034c 100644
--- a/mkl_fft/tests/third_party/scipy/test_basic.py
+++ b/mkl_fft/tests/third_party/scipy/test_basic.py
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@
 
 # pylint: disable=possibly-used-before-assignment
 if scipy.__version__ < "1.12":
-    # scipy from Intel channel is 1.10
-    pytest.skip(
-        "This test file needs scipy>=1.12",
-        allow_module_level=True,
-    )
+    # scipy from Intel channel is 1.10 with python 3.9 and 3.10
+    pytest.skip("This test file needs scipy>=1.12", allow_module_level=True)
 elif scipy.__version__ < "1.14":
-    # For python<=3.9, scipy<1.14 is installed
+    # For python-3.11 and 3.12, scipy<1.14 is installed from Intel channel
+    # For python<=3.9, scipy<1.14 is installed from conda channel
     # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
     from scipy._lib._array_api import size as xp_size
 else: