silx-kit/hdf5plugin: 4.0.0: 2022/11/28

This version of hdf5plugin requires at least Python >= v3.7 (PR #210).

While the provided plugin filters are backwards compatible, this version includes an updated version of the H5Z-ZFP filter (v1.1.0). This version of the filter can read data compressed by previous versions but newly ZFP-compressed data cannot be read by older versions (PR #190).

• New compression filters:

  • Added SZ filter (PR #203, #206, #209, #213, #215)
  • Added BZip2 filter (PR #182)

• New functions:

  • Added get_config() function to retrieve build information and currently registered filters (PR #187)
  • Added get_filters() function to retrieve selected compression filter helper class (PR #212)
  • Added register() function to force registration of provided filters (PR #208, #212)

• Deprecations:

  • Bitshuffle's lz4 argument: Use cname argument instead (PR #171)
  • config: use get_config() function instead (PR #210)
  • date, hexversion and strictversion (PR #217)

• Updated filters:

  • Updated snappy library to v1.1.9 (used by the blosc filter) (PR #192)
  • Updated Zfp filter to HZ5-ZFP v1.1.0 and ZFP v1.0.0 (PR #190)
  • Updated Bitshuffle filter to v0.4.2 (PR #171)
  • Updated c-blosc to commit 9dc93b1 and zstd to v1.5.2 (PR #200)

• Build:

  • Updated HDF5PLUGIN_STRIP environment variable behaviour and added support for "all" value (PR #188)
  • Added optimisation flags for the blosc filter compilation (PR #180)
  • Added check of native flags availability (PR #189)

• Misc.:

  • Updated project to use Python >3.7 (PR #210)
  • Code reorganisation, clean-up, code style (PR #191, #205, #217)
  • Updated documentation (PR #184, #196, #199, #211, #218)
  • Updated continuous integration tests (PR #198)

• @orioltinto made their first contribution in https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/pull/209

Full Changelog: https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/compare/v3.3.1...v4.0.0