silx-kit/hdf5plugin: 7.0.0: 25/06/2026

Published June 25, 2026 | Version v7.0.0

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What's Changed

This release includes a change of major version of the embedded c-blosc2 library.

Added hd5plugin.from_filter_options(filter_id, filter_options) function to create filter instances from hdf5 "cd_values" (PR #366)
Added hdf5plugin.FilterBase.get_config() method to retrieve parameters as a dict and repr support (PR #373, #376)
Added support of negative compression levels to hdf5plugin.Zstd (PR #395)
Fixed type checker re-export compatibility by adding __all__ to __init__.py (PR #381)
Fixed Bitshuffle's clevel argument supported range (PR #384)
Updated compression filters:
- blosc2 hdf5 filter (commit e4d0f58) (PR #383)
- LZ4 hdf5 filter: Use HDFGroup version (PR #394)
- Zstd hdf5 filter: Use HDFGroup version (PR #395)
Updated compression libraries:
- c-blosc2 library: Change of major version (v3.1.4) (PR #378, #387, #392)
- SPERR library (v0.8.5) (PR #383)
- SZ library (commit 308bd06) (PR #392)
Build:
- Fixed name of bzip2 plugin (PR #367)
- Fixed deprecation warning when building wheel (PR #390)
- Fixed building plugins against libhdf5 v2 (PR #391, #399)
Misc.:
- Added tests for variable-width strings support (PR #363)
- Updated CI release workflow (PR #374, #396)
- Updated documentation (PR #393, #398)
- Updated code format/check with ruff (PR #400)

@crusaderky made their first contribution in https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/pull/363
@tiltingpenguin made their first contribution in https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/pull/367
@riccardoratta made their first contribution in https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/pull/381
@payno made their first contribution in https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/pull/398

Full Changelog: https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin/compare/v6.0.0...v7.0.0

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