- Reduce memory requirement for encoding genotypes with large sample sizes
- Transpose default chunk sizes to 1000 variants and 10,000 samples (issue:300)
- Add chunksize options to mkschema (issue:294)
- Add experimental support for local alleles.
- Add experimental support for ``region_index``
Breaking changes
- ICF metadata format version bumped to ensure long-term compatility between numpy 1.26.x
and numpy >= 2. Existing ICFs will need to be recreated.