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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)