Numcodecs

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* Fix build of wheels.
By :user:`Grzegorz Bokota <Czaki>`, :issue:`244`.

.. _release_0.7.0:

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* Automatically release to PyPI.
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`, :issue:`241`.

* Build wheels on github actions.
By :user:`Grzegorz Bokota <Czaki>`, :issue:`224`.

* Add Base64 codec.
By :user:`Trevor Manz <manzt>`, :issue:`176`.

* Add partial decompression of Blosc compressed arrays.
By :user:`Andrew Fulton <andrewfulton9>`, :issue:`235`.

* Remove LegacyJSON codec.
By :user:`James Bourbeau <jrbourbeau>`, :issue:`226`.

* Remove LegacyMsgPack codec.
By :user:`James Bourbeau <jrbourbeau>`, :issue:`218`.

* Drop support for Python 2.
By :user:`James Bourbeau <jrbourbeau>`, :issue:`220`.


.. _release_0.6.4:

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* Update Cython to 0.29.14.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`168`, :issue:`177`, :issue:`204`.

* The bundled c-blosc sources have been upgraded to version 1.17.0.
This fixes compilation with newer versions of gcc.
By :user:`Joe Jevnik <llllllllll>`, :issue:`194`.

* Create ``.pep8speaks.yml``. By :user:`Alistair Miles <alimanfoo>`.

* Simplify datetime/timedelta check.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`170`, :issue:`171`.

* Update URL metadata for PyPI.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`, :issue:`178`.

* Enable pytest rewriting in test helper functions.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`, :issue:`185`.

* Rewrites the ``ensure_text`` implementation.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`201`, :issue:`205`, :issue:`206`.

* Add macOS to CI.
By :user:`Alistair Miles <alimanfoo>`, :issue:`192`.

* Fix test failures on big-endian systems.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`, :issue:`186`.

* Use unittest.mock on Python 3.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`, :issue:`179`.

* Don't mask compile errors in setup.py.
By :user:`Joe Jevnik <llllllllll>`, :issue:`197`.

* Allow pickles when loading test fixture data.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`, :issue:`193`.

* Update ``cpuinfo.py``.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`202`.

* Use ``ensure_text`` in JSON codecs.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`207`.

* Support Python 3.8.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`208`.


.. _release_0.6.3:

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* Drop support for 32-bit Windows.
By :user:`Alistair Miles <alimanfoo>`, :issue:`97`, :issue:`156`.

* Raise a ``TypeError`` if an ``object`` array is passed to ``ensure_bytes``.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`162`.

* Update Cython to 0.29.3.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`165`.


.. _release_0.6.2:

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* Handle (new) buffer protocol conforming types in ``Pickle.decode``.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`143`, :issue:`150`.

* Use (new) buffer protocol in ``MsgPack`` codec `decode()` method.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`148`.

* Use (new) buffer protocol in ``JSON`` codec `decode()` method.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`151`.

* Avoid copying into data in ``GZip``'s `decode()` method on Python 2.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`152`.

* Revert ndarray coercion of encode returned data.
By :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`155`.

* The bundled c-blosc sources have been upgraded to version 1.15.0. By
:user:`Alistair Miles <alimanfoo>` and :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`, :issue:`142`, :issue:`145`.

.. _release_0.6.1:

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* Resolved minor issue in backwards-compatibility tests (by :user:`Alistair Miles
<alimanfoo>`, :issue:`138`, :issue:`139`).


.. _release_0.6.0: