Tables

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Improvements
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- Environment variable to control the use of embedded libraries.
Thanks to avalentino.
- Include citation in repository.
:issue:`690`. Thanks to katrinleinweber.

Bugs fixed
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- Fixed import error with numexpr 2.6.5.dev0
:issue:`685`. Thanks to cgohlke.
- Fixed linter warnings.
Thanks to avalentino.
- Fixed for re.split() is version detection.
:issue:`687`. Thanks to mingwandroid.
- Fixed test failures with Python 2.7 and NumPy 1.14.3
:issue:`688` & :issue:`689`. Thanks to oleksandr-pavlyk.

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Improvements
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- On interactive python sessions, group/attribute `__dir__()` method
autocompletes children that are named as valid python identifiers.
:issue:`624` & :issue:`625` thanks to ankostis.
- Implement `Group.__getitem__()` to have groups act as python-containers,
so code like this works: ``hfile.root['some child']``.
:issue:`628` thanks to ankostis.
- Enable building with Intel compiler (icc/icpc).
Thanks to rohit-jamuar.
- PEP 519 support, using new `os.fspath` method.
Thanks to mruffalo.
- Optional disable recording of ctime (metadata creation time) when
creating datasets that makes possible to get bitwise identical output
from repeated runs.
Thanks to alex-cobb.
- Prevent from reading all rows for each coord in a VLArray when
indexing using a list .
Thanks to igormq.
- Internal Blosc version updated to 1.14.3

Bugs fixed
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- Fixed division by zero when using `_convert_time64()` with an empty
nparr array.
:issue:`653`. Thanks to alobbs.
- Fixed deprecation warnings with numpy 1.14.
Thanks to oleksandr-pavlyk.
- Skip DLL check when running from a frozen app.
:issue:`675`. Thanks to jwiggins.
- Fixed behaviour with slices out of range.
:issue:`651`. Thanks to jackdbd.

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Improvements
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- setup.py detects conda env and uses installed conda (hdf5, bzip2, lzo
and/or blosc) packages when building from source.

Bugs fixed
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- Linux wheels now built against built-in blosc.
- Fixed windows absolute paths in ptrepack, ptdump, ptree.
:issue:`616`. Thanks to oscar6echo.

Fixed critical bug in ptrepack

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Improvements
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- Support for HDF5 v1.10.x (see :issue:`582`)
- Fix compatibility with the upcoming Python 2.7.13, 3.5.3 and 3.6 versions.
See also :issue:`590`. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Internal Blosc version updated to 1.11.3
- Gracefully handle cpuinfo failure. (PR 578)
Thanks to Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
- Update internal py-cpuinfo to 3.3.0. Thanks to Gustavo Serra Scalet.

Bugs fixed
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- Fix conversion of python 2 `long` type to `six.integer_types` in atom.py.
See also :issue:`598`. Thanks to Kyle Keppler for reporting.
- Fix important bug in bitshuffle filter in internal Blosc on big-endian
machines. See also :issue:`583`.
- Fix allow for long type in nextafter. (PR 587) Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Fix unicode bug in group and tables names. :issue:`514`