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Major changes
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* Improve Zarr V3 support, adding partial store read/write and storage transformers.
Add new features from the `v3 spec <https://zarr-specs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/core/v3.0.html>`_:
* storage transformers
* `get_partial_values` and `set_partial_values`
* efficient `get_partial_values` implementation for `FSStoreV3`
* sharding storage transformer
By :user:`Jonathan Striebel <jstriebel>`; :issue:`1096`, :issue:`1111`.
* N5 nows supports Blosc.
Remove warnings emitted when using N5Store or N5FSStore with a blosc-compressed array.
By :user:`Davis Bennett <d-v-b>`; :issue:`1331`.
Bug fixes
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* Allow reading utf-8 encoded json files
By :user:`Nathan Zimmerberg <nhz2>` :issue:`1308`.
* Ensure contiguous data is give to ``FSStore``. Only copying if needed.
By :user:`Mads R. B. Kristensen <madsbk>` :issue:`1285`.
* NestedDirectoryStore.listdir now returns chunk keys with the correct '/' dimension_separator.
By :user:`Brett Graham <braingram>` :issue:`1334`.
* N5Store/N5FSStore dtype returns zarr Stores readable dtype.
By :user:`Marwan Zouinkhi <mzouink>` :issue:`1339`.
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