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=======================================
Release notes for PyTables 3.5 series
=======================================
:Author: PyTables Developers
:Contact: [email protected]
.. py:currentmodule:: tables
Changes from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2
===========================
# Put here the notes for 3.5.2 ...
Changes from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1
===========================
- Maintenance release to fix how PyPi repo is handling wheel versions.
Changes from 3.4.4 to 3.5.0
===========================
Improvements
------------
- When copying data from native HDF5 files with padding in compound types,
the padding is not removed now by default. This allows for better
compatibility with existing HDF5 applications that expect the padding
to stay there.
Also, when the `description` is a NumPy struct array with padding, this
is honored now. The previous behaviour (i.e. getting rid of paddings) can
be replicated by passing the new `allow_padding` parameter when opening
a file. For some examples, see the new `examples/tables-with-padding.py`
and `examples/attrs-with-padding.py`. For details on the implementation
see :issue:`720`.
- Added a new flag `--dont-allow-padding` in `ptrepack` utility so as to
replicate the previous behaviour of removing padding during file copies.
The default is to honor the original padding in copies.
- Improve compatibility with numpy 1.16.
- Improve detection of the LZO2 library at build time.
- Suppress several warnings.
- Add AVX2 support for Windows. See PR #716. Thanks to Robert McLeod.