Updates for 1.5.0 release

Author: jkbonfield

NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Release 1.5.0: 14th April 2023
+------------------------------
+
+Changes
+
+- Significant speed ups to the fqzcomp codec via code restructuring
+  and use of memory prefetch instructions.  Encode is 30-40% faster
+  and decode 5-8% faster. (PR#75 James Bonfield)
+
+- Improve multiarch builds on MacOS, fixing issues with getting the
+  various SIMD implementations integrated. (Issue#76 John Marshall,
+  PR#77/#78 Rob Davies)
+
+- Remove unused ax_with_libdeflate.m4 file from build system.
+
+
 Release 1.4.0: Februrary 2023
 -----------------------------
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(htscodecs, 1.4.0)
+AC_INIT(htscodecs, 1.5.0)
 
 # Some functions benefit from -O3 optimisation, so if the user didn't
 # explicitly set any compiler flags, we'll plump for O3.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS([fuzz])
 #       libhtscodecs.so.1.1.0
 
 VERS_CURRENT=3
-VERS_REVISION=1
+VERS_REVISION=2
 VERS_AGE=1
 AC_SUBST(VERS_CURRENT)
 AC_SUBST(VERS_REVISION)

htscodecs/htscodecs.h

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  * Note currently this needs manually editing as it isn't automatically
  * updated by autoconf.
  */
-#define HTSCODECS_VERSION 100400
+#define HTSCODECS_VERSION 100500
 
 /*
  * A const string form of the HTSCODECS_VERSION define.