π Internal C-Blosc updated to 1.20.1. This fixes #229, and also brings many new updates in internal codecs, providing interesting bumps in performance in some cases.
0οΈβ£ Due to recent addition of more cores in new CPUs, the number of internal threads to be used by default has been increased from 4 to 8.
π Allow zero-copy decompression by allowing bytes-like input. See PR: #230. Thanks to Lehman Garrison.
π Fix DeprecationWarning due to invalid escape sequence and use array.tobytes for Python 3.9.
β¬οΈ Dropped support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.
π Fixed the copy of the leftovers of a chunk when its size is not a
multiple of the typesize. Although this is a very unusual situation,
it can certainly happen (e.g.
#220).