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2 =============== |
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4 0.6.0 (released 2017-01-14) |
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8 * Automation improvements to test against Python 3.6, latest versions |
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10 * CFFI "parser" improved to use a compiler preprocessor instead of rewriting |
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12 * Vendored version of zstd updated to 1.1.2. |
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13 * Documentation improvements. |
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15 * ZSTD_CCtx instances are now reused across multiple compress() operations. |
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16 * ZstdCompressor.write_to() now has a flush() method. |
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17 * ZstdCompressor.compressobj()'s flush() method now accepts an argument to |
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18 flush a block (as opposed to ending the stream). |
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19 * Disallow compress(b'') when writing content sizes by default (issue #11). |
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34 * Vendored version of zstd updated to 1.1.1. |
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35 * Continuous integration for Python 3.6 and 3.7 |
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37 * Added compression and decompression APIs providing similar interfaces |
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38 to the standard library ``zlib`` and ``bz2`` modules. This allows |
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40 * ``zstd.__version__` is now defined. |
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41 * ``read_from()`` on various APIs now accepts objects implementing the buffer |
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43 * ``read_from()`` has gained a ``skip_bytes`` argument. This allows callers |
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46 * Implemented ``ZstdCompressionDict.as_bytes()``. |
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47 * Python's memory allocator is now used instead of ``malloc()``. |
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48 * Low-level zstd data structures are reused in more instances, cutting down |
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54 * The monolithic ``zstd.c`` file has been split into a header file defining |
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57 History of the Project |
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58 ====================== |
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60 2016-08-31 - Zstandard 1.0.0 is released and Gregory starts hacking on a |
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61 Python extension for use by the Mercurial project. A very hacky prototype |
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64 2016-09-03 - Most functionality from Zstandard C API implemented. Source |
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