# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.20.0
A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C.
## What is new?
This release introduces several public APIs, including:
* `blosc2_shuffle`
* `blosc2_unshuffle`
* `blosc2_bitshuffle`
* `blosc2_bitunshuffle`
Now, users can use these functions to shuffle and unshuffle data directly.
It also adds a new `b2nd_save_append` API, useful for appending a b2nd
array into a file.
Finally, several improvements have been made to the build system.
For more info, see the release notes in:
https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc2/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.md## What is it?
Blosc2 is a high-performance data container optimized for binary data.
Blosc2 is the next generation of Blosc, an [award-winning]
(
https://www.blosc.org/posts/prize-push-Blosc2)` library that has been
around for more than a decade.
Blosc2 expands the capabilities of Blosc by providing a higher lever
container that is able to store many chunks on it (hence the super-block name).
It supports storing data on both memory and disk using the same API.
Also, it adds more compressors and filters.
## Download sources
The github repository is over here:
https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc2Blosc is distributed using the BSD license, see LICENSE.txt
for details.
## Mailing list
There is an official Blosc mailing list at:
bl...@googlegroups.comhttps://groups.google.com/g/blosc## Fosstodon feed
Please follow
https://fosstodon.org/@Blosc2 to get informed about the latest developments.
Enjoy Data!
- The Blosc Development Team