ANN: C-Blosc 1.20.0 (beast) released

[Francesc Alted]

Hi,

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 Announcing C-Blosc 1.20.0

 A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library for C

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What is new?

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More safety checks have been implemented so that potential flaws

discovered by new fuzzers in OSS-Fuzzer are fixed (@nmoinvaz).

Also, the `_xgetbv()` collision has been fixed (@mgorny).

Also, a new version of blosclz (2.3.0) codec has been backported from

C-Blosc2.  Expect better compression ratios for faster codecs.

Last but not least, the chunk format has been fully described so

that 3rd party software may come with a different implementation,

but still compatible with C-Blosc chunks. For details, see our new

blog post: https://blosc.org/posts/beast-release/.

For more info, please see the release notes in:

https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.rst

What is it?

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Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is a high performance meta-compressor

optimized for binary data.  It has been designed to transmit data to

the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed,

direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call.

Blosc has internal support for different compressors like its internal

BloscLZ, but also LZ4, LZ4HC, Snappy, Zlib and Zstd.  This way these can

automatically leverage the multithreading and pre-filtering

(shuffling) capabilities that comes with Blosc.

Download sources

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The github repository is over here:

https://github.com/Blosc

Blosc is distributed using the BSD license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for

details.

Mailing list

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There is an official Blosc mailing list at:

bl...@googlegroups.com

http://groups.google.es/group/blosc

Enjoy Data!

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Francesc Alted