# Announcing C-Blosc2 3.0.3
A fast, compressed, and persistent binary data store library for C.
## What is new?
This release is a bugfix and hardening release:
* Harden frame parsing against malformed trailer lengths, invalid metalayer
offsets and lengths, and lazy-chunk compressed sizes that extend past the
end of a frame.
* Fix integer-overflow paths in b2nd chunk-size and slice-buffer
calculations.
* Improve stdio and mmap I/O safety by validating streams, file sizes,
offsets, integer conversions, and cleanup paths.
* Replace unsafe string formatting/concatenation in several helper paths with
bounded operations and allocation checks.
* Validate negative indices in offset reordering.
Thanks to @metsw24-max and @uwezkhan for contributions to this release.
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 level
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/bloscEnjoy Data!
- The Blosc Development Team