h5py 3.0 RC1

[Thomas Kluyver]

A release candidate for the next version of h5py is now available. Please do install it and try it out:

pip install -U --pre h5py

You can see the changes in this version here: https://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/whatsnew/3.0.html

There are no wheels for Python 3.9 yet. You should be able to install it from source on Python 3.9 (see https://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/build.html#source-installation ). We're waiting for some prerequisites to be ready to build the wheels on CI - see PR 1690 for details.

If there are no serious issues, we'll make 3.0 in a week or so, hopefully with wheels for Python 3.9.

Thanks,

Thomas

[Thomas Kluyver]

I'm trying to wait for the final release until we can use Azure to build wheels for Python 3.9. The relevant images on Azure were expected early this week. Once they're available, then we'd ideally want Numpy to release wheels for Python 3.9, so that we can build h5py using those. If this takes too much longer, I could release 3.0 without wheels for Python 3.9, and then do another release soon after. But it's supposed to be ready any day now.

I'm also planning to drop Python 3.6 wheels at the same time as adding 3.9, to keep the CI times reasonable. NEP 29 recommends dropping 3.6 from June 2020. It would still be possible to install h5py 3.0 from source in Python 3.6, but there wouldn't be a wheel. If this is going to be a big problem, we could keep 3.6 wheels for this release, but we'll be dropping 3.6 support soon afterwards.

Thomas